Re: [OT]: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 11:16 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > It'd be appreciated if you used "[OT]" instead of just "OT" to signify > the post is "Off Topic" - saves me creating too many filters for the > "special" mail folder - and avoids the possibility that I overlook > something important. Good

Re: [OT] Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/7/2011 7:58 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 07/10/11 07:32, Weaver wrote: >> What I have seen, with the clearly marked OT threads is the ability to >> ignore/delete them > > Agreed. I've been trying like h3ll to avoid another response to this for obvious reasons. But a point needs to be ra

Re: When was Debian installed

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 15:18, Mark Panen wrote: > On 08/10/2011 05:59, Joey Hess wrote: >> Mark Panen wrote: >> >>> Which command do i run to find out on which date i installed my >>> Debian OS? >>> >> Take a look at /var/log/installer/ , the timestamps should give you a >> good idea. >> >> > >

Re: When was Debian installed

2011-10-07 Thread Mark Panen
On 08/10/2011 05:59, Joey Hess wrote: Mark Panen wrote: Which command do i run to find out on which date i installed my Debian OS? Take a look at /var/log/installer/ , the timestamps should give you a good idea. On a rpm based distro i can run "rpm -qi k3b" and it shows me when

Re: When was Debian installed

2011-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Mark Panen wrote: > Which command do i run to find out on which date i installed my Debian OS? Take a look at /var/log/installer/ , the timestamps should give you a good idea. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 13:52, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > [...] snipped > >> An alternative approach to a similar ends is available in KDE - use a >> very large desktop and "zoom" into particular areas. Alternatively just >> use more virtual desktops. > > Thanks for the nice summary

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: [...] snipped > An alternative approach to a similar ends is available in KDE - use a > very large desktop and "zoom" into particular areas. Alternatively just > use more virtual desktops. Thanks for the nice summary of where things stand and what to do about them. The

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: > The nv driver is gone and it's not coming back unless somebody > reintroduces it, which is highly unlikely. If you think about doing > that yourself: http://bugs.debian.org/383465 is the nut you have to > crack before the ftp-masters will let this driver in. It only came

Re: [OT] Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Weaver
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:58:39 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 07/10/11 07:32, Weaver wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:15:07 -0400 > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > >> Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it > >>> more difficult to assist those wh

Re: Point 3 updates

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 12:42, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > Will i have to download the point 3 DVD's or will aptitude automatically > upgrade me to point 3? > The DVDs will supply you with *all* point release updates (for every one of the thousands of Debian packages). Aptitude (or apt) will supply you with

Re: Kernel upgraded two or three times since install

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 12:36, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed my kernel has been upgraded two or three times but i am still > sitting on the original: > > "uname -r > 2.6.32-5-amd64" > > AFAIK > > Is this right? linux-headers are kernel updates right? > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=l

Re: php

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 04:24, Glenn English wrote: > One of my users wants to put up a blog using WordPress. I notice > there's a package for WordPress in aptitude, but it's in php. WordPress uses php - regardless of where you get it from. > > I don't do php on my web server because I was told of huge secu

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 03:56, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > [...] > It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples time? >>> >>> Why is that wasting anyones time. Some people read it here some >>> there, if they don't like the subject or content they move

Point 3 updates

2011-10-07 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, Will i have to download the point 3 DVD's or will aptitude automatically upgrade me to point 3? -- Cheers Mark Debian Squeeze 6.0.2 amd64, KDE 4.4.5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: Help! Can't log in as self

2011-10-07 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Well, that was wierd. I experimented with every possible thing, and finally, i moved my .xsession file out of the way and that did it. It was a new file, but it contained only the line "xset b 0", and I dont know why this would cause the entire start to crash. But i seem to be back in busines

Kernel upgraded two or three times since install

2011-10-07 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I noticed my kernel has been upgraded two or three times but i am still sitting on the original: "uname -r 2.6.32-5-amd64" AFAIK Is this right? linux-headers are kernel updates right? -- Cheers Mark Debian Squeeze 6.0.2 amd64, KDE 4.4.5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 02:30, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:46:00 +0200 > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hello Martin, > >> Aside from that Konqueror should still work as a file browser as well > > Whilst that is true, in KDE3 Konqueror had better functionality than it > does in KDE4. Specifi

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 01:49, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: >> On 10/07/2011 05:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >>> I do not like filtering out off topic mails, since as you wrote, some >>> off topic threads can contain interesting stuff. >> >> The u

When was Debian installed

2011-10-07 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, Which command do i run to find out on which date i installed my Debian OS? -- Cheers Mark Debian Squeeze 6.0.2 amd64, KDE 4.4.5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: Permission Problem with xsane - more

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/10/11 01:31, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:37:04AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 06/10/11 01:38, Thomas H. George wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:57:59AM -0400, Alan Greenberger wrote: On 2011-10-03, Thomas H. George wrote: (...) Tell us

Re: [OT] Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/10/11 07:32, Weaver wrote: > On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:15:07 -0400 > Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more >>> difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian. Agreed (Stan), but unfortunately,

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/10/11 23:34, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Without disabling plasma? > > I switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and then, since I'm unable to stand KDE4 to > GNOME2. And. So. What. KDE4 can be configured, easily, to look, and act, the same as KDE3.

Help! Can't log in as self

2011-10-07 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Im running Xfce4 on Debian testing. I recently rebooted the machine, and i didnt intentionally make any changes to anything that i think would be relevant. On reboot, I was not able to log in as my usual user; i get to the Xfce "Welcome to [machine name]" screen, and enter my username/password, a

Re: PPS: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > PS: Thank you, thank you, thank you Debian, that I doesn't need to > install PA by default. Installing Ubuntu or Suse will cause pain, since > they ship with PA by default. Actually at least Wheezy installs Pulseaudio by default as well. I even

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > >

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > Without disabling plasma? > > > > > > I switched from KDE3 t

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:30 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:46:00 +0200 > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > > Hello Martin, > > > > > Aside from that Konqueror should still work as a file browser as > > > well > > > > Whils

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:46:00 +0200 > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hello Martin, > > > Aside from that Konqueror should still work as a file browser as well > > Whilst that is true, in KDE3 Konqueror had better functionality than it > does in KD

Re: want to try KDE 4.6 from sid on squeeze

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Juan! Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Juan R. de Silva: > I'd like to try to co-install KDE 4.6 from sid to my standard GNOME > squeeze install. I do not know what you mean by co-installing. When its on a different partition or logical volume, thats fine. On the same / you would need a c

Re: MySQL High Availability on Debian - using Iomega StorCenter ix-2 nas device.

2011-10-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:17:23 -0400, Joey L wrote: > with replication - in case of a failure - I have to manually cut it over > to the replicated files ??? > is there any hot-standby feature ??? > thanks mjh Hints: If you want help: a) Write in English; start sentences with a capital letter. b) D

startup process

2011-10-07 Thread Richard
Hi, can some one inform of the order the config files are read on boot up, especially at the point the audio related modules are loaded. I'm trying to understand why with the kernel 2.6.32 the sound modules are loaded and the sampling rates of the sound devices is read correctly, Whereas on ke

Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

2011-10-07 Thread Steven Sciame
      - Original Message - > From: Raf Czlonka > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 1:43 PM > Subject: Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume > > I'd check more dmesg messages, not just the last 10 l

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-07 19:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Do you have any recommendation? On gentoo I was using the `nv' driver >> that I do not see available for debian. > > I'm using testing, there's no nv driver for testing, but I'm using X >

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Do you have any recommendation? On gentoo I was using the `nv' driver >> that I do not see available for debian. > > I'm using testing, there's no nv driver for testing, but I'm using X > from stable. > > On my te

vgchange hack needs correction

2011-10-07 Thread John
On a new laptop (TP T520) running sid, the external hard drive I use for backup is not found at startup. vgscan finds it, vgchange -a y makes it active, and mount -a mounts the various partitions. But all that needs to be repeated at the next boot, even though /etc/init.d/lvm2 exists and the link

Re: MySQL High Availability on Debian - using Iomega StorCenter ix-2 nas device.

2011-10-07 Thread Joey L
with replication - in case of a failure - I have to manually cut it over to the replicated files ??? is there any hot-standby feature ??? thanks mjh On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:25 PM, rfsf...@gmail.com wrote: > You may want to setup replication or cluster. Replication is a standard > feature of mysq

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 21:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 21:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 17:21 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > :-) > > > > > > I have put Xfce in my "radar" as a possible candidate to replace the > > > upcoming GNOME3 > > > > :) > >

Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-07 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi folks, Is there any issue known with reportbug in unstable/bugs.debian.org? Somehow I don't receive an response with a bug number when submitting a bugreport Cheers, Frank -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/ pgpXhHPgXEGnc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread mforestier
Hi! My other 2 cents is to use LXDE *with* RatPoison! ;-) It's what I'm doing! ;-) On the Lemote Yeeloong it's perfect! On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:10:48 +0200 Ralf Mardorf > [...] > One of two candidates for me to, the other one is LXDE (not fluxbox). > > A snapshot from my terminal emulation: spinym

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 21:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 17:21 +, Camaleón wrote: > > :-) > > > > I have put Xfce in my "radar" as a possible candidate to replace the > > upcoming GNOME3 > > :) > > One of two candidates for me to, the other one is LXDE (not fluxbox). >

Re: Desktop icons

2011-10-07 Thread Doug
On 10/07/2011 04:40 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 07 October 2011 10:16:07 Mark Panen wrote: Hi, What is the procedure of placing my files and folders of my ~/Desktop directory or individual files onto my desktop? Guess from your previous question: you are running KDE. So open dolphin,

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 17:21 +, Camaleón wrote: > :-) > > I have put Xfce in my "radar" as a possible candidate to replace the > upcoming GNOME3 :) One of two candidates for me to, the other one is LXDE (not fluxbox). A snapshot from my terminal emulation: spinymouse@debian:~$ I have tende

[Fwd: Icecast2 darkice radio and not hear]

2011-10-07 Thread cosme
Hi I installed and configured so far and Icecast2 darkice with ALSA The two say they are running well but when I try in my PC or another simply says you are playing but no sound What can happen?? Use squeeze Debian My configuration files and s as follows: darkice.cfg --- [general]

Re: Console font too wide in Wheezy

2011-10-07 Thread Peter Brüel
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:54 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:46:30 +0200, Peter Brüel wrote: > > > I have a box that dual boots Debian Squeeze and Wheezy. In Wheezy I have > > found that the console font in X (I use Xfce as DE) is about 17% wider > > compared to Squeeze. (The height

Re: debian-user archive

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:34:12 +0100, Richard wrote: > How long does it take for posted messages to be archived ? Archive web page will say (at the bottom): sm01@stt008:~$ LANG=C; date Fri Oct 7 20:52:59 CEST 2011 *** http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/10/thrd2.html The last update was o

Re: debian-user archive

2011-10-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 19:34:12 +0100 Richard wrote: Hello Richard, > How long does it take for posted messages to be archived ? Should happen, more or less, as soon as the message hits the servers, assuming it's not held for moderation. > Or have I got a problem again with Virginmedia, ISP. The

Re: Console font too wide in Wheezy

2011-10-07 Thread Peter Brüel
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 13:39 +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:46:30PM BST, Peter Brüel wrote: > > Hi list > > > > I have a box that dual boots Debian Squeeze and Wheezy. In Wheezy I have > > found that the console font in X (I use Xfce as DE) is about 17% wider > > compared to

Re: squeeze upgrade fumbles

2011-10-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:56:17 -0400, Marc Auslander wrote: > I just upgraded from lenny. Not that I wanted to - but you have to keep > up. So it's the worst of all projects - hope when you're done that > nothing has changed. > > Problems: > 4. A complete mystery - .forward in my home directo

Re: emacs mystery

2011-10-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-07 04:50 +0200, Marc Auslander wrote: > After upgrade to squeeze, I have the following emacs curiosity. > > I bind C-xC-c to: > > (defun ctrlxctrlc () "Careful exit from emacs" > (interactive) > (if (y-or-n-p "Do you really want to exit emacs? ") >(save-buffers-kill-emacs) >

Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

2011-10-07 Thread Raf Czlonka
I'd check more dmesg messages, not just the last 10 lines. I'd also have a look in syslog as suggested when mount fails. Apart from the obvious - a possible hardware fault - I'd check if this bug report[0] applies to you. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583949 Regards, -- Ra

squeeze upgrade fumbles

2011-10-07 Thread Marc Auslander
I just upgraded from lenny. Not that I wanted to - but you have to keep up. So it's the worst of all projects - hope when you're done that nothing has changed. Problems: 1. Several times, the curses configuration window got stuck in the sense that is ignored some or all input. No way out but

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > Without disabling plasma? > > > > > > I switched from K

debian-user archive

2011-10-07 Thread Richard
Hi, How long does it take for posted messages to be archived ? I'm not seeing what I've posted, either on list or archive, or is my posting being held for moderation ?. Or have I got a problem again with Virginmedia, ISP. -- Best wishes / 73 e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com Richard Bown nil carborundu

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:39:36 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hello Ralf, > I want my KDE3 back, since I now need to watch GNOME2 dying :(. For me Have you tried the Trinity fork of KDE3? -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately appare

emacs mystery

2011-10-07 Thread Marc Auslander
After upgrade to squeeze, I have the following emacs curiosity. I bind C-xC-c to: (defun ctrlxctrlc () "Careful exit from emacs" (interactive) (if (y-or-n-p "Do you really want to exit emacs? ") (save-buffers-kill-emacs) (message "") )) to avoid accidentally closing emacs. Un

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Do you have any recommendation? On gentoo I was using the `nv' driver > that I do not see available for debian. I'm using testing, there's no nv driver for testing, but I'm using X from stable. On my testing it's xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:30 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:46:00 +0200 > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hello Martin, > > > Aside from that Konqueror should still work as a file browser as well > > Whilst that is true, in KDE3 Konqueror had better functionality than it > does

Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

2011-10-07 Thread Steven Sciame
      > Assuming that /dev/sr0 is the correct device, /media/cdrom exists > and you have the right permissions, what happens if you try: > > % mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom steven@debtop:~$ su Password: debtop:/home/steven#

Re: php

2011-10-07 Thread rfsf...@gmail.com
One of my users wants to put up a blog using WordPress. I notice there's a package for WordPress in aptitude, but it's in php. I don't do php on my web server because I was told of huge security problems in it -- and until I turned off the php interpreter in Apache, I got many break in attem

Re: PPS: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:48 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > KDE did use "aRts" and replaced it by "Polypaudio" sorry I've forgotten > > it's current name ;), it might be PulseAudio ;), a PITA. > > Is there anything aside from venting persona

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > Without disabling plasma? > > > > I switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and then, since I'm unable to stand KDE4 > > to GNOME2.

php

2011-10-07 Thread Glenn English
One of my users wants to put up a blog using WordPress. I notice there's a package for WordPress in aptitude, but it's in php. I don't do php on my web server because I was told of huge security problems in it -- and until I turned off the php interpreter in Apache, I got many break in attempt

Re: webdruid and cron.daily error: Permission denied

2011-10-07 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 03:30:33PM BST, Csanyi Pal wrote: > ${WEBDRUID_BIN} -Q -n "${HOSTNAME}" -o "${REPORT_ROOT}${NAME}" > "${LOG_DIR}/${NAME}/access.log.1" Initially I thought that your mailer broke the line but after installing webdruid I noticed that you simply copied it from an examp

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:44:38 +0100, Ad L. wrote: (re-arranging the message) > 2011/10/7 Camaleón (...) >> > Should I report this as a kernel bug, or as a bug in the mount >> > package? (considering "Pid: 3218, comm: umount ...") I am not sure >> > where to file this bug report, because it's a

Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

2011-10-07 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 04:58:54PM BST, Steven Sciame wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:12:28PM BST, Steven Sciame wrote: > >> I tried to manually mount the volume and got the same error > >> > >> debtop:/# mount -r /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom > >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: [...] >>> It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples >>> time? >> >> Why is that wasting anyones time. Some people read it here some >> there, if they don't like the subject or content they move on. > Nice attitude. I'm not really sure why that

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ad L.
Thanks, I wasn't completely sure. And my apologies for taking the non-existant "non-html"-character of gmail for granted. Should be solved now. That's one point where I absolutely love Debian+Xfce: serious functionality without resources being clogged up with beautiful but hungry gadgets. Must be

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:46:22 +0100, Ad L. wrote: (please, no html) > I am not sure where to file this bug report, because it's a kerneloops > caused by a bug. > > This is what happened: (...) > kernel: [ 1412.339510] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk kernel: [ > 1412.873626] EXT4-fs error (

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:46:00 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hello Martin, > Aside from that Konqueror should still work as a file browser as well Whilst that is true, in KDE3 Konqueror had better functionality than it does in KDE4. Specifically, the ability to have different viewing profiles a

Re: [OT] Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Weaver wrote: > The point has often been made that this list is for Debian 'Users' and > not therefore strictly Debian subject matter. I think a bit of social > interaction does have the tendency to create 'community' which is > Debian's strength, so it could be viewed as productive. While this is

Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ad L.
I am not sure where to file this bug report, because it's a kerneloops caused by a bug. This is what happened: 1. USB2 hard disk disconnected and immediately reconnected, which could be caused by a known bug in certain EHCI controller chips 2. An X process probably got terminated and restarted 3.

Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

2011-10-07 Thread Steven Sciame
> >From: Raf Czlonka >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 7:49 AM >Subject: Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume > >On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:12:28PM BST, Steven Sciame wrote: >> I tried to manually mount the volume and got the same error >>

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Brian wrote: Desktop? Laptop? USB. PS/2 etc mouse? Do you have a another mouse to test? Desktop/usb. But as it worked with gpm, and with a live cd, I didn't think useful to try with an other mouse. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Christopher Judd
On Friday 07 October 2011 10:44:29 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I think its a question of off topic versus on topic ratio. Due to > threading feature in KMail its easy for me to ignore off topic stuff, but > when it exceeds a certain amount I tend to get annoyed with it, cause then > its more diff

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: > On 10/07/2011 05:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I do not like filtering out off topic mails, since as you wrote, some > > off topic threads can contain interesting stuff. > > The ubuntu-users list is suffering the same... > Some

Re: PPS: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > KDE did use "aRts" and replaced it by "Polypaudio" sorry I've forgotten > it's current name ;), it might be PulseAudio ;), a PITA. Is there anything aside from venting personal frustration with an open source software in your comment? I have no

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 10/07/2011 05:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I do not like filtering out off topic mails, since as you wrote, some off topic threads can contain interesting stuff. The ubuntu-users list is suffering the same... Some people wanted Linux (via the distros) to be popular, now we suffer the dr

[OT] Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:39:26 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 08:16:32PM +1000, Weaver wrote: >> This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. What >> now? >> Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a stipend to >> some johnny-come-lately o

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Without disabling plasma? > > I switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and then, since I'm unable to stand KDE4 > to GNOME2. GNOME2 is dying :(, I'll need to watch out for a new DE. > > Konqueror

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 6. Oktober 2011 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more > > difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian. > > > > Debian is an OS for _mature_ Linux users. Please act like one and > > st

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner (half-solved)

2011-10-07 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Scott Ferguson wrote: Lack of an /etc/X11/xorg.conf shouldn't cause a problem... but udev might not be picking one up (though I don't understand how a power failure would kill that, but allow gpm to function). One may think that the real cause was not the power failure it

Re: permissions on /dev/nvidia*

2011-10-07 Thread Christian Jaeger
(Your mail was in my gmail spam folder -- which is why I noticed it :) > to solve the problem i tried to edit the init.d/nvidia-kernel script and > replaced the line >        mknod -m 0660 dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 > with >        mknod -m 0666 dev/nvidiactl c 195 256 Wondering why you changed the

Re: Permission Problem with xsane - more

2011-10-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:37:04AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 06/10/11 01:38, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:57:59AM -0400, Alan Greenberger wrote: > >> On 2011-10-03, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> (...) > >> Tell us your scanner model? :-) > >> > > Epson

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 07/10/11 02:44, Harry Putnam wrote: [NOTE: This post or very similar was also posted to gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.] It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples time? Only a waste of time *if* you read both lists... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Squeeze: cannot connect to Netgear 150N DGN1000B

2011-10-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Oct 2011 at 14:59:15 +0200, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > my DSL modem died today after 10 years of service, so I bought a Netgear > 150N DGN1000B. I cannot connect to it via wireless from my netbook > running Squeeze (Linksys WRT45GL works, but it doesn't have a DSL modem). The Link

audio modules blacklisted after loading kernel3.0.3

2011-10-07 Thread Richard
Hi, I've given K3 a try to see if the same problems are present as with k3.0.1 in fedFC15. I found in the files in /ect/modprobe.d that most including my cards were blacklisted. Also the samplerates on my sound card are incorrect Name= M Audio Delta 66: ICE1712 multi (hw

Re: Squeeze: cannot connect to Netgear 150N DGN1000B

2011-10-07 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
Sorry for replying to myself. I just installed the latest kernel from squeeze-backports (2.6.39) and wireless works fine now. Probably a bug in 2.6.32 from stable - kernel oopses shouldn't appear in any case. On 10/7/11 14:59 , Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: Hi there, my DSL modem died today af

Re: Squeeze: cannot connect to Netgear 150N DGN1000B

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:59:15 +0200, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > my DSL modem died today after 10 years of service, so I bought a Netgear > 150N DGN1000B. I cannot connect to it via wireless from my netbook > running Squeeze (Linksys WRT45GL works, but it doesn't have a DSL > modem). > > I think

Re: Permission Problem with xsane - more

2011-10-07 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-10-06, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Alan's post has broken the thread - but in a previous post I mentioned > that "The problem seems to be that *both* epson and epson2 backends are > being called" > > >>> $ grep epson /etc/sane.d/dll.conf >> epson >> epson2 > > This is where epson *and* epson

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:45:47 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hello Ralf, > > KDE4 to GNOME2. GNOME2 is dying :(, I'll need to watch out for a new >^ broken > English, the Germans are able to understand this, it should be > "searching", "looki

PPS: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
KDE did use "aRts" and replaced it by "Polypaudio" sorry I've forgotten it's current name ;), it might be PulseAudio ;), a PITA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Squeeze: cannot connect to Netgear 150N DGN1000B

2011-10-07 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
Hi there, my DSL modem died today after 10 years of service, so I bought a Netgear 150N DGN1000B. I cannot connect to it via wireless from my netbook running Squeeze (Linksys WRT45GL works, but it doesn't have a DSL modem). I think the router is working, since I can connect to it very quickl

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 14:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Without disabling plasma? > > I switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and then, since I'm unable to stand KDE4 to > GNOME2. GNOME2 is dying :(, I'll need to watch out for a new DE.

Re: Desktop icons [Solved]

2011-10-07 Thread Mark Panen
On 07/10/2011 10:57, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 07/10/11 19:16, Mark Panen wrote: Hi, What is the procedure of placing my files and folders of my ~/Desktop directory or individual files onto my desktop? Without disabling plasma? Method 1. Gives plasma widget access to Desktop folder.

OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Without disabling plasma? I switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and then, since I'm unable to stand KDE4 to GNOME2. GNOME2 is dying :(, I'll need to watch out for a new DE. Konqueror was the best file browser I know and then they introduced Dolphi

Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

2011-10-07 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:12:28PM BST, Steven Sciame wrote: > I tried to manually mount the volume and got the same error > > debtop:/# mount -r /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, >    missing codepage or helper program, or other error >

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Weaver] > This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. > What now? > Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a stipend to > some johnny-come-lately opportunist? > > http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html This is truly horrible

Re: Console font too wide in Wheezy

2011-10-07 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:46:30PM BST, Peter Brüel wrote: > Hi list > > I have a box that dual boots Debian Squeeze and Wheezy. In Wheezy I have > found that the console font in X (I use Xfce as DE) is about 17% wider > compared to Squeeze. (The height is the same.) > > I have made a screenshot

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Oct 2011 at 12:41:02 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I tried to play with an old xorg.conf file, but anything I do, including > removing the file, doesn't solve the problem. Desktop? Laptop? USB. PS/2 etc mouse? Do you have a another mouse to test? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: DVD tray will not eject

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:41:44 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > I have had this problem with some other oses in the past but now the > first time on Debian. > > I burn a DVD and when it is finished burning a window pops up on the > desktop say DVD something or other and the DVD tray never ejects on > com

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