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On 05/20/2011 09:04 AM, Charlie wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2011 12:17:54 -0400
> Dick Bayerl wrote:
>
>> I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with
>> the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes
>> to
Am Fr Mai 20 2011 schrieb Karl Vogel:
> >> On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
>
> H> It often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive
>
>What does "strace mkdir /some/directory" show?
>
>
$ strace mkdir two
execve("/bin/mkdir", ["mkdir", "two"], [/* 18 vars */]) = 0
brk(
Dear sirs,
how to restore ability to install official NVidia driver?
The latest driver 270.* included in debian package is buggy for my
adapter, so i need to downgrade to previous one. There are no
corresponding working package in SID so the only way is to use NVidia
driver from their site.
Wi
On Thu, 19 May 2011 12:17:54 -0400
Dick Bayerl wrote:
> I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with
> the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes
> to various files. Not the owner. I am just now installing DEBIAN on
> a second machine and keepi
hi there
i am looking for some opensource tools for SCADA and PLC programming tools.
Does debian repo have some software related to industrial electronics?
a version of labview is available for linux, but it is very expensive..and
it makes no great sense to work with proprietary software..
also
Hi there --
I am running squeeze with a non-RAID boot partition and a RAID-1 main
partition. I use GRUB2 as my bootloader. My problem is the following:
When I have my Seagate FreeAgent USB hard drive connected to the computer,
it's unable to boot, instead it hangs with the "Welcome to GRUB!" me
>> On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
H> It often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive
What does "strace mkdir /some/directory" show?
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On Thu, 19 May 2011 16:58:02 +0200
Sven Joachim wrote:
> Please file a bug report against debootstrap and use
> version 1.0.26 from Squeeze in the meantime.
>
> Sven
Thank you. Downgrading to version 1.0.26+squeeze1 solves my problem.
Cláudio
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I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with
the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes to
various files. Not the owner. I am just now installing DEBIAN on a
second machine and keeping careful notes about the password to see if
that will work. I
On Wed, 18 May 2011 07:53:56 -0400
Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
>
> On my Debian testing systems I'm actually able to play all YouTube
> content using chromium-browser, the Gnash plug-in, and the IcedTea NPR
> Web Browser plug-in. I've never installed anything from non-free or
> contrib on these s
I'm not sure how to report a bug against what appears
to be a missing piece in the Debian Squeeze kFreeBSD
system, so I'm asking both for how to fill the gap and
also how to file this as a bug report if it is a bug.
There does not appear to be a partitioning tool
which understands how to create an
From: annathemerm...@hush.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 18:44:52 +
> Unfortunately, "unlimited" SkypeIn and SkypeOut aren't actually
> "unlimited", if you read the fine print, and if you go over, it
> goes to the per-minute rate.
Thanks. Hadn't noticed. I have only about 30 SkypeOut calls/m
> > /bin/mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1
> > /bin/chmod 0666 /dev/ttyUSB?
>
> And this is also not required anymore with udev which dinamically
> creates the links to the devices and sets its perms.
Thanks, you're right. Previously when I used jpilot, the setting
under "preferences -- settings" wa
Wanted to try Acroread.
The package acroread-debian-files would not install. There are no
dependency problems.
I switched to apt-get at the prompt.
About line 111 below I dpkg-configure says it can't overwrite a man file.
So I try to move that file in line 122 to no avail.
Now aptitude refuse
Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my
new Epson Stylus NX420 printer?
There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web
interface.
Thanks for any help!
Rick
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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:30:04AM -0400, Matt Harrison wrote:
> I recently did a base install and then installed a handful of packages
> to get myself X and Openbox running on my system using XFE for my file
> manager. I am running into an issue where when I plug my external
> (NTFS) hard drive i
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 03:59:39AM +, annathemerm...@hush.com wrote:
> Now, if only I could find a SIP client that works on Debian and
> OpenBSD (bonus points for Mac OS X Tiger/powerpc too) *and* is
> robust enough to deal with my poor internet connection, which
> sometimes has 50% packet loss
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates
>
> I've never used that repo before :-?
>
>
I hadn't either until I read it was the way to fix the disappearing mouse
pointer issue in Squeeze, here
http://hacksomethingtonight.blogspot.com/2011
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:41:04AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Daniel Andersson wrote:
> >Trying Ekiga now and I can't get chat to work at all.
> >
> >I was not impressed I'm sorry to say. But I guess Ekiga's strength
> >is in calls not messaging. Will maybe try that later on.
>
> I
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 04:05:20PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <20110519195909.GA8991@Europa.office>, Freeman wrote:
> >Proposed-updates replaces the volatile archive.
>
> No, that's stable-updates, not stable-proposed-updates.
Ugh. True this is.
So stable-proposed-updates specific
> >
> > I am attempting to upload files onto my webserver using sftp. As
> > far as I can
> > tell from reading the man pages and searching online, the correct
> > syntax once
> > connected via sftp is:
> >
> > put -r *
>
> I'm no expert myself, but shouldn't that be
>
>mput *
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> From: David Jardine
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Bug#611380: openssh-client: sftp's put -r fails with "Unable to
> canonicalise path"
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:35:22PM -0700, Steven Scia
Am Do Mai 19 2011 schrieb Tom Grace:
> On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
> > I observe that it often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3
> > drive,
> > especially the first directory.
> > What could the reason be?
> If this is a data drive, has it been spun down to save power ?
Hi,
Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 19:37, Andrew McGlashan
wrote:
Then there is the whole security risk of using Skype, it pokes it's
own holes through firewalls and takes advantage of super user rights
whenever it can, silently!
Poking holes in the firewall sounds to me like a
In <20110519195909.GA8991@Europa.office>, Freeman wrote:
>Proposed-updates replaces the volatile archive.
No, that's stable-updates, not stable-proposed-updates.
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In , Camaleón wrote:
>On Wed, 18 May 2011 20:15:33 -0700, Mark wrote:
>> I had to add the squeeze-proposed-updates repos to my sources.list after
>> learning about the intel 855gm bug in squeeze that requires a fix from
>> the proposed updates section. After apt-get update and apt-get upgrade,
>>
In , Mark wrote:
>I had to add the squeeze-proposed-updates repos to my sources.list after
>learning about the intel 855gm bug in squeeze that requires a fix from the
>proposed updates section. After apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, 13
>packages were updated/upgraded including apt.
Probably wo
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:35:22PM -0700, Steven Sciame wrote:
>
>
> I am attempting to upload files onto my webserver using sftp. As far as I
> can
> tell from reading the man pages and searching online, the correct syntax
> once
> connected via sftp is:
>
> put -r *
I'm no expert
Hello,
http://lists.debian.org/debian-ssh/2011/01/msg00029.html
I was wondering if there was a scheduled fix for this or if I was possibly
using
sftp incorrectly in Debian Squeeze.
I am attempting to upload files onto my webserver using sftp. As far as I can
tell from readin
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:59:09PM -0700, evenso wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:15:33PM -0700, Mark wrote:
> >After apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, 13
> > packages were updated/upgraded including apt. Am I supposed to keep the
> > proposed updates repos active in sources.list for the life
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 19:37, Andrew McGlashan
wrote:
> Then there is the whole security risk of using Skype, it pokes it's
> own holes through firewalls and takes advantage of super user rights
> whenever it can, silently!
Poking holes in the firewall sounds to me like a firewall problem, not
a
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:15:33PM -0700, Mark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had to add the squeeze-proposed-updates repos to my sources.list after
> learning about the intel 855gm bug in squeeze that requires a fix from the
> proposed updates section.
Proposed-updates replaces the volatile archive. They
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On Wed, 18 May 2011 17:23:26 + annathemerm...@hush.com wrote:
>On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:14:43 + Roger Leigh
> wrote:
>>> Now that Debian is up and running, is there documentation
>>somewhere
>>> explaining how to make yaboot offer options to boot
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On 19 May 2011 16:48, wrote:
> From: annathemerm...@hush.com
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 03:59:39 +
>> The standard is PTSN.
>
> Don't you mean PSTN?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone_network
Yes, forgive the dyslexia.
Hi,
I upgraded Squeeze to Wheezy.
After logging out of X (no matter which desktop or window manager) the
screen goes black, the monitor signal gets lost, its green light turns
to yellow. The only way to get out of this situation is by pressing the
reset button.
So I tried a new installation of Wh
On Wed, 18 May 2011 20:15:33 -0700, Mark wrote:
> I had to add the squeeze-proposed-updates repos to my sources.list after
> learning about the intel 855gm bug in squeeze that requires a fix from
> the proposed updates section. After apt-get update and apt-get upgrade,
> 13 packages were updated/
I installed the Debian nvidia dkms packages. Very nicely done, offered to an
uninstalled nvidia's proprietary install and with the magic of dkms, voile.
The thing works 100% !!
But I get the following error:
dpkg: error processing libglx-nvidia-alternatives (--configure):
subprocess installed p
Hello,
I have been recently playing with smart-notifier package to use
notifications (pynotify) and fixing some bugs. This worked nice with
(yet unpackaged) notification-daemon 7.1 but older versions and other
notification daemons fail to display long texts and do not have default
icon for cr
The political aspects of the non-free debate are regrettable like
Bolshevik committees discussing some point of thought everyone has to
accept. The current Debian policy of choice seems best.
If I'm not shaken down for money on a regular basis like Windows users,
that's fine with me. It might
On Thu 19 May 2011 at 08:30:04 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote:
> Is there a volume manager I can install outside of the DE environment
> to get this working again? I have been searching for a couple of days
> now but I have not found anything yet.
autofs has been mentioned. There is also thunar-volm
Hi,
Daniel Andersson wrote:
Trying Ekiga now and I can't get chat to work at all.
I was not impressed I'm sorry to say. But I guess Ekiga's strength is in
calls not messaging. Will maybe try that later on.
I was looking at Ekiga for a client solution, but found that even the
plain old and s
Hi,
I'm going to snip an awful lot [around 18KB of text email] now, but your
email was a great read! The size was impressive even with the biggish
chunks of referred text, there was plenty of new dialogue.
annathemerm...@hush.com wrote:
So your father bought a new laptop to use XP again. If
On 19/05/11 17:01, Hartmut Niemann wrote:
I observe that it often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive,
especially the first directory.
What could the reason be?
If this is a data drive, has it been spun down to save power ?
Do other operations like reading a non-cached file, cre
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2011 08:30:04 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>> Is there a volume manager I can install outside of the DE environment to
>> get this working again? I have been searching for a couple of days now
>> but I have not found any
Hi,
I observe that it often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive,
especially the first directory.
What could the reason be?
$ time mkdir hello
real0m22.325s
user0m0.000s
sys 0m0.132s
If system time is less than a second, what is eating the other 22 seconds?
This is
From: annathemerm...@hush.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 03:59:39 +
> The standard is PTSN.
Don't you mean PSTN?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone_network
> ... home phone is usually cheaper ...
A few years ago when Shaw bought the cable service on Pender Island,
my T
On 2011-05-19 16:22 +0200, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote:
> I need to build a legacy application in a Woody environment, so I am
> trying to debootstrap a Woody chroot:
>
> # mkdir ~/woody_chroot
> # debootstrap woody ~/woody_chroot http://archive.debian.org/debian
> I: Retrieving Release
> E: Invalid
Hi,
VirtualBox on Wheezy has been a really, really ugly experience. Here's a
quick recap -
1. Follow the directions to add the Squeeze version from virtualbox.org
(contrib, VirtualBox 4).
2. Attempt to install Guest Additions, & synaptic says it has to
uninstall VirtualBox (huh?)
Guest Additi
I need to build a legacy application in a Woody environment, so I am
trying to debootstrap a Woody chroot:
# mkdir ~/woody_chroot
# debootstrap woody ~/woody_chroot http://archive.debian.org/debian
I: Retrieving Release
E: Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-i386/Packages
If I use sar
Ken Heard writes:
> If it does I cannot find it.
Should be possible to create it by yourself.
Just bind it to "xterm -e "su -"", no?
,[ man xterm ]
|-e program [ arguments ... ] This option specifies the program
|(and its command line arguments) to be run in the xterm windo
On Thu, 19 May 2011 08:30:04 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote:
(...)
> Is there a volume manager I can install outside of the DE environment to
> get this working again? I have been searching for a couple of days now
> but I have not found anything yet.
If you don't want to manually deal with udev an
I recently did a base install and then installed a handful of packages
to get myself X and Openbox running on my system using XFE for my file
manager. I am running into an issue where when I plug my external
(NTFS) hard drive in to my machine, it is not automounting like it
would if I had XFCE ins
On Wed, 18 May 2011 15:29:15 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
(...)
> The stuff I did was something along the lines of running the following
> commands:
>
> /sbin/modprobe uhci_hcd
> /sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd
This should not be needed unless you don't have the USB kernel modules
already loaded which
On Thu, 19 May 2011 04:11:08 +, annathemermaid wrote:
(this message got unthreatened, maybe because of the subject change?)
> Errr... why don't you just open a normal xterm and then type "su" at the
> prompt. It should ask you for the root password, which you can then type
> in, press enter,
Hey folks,
Sorry if this is off-topic for in here, but i've finally solved the
enigma i was in getting the artwork (or cover art) embedded in my mp3's
to show up on my Sony E-Series Walkman (model - NWZ-E353). The solution
didn't have anything to do with the version of LAME i was using, but wa
On Thu, 19 May 2011 11:29:35 +0800, spp mg wrote:
> 2011/5/17 Camaleón
(...)
>> > sorry,I am too late to reply.
>>
>> (no problem, but don't make use of html formatted messages and better
>> yet if you reply at bottom or inline and don't cross-post ;-))
>
> Ok, like this?
Much better, thanks
On Wed, 18 May 2011 23:12:19 -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
> If it does I cannot find it.
If you mean a konsole shorcut that used to be launched as root (Super
user mode) it should be still there (btw, I never understood what was
this intended for, it just only saves you from typing 4 characters "su
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 07:27:34AM +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote:
>
> I have strange problem with wget:
> $wget -e "background = off" -v -x
> 'https://www.centrum24.pl/bzwbkonline/eSmart.html?typ=90&lang=pl'
>
> --8<---cut here---start->8---
> --2011-05-19 07:26:00
On 05/19/2011 03:09 AM, Chen Wei wrote:
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:25:15PM -0400, Tin Kidneys wrote:
On 05/18/2011 03:16 AM, Chen Wei wrote:
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:35:01AM -0400, Tin Kidneys wrote:
I just purchased a Sony E-Series Walkman,& don't have any album
artwork showing on mp3's i
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 19:07, Tom H wrote:
> A decision to drop or not the Linux version of Skype might depend on
> how many Linux users pay for Skype-in and Skype-out.
>
>
I'm one such user.
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On 18/05/11 14:50, Jon Dowland wrote:
On 18/05/11 12:35, Alan Chandler wrote:
Thanks, I found gsettings now. It looks like I haven't yet got much of
gnome3 installed - what is this common display applet? - the new
gnome-shell doesn't seem to give me any options to access applets?
(I guess this
On Ma, 17 mai 11, 15:21:26, Borden Rhodes wrote:
> Sorry, I should have clarified: the scripts execute correctly but wireless
> still does not connect. I'll try tinkering with the /etc/network/interfaces
> and see where that gets me.
That's a good idea, but make sure Network Manager (a.k.a. Net
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:25:15PM -0400, Tin Kidneys wrote:
> On 05/18/2011 03:16 AM, Chen Wei wrote:
> >On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:35:01AM -0400, Tin Kidneys wrote:
> >>I just purchased a Sony E-Series Walkman,& don't have any album
> >>artwork showing on mp3's i just encoded using my Debian Whe
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