Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Panen
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:59 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > You might want to try the following: > - Disabling the CD-ROM as an apt source by commenting them out (add a # sign > before deb cdrom...) > - Changing your mirror to the Debian CDN - http://cdn.debian.net/debian > (that is, replace http://mirror.k

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-07 Thread titantoppler
Hi, You might want to try the following: - Disabling the CD-ROM as an apt source by commenting them out (add a # sign before deb cdrom...) - Changing your mirror to the Debian CDN - http://cdn.debian.net/debian(that is, replace http://mirror.kernel.org/debian with http://cdn.debian.net/debian) Af

How to stop receiving xorg-related mails

2011-06-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
I've unsubscribed from xorg-related mailing lists, but I'm getting some xorg-related bug reports (e.g. xterm and xserver-xorg). What am I missing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Panen
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:51 AM, wrote: > Hi, > Can you paste your /etc/apt/sources.list here? > What does "aptitude update; aptitude safe-upgrade" give? > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Mark Panen wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Ralf Mardorf >> wrote: >> > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/11 19:28, Christian Simo wrote: > Hi All Hi > Please I got an internet with 6 fixed IP addresses, one on my cisco > router and another 5 that I want to use them as IP addresses for my > servers on my LAN so that those servers can be accessi

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-07 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > Hi all, > > x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command > line + options to gnome-terminal. > > if you try, for example, > > x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 > > it doesn't seem to work. Please provide the

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-07 Thread titantoppler
Hi, Can you paste your /etc/apt/sources.list here? What does "aptitude update; aptitude safe-upgrade" give? On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Mark Panen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 05:06 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> Jus

x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-07 Thread briand
Hi all, x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command line + options to gnome-terminal. if you try, for example, x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 it doesn't seem to work. bug ? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Panen
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 05:06 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: >> Hi >> >> Just installed Debian 6.0.0 and synaptic. The "Officially supported >> (main) etc on the first tab cannot be checked. They where checked when >> i first installed synaptic but aft

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 05:06 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi > > Just installed Debian 6.0.0 and synaptic. The "Officially supported > (main) etc on the first tab cannot be checked. They where checked when > i first installed synaptic but after i changed mirrors they will not > be checked. > > I sti

Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Panen
Hi Just installed Debian 6.0.0 and synaptic. The "Officially supported (main) etc on the first tab cannot be checked. They where checked when i first installed synaptic but after i changed mirrors they will not be checked. I still have the correct mirrors in sources list but cannot update. --

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Perry Thompson
On 2011年06月07日 19:44, Brian wrote: > On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 11:06:59 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: > >> I have xfce4-power-manager and am in the sudoers list. This worked >> before when I had GDM, but not when I was without a DM or when I tried >> Slim or NODM. I have not been able to get this to wo

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread KS
On 07/06/11 02:44 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I guess wireless won't cause troubles for AF signals, but anyway I will > avoid wireless, because I won't do bodybuilding and I won't a battery > dieing, while I'm doing an audio production. Cable usually never gets > broken here. I only had to solder

Re: Re (5): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/06/11 09:13, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Hello Axel, > > From: Axel Freyn > Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:40:22 +0200 >> I have no webserver at hand, so I haven't tested ... > > But you don't need a server. You only need to find a link, on any > server anywhere, which targets a file URI. The

Re: Missing device nodes

2011-06-07 Thread titantoppler
Hi, Ron: > So it's md that can't find them? Yes, md cannot find them, but I think that's because Debian doesn't detect them in the first place. Martin: > What's in /proc/partitions? > > What happens if you list the DEVICES specifically in mdadm.conf (and rebuild the initramfs)? I don't have acces

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/06/11 03:37, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: >> I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and >> works very well. > > +1 Moreover, it has a ball not a light. I dread the day it dies!! > > Lisi > > +1 Ball mice never die! (they just lose their balls, seriously)

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Go Linux
YES! I keep a supply of recycled PS2 mice on hand. I make my mouse ergonomic with strategically placed adhesive-backed, dense caulk strips. Those fancy ergonomic monstrosities drive me nuts! Ditto laser mice. --- On Tue, 6/7/11, Ron Johnson wrote: > From: Ron Johnson > Subject: Re: PS/2 mou

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 11:06:59 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: > I have xfce4-power-manager and am in the sudoers list. This worked > before when I had GDM, but not when I was without a DM or when I tried > Slim or NODM. I have not been able to get this to work in any of those > three situations. Ho

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 19:57:57 +0100, Brian wrote: > So it's mystifying! All users get to shutdown the machine if sudo is on > the it. Mystery cleared up. I could have been more thorough in what I did and checked everything. Installing sudo ungreys the buttons in the session closing dialogue and

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 06:00 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 18:41:19 Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and works very well. +1 Moreover, it has a ball not a light. I dread the day it

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-07 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 11:39 Tue 07 Jun , Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:10:48 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > The following is a problem I have on all laptops, I dont know how to > > configure to connect when the ethernet cable is attached. > > (...) > > Maybe you just need to tweak some options in

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 07 June 2011 18:41:19 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: > >>   I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and > >> works very well. > > > > +1  Moreover, it has a ball not a light.  I dread the day it dies!! > > You *lik

Re (2): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-07 Thread peasthope
Eduardo, From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:32:35 -0300 > Probably because ~ is not a magical token in the Linux kernel. Firefox > is just trying to open a file "/~/Category2.html", a file in a > directory literally called "~" under root. > > Several programs (notably t

Re (5): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-07 Thread peasthope
Hello Axel, From: Axel Freyn Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:40:22 +0200 > I have no webserver at hand, so I haven't tested ... But you don't need a server. You only need to find a link, on any server anywhere, which targets a file URI. Then duplicate the file in your own system. Use a link o

Re (5): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-07 Thread peasthope
From: Liam O'Toole Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:09:58 + (UTC) > ... lynx opens the file ... Thanks. I didn't try lynx. > ... issue of iceweasel opening file:// links from http:// documents. Suppose you have the valid file Category2.html in your home directory. Using File > Open File, Ice

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-07 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 8 June 2011 05:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/07/2011 01:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: > [snip] > >> >> I still see some disadvantages for laser or BlueTrack based mice: >> >> 1/ They do not work on crystal or clear surfaces >> >> > I can't remember the last time I put my mouse on a clear (glass?) su

With ref. to earlier zfs commentary.

2011-06-07 Thread Heddle Weaver
Greetings, Interesting developments. Being in a spot of bother, let's hope it has a re-licencing potential hovering in the future: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/33gsu0/www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-zfs/index.html?cmp=dw&cpb=dwlin&ct=dwgra&cr=twitter&ccy=zz&crs=lxzfzfuseit Regards,

USB stick no longer automounting at boot

2011-06-07 Thread Russell Gadd
I have today set up a new installation of Linux Mint and it is exhibiting the same symptoms as my installation of Squeeze as follows - I have a USB stick permanently plugged in (for backup purposes) and when the system boots the stick is not mounted. When I first installed it mounted ok and I could

Re: Problems installing grub/lilo with RAID1 on /

2011-06-07 Thread Felix Natter
Tom H writes: >>Tom H writes: >>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Felix Natter >>> wrote: When trying to install lilo (with the debian-installler), I get "inconsistent raid information" (but the RAID1 (2x 208G) was created with debian-installer): Jun 5 19:22:00 in-

Re: [Debian 6] - unexpected issue with iso images

2011-06-07 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:29:31AM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2011 02:27:26 Bret Busby wrote: > > First thing - I think that it would be a good idea for each version to > > have its own mailing list, > > Please, no! We can surely all benefit from the issues that people are > having,

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips & experience

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 01:27 PM, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/07/11 at 01:00pm, Paul Johnson wrote: If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. The newer kernel appears to be necessary to use either the wireless ( Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 ) or the wir

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Simo
On 6/7/11, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:58:23 +0200, Christian Simo wrote: > >> On 6/7/11, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> The more details you provide about your devices and setup (what kind of >>> services do you want to be routed to your local lan, e.g., a web >>> server, e-mail se

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 01:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I still see some disadvantages for laser or BlueTrack based mice: 1/ They do not work on crystal or clear surfaces I can't remember the last time I put my mouse on a clear (glass?) surface. But if I did, then I'd use a mousepad. Disadvantage

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:58:23 +0200, Christian Simo wrote: > On 6/7/11, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> The more details you provide about your devices and setup (what kind of >> services do you want to be routed to your local lan, e.g., a web >> server, e-mail server...?), the better. > I wanna run

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:04:45 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> Do you remember where did you get that information? From what source > >> (it > >> was from a mailing list, rss news, onli

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Simo
On 6/7/11, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/07/11 at 08:39pm, Christian Simo wrote: >> Thank you for your response, >> this is my "/etc/network/interfaces" >> iface eth1 inet static >> address 41.134.19.90 >> netmask 255.255.255.248 >> broadcast 41.134.19.95 >> gateway 10.0.0.2 > > C

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 14:14:06 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > vigr aside, the sudo group does nothing by default. You don't need to > be in it As I've just discovered. On my Wheezy xfce4 box I'd never got round to enabling Shutdown and Restart for a user. It turns out installing sudo is all I ha

Re: [Debian 6] - unexpected issue with iso images

2011-06-07 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Bret Busby wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Brian wrote: Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:35:55 +0100 From: Brian To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [Debian 6] - unexpected issue with iso images Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:51:17 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@list

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 08:39pm, Christian Simo wrote: > Thank you for your response, > this is my "/etc/network/interfaces" > iface eth1 inet static > address 41.134.19.90 > netmask 255.255.255.248 > broadcast 41.134.19.95 > gateway 10.0.0.2 Change 'gateway' to be your router IP. Let us kn

Re: [OT] Mice (was: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse)

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 18:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > For intensive usage, heck... leave me with my Cherry corded keyboard with > a weight of ~1,8 kg and its characteristic "clack, clack" sound ;-) I've got two simple and good keyboards, one seems to be a Cherry and the other is better, because it

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I would prefer a script to prevent my system against issues. > Well, they are intended for training purposes but I guess I also prefer the script that prevents issues instead one that causes them ;D greets aL

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Simo
On 6/7/11, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > 2011/6/7 Christian Simo : >> iface eth1 inet static >>address 41.134.19.90 >>netmask 255.255.255.248 >>broadcast 41.134.19.95 >>gateway 10.0.0.2 >> >> the above IP addresses are set up on one of my computer on my LAN > > Isn't this a node in a LAN

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:04:45 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Do you remember where did you get that information? From what source >> (it >> was from a mailing list, rss news, online magazine, a blog...)? >> >> > No. The computer I was in has

Re (6): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-07 Thread peasthope
Carl, From: Carl Fink Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:52:43 -0400 > "http" is a protocol. Kinda figured that. Where are you getting http? The error in the original question was corrected in this message. "http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg00340.html"; Regards,

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Simo
I wanna run DNS and Web Servers my ISP give to me a following IP: Router IP 41.134.19.89 Network Mask 41.134.19.88 255.255.255.248 Broadcast Address 41.134.19.95 Network Address 41.134.19.88 WAN IP Range 41.134.19.88/29 and another public IP as follow allocated to me : 41.134.19.90 41.134.19.91 4

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 20:37 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > I gave it another try and found this[1] and this[2]. Im not sure it is > what I was looking for. The web is nothing like I remember. Besides, > they seems pretty old and only for readhat. > > Since nobody else is able to find anything lik

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2011/6/7 Christian Simo : > iface eth1 inet static >    address 41.134.19.90 >    netmask 255.255.255.248 >    broadcast 41.134.19.95 >    gateway 10.0.0.2 > > the above IP addresses are set up on one of my computer on my LAN Isn't this a node in a LAN, with a public IP address? You either have ve

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 20:37 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > I gave it another try and found this[1] and this[2]. Im not sure it is > what I was looking for. The web is nothing like I remember. Besides, > they seems pretty old and only for readhat. > > Since nobody else is able to find anything lik

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:28:23 +0200, Christian Simo wrote: > Please I got an internet with 6 fixed IP addresses, one on my cisco > router and another 5 that I want to use them as IP addresses for my > servers on my LAN so that those servers can be accessible on internet > side. > > Want I tried t

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 14:16 -0400, KS wrote: > On 07/06/11 01:52 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:41:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: > I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and >

[OT] Mice (was: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse)

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:16:33 -0400, KS wrote: > On 07/06/11 01:52 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:41:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: > I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and > wor

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Simo
Thank you for your response, this is my "/etc/network/interfaces" iface eth1 inet static address 41.134.19.90 netmask 255.255.255.248 broadcast 41.134.19.95 gateway 10.0.0.2 the above IP addresses are set up on one of my computer on my LAN The IP address 41.134.19.89 is in my cisc

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
I gave it another try and found this[1] and this[2]. Im not sure it is what I was looking for. The web is nothing like I remember. Besides, they seems pretty old and only for readhat. Since nobody else is able to find anything like it I guess I dreamed about it Thanks anyway! greets! aL [1] http

Re: Evolution is unusable

2011-06-07 Thread Vladimir Kerka
Hi Peter, many thanks for your advice, I did what you wrote and it's OK now (no surprise for you :-) ) Great! Many thanks once more HAND Vlada On 06/06/2011 12:26 AM, Peter Beck wrote: On 06/05/2011 11:49 PM, Vladimir Kerka wrote: some two or three weeks ago Evolution decided there is no in

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 17:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:41:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: > >> On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: > >>> I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and > >>> works very well. > >> > >> +1 Moreover,

Re: [Debian 6] - unexpected issue with iso images

2011-06-07 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Brian wrote: Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:35:55 +0100 From: Brian To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [Debian 6] - unexpected issue with iso images Resent-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:51:17 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 12:45

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 08:28pm, Christian Simo wrote: > Hi All > > Please I got an internet with 6 fixed IP addresses, one on my cisco > router and another 5 that I want to use them as IP addresses for my > servers on my LAN so that those servers can be accessible on internet > side. > > Want I tried to

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
What did you try? And where are those "ip adresses" connected to? The router? Individual servers? A single link? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLk

Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Simo
Hi All Please I got an internet with 6 fixed IP addresses, one on my cisco router and another 5 that I want to use them as IP addresses for my servers on my LAN so that those servers can be accessible on internet side. Want I tried to configure, it don't connect to internet! Please if someone c

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips & experience

2011-06-07 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 01:00pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. > > The newer kernel appears to be necessary to use either the wireless ( Intel > Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 ) or the wire (Intel Corporation > 82579LM Gigabit Netw

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread KS
On 07/06/11 01:52 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:41:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: >>> On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and works very well. >>> >>> +1 Moreover, it has a ball not a

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 10:32am, Brian wrote: > On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 01:46:49 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: > > > 1) shutdown my computer by pressing the power button, and > > You might need xfce4-power-manager for this but I'm not sure. > > > 2) choose "Shut Down" or "Restart" after pressing ctrl+alt+de

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 11:06am, Perry Thompson wrote: > On 06/07/2011 05:32 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 01:46:49 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: > > > >> 1) shutdown my computer by pressing the power button, and > > > > You might need xfce4-power-manager for this but I'm not sure. > > > >> 2

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread alberto fuentes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Do you remember where did you get that information? From what source (it > was from a mailing list, rss news, online magazine, a blog...)? > No. The computer I was in has been formatted at least twice... Neither it was a computer I was logged in

Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips & experience

2011-06-07 Thread Paul Johnson
If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. I've got a new Dell Precision M4600 laptop. In the Dell web pages, there was indication that they had RedHat running on these things, so I figured it was safe to order. Now I'm told it was a mistake in their web pages

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:41:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: >> On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: >>> I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and >>> works very well. >> >> +1 Moreover, it has a ball not a light. I dread the day it dies!! >> > You *lik

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and works very well. +1 Moreover, it has a ball not a light. I dread the day it dies!! You *like* ball mice? -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws w

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: > I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and > works very well. +1 Moreover, it has a ball not a light. I dread the day it dies!! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote Re. tuning: How? I've tried to find ways to get md to track timeouts, and never been able to find any relevant parameters. It is not in md. It is in the libata/scsi layer. Just tune the per-device parameters, e.g. in /sys/block/sda/device/* AFAIK, if

Re: Wheezy can't login to icewm-session or jwm

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:33:03 -0500, Johnny wrote: > using Wheezy I can't login to icewm-session or jwm i get a command line > but the keyboard does not work when that happens I can login to icewm > with no problems > > What do i need to do to fix this, is there a bug Google returned this: gnome

Re: SOLVED (hopefully perl) API to /etc/network/interfaces?

2011-06-07 Thread Mike Mestnik
On 05/31/11 23:23, Mike Mestnik wrote: > On 05/26/11 17:16, Mike Mestnik wrote: >> In-Reply-To: <20080412023656.gr14...@yi.org> >> >> Hello, >> This is an old thread, but I find myself in a similar situation. I'd >> like to edit a 4in6 tunnel endpoint and reconfigure the interface. >> While I c

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >Linux software raid is much more forgiving by default (and it can tune > >the timeout for each component device separately), and will just slow > >down most of the time instead of kicking component devices off the array > >until dataloss happens. Could

Re: Missing device nodes

2011-06-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ron Johnson [2011.06.07.1747 +0200]: > So it's md that can't find them? What's in /proc/partitions? What happens if you list the DEVICES specifically in mdadm.conf (and rebuild the initramfs)? -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer

Re: Missing device nodes

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
So it's md that can't find them? On 06/07/2011 09:52 AM, titantopp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm actually not too concerned about the "missing" partitions, as I do know that they exist - fdisk shows the partition table, and partprobe will make the partitions show up in /dev again. I'm thinking

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011, Miles Fidelman wrote: b. you're running RAID - instead of the drive dropping out of the array, the entire array slows down as it waits for the failing drive to (eventually) respond Linux software raid is much more forgiving by

Wheezy can't login to icewm-session or jwm

2011-06-07 Thread Johnny
using Wheezy I can't login to icewm-session or jwm i get a command line but the keyboard does not work when that happens I can login to icewm with no problems What do i need to do to fix this, is there a bug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011, Miles Fidelman wrote: > b. you're running RAID - instead of the drive dropping out of the > array, the entire array slows down as it waits for the failing drive > to (eventually) respond Eh, it is worse. A failing drive _will_ drop out of the array sooner or later, and it can

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:06:59 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: > On 06/07/2011 05:32 AM, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 01:46:49 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: >> >>> 1) shutdown my computer by pressing the power button, and >> >> You might need xfce4-power-manager for this but I'm not sure. >>

Re: Missing device nodes

2011-06-07 Thread titantoppler
Hi, I'm actually not too concerned about the "missing" partitions, as I do know that they exist - fdisk shows the partition table, and partprobe will make the partitions show up in /dev again. I'm thinking it might have something to do with udev, but I'm not sure. Googling for this issue usually

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Perry Thompson
On 06/07/2011 05:32 AM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 01:46:49 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: > >> 1) shutdown my computer by pressing the power button, and > > You might need xfce4-power-manager for this but I'm not sure. > >> 2) choose "Shut Down" or "Restart" after pressing ctrl+alt+del

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:00:21 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > 7.6.2011 16:07, Camaleón kirjoitti: >> How does your cron-apt sources list file look like? Have you try by >> setting another package repository mirrors, different than the current >> ones? What does "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 13:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:05:30 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > (...) > > > I guess Debian and Ubuntu only have issues with PS/2 mice. > > I can't speak for Ubuntu, but I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and > works very well. I wonder what can

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
7.6.2011 16:07, Camaleón kirjoitti: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:16:20 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> I maintain several machines with Squeeze and Lenny, and they have >> cron-apt running. >> >> The lenny machines report this (via logcheck) >> >> System Events >> =-=-=-=-=-=-= >> Jun 7 04:59:30

Re: Scripts to break the system (aka, troubleshooting)

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:21:53 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > I few months ago I saw some scripts with a list of 50 or so common > problems in a debian box. The scripts were suppose to randomly break > something on the system so you had to find the problem and fix it. The > fix was saved into some

Re: Missing device nodes

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 04:00 AM, titantopp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I'm running Debian Wheezy (testing) on the latest kernel (2.6.38-2-686) as my file server. This server has a RAID 5 array composed of 4 SATA hard disks connected to the motherboard controller. mdadm complains that it is unable to st

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 09:02 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > For me a hard disc never gets broken without click-click-click noise > > before it failed, but it's very common that cables and connections fail. > > > > > > By the time a disk gets to the click-click-click phas

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:05:30 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: (...) > I guess Debian and Ubuntu only have issues with PS/2 mice. I can't speak for Ubuntu, but I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and works very well. I wonder what can cause a simple PS/2 mouse to malfunction. Anything at Xorg's log

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 09:48 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] How should I break mouse wheel support, when I break ALSA? I try to get Not at the same time, but with *different* fiddling. -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manne

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) when using a PS/2 mouse with stable or testing the mouse wheel very seldom does work, usually it doesn't. For Ubuntu Maverick and Natty it's the same. Did you choose 3-button emulation? -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:16:20 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > I maintain several machines with Squeeze and Lenny, and they have > cron-apt running. > > The lenny machines report this (via logcheck) > > System Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-= > Jun 7 04:59:30 www128 cron-apt: W: Failed to fetch > http://f

Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 07 Jun 2011, Liam O'Toole wrote: The URL file:///~/Category2.html cannot be loaded by iceweasel in my case (iceweasel 4 on squeeze). I only see the message "File not found ... Iceweasel can't find the file at /~/Category2.html." Interestingly, lynx opens the file without grumbling, but th

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ralf Mardorf wrote: For me a hard disc never gets broken without click-click-click noise before it failed, but it's very common that cables and connections fail. By the time a disk gets to the click-click-click phase, there has been LOTS of warning - it's just that today's disks include l

Re: no java plugin for Wheezy browsers?

2011-06-07 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/07/2011 07:50 AM, Camaleón wrote: If the plugin package has been taken off, you will have to wait for its restoration. Hi, Camaleón. Yes, thanks. I had sort of figured that, but I was hoping someone would have the "inside skinny" on just when we might see it again. Now that I think of

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 13:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 11:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > > It can be a bad cable -or bad connection- > > For me a hard disc never gets broken without click-click-click noise > before it failed, but it's very common that cables and connections fa

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 11:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > It can be a bad cable -or bad connection- For me a hard disc never gets broken without click-click-click noise before it failed, but it's very common that cables and connections fail. A tip: If there's a warranty seal, don't break it, try to lo

Re: no java plugin for Wheezy browsers?

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:22:51 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > During the spate of upgrades that I installed on my Wheezy systems over > the past few days I noticed that the icedtea6-plugin package had been > removed. There's only one site at which I use a Java plugin for my > browsers. I'm not goi

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:17:29 +0530, surreal wrote: > From today morning i am getting strange kind of system messages on > starting the computer.. > > I typed dmesg and found these messages > > [ 304.694936] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > [ 304.694939] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } > [ 304.

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:10:48 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > The following is a problem I have on all laptops, I dont know how to > configure to connect when the ethernet cable is attached. (...) Maybe you just need to tweak some options in your "interfaces" file (e.g., "allow-hotplug"?): http:/

Re: Re (4): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:12:46 -0800, peasthope wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:34:24 + (UTC) >> Can you give a concrete example of your goal? > > In your home directory, make a file named Category2.html containing any > valid html text. The example you gave in your earlie

Re: Time Issues

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-06-07 a las 07:47 +0200, Hardt, Sebastian (IV 1) escribió: (resending to the list) > At install i didn't select any special, except for language i took default on > any. > > grep -i utc /etc/default/rcS > says > UTC=yes That's right. I also have set the RTC to UTC. sm01@stt008:~$ grep

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