Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-01 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >>>You mean "Busybox"? :-? >> >> I do not know - it appears when something wrong during boot process. > >It should be printed out, something like: > >*** >BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian x-x-x-x) Built-in shell (xxx) >*** Oh, no. It's not my case. Nor I have

Re: kate as set apart editor?

2011-12-01 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:22:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >> Is it possible to use kate as set apart editor? > >If the package manager is not preventing from doing so and you are >installing all of the required packages and libraries, I'd say yes. Yes,

Re: Release file expired

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Instead of the really generic ftp.debian.org use a country specific > > mirror. That should solve your problem and also speed up your > > connection. For example I use ftp.us.debian.org. Here is a list. > > I don't know what 'generic' means ... In this cont

Re: OT: Grepping style (was Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.)

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew Reid wrote: > > deloptes wrote: > > > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE > > > > What's the purpose of this superfluous "cat" (and the pipe)? > > > > grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > I noticed that too -- I actually do this all the time, and I'm > not 100% sure why. It's true that somet

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-12-01 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 01/12/2011 20:36, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins a écrit : Now I get it, You must use the same command i sent you, however in the Lua language you should have an option to detach the command from the terminal Unfortunately, there is no such thing. That should work (assuming that no

OT: Grepping style (was Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.)

2011-12-01 Thread Andrew Reid
> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:25:16 +0100, deloptes wrote: > > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE > > What's the purpose of this superfluous "cat" (and the pipe)? > > grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log I noticed that too -- I actually do this all the time, and I'm not 100% sure why. It's true that someti

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 07:42 PM 12/1/2011, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > Tom - > > Thanks. > > Here is the changed file. > > #!/bin/sh > exec tail -n +3 $0 > # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type > the > # menu entries you want to add aft

Re: dbus issue

2011-12-01 Thread lina
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > First of all, it is helpful to know if you are running (an up-to-date) > squeeze, wheezy or sid system. > > On 01.12.2011 15:49, lina wrote: >> (it's related to former thread, but also different) >> >> Here the problem, >> >> gdm3 restart >> >

Re: Release file expired

2011-12-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Instead of the really generic ftp.debian.org use a country specific > mirror. That should solve your problem and also speed up your > connection. For example I use ftp.us.debian.org. Here is a list. I don't know what 'generic' means but

Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

2011-12-01 Thread Porcia Silvia
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:10:01 +0100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > task-xfce-desktop, (or the meta package xfce4), don't install pulseaudio... > Perhaps you selected something that required gnome-core? No gnome-core here [648MB]. I believe vlc must have brought pulseaudio with it. -- ps -- To UNSUBS

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 12:13:20 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > At 05:57 AM 11/28/2011, Brian wrote: >> >> > My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS >> > from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument specified" >> > adn "no such partition". How do i fi

Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-12-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:25:16 +0100, deloptes wrote: > cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE What's the purpose of this superfluous "cat" (and the pipe)? grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 17:26:00 -0500, Tom H wrote: > In grub2, sda1 is (hd0,1) or (hd0,msdos1) not (hd0,0) - although the > "search..." line should override the "set root..." line. The way understand it is: GRUB will boot using the 'search...' line if a disk is found. The 'set root...' line can b

Re: a quick Q: how do I get the latest kernel

2011-12-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:16:32 -0500 (EST), lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: > > in debian package, > > I search "linux-kernel" vain > search "linux-head" > linux-image > > also not ideal, > > what's the best way to find it, > > thanks, What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Do you wish to i

preseed IPv6 stateles, finding first drive, gpt

2011-12-01 Thread Darren Baginski
Hi! I would like to build preseed.cfg which 1) has only ipv6 staless config on all interfaces found (number of interfaces may vary) 2) OS installed on a first hard drive found (hda, sda, vda whichever reported as a first hard drive, not a usb flash ) 3) partitioning scheme should be always gpt

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > Tom - > > Thanks. > > Here is the changed file. > > #!/bin/sh > exec tail -n +3 $0 > # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type > the > # menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to ch

Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-12-01 Thread deloptes
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Two points. Given that the intention in Squeeze is for X to be > configured automatically and given that this video hardware > apparently needs firmware-linux-nonfree installation be automated? > If so, failure of automatic installation of firmware-linux-nonfree > is

for those who dislike gnome3-shell

2011-12-01 Thread Richard
Hi After tonights updates the login pane gives the option of gnome or "gnome classic" ;) -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk nil carborundum a illegitemis

Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-12-01 Thread peasthope
First an update. I stumbled on the mention of the firmware-linux-nonfree package in this page. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=60238 That appears to provide a required driver. I must have removed the package inadvertently about a week ago when X failed. So now I have the broken

Re: Re (3): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-12-01 Thread deloptes
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > >> download and try ubuntu and write back > > Googling finds a wide variety of similar problems and some > solutions, in Ubuntu and elsewhere. Before more time is wasted > thrashing around, I'll happily test suggested edits of my xorg.conf. > > Thanks,

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 05:26 PM 12/1/2011, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Brian wrote: >> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### >> # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the >> # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change >> # the '

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Bob Proulx: > > > # The default vixie-cron PATH is "/usr/bin:/bin", overriding the > > > environment. > > > PATH = "/home/rwp/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games" > > > > You still can use > > > > PATH = "~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bi

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Jochen Spieker wrote: > Bob Proulx: > > # The default vixie-cron PATH is "/usr/bin:/bin", overriding the > > environment. > > PATH = "/home/rwp/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games" > > You still can use > > PATH = "~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games" > > if the crontab be

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-01 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-12-01 23:54 +0700): > > >fsck errors should drop into a sulogin shell, which asks for the > >password. The only way you could get a root shell is if your root > >device cannot be found. In that case, there is no way to ask for a > >password because there is n

Re: mysql workbench

2011-12-01 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le jeudi 01 décembre 2011 08:53:22 J. Bakshi, vous avez écrit : > Dear list, > > How can I benchmark the mysql server in debian squeeze box ? > Any tools in debian or any 3rd party shell script ? > > The mysql is performing very bad and I need to boost its performance. > This is a new box with 8

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Jochen Spieker
Bob Proulx: > > # The default vixie-cron PATH is "/usr/bin:/bin", overriding the > environment. > PATH = "/home/rwp/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games" You still can use PATH = "~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games" if the crontab belongs to the user 'rwp'. J. -- Nothin

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Brian wrote: >> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### >> # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the >> # menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change >> # the 'exec tail' line above. >> menuentry "DOS

Re: Release file expired

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > I installed squeeze and at first empty /etc/apt/sources.list and then > put the following line in that: > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free I suspect your mirror site is broken. Instead of the really generic ftp.debian.org use a country speci

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Jochen Spieker wrote: > But beware that you probably need to use /full/path/to/my-script. $PATH > is probably not what you expect. Debian uses Vixie Cron which has some nice extensions, such as that "*/10" you were using. It also allows you to set PATH for all of your cron commands. I always hav

Re: Lost Alt+Backspace

2011-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > m...@mylug.org wrote: > > > After recent upgrades (I am not certain when), I have lost the > > > ability to delete words by using Alt+BkSp in either gnome-terminal > > > or terminator. How to get that behaviour back? > > > > I use XTerms and I have this XTe

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-01 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 03:50:55PM -0500, doug wrote: > > Tried this in pclos. There is no chmod in the info file. > There is also no man chmod. > I also would like to know what the s stands for. > See my reply earlier: The follo

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-01 Thread doug
On 12/01/2011 06:05 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:47:08 +0800, lina wrote in message : total 12 drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 May 21 2011 linux-source-2.6.38-2-amd64-mm82 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jul 26 22:13 linux-source-3.0.0-mbp82-lina drwxr-sr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec 1 1

Re: setting up WiFi adapter (Broadcom BCM4321 14e4:4328 chipset) in latest version of Debian

2011-12-01 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:07:24PM -0800, Colin Reinhardt wrote: > Im new to Debian/Linux... > I have tried following the Debian Wireless-HowTo and other related > Linux WiFi HowTos. > > I downloaded and installed the firmware-b43-installer and > b43-fwcutter, (synaptic shows them as installed pac

Re: setting up WiFi adapter (Broadcom BCM4321 14e4:4328 chipset) in latest version of Debian

2011-12-01 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:07:24PM -0800, Colin Reinhardt wrote: > Im new to Debian/Linux... > I have tried following the Debian Wireless-HowTo and other related > Linux WiFi HowTos. > > I downloaded and installed the firmware-b43-installer and > b43-fwcutter, (synaptic shows them as installed pac

Re: relocation error: and segmentation fault

2011-12-01 Thread Johann Klammer
Dennis Wicks wrote: Sorry!! I clicked the wrong icon and sent the previous message by mistake!) I was running aptitude and it canceled for some reason. Now I am getting relocation error: /lib/libproc-3.2.7.so: symbol memset, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time refere

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-12-01 Thread Mart Frauenlob
On 30.11.2011 17:25, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: Well, the example i gave you opens another terminal (xterm) and opens icedove without closing the first terminal nor the second (assuming that you was using xterm in the first place). If you want the terminal to be closed, you may use

setting up WiFi adapter (Broadcom BCM4321 14e4:4328 chipset) in latest version of Debian

2011-12-01 Thread Colin Reinhardt
Im new to Debian/Linux... I have tried following the Debian Wireless-HowTo and other related Linux WiFi HowTos. I downloaded and installed the firmware-b43-installer and b43-fwcutter, (synaptic shows them as installed packages now). In Gnome, using network-manager (applet) there is nothing about

setting up WiFi adapter (Broadcom BCM4321 14e4:4328 chipset) in latest version of Debian

2011-12-01 Thread Colin Reinhardt
-- Forwarded message -- Im new to Debian/Linux... I have tried following the Debian Wireless-HowTo and other related Linux WiFi HowTos. I downloaded and installed the firmware-b43-installer and b43-fwcutter, (synaptic shows them as installed packages now). In Gnome, using network-

Re: can't apt-get update: Could not create a socket for 2001:8d8:580:400:6564:a62:0:2

2011-12-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 19:32:24 +0100, feralert wrote: > Today I tried apt-get updating a debian lenny machine and this is what I got: > (more info below) > > # apt-get update > Err http://ftp.es.debian.org lenny Release.gpg > Could not connect to ftp.es.debian.org:80 (82.194.78.250). - connect

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-12-01 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Now I get it, You must use the same command i sent you, however in the Lua language you should have an option to detach the command from the terminal that you are using, and to close the terminal. That should work (assuming that now i did understand what you are doing). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Release file expired

2011-12-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 22:17:20 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > I installed squeeze and at first empty /etc/apt/sources.list and then > put the following line in that: > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free Any reason why you are using ftp.debian.org as an archive? Was i

Re: what's with pulseaudio

2011-12-01 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:32:03 +, I wrote: >> Sometime in the last month or two a regular upgrade of my Wheezy systems >> caused them to start running /usr/bin/pulseaudio. On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:58:39 + (UTC), Camaleón replied: > Yes, it is a requirement at least for the "gnome-core" metapa

Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Brian
On Thu 01 Dec 2011 at 12:13:20 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Sorry for the delay. > > I apologize for the length of this, but here are the two files you requested. Thanks. No need for an apology - seeing the file is essential. But I will snip a good deal of it! > ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_cust

Re: what's with pulseaudio

2011-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:32:03 +, Steve Kleene wrote: > Sometime in the last month or two a regular upgrade of my Wheezy systems > caused them to start running /usr/bin/pulseaudio. (...) Yes, it is a requirement at least for the "gnome-core" metapackage. For others DE I can't tell. (...)

can't apt-get update: Could not create a socket for 2001:8d8:580:400:6564:a62:0:2

2011-12-01 Thread feralert
Hi all, Today I tried apt-get updating a debian lenny machine and this is what I got: (more info below) # apt-get update Err http://ftp.es.debian.org lenny Release.gpg Could not connect to ftp.es.debian.org:80 (82.194.78.250). - connect (111 Connection refused) Err http://volatile.debian.org le

Re: kate as set apart editor?

2011-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:22:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Is it possible to use kate as set apart editor? If the package manager is not preventing from doing so and you are installing all of the required packages and libraries, I'd say yes. > Having moved from KDE to LXDE, I got diver problems w/

Re: dbus issue

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Biebl
First of all, it is helpful to know if you are running (an up-to-date) squeeze, wheezy or sid system. On 01.12.2011 15:49, lina wrote: > (it's related to former thread, but also different) > > Here the problem, > > gdm3 restart > > showed me Could not connect to system bus: failed to connect to

Re: what's with pulseaudio

2011-12-01 Thread Steve Kleene
At Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:32:03 + (UTC), I wrote: >> Did pulseaudio replace some other audio system? If I shut it down will I >> have no sound? On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 08:00:29 -0800, Kelly Clowers replied: >> You should check the reverse depends on PA to see what installed it. There were 32 revers

Re: Sid, GNOME 3: Alt-F2 stopped working

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Biebl
On 01.12.2011 11:58, Richard wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 04:30:42 -0600 > >> Michael Biebl, 1.12.2011: >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649577 > > ALT F2, enter command is functional, so is ALT F1, kill current app. > > So does ALT Backspace, delete last word in a xterm. > m

udev problem

2011-12-01 Thread Richard
Hi there looks like there has been a change in the way udev handles its rules. I'm using piklab which I've use consistently for a few years. I can now only use it as root, as it wont allow the connection to the usb programer. The things which normally work are the add to groups, piklab and usbuser

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Re: Booting into DOS

2011-12-01 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 05:57 AM 11/28/2011, Brian wrote: On Sun 27 Nov 2011 at 23:06:29 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS > from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument specified" > adn "no such partition". How do i fix this. Ple

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:49:00 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >>> Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even >>> asking for password... >> >>You mean "Busybox"? :-? > > I do not know - it appears when something wrong during boot

Re: what's with pulseaudio

2011-12-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
Posting back to the list... Please watch your reply-to ;-) On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 08:58, Brad Alexander wrote: > The conclusion I have come to is that PA works fine if you install a new > box, but when it upgrades over ALSA or whatever, things get b0rken. I > recently had to uninstall it from my

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-01 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >> Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even >> asking for password... How I can change the behavior (to ask for >> password before granting root shell)? >> > >Do you get a message 'root account locked, starting shell?' No. >

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-01 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >> Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even >> asking for password... > >You mean "Busybox"? :-? I do not know - it appears when something wrong during boot process. >> How I can change the behavior (to ask for password

Re: Trouble with remote rsyslog

2011-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:50:35 -0500, vr wrote: > On 30.11.2011 12:49, Camaleón wrote: >>> main.info @99.30.25.3 >> ^^^ >> (...) >> >> Just thinking out loud... shouldn't that IP be the one of the >> receiver's >> host? > > > oh crap... I had the SEND/R

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-01 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 03:01:33PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:05:02PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > > > > and what does the s here stands for? > > > ..read output of 'info chmod'. > > That was not very helpful to get the answer. Try 'man chmod'. It has a > goo

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-12-01 Thread Paul Isambert
Em 01-12-2011 11:08, Chris Davies escreveu: > Paul Isambert wrote: > >> But Icedove still stays attached to the first terminal... >> > Just to check, you want to be able to start icedove from the command > line in (say) an xterm, but have it continue to run even when that > xterm is closed? No:

Re: Release file expired

2011-12-01 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Your system clock is properly set? -- 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/4ed7a6a1.3080...@gmail.com

Re: Reload X

2011-12-01 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
See if your gdm3 appear on the list given by $ service --status-all (this is on sbin, should be run as root) If it is, you should be able to do $ service gdm3 restart But that may not reload X, as gdm3 is just a display manager (unless gdm3 is configured to restart xinit along with it, but tha

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:08:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón. > > Just several notes from me (as considerations). > > Why? I can do that successfully even under normal, new user. Why not? We are just making tests to get more clues. >>> >>> Bec

Re: what's with pulseaudio

2011-12-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 06:32, Steve Kleene wrote: > Sometime in the last month or two a regular upgrade of my Wheezy systems > caused them to start running /usr/bin/pulseaudio.  Related directories popped > up, including: > >  /.pulse >  ~/.pulse >  /tmp/pulse-tHdn2FVycDvX (e.g.) > > as well as th

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-12-01 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Em 01-12-2011 11:08, Chris Davies escreveu: Paul Isambert wrote: But Icedove still stays attached to the first terminal... Just to check, you want to be able to start icedove from the command line in (say) an xterm, but have it continue to run even when that xterm is closed? And you'

Re: Lost Alt+Backspace

2011-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:49:35 +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 06:38:00PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:52:27 +, Roger Leigh wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 03:58:21PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:58:17 -0800, mas wrote: >> >>

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-12-01 Thread Chris Davies
Paul Isambert wrote: > But Icedove still stays attached to the first terminal... Just to check, you want to be able to start icedove from the command line in (say) an xterm, but have it continue to run even when that xterm is closed? And you're not really interested in stdout/stderr. I use thund

Release file expired

2011-12-01 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dear all, I installed squeeze and at first empty /etc/apt/sources.list and then put the following line in that: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free So, when use apt-get update , i prevented to the following error: E: Release file expired, ignoring http://ftp.debian.o

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/01/11 02:55, Stephen Powell wrote: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:02:02 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Google is your friend! I don't remember exactly what my search terms were, but the top item gave me the answer (once I read down through all the answers that were less than useful to me, or the

hello to everyone

2011-12-01 Thread LinuxIsOne
Hello, Hello to the Debian Community. Thanks.

dbus issue

2011-12-01 Thread lina
Hi, (it's related to former thread, but also different) Here the problem, gdm3 restart showed me Could not connect to system bus: failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: no such file or directory actually there is no /dbus directory under /var/run I checked the dbus and r

what's with pulseaudio

2011-12-01 Thread Steve Kleene
Sometime in the last month or two a regular upgrade of my Wheezy systems caused them to start running /usr/bin/pulseaudio. Related directories popped up, including: /.pulse ~/.pulse /tmp/pulse-tHdn2FVycDvX (e.g.) as well as these files: /etc/rc3.d/S02pulseaudio /.pulse-cookie ~/.pul

Re: Synaptic 0.70: reporting wrong status for package?

2011-12-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 04:13:24 -0600 "Selim T. Erdogan" wrote: Hello Selim, > I'm not sure what you mean by "install a package outside Synaptic et > al" but my experience is that .deb packages installed using just > "dpkg -i ..." are listed in synaptic and dselect. Or did you mean That's right.

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Nicolas Bercher
Darac Marjal a écrit : On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:19:06PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: Nicolas Bercher: I'd like use set up a crontab rule from 6 am to midnight, and crontab(5) mentions: field allowed values hour 0-23 Then, I tried something like: */10 6-0 * * 1-5 my-

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 15:01:33 +0200, Johann wrote in message <20111201130133.gb26...@sun.ac.za>: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:05:02PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > > > > and what does the s here stands for? > > > ..read output of 'info chmod'. > > That was not very helpful to get the answe

Reload X

2011-12-01 Thread David Roguin
Hi! Is there a way to reload X and its config file without exiting it? The only way I know right now is this: $ invoke-rc.d gdm3 restart Regards. -- David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: Laptop Not Resuming From Hibernation

2011-12-01 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Colin Lancaster, 28.11.2011: > Hello, > > I recently installed Debian 6.0.3 (squeeze) on my Acer Aspire 5735 laptop and > I'm having problems resuming after hibernation. > > Hibernation seems to succeed; the computer takes some time and shuts > off. Then, when I press the power to resume, the pow

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:05:02PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > and what does the s here stands for? > ..read output of 'info chmod'. That was not very helpful to get the answer. Try 'man chmod'. It has a good explanation in the 5th paragraph under 'Description'. Regards Johann -- Joh

Re: can't enter into gnome interface

2011-12-01 Thread lina
I checked, the dbus was installed, also dbus-x11 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-2 libeggdbus-1-0 deinstall lbnet-dbus-perl libqt4-dbus python-dbus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: GNOME 3 Alt-Tab takes two hands now

2011-12-01 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Em 01-12-2011 03:20, Brian Flaherty escreveu: On 11/30/2011 08:46 AM, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: You may configure that in the window manager Where does one do that? Well i think the window manager you use is metacity, so you will have luck searching for this. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: can't enter into gnome interface

2011-12-01 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Nevermind, i was looking in the gdm man pages and there is no way to set the display, unless you manually configure EACH configuration file. It seems that gdm is supposed to work out-of the-box, and no one is supposed to edit the configuration files. What means that if it fails, it's their fa

Re: can't enter into gnome interface

2011-12-01 Thread lina
I don't have the dbus directory under /var/run, I compared it with another working desktop, seems it lacks of things undr /var/run it only has: avahi-daemon initramfs mount shm utmp dhclient.etho.pid lock sendsigs.omit.d udev that's all, do I ineed install some packages? thanks On Thu, Dec 1

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:19:06PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Nicolas Bercher: > > > > I'd like use set up a crontab rule from 6 am to midnight, and crontab(5) > > mentions: > >   field  allowed values > >   hour   0-23 > > > > Then, I tried something like: > >   */10 6-0 * *

Re: can't enter into gnome interface

2011-12-01 Thread lina
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > Try changing your DISPLAY variable. > > Or open your Display Manager (probably gdm3) with the DISPLAY argument. > > The DISPLAY variable format is hostname:display.screen > > As you probaly are running locally, the hostname

Re: XDMCP and GDM3

2011-12-01 Thread Martin Feuersänger
Hi Rob, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:22:07PM +0100, Martin Feuersänger wrote: >> I know which files control the KDM behavior in regard to XDMCP (kdmrc >> and Xaccess, both in /etc/kde4/kdm/). >> But for GDM3 I have no idea where this is done. It just worked. Xaccess >> at /etc/X11

Re: Detach Icedove from xterm itself called from terminal.

2011-12-01 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
The first terminal you say is supposed to be closed? -- 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/4ed76b6e.4010...@gmail.com

Re: can't enter into gnome interface

2011-12-01 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Try changing your DISPLAY variable. Or open your Display Manager (probably gdm3) with the DISPLAY argument. The DISPLAY variable format is hostname:display.screen As you probaly are running locally, the hostname is not needed. display and screen most of the times work for most of people when t

Re: NNTP server

2011-12-01 Thread Chris Davies
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Can anyone advise me on which package(s) to install [for NNTP], bothe > on my desktop, and on the VPS? I'd strongly recommend leafnode for the NNTP server - but make sure you go for version 2.0.0.alpha rather than the "stable" version 1.11. (It's been in alpha status fo

Re: crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Jochen Spieker
Nicolas Bercher: > > I'd like use set up a crontab rule from 6 am to midnight, and crontab(5) > mentions: >   field  allowed values >   hour   0-23 > > Then, I tried something like: >   */10 6-0 * * 1-5 my-script Using this, cron should execute my-script on 06:10, 06:20 … 23:50,

Re: Lost Alt+Backspace

2011-12-01 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 02:40:22PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I use XTerms and I have this XTerm resource set for this purpose: > > XTerm*metaSendsEscape:true > I tried this and nothing changed. Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:47:08 +0800, lina wrote in message : > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 May 21 2011 > linux-source-2.6.38-2-amd64-mm82 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jul 26 > 22:13 linux-source-3.0.0-mbp82-lina drwxr-sr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec > 1 17:35 linux-source-3.1-lina > > > H

Re: Sid, GNOME 3: Alt-F2 stopped working

2011-12-01 Thread Richard
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 04:30:42 -0600 "Selim T. Erdogan" wrote: > Michael Biebl, 1.12.2011: > > On 01.12.2011 07:29, Brian Flaherty wrote: > > > For a week or so, Alt-F2 (run a command) won't run anything. If I just > > > type a command such as "xterm", it says command not found. > > > > > > >

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-12-01 Thread Stephen Powell
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:02:02 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Google is your friend! I don't remember exactly what my search terms > were, but the top item gave me the answer (once I read down through all > the answers that were less than useful to me, or the OP of that thread). > > I have al

Re: Sid, GNOME 3: Alt-F2 stopped working

2011-12-01 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Michael Biebl, 1.12.2011: > On 01.12.2011 07:29, Brian Flaherty wrote: > > For a week or so, Alt-F2 (run a command) won't run anything. If I just > > type a command such as "xterm", it says command not found. > > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649577 I see that the bu

Re: Synaptic 0.70: reporting wrong status for package?

2011-12-01 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Brad Rogers, 30.11.2011: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:08:04 +0100 > Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > Hello Joost, > > > Does Synaptic display the wrong status? Or do the descriptions not > > cover the meaning? Can I check somehow what the status of a packed is > > outside Synaptic? > > Your understandi

crontab hour range 6-midnight

2011-12-01 Thread Nicolas Bercher
Hi, I'd like use set up a crontab rule from 6 am to midnight, and crontab(5) mentions:   field  allowed values   hour   0-23 Then, I tried something like:   */10 6-0 * * 1-5 my-script Can this be correct or do I face an overlap issue? (I mean since 0 is the begining of the *nex

Re: mysql workbench

2011-12-01 Thread J. Bakshi
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 10:05:37 +0200 Michel Blankleder wrote: > On Thursday, December 01, 2011 09:53:22 J. Bakshi wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > How can I benchmark the mysql server in debian squeeze box ? > > Any tools in debian or any 3rd party shell script ? > > > > The mysql is performing very

Re: [ ERR] Reading package lists - E: Encountered a section with no Package: header

2011-12-01 Thread Marlon Nunes
login as root and try: find /var/lib/apt/lists/ -type f \( ! -iname "lock" \) -exec rm -f {} \; after that edit your sources.list and put: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.d

what does the s stand for

2011-12-01 Thread lina
total 12 drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 May 21 2011 linux-source-2.6.38-2-amd64-mm82 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jul 26 22:13 linux-source-3.0.0-mbp82-lina drwxr-sr-x 24 root root 4096 Dec 1 17:35 linux-source-3.1-lina Hi, How can I change the -sr- to xr and what does the s here stands for? T

Re: can't enter into gnome interface

2011-12-01 Thread lina
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Marlon Nunes wrote: > Em qui 01 dez 2011, às 06:26:39, você escreveu: >> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Marlon Nunes wrote: >> > I'm using debian wheezy with the latest updates and i didn't saw any >> > crash. btw, i'm using kdm + kde4. >> >> I am using gnome > ri

Re: can't enter into gnome interface

2011-12-01 Thread Marlon Nunes
Em qui 01 dez 2011, às 06:26:39, você escreveu: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Marlon Nunes wrote: > > I'm using debian wheezy with the latest updates and i didn't saw any > > crash. btw, i'm using kdm + kde4. > > I am using gnome right now, maybe that's the problem. > > > Em qui 01 dez 2011,

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