Re: Debian install , need to add wireless firmware

2011-11-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 06 nov 11, 18:20:51, Brian wrote: > > 3. You can now boot Debian - we hope! Still no net access but you have >a working system which can do many things. One operation you want to >carry out is to mount the device which has Windows on it. Like so: > > mount /dev/sdaX /mnt > >

Re: gnome-shell en testing

2011-11-09 Thread Javier Barroso
Añado a la lista .. 2011/11/10 Jose Diaz : > Saludos, muy buenas noches > > Referente al hilo, sobre Unity y Gnome3 veo que al abrir una ventana ej: > /home/miusuario y moverme a otra ruta, algo de rutina, ej: ir a una ruta, > copiar un archivo e ir a otra ruta a colocarlo, etc. Veo que no es posi

mutt and maildir++ format

2011-11-09 Thread Johann Spies
I have been using mutt for years and had this in my .muttrc to watch for new mail in different mailboxes: mailboxes ! +BoxA +BoxB +BoxC +`echo $HOME/Mail/.*` which worked well as long as I had symlinks between .BoxA and BoxA etc. Now I am experimenting with a different setup to get my mutt to co

Re: Suspending script.

2011-11-09 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Raf: >> Now, after suspending/resuming I see that nothing was done: after >> resuming top shows me the same data about the process as it was >> before suspending. >> >> What can be wrong? Any suggestions, please. > >What if happens you run it manually? It was

Re: Is it just me [Firefox resouce drain]

2011-11-09 Thread Miles Bader
Camaleón writes: > There you have it: blame the browser :-) > You can also try Google Chrome, it is also known to be fast. I've found that on most web pages, especially "modern" ones (lots of javascript, etc), FF 7 is usually signficantly _faster_ than chrome. FF after 6 became really, really, fa

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/11/11 T o n g said: > Adobe flash is one of the tech-inventions that I resent the most. > Now it is dead for all mobiles, and I wish it is dead on the web tomorrow. I like watching youtube videos. Silverlight is a problem for me on Linux, so I find flash to be a good thing by comparison, u

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 09/11/11 Paul Johnson said: > Why bother with non-free software when we're talking about a technology > that's dying like BSD these days? 'cause people like it when their systems...work? Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apache 2.2.16 deadly slow

2011-11-09 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:53:57 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 11/9/2011 7:38 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > This is a apache server with php 5.3 > > The pages are based on php. Even the viewvc aka svn viewer is also taking > > tooo > > much response time :-( > > viewvc uses Python, not PHP. > > Ar

Open-File Dialog and Save-As File Dialog is extremely slow on KDE

2011-11-09 Thread H Xu
Hello, I'm using Debian Wheezy, with KDE as the default installed Desktop Environment. However, every time a Open-File Dialog or Save-as Dialog pop up, the GUI becomes extremely slow: It takes seconds to drag down the scroll bar of the Dialog, takes seconds to enter a new directory. Could any

Re: Recent update of Xen packages causes kernel panic with HVM domU

2011-11-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/9/2011 9:56 PM, David Howland wrote: > On 11/9/2011 10:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 11/9/2011 7:55 PM, David Howland wrote: >>> 8<= >>> kernel:[ 1919.981706] general protection fault: [#1] SMP >>> kernel:[ 1919.981714] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/vbd-3-

Re: Recent update of Xen packages causes kernel panic with HVM domU

2011-11-09 Thread David Howland
On 11/9/2011 10:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/9/2011 7:55 PM, David Howland wrote: 8<= kernel:[ 1919.981706] general protection fault: [#1] SMP kernel:[ 1919.981714] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/vbd-3-832/uevent kernel:[ 1919.981870] Stack: kernel:[ 1919

Re: XFWM4 window manager failure? Sid/Wheezy

2011-11-09 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 11/08/2011 09:10 AM, Joseph Lenox wrote: I'm not quite sure how, but I managed to get XFWM4 (current sid version 4.8) to not start with my session (or not to be saved). I don't recall doing anything particular to the window manager settings or desktop session settings. All I know is that I b

Re: Recent update of Xen packages causes kernel panic with HVM domU

2011-11-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/9/2011 7:55 PM, David Howland wrote: > Recently I lost power (along with much of New England) for eight days. > When the juice started flowing again, I restarted my Xen server (Debian > Squeeze, dual Xeon (8 cores), 16GB RAM), which came up fine but had a > pile of package updates pending...

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/11/11 13:38, Weaver wrote: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:10:31 -0800 > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:51 +, Andrew Wood wrote: >>> Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by >>> default? I understand the desire to have a free flash player but >>> Gnash

Re: apache 2.2.16 deadly slow

2011-11-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/9/2011 7:38 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: > This is a apache server with php 5.3 > The pages are based on php. Even the viewvc aka svn viewer is also taking tooo > much response time :-( viewvc uses Python, not PHP. Are we talking about two different computers here, a server and a workstation? Or

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Weaver
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:10:31 -0800 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:51 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by > > default? I understand the desire to have a free flash player but > > Gnash is a very poor implementation and I thin

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Weaver
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:10:31 -0800 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:51 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by > > default? I understand the desire to have a free flash player but > > Gnash is a very poor implementation and I thin

Recent update of Xen packages causes kernel panic with HVM domU

2011-11-09 Thread David Howland
Recently I lost power (along with much of New England) for eight days. When the juice started flowing again, I restarted my Xen server (Debian Squeeze, dual Xeon (8 cores), 16GB RAM), which came up fine but had a pile of package updates pending... ==

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Why bother with non-free software when we're talking about a technology >> that's dying like BSD these days? > Because right now, realistically it's the only game in town if one wants > to watch flash content. When HTML5 comes along and I am able to get rid > of /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libf

Re: apache 2.2.16 deadly slow

2011-11-09 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:54:54 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 11/9/2011 2:38 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:00:02 -0600 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > >> On 11/9/2011 1:42 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > >> > >>> But... the apache has become *deadly slow* > >> > >>> [Wed Nov 09 12:13:16

Re: Adobe flash is dead [OT]

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/11/11 11:10, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:51 +, Andrew Wood wrote: >> Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by >> default? Because most GNU/Linux distributions try and provide a secure user experience. FFflash is the antidote for security. Gnash

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:10:31 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Why bother with non-free software when we're talking about a technology > that's dying like BSD these days? Because right now, realistically it's the only game in town if one wants to watch flash content. When HTML5 comes along and I am a

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Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:51 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by > default? I understand the desire to have a free flash player but Gnash > is a very poor implementation and I think it tarnishes Linux's image > rather than enhances it. Why bot

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:01:01 +, Brian wrote: > The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss. And there I was, thinking it was the ability to play and visualise MIDI files ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:12:01 -0200, Ismael Scalcon wrote: > But it's still opensource, so the source code is free to download and > compile. The guys at CentOS do it, they get all the source code for RHL, > remove the Red Hat branding and distribute it. And the guys at Scientific Linux (Fermilab

Re: apache 2.2.16 deadly slow

2011-11-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/9/2011 2:38 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:00:02 -0600 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 11/9/2011 1:42 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: >> >>> But... the apache has become *deadly slow* >> >>> [Wed Nov 09 12:13:16 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1837): proxy: worker >>> proxy:reverse already i

Re: virtualbox just became slow

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/11/11 23:54, Steve Kleene wrote: > I've been happily running a virtualbox Windows XP machine (VM) on a Wheezy > host for eight months. However, the VM just became pathologically slow. For > example, if I boot the VM, call Photoshop 6, and open a small JPG, it all > works but takes several m

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Nov 2011 at 22:34:52 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > That's quite a bold statement. The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss. (A proverb. Reputedly Arabic.) >May we redirect all upgrade issues to you > in the future? :p After all these years I th

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-09 Thread Ismael Scalcon
To clarify things up (ok, a bit off topic): Red Hat Linux is a commercial distro, but what they sell is the supporte services. The thing is, you cannot get RHL without paying for the support. But it's still opensource, so the source code is free to download and compile. The guys at CentOS do it, t

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Doug
On 11/09/2011 02:51 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? I understand the desire to have a free flash player but Gnash is a very poor implementation and I think it tarnishes Linux's image rather than enhances it. Its buggy, a lot of conte

Re: question: building a live-dvd

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/11/11 01:37, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi list, > > I want to learn, how to build a live-system of debian. I already read some > manuals, but still I have a question for my specual needs. > > Which is the better solution for my purposes? Bootcdwrite? Live-builder? > > My special wishes: >

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 11/09/2011 02:51 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? > I understand the desire to have a free flash player but Gnash is a very > poor implementation and I think it tarnishes Linux's image rather than > enhances it. > > Its buggy, a lo

aptitude vs. apt-get/dpkg purge

2011-11-09 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Hi, I have a weird problem where my google foo is failing me (although I guess it has been seen more than once before). Long story short, I have a configuration management software (puppet) that purges selective packages on each run (among others os-prober). It is (by default) using apt for this

Re: emacs RMAIL -- help needed

2011-11-09 Thread Memnon Anon
Sian Mountbatten writes: > Why was Opera denied? Will there be a log anywhere? The *Messages* > buffer contains nothing about trying to connect to my imap server. ,[ (info "(gnus)Debugging IMAP") ] | 6.5.6 Debugging IMAP | | | [...] | |Because the protocol dump, wh

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-09 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-08 14:44 +0700): > > >> /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot > >> -cdrom ./debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso > >> -boot d -hda ./da -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no > >> > >> kvm: -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no: cou

Re: emacs RMAIL -- help needed

2011-11-09 Thread Rémi Letot
Sian Mountbatten writes: > Having loaded gnus into emacs23, in the group buffer I keyed ^ > and got a list of servers. Two entries caught my attention: > > {nnimap:Opera} (denied) > {nntp:nntp.aioe.org} (opened) (agent) > > Why was Opera denied? Will there be a log anywhere? The *Messages* > buff

debian wheezy 64 bit --- on HP Pavillion dv6921la Notebook --- driver question!

2011-11-09 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
Hola! I have debian Wheezy 64 bit installed, and just installed the new skype for 64bit debian. It works OK, but it cannot access my camera --- it can receive video, but not send. Then I tried to start Cheese, which worked earlier when I had 32 bit linux on this same machine, but no says it cannot

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 03 nov 11, 18:01:53, Brian wrote: > On Thu 03 Nov 2011 at 17:07:28 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > > >From time to time, my wheezy system pops up a message to the effect > > that I should update my system (10 packages). How do I do that? > >apt-get update > > followed by > >ap

Re: emacs RMAIL -- help needed

2011-11-09 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Having loaded gnus into emacs23, in the group buffer I keyed ^ and got a list of servers. Two entries caught my attention: {nnimap:Opera} (denied) {nntp:nntp.aioe.org} (opened) (agent) Why was Opera denied? Will there be a log anywhere? The *Messages* buffer contains nothing about trying to conne

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:51:14 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? Interesting question. Which distributions do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:51:14 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? Interesting question. Which distributions do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Andrew Wood
Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? I understand the desire to have a free flash player but Gnash is a very poor implementation and I think it tarnishes Linux's image rather than enhances it. Its buggy, a lot of content it cant display, or displays improperl

Re: Getting mail using gnus

2011-11-09 Thread Memnon Anon
Sian Mountbatten writes: > When I issue the command M-x gnus in Emacs, some messages flash > by in the echo area, but I do not get any mail. Have a look at your message buffer: *Messages* Memnon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Testing Gnome3 Radeon OS complete system freeze

2011-11-09 Thread Javier Silva
2011/11/9 Joost Kraaijeveld : > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 20:29 +0100, Javier Silva wrote: >> Init computer in recovery mode and install firmware-linux. >> >> radeon driver need a package firmware-linux-non-free. > That is installed and loaded. I have Gnome3 running as Gnome3 , not in > the fall-back m

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
T o n g wrote: Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile devices: Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/adobe-confirms-flash-player-is-dead- for-mobile-devices/ Steve Jobs wins: Flash being phased out from mobile

Re: emacs RMAIL -- help needed

2011-11-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Sian Mountbatten writes: > I have been trying to get an email client which would access my > web mail. I've tried > kmail -- which simply does not retrieve the mail > balsa -- which asks for an SMTP address (I don't have SMTP) > and I am now using emacs23. > > Can anybody tell me how to confi

Re: Testing Gnome3 Radeon OS complete system freeze

2011-11-09 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 20:29 +0100, Javier Silva wrote: > Init computer in recovery mode and install firmware-linux. > > radeon driver need a package firmware-linux-non-free. That is installed and loaded. I have Gnome3 running as Gnome3 , not in the fall-back mode, which I had using the proprietar

Re: Testing Gnome3 Radeon OS complete system freeze

2011-11-09 Thread Javier Silva
2011/11/9 Joost Kraaijeveld : > Hi, > > I am trying to run Debian Testing AMD64 with Gnome3 and the Radeon > OpenSource driver, xserver-xorg-video-radeon. All are the latest > versions, updated today (9 november 2011). > > After some time and always after clicking on an icon or something else > on

Re: partitions missing on my external hard drive

2011-11-09 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, arno: >But I can't even operate on the disk with fdisk: ># fdisk /dev/sdb >fdisk: unable to open /dev/sdb: No medium found > >Note that my data is only backup, so I don't care losing them when >fixing my hard drive. Then it's really looks like adapter (USB-SATA

Re: LibreOffice Base and light-weighted SQL DB

2011-11-09 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:23:33 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >> > I'm all ears. What's your recommendation? >> >> That will depend on what are your expectations. >> >> - For a clone to MS Access (with easy wizards to make fancy reports or >> to create forms with a few clicks...) there is Kexi, knoda

Testing Gnome3 Radeon OS complete system freeze

2011-11-09 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I am trying to run Debian Testing AMD64 with Gnome3 and the Radeon OpenSource driver, xserver-xorg-video-radeon. All are the latest versions, updated today (9 november 2011). After some time and always after clicking on an icon or something else on the screen my system lock up. It completely

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:34:59 -0500, Doug wrote: > Out of curiosity I downloaded the LIVE Fedora 16. The user interface is > like nothing I ever saw. If this is the future of computing, I think > I'll go back to pocket calculator and typewriter! Fedora is my main distribution, though I use Debian

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-09 Thread Doug
On 11/09/2011 12:34 PM, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Red Hat Linux = Red Hat's original commercial product Commercial?! You could get it for free like Fedora as well as get it for free and then enter into a service contract with RH. Out of curiosity I

Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread T o n g
Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile devices: Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/adobe-confirms-flash-player-is-dead- for-mobile-devices/ Steve Jobs wins: Flash being phased out from mobile devices http://ww

Re: KDE package manager

2011-11-09 Thread Doug
On 11/09/2011 03:33 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 03 nov 11, 10:59:43, Ken Heard wrote: Sian Mountbatten wrote, in part: Is there a KDE package manager available? What happened to KDE's Kpackage? It is in Lenny, but I do not see it in the Debian repositories for Squeeze and Wheezy. As

Re: Suspending script.

2011-11-09 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 06:41:37AM GMT, Sthu Deus wrote: > w/ the following content: I assume that the script has got the shebang? #!/bin/sh > # /etc/pm/sleep.d/50osus > [...] > Now, after suspending/resuming I see that nothing was done: after > resuming top shows me the same data about the pro

Re: partitions missing on my external hard drive

2011-11-09 Thread arno renevier
Thanks both for your replies. Dans linux.debian.user, vous avez écrit : > Selim: >>Have you tried running it as root? I'm not sure if it's needed but in >>case it is... it's the same result running as root. I think fdisk -l does not need being run as root. >>You might also try cfdisk. I seem

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Red Hat Linux = Red Hat's original commercial product Commercial?! You could get it for free like Fedora as well as get it for free and then enter into a service contract with RH. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Getting mail using gnus

2011-11-09 Thread Rémi Letot
Sian Mountbatten writes: [...] > When I issue the command M-x gnus in Emacs, some messages flash > by in the echo area, but I do not get any mail. gnus treats imap folders as newsgroups, so you have to subscribe to them. When in the "Group" buffer, press ^ to access the "Server" buffer. The

Getting mail using gnus

2011-11-09 Thread Sian Mountbatten
My gnus-init-file contains the following: == (setq user-full-name "Sian Mountbatten") (setq user-mail-address "poenik...@operamail.com") (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "nntp.aioe.org")) (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnimap "Opera" (nn

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-09 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 15:33, Bob Proulx wrote: > The nscd is not required for cron jobs to run.  I don't want to > suggest that you thrash your production machine but if you could test > this on a test machine I think you will find that nscd is not required > for cron.  Really it isn't!  I assur

Re: sh malfunction after upgrade

2011-11-09 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:41:38 -0500 "Dan B." wrote: > J. Bakshi wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:34:57 +0100 > > Jochen Spieker wrote: > > > >> ... You need to either run "bash -x > >>

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:12:02 +, Richard wrote: > On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:51:30 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:42:44 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: (...) >> > Still holding back the upgrade and quite unsure on how to proceed. >> >> Resistance is futile and you will b

Re: More nvidia questions

2011-11-09 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks Andre. On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > $ uname -a > Linux think 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 5 13:56:27 UTC 2011 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > $ dpkg --print-architecture > i386 > $ dpkg -l nvidia-glx | grep ^ii > ii nvidia-glx 290.06-1 > NVIDIA

Re: sh malfunction after upgrade

2011-11-09 Thread Dan B.
J. Bakshi wrote: On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:34:57 +0100 Jochen Spieker wrote: ... You need to either run "bash -x

Re: samba weirdly taking wrong password - never mind (mostly solved)

2011-11-09 Thread Dan B.
I wrote: I'm having a really weird problem: the Samba server accepts a _wrong_ password instead of the expected password. ... Never mind. I finally figured out that Samba was checking some Samba layer of passwords instead of the regular Linux password layer. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: sh malfunction after upgrade

2011-11-09 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 07:46:46 -0500 Tom H wrote: ? > > http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Bashism > Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2009202205.255

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-09 Thread Dom
On 09/11/11 12:50, Alberto Luaces wrote: Miles Fidelman writes: Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/9/2011 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the absol

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Richard
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:51:30 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:42:44 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > > > On 08/11/2011 18:54, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote: > >> > >>> Hi there : help ! > >> > >> Here we go :-) > >> > >>> I updated

Re: Usenet news - server required

2011-11-09 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alberto Luaces writes: > Sian Mountbatten writes: > >> I have succeeded in setting gnus-select-method to getting news, but >> I have not seen anything about how to get my mail. Can you tell me >> how to setup gnus to read mail? > > Here (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail) you have some hint

Re: /etc/default/keyboard XKBOPTIONS not read by X

2011-11-09 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:50:57AM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote: > Dan B. wrote: > > I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying > > the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that > > said it would take effect for both the virtual consoles and X. I presume y

Re: Usenet news - server required

2011-11-09 Thread Alberto Luaces
Sian Mountbatten writes: > I have succeeded in setting gnus-select-method to getting news, but > I have not seen anything about how to get my mail. Can you tell me > how to setup gnus to read mail? Here (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail) you have some hints to get your mail with POP or IM

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:42:44 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 08/11/2011 18:54, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote: >> >>> Hi there : help ! >> >> Here we go :-) >> >>> I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming >> >> Oh, yes... wh

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-09 Thread Alberto Luaces
Miles Fidelman writes: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 11/9/2011 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Miles Fidelman wrote: try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the absolute value

Re: Usenet news - server required

2011-11-09 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Harry Putnam writes: > Sian Mountbatten writes: > > [...] > >>> I personally use Pan, but Thunderbird and Icedove also embedd a >>> newsreader. >>> > > Waa Wa sniffle sniffle... no one is paying the proper > attention to my suggestion of emacs/gnus > > It is vastly the superior new

Re: sh malfunction after upgrade

2011-11-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:41 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:33:17 + > kuLa wrote: >> On 09/11/11 11:15, J. Bakshi wrote: >> > >> > I have upgraded a very old lenny server to squeeze. >> > The shell scripts are now malfunctioning; specially the >> > loop statement. Moreover "sh -

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Andrew Wood
loving it :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eba6df3.3050...@me.com

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/9/2011 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the absolute value of "raw read errors" - if that's higher than 0, the drive

Re: Gnome workspace manager has disappeared -- Help!

2011-11-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:17:09 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Somehow the workspace manager and the index which appeared at the lower > right of the screen have disappeared. Have you tried to add them again? Besides, sometimes the applet is there but constrained because of the lack of space, check

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bob Proulx wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the absolute value of "raw read errors" - if that's higher than 0, the drive is starting to fail, and its internal code

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bob Proulx wrote: For your next system I highly recommend setting it up with RAID. It makes problems like these so much easier. [Of course because of the problem with flooding in Thailand and human reaction to it the cost of disk drives is soaring right now. Unfortunate timing to lose a drive.]

Re: Gnome Control Panel Is there one?

2011-11-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:43:39 -0600, John W. Foster wrote: > I have Linux Mint & Ubuntu Installed, & at one time I tried KDE, & all > as I recall have a control panel for changing a lot of the hardware > configs as well as preferred apps & desktop layout. Is there a similar > app for Gnome in Debia

Re: sh malfunction after upgrade

2011-11-09 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:34:57 +0100 Jochen Spieker wrote: > J. Bakshi: > > > > I have upgraded a very old lenny server to squeeze. > > The shell scripts are now malfunctioning; specially the > > loop statement. Moreover "sh -x

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up > modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use > a few tips. > > I know that winmodems probably won't work, so I may have to swap it out > for somet

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:12:38 +, Richard wrote: (...) >> I know all of the settings can be tweaked by editing the corresponding >> CSS file but this file will be overwritten with any of the upcoming >> update affecting gnome-shell, so I decided to leave the gnome-shell "as >> is" (in a very ba

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 09/11/11 00:12, Richard wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:54:17 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote: Hi there : help ! Here we go :-) I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming Oh, yes... what a sad da

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:46:03 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote: > On 11/08/2011 03:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote: >> >>> Hi there : help ! >> Here we go :-) >> >>> I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming >> Oh, yes... what a

Re: sh malfunction after upgrade

2011-11-09 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:41:00PM CET, "J. Bakshi" said: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:33:17 + > kuLa wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 09/11/11 11:15, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I have upgraded a very old lenny server to squee

Re: Re: debian/testing - new Gnome (after today's upgrade) - very slow user switching when different settings are used

2011-11-09 Thread wzab
Hugo wrote: | You mean 2 different users logged into different sessions through | gdm3? Yes, the problem occures when two different users are logged in gdm3 in different modes. One with "Gnome" and the second with "tryb zastępczy Gnome" (is it "Gnome fallback" in english?). -- Wojtek -- To UN

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Lorenzo, no flames here. I try to be agnostic on this (and i like and use xfce on other pc's) I must plunge into newer things to come, and they will come . As for gnome 3, so far, i'm going better than with the first iterations of kde 4 . The problem is I could not prepare migration as I didn'

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Richard, with gnome-tweak-tool i got some of my desktop back , thank you, really . I just checked the option, in File Manager, to manage my desktop . Pablo On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:54:17 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote: Hi there : help ! H

Re: sh malfunction after upgrade

2011-11-09 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:33:17 + kuLa wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/11/11 11:15, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > > I have upgraded a very old lenny server to squeeze. > > The shell scripts are now malfunctioning; specially the > > loop statemen

Re: sh malfunction after upgrade

2011-11-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
J. Bakshi: > > I have upgraded a very old lenny server to squeeze. > The shell scripts are now malfunctioning; specially the > loop statement. Moreover "sh -x

Re: sh malfunction after upgrade

2011-11-09 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/11/11 11:15, J. Bakshi wrote: > > Hello list, > > I have upgraded a very old lenny server to squeeze. > The shell scripts are now malfunctioning; specially the > loop statement. Moreover "sh -x

Re: high galvanic skin response vs os's

2011-11-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:43:04PM -0800, stefan long wrote: >i have interfered with computers to a greater or lesser degree all my >life. >  >i have been led to believe that Linux OS may be less susceptible to me >that >gates'. >  >is there anyone out there that can

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 08/11/2011 18:54, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote: Hi there : help ! Here we go :-) I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming Oh, yes... what a sad day. My desktop is now blue and with no live, text is rendered blurry a

sh malfunction after upgrade

2011-11-09 Thread J. Bakshi
Hello list, I have upgraded a very old lenny server to squeeze. The shell scripts are now malfunctioning; specially the loop statement. Moreover "sh -x

Re: partitions missing on my external hard drive

2011-11-09 Thread Sthu Deus
Selim: >> [334302.538188] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk >> >> fdisk -l output: >> >> $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb >> $ >> >> (nothing was output) > >Have you tried running it as root? I'm not sure if it's needed but in >case it is... > >You might also try cfdisk. I seem to remember t

Re: Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-09 Thread Clive Standbridge
> You can append "2>&1 >> /var/log/nightly-git.log" to get the output > logged to a file. Those redirections are the wrong way round. Only standard output is redirected to the file. To redirect both standard output and standard error you need to append ">> /var/log/nightly-git.log 2>&1" -- Chee

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