Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Bob Proulx wrote the following on 12/07/2011 12:37 AM: Dennis Wicks wrote: Oops! Another thing I don't know how to do: Mount a disk from a system that isn't running! When I say "mount" I meant something like "mount //host/share " where fstab defines to mount it on "/some/local/mount/point". Obv

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

2011-12-06 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >> But again, Camaleón, I would not to run those app.s w/ root >> privileges. May, You have any other idea? If not, then lets stop w/ >> this - for I suppose it to be risky. I know, You have another >> opinion on the matter. But let's have no controver

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

2011-12-06 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >> Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >> >> > a) locking the root account (passwd -l root), which will give you >> > "sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell" >> >> That's the point - sudo is used on the system and the root account is

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Dennis Wicks wrote: > Oops! Another thing I don't know how to do: Mount a disk from a > system that isn't running! When I say "mount" I meant something like > "mount //host/share " where fstab defines to mount it on > "/some/local/mount/point". Obviously not what you thought I meant! So you have

Mounting phone from /etc/fstab?

2011-12-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
OK. So I finally got the phone and computer paired and I can mount the phone using obexfs by passing the phones MAC address and the desired mountpoint. But I can only do this as root and then I have to be root to access the fs. How do I mount the phone by listing it in /etc/fstab and using m

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Bob Proulx wrote the following on 12/06/2011 09:32 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: Just to clarify, the "bad" system is only "bad" because whein I was installing an update, for Open Office if memory serves, aptitude crashed and left "something" in an unusable state that causes segmentation faults and re

Re: Icons for LibreOffice

2011-12-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 01:22 PM 12/6/2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 06 dec 11, 09:52:56, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > At 02:27 PM 12/5/2011, you wrote: > >On Lu, 05 dec 11, 14:12:34, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > >> Dear List - > >> > >> Where can I download the icons for LibreOffice? > > > >Could you please rephrase tha

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Dennis Wicks wrote: > Just to clarify, the "bad" system is only "bad" because whein I was > installing an update, for Open Office if memory serves, aptitude > crashed and left "something" in an unusable state that causes > segmentation faults and relocation errors whenever I try to run > anything "

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Mike Bird wrote the following on 12/06/2011 07:55 PM: Hi Dennis, (Thanks Bob): Dennis Wicks wrote via Bob Proulx: I really appreciate all the help, each new response seems to get me a little further, but then there is another brick wall that I can't figure out how to get past. When I use the

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
(Sorry, went to the wrong place!) Bob Proulx wrote the following on 12/06/2011 04:38 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: All info was given in previous posts. To reiterate, Debian 5.0, intel 32 bit 2 machines, identical, one works, one doesn't, gets segmentation faults and/or relocation error on every comma

Re: ddclient not working

2011-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:15:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:34:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I use ddclient to update the IP of my server in dyndns, but it doesn't work: the IP does not get set. It has been working for years. I have t

QT appearence in gtk apps

2011-12-06 Thread Fábio
Hi, First, sorry for my limited english. I'm using the testing repository in my notebook (as default), togheter with unstable and experimental. The problem is my gtk apps appear ugly, different from qt apps. I have select "oxygen-gtk" on System Settings -> Application Appearence -> GTK+ Appea

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips & experience

2011-12-06 Thread PAWAN
Hi, I took a Dell precision M4600 and trying to install RHEL6. I am quite not able to do boot it at all. I need some help on how to make the boot detectable ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: Package Cache

2011-12-06 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 11:30 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > apt and aptitude by default do not clean the cache at all. If you don't > find old versions in /var/cache/apt/archives then something on your > system is doing that for you. Hey Andrei. You are right. Thanks. > Your suggestion is intere

Re: where to get patched older kernel for example 2.6.39

2011-12-06 Thread Jim Green
On 6 December 2011 19:33, Arno Schuring wrote: > Jim Green (student.northwest...@gmail.com on 2011-12-06 05:17 +): >> On 6 December 2011 05:07, Bob Proulx wrote: >> > Do you have any examples of something in the Linux 3.x kernel that >> > isn't in the 2.6.38 kernel that is likely to cause tro

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Dennis Wicks wrote: > All info was given in previous posts. To reiterate, Debian 5.0, > intel 32 bit 2 machines, identical, one works, one doesn't, gets > segmentation faults and/or relocation error on every command. > Mounted "bad" root on "good" machine, tried to do dpkg -i to install > libraries

Re: ddclient not working

2011-12-06 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:15:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:34:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >>> I use ddclient to update the IP of my server in dyndns, but it doesn't >>> work: the IP does not get set. It has been working for years. >>> >>> I have

Re: audio over HDMI

2011-12-06 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-12-03 a las 20:51 -0500, Rob Owens escribió: (resending to the list) > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 11:45:23AM +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:58:40 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 05:21:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > >> I've got an nVidia Corpora

Re: ddclient not working

2011-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:34:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I use ddclient to update the IP of my server in dyndns, but it doesn't work: the IP does not get set. It has been working for years. I have to go manually into dyndns and set the IP and the one that it has is stale. Al

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Dennis Wicks wrote: > All info was given in previous posts. To reiterate, Debian 5.0, > intel 32 bit 2 machines, identical, one works, one doesn't, gets > segmentation faults and/or relocation error on every command. > Mounted "bad" root on "good" machine, tried to do dpkg -i to install > libraries

Re: Wheezy X broken ?

2011-12-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:39:26 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-12-06 10:50 +0100, Shaun wrote: > >> On 05/12/2011 22:25, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> For gnome-shell you need a 3D OpenGL driver, and in wheezy the nouveau >>> 3D drivers are not installed by default yet. This has been changed¹ >>> i

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 12/06/2011 03:25 AM: On Lu, 05 dec 11, 15:15:46, Dennis Wicks wrote: I guess I still need a few more pieces! I now have the problem that everything I have tried to do after chroot gives me a segmentation fault. eg. chroot /dgwicks/root dpkg -i .deb Even j

Re: Wheezy X broken ?

2011-12-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-12-06 10:50 +0100, Shaun wrote: > On 05/12/2011 22:25, Sven Joachim wrote: >> For gnome-shell you need a 3D OpenGL driver, and in wheezy the nouveau >> 3D drivers are not installed by default yet. This has been changed¹ in >> unstable already, however. > > Is there a way to test this? $

Re: where to get patched older kernel for example 2.6.39

2011-12-06 Thread Arno Schuring
Jim Green (student.northwest...@gmail.com on 2011-12-06 05:17 +): > On 6 December 2011 05:07, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Do you have any examples of something in the Linux 3.x kernel that > > isn't in the 2.6.38 kernel that is likely to cause trouble? > > Actually I don't :) I haven't got the chan

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

2011-12-06 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-12-06 01:18 +0700): > Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: > > > a) locking the root account (passwd -l root), which will give you > > "sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell" > > That's the point - sudo is used on the system and the root

Re: Spell checking with qtm clogging client

2011-12-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:53:33 -0500, John S. wrote: > I use qtm with xfce on wheezy. I like it, but I am a poor speller and I > like to have a spell checker available. With the above setup, qtm has > appears to have no spell checker. Maybe the app does not provide an integraded spell checker nor

Re: ddclient not working

2011-12-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:34:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I use ddclient to update the IP of my server in dyndns, but it doesn't > work: the IP does not get set. It has been working for years. > > I have to go manually into dyndns and set the IP and the one that it has > is stale. > > All I s

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-06 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:52:02 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: ... > Camaleón - we continue this discussion on debian-legal. Okay, keep us informed when/if a final veredict comes out. > Having Open-Source API is not enough. Let's see what the expe

Re: apt only downloading Packages, not Packages.bz2

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Kraus wrote: > Hi. For the last few months I've been having problems downloading > Package files from the debian mirrors. Today I'm not able to > download anything anymore. The mirrors have been modified to no longer include the uncompressed Package files. Now only the compressed Packages.

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

2011-12-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:04:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: >>> $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/chromium >> ^^ >> >>That's not what I've asked for... >> >>> $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/qbittorrent >> ^^ >> >>Neither this :-) >> >>>

Re: where to get patched older kernel for example 2.6.39

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > FWIW, I suspect my mails anyway won't come through the list, since > my last request for help didn't came through. Since you emailed me directly in addition to the list (which isn't needed since I do read the mailing list and emailing me directly means I receive two separate

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-06 Thread Alexey Eromenko
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: ... Camaleón - we continue this discussion on debian-legal. Having Open-Source API is not enough. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:14:18 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> But why have they to break? Afterall, it can "break" any package. > > Nope. > Things like the Linux kernel or OpenOffice will not just break. Even if > they do -- they can be fixed, because it is Free Software. > > We cannot fix appli

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion > sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it > being called the function alarm(). Sorry but actually SIGALRM relates to the program event signals and has nothing to do wit

Re: Unable to boot Debian 6

2011-12-06 Thread Don Juan
On 12/06/2011 09:23 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I downloaded a copy of the Debian 6.0.3 amd64 CD1 iso, to install it on a computer Using CD1 is a good choice. on which I had thought that I had been unable to instal Debian 6. What problems are you having trying to install it? Wh

Re: Unable to boot Debian 6

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: > I downloaded a copy of the Debian 6.0.3 amd64 CD1 iso, to install it > on a computer Using CD1 is a good choice. > on which I had thought that I had been unable to instal Debian 6. What problems are you having trying to install it? > When I booted the computer, to go into Ub

Re: Launcher controllsQuestion

2011-12-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:53:37 -0600, John W. Foster wrote: > I use desktop launchers for a number of .php commands that execute > scripts. I run them in the terminal mode. I need to see the output and > close the terminal manually. How is this done? Currently the script > executs then the terminal

apt only downloading Packages, not Packages.bz2

2011-12-06 Thread Martin Kraus
Hi. For the last few months I've been having problems downloading Package files from the debian mirrors. Today I'm not able to download anything anymore. When I look at what aptitude or apt try do download I see only Packages file, not the Packages.bz2 or Packages.gz that are on the debian mirrors

Re: Unable to boot Debian 6

2011-12-06 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: I would say that you or someone installed Debian 6.0.1, because when Ubuntu 10.04 was out, i think there was not Debian 6. I am the only person who accesses the computer, but I had previously had the impression that my previous

Re: Panning Desktop WITHOUT xorg.conf

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
This is from man page of randr: Per-output options [--panning widthxheight[+x+y[/track_widthx‐ track_height+track_x+track_y[/border_left/border_top/border_right/bor‐ der_bottom So i guess that the panning option expect more arguments. I will test here and send my experiences (after lunch).

Re: Trying to use Wireshark on Lenny

2011-12-06 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 06 December 2011 13:27:59 Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > Did it worked? A reasonable question after all your help! I'm afraid that I haven't yet tried. For now I have hared off on a different tack, which involves loading an OS on VB, which I have to do for the question

Re: Unable to boot Debian 6

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
I would say that you or someone installed Debian 6.0.1, because when Ubuntu 10.04 was out, i think there was not Debian 6. Anyways it seems like you dropped into a virtual terminal, try to type in your user name, or anything, and in your screen should appear this: Password: If it does, maybe

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Yes, it is important to remember that ALSA is not the only sound system for Linux, where either his ALSA is not configured to handle the pc beep or maybe another sound system is taking care of that. I'm not sure how gnome-volume-control handles sound sytems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Well, maybe it could be an issue with Ark itself, you have lightweight options you could test, like XArchiver and Squeeze -- 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

Re: Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-06 Thread bd satish
Thanks for the suggestion, I just now installed libarchive-ar-perl, but Ark still cannot recognize AR archive :-( Strangely, it can open .DEB which is also a type of AR archive, but not "pure" AR archives themselves. -- Satish.BD On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 15:59, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-06 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 06/12/2011 14:54, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it being called the function alarm(). As we said, disabling your pc beep disables this, as disabling only the

Re: Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Also check if you have the proper libraries My search returned this package: libarchive-ar-perl Maintained by: Debian Perl Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
What's making that horrible beep is the calling of the funtion sigaction() with the first parameter being SIGALRM, and then it being called the function alarm(). As we said, disabling your pc beep disables this, as disabling only the wall will not solve your problem (other programs will also b

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Those links i sent you are old links i had here, I thought that they were teaching how to disable the beep, but looking at them now make me feel like I sent you the wrong link. What I thought these links would show you is how to disable the beep using the ALSA mixer, as you were already told h

Re: Trying to use Wireshark on Lenny

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Did it worked? -- 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/4ede185f.1090...@gmail.com

Re: munin showing stange info

2011-12-06 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Bob, >The ip_ plugin suggests ip addresses based on rules in your iptables. >You can run: > >$ sudo munin-run --servicedir=/usr/share/munin/plugins ip_ suggest > >to see what IPs it's suggesting. If they look odd, perhaps check your >firewall. Ok, it is indeed suggesting I track that ip numb

RE: where to get patched older kernel for example 2.6.39

2011-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
FWIW, I suspect my mails anyway won't come through the list, since my last request for help didn't came through. It might be not a big step from 2.6 to 3.0 compared to the steps from KDE3 to 4 and GNOME2 to 3, but there was a big step from kernel 2.6.38 to 2.6.39 regarding to rt abilities/issue

(SOLVED) Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/05/11 02:13, Jude DaShiell wrote: Can you make the computer visible to the phone then take over the computer with the phone?On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 12/04/11 15:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: Good so far, now make your cell phone discoverable. That's in bluetooth settings so

Unable to boot Debian 6

2011-12-06 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I downloaded a copy of the Debian 6.0.3 amd64 CD1 iso, to install it on a computer on which I had thought that I had been unable to instal Debian 6. When I booted the computer, to go into Ubuntu 10.04, to reboot with the CD, I found that the GRUB menu included an installation of Debia

Re: Wheezy X broken ?

2011-12-06 Thread Shaun
On 05/12/2011 22:25, Sven Joachim wrote: > For gnome-shell you need a 3D OpenGL driver, and in wheezy the nouveau > 3D drivers are not installed by default yet. This has been changed¹ in > unstable already, however. Is there a way to test this? Is glxgears enough to tell if a suitable 3D OpenGL d

Re: Package Cache

2011-12-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 19:01:53, Kip Warner wrote: > Hey list, > > Is it possible to have aptitude cache, say, the last N versions of a > package? Every now and then I install a package of a nightly build from > someone's personal repository that turns out to be broken. I can't > revert back a version

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 15:15:46, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > I guess I still need a few more pieces! > > I now have the problem that everything I have tried to do after > chroot gives me a segmentation fault. > > eg. chroot /dgwicks/root dpkg -i .deb > > Even just a plain chroot to my mounted directory

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 17:06:21, Clark C. Evans wrote: > > The free/contrib distinction makes people scratch their heads. > "Why isn't this Free?" It's an important lever. Some people > just don't think of Twitter or Facebook as software at all > and will happily chain their work to it. I think the