Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/25/2011 06:19 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/03/11 08:40, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/24/2011 08:41 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: 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 v

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 02:57:38 pm 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 s

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/03/11 09:41, Brian wrote: > On Fri 25 Mar 2011 at 14:45:52 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> and it does not offer to save my setup anymore, so after I quit I have >> to start all over gain... POC > > Mine doesn't offer to save open tabs either but on restarting it does > present a Googl

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/03/11 08:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/24/2011 08:41 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> 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

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 25 Mar 2011 at 14:45:52 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> and it does not offer to save my setup anymore, so after I quit I have >> to start all over gain... POC > > Mine doesn't offer to save open tabs either but on restarting it does > pres

Re: tightvncserver: Could not start screen

2011-03-25 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Susam Pal, 23.03.2011: > > Is there a way to start VNC server such that it makes the current > GNOME desktop available to the remote client? In the Gnome menu, try under "System->Preferences->Remote Desktop" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 25 Mar 2011 at 14:45:52 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > and it does not offer to save my setup anymore, so after I quit I have > to start all over gain... POC Mine doesn't offer to save open tabs either but on restarting it does present a Google search field and the option to restore the

sshd is starting niced -2 on it's own?

2011-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Hello list. I am on Debian 5 (Lenny), always keep it up-to-date (per "aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade"), and I have a problem that I don't know how to solve (or have any idea how it appeared in the first place.) The problem is that all processes started by users have a nice value of -

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

2011-03-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 24. 03. 2011 22:12:19 je Mark napisal(a): 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. LOL Moral of the story? If you want to make *absolutely* sure that users *will* try editing a file -- any file -- y

Re: Command: groupadd k8055, makes system crash

2011-03-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 25. 03. 2011 13:08:12 je Mats Olofsson napisal(a): Se attached document. reportbug also seem to crash on my maschine? Seems to crash on my machine too. It's a pity, given that, for many a newbie, reportbug is the preferred method of filing bug reports... -- Cheerio, Klistvud

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/24/2011 08:41 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: 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 o

Krajowe PRZESYLKI KURIERSKIE

2011-03-25 Thread AM Logistic
Witamy serdecznie, Jesteśmy firmą zajmującą się pośrednictwem usług kurierskich w Polsce. Szanując Państwa prywatność i zarazem przestrzegając obowiązujących przepisów (Ustawa z dnia 18 lipca 2002 roku o świadczeniu usług drogą elektroniczną - Dz. U Nr 144, poz.1204) zwracamy się z prośbą o wyr

Re: System becomes very slow after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-25 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 25. 03. 2011 03:40:29 je Jackie Wang napisal(a): 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 w

Re: [OT] compiled kernels do not boot

2011-03-25 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
25/03/2011 21:19, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried 3 self-compiled kernels and they do not boot. They compile > w/o errors. > > They are compiled with 'make-kpkg --revision 1 --append-to-version -ck2 > --initrd kernel_image'. This is with an uptodate Sid. > > I have looked at the in

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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) dislike the way that v4 works. Care

[OT] compiled kernels do not boot

2011-03-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have tried 3 self-compiled kernels and they do not boot. They compile w/o errors. They are compiled with 'make-kpkg --revision 1 --append-to-version -ck2 --initrd kernel_image'. This is with an uptodate Sid. I have looked at the initrd files with cpio and I see nothing wrong: the 'in

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-25 14:00:26 Gregory Seidman wrote: >Either I don't get it or I won't drink the Kool-Aid. It's hard to say >which. I understand the value of the decentralized approach for a >decentralized project. That includes many open source projects. I believe >that git is absolutely the best choice

Re: mutt, exim, sender's email address

2011-03-25 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:15:43PM -0700, evenso wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:20:11AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:29:04AM +, Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 24 Mar 2011 at 14:53:29 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > > > > > > Is there any automatic way to have the se

Re: mutt, exim, sender's email address

2011-03-25 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:20:11AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:29:04AM +, Brian wrote: > > 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 th

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-25 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 06:06:12PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: > > On 2011-03-25 11:39:17 Jason Hsu wrote: > >>Why do you prefer Subversion for the central repository and git for laptops? > ... > > For laptops, or in any case w

Re: cups in squeeze with ethernet postscript printer

2011-03-25 Thread Matt Richardson
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Matt Richardson [110325 04:45]: >> 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

Re: mutt, exim, sender's email address

2011-03-25 Thread Mike McClain
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 07:47:46AM +, kuLa wrote: > On 24/03/11 21:53, 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 would suggest to check 'rewrite' clause in the exim config fil

Re: mutt, exim, sender's email address

2011-03-25 Thread Mike McClain
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:29:04AM +, Brian wrote: > 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? >> > In my mutt configuration file I have:

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Re: cups in squeeze with ethernet postscript printer

2011-03-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Matt Richardson [110325 04:45]: > 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 runnin

squeeze sound device error problem

2011-03-25 Thread L V Gandhi
I have the following following sound card as in lspci -v 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 81ef Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22 Memory at d01c (64-bit, n

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-03-25 Thread Andrew Wood
On 20 Mar 2011, at 14:09, Liam O'Toole wrote: > If you grep /var/log/syslog for 'firmware' you should see what firmware > is requested and what is missing, if any. Absolutely nothing. Would I be better switching to AMDs proprietory driver? Whats with having to edit the /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Brad Alexander
I've been using it for a couple of weeks now, and I don't have a problem with it. The only issue, as with all ffx releases is the lag in my favorite add-ons catching up. I believe that she will be happy being able to do slideshows and mmedia without having to open another browser... --b On Thu,

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-25 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On 2011-03-25 11:39:17 Jason Hsu wrote: >>Why do you prefer Subversion for the central repository and git for laptops? ... > For laptops, or in any case where you may not have an active, reliable > connection to the central repositor

[OT] How to unlock internet key?

2011-03-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Dear all, if not help, please point me somewhere in order to solve the following problem. With the `Momodesign MD-@' internet key, I can connect to internet using sim cards from: Tre, Tim, Wind, but not Vodafone. (Instead, with the Huawei-e169 device I can use _also_ Vodafone, with access point

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-25 11:39:17 Jason Hsu wrote: >Why do you prefer Subversion for the central repository and git for laptops? I can think of at least one reason: history. I haven't checked the default settings recently, but I seem to remember that git allowed "forced" pushes by default. This is great

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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) dislike the way that v4 works. Care

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-25 Thread Jason Hsu
Why do you prefer Subversion for the central repository and git for laptops? On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:14:39 -0400 Gregory Seidman wrote: > 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? S

Managing updates for a large number of hosts

2011-03-25 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi, I wanted to pick your brains about the best way to manage updates for a large number of Debian hosts. In essence, what I would like to do would be the equivalent of Nessus or OpenVAS local security checks. Unfortunately, I have run into problems with both of these solutions. Nessus only perfor

wheezy repository ???

2011-03-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I have been using wheezy for a couple of weeks. Yesterday (I think) something happened and now I cannot install Wheezy using a recent (and known to work before) business card CD. When I select wheezy/testing, I get an error message that my architecture is not available at the repository I have sele

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

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Jochen Schulz wrote: > ACK, it's probably another issue. But you may still want to refer to > this bug number in your new report. Done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

"Modes" versus "Virtual" in xorg.conf

2011-03-25 Thread peasthope
Folk, Either of these in /etc/X11/xorg.conf will set the display resolution. SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1280 960 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x960" EndSubSection "Modes" is far more common that "Virtual" in cited xo

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

2011-03-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Geronimo: > Tom H wrote: > >> It looks like you've found a gem, especially given the external card >> and this post by Colin Watson (#54): I don't think that's related. The issue cannot be resolved by removing the external card. >> You can also verify this at a lower level by trying 'lspci' at a

Re: System becomes very slow after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-25 Thread shawn wilson
first, you might want to reply to the list. i'll go through what i see here for now. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Jackie Wang wrote: > > root@Ming:~# lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Intern

Re: Icedove 2.0.0.24 on Lenny

2011-03-25 Thread Lisi
On Friday 25 March 2011 12:59:17 Estelmann, Christian wrote: > Open the account settings. You should see something like this: > http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/thunderbird25.jpg > The field "Email address" (here: cybernetn...@gmail.com) is the > "from"-field which you are looking

Re: Compiling Firefox

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Smith
On 3/25/11, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I believe you'll have better luck getting an answer from: > pkg-mozilla-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Thank you very much. I did not know that list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

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

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Clearly I was wrong and we've returned to the days of editing > > configuration files by hand as the preferred mode of system > > administration. Such is life! > > > > PS: I understand the argument that the GNOME ups

Re: Problem/regression on ETPS elantech touchpad

2011-03-25 Thread Pier Paolo
2011/3/24 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 f

Re: libXm.so.3

2011-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-24 16:58:43 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. That true. However, it is made available in the non-free section. libmotif3 is in oldstable/non-free. In Squeeze,

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

2011-03-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > 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 co

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

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Tom H wrote: > It looks like you've found a gem, especially given the external card > and this post by Colin Watson (#54): > > One effect of these changes was to load the video_cirrus and video_bochs > modules by default (you can test whether this is the culprit by > commenting them out in

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

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Geronimo wrote: > > LOL - beside that, I don't have an mta configured to access internet and > > don't like to do so. So I'll communicate using email (kmail) or > > iceweasel - no more. > > You don't need an mta. I already filed that bugrep

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

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Geronimo wrote: > > Tom H wrote: > >> - Does grub-probe on squeeze and maverick return the same values? > > > > Looks like this is true. See attachments. > > Yes. Although the "after some reboots" result of having hd4 correspond > to sda is

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

2011-03-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Geronimo wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: >> >>     reportbug debian-installer > > Thanks a lot for that hint. > > but see what happens: > $ reportbug > /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/reportbug/ui/gtk2_ui.py:476: PangoWarning: > pango_layout_set_width: assertion `lay

Re: Bug in grub-pc results in unbootable system after installation (was: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?)

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Thanks for your persistence, > I already feared you might give up on that one. I love debian and for me there's no alternative, so I can't give up! > BTW, I was wrong about the fix not being part of squeeze: the link above > says the fix should be included in 1.98+

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

2011-03-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2011-03-21 19:08:33, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: >> >> There's no choice to use another boot-manager. You have to use grub (which >> silently is grub2) or you have to use grub2. If grub2 is really stil beta - >> what the hell does i

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

2011-03-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2011-03-21 12:40:22, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: >> >> Of course, it could be that your mobo doesn't like grub2.  Since the >> grub and Debian developers know that, they made a big, fat warning >> when wanting to install grub2, aski

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

2011-03-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Geronimo: >> >> Rebooting from debian after a grub-install/update-grub, situation is shown by >> picture grub01.png > > This doesn't look *that* bad. It hangs right before showing the menu or > at least its command line. I googled for "welcom

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

2011-03-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Geronimo wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> - Does grub-probe on squeeze and maverick return the same values? > > Looks like this is true. See attachments. Yes. Although the "after some reboots" result of having hd4 correspond to sda is strange. >> - Can you chainload s

Bug in grub-pc results in unbootable system after installation (was: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?)

2011-03-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> a hint that this *might* actually be a graphics problem. See this bug >> report: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594967 >> >> It looks like the fix didn't make into stable, but you can try setting >> GRUB_TERMINAL=console. > > You ARE

Re: Icedove 2.0.0.24 on Lenny

2011-03-25 Thread Estelmann, Christian
Open the account settings. You should see something like this: http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/thunderbird25.jpg The field "Email address" (here: cybernetn...@gmail.com) is the "from"-field which you are looking for. You also can add different identities. When writing a mail,

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

2011-03-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Brian wrote: > 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/ conffi

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

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Geronimo, > > Am 2011-03-23 09:58:54, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > > I agree. How about a wishlist bug against debian-installer? > > > > Ok, when I found out, how to do that, I'll do it. > > reportbug debian-installer Thanks a lot for that hint

Re: wireless-next / wireless-testing

2011-03-25 Thread Volkan YAZICI
wext module is a little bit outdated -- AFAIK, no new features were introduced since years, just maintanance and bug fixes. I'd recommend sticking with mac80211 family of modules, which are planned to replace wext and are under active development. On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:05:27 +0100, Mathieu Malate

Command: groupadd k8055, makes system crash

2011-03-25 Thread Mats Olofsson
Se attached document. reportbug also seem to crash on my maschine? Debian 6 error.odt Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text

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

2011-03-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Geronimo, Am 2011-03-23 09:58:54, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > I agree. How about a wishlist bug against debian-installer? > Ok, when I found out, how to do that, I'll do it. reportbug debian-installer Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack --

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

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Geronimo wrote: > > There's no choice to use another boot-manager. You have to use grub > > (which silently is grub2) or you have to use grub2. If grub2 is really > > stil beta - what the hell does it do in debian stable? > > This is not right, because you can ch

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

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Jochen Schulz wrote: > a hint that this *might* actually be a graphics problem. See this bug > report: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594967 > > It looks like the fix didn't make into stable, but you can try setting > GRUB_TERMINAL=console. You ARE my hero :D Unbel

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

2011-03-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Ron Johnson, Am 2011-03-21 13:23:56, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > When I installed Squeeze, it absolutely asked if I wanted grub or > grub2. (Maybe because I used Expert Mode?) I install in Expert-Mode, but the installer give me only the choice between Grub2 and Lilo. Thanks, Gr

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

2011-03-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Geronimo, Am 2011-03-21 19:08:33, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > to do it, since grub2 is still in beta, so it might break. > > Huh? - Did you ever installed a debian 6.x? > > There's no choice to use another boot-manager. You have to use grub (which > silently i

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

2011-03-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Ron Johnson, Am 2011-03-21 12:40:22, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Of course, it could be that your mobo doesn't like grub2. Since the > grub and Debian developers know that, they made a big, fat warning > when wanting to install grub2, asking if you're sure that you want > to do it, si

Re: Icedove 2.0.0.24 on Lenny

2011-03-25 Thread Lisi
On Friday 25 March 2011 10:52:00 Estelmann, Christian wrote: > Why aren't you using the Google SMTP-Server (smtp.gmail.com)? Send mails > with his Googlemail-address through this server. > > Normally mail servers are not configured, to accept every address as > sender, only your address (@isp.com)

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

2011-03-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Geronimo: > > Rebooting from debian after a grub-install/update-grub, situation is shown by > picture grub01.png This doesn't look *that* bad. It hangs right before showing the menu or at least its command line. I googled for "welcome to grub!" and found a hint that this *might* actually be a gr

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

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Geronimo: > > From a closer look to dpkg.log - there has been updates of python and > > grub uses python. Could this lead the different behaviour? > > Looking at your dpkg.log again, I notice that grub-pc has been purged > and replaced by grub-legacy. Which version o

Re: Icedove 2.0.0.24 on Lenny

2011-03-25 Thread Estelmann, Christian
Why aren't you using the Google SMTP-Server (smtp.gmail.com)? Send mails with his Googlemail-address through this server. Normally mail servers are not configured, to accept every address as sender, only your address (@isp.com) - because of spam. The server of the old provider might have accepted

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

2011-03-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 25 Mar 2011 at 10:14:04 +, Brian wrote: > exec tail -n +3 50 That should be exec tail -n +3 $0 The file also needs to be made executable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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

2011-03-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Geronimo: > > From a closer look to dpkg.log - there has been updates of python and grub > uses python. Could this lead the different behaviour? Looking at your dpkg.log again, I notice that grub-pc has been purged and replaced by grub-legacy. Which version of grub are we talking about again? :)

Icedove 2.0.0.24 on Lenny

2011-03-25 Thread Lisi
I have recently migrated someone to a new ISP. For this ISP his username is his email address with that ISP: @ISP.com. I have edited the SMTP settings so that he uses their SMTP server. And now he cannot send "from" his preferred, Googlemail email address. It has been changed so that his ema

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

2011-03-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Mar 2011 at 14:12:19 -0700, 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. Not at all. Create /etc/grub.d/30_otheros and edit it. #!/bin/bash exec tail -n +3 50 menuentry "Windows" {

Re: FAT filesystem with a directory cycle

2011-03-25 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:23:40PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/03/2011 05:55 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 06:31:49AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: > [snip] > >> > >>I thought fsck was a bit based integrity checker and didn't care about > >>directories?... and how do you know w

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

2011-03-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Geronimo wrote: >> >> Seems like 6.0.0 disk images have been removed from mirrors too. >> As I normally use netinst-CDs only, I can't do that tests. Sorry. > > http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/debian-cd/ >

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

2011-03-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Geronimo wrote: > > Seems like 6.0.0 disk images have been removed from mirrors too. > As I normally use netinst-CDs only, I can't do that tests. Sorry. http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/debian-cd/ still has 6.0.0 images; for the time being. -- To UNS

wireless-next / wireless-testing

2011-03-25 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, Did anyone ever compiled a custom debian kernel module based on wireless-next/wireless-testing ? I would like to try out a new driver for my machine but do not know how to start. Thanks, -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

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

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Geronimo: > > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> AFAICS, we can rule out the kernel as the cuplrit completely, as grub > >> doesn't even get that far. Today appointments have been cancelled, so I can dedicate myself to grub issues. The fact, that the output of grub changes

Re: Compiling Firefox

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:37:22PM +0100, Peter Smith wrote: > 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: >

Re: mutt, exim, sender's email address

2011-03-25 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/11 21:53, 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

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

2011-03-25 Thread Geronimo
Hello, I did the tests, you asked me for. This time I'll attach some pictures, as pictures say more than thousand words ... Rebooting from debian after a grub-install/update-grub, situation is shown by picture grub01.png This time I waited more than 10 minutes, so it might be stated, that grub