Re: CUI tool for converting FLAC/Wav bit/stability.

2011-12-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Kelly: >> flac --silent --best --verify --delete-input-file --bps=16 >> --sample-rate=44100 -o /tmp/1.flac >> --tag=TRACKNUMBER=1 --tag=ARTIST=A --tag=TITLE=B --tag=ALBUM=C >> --tag=GENRE=D --tag=DATE=2000 --tag=DESCRIPTION=E /tmp/1.wav >> >> Why that? > >You ca

Re: how to examine the wireless

2011-12-13 Thread Geoff Simmons
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:37:44PM +, steef wrote: > you could use the broadcom-sta (source-package) in combination with this > webpage: http://wiki.debian.org/wl The proprietary driver has no support for the BCM4331 at this time. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Can't install gnome-desktop-environment

2011-12-13 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:38:06 +0100 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > What about using tasksel: > desktop=gnome > tasksel install desktop > done > note: no space in the first line > Thierry > Thanks. That gave me a screen saying, "Installing packages," and then stopped with no action, 0% completed. Run

Re: Unmark auto without apt-mark or aptitutude?

2011-12-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Malte Forkel wrote: > Can I safely modify /var/lib/apt/extended_states in a postinst skript, > that is while aptitude | apt-get | ... is running? Ew... That could be scary! The short answer is that I don't know. Certainly an official package would no be allowed to do it. But would it work? I d

Re: Unmark auto without apt-mark or aptitutude?

2011-12-13 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 13.12.2011 23:56, schrieb Bob Proulx: > To unmark a package as automatically installed. > > # editor /var/lib/apt/extended_states > > Then find the package that you wish to change and take one of two > actions: > > 1) If the package is already listed in the file then modify the >Auto-In

Re (2): automating x permission on a file & some [OT] chatter.

2011-12-13 Thread peasthope
From: Bob Proulx Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:45:19 -0700 > Is there a constraint that you must use ftp? ... ETHNO has FTP and SSH.Send but not rsync. SSH.Send requires painfully more time than FTP does. To obtain rsync, the client system would have to be changed. > It sends passwords in th

Re: KGlobal..........

2011-12-13 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 13 December 2011 23:17:14 charlie wrote: > Funny, I liked KDE but in the last few years it has turned toxic for > me. So many things went wrong with it again and again Not just for you! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

KGlobal..........

2011-12-13 Thread charlie
Using Debian Wheezy updated to today. I get this message if I try to start any KDE applications: KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before

Re: Unmark auto without apt-mark or aptitutude?

2011-12-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Malte Forkel wrote: > How can I mark a package as being not auto(matically installed)? I know > about aptitude and apt-mark, but both come from non-essential packages. > I'm looking for a way to unmark a package that should always be available. I am not aware of a dedicated program utility to do t

Unmark auto without apt-mark or aptitutude?

2011-12-13 Thread Malte Forkel
Hi, How can I mark a package as being not auto(matically installed)? I know about aptitude and apt-mark, but both come from non-essential packages. I'm looking for a way to unmark a package that should always be available. Thanks, Malte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: automating x permission on a file.

2011-12-13 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > CONTEXT > Squeeze system with vsftpd with default umask, 077. > A script file, blah.sh for example, is put to the > system. The file arrives with permissions 600. Is there a constraint that you must use ftp? Because it is terrible for this context of PUTting a

Re: Can I remove gnome-keyring?

2011-12-13 Thread James Brown
On 13.12.2011 15:37, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:53:09 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an >> error message about "no socket to connec to". I don't know why I have >> this package, given that I don't use gnome (or an

automating x permission on a file.

2011-12-13 Thread peasthope
CONTEXT Squeeze system with vsftpd with default umask, 077. A script file, blah.sh for example, is put to the system. The file arrives with permissions 600. PROBLEM Each time blah.sh is put on the system, "chmod 700 blah.sh" can make it executeable. The ftp client does not provi

Re: Can't install gnome-desktop-environment

2011-12-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
What about using tasksel: desktop=gnome tasksel install desktop done note: no space in the first line Thierry -- 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/201112132

Re: Can't install gnome-desktop-environment

2011-12-13 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:20:30 -0500 Matt Harrison wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Cybe R. Wizard > wrote: > > Attempting to install gnome-desktop-environment gets me: > > > > gnome-desktop-environment: > >  Depends: gnome-core but it is not going to be installed > >  Depends: alacarte b

Re: To detect proccess sending netpackets.

2011-12-13 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le mardi 13 décembre 2011 10:00:54 J.A. de vries, vous avez écrit : > On 2011-12-12 15:43:51 Sthu Deus wrote: > > Good time of the day. > > > > > > On a desktop system I have noticed a bit of network traffic whereas > > users do not run any network software... > > > > How do I find out which pro

Re: Strange disk performance issue

2011-12-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/13/2011 3:24 AM, Frank wrote: > > Hi list, > hoping for help, I'm experiencing a strange performance issue on debian > squeeze. The host is running 2.6.32-5-amd64 on a Xen enterprise cluster, > filesystem lies on a NetApp storage mounted using ISCSI. Other virtual > hosts on that cluster doe

Re: OEM Install

2011-12-13 Thread Juan Sierra Pons
2011/12/13 Dave Higgins : > That's close, but it would appear that if I were to put the vm image on > a DVD and take it elsewhere, this wouldn't help. > > Ubuntu has/had the OEM install.  Can that be ported to Debian? > > On 12/13/2011 11:46 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Ma, 13 dec 11, 11:33:28,

Re: OEM Install

2011-12-13 Thread Dave Higgins
That's close, but it would appear that if I were to put the vm image on a DVD and take it elsewhere, this wouldn't help. Ubuntu has/had the OEM install. Can that be ported to Debian? On 12/13/2011 11:46 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 13 dec 11, 11:33:28, Dave Higgins wrote: >> Is there a way

apt dying with "Failed to exec method /usr/lib/apt/methods/"

2011-12-13 Thread David Bruce
Hi, Running a fairly new i386 Sid install, nothing special in sources.list - for the last week or so, "sudo aptitude safe-upgrade" dies with: E: Method  has died unexpectedly!E: Sub-process  returned an error code (100)E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/ did not start correctlyFailed to exec method /

Re: Copying of web pages by Firefox

2011-12-13 Thread Dr Sian Mountbatten
Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:04:58 +, Dr Sian Mountbatten wrote: > >> Someone in another group had a web-page in a Usenet newsgroup article >> which I clicked on. KDE loaded firefox (which is my default browser), >> but instead of giving me the web page, it copied the web-page o

Re: OEM Install

2011-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 13 dec 11, 11:33:28, Dave Higgins wrote: > Is there a way to install a server installation to be an OEM > installation. For example, I'm going to start to have many VM instances > of Debian and it would be a more simple task to install it once, OEM it, > and then copy the VM image then to d

OEM Install

2011-12-13 Thread Dave Higgins
Is there a way to install a server installation to be an OEM installation. For example, I'm going to start to have many VM instances of Debian and it would be a more simple task to install it once, OEM it, and then copy the VM image then to do an install over and over again. These VMs will basical

Re: Copying of web pages by Firefox

2011-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:04:58 +, Dr Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Someone in another group had a web-page in a Usenet newsgroup article > which I clicked on. KDE loaded firefox (which is my default browser), > but instead of giving me the web page, it copied the web-page of the > link into > /var/t

Disappearance of the Debian menu item in KDE menu

2011-12-13 Thread Dr Sian Mountbatten
When I first loaded Debian wheezy from a NETINST CD and after packages were downloaded, the KDE menu had a Debian menu item which gave me access to those programs which did not appear in the KDE menu. For example, xkill. That menu item has disappeared. In the menu editor, the item appears, but the

Copying of web pages by Firefox

2011-12-13 Thread Dr Sian Mountbatten
Someone in another group had a web-page in a Usenet newsgroup article which I clicked on. KDE loaded firefox (which is my default browser), but instead of giving me the web page, it copied the web-page of the link into /var/tmp/kdecache-sian/krun/13950.0.iu.html Unfortunately, most of the links in

Re: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

2011-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:19:05 -0500, H.S. wrote: > I keep getting this message when I try to set up my esniper client for > bidding. > Auction : Cannot connect to URL ��: Peer certificate > cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates: SSL certificate > problem, verify that the CA cert is OK.

Re: clipit copy-paste problem.

2011-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:48:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I experience problems w/ clipit - I want it to make ready to be pasted > everything I select w/ mouse - but clipit does it so not always - how I > can solve this? If an application does not behave as it should, I would report it. Try to laun

Re: To detect proccess sending netpackets.

2011-12-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 01:41, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Kelly: > > > The problem is it does not tell me anything - being run under root > (sudo). This is all I get: > > netstat --inet -ap -n > > Active Internet connections (servers and established) > > Proto Recv-Q S

Re: CUI tool for converting FLAC/Wav bit/stability.

2011-12-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 23:47, Sthu Deus wrote: > OK I have tried like this w/o success (the output file still has >>16bit, >44kHz sound qualit): > > flac --silent --best --verify --delete-input-file --bps=16 > --sample-rate=44100 -o /tmp/1.flac > --tag=TRACKNUMBER=1 --tag=ARTIST=A --tag=TITLE=B

Re: Can I remove gnome-keyring?

2011-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:53:09 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an > > error message about "no socket to connec to". I don't know why I have > > this package, given that I don't use gnome (or any

Re: Can't install gnome-desktop-environment

2011-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:16:30 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Attempting to install gnome-desktop-environment gets me: > > gnome-desktop-environment: > Depends: gnome-core but it is not going to be installed (...) Give apt-get or aptitude more verbosity to find out why the below packages are n

Re: Can I remove gnome-keyring?

2011-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:53:09 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an > error message about "no socket to connec to". I don't know why I have > this package, given that I don't use gnome (or any other desktop > manager). "apt-cache rde

Re: When will "Lenny" be added to the archive

2011-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:23:23 -0700, Barry Mead wrote: > Currently there is no-where on the internet whey you can download an ISO > image of Debian Lenny. When will the Lenny release be added to this > archive? As others alredy pointed out, it is still available on the usual path: http://www.deb

Re: Can't install gnome-desktop-environment

2011-12-13 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Attempting to install gnome-desktop-environment gets me: > > gnome-desktop-environment: >  Depends: gnome-core but it is not going to be installed >  Depends: alacarte but it is not going to be installed >  Depends: cheese but it is not goin

Can't install gnome-desktop-environment

2011-12-13 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Attempting to install gnome-desktop-environment gets me: gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: gnome-core but it is not going to be installed Depends: alacarte but it is not going to be installed Depends: cheese but it is not going to be installed Depends: deskbar-applet but it is not going to b

Can I remove gnome-keyring?

2011-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an error message about "no socket to connec to". I don't know why I have this package, given that I don't use gnome (or any other desktop manager). Will anything dreadful happen if I remove it? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.o

Re: aptitude autoupdating.

2011-12-13 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/12/11 10:38, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and extended answer, Joe: > >> The general rule of thumb is to automatically update only workstations >> and test servers, never production servers. >> >> There is no way that automation ca

Re: aptitude autoupdating.

2011-12-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 03:35:37PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > I have put to cron auto update of a system by aptitude. > > As parameters I set safe-upgrade and 'yes' to all questions - so that > packages might be installed itself in case of config. questions, etc. > >

Re: aptitude autoupdating.

2011-12-13 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hello Sthu, Thank You for Your time and extended answer, Joe: The general rule of thumb is to automatically update only workstations and test servers, never production servers. There is no way that automation can know whether it is wise to apply a particular update immediately, to wait a whil

Re: aptitude autoupdating.

2011-12-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and extended answer, Joe: >The general rule of thumb is to automatically update only workstations >and test servers, never production servers. > >There is no way that automation can know whether it is wise to apply a >particular update immediately, to wait a while, or not d

Re: To detect proccess sending netpackets.

2011-12-13 Thread Joe
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:41:18 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: > > For I have closed all the user's network app.s - still the machine > connects to Internet - sends queries to DNS, bittorrent - while the > user does not ask for it any more. > You do realise that bittorrent is a peer-to-peer service, don'

Re: To detect proccess sending netpackets.

2011-12-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, John: >thumper/~ apt-cache search shaper >shaperd - A user-mode traffic shaper for tcp-ip networks >trickle - user-space bandwidth shaper >wondershaper - Easy to use traffic shaping script > >thumper/~ apt-cache search netstat >bwm-ng - small and simple console-

clipit copy-paste problem.

2011-12-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I experience problems w/ clipit - I want it to make ready to be pasted everything I select w/ mouse - but clipit does it so not always - how I can solve this? I'm new using it - I just try to use another that from KDE clipboard - since I moved from KDE to LXDE and KDE's cli

Re: aptitude autoupdating.

2011-12-13 Thread Joe
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:35:37 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > I have put to cron auto update of a system by aptitude. > > As parameters I set safe-upgrade and 'yes' to all questions - so that > packages might be installed itself in case of config. questions, etc. > > Now I

Re: To detect proccess sending netpackets.

2011-12-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Kelly: >>>Something like: >>>netstat --inet -ap >>> >>>"--inet" so you are looking at network sockets rather than unix >>>sockets, "-a" shows both established connections and listening >>>processes, "-p" shows PID and process name. >> >> I have tried this but it

Interested?

2011-12-13 Thread Grace Yee
Deal worth $45,000,000.00. Get back if interested. -- 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/02a291c2-40889-61823899280787@tj-pc

Strange disk performance issue

2011-12-13 Thread Frank
Hi list, hoping for help, I'm experiencing a strange performance issue on debian squeeze. The host is running 2.6.32-5-amd64 on a Xen enterprise cluster, filesystem lies on a NetApp storage mounted using ISCSI. Other virtual hosts on that cluster does not have the same performance problems. As so

Re: To detect proccess sending netpackets.

2011-12-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Joe: >Run netstat as root to see the PIDs and program names of everything, >otherwise it will only show you that data for processes you own. > >If you also use the -n flag, it will run much faster as it won't do DNS >or service name lookups. Some of the service

Re: To detect proccess sending netpackets.

2011-12-13 Thread J.A. de vries
On 2011-12-12 15:43:51 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > On a desktop system I have noticed a bit of network traffic whereas > users do not run any network software... > > How do I find out which process on the system does send/receive network > packets? > > > Thanks for Your time

aptitude autoupdating.

2011-12-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I have put to cron auto update of a system by aptitude. As parameters I set safe-upgrade and 'yes' to all questions - so that packages might be installed itself in case of config. questions, etc. Now I think it will not be secure in case there is a problem w/ public key of