Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Dan wrote: > I didn't know that the inodes would take so much space. > Ext4 would be a better option? > I chose Ext3 because it is older and it should be more stable > therefore better for a server. Moreover I am going to use ecryptfs on > top of that, and I do not

How to change the style and background of the Squeeze login screen?

2011-03-22 Thread Rick Thomas
No offense intended to anyone involved, but I don't like the stars and spaceships look of the new Squeeze login screen. Tastes differ, and my taste differs from that. In Lenny I had a bunch of options for the login screen and could almost always find one that fit for the particular machin

Re: Signature debian CDs

2011-03-22 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
> I read the previous thread. I am looking at the GPG scheme to > understand it better. Basically, the idea is that you are confirming that the key used to sign the md5sums is a valid *and* trustworthy key--the two are not synonymous. This is a bootstrapping problem, especially for non-Debian user

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-22 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Now, moving between 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 shouldn't have been a problem, but I > suspect you actually would have had issues rebooting your 6.0.0 system even > without the 6.0.1 updates, since you didn't have your fstab in order. Grub can't be wrong, cause it is wo

Automatically restart OpenVPN session

2011-03-22 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, is there a way to automatically restart the OpenVPN session while i switch to and fro from Wireless to Wired Network on Debian Squeeze ? Thanks Kaushal

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Steven Sciame
I got the latest vanilla kernel 2.6.38 from kernel.org and that fixed both the mouse disappearing problem and the wmv video lockup problem.

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: >>> On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: > > D> I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of 160GB > D> and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition for the > D> whole drive. I used ext3 instead o

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: D> I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of 160GB D> and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition for the D> whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the default D> value in Squeeze. Th

Re: Proper name, & more - Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones ; gre

2011-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
Phony Debian? Runs, ducks, and does the bob and weave out of this thread! - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > > On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of >> 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition >> for the whole drive. I used ext3 inst

Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:04:40 -0400 (EDT), Steven Sciame wrote: > > What is the easiest way to downgrade the kernel as a work around > for this problem? First of all, please do not top-post. If you installed Debian from a CD, there may be a back-level copy of the package file (.deb file) on the C

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of > 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition > for the whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the > default value in Squeeze. >

Re: Wireless............

2011-03-22 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:31:21 -0800 Greg Madden wrote: > > > On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:05:31 pm Charlie wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:47:43 +0100 > > > > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > > Try wicd, it is a great gui-tool to easily connect to wireless > > > networks. > > > > > > Sjoerd > > > >

Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
Hi, I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition for the whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the default value in Squeeze. The netinst is creating the ext3 partitions but it is taking

Problem/regression on ETPS elantech touchpad

2011-03-22 Thread Pier Paolo
Hi all, after last upgrade of Squeeze i am in severe troubles with my touchpad: cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep ETPS N: Name="ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" Above all I can't find an usable (not "confortable" or "more usable"!) set of scrolling options... Since this upgrade the touchpad woked out

Re: Wireless............

2011-03-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:05:31 pm Charlie wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:47:43 +0100 > > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > Try wicd, it is a great gui-tool to easily connect to wireless > > networks. > > > > Sjoerd > > Thanks for that Sjoerd. > > Even when the wireless connection didn't have a pass

Proper name, & more - Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones ; gre

2011-03-22 Thread giovanni_re
Excellent infos, Shawn!! :) (You get 2 exclamation points.) I'm just gonna make a quick reply right here, to both your messages, cause they are great & deserve a prompt reply, & cause I'm short on time right now. 1) Your comment (quoted immediately below), from your second email, is probably

Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Steven Sciame
What is the easiest way to downgrade the kernel as a work around for this problem? debtop:/home/steven# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.32-5-686=2.6.32-30 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree   Reading state information... Done E: Version '2.6.32-30' for 'linux-image-2.6.32

Re: Wireless............

2011-03-22 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:47:43 +0100 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Try wicd, it is a great gui-tool to easily connect to wireless > networks. > > Sjoerd Thanks for that Sjoerd. Even when the wireless connection didn't have a password wicd couldn't find it and windows sees four wireless networks. Wicd

Re: Weird WM behavior after changing video cards

2011-03-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 19:05 Mon 21 Mar, Ron Johnson (ron.l.john...@cox.net) wrote: > Sid (up-to-date) > xfce > nvidia driver 260.19.44-1 > > After switching an old 7300 card for a GeForce 210 (both are > fanless), I see that the WM has changed behavior in various odd but > tolerable manners. > > These WM items are

Re: Wireless............

2011-03-22 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:06:31 +0100 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > The file /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz cited already > by Wayne explains also the meaning of common wpa options. In a > certain environment this configuration worked for wpa encryption: > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp >

Re: LXDE fetch Failures

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 22 mar 11, 16:05:12, Chris Brennan wrote: > > I decided to try LXDE in my VM of Debian/Testing and all went well till > the > > very end, when it fails to find > > > > [snip] > > E: Failed to fetch > > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/po

lltag problem

2011-03-22 Thread Thomas H. George
I tried to change the values of the Tracknumbers in a set of ogg files and ended up with two Tracknumber fields containing different values. Perhaps this does not matter? The files play perfectly on my Sansa and the current and next track name and the album name display correctly. Do any player

Re: debian 5 iso missing

2011-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 22 mar 11, 21:37:02, Karl Wolf wrote: > Hello, > > MAybe that's stupid thing, but I searched on archive.debian.org and I can't > find it. > It's really strange, maybe I'm blind but I can't find it. I tried find the > netinst for amd64 on other websites, but there is only link to debian >

Re: LXDE fetch Failures

2011-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 22 mar 11, 16:05:12, Chris Brennan wrote: > I decided to try LXDE in my VM of Debian/Testing and all went well till the > very end, when it fails to find > > [snip] > E: Failed to fetch > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.5.6~dfsg-5_amd64.deb > : > 404 Not Foun

debian 5 iso missing

2011-03-22 Thread Karl Wolf
Hello, MAybe that's stupid thing, but I searched on archive.debian.org and I can't find it. It's really strange, maybe I'm blind but I can't find it. I tried find the netinst for amd64 on other websites, but there is only link to debian website. there I can't find it. Could anyone tell me what'

Re: X-windows copy/paste mess [SOLVED]

2011-03-22 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:13:01 + (UTC), I wrote: > I'm running testing (Wheezy) and am failing to get copy/paste working cleanly > among my most common windows, namely: > > several xterms > virtualbox running a virtual XP client > iceweasel > ... > Is there any way to get all of these program

LXDE fetch Failures

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Brennan
I decided to try LXDE in my VM of Debian/Testing and all went well till the very end, when it fails to find [snip] E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.5.6~dfsg-5_amd64.deb : 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] root@debian:~# aptitude install lxde T

xvidtune and Intel

2011-03-22 Thread Steve Kleene
Does xvidtune ever work with onboard Intel video chipsets? It never has for me. I'm running testing (Wheezy) on an Intel i5 CPU (DH55HC). Most video functions seem fine, but if I try to re-center the display with xvidtune, I get this: "You have requested a mode-line. That is not possible, or

terminology for sound thingamajigs.

2011-03-22 Thread peasthope
Folk, man speaker-test has "... --channels ... --device ... --speaker ...". man alsamixergui has "... -c ... -D ...". The distinction between channel and device isn't obvious. Why does a simple USB audio adapter with mono input and stereo output provide four devices? http://wiki.debian.or

Re: Cups printing missing color profile

2011-03-22 Thread Matt Richardson
On 3/22/11, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 22/03/11 10:24, Alan Chandler wrote: >> I have just re-installed my system (Debian Unstable) from scratch, and I >> can't get printing to work. >> >> I find the following error message against each print job. >> >> "File '/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRG

Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Steven Sciame
That is the same thing I have here.  Including the video playback described in: http://bugs.debian.org/618665 --- On Tue, 3/22/11, Estelmann, Christian wrote: From: Estelmann, Christian Subject: Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesda

Re: Having trouble with Cron

2011-03-22 Thread Dom
On 22/03/11 17:42, Ed Curtis wrote: Maybe someone can help out with this. I have a bash script I run at 1am every morning via an entry in cron.d. It records an echo in a file when done so I can record it running. The trouble I'm having with it is that it's recording that's it has completed about

Re: Having trouble with Cron

2011-03-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 13:42 Tue 22 Mar, Ed Curtis (e_cur...@homes2see.com) wrote: > Maybe someone can help out with this. I have a bash script I run at > 1am every morning via an entry in cron.d. It records an echo in a > file when done so I can record it running. The trouble I'm having > with it is that it's recordi

Re: Signature debian CDs

2011-03-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:46 Mon 21 Mar, Dan (ganc...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 22:48 Mon 21 Mar, Andrei Popescu (andreimpope...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> On Lu, 21 mar 11, 13:33:16, Dan wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I downloaded the netinst CD image for the inst

Having trouble with Cron

2011-03-22 Thread Ed Curtis
Maybe someone can help out with this. I have a bash script I run at 1am every morning via an entry in cron.d. It records an echo in a file when done so I can record it running. The trouble I'm having with it is that it's recording that's it has completed about once a minute from the hour starti

Re: ispconfig

2011-03-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: teus.malestein schreef: Goedemiddag, welke versie van Debian (i386) past goed bij ispconfig 2 ? waar is de install man te vinden ? Mvg Teus hallo teus, ik denk niet dat je hier veel antwoorden op zult krijgen: dit is een engelstalige lijst. probeer het nog een keer in het en

Re: Debian 6.0.1 ia64 DVD release looks strange

2011-03-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:00:53AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >Hi Steve, Hi Andrew, >Steve McIntyre wrote: >>Apologies, you've just found a bug in the CD/DVD creation run from >>last weekend. I'm working on it now, expect a new release (6.0.1a) >>shortly. > >How about an announcement for this

Compiling Firefox

2011-03-22 Thread Peter Smith
I want to compile Firefox 3.6 on Debian Squeeze and place everything in the /opt directory. I want the compiled browser to have some security modifications. The first thing i have added to mozconfig is the following three lines: export CFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-all" export CXXF

Re:| version of Debian

2011-03-22 Thread UNLEVIN
В Втр, 22/03/2011 в 14:31 +0100, teus.malestein пишет: > Hello, > Is there anyone who can advise me what version of Debian server, > together with ispconfig 2, is best suitable for my i386 > Thank you in advance. > Teus > > And why not install ISPConfig 3? I read that on Debian 6 it works stable

Re: ispconfig

2011-03-22 Thread steef
teus.malestein schreef: Goedemiddag, welke versie van Debian (i386) past goed bij ispconfig 2 ? waar is de install man te vinden ? Mvg Teus hallo teus, ik denk niet dat je hier veel antwoorden op zult krijgen: dit is een engelstalige lijst. probeer het nog een keer in het engels dus. me

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2011-03-22 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:55 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:16 PM, giovanni_re wrote: > >> Let's start the "Debian distro for Android capable hardware phones". >> >> What are the first steps we can easily take, to get started on this? >> >> 1) Talk about how to do it on

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 07:28 -0500, Charles Blair wrote: >I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a > system for documenting C programs. When I put a minus sign > next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then > remove a whole bunch of other stuff, including gc

Re: version of Debian

2011-03-22 Thread Steven Sciame
IMHO  for a server you probably want to go with Stable: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1/i386/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1a-i386-netinst.iso It should be a pretty straight forward install once you burn the iso to disk, but just in case: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ I am not su

Re: Ecryptfs vs encfs

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:51:27PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > With ecryptfs,  I can have a file-level backup solution work on the backing > files, not require an active login or mounted FS, and do replication to other > nodes/sites witho

Re: libxaw7-dev busted, not sure why

2011-03-22 Thread briand
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:27:40 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:27:12PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > oooh. success. just used the =version format to downgrade. > > > > only had to beat up on three packages to make it work. > > > > fixed that security thing too :

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2011-03-22 Thread David Sastre
2011/3/22, Jon Dowland : > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 03:08:48PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: >> "Debian distro for Android capable hardware phones" What about Maemo and MeeGo? Those projects more than probably have done most of the work you'd need to run Debian in a smartphone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

version of Debian

2011-03-22 Thread teus.malestein
Hello, Is there anyone who can advise me what version of Debian server, together with ispconfig 2, is best suitable for my i386 Thank you in advance. Teus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2011-03-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 03:08:48PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > "Debian distro for Android capable hardware phones" > > > DfAHP - I kinda like that. Has a nice ring to it. > > DDfAHP? > DfACHP? > DDfACHP? Just "Debian": It's the universal OS. It doesn't need a different name for every architect

Re: Ecryptfs vs encfs

2011-03-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:51:27PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Generally, my advice is to use dm-crypt for block devices (like > encrypting an entire /home partition that root plans to mount at > bootup), and encfs for encrypting individual directories other than > $HOME. YMMV. I've been using

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:56:58PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Just tell aptitude you explicitly /want/ gcc and you should be good to > remove cwebx. I'd be interested to see if "aptitude install gcc ; > aptitude remove cwebx" achieves this directly - do let the list know In aptitude's grap

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 13:28:49 Charles Blair wrote: >I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a > system for documenting C programs. When I put a minus sign > next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then > remove a whole bunch of other stuff, including gcc.

ispconfig

2011-03-22 Thread teus.malestein
Goedemiddag, welke versie van Debian (i386) past goed bij ispconfig 2 ? waar is de install man te vinden ? Mvg Teus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 23:56, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On 22 March 2011 12:28, Charles Blair wrote: >> I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a >> system for documenting C programs. When I put a minus sign >> next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then >> remove a who

Re: sources.list

2011-03-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Alan Hutchinson wrote: Hi there I was wondering you could enlighten me regarding the > "APT/SOURCES.LIST", I inadvertently messed them up, and when I go to do an > upgrade I get about 400 packages or so, it all started ,when I was tinkering > with my apt sources.l

Re: Debian 6.0.1 ia64 DVD release looks strange

2011-03-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Steve, Steve McIntyre wrote: Apologies, you've just found a bug in the CD/DVD creation run from last weekend. I'm working on it now, expect a new release (6.0.1a) shortly. How about an announcement for this when it is fixed and also one for the "small CDs" that were effected by an [same|di

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 22 March 2011 12:28, Charles Blair wrote: >   I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a > system for documenting C programs.  When I put a minus sign > next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then > remove a whole bunch of other stuff, including gcc.  I definit

aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Charles Blair
I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a system for documenting C programs. When I put a minus sign next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then remove a whole bunch of other stuff, including gcc. I definitely did NOT want that to happen and exited from aptit

Re: Ecryptfs vs encfs

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Dan wrote: >> I would like to encrypt some folders in the home directory of the >> users in a server. I have seen that there are 2 choices ecryptfs and >> encfs. They seem to be very similar. Which one do y

Re: Debian 6.0.1 ia64 DVD release looks strange

2011-03-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
Konstantin Vlasov wrote: > >Good day, everybody. > >In the 6.0.1 release directories there is something strange for the DVD >version of the ia64 >architecture: 45 iso files each of ~700 Mb size does not look like DVD release >at all despite of >names debian-6.0.1-ia64-DVD-{1..45}.iso. :-) >Is the

Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Estelmann, Christian
Yes, I think that is exactly the problem I have. Thanks. And sorry, but I didn't found that bugreport... Am 22.03.2011 12:51, schrieb Wolodja Wentland: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619019 Looks as if downgrading the kernel (as you did) is a workaround for the time being. Y

Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 09:44 +0100, Estelmann, Christian wrote: > Hi, > > After installing all updates on the weekend the mouse pointer > disappeared. It was like the size of the pointer were set to 0px. > Klicking and moving was possible - but without seeing the pointer, > it was quite hard do k

Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Estelmann, Christian
I have done some more tests. When upgrading linux-base the pointer is still visible. It doesn't matter using the touchpad or a mouse connected by USB. The point is, that the pointer is not visible. But by moving the mouse you can trigger the mouse over events of buttons, when klicking with the

Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:44:58 -0400 (EDT), Christian Estelmann wrote: > > After installing all updates on the weekend the mouse pointer > disappeared. It was like the size of the pointer were set to 0px. > Klicking and moving was possible - but without seeing the pointer, it > was quite hard do

Re: Cups printing missing color profile [SOLVED]

2011-03-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On 22/03/11 10:33, Alan Chandler wrote: On 22/03/11 10:24, Alan Chandler wrote: I have just re-installed my system (Debian Unstable) from scratch, and I can't get printing to work. I find the following error message against each print job. "File '/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRGB Profile

Re: Cups printing missing color profile

2011-03-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On 22/03/11 10:24, Alan Chandler wrote: I have just re-installed my system (Debian Unstable) from scratch, and I can't get printing to work. I find the following error message against each print job. "File '/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRGB Profile.icc' not found" This looks very MAC OS

Cups printing missing color profile

2011-03-22 Thread Alan Chandler
I have just re-installed my system (Debian Unstable) from scratch, and I can't get printing to work. I find the following error message against each print job. "File '/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRGB Profile.icc' not found" This looks very MAC OSX like - is there something misconfigure

Re: Wireless............

2011-03-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Op 22-03-11 09:12, Charlie schreef: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:49:42 -0400 > Wayne Topa wrote: > >>> The wireless connection obviously works, or otherwise i could not >>> have installed the system, and it works on the windows system I had >>> to install to send this email. >>> >> Charlie >> >>

Re: unmount on shutdown

2011-03-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Op 21-03-11 01:09, Joel Rees schreef: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Geoffrey Smith wrote: >> Hello, I am using Debian 6.0 Squeeze and the Gnome desktop on a typical >> desktop computer. Suppose I have a USB drive mounted on /media/ and I do a >> normal shutdown via Gnome. Is the USB drive

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-22 Thread Chen Wei
Steven's source.list is okay, he is not the VirtualBox user, I am. LOL: VirtualBox does remind me to upgrade to 4.x series every time it starts, but 3.2 works fine so far. And 4.x package appears about 10M larger, thus I am stick with 3.2. IMHO, use a self build kernel is fine, the rest of Debian

Re: Wireless............

2011-03-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The file /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz cited already by Wayne explains also the meaning of common wpa options. In a certain environment this configuration worked for wpa encryption: iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid dlink wpa-psk plaintexpassword wpa-key-mgmt W

Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Estelmann, Christian
Hi, After installing all updates on the weekend the mouse pointer disappeared. It was like the size of the pointer were set to 0px. Klicking and moving was possible - but without seeing the pointer, it was quite hard do know where you are. I downgraded package for package. Now I can say, tha

Re: squeeze on asus 1001px

2011-03-22 Thread Frank
Hello, Please disregard my last message. Thanks 2011/3/21 Frank > Hello, > > I try to install squeeze on my little eeepc. I tried the mini.iso net-boot > on a usb Key but the installation failed with the installation of the Grub. > Do you have any information about it ? > > I tried to boot and

Re: sources.list

2011-03-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
Do you have a file called sources.list~ in /etc/apt? If so, that's a backup your editor made for you before you broke sources.list. In that case, you could cp sources.list~ sources.list and wipe out your mistake. If not, you're using the wrong editor. I recommend emacs or xemacs for future

Re: Wireless............

2011-03-22 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:49:42 -0400 Wayne Topa wrote: > > The wireless connection obviously works, or otherwise i could not > > have installed the system, and it works on the windows system I had > > to install to send this email. > > > Charlie > >Check /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.D

Re: sources.list

2011-03-22 Thread Alan Hutchinson
Hi there I was wondering you could enlighten me regarding the "APT/SOURCES.LIST", I inadvertently messed them up, and when I go to do an upgrade I get about 400 packages or so, it all started ,when I was tinkering with my apt sources.list,and had not a clue what I was doing, I added a new line for

Re: Apt-get, Exclude

2011-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 21 mar 11, 18:19:07, Matt wrote: > Have worked mostly with CentOS. In CentOS we frequently use 'yum > update' to keep the server up to date. For packages that we do not > want updated we add them to exclude in yum.conf. Is there anything > like exclude for apt-get in Debian? Besides the