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

2011-03-24 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Mark wrote: > So when it's all said and done, it sounds like the safest bet is to edit > the file that says in all caps DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. Once a wise guy said: good software makes complex things look easy - judging grub2 based on this only, grub2 is worse than grub1 kind regards

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

2011-03-24 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Tom H wrote: > - Does grub-probe on squeeze and maverick return the same values? Looks like this is true. See attachments. > - Can you chainload squeeze's grub from maverick's? From maverick the boot drive after update-grub is now hd2 output from chainload: booting a command li

Re: cups in squeeze with ethernet postscript printer

2011-03-24 Thread Matt Richardson
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I have made repeated attempts without success to use the web interface > (localhost:631) to install a PostScript printer with HP JetDirect > interface in the lan.  My computer is an i386 running Squeeze. Can you give some more details?

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

2011-03-24 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:51:17 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 09:04:00AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:22:37 +1300 > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > I'm not certain that I have seen that when I bring up wicd-client -n > > > > Not certain that I know how to

Re: System becomes very slow after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-24 Thread shawn wilson
This probably isn't your main problem. However, you'd probably run better on a 32 bit OS. But, I'd Google that whole string lspci pops out as your video card and see what comes up. About 25% of the time I find someone else's decent config with the video card that I just go with it and its a 30 min

Re: System becomes very slow after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-24 Thread briand
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:40:29 +0800 Jackie Wang wrote: > Hi all, > > My laptop is HP 6515b, AMD Turion 64x2 CPU, 2G memory with dual > system, Debian and windows XP. First time I installed Debian Lenny > 5.0.4 amd64 on my laptop, DE is Gnome. Then upgrade to 5.0.6, then > 6.0. Until 6.0 it works

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

2011-03-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 09:04:00AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:22:37 +1300 > Chris Bannister wrote: > I'm not certain that I have seen that when I bring up wicd-client -n > > Not certain that I know how to bring up the preferences in wicd, I've > never seen it. Oh, ... well in

System becomes very slow after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-24 Thread Jackie Wang
Hi all, My laptop is HP 6515b, AMD Turion 64x2 CPU, 2G memory with dual system, Debian and windows XP. First time I installed Debian Lenny 5.0.4 amd64 on my laptop, DE is Gnome. Then upgrade to 5.0.6, then 6.0. Until 6.0 it works very well. But recently after i updated to 6.0.1 the system becomes

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/03/11 03:10, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/24/2011 10:21 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 24/03/11 14:52, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Because of the radical changes in v4.0, I *strongly* urge that you >>> install FF 4.0 to /usr/local/bin or ~/bin, since you or your wife might >>> (as I do) dis

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

2011-03-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Mar 2011 at 13:20:08 -0400, Tom H wrote: > You'd have to edit the scripts in order to modify the titles - and > re-edit them the next time that they are updated through an update of > grub. Aren't the scripts in /etc/grub.d/ conffiles? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

cups in squeeze with ethernet postscript printer

2011-03-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
I have made repeated attempts without success to use the web interface (localhost:631) to install a PostScript printer with HP JetDirect interface in the lan. My computer is an i386 running Squeeze. The web interface of CUPSYS worked nicely in Etch and Lenny, but in Squeeze in appears to be broke

Re: mutt, exim, sender's email address

2011-03-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Mar 2011 at 14:53:29 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > Is there any automatic way to have the sender's email address > changed depending on whether or not the mail is going to a list? > I try to use one address for lists which get published world wide > and another for business that only goe

Re: mails to t...@security.debian.org - no ACK?

2011-03-24 Thread Fresel Michal - hi competence e.U.
well .. seems to me: having some provider problems ... or maybe debian smtp are in bad condition at the moment? Received: from lbmfmo03.bon.at (bsmtp3.bon.at [213.33.87.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate)

mails to t...@security.debian.org - no ACK?

2011-03-24 Thread Fresel Michal - hi competence e.U.
hi just wanted to get some feedback on mailing to > t...@security.debian.org any knowledge why there is no answer or any ACK of recieve after 8h? any spam-filter cutting my mails? or did i just misspelled something? Greets Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

mutt, exim, sender's email address

2011-03-24 Thread Mike McClain
Is there any automatic way to have the sender's email address changed depending on whether or not the mail is going to a list? I try to use one address for lists which get published world wide and another for business that only goes to a select few. I've a tiny script to change the address in /etc

ssh-agent and TMPDIR

2011-03-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I have just built and installed openssh 1:5.8p1-3 from sid on my squeeze box in order to getssh-agent to honour $TMPDIR. In /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/changelog.Debian.gz I read: - ssh(1)/ssh-agent(1): honour $TMPDIR for client xauth and ssh-agent temporary directories (

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-24 Thread Aéris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 24/03/2011 21:40, Jason Hsu a écrit : > What's your favorite version control software for software development? > Subversion? Git? Something else? > Mercurial - -- Aeris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Commen

Re: libXm.so.3

2011-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/24/2011 04:58 PM, Joe Riel wrote: Any idea where I can get a 64 bit version of libXm.so.3? My understanding is that it is part of libmotif3, but that isn't part of Debian. Maybe you could get the deb-src from Ubuntu? http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/maverick/openmotif -- "Neither the

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

2011-03-24 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:22:37 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 09:05:31AM +1100, 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 > >

libXm.so.3

2011-03-24 Thread Joe Riel
Any idea where I can get a 64 bit version of libXm.so.3? My understanding is that it is part of libmotif3, but that isn't part of Debian. -- Joe Riel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [SOLVED] Re: How to change the style and background of the Squeeze login screen?

2011-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Tom H wrote: Wouldn't it be better to keep gdm3 and customize it? http://www.khattam.info/howto-change-gdm-3-theme-and-wallpaper-2010-11-14.html Interesting. Is the presence and structure of those configuration files documented anywhere? Was this mentioned i

Re: boot loader

2011-03-24 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 24, 2011 5:26 PM, "Mark" wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:22 PM, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> >> now, that's pretty cool. bad part is now i have to go to the store and >> get more cds (or probably better, a thumb drive). however, at least i >> have an easy way to get this system up and pr

Re: boot loader

2011-03-24 Thread Freeman
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 02:25:44PM -0700, Mark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:22 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > > > > now, that's pretty cool. bad part is now i have to go to the store and > > get more cds (or probably better, a thumb drive). however, at least i > > have an easy way to get this

Re: boot loader

2011-03-24 Thread Mark
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:22 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > now, that's pretty cool. bad part is now i have to go to the store and > get more cds (or probably better, a thumb drive). however, at least i > have an easy way to get this system up and probably use one of the > boot loaders Bob's suggest

Re: boot loader

2011-03-24 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30:39PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: >> not sure of the topicality of this here but... >> >> i've got a computer with ntldr messing up. since i don't have a windows xp >> disk, i have no way of fixing this (besides torrent)

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

2011-03-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 09:05:31AM +1100, 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

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-24 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 03:33:44PM -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: > What's your favorite version control software for software development? > Subversion? Git? Something else? Subversion for the central repository, git (via git-svn) on the road (i.e. on laptops). > Jason Hsu --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On 24/03/11 20:33, Jason Hsu wrote: What's your favorite version control software for software development? Subversion? Git? Something else? I'd have to say git. I've been using version control systems since the early 1980's. I started developing a system to manage a product I was respo

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

2011-03-24 Thread Mark
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 23 Mar 2011 at 13:36:30 -0700, Mark wrote: > > > >> Thanks Tom. Have you or anyone else been able to change the text > displayed > >> on the GRUB2 boot menu _without_ editing the /boot/grub

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

2011-03-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 04:15:34PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > I'd say Grub2 and/or your mainboard (unlikely) has a problem that is in > no way related to your upgrade to 6.0.1 (but to stable in general). If I > were you, I would try to get support from the grub people directly. The mainboard do

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-24 15:33:44 Jason Hsu wrote: >What's your favorite version control software for software development? >Subversion? Git? Something else? Git. However, I'm willing to work with anything distributed, I just know Git a lot better than Hg, Bzr, Mtn, or Darcs. If something non-distribut

Re: boot loader

2011-03-24 Thread Freeman
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30:39PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > not sure of the topicality of this here but... > > i've got a computer with ntldr messing up. since i don't have a windows xp > disk, i have no way of fixing this (besides torrent). so, i was hoping to > find some sort of quick instal

Your favorite version control software

2011-03-24 Thread Jason Hsu
What's your favorite version control software for software development? Subversion? Git? Something else? -- Jason Hsu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

Re: Key help

2011-03-24 Thread I Rattan
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, jean Monnat wrote: You can try at this address, it works for me. gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-keys 473041F gpg --armor --export 473041FA | apt-key add - Thanks. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Key help

2011-03-24 Thread jean Monnat
Le Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:10:02 +0100, I Rattan a écrit : > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, jean Monnat wrote: > > Le Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:40:02 +0100, > > I Rattan a écrit : > >> I can't find this key: > >> W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org sid Release: The following e: > gpg: directory `/root/.gnupg' c

Re: labeling swap partitions, a question

2011-03-24 Thread Graham
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:49:58 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm looking into using partition labels on my wheezy boxes. In the > course of doing this, I notice that one can uses a partition label to > specify which partition is to be used for swap in the swapon command > and one can specify a label

Re: boot loader

2011-03-24 Thread Bob McGowan
On 03/24/2011 09:30 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > not sure of the topicality of this here but... > > i've got a computer with ntldr messing up. since i don't have a windows > xp disk, i have no way of fixing this (besides torrent). so, i was > hoping to find some sort of quick install that just shoved

Re: labeling swap partitions, a question

2011-03-24 Thread Bob McGowan
On 03/24/2011 10:49 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm looking into using partition labels on my wheezy boxes. In the course > of doing this, I notice that one can uses a partition label to specify > which partition is to be used for swap in the swapon command and one can > specify a label string to be

Re: removing debian-multimedia from sources.list

2011-03-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, the problem that probably triggered this recommendation is long gone, at the time there was an incompatibility between d-m libav* and Debian vlc if I recall correctly. they should say, in the videolan forum, that this recommandation is

Re: labeling swap partitions, a question

2011-03-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm looking into using partition labels on my wheezy boxes. In the course > of doing this, I notice that one can uses a partition label to specify > which partition is to be used for swap in the swapon command and one can > specify a label

labeling swap partitions, a question

2011-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm looking into using partition labels on my wheezy boxes. In the course of doing this, I notice that one can uses a partition label to specify which partition is to be used for swap in the swapon command and one can specify a label string to be written onto a partition in mkswap. But, I can't fin

Re: [SOLVED] Re: How to change the style and background of the Squeeze login screen?

2011-03-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > True.  But how to know that?  I'd need to do a detailed study of the > ramified dependencies of gdm and gdm3.  All I really wanted was to replace > gdm3 with gdm.  Aptitude and apt are supposed to be there to keep me from > having to understa

[SOLVED] mpd blocks all other sound output EBUSY

2011-03-24 Thread Brian Ryans
I was about to write a long email, complete with some logs and config files, and postpone it to remind me to STFW for more info on an mpd issue I was having. While bundling everything up, I decided to try, on a lark, commenting out someting marked 'optional' in mpd.conf, under the assumption that

Re: removing debian-multimedia from sources.list

2011-03-24 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
24/03/2011 18:06, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Hi everybody, > I had a problem reading 1 iso file with vlc(it works with all others) >libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f5. > Regions: 2 4 >libdvdnav: ifoOpenVTSI failed > I then went to the videolan forum, and found the

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

2011-03-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 23 Mar 2011 at 13:36:30 -0700, Mark wrote: > >> Thanks Tom.  Have you or anyone else been able to change the text displayed >> on the GRUB2 boot menu _without_ editing the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file? >> Maybe the label/text is stored somewhere a

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

2011-03-24 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 24, 2011 12:57 PM, "Mihamina Rakotomandimby" wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:45:33 +0100 > > Mirco Piccin wrote: > > > > What are the first steps we can easily take, to get started on this? > > > > it seems there's already something like that: > > http://www.androidfanatic.com/communit

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

2011-03-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Geronimo wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> I don't have 05_debian_theme on my boxes (deleted!) but looking >> quickly at 10_linux, the first "set root..." comes from a grub-probe >> of the directory corresponding to $GRUB_THEME. > > I don't need debian_theme, guess it ca

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

2011-03-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Mark wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> With grub2, if you want to troubleshoot update-grub and the resulting >> "/boot/grub/grub.cfg", you have to look at "/etc/default/grub", >> "/etc/grub.d/*", "/usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib", and >>

removing debian-multimedia from sources.list

2011-03-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
Hi everybody, I had a problem reading 1 iso file with vlc(it works with all others) libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f5. Regions: 2 4 libdvdnav: ifoOpenVTSI failed I then went to the videolan forum, and found there an instruction to remove the debian-multimedia fr

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

2011-03-24 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:45:33 +0100 > Mirco Piccin wrote: > > What are the first steps we can easily take, to get started on this? > > it seems there's already something like that: > http://www.androidfanatic.com/community-forums.html?func=view&catid=9&id=251 How about the "telephone" feature

Re: Debian Freeze

2011-03-24 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 03/24/2011 04:22 PM, Holmes, Christopher S wrote: Hello, My name is Christopher Holmes and I am a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I am working on a project where we have three computers set up in a mesh network (802.11s). One computer acts as a gateway and is wired to the In

Re: Debian Freeze

2011-03-24 Thread mark
Have you tried wireshark to monitor the network traffic to see if there is something consistent that leads to the crash? Mark > Hello, > My name is Christopher Holmes and I am a student at the Georgia Institute > of Technology. I am working on a project where we have three computers set > up in a

boot loader

2011-03-24 Thread shawn wilson
not sure of the topicality of this here but... i've got a computer with ntldr messing up. since i don't have a windows xp disk, i have no way of fixing this (besides torrent). so, i was hoping to find some sort of quick install that just shoved grup on the system and made a minimal partition for /

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze? OT question

2011-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-24 11:04:02 Paul E Condon wrote: >On 20110324_160327, Ken Heard wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Steven Sciame wrote: >> > This is confusing. There is 'backports.debian.org' and >> > 'mozilla.debian.net'. Both use squeeze-backports in sources.list. >> >

Debian Freeze

2011-03-24 Thread Holmes, Christopher S
Hello, My name is Christopher Holmes and I am a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I am working on a project where we have three computers set up in a mesh network (802.11s). One computer acts as a gateway and is wired to the Internet. The other computer acts as an access point. The

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/24/2011 10:21 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 24/03/11 14:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Because of the radical changes in v4.0, I *strongly* urge that you install FF 4.0 to /usr/local/bin or ~/bin, since you or your wife might (as I do) dislike the way that v4 works. Care to elaborate on wha

Re: Key help

2011-03-24 Thread I Rattan
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, jean Monnat wrote: Le Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:40:02 +0100, I Rattan a écrit : I can't find this key: W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA Any p

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze? OT question

2011-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110324_160327, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steven Sciame wrote: > > > > This is confusing. There is 'backports.debian.org' and > > 'mozilla.debian.net'. Both > > use squeeze-backports in sources.list. > > > > apt-get install -t squeeze-backports

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 24/03/11 14:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Because of the radical changes in v4.0, I *strongly* urge that you install FF 4.0 to /usr/local/bin or ~/bin, since you or your wife might (as I do) dislike the way that v4 works. Care to elaborate on what you dislike about it? -- Tony van der Hoff

HOW to set “security.OCSP.require” in Google Chrome/Chromium?

2011-03-24 Thread johhny_at_poland77
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/detecting-certificate-authority-compromises-and-web-browser-collusion "Users of Mozilla Firefox that are concerned about this issue should enable security.OCSP.require in the about:config dialog." How can i enable this feature in Google Chrome/Chromium? -- To

Re: Weird WM behavior after changing video cards

2011-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/22/2011 05:00 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: 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 tolerabl

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/23/2011 07:01 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: Too soon? I had thought about grabbing the one from experimental (rc2?), but decided against that for a squeeze system. Because of the radical changes in v4.0, I *strongly* urge that you install FF 4.0 to /usr/local/bin or ~/bin, since you or you

Does the sata_sil24 eSATA driver support hot swap?

2011-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I've got a Sil3132 esata chip on my AMD 780G mobo, and it (so far) works great with a 4-drive external enclosure. It's just that I've always had the enclosure powered on and plugged in when I boot the machine. But I want to be able to power off the enclosure like with USB and FW enclosu

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-24 04:03:27 Ken Heard wrote: >Steven Sciame wrote: >> This is confusing. There is 'backports.debian.org' and >> 'mozilla.debian.net'. Both use squeeze-backports in sources.list. >> >> apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel, on my box, points to >> backports.debian.net, I haven

Re: Problem/regression on ETPS elantech touchpad

2011-03-24 Thread Matt Harrison
Sorry to top post this, but I'm in a hurry. I actually got my touchpad working again. I'll dig up the documentation that I used and post it when I find it, unless someone else is able to get it to you first. It has something to do with creating a configuration file and setting something with mod

Re: [SOLVED] Re: How to change the style and background of the Squeeze login screen?

2011-03-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-24, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: --- SNIP --- >> You should get the same result if you install in one shot: >> >> aptitude install gdm fast-user-switch-applet > > > True. But how to know that? I'd need to do a detailed study of the > r

Re: Problem/regression on ETPS elantech touchpad

2011-03-24 Thread Pier Paolo
2011/3/22 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" > > Without any xorg.conf.d the problem remains (no tap, unusable at all twofinger-scroll); i searched throug

Re: [SOLVED] Re: How to change the style and background of the Squeeze login screen?

2011-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-03-24, Rick Thomas wrote: Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] . The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) gdm3 Install the following packages: 2) fast-user-switch-applet [2.24

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

2011-03-24 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Mar 2011 at 13:36:30 -0700, Mark wrote: > Thanks Tom. Have you or anyone else been able to change the text displayed > on the GRUB2 boot menu _without_ editing the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file? > Maybe the label/text is stored somewhere and I missed it, just curious. I think you would be l

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-24, Brad Alexander wrote: > --20cf30291d1a343b4f049f2f83f4 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I don't think it would give you the already at the newest version error if > it was a server load issue. It looks like it's not eve

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-23, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:17:44 + > Peter Tynan wrote: > >> On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad Alexander wrote: >> > Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and upgraded, >> > but got >> > >> > [root@galaxy sources.list.d]# apt-get instal

Re: Recommendations on groupware

2011-03-24 Thread Peter Beck
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:01:16 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: Hi. I'm currently looking into groupware solutions on Debian mainly for sharing a calendar such as Thunderbird + Lightning. Anyone who can provide some real life experience of pros and cons? Kind regards Rico Hi Rico, I am using Zarafa

Re: [SOLVED] Re: How to change the style and background of the Squeeze login screen?

2011-03-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-24, Rick Thomas wrote: > Here's the trick: > aptitude install gdm > It will ask you if you want to remove gnome and gnome-desktop- > environment as well as gdm3. If you answer "yes" it will give you a > whole bunch of packages that will become newly "unneeded". This is > n

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Sciame wrote: > > This is confusing. There is 'backports.debian.org' and 'mozilla.debian.net'. > Both > use squeeze-backports in sources.list. > > apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel, on my box, points to > backports.debian.net

Re: Key help

2011-03-24 Thread jean Monnat
Le Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:40:02 +0100, I Rattan a écrit : > I can't find this key: > W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org sid Release: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: > NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA > > Any pointers? > > -ishwar > > You

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

2011-03-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Geronimo: >> >>> As every of my drives had an installed grub in mbr, >> >> Ok, I forgot that. (BTW, I find this setup really strange, but if it >> worked in the past with grub2 it should of course continue to work.) > > LOL - let me clarify, that this setup has

bind log

2011-03-24 Thread Informatik.hu
Hi! My syslog is full these errors: Mar 24 09:15:32 tuban named[1541]: error (unexpected RCODE REFUSED) resolving 'server.lyonessaukcio.hu/A/IN': 88.151.100.170#53 Mar 24 09:15:32 tuban named[1541]: error (unexpected RCODE REFUSED) resolving 'server.lyonessaukcio.hu/A/IN': 188.138.15.99#53 Mar

Re: Recommendations on groupware

2011-03-24 Thread shawn wilson
On Mar 23, 2011 11:30 PM, "Rico Secada" wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm currently looking into groupware solutions on Debian mainly for > sharing a calendar such as Thunderbird + Lightning. > I've used gw6.5 - there's a (pretty mac client for that version). However, if you're on 7+ you've got options. Sin

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

2011-03-24 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Tom H wrote: > Thanks for the diff but it made me go cros-eyed. :) Same happened to me :) > Take a look at them below. Your squeeze grub.cfg sets root as sdg2 > then sde2 through 00_linux, as sdg2 through 05_debian_theme, and sde2 > through 10_linux. > > I don't have 05_debian_theme on

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

2011-03-24 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Geronimo: > > As every of my drives had an installed grub in mbr, > > Ok, I forgot that. (BTW, I find this setup really strange, but if it > worked in the past with grub2 it should of course continue to work.) LOL - let me clarify, that this setup has not been creat

Re: Recommendations on groupware

2011-03-24 Thread teddieeb
Rico Secada Said: Hi. I'm currently looking into groupware solutions on Debian mainly for sharing a calendar such as Thunderbird + Lightning. Anyone who can provide some real life experience of pros and cons? - I develop web pages using PHP, as such I have access to a web server capable o

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

2011-03-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 23 mar 11, 13:36:30, Mark wrote: > > > > With grub2, if you want to troubleshoot update-grub and the resulting > > "/boot/grub/grub.cfg", you have to look at "/etc/default/grub", > > "/etc/grub.d/*", "/usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib", and > > "/usr/bin/grub-mkconfig". You might not need to d