Re: why doesn't ~/.inputrc work

2011-10-16 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2011-10-16T11:17:53-05:00 * Harry Putnam wrote: > Teemu Likonen writes: >> # Meta keys >> set keymap emacs-meta >> p: history-search-backward >> n: history-search-forward > That does the trick for me.. I could not find a way to specify the > `Alt' key (on standard 104 key engli

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/16/2011 5:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Which is fine. What problem are you seeing here? > > "php5" is a metapackage that requires to install *one of these* packages: > > a) libapache2-mod-php5 (or) > b) libapache2-mod-php5filter (or) > c) php5-cgi > > You only have to do the right selection b

Re: Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-10-16 Thread Cam Hutchison
David Baron writes: >On Sunday 18 Tishrey 5772 19:32:50 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org >wrote: >> What is the output of the command >> >> grep 'Status:' /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -v installed >> >A bunch of lines: >Status: deinstall ok config-files If you just need to purge

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/16/2011 3:51 AM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 22:00:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> ~$ dpkg -l|grep -i apache >> rc apache2.2-common >> rc libapache2-mod-php5 >> rc libapr1 >> rc libaprutil1 >> >> What does the 'rc' mean? The others are apparently completely removed >> now,

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new to pacemaker and heartbeat on debian...getting error..

2011-10-16 Thread Joey L
Hi - New to heartbeat and pacemaker on debian. Followed a tutorial online at: http://www.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Debian_Lenny_HowTo and now getting this error - root@deb2:/home/mjh# sudo crm_mon --one-shot Last updated: Sun Oct 16 21:56:43 2011 Stack: openais Current DC: deb1 - partit

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/10/11 08:47, Andrew Wood wrote: > Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the > 'Mail Server' option is not selected during installation? Old habits die hard ;-) It's there for the same reason nfs is - some people consider it a requirement. Your basic desktop build doesn

Re: posting

2011-10-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:22:00 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... > - MUAs. I would add another section about good e-mails clients to use > when dealing with mailing lists (this is my small "whitelist" input: > mutt, (al)pine, thunderbird/icedove, evolution, claws and in my > "blacklist" I will pu

NFSv4: rpc.gssd hangs indefinitely

2011-10-16 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, Any NFSv4 experts on this list? I'm trying to get my fileserver to incorporate Kerberos security but the mounts fail in the most annoying way: no error or syslog message, not even a timeout. They just hang. I've already spent a few hours trying to set it up and debug it, and I believe I've ma

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 16, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually serve any purpose on an out of the box basic installation? Andrew Yes, It serves as local mail deli

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-16 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:44 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > >> Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail >> Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually >> serve any purpose on an out of the bo

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:44 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail > Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually > serve any purpose on an out of the box basic installation? Why does it matter? It is not difficu

Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-16 Thread Andrew Wood
Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually serve any purpose on an out of the box basic installation? Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

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Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

2011-10-16 Thread Arno Schuring
yudi v (yudi@gmail.com on 2011-10-16 15:20 +1000): > Could someone using GPT on a BIOS system confirm if I got the GPT > partitioning right on a BIOS system > [..] > Partition table scan: > MBR: protective > BSD: not present > APM: not present > GPT: present > > Found valid GPT with p

Re: Configuring Gnome fallback

2011-10-16 Thread Richard
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:48:09 + (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:02:22 -0400, Frank wrote: > > > On 16/10/11 03:22 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:08:50 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:33:00 -0400, Frank wrote: > >>> > After

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:41:29PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Robert Holtzman wrote: > > I must be more of a noob than I thought. "Follow the points"...what > > points? If you mean the debian.org and wiki URLs, they just point to the > > kernel.org site(s), dead end. > > > > "If you are using squ

Re: Configuring Gnome fallback

2011-10-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:02:22 -0400, Frank wrote: > On 16/10/11 03:22 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:08:50 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:33:00 -0400, Frank wrote: >>> After many upgrades my Gome3 system is sort of up :) The problem is all the men

Re: What to make of this apt-get update output.

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 06:54:41PM +, Camale�n wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:58:28 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 08:47:40PM +, Camale�n wrote: > > (...) > > >> > E: Release file for > >> > http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/squeeze-updates/InReleas

Re: Configuring Gnome fallback

2011-10-16 Thread Frank
On 16/10/11 03:43 PM, Joe wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:08:50 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:33:00 -0400, Frank wrote: After many upgrades my Gome3 system is sort of up :) The problem is all the menus in both Gnome 3 and Gnome-fallback are in black and white and the gnom

Re: Configuring Gnome fallback

2011-10-16 Thread Frank
On 16/10/11 03:22 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:08:50 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:33:00 -0400, Frank wrote: After many upgrades my Gome3 system is sort of up :) The problem is all the menus in both Gnome 3 and Gnome-fallback are in black and white and the g

Re: Configuring Gnome fallback

2011-10-16 Thread Frank
On 16/10/11 03:08 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:33:00 -0400, Frank wrote: After many upgrades my Gome3 system is sort of up :) The problem is all the menus in both Gnome 3 and Gnome-fallback are in black and white and the gnome-control-center doesn't offer the option to change any

Re: Configuring Gnome fallback

2011-10-16 Thread Joe
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:08:50 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:33:00 -0400, Frank wrote: > > > After many upgrades my Gome3 system is sort of up :) The problem > > is all the menus in both Gnome 3 and Gnome-fallback are in black > > and white and the gnome-control-center does

Re: Configuring Gnome fallback

2011-10-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:08:50 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:33:00 -0400, Frank wrote: > >> After many upgrades my Gome3 system is sort of up :) The problem is >> all the menus in both Gnome 3 and Gnome-fallback are in black and white >> and the gnome-control-center doesn't offer

Re: Configuring Gnome fallback

2011-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:33:00 -0400, Frank wrote: > After many upgrades my Gome3 system is sort of up :) The problem is all > the menus in both Gnome 3 and Gnome-fallback are in black and white and > the gnome-control-center doesn't offer the option to change anything. Is > this just an early miss

Re: Does anyone know how to Compile Mythtv 0.23.1 on current testing with qt 4.7

2011-10-16 Thread S Scharf
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 08:50:41AM -0400, S Scharf wrote: > > I recently upgraded my desktop hardware and installed the current testing > > distribution, but by > > myth backend server is still running old-stable. The last > debian-multimedia >

Configuring Gnome fallback

2011-10-16 Thread Frank
After many upgrades my Gome3 system is sort of up :) The problem is all the menus in both Gnome 3 and Gnome-fallback are in black and white and the gnome-control-center doesn't offer the option to change anything. Is this just an early missing feature or do I need to install something else.

Re: Debian SID - Can't setup Language for applications(using xdm, wmaker)

2011-10-16 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 01:12:12PM BST, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I run then the commands: > > $ sudo apt-get update > $ sudo apt-get --reinstall install $(dpkg -S LC_MESSAGES | cut\ > -d: -f1 | tr ', ' '\n' | sort -u) > > I get after that - without reboooting my system - Hungarian menus in > Midnig

Re: Root missed at boot up.

2011-10-16 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 02:23:25AM BST, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > The error was "cannot find root $UUID" specified in root bootflag. > I thought something wrong so the uuid of the root was changed. So in > busybox, I `ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid`, I got two items: dm-1(I am not > quite sure now

Re: Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-10-16 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 18 Tishrey 5772 19:32:50 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > What is the output of the command > > grep 'Status:' /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -v installed > A bunch of lines: Status: deinstall ok config-files > ? You could try to remove the annoying entries, e.g.,

Re: Howto asses possible damage from downgrade Xorg

2011-10-16 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 16 October 2011 18:00:35 Harry Putnam wrote: > what does `stable-bpo' mean at: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xorg-server.html Stable-bpo is stable-backports. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: #Bug 641344 - should it be reopened?

2011-10-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-10-16 19:11 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear maintainers, I still have significant slow reactions of X when I am using xserver-xorg- core-1.11-1-amd64 with nvidia-glx. This is pointing me to #Bug641344, which is already closed. Sadly I can

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

2011-10-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Martin: >There has been significant improvements with recent kernels. After >installing 2.6.37 - AFAIR - on my ThinkPad T42 which uses Ext4 I >actually thought I bought a new notebook. And there have been >improvements after that version as well. > >So it might

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

2011-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:59:52 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: >>So, what kind of applications are you running on your system and over >>what hardware? > > For system that I'm speaking now is a Dell's laptop w/ AMD Tutorion64 > 2.4 GHz, 2G RAM, w/ Hitachi SATA 750G in it. If memory serves me right, Turion

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

2011-10-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Martin: >Thats a typical workload where certain kernels have lots of problems >with interactivity. I think its best to use at least kernel 2.6.37. At >some kernel version CFQ gained a low_latency mode which is enabled by >default. Best would probably be to updat

Re: Howto asses possible damage from downgrade Xorg

2011-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:00:35 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >>> Can anyone guide me on this, or is this the kind of thing I should >>> install a vm guest for? >> >> Synaptic makes a good job when it comes to manage the versions of the >> packages you want to install. You select

Re: #Bug 641344 - should it be reopened?

2011-10-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-16 19:11 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> Dear maintainers, >> >> I still have significant slow reactions of X when I am using xserver-xorg- >> core-1.11-1-amd64 with nvidia-glx. This is pointing me to >> #Bug641344, which is already closed. Sadly I cannot see

Re: #Bug 641344 - should it be reopened?

2011-10-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear maintainers, I still have significant slow reactions of X when I am using xserver-xorg- core-1.11-1-amd64 with nvidia-glx. This is pointing me to #Bug641344, which is already closed. Sadly I cannot see any improvement on my machine, although, I have to admit, it is

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

2011-10-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Martin: >Huh? Well compared to SSD they are dog slow with small size random >read/write operations - typical refered to as IOPS - but I cannot >confirm that they are slower than PATA drives. They might not be that >much faster, but thats IMHO more a question of

Re: trying to get the compiz cube

2011-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 09:38:17 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:31:38 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >>> I installed compiz and am trying to see the famed cube: it's nowhere. >>> So I googled and found: >>> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/25/enabling-the-cub

Re: Howto asses possible damage from downgrade Xorg

2011-10-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Camaleón writes: [...] >> I'd like to experiment with the previous version 1.10. Compare certain >> behavior against the current version. But don't know what I'm doing well >> enough to make a good assessment of what damage may be done to my system >> by downgrading like that on such an import

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

2011-10-16 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >On standard systems setups (where hdds are connected directly to the >sata controller of the board) and non-complex layouts (non-raid/lvm/ >clusters...) I've never experienced freezes nor delays with sata nor >ide hard disks. Not "visible" delays, I m

dist-upgrade wants to remove gdm

2011-10-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I run Sid. I installed gdm instead of gdm3. But now dist-upgrade wants to remove gdm and gdm-themes. hugo@HDBB:~$ apt-cache policy gdm gdm: Installed: 2.20.7-4lenny1 Candidate: 2.20.7-4lenny1 Package pin: 2.20.7-4lenny1 Version table: *** 2.20.7-4lenny1 1001 500 http://ftp

Re: why doesn't ~/.inputrc work

2011-10-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Raf Czlonka writes: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:14:59PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Not too long ago, just wks, .inputrc worked on another system. That >> was also recent bash. > > Is it by any chance related the recent ncurses library split[0] to which > libreadline links? > > [0] http://enc

Re: why doesn't ~/.inputrc work

2011-10-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Teemu Likonen writes: > * 2011-10-15T16:26:59-05:00 * Harry Putnam wrote: > >> So I guess its just a matter of figuring out how to designate the Alt >> key in .inputrc. I haven't hit on it yet. > > Here's a part of my .inputrc: > > set editing-mode emacs > > # Non-meta keys > set keym

Re: Does anyone know how to Compile Mythtv 0.23.1 on current testing with qt 4.7

2011-10-16 Thread David Sastre
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 08:50:41AM -0400, S Scharf wrote: > I recently upgraded my desktop hardware and installed the current testing > distribution, but by > myth backend server is still running old-stable. The last debian-multimedia > release of myth for > old-stable was 0.23.1 which is incompati

Re: save to file

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:47:16AM +, Camale�n wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:16:59 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > Running Mutt 1.5.21-4~bpo60 from the Debian 6 backports repo. > > > > Can't find a way to save a message to a file on my $HOME directory; > > *not* a mailbox. Everything I

Re: Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-10-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
What is the output of the command grep 'Status:' /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -v installed ? You could try to remove the annoying entries, e.g., with an emacs kbd macro. But, I would try the macro first on a copy of the file /var/lib/dpkg/status and make a backup of the original before using th

Re: Gnome 3 and VirtualBox

2011-10-16 Thread José Silva
On 16/10/11 10:34, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:04:33 +0100, José Silva wrote: On 15/10/11 19:31, José Silva wrote: (...) With Gnome 3, to start, I don't know how to switch to another desktop if I am in VirtualBox fullscreen. Windows absorbs the Windows key, of course, which is als

Re: [Linux-cluster] redhat cluster running on debian 6.

2011-10-16 Thread Digimer
On 10/16/2011 07:21 AM, Joey L wrote: > Digimer - thanks for you input - you saved me a ton of time!!! > I did look at your tutorial -- great stuff BTW. Thank you. :) > I thought fencing was an option because I setup RH cluster about 5 > years ago and I thought I did not do it then..and further i

Re: trying to get the compiz cube

2011-10-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank Steinborn wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I installed compiz and am trying to see the famed cube: it's nowhere. So I googled and found: http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/25/enabling-the-cube-in-compiz/ which says: "The first thing you have to do is enable the Custom effects in the Appearan

Re: trying to get the compiz cube

2011-10-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:31:38 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I installed compiz and am trying to see the famed cube: it's nowhere. So I googled and found: http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/25/enabling-the-cube-in-compiz/ which says: (...) There is a good article on Compiz in Debian

Re: Does anyone know how to Compile Mythtv 0.23.1 on current testing with qt 4.7

2011-10-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 08:50:41AM -0400, S Scharf wrote: > I recently upgraded my desktop hardware and installed the current testing > distribution, but by > myth backend server is still running old-stable. The last debian-multimedia > release of myth for > old-stable was 0.23.1 which is incompati

Does anyone know how to Compile Mythtv 0.23.1 on current testing with qt 4.7

2011-10-16 Thread S Scharf
I recently upgraded my desktop hardware and installed the current testing distribution, but by myth backend server is still running old-stable. The last debian-multimedia release of myth for old-stable was 0.23.1 which is incompatible with running the available 0.24 front end on testing. I have tr

Re: Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-10-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Oct 2011 at 14:11:59 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-10-16 13:50 +0200, Brian wrote: > > > 'dpkg --clear-avail' followed by 'apt-get update'. > > This will not help since the problem is in the status file, not in the > available file. It is necessary to purge or reinstall the pac

Re: PC speaker stopped working after upgrade to Squeeze

2011-10-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
/etc/rc.local can modprobe pcspkr each time for you if you'd like. I'm sure other places in debian can too, but that's the first I'd think of for now.On Sun, 16 Oct 2011, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 05/10/11 01:30, Roger Lynn wrote: > > On 04/10/11 20:10, Curt wrote: > >> On 2011-10-02, Roger Lynn

Re: Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-10-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-16 13:50 +0200, Brian wrote: > On Sun 16 Oct 2011 at 11:50:44 +0200, David Baron wrote: > >> This is a repeat posting. > > This is probably a repeat response. :) > > [Snip complaints from dpkg] > >> How can I get rid of these entries (without attempting to hand-edit 100,000 >> lines of

Re: Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-10-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Oct 2011 at 11:50:44 +0200, David Baron wrote: > This is a repeat posting. This is probably a repeat response. :) [Snip complaints from dpkg] > How can I get rid of these entries (without attempting to hand-edit 100,000 > lines of text!)? 'dpkg --clear-avail' followed by 'apt-get up

Re: [Linux-cluster] redhat cluster running on debian 6.

2011-10-16 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Sunday 16 October 2011 13:21:43 Joey L, vous avez écrit : [...] > About pacemaker -- > Do I need fencing hardware as well ?? It's better, but optional. > I just got 2 servers and a regular switch - i think it netgear. > Like I said earlier - just want the 2 boxes to back up each other. > I ha

Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers

2011-10-16 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 05:17:14PM BST, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Thanks, Cameleón, I might take a look at LDA and/or NIS, although I > have no experience with them. Otherwise, I guess I'm going to just > change around the UIDs on some of the systems, which may well be the > path of least resistan

Re: [Linux-cluster] redhat cluster running on debian 6.

2011-10-16 Thread Joey L
Digimer - thanks for you input - you saved me a ton of time!!! I did look at your tutorial -- great stuff BTW. I thought fencing was an option because I setup RH cluster about 5 years ago and I thought I did not do it then..and further in the RHEL Cluster Administrator had points that it was optio

[OT] Re: Building a Repository

2011-10-16 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/10/11 01:21, Bob Proulx wrote: sic > You can have multiple versions in reprepro just fine. I keep many > versions there. > > It would be great if you would say why you would want different > versions in the same distribution track? I am sure

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Stan Hoeppner wrote, on 10/16/11 05:00: > Moving forward... I removed all of the apache2 junk with > '--purge-unused', ran aptitude update and aptitude safe-upgrade, and > none of the apache2 junk shows up in the upgrade list, which was the > original immediate goal here. I've probably got more c

Re: save to file

2011-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:16:59 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > Running Mutt 1.5.21-4~bpo60 from the Debian 6 backports repo. > > Can't find a way to save a message to a file on my $HOME directory; > *not* a mailbox. Everything I see in the information page talks about > saving to a "mailbox/file".

Libsmokek.... held packages in Sid

2011-10-16 Thread David Baron
There are a lot of these and have been for a long time. Any attempt to install will remove a lot of kde packages (why they are held back). This has been a while. What is the status? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Cruft in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2011-10-16 Thread David Baron
This is a repeat posting. I get zillions of these running any apt/dpkg: dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 117808 package 'user-de': missing architecture dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 119794 package 'xsession-initscript-knopp

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:00:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/15/2011 7:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:51:15 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >>> On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 11:21:30 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> There you have it. "libapache2-mod-php5" depends (requires) "apache

Re: posting

2011-10-16 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 06:03:21PM BST, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Do you know of a good reference that teaches people how to post I could > > point to in my signature? > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists would be appropriate. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html is also a g

Re: Gnome 3 and VirtualBox

2011-10-16 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:04:33 +0100, José Silva wrote: > On 15/10/11 19:31, José Silva wrote: >>> (...) >>> >> With Gnome 3, to start, I don't know how to switch to another >> desktop if I am in VirtualBox fullscreen. Windows absorbs the >> Windows key, of course, which is also the Gnom

Re: PC speaker stopped working after upgrade to Squeeze

2011-10-16 Thread Roger Lynn
On 05/10/11 01:30, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 04/10/11 20:10, Curt wrote: >> On 2011-10-02, Roger Lynn wrote: >>> When I upgraded my Lenny AMD64 system to Squeeze earlier this year, the >>> PC speaker (ie motherboard buzzer) stopped working. To get it to work I >>> have to remove and re-add the pcspkr

Re: package management help

2011-10-16 Thread Brian
On Sat 15 Oct 2011 at 22:00:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > ~$ dpkg -l|grep -i apache > rc apache2.2-common > rc libapache2-mod-php5 > rc libapr1 > rc libaprutil1 > > What does the 'rc' mean? The others are apparently completely removed > now, but these 4 still show up. Is there something

Re: why doesn't ~/.inputrc work

2011-10-16 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:14:59PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote: > Not too long ago, just wks, .inputrc worked on another system. That > was also recent bash. Is it by any chance related the recent ncurses library split[0] to which libreadline links? [0] http://enc.com.au/2011/09/ncurses-library-sp

Re: deleting user account

2011-10-16 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 07:04:14AM BST, Zachary Uram wrote: > so i deleted a user account using "deluser foo" and then i had to "\rm > -r /home/foo" but my tiger auditing report is telling me: You could have combined it into a single command: % deluser --remove-home foo or % deluser --remove-al