Re: MediaWiki 1.17.0 new stable release from Wikimedia

2011-07-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM, John W Foster wrote: > There is a new stable release from Wikimedia of MediaWiki 1.17.0  Any > idea when we will see it packaged for Debian. It is said to support > substitution// {{subst}} & {{safesubst}} // so that the error message we > are getting with Ver. 1.

[solved] VLC audio fails

2011-07-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 19:58 -0400, Burhan Hanoglu wrote: > Have you removed Jack? If not, stop or remove it and try VLC with ALSA again. Hi Burhan, spinymouse@debian:~$ pidof jackd spinymouse@debian:~$ Definitively jackd isn't running anymore. If I play an audio file, VLC is ok using ALSA. If I

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-20 Thread lee
Ethan Rosenberg writes: > What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a > stand-alone computer? That depends on what you want to back up and what the backup media is and on a lot of other factors. And what is a stand-alone computer? -- html messages are obsolete -- To U

Re: multi-boot cfdisk warning: is it broke? How do I fix?

2011-07-20 Thread lee
Charles Blair writes: > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial > cylinder > >fdisk -l /dev/sda gives: > > Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector

Re: ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws style.

2011-07-20 Thread lee
Tixy writes: > On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 07:13 +0200, lee wrote: >> Rob Owens writes: >> >> > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 06:02:05PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> >> >> > How about setting up a home IMAP server? I use dovecot and it was >> > pretty straightforward to set up. >> >> Dovecot is describ

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread lee
Alan Chandler writes: > I could try and run without X (I can do that by booting into recovery > mode) - but I will have to wait until I am less busy. Let it run over night or at other times when you're not using it. > What I am really looking for is some log I can look at that gives me a > clue

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread lee
Jude DaShiell writes: > Question, when freezes happen, were you away from the keyboard and mouse > for a while? If so, the screen-saver program needs the delay time > increased so it takes longer to turn on. How would that fix anything? -- html messages are obsolete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
clonezilla it does block level backup, only backup the space that has been used and compress it. cold backup which means you have to boot to a live cd or plug your hard disk to a system with clonezilla to back up. 2011/7/21 Ethan Rosenberg > Dear List - > > What software would you recommend to

Backup Software

2011-07-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear List - What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a stand-alone computer? Thank you. Ethan Debian 6.0.1a squeeze(sid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-07-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/07/11 00:15, Joao Roscoe wrote: > I almost suceeded removing space fun from my desktop, but I could not remove > it from kde login splash background. Choosing "default" or "none" in > systemsettings' "Look & Feel > Appearance > Splash Screen" had no effect. > Any hints? > > Regards, > Jo�o >

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-20 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-20 17:12, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:29:50 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> # This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update >> # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're >> # interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run

Re: Debian Lenny / Twitux 0.61 / Login

2011-07-20 Thread Frederic Robert
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 03:16:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: > How about launching the client from command line? Acces Denied. -- Frederic Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: secured pdf

2011-07-20 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Camaleón on 2011-07-15 05:59: > Secure PDF are files that embed DRM or strong encryption (AES 256) that > prevents the reader to perform some operations (copy text, print to file, > extrcat images...). There are also files that are very limited based on > Adobe LiveCycle settings policy

Re: VLC audio fails

2011-07-20 Thread Burhan Hanoglu
Hi Ralf, Have you removed Jack? If not, stop or remove it and try VLC with ALSA again. Regards, Burhan On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > VLC audio was ok without Jack, than I needed to use VLC with Jack, it > was ok too, now I switched back to ALSA and I always get > > "Pot

Re: HPC - Kerrighed + others

2011-07-20 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi Will, In addition to Camaleón's suggestions, I can answer a couple of your questions. First, a few links that might get you on your way to the land of HPC: The Debian wiki has a wealth of information: http://wiki.debian.org/HighPerformanceComputing There is also an article on debianadmin.com

Multiseat on Nvidia Card

2011-07-20 Thread Marcelo Luiz de Laia
Hi, I am trying to setup a multiseat in one nvidia card. First monitor is on VGA and second is on DVI. I got only one seat work. Here is Xorg.1.log (...) [38.080] (EE) NVIDIA(0): EVO Push buffer channel allocation failed [38.080] (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** [38.080] (EE) NVID

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-20 Thread Johan Kullstam
Rick Thomas writes: > On Jul 19, 2011, at 6:13 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >> Go Linux writes: >>> How is [IPv6] going to work on DIALUP! >> >> I wrote: >>> Just fine. What makes you think it wouldn't? >> >> Johan Kullstam writes: >>> The fact that it doesn't work anywhere else? :-> >> >> Works fi

MediaWiki 1.17.0 new stable release from Wikimedia

2011-07-20 Thread John W Foster
There is a new stable release from Wikimedia of MediaWiki 1.17.0 Any idea when we will see it packaged for Debian. It is said to support substitution// {{subst}} & {{safesubst}} // so that the error message we are getting with Ver. 1.15 will be resolved. It is an important upgrade for those of us

Re: nvidia-glx is back

2011-07-20 Thread Brad Alexander
I had something similar on my laptop. Running squeeze, the system worked fine with Xorg and KDE 4.4.5. When I upgraded to wheezy, I could log in to kdm but when I started any KDE app, X would crash and kick me back to a kdm login. I fought with this for a long while, and as it turns out, xorg was

GDM3 login screen user list, was Re: Setting up FTP server with specific username and password - SOLVED

2011-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:22:24AM +0200, Dejan Ribič wrote: > > I would like to thank everybody for their help, my FTP is up and > running. After reviewing a few differentFTP servers, I decided on > Proftpd-basic, which with gadmin-proftpd was easy to set-up just the > way I wanted. > I restr

Re: Debian on x86.

2011-07-20 Thread Dejan Ribič
S, stayvoid stayvoid piše: My processor is x86. Which one should I download? http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-installer/ My OS is Windows XP and I need to make a backup of my data, but I also want to use this data in the future (on Debian). Could you recommend me something? Are the

Re: Setting up FTP server with specific username and password - SOLVED

2011-07-20 Thread Dejan Ribič
S, Robert Blair Mason Jr. piše: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:19:15 +0100 Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/07/11 13:22, Dejan Ribič wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up a FTP server, with specific username and password, because i have a router backup set up, to backup every hour now on Windows 7 I have FTP S

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 06:23:45PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 20/07/11 09:25, Alan Chandler wrote: > >I have just built myself a new computer (i5 2500 with Intel Motherboard) > >and am getting a situation where the user interface freezes every so often. > > It is too early yet to be super co

Debian on x86.

2011-07-20 Thread stayvoid stayvoid
My processor is x86. Which one should I download? http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-installer/ My OS is Windows XP and I need to make a backup of my data, but I also want to use this data in the future (on Debian). Could you recommend me something? Are there any software solutions (no

VLC audio fails

2011-07-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
VLC audio was ok without Jack, than I needed to use VLC with Jack, it was ok too, now I switched back to ALSA and I always get "Potential ALSA version problem: VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any). Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix th

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-20 Thread Jacob Gaarde
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:00:02 +0200 Steven wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 22:35 +0900, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: Assuming gnome: > start gconf-editor (start with terminal or the menu: Applications - > System tools - Configuration editor) > go to apps - nautilus - desktop > There you can find check boxes

Re: Setting up FTP server with specific username and password

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:19:15 +0100 Alan Chandler wrote: > On 20/07/11 13:22, Dejan Ribič wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to set up a FTP server, with specific username and > > password, because i have a router backup set up, to backup every > > hour now on Windows 7 I have FTP Server set-up li

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, my home network consist of a desktop and a laptop connected to a router that goes to the internet. The firewall is on the router. Every so often when I connect from the desktop to the laptop with ssh, I get: s

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: (...) Every so often when I connect from the desktop to the laptop with ssh, I get: ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.194 port 22: No route to host (...) Yep, as Walter suggested, this can be a problem with DHCP that h

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 20 July 2011 07:17:29 am Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, my home network consist of a desktop and a laptop connected to a router that goes to the internet. The firewall is on the router. Every so often when I

Re: multi-boot cfdisk warning: is it broke? How do I fix?

2011-07-20 Thread Joe
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:45:59 -0500 Charles Blair wrote: >I tried to set up a dual boot of windows and linux from > the installer. The linux part works, but windows 7 starts to boot > and then takes me back to grub. > >I am sufficiently happy with linux that I was planning to get > rid o

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-20, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:21:14 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2011-07-20, Camaleón wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> I also wonder what all that pre-set folders are for. >> >> Applications which follow the specification use these folders without >> requiring the user

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 20 July 2011 07:17:29 am Walter Hurry wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > my home network consist of a desktop and a laptop connected to a router > > that goes to the internet. The firewall is on the router. > > > > Every so often when

multi-boot cfdisk warning: is it broke? How do I fix?

2011-07-20 Thread Charles Blair
I tried to set up a dual boot of windows and linux from the installer. The linux part works, but windows 7 starts to boot and then takes me back to grub. I am sufficiently happy with linux that I was planning to get rid of windows. I would like to use the space to give openBSD a try. A

Re: Can't get XVideo to work on squeeze

2011-07-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:25:50 +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: > Looks like you are just missing the small firmware blob for the rs780 > chipset - you'll find it in the nonfree squeeze repository: > > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/firmware-linux-nonfree > > *) add "non-free" to your repository lines

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/07/11 09:25, Alan Chandler wrote: I have just built myself a new computer (i5 2500 with Intel Motherboard) and am getting a situation where the user interface freezes every so often. It is too early yet to be super confident, but this morning I was freezing about every hour or so. At lu

Re: Setting up FTP server with specific username and password

2011-07-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/07/11 13:22, Dejan Ribič wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up a FTP server, with specific username and password, because i have a router backup set up, to backup every hour now on Windows 7 I have FTP Server set-up like this: username: jadjada password: supersecret (btw: the user/pass above ar

Re: KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:19:31 -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: (please, keep bottom-posting style and avoid using html) > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Walter Hurry > wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:15:09 -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: >> >> > I almost suceeded removing space fun from my desktop, but

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:21:14 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-07-20, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >> I also wonder what all that pre-set folders are for. > > Applications which follow the specification use these folders without > requiring the user to configure them manually. So firefox, fo

multi-boot warning from cfdisk: if it ain't broke...

2011-07-20 Thread Charles Blair
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Setting up FTP server with specific username and password on Debian Squeeze

2011-07-20 Thread Dejan Ribič
Hi, I am trying to set up a FTP server, with specific username and password, because i have a router backup set up, to backup every hour now on Windows 7 I have FTP Server set-up like this: username: jadjada password: supersecret (btw: the user/pass above are made up, and should be used just

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-20, Camaleón wrote: (...) > I also wonder what all that pre-set folders are for. Applications which follow the specification use these folders without requiring the user to configure them manually. So firefox, for example, will use the DOWNLOAD directory to save downloaded files. Op

Re: KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-07-20 Thread Joao Roscoe
Hi, Walter, Kdmrc deals with stuff that take place **before** login, isn't it? I need to deal with the desktop background which is shown **after** login, while the user's session is being loaded, and there's a nice splash with fading icons... Thank you for your time. João On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at

Re: contents of huge kernel log

2011-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:12:50 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: >> >> Finally had a look at whats in the multi-gig kernel log: (...) >> Jul 19 20:25:24 sid kernel: [ 5638.712049] [drm:intel_prepare_page_flip] >> *ERROR* Prepared flip multiple times >> >> Sorry for the word

Re: contents of huge kernel log

2011-07-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 20/07/11 11:12 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Finally had a look at whats in the multi-gig kernel log: ul 19 20:25:24 sid kernel: [ 5638.712049] [drm:intel_prepare_page_flip] *ERROR* Prepared flip multiple times Jul 19 20:25:24 sid kernel: [ 5638.712049] [drm:intel_prepar

Re: Can't get XVideo to work on squeeze

2011-07-20 Thread Tuxoholic
Walter Hurry wrote: Here is the extmod part: -- (--) PCI:*(0:1:5:0) 1002:9612:1025:028d ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/ RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] rev 0, Mem @ 0xc000/268435456, 0xd220/65536, 0xd210/1048576, I/O @ 0x

Re: contents of huge kernel log

2011-07-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 20/07/11 10:30 AM, Brian wrote: On Wed 20 Jul 2011 at 10:02:08 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Sorry for the word wrap. This is an error from the Intel driver that I have seen before, but never while watching streaming video. I am going to file a bug against the driver but is there a way to p

Re: nvidia-glx is back

2011-07-20 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 Patrick Wiseman wrote: am now happily using the > nvidia drivers again! > > Patrick Me too. ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.1.91 ii libgl1-nvidia-glx280.04-1 ii nvidia-alternative 280.04-1 rc nvid

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: (...) > Every so often when I connect from the desktop to the laptop with ssh, I > get: > > ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.194 port 22: No route to host (...) Yep, as Walter suggested, this can be a problem with DHCP that has given an

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, my home network consist of a desktop and a laptop connected to a router that goes to the internet. The firewall is on the router. Every so often when I connect from the desktop to the laptop with ssh, I get: s

Re: HPC - Kerrighed + others

2011-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:02:57 +, wjryder wrote: > Hi, (...) Hello, Better if you open a new thread instead of replying to another one because your post will be missed by many of the mailing list users. Ah, and also avoid using html when sending a message... thanks :-) Greetings, -- Cama

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-20 Thread Michael Checca
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:17:29 -0400, Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, my home network consist of a desktop and a laptop connected to a router that goes to the internet. The firewall is on the router. Every so often when I connect from the d

Re: Debian Lenny / Twitux 0.61 / Login

2011-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:17:56 +, Frederic Robert wrote: > I can't log in to my twitter's account. My loginame and password are > good. Acces Denied. Maybe related to this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/twitux/+bug/797095 How about launching the client from command line? Greeting

Re: contents of huge kernel log

2011-07-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank McCormick wrote: Finally had a look at whats in the multi-gig kernel log: ul 19 20:25:24 sid kernel: [ 5638.712049] [drm:intel_prepare_page_flip] *ERROR* Prepared flip multiple times Jul 19 20:25:24 sid kernel: [ 5638.712049] [drm:intel_prepare_page_flip] *ERROR* Prepared flip multiple

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:05:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > my home network consist of a desktop and a laptop connected to a router > that goes to the internet. The firewall is on the router. > > Every so often when I connect from the desktop to the laptop with ssh, I > get: > > ssh: c

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:29:50 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > On 2011-07-19 16:54, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:52:17 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> >>> On 2011-07-19, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> Hm, I just deleted all those funny dirs in my $HOME: Music, >>>

Re: nvidia-glx is back

2011-07-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:30:00 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello Patrick, > dependencies), restored my xorg.conf (which I had moved out of the way > when temporarily using the nv driver), and am now happily using the > nvidia drivers again! I wish mine was working again. :-( I did just as you

Re: KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-07-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:15:09 -0300, Joao Roscoe wrote: > I almost suceeded removing space fun from my desktop, but I could not > remove it from kde login splash background. Choosing "default" or "none" > in systemsettings' "Look & Feel > Appearance > Splash Screen" had no > effect. Any hints? Are

ssh: no route to host

2011-07-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, my home network consist of a desktop and a laptop connected to a router that goes to the internet. The firewall is on the router. Every so often when I connect from the desktop to the laptop with ssh, I get: ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.194 port 22: No route to host The way I get aou

Re: contents of huge kernel log

2011-07-20 Thread Brian
On Wed 20 Jul 2011 at 10:02:08 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Sorry for the word wrap. This is an error from the Intel driver > that I have seen before, but never while watching streaming video. > I am going to file a bug against the driver but is there a way to > prevent this (error being log

nvidia-glx is back

2011-07-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Several folks were having difficulty with the nvidia-glx package breaking others. The problem has now been corrected in testing. I installed nvidia-glx (which brought in all the necessary dependencies), restored my xorg.conf (which I had moved out of the way when temporarily using the nv driver),

KDE4 , Squeeze: Space fun background keeps appearing under kde login splash

2011-07-20 Thread Joao Roscoe
I almost suceeded removing space fun from my desktop, but I could not remove it from kde login splash background. Choosing "default" or "none" in systemsettings' "Look & Feel > Appearance > Splash Screen" had no effect. Any hints? Regards, João

contents of huge kernel log

2011-07-20 Thread Frank McCormick
Finally had a look at whats in the multi-gig kernel log: ul 19 20:25:24 sid kernel: [ 5638.712049] [drm:intel_prepare_page_flip] *ERROR* Prepared flip multiple times Jul 19 20:25:24 sid kernel: [ 5638.712049] [drm:intel_prepare_page_flip] *ERROR* Prepared flip multiple times Jul 19 20:25:24 si

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Did you do some stress test of your new hardware? If the problem is due to hardware problems you may not see anything in the log files. An example stress test is the compilation of the kernel or the sources of the gcc on the console without starting X. Query the web for "signal 11". -- Best regar

Re: lost disk space

2011-07-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 02:59:21PM +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 20/07/11 02:34 AM, Martin Ågren wrote: > > > > du -h | grep -E "^.{1,5}G" > > >Well, it helped but had to do it in the root, and keep it from > checking every mounted drive :) du -hx | grep -E "^.{1,5}G" Regards Johann --

Re: Can't get XVideo to work on squeeze

2011-07-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:50:28 +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: > Walter Hurry wrote: >> I suspected that the problem was the kernel modesetting, but when I >> tried with the nomodeset parameter it didn't seem to make a difference. >> Does this get nearer to identifying the issue? Thanks again. > > You've c

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Alan Chandler, 20.07.2011: > I have just built myself a new computer (i5 2500 with Intel > Motherboard) and am getting a situation where the user interface > freezes every so often. > > I suspect it is more than just X freezing, because when that has > happened in the past I can ssh into the machi

Re: lost disk space

2011-07-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 20/07/11 08:48 AM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Frank McCormick, 20.07.2011: Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but now

Re: lost disk space

2011-07-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 20/07/11 02:34 AM, Martin Ågren wrote: On 20 July 2011 07:12, Frank McCormick wrote: Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Ch

Re: lost disk space

2011-07-20 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Frank McCormick, 20.07.2011: > Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) > and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! > I assume it was because of all that video watching (in > Google-Chrome) but now I can't find out where it's gone ? > I on

Setting up FTP server with specific username and password

2011-07-20 Thread Dejan Ribič
Hi, I am trying to set up a FTP server, with specific username and password, because i have a router backup set up, to backup every hour now on Windows 7 I have FTP Server set-up like this: username: jadjada password: supersecret (btw: the user/pass above are made up, and should be used just

Re: Shrinking encrypted LVM partition

2011-07-20 Thread Aidan Gauland
Aaron Toponce writes: > 6) Shrink the partition of /dev/sda5 using fdisk(8) or parted(8) I've run into trouble at this step: when I try to resize the partition with parted, it complains that it "could not detect file system," and refuses to do touch the disk. fdisk does not seem to be able t

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread Alan Chandler
I should have sent this reply to the list - I am doing so now On 20/07/11 10:24, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Wednesday 20 July 2011 10:25:59 Alan Chandler wrote: ... >> I suspect it is more than just X freezing, because when that has >> happened in the past I can ssh into the machine console and

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/07/11 11:07, lee wrote: Alan Chandler writes: I have just built myself a new computer (i5 2500 with Intel Motherboard) and am getting a situation where the user interface freezes every so often. I suspect it is more than just X freezing, because when that has Take out the graphics car

Re: Tap to click not working

2011-07-20 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:43:40PM +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > > When I installed Debian squeeze, I had to set this in my .xinitrc file > xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=8 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' 'Synaptics Tap Action' 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 > One can also get the functionality

Re: Tap to click not working

2011-07-20 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:50:18PM -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: > > As root do the following: > > Create touchpad.conf as follows: > nano /etc/modprobe.d/touchpad.conf > > In the editor type: > > options psmouse proto=imps > > Save and reboot.tap to click sh

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread lee
Alan Chandler writes: > I have just built myself a new computer (i5 2500 with Intel > Motherboard) and am getting a situation where the user interface > freezes every so often. > > I suspect it is more than just X freezing, because when that has Take out the graphics card and put it back in. Do

Re: ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws style.

2011-07-20 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 07:13 +0200, lee wrote: > Rob Owens writes: > > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 06:02:05PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws Mail > >> default "MH" folders with one file for each message, from spare > >> netb

Re: lost disk space

2011-07-20 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 20.07.2011 07:12, schrieb Frank McCormick: Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but now I can't find out where it's gon

vncviewer can't see

2011-07-20 Thread rudu
Hi, For maintenance or training purposes, I use my old Lenny desktop as a vnc client with the command : $ vncviewer -listen This is working fine for connections from debian-like distros AND windows environments. Now, I'm just trying to have this working on my Testing desktop as the vnc clien

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 20 July 2011 10:25:59 Alan Chandler wrote: > I have just built myself a new computer (i5 2500 with Intel Motherboard) > and am getting a situation where the user interface freezes every so often. > > I suspect it is more than just X freezing, because when that has > happened in the pa

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/07/11 10:07, Jude DaShiell wrote: Question, when freezes happen, were you away from the keyboard and mouse for a while? If so, the screen-saver program needs the delay time increased so it takes longer to turn on. I don't know how to exit screen-saver mode and bring a computer back to lif

Kernel 2.6.39 kernel problem on Dell Latitude E6410

2011-07-20 Thread Johann Spies
I am running wheezy/sid and somewhere along the line 'apt-get dist-upgrade' installed a 2.6.39 kernel. However when I try and boot from that kernel, the boot process never finishes. I suspect a message that it could not initialise i915 has something to do with it. I work successfully with a 2.6.3

Re: firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread hadi motamedi
On 7/20/11, Regid Ichira wrote: > hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes: > >> - Add the following line to /etc/sysconfig/iptables >> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT >> Then issue: >> #service iptables restart >> I tried for it and now the windows machine can browse valid url .

Re: firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread hadi motamedi
On 7/20/11, Johannes Obermueller wrote: > On 07/20/2011 04:00 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: >> On 7/19/11, Regid Ichira wrote: >>> hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes: >>> I tried for 'iptables -S' but it returned 'unknown arg -S' . The windows machine firewall is turned off. On the windows ma

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
Question, when freezes happen, were you away from the keyboard and mouse for a while? If so, the screen-saver program needs the delay time increased so it takes longer to turn on. I don't know how to exit screen-saver mode and bring a computer back to life in X yet. If orca is used it's reco

Re: Tap to click not working

2011-07-20 Thread Aidan Gauland
"Sridhar M.A." writes: > I am currently running debian testing on Acer laptop. Everything was > working as expected. Since a couple of days, the tap to click on the > touchpad has stopped working. Of course, I can set it Gnome preferences. > But, when I switch to openbox, I have lost that functio

Re: firewall?

2011-07-20 Thread Regid Ichira
hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes: > - Add the following line to /etc/sysconfig/iptables > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > Then issue: > #service iptables restart > I tried for it and now the windows machine can browse valid url . I > must mention that the problem could

Re: lost disk space

2011-07-20 Thread lee
Frank McCormick writes: > managed to free up about a gig..but I have to find the other 6 or 7 > gigs. I deleted the google cache..and config files...looked in /tmp > and a few other places but I am stumped. see man find -- html messages are obsolete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread Alan Chandler
I have just built myself a new computer (i5 2500 with Intel Motherboard) and am getting a situation where the user interface freezes every so often. I suspect it is more than just X freezing, because when that has happened in the past I can ssh into the machine console and still do things. In

Re: Re: Can't get XVideo to work on squeeze

2011-07-20 Thread Tuxoholic
Walter Hurry wrote: I suspected that the problem was the kernel modesetting, but when I tried with the nomodeset parameter it didn't seem to make a difference. Does this get nearer to identifying the issue? Thanks again. You've cut away the loading cycle of libextmod.so - this does handle the

Re: lost disk space

2011-07-20 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 07/20/2011 08:34 AM, Martin Ågren wrote: On 20 July 2011 07:12, Frank McCormick wrote: Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Goo