On Saturday 05 February 2011 23:01:56 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Once all that is working wouldn't I be able to move the whole thing
> onto the existing linux desktop by doing a network install of debian,
> formatting whatever space then use dd or maybe something more modern
> to plop the fleshed out O
Hi All,
I have been running a stable copy of lenny for the last 2 years without any
issues (or use of unstable or testing packages). Tonight I attempted to upgrade
to squeeze and have encountered an apparent conflict between the 'libmagic1' and
'file' packages which are preventing me from complet
In <201102060600.08478.lisi.re...@gmail.com>, Lisi wrote:
>Since I first used Linux I have been used (apparently erroneously) to the
>idea of:
>command options argument
I think using that terminology will generally get your point across.
>Now suddenly the word "parameters" jumps out at me in this
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 01:19:15AM +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
>> BTW, .trinity dir is still in my ~/. and took 22.4 Mb of my space.
>> Despite of apt-get purge.
>
> The packaging system shouldn't touch files in your home directory, even
>
Am 06. Feb, 2011 schwätzte Lisi so:
Since I first used Linux I have been used (apparently erroneously) to the idea
of:
command options argument
Now suddenly the word "parameters" jumps out at me in this context.
Help! What are parameters?
In this context, they're command arguments.
ls -l /
Since I first used Linux I have been used (apparently erroneously) to the idea
of:
command options argument
Now suddenly the word "parameters" jumps out at me in this context.
Help! What are parameters?
Thanks,
Lisi
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Hello,
I had to reorganize some of my partitions, cause space requirements changed
during lifetime of that machine.
I thought - not a big thing - saved backups of each partition and started
repartitioning from a live system. Then I decided to change fstype from ext3
to ext4 and restored the ba
Mark wrote:
> Since I have kernel 2.6.26-2-686 just as the Release Notes say, I thought I
> would have to install linux-image-2.6.32-x-686 (for example), instead of "
> linux-image-2.6-686".
>
> Can anyone help clarify please?
The linux-image-2.6-686 package is a metapackage that exists only to
d
I'm reading the Squeeze Release Notes in preparation for upgrading a few
boxes from Lenny to Squeeze. I have never done an upgrade, and am confused
by this line in Section 4.6.1 of the Release Notes:
" For example, if you see '2.6.26-2-686', it is recommended that you install
linux-image-2.6-686.
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:19:43 +, Tixy wrote:
> You'll have to disable DHCP on your router so only your new box responds
> to DHCP requests. . .
Thanks for your answer, Tixy.
In that case, I assume that the dnsmasq server need to be configured to
be on a static IP, correct? Any I need to man
Its been a good long while since I tried anything like this. So let
me try to describe what I want to do and see if anyone can coach me a
bit.
I'm running a linux OS now and have been for yrs, I want to switch
whole hog to debian, which I've also done, but yrs ago.
I don't want to shut down my w
On 6 February 2011 03:21, Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Markus Viitamäki wrote:
>>
>> I have this small problem to upgrade GRUB to GRUB2 when upgrading my
>> boxes from Lenny to Squeeze.
>>
>> This problem seems to be related to using Raid or not, as the servers
>> I've tested on
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> In the process, I lost ability to remotely ssh into the machine and get
> "sudo " to run, instead I am getting this error;
You need xauth installed. Is it?
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On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
wrote:
> On 02/05/2011 03:35 PM, PMA wrote:
>>
>> I have often read advice to the effect that it is best to choose *ONE*
>> package-handling strategy (dpkg OR apt-get OR aptitude OR synaptic)
>> and stick to it -- if only to ensure a consistent
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Markus Viitamäki wrote:
>
> I have this small problem to upgrade GRUB to GRUB2 when upgrading my
> boxes from Lenny to Squeeze.
>
> This problem seems to be related to using Raid or not, as the servers
> I've tested on and want to upgrade is either using mdadm-raid
Happy squeeze release everyone!
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Hello!
I have this small problem to upgrade GRUB to GRUB2 when upgrading my
boxes from Lenny to Squeeze.
This problem seems to be related to using Raid or not, as the servers
I've tested on and want to upgrade is either using mdadm-raid or
hardware-raid. (I have not been able to test on a non-raid
I recently changed from Lenny to Sid. And from gnome to enlightenment.
I kept all of my config files, and not installing any new ones.
In the process, I lost ability to remotely ssh into the machine and get
"sudo " to run, instead I am getting this error;
sudo synaptic
X11 connection rejected b
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:30 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote:
> I do not have SSD. I have a USB flash drive - went cheap on this :-)
>
> Regardless of the above, still every write by the kernel has to be
> translated in to NAND writes. I have read in more than one place that
> these writes will be in u
A bit less than an hour ago:
http://blog.waja.info/2011/02/06/debian-6-0-squeeze-released/
Another stable release is out the door.
Let the flood gates to unstable open!!
- Nate >>
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On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 06:53:32PM -0800, evenso wrote:
http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/934/screenshotdeb60.png
http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/dists/stable/Release :
Origin: Debian
Label: Debian
Suite: stable
Version: 6.0
Codename: squeeze
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:29:37 UTC
Architectures: a
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 01:19:15AM +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> BTW, .trinity dir is still in my ~/. and took 22.4 Mb of my space.
> Despite of apt-get purge.
The packaging system shouldn't touch files in your home directory, even
on a purge.
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On 6 February 2011 08:02, Lubos Rendek wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> Do I have another choice. I mean if lines belong to telstra it sounds
> logical that anywhere I got I might have the same problem?!?
>
> Download test from TPG:
>
> 2011-02-06 08:36:43 (149 KB/s) - `test3.iso' saved [52328448/52328448]
Lubos Rendek writes:
> Do I have another choice. I mean if lines belong to telstra it sounds
> logical that anywhere I got I might have the same problem?!?
Your ISP may have more leverage with Telstra than you do.
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Siard wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
> > But if I set the font face and font size from "~/.Xresources" it
> > seems to be omitted (no warning nor error, but the font does not
> > change) :-?
>
> As far as I remember, ~/.Xdefaults should be used instead since a few
> years.
Actually it is the other way
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:49:54 +, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2011-02-05, Camaleón wrote:
>> I mean, this works:
>>
>> xterm -fa "Courier New" -fs 14
>>
>> But this doesn't:
>>
>> sm01@stt008:~$ cat .Xdefaults
>> XTerm*faceName: Courier New
>> XTerm*faceSize: 14
>>
>>
> Did you reload .Xdefaults (
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Curt Howland wrote:
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> say:
>> Years before I've used to be a KDE 3 user. KDE 4 experiments are
>> not in my favorites, so after couple of years with Debian GNOME
>> (L
Hi Adrian,
Thanks for info.
> I had a _very_ similar case to you elevated to Level 2 support twice.
> they said that they were clueless as to what was causing the problem
> until I said I would go elsewhere.
Do I have another choice. I mean if lines belong to telstra it sounds
logical that anywh
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On Saturday 05 February 2011, was heard to
say:
> Years before I've used to be a KDE 3 user. KDE 4 experiments are
> not in my favorites, so after couple of years with Debian GNOME
> (Lenny mostly), I have decided to check out Trinity Project.
> Well
On 2011-02-05, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:37:13 +0100, Siard wrote:
>
>> Camaleón wrote:
>>> But if I set the font face and font size from "~/.Xresources" it seems
>>> to be omitted (no warning nor error, but the font does not change) :-?
>>
>> As far as I remember, ~/.Xdefaults sho
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 11:39 +0100, Sylvain Archenault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to make my wifi dongle work on my sid box (kernel
> 2.6.32-trunk-686). It is correctly recognized, the WPA authentication
> works fine as well, but it fails getting an address from DHCP. Here is
> the relevant sys
The Vigor 2710 has a web-interface for administration and system diagnosis. The
handbook tells how to reach it.
Did you take a look there?
On the online staus page it shows the connection time, S/N ratio, and damping.
It has dignosis tools, e.g., ADSL spectral analysis and traffic-diagram.
In the s
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Mark Goldshtein
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>> On 2011-01-09 15:52 +0100, Klistvud wrote:
>>>
If I understand the original question correctly, you're looking for the
vg
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:10:26 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> On my PC, AltGr and Alt seem to behave identically, and I don't have
> a .xinitrc file. I am using a classic IBM model M keyboard, US model,
> 101 keys, PS/2-style connection to a classic Intel 8042 keyboard controller.
>
> My p
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 15:34 +, T o n g wrote:
[...]
> - The dnsmasq can be used as both dhchp and dns server. This is
> ideal for a home network. My question is, my router is
> currently acting as both dhchp and dns server for the moment,
> if I dedicate a box for dnsmasq as both dhchp an
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:57:39 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> Does disabling KMS make any effect?
>
> Actually, I'd try to make sure KMS is enabled, instead :)
I would expect KMS is enabled by default with the radeon driver (so I
asked
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:01:26 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>
I have tried to find background image but do not know name and
location. Wide search brought me nothing.
>>>
>>> (...)
>>>
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:01:26 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> I have tried to find background image but do not know name and
>>> location. Wide search brought me nothing.
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> You can get it from here:
>>
>> http://svn.debianart.org/
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 12:57:16PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Oleg a ?crit :
> > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:54:20PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >>
> >>> Any ideas?
> >> Yes, one : just another case of undesirable interaction between bridge
> >> and netfilter (aka bridge-netfilter).
> [.
On 02/05/2011 03:35 PM, PMA wrote:
I have often read advice to the effect that it is best to choose *ONE*
package-handling strategy (dpkg OR apt-get OR aptitude OR synaptic)
and stick to it -- if only to ensure a consistent system representation
of my package installations history.
Since they u
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:30:10 +0100, Pier Paolo wrote:
> > Fresh installation of squeeze here, machine AMD Athlon II x2, board Asus
> > M4A78LT-M LE with integrated Radeon 3000.
I sure hope the discrete Radeon 3000 is supported by KMS (should be, it is
suppose
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:03:10 +0100, Pier Paolo wrote:
> 2011/2/5 Camaleón
(...)
>> > This problem arise with standard Xorg installation (xorg-video-ati)
>> > and radeon driver, and now with fglrx drivers
>>
>> Does disabling KMS make any effect?
>>
> Sorry, a bit new to ATI/AMD stuff (i owned a
On 02/05/2011 01:10 PM, Rémi Letot wrote:
Mark Panen writes:
Hi,
A few days ago i read on distrowatch that squeeze will be released on
the 6h Feb, can't find the article now again.
Is this true?
Happening right now:
http://identi.ca/debian
Hi
http://planet.debian.net/
http://news.debian
2011/2/5 Camaleón
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:30:10 +0100, Pier Paolo wrote:
>
> > Fresh installation of squeeze here, machine AMD Athlon II x2, board Asus
> > M4A78LT-M LE with integrated Radeon 3000.
> >
> > The problem is:
> > 1) startx on openbox
> > - Switching between consoles (CTRL+ALT+
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:13:37 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
>
>> Recently, I have installed Trinity (KDE 3 fork) into my Squeeze laptop.
>> After that, that nice boot picture which accompanying logon window is
>> gone. Instead, I see acid green-yell
Okay, I misunderstood that it was only for upgrading Debian 5 to 6. I thought
it was for upgrading packages. Thanks
On Saturday February 5, 2011 11:00:37 am Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:22:23AM -0500, Kete wrote:
> > Hello, why have the authors of the Debian 6 release not
Hello,
On šeštadienis 05 Vasaris 2011 13:07:08 Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> - ability to synchronize and manage media files on my ipod classic (a
> google search tells me I should install amarok-ipod, but there is no
> amarok-ipod in squeeze).
ipod should show up in "Media sources home" -> "Local
I have often read advice to the effect that it is best to choose *ONE*
package-handling strategy (dpkg OR apt-get OR aptitude OR synaptic)
and stick to it -- if only to ensure a consistent system representation
of my package installations history.
In preparing to install a given package, what wo
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:30:10 +0100, Pier Paolo wrote:
> Fresh installation of squeeze here, machine AMD Athlon II x2, board Asus
> M4A78LT-M LE with integrated Radeon 3000.
>
> The problem is:
> 1) startx on openbox
> - Switching between consoles (CTRL+ALT+Fn) make appear a blank
> screen
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:22:23 -0500, Kete wrote:
> Hello, why have the authors of the Debian 6 release notes chosen to
> recommend apt-get? Just a few months ago, I read some other official
> documentation recommend aptitude. Why is Debian flip flopping? Now, I
> have to learn apt's commands, and a
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Kete wrote:
>
> Hello, why have the authors of the Debian 6 release notes chosen to
> recommend apt-get? Just a few months ago, I read some other official
> documentation recommend aptitude. Why is Debian flip flopping? Now, I have to
> learn apt's commands, and al
HI,
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:22:23AM -0500, Kete wrote:
> Hello, why have the authors of the Debian 6 release notes chosen to
> recommend apt-get?
Because it is more robust for non-interactive dist-upgrade.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_lit
On Saturday 05 February 2011 16:12:47 Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> I know that Amarok 2 vs. 1.4 has generated quite a bit of noise. However,
> it is not feasible (meaning: nobody who would be able to do it has time
> and/or motivation) to continue maintaining Amarok 1.4. So there's just not
> much w
Hi,
(sorry, the first one went off-list)
> On Saturday 05 February 2011 12.07:08 Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> now with the imminent release of squeeze, I'd like to know what is a
>> good replacement of lenny's amarok as both an audio player and
>> application to access my ipod.
Clementine is on
Hi,
On Saturday 05 February 2011 12.07:08 Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> now with the imminent release of squeeze, I'd like to know what is a
> good replacement of lenny's amarok as both an audio player and
> application to access my ipod.
This question is better addressed to the upstream (KDE) mai
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:22:23AM -0500, Kete wrote:
> Hello, why have the authors of the Debian 6 release notes chosen to
> recommend apt-get? Just a few months ago, I read some other official
> documentation recommend aptitude. Why is Debian flip flopping? Now, I have to
> learn apt's command
Hello, why have the authors of the Debian 6 release notes chosen to
recommend apt-get? Just a few months ago, I read some other official
documentation recommend aptitude. Why is Debian flip flopping? Now, I have to
learn apt's commands, and already, an apt-cache search doesn't tell me which
pac
Hi,
Some questions around pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq,
- Some dhcp server *requires* that hostnames be sent. I've found
document on how to send hostnames with other dhchp clients
except pump. Now, how can I configure pump to send hostnames
when making dhchp requests?
- The dnsmasq can b
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:13:37 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> Recently, I have installed Trinity (KDE 3 fork) into my Squeeze laptop.
> After that, that nice boot picture which accompanying logon window is
> gone. Instead, I see acid green-yellow background of high intensity and
> extremely eye irr
Hello, list!
Recently, I have installed Trinity (KDE 3 fork) into my Squeeze
laptop. After that, that nice boot picture which accompanying logon
window is gone. Instead, I see acid green-yellow background of high
intensity and extremely eye irritating.
I have tried to find background image but do
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:37:13 +0100, Siard wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
>> But if I set the font face and font size from "~/.Xresources" it seems
>> to be omitted (no warning nor error, but the font does not change) :-?
>
> As far as I remember, ~/.Xdefaults should be used instead since a few
> years.
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:06:45 -0500 (EST), Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> I put all this stuff in .xinitrc (I don't use a desktop).
>
>
> /usr/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 108 = Alt_L"
> /usr/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = Escape"
> /usr/bin/xmodmap -e "clear Lock"
> /usr/bin/xmodmap -e "keycode 91 =
Camaleón wrote:
> But if I set the font face and font size from "~/.Xresources" it
> seems to be omitted (no warning nor error, but the font does not
> change) :-?
As far as I remember, ~/.Xdefaults should be used instead since a few
years.
Having xfonts-efont-unicode installed, this is what I hav
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:59:32 +, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2011-02-05, John Magolske wrote:
(...)
>> XTerm*font: Droid Sans Mono:style=Regular
>>
>> But get this:
>>
>> unable to open font "Droid Sans Mono:style=Regular", trying
>> "fixed"
>>
>> Any tips on how to get the Droid font
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:07:08 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> now with the imminent release of squeeze, I'd like to know what is a
> good replacement of lenny's amarok as both an audio player and
> application to access my ipod.
(...)
"Clementine" was a fork of Amarok created precisely for th
Mark Panen writes:
> Hi,
>
> A few days ago i read on distrowatch that squeeze will be released on
> the 6h Feb, can't find the article now again.
>
> Is this true?
Happening right now:
http://identi.ca/debian
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* RR [Fri, Feb 04 2011, 10:19:06PM]:
> helps build one a local mirror. It's been going on for almost 20 hrs and
> it's downloaded 28GB so far after I used a LOT of EXCLUDEs but oh well. Was
> a Bad move in a way since Squeeze is going to be out soon and then I'll have
> to build a mirror
> "AC" == Anthony Campbell writes:
AC> On 04 Feb 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> > Does 'RightAlt o c' give you '©', 'RightAlt ' a' give you 'á' etc.?
No actually. The ALT is ignored. But that's OK, as studying
Appendix C. Life Expectancy Tables of
http://www.irs.gov/publications/p
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 01:51:43PM +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
> A few days ago i read on distrowatch that squeeze will be released on
> the 6h Feb, can't find the article now again.
>
> Is this true?
The release of squeeze is planned for this weekend so yes it is.
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Hello Mark,
you may want to read the news:
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/02/
Jerome
On 05/02/11 12:51, Mark Panen wrote:
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A few days ago i read on distrowatch that squeeze will be released on
the 6h Feb, can't find the article now again.
Is this true?
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Oleg a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:54:20PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>
>>> Any ideas?
>> Yes, one : just another case of undesirable interaction between bridge
>> and netfilter (aka bridge-netfilter).
[...]
>> Setting sysctl net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables=0 to disable passing
>
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:19:06PM -0500, RR wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Freeman wrote:
>
> > This may not help. I made on on-disk version for debs I build or scarf.
> > There are examples for creating package files and of a release file.
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/rep
Hi,
A few days ago i read on distrowatch that squeeze will be released on
the 6h Feb, can't find the article now again.
Is this true?
Mark
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Dear all,
now with the imminent release of squeeze, I'd like to know what is a
good replacement of lenny's amarok as both an audio player and
application to access my ipod.
I've upgraded to squeeze about a month ago, and I can't find the
following features in squeeze's amarok (all of which were p
On 04 Feb 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Does 'RightAlt o c' give you '©', 'RightAlt ' a' give you 'á' etc.?
>
> Or as AltGr (sort of a mode shift), as in RightAlt+r gives you ®.
>
> You can configure it. The easiest way is to use your desktop
> environment to do it. Otherwise, yo
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 18:30 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote:
> I do not have SSD. I have a USB flash drive - went cheap on this :-)
>
> Regardless of the above, still every write by the kernel has to be
> translated in to NAND writes. I have read in more than one place that
> these writes will be in uni
On 2011-02-05, John Magolske wrote:
> I just installed the Droid fonts on Debian sid like so:
>
> % wget
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/ttf-droid/ttf-droid_1.00~b112+dfsg+1-0ubuntu1_all.deb
> # dpkg -i ttf-droid_1.00\~b112+dfsg+1-0ubuntu1_all.deb
> # fc-cache -v -f /usr/
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