How do fixes/improvements to video drivers get rolled out in Squeeze?

2011-05-23 Thread Mark
Hi, The Intel 855GM chipset performance has unfortunately taken a step or two backwards from Lenny to Squeeze based on my experience and what I've read in the bug reports and various forums. Specifically, on-line video streaming becomes choppy after 3-4 minutes on the same websites that Lenny had

Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:17 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: >> I installed ubuntu 11.04 on an HP netbook. Everything works great (even the >> bt43 WiFi wasn't that bad) except the start (ubuntu) menu (and I'm not crazy >> about the quick laun

Re: tp_smapi 0.40-9 incompatible with thinkpad w520

2011-05-23 Thread CHERN Yen-Chieh
Hi, there, I have new info for the problem I have encountered. I've already updated bios to the latest, so the method in troubleshooting section of thinkwiki.org about tp_smapi is not working. usr@debian-thinkpadw520:~$ dmesg |grep thinkpad [6.385411] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.24

Re: redirect differences in iceweasle for (home.live.com)

2011-05-23 Thread lina
Thanks for your suggestion. after cleaning the cache, so far works so good. On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:28:05PM +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when I tried to open the home.live.com in iceweasle, >> >> sometimes it redirected to https://pod

Re: How to stop a message which requires the Enter key

2011-05-23 Thread Arno Schuring
Ken Heard (k...@heard.name on 2011-05-23 17:48 -0400): > Recently I decided that I would like to be able cause the my Intel > Quad desktop running Lenny to hibernate rather than have to be turned > off completely while I am not using it for short periods. To this > end I installed package hibernat

Re: How to stop a message which requires the Enter key

2011-05-23 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Try "apt-get --purge remove whateveryouinstalled" > It should reverse any changes that appeared after you installed it. Thank you for your advice. What I installed was the 'hibernate' package. As you suggested I purged it.

Re: How to stop a message which requires the Enter key

2011-05-23 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Ken Heard wrote: The result was disaster. When I pushed the SOL start button it took I wouldn't say that it was a disaster, a disaster would have been if one of your partitions or disk(s) was wiped clean. :-) Right now you're merely being bothered by an annoying boot process. longer than

How to stop a message which requires the Enter key

2011-05-23 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recently I decided that I would like to be able cause the my Intel Quad desktop running Lenny to hibernate rather than have to be turned off completely while I am not using it for short periods. To this end I installed package hibernate. I then made t

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: I'm sorry! That was a very significant typo! I have a P4, not a P2. Also, > not raid disk. > No worries, I'm just surprised no one else picked up on it sooner lol. > > Also, > >> Mem: 1555440k Swap: 6168868k >> > so that's ~1.5GB in ram a

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote the following on 05/22/2011 09:47 PM: Greetings; My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 secs. although it seems

Re: repository change

2011-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 15:28:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20110523200459.GM11146@think.nuvreauspam>, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >You might be interested to know this > >happens because apt will prefer the faster source for the same package, > >since CD-ROM drives are usually faster than internet

tp_smapi 0.40-9 incompatible with thinkpad w520?

2011-05-23 Thread CHERN Yen-Chieh
Hi, Before the bios update made available on 19th May, my thinkpad w520 couldn't boot into debian wheezy/sid even after a successful installation. However the latest bios update solved that issue. But still the tp_smapi can not be loaded. usr@debian-thinkpadw520:~$ sudo modprobe tp_smapi [sudo] p

Re: repository change

2011-05-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110523200459.GM11146@think.nuvreauspam>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >You might be interested to know this >happens because apt will prefer the faster source for the same package, >since CD-ROM drives are usually faster than internet connections. I thought was just the first source listed. I don'

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 May 2011 14:09:54 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > How ironic ... the power blinked and that machine rebooted, when it came > back up, I saw it boot via the serial console, but it would freeze > during the boot process w/ > > "Loading the saved-state of the serial devices..." > > I then

Re: repository change

2011-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 19:37:20, huubvanniek...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed Debian 5 without X, and so far had no problem installing > extra packages from CDROM. However, now I need to install from > packages.debian.org/lenny and apt-get keeps requesting for the cdrom. How > can I chan

Re: usb pendrive mounting

2011-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 14:26:32, I Rattan wrote: > > I am aptosid/Linux and the ability to auto > mount usb pendrive is not functional any more. > > /var/log/messages.1 indicates the USB device found > > There is no /etc/fstab entry for usb? > > Any pointers? Not enough information for a pointer. /

Re: repository change

2011-05-23 Thread hvn
On Mon, 23 May 2011 15:40:44 -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: > In your /etc/apt/sources.list file you need to place a # before the > entry for the CDROM. > Thank you. > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:37 PM, wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've installed Debian 5 without X, and so far had no problem installing >> e

Re: repository change

2011-05-23 Thread Matt Harrison
In your /etc/apt/sources.list file you need to place a # before the entry for the CDROM. On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:37 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed Debian 5 without X, and so far had no problem installing > extra packages from CDROM. However, now I need to install from > packages.debian.or

repository change

2011-05-23 Thread huubvanniekerk
Hi, I've installed Debian 5 without X, and so far had no problem installing extra packages from CDROM. However, now I need to install from packages.debian.org/lenny and apt-get keeps requesting for the cdrom. How can I change this? I've searched the Debian FAQ, but can't find info on this. Th

Re (2): Kerberos conundrum in CUPS.

2011-05-23 Thread peasthope
From: David Sastre Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 21:14:19 +0200 > FWIW, kerberos packages are named krb5* (apt-cache search krb5) Right oh. Thanks! peter@joule:~$ dpkg -l 'libkrb5*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

2011-05-23 Thread Hartmut Niemann
Hello Karl, hello everybody, thank you Karl for this script. Am So Mai 22 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 > > >Try this version of mkdir earlier in your PATH until you find out what >

RE: Squeeze (or higher) on HP DL180 G6

2011-05-23 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, Have a look at this page. http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant It lists the compatibility of several proliant models and the Debian software. I have had problems with the DL1xx series and Debian due to missing disk controler drivers. The DL1xx series is not present in the above list. Met vrien

Testing new hardware support for Debian 6.0.2

2011-05-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
[Also posted to Planet Debian.] The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware, and I've prepared several updates intended for point release 6.0.2. Since the kernel team does not have a large collection of hardware o

Re: Kerberos conundrum in CUPS.

2011-05-23 Thread David Sastre
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:25:41AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Folk, > > This conundrum is in CUPS in Squeeze with LXDE. The "server" > is only my server at home used by me. > > Until this weekend, an attempt at an administrative task by a user > on the Web interface would get a dialo

usb pendrive mounting

2011-05-23 Thread I Rattan
I am aptosid/Linux and the ability to auto mount usb pendrive is not functional any more. /var/log/messages.1 indicates the USB device found There is no /etc/fstab entry for usb? Any pointers? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Kerberos conundrum in CUPS.

2011-05-23 Thread peasthope
Folk, This conundrum is in CUPS in Squeeze with LXDE. The "server" is only my server at home used by me. Until this weekend, an attempt at an administrative task by a user on the Web interface would get a dialogue window. After authentication as root, the task could be completed. Now suc

Re: Squeeze (or higher) on HP DL180 G6

2011-05-23 Thread Jacek Politowski
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:23:21PM +0100, kuLa wrote: >On 23/05/11 14:33, Jacek Politowski wrote: >> Does anybody use HP DL180 G6 with Debian here and can confirm that >> Debian works correctly on that server? > dunno about DL180 but I have hundreds of DL360's and 380's starting from > G3 and end

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: >> >> > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> >> OTOH, /etc/inittab can be restarted/reloaded by issu

Re: Squeeze (or higher) on HP DL180 G6

2011-05-23 Thread David A. Parker
One quick note, you will need the firmware for the network hardware in these machines. Download this file: ttp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-bnx2_0.28_all.deb ...or use the squeeze + non-free installer: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-inst

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> OTOH, /etc/inittab can be restarted/reloaded by issuing "telinit q", or > >> at least that was what I used on another

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> OTOH, /etc/inittab can be restarted/reloaded by issuing "telinit q", or >> at least that was what I used on another distributions, in Debian I'm >> not sure if remains the same

Re: need help with gnome-keyring-manager

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 May 2011 10:21:46 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110523_103153, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Better that removing "gnome-keyring" (I dunno if it is even possible >> because I think is a key component of the whole GNOME stack) try to >> configure it first or disable some elements that

Re: redirect differences in iceweasle for (home.live.com)

2011-05-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:28:05PM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > when I tried to open the home.live.com in iceweasle, > > sometimes it redirected to https://pod51003.outlook.com/owa/?rru=home > which showed me nothing, > > but if redirected to https://sinprd0103.outlook.com/owa/?rru=home It soun

Re: need help with gnome-keyring-manager

2011-05-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110523_103153, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 22 May 2011 14:04:39 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I have installed Squeeze on some different hardware for my desktop > > computer. On previous install attempts (on other hardware) I have had > > problems with gnome-keyring-manager interfering with

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: 115200 is a bit high speed rate, for testing I would lower that value and > once it works, you can play with this. > Yeah, it is high, that was just my last change, I started at the typical 9600, went to 19200, 38400 and then 115200. All produces

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 May 2011 18:05:47 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > I've embarked on the trial and error process of setting up a serial > console on my Debian 6 machine. So far, the configuration has been > pretty straight forward. As a reference point I used the following two > websites (...) 115200 is

Re: backports updates (2)

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Monday 23 May 2011 15:02:40 Andrei Popescu wrote: > please feel free to ignore > any suggestions from my side regarding administering your computer, if > you don't find them useful. I just happen to enjoy throwing ideas > around, although sometimes I tend to exagerate ;) I knew someone once who

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 05/23/2011 05:18 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: forgot about it. May I suggest installing etckeeper? In it's default configuration it will automatically keep a track of all changes in /etc, which you can review very easily if you wish with (as root): # cd /etc # git log -u If you make any changes

Re: Serial Console Access

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:04 AM, David Parker wrote: Was your onboard serial port disabled in the BIOS at the time you installed > Debian? If it was, then the first port on your serial card should be mapped > to /dev/ttyS0. If not, then udev may have picked up the onboard port as > /dev/ttyS0

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: [snip] My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) > The Pentium II max clockspeed was 233-450MHz are you sure it's not a P4? (PIII clockspeeds are 400Mhz to 1.4GHz.) So if it's a 2GHz CPu then it's got to be a P4. It helps to know what

Re: redirect differences in iceweasle for (home.live.com)

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 May 2011 22:28:05 +0800, lina wrote: > when I tried to open the home.live.com in iceweasle, > > sometimes it redirected to https://pod51003.outlook.com/owa/?rru=home > which showed me nothing, > > but if redirected to https://sinprd0103.outlook.com/owa/?rru=home > > it works. > > An

Re: redirect differences in iceweasle for (home.live.com)

2011-05-23 Thread lina
It's super weird, why now both two can show the content, not a blank page. It's used to show the blank page many many times. Thanks for any explainations. On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:32 PM, lina wrote: > It redirected to the not-work one, > > which is > > https://pod51003.outlook.com/owa/?rru=h

Re: redirect differences in iceweasle for (home.live.com)

2011-05-23 Thread lina
It redirected to the not-work one, which is https://pod51003.outlook.com/owa/?rru=home sorry, I copied wrong last email. Thanks, On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:28 PM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > when I tried to open the home.live.com in iceweasle, > > sometimes it redirected to https://pod51003.outlook

Re: Squeeze (or higher) on HP DL180 G6

2011-05-23 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:22 PM, David A. Parker wrote: > On 05/23/2011 09:33 AM, Jacek Politowski wrote: >> >> I'm going to buy a low-end server with 12 SATA HDDs. >> >> I've received an offer for HP DL180 G6 with interesting price. >> Now I'm trying to find out whether this proliant works correc

redirect differences in iceweasle for (home.live.com)

2011-05-23 Thread lina
Hi, when I tried to open the home.live.com in iceweasle, sometimes it redirected to https://pod51003.outlook.com/owa/?rru=home which showed me nothing, but if redirected to https://sinprd0103.outlook.com/owa/?rru=home it works. Anyone knows the reason? Same issue happened when a friend tried t

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:31, Ron Johnson wrote: Which the OS allows them, so I pass no blame on the Skype devs. My automobile allows me to drive w/o being buckled up. Do you blame the manufacturer or do you blame me for driving w/o buckling up? Strawman

Re: Squeeze (or higher) on HP DL180 G6

2011-05-23 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/05/11 14:33, Jacek Politowski wrote: > I'm going to buy a low-end server with 12 SATA HDDs. > > I've received an offer for HP DL180 G6 with interesting price. > Now I'm trying to find out whether this proliant works correctly > with Debian (eith

Re: Squeeze (or higher) on HP DL180 G6

2011-05-23 Thread David A. Parker
On 05/23/2011 09:33 AM, Jacek Politowski wrote: I'm going to buy a low-end server with 12 SATA HDDs. I've received an offer for HP DL180 G6 with interesting price. Now I'm trying to find out whether this proliant works correctly with Debian (either squeeze or testing (or even unstable)). Serve

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 05/23/11 05:02, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 21:47:03 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. That's a quite old computer. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will

Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 11:54:01, Wolodja Wentland wrote: [snip] Great answer! :) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread green
Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-05-23 08:28 -0500: > Camaleón wrote: > > And IMO, too useless/time consuming also. I want a phone not a game > > console :-) > > A computer with hardware I can't access is a computer I don't want. Right. Someone gave me a blackberry with GPS hardware... great, but a

Re: backports updates (2)

2011-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 11:01:47, Lisi wrote: > > I have in fact gone on niggling at this. And the instructions page clearly > says to add those exact lines. I agree with you now. I must have just > copied and pasted them without registering them. > > I clearly do need to add etckeeper as you sugg

Squeeze (or higher) on HP DL180 G6

2011-05-23 Thread Jacek Politowski
I'm going to buy a low-end server with 12 SATA HDDs. I've received an offer for HP DL180 G6 with interesting price. Now I'm trying to find out whether this proliant works correctly with Debian (either squeeze or testing (or even unstable)). Server has HP P212/ZM and P410/256 controllers (I guess

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/05/11 21:28, � wrote: > On Tue, 03 May 2011 08:04:03 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > >> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 05:35:39AM CEST, giovanni_re >> said: > > (...) > >>> = >>> So, today's poll is: >>> >>> What Smartphone do you use? >> >> None : they are far too expensive for the use I would have

Re: Automounting USB drives

2011-05-23 Thread AG
On 19/05/11 13:30, 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 in to my machine, it is not au

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-23 Thread John Hasler
Dotan writes: > Your automobile is not charged with the responsibility to protect the > safety of yourself or your passengers. Neither is your computer. As a simple machine it is incapable of being responsible for anything. > In order to add that responsibility to the automobile, one would have

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2011 21:47:03 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. That's a quite old computer. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay lik

Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-23 Thread Joe
On 23/05/11 08:17, shawn wilson wrote: (This might be a ubuntu themeing issue) I installed ubuntu 11.04 on an HP netbook. Everything works great (even the bt43 WiFi wasn't that bad) except the start (ubuntu) menu (and I'm not crazy about the quick launch bar or it being on the left). How do I ge

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 May 2011 21:47:03 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. That's a quite old computer. > No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, > no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 > s

Empathy: Jabber/Gmail connection problems

2011-05-23 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I use Empathy 2.30.3 with Jabber, GTalk and MSN. I used to be able to connect to everyone but suddenly my Jabber connections are shown as "offline" and when the remote party tries to connect their application (some Apple thing) says "XMPPErrorDomain error 6". I can connect with everyone who ha

Re: usb harddrive problem

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 May 2011 12:49:16 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 04:27:57PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> > May 22 10:31:05 dragon kernel: [ 4306.496515] usb 1-2: new high speed USB >> > device using ehci_hcd and address 29 >> > May 22 10:31:05 dragon kernel: [ 4306.644021] hub

Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:17 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > I installed ubuntu 11.04 on an HP netbook. Everything works great (even the > bt43 WiFi wasn't that bad) except the start (ubuntu) menu (and I'm not crazy > about the quick launch bar or it being on the left). How do I get a "normal" > star

Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 May 2011 03:17:13 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > (This might be a ubuntu themeing issue) > > I installed ubuntu 11.04 on an HP netbook. Everything works great (even > the bt43 WiFi wasn't that bad) except the start (ubuntu) menu (and I'm > not crazy about the quick launch bar or it being

Re: Gnome menu can't update to correct language.

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 May 2011 18:00:06 +0800, spp mg wrote: > 2011/5/22 Camaleón : >> Does it happen always, regardless the application you install and the >> method you use (synaptic, command line...)? > > I just use aptitude only,but my friend use synaptic with same problem. > This problem look like hap

Re: need help with gnome-keyring-manager

2011-05-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 May 2011 14:04:39 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have installed Squeeze on some different hardware for my desktop > computer. On previous install attempts (on other hardware) I have had > problems with gnome-keyring-manager interfering with my ability to use > ssh. Those problems seem

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:51:21 Lisi wrote: > On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote: [snip] > > # git commit -a -m "" > > > > The big benefit of committing yourself (vs. automatic commits) is you > > can easily tell from the commit message wh

Re: backports updates (2)

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote: > > I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having > > edited a preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my > > system. I didn't want updated versions either OOo

Re: Gnome menu can't update to correct language.

2011-05-23 Thread spp mg
2011/5/22 Camaleón : > On Sun, 22 May 2011 16:16:29 +0800, spp mg wrote: > >> My locale is set to zh_TW,so gnome menu is chinese. But when I instell >> package,gnome menu can't update to correct language. I need >> relogin(logout and login again.Has this word??) to update . >> >> I record a movie(6

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:18:28 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote: > > I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having > > edited a preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my > > system. I didn't want updated versions either OOo

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 23 mai 11, 09:37:25, Lisi wrote: > > I don't dare touch things like pinning and do not recall ever having edited a > preferences file for apt. I'm far too scared of mucking up my system. I > didn't want updated versions either OOo or Firefox that badly!! > > But, as I have said: where

Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/23/2011 02:17 AM, shawn wilson wrote: (This might be a ubuntu themeing issue) I installed ubuntu 11.04 on an HP netbook. Everything works great (even [snip] You're gonna get flamed for asking an *obviously* Ubuntu-related question on a non-Ubuntu mailing list. Try http://ubuntuforums.

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 22 May 2011 23:10:28 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 22 mai 11, 15:35:50, Lisi wrote: > > For what it is worth, /ect/apt/preferences says: > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=lenny-backports > > Pin-Priority: 200 > > > > It agrees with apt-cache policy. Shouldn't it? > > It's just as

Re: backports updates

2011-05-23 Thread Lisi
On Monday 23 May 2011 00:45:34 Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote: > > > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set > > > >

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2011-05-23 05:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > What about running memtest86+? And use memtester as well. RAM I had to change 3 days ago showed no (!) problems with memtest after long hours and many passes, but still it didn't work. Seems like Git and Torrents indicate memory faults pretty well, too. ;

Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-23 Thread shawn wilson
(This might be a ubuntu themeing issue) I installed ubuntu 11.04 on an HP netbook. Everything works great (even the bt43 WiFi wasn't that bad) except the start (ubuntu) menu (and I'm not crazy about the quick launch bar or it being on the left). How do I get a "normal" start menu? Lets define "no