Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/01/12 08:44, � wrote: > Hi, > > I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues > with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play > any sound. Often these apps crash on exit (I am not sure if its > related). > > I found in /var/log/messages: > Jan 14

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-14 Thread Brad Alexander
For the record, this works out pretty well if you have a number of box "types" that you use and can adapt. For instance, you could build a firewall box and capture the package list, one for a web server, wiki box, etc...And have a pool of package lists that you can call on or adapt for your buildin

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-14 Thread Brad Alexander
In a previous life, I was the Linux Platform Engineer for a company. One of my first jobs was to strip down CentOS 4 to create appliances. One thing I learned is that (as others have said in this thread) it is much easier to not put it on than to try to remove interlocking dependencies. Luckily, D

Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-14 Thread Brad Alexander
Not sure if it is related, but I rebuilt my machine with Debian amd64 (sid) last weekend, and just installed Amarok last night. I noticed that it seemed like every 3 or 4 songs, it would crash with a signal 11. I'm going to dig into it tomorrow, but hearing that you are havning issues with it and (

Re: search for specific pattern

2012-01-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-01-14 14:08:36 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > ls -Rt | grep .cmap > would list all such files under the current dir, showing the most > recently edited first. There are two problems with that. First, by default with grep, "." will match any character and you may get too much output. So, inst

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:40:56 +, Brian wrote in message <20120113194056.GE2926@desktop>: > On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 13:04:16 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > > >I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual- > > boot using grub 0.97. The debian system (of course) seems to > > be

Re: grub-pc mdadm root (really Resolved)

2012-01-14 Thread Marc Auslander
>From /etc/defaults/mdadm # INITRDSTART: # list of arrays (or 'all') to start automatically when the initial ramdisk # loads. This list *must* include the array holding your root filesystem. Use # 'none' to prevent any array from being started from the initial ramdisk. INITRDSTART='none' Ch

Re: gnome 3 not loading

2012-01-14 Thread mond
On Jan 14, 11:50 am, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:20:32 -0800, mond wrote: > > Since the update of gnome3, I can only log in (from gdm3) gnome classic > > which is essentially just gnome2. I can run gnome-shell (with replace > > option) in gnome classic. If I choose to log in gnome3, t

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
can acroread and acroread-plugins work in a command line environment or is this strictly gui?On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Siard wrote: > John A. Sullivan III: > > Form filling is not in the base package. I believe you need to > > install the acroread-plugins for that to work > > Indeed, after installin

Re: grub-pc mdadm root (Resolved?)

2012-01-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Should have been picked up and installation went ahead without it. Debian reminds me of those Mars Rovers, they're not supposed to be able to work but they get into a hostile environment and surprise everybody by working any way.On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > 14/01/2012

Re: grub-pc mdadm root (Resolved?)

2012-01-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/01/2012 21:42, Marc Auslander wrote: Marc Auslander writes: As I reported - all the code and mdadm.conf are in it. In the initrd shell, if I assemble my root raid disk and exit, the boot completes normally. I stumbled on the initramfs scripts, held my breath and added a local-top scrip

Re: Keyboard layout detection

2012-01-14 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 12 January 2012 08:38:29 Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > I guess I have a non standard layout, for example when I press the key > that has '#' typed on it I get '|'. Funny thing is that I actually have > no trouble using the keyboard with this (wrong) layout because I find > the correct

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 01:00:35PM -0800, Weaver wrote: > > > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has > > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins f

Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-14 Thread Grześ Andruszkiewicz
Hi, I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play any sound. Often these apps crash on exit (I am not sure if its related). I found in /var/log/messages: Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [pulseaudio]

Re: sasl authentication failed

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:26:30 -0500, tony baldwin wrote: > On Sat, January 14, 2012 12:41 pm, Camale�n wrote: (...) >> Tony, I would forget about the SSL part until you have configured your >> Postfix to be in a workable state (sending/receiving e-mails with no >> errors). Afterwards, you can sta

Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:20:01 +, Brian wrote: > On Sat 14 Jan 2012 at 18:36:31 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:26:55 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> > >> > How to up the bug priority ? >> >> Only devels or maintainers can do that (I mean, effectively altering >> the prior

Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:49:35 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:26:55 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> >>> It turns out, that Debian-stable (6.0.3, both i386 and AMD64) has >>> constant KDE crashes, by default. >> >> KDE (the

Reciva website

2012-01-14 Thread John Lindsay
Does anyone use Reciva to access some internet radio stations? If so, how does one get WMA and MP3 formats to play. AAC format allows a selection and allows movie player to open and receive the selected station (only one I've run across using AAC is an Australian site). I'm running Debian 6.

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello richard, richard wrote: >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form >was blank. >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want. >Xpdf tells the truth, but its only a reader. You can try printing the filled-in form as PDF from w

Re: grub-pc mdadm root

2012-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: > Tom H writes: >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: >>> I'm still having no luck booting an mdadm 1.2 root. >>> >>> grub2 works - I get into the boot kernel and initram.  But when it >>> comes to mount the real kernel

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: >> > >> > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. >> >> It is? > > In Wheezy: > > $ apt-cache policy acroread > acroread: > Installed: 9.4.6-0.1 > ... > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-free i386 Packages > ... When I r

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Weaver
> John A. Sullivan III wrote: >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for > Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather li

Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

2012-01-14 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > Andrei Popescu writes: > >> On Sb, 14 ian 12, 20:18:31, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Now, after I rebooted with my headless system, I can to SSH to it, and > that is the good news. > > The bad news is that that I can't browse the Internet from the LAN > behind the headless machine

Re: grub-pc mdadm root (Resolved?)

2012-01-14 Thread Marc Auslander
Marc Auslander writes: > > As I reported - all the code and mdadm.conf are in it. In the initrd > shell, if I assemble my root raid disk and exit, the boot completes > normally. > I stumbled on the initramfs scripts, held my breath and added a local-top script which assembled my root array. No

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Weaver
> Panayiotis writes: >> I have another computer running Wheezy with lvm and it's working fine. >> Maybe it's the sum of the md driver + lvm driver that is too big to >> fit in the gap? > > Use Lilo. It doesn't use the "gap" at all. IMHO putting critical boot > software in an "unallocated" area t

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
Curt wrote: > On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: > > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. > > It is? In Wheezy: $ apt-cache policy acroread acroread: Installed: 9.4.6-0.1 ... http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-free i386 Packages ... -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:10 +, richard wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC) > Curt wrote: > > > On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: > > > > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. > > > > It is? > > > > > > Acroread both linux and win thing failed to s

Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

2012-01-14 Thread Brian
On Sat 14 Jan 2012 at 18:36:31 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:26:55 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > > > > How to up the bug priority ? > > Only devels or maintainers can do that (I mean, effectively altering the > priority of a bug). The BTS is open to anyone. > User can, how

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-14, richard wrote: > > Hi Evince only looks like it can be used for forms. Works for me. -- 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/slrnjh3pms.41d.cu

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
John A. Sullivan III: > Form filling is not in the base package. I believe you need to > install the acroread-plugins for that to work Indeed, after installing package acroread-plugins, acroread does form filling. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-14 Thread tony baldwin
On Sat, January 14, 2012 3:33 am, Osamu Aoki wrote: > HI, > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:56:09PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( >> Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I >> would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It

Re: sasl authentication failed

2012-01-14 Thread tony baldwin
On Sat, January 14, 2012 12:41 pm, Camale�n wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:21 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:01:17PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:21:24PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: >>> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:35:58PM +, Camaleón

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread richard
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: > > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. > > It is? > > Acroread both linux and win thing failed to save these forms, with an error Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread richard
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:44:14 +0100 Siard wrote: > hvw59601: > > Siard wrote: > > > hvw59601 wrote: > > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? > > > > > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what > > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters >

Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

2012-01-14 Thread Csanyi Pal
Andrei Popescu writes: > On Sb, 14 ian 12, 20:18:31, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >> I must to reinstall instead of fixing the problem because this is a >> headless PC Box, so if I make a mistake then it can be happen that that >> I can't to SSH into that system again to fix the problem this way. > > Th

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:44 +0100, Siard wrote: > hvw59601: > > Siard wrote: > > > hvw59601 wrote: > > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? > > > > > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what > > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters > >

Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

2012-01-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 14 ian 12, 20:18:31, Csanyi Pal wrote: > > I must to reinstall instead of fixing the problem because this is a > headless PC Box, so if I make a mistake then it can be happen that that > I can't to SSH into that system again to fix the problem this way. There is always a way: rescue disk w

Re: grub-pc mdadm root

2012-01-14 Thread Marc Auslander
Tom H writes: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: >> >> I'm still having no luck booting an mdadm 1.2 root. >> >> grub2 works - I get into the boot kernel and initram.  But when it >> comes to mount the real kernel, I fall into initramfs shell with a >> message that the kern

Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

2012-01-14 Thread Alexey Eromenko
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:26:55 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > >> It turns out, that Debian-stable (6.0.3, both i386 and AMD64) has >> constant KDE crashes, by default. > > KDE (the whole DE) or konqueror (the browser)? Not whole KDE and not whole

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote: > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository. It is? -- 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/slrnjh3n0e.

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
hvw59601: > Siard wrote: > > hvw59601 wrote: > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? > > > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters > > either. > > And I also misinterpreted OP's question. Sorry.

Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

2012-01-14 Thread Csanyi Pal
Andrei Popescu writes: > On Sb, 14 ian 12, 12:48:42, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >> allow-hotplug eth0 >> iface eth0 inet dhcp >> >> allow-hotplug eth1 >> iface eth1 inet static >> address 192.168.10.1 >> netmask 255.255.255.0 >> I setup IP Forwarding so: >> nano /etc/sysctl.conf >> # Unco

Re: search for specific pattern

2012-01-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 07:59:21PM +0100, roberto wrote: > Hello, > i am looking for a file whose name i don't remember. > I only know it has the extension ".cmap" and is inside my home folder. > Which is the correct search pattern to be passed to find program ? You have all kinds of options. lo

Re: search for specific pattern

2012-01-14 Thread Marcos Toro Oyarzo
try with: find $HOME -name "*.cmap" On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:59 PM, roberto wrote: > > Hello, > i am looking for a file whose name i don't remember. > I only know it has the extension ".cmap" and is inside my home folder. > Which is the correct search pattern to be passed to find program ? > > T

Re: Setting keyboard layout (and variant?) [was: Re: Keyboard layout detection]

2012-01-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 02:16:27PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 12:45:19, Panayiotis wrote: > > Thanks to all again! > > > > You've solved this for me, it's a GB layout indeed. > > > > Tony, can't you put it in /etc/rc.local or ~/.profile? > > /etc/rc.local wouldn't work beca

search for specific pattern

2012-01-14 Thread roberto
Hello, i am looking for a file whose name i don't remember. I only know it has the extension ".cmap" and is inside my home folder. Which is the correct search pattern to be passed to find program ? Thank you very much ! -- Roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: hvw59601 wrote: Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some more

Re: Keyboard layout detection

2012-01-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:45:19PM +0200, Panayiotis wrote: > Thanks to all again! > > You've solved this for me, it's a GB layout indeed. > > Tony, can't you put it in /etc/rc.local or ~/.profile? You mean set my keyboard there? Oddly, I have some intl layout set there, but not the us intl 104k

Re: [SOLVED] SATA disk errors

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:47:32 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 31/12/11 16:59, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 30/12/11 17:15, Camaleón wrote: (...) Can anyone please enlighten me to what it means; Am I about to lose a disk? >>> >>> It seems to be localized in just one of the disks (

Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:26:55 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > It turns out, that Debian-stable (6.0.3, both i386 and AMD64) has > constant KDE crashes, by default. KDE (the whole DE) or konqueror (the browser)? If it crashes the whole desktop environment that's more serious, IMO. > Due to bug in

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
hvw59601 wrote: > Siard wrote: > > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat > > has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party > > plugins for Acrobat that can do

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John Hasler
Hugo writes: > and http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ? Filling in blanks in forms created for the purpose is not editing to me (though it is still misuse of the PDF format). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread John Hasler
Panayiotis writes: > I have another computer running Wheezy with lvm and it's working fine. > Maybe it's the sum of the md driver + lvm driver that is too big to > fit in the gap? Use Lilo. It doesn't use the "gap" at all. IMHO putting critical boot software in an "unallocated" area that other s

[OT] Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:04:16 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > I have the lenny release of debian and windows XP as a dual- boot using > grub 0.97. The debian system (of course) seems to be working fine, but > I've gotten some malware (of course) on the windows side. > > Can somebody recommend s

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:50:21 +, richard wrote: > Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. (...) PDFedit, but don't expect the same results/options/level of management that you would have with Acrobat Professional. When it comes to PDF edition software Adobe is nowadays "the king of

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
On 01/13/2012 01:50 PM, richard wrote: Greetings, Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations. Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat or acror

Re: OT: Impossible to scale document to fit on paper in loCalc.

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:18:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I can not scale (reduce) a page in preview in .ods file in localc in > order to fit it on paper when printing. I think the print preview page is not the right place to control this. > When I move the 'Scale Factor' slider, the preview just

Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

2012-01-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 14 ian 12, 12:48:42, Csanyi Pal wrote: > > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > allow-hotplug eth1 > iface eth1 inet static > address 192.168.10.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 192.168.10.1 > > Should I remve the gateway 192.168.10.1 option? Yes (a machine can no

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:01 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: > Siard wrote: > > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has > > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party p

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 18:50 +0100, Siard wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. > > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for > Acrobat that c

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rathe

Re: bug report

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:45:27 -0800, Vivian wrote: > Package manager > > E: Encountered a section with no Package: header > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed o

Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

2012-01-14 Thread hvw59601
Alexey Eromenko wrote: It turns out, that Debian-stable (6.0.3, both i386 and AMD64) has constant KDE crashes, by default. Due to bug in konqueror-nsplugins: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549309 What to do? I would like to up priority to critical for this package, so that it

Re: touchpad: multitouch stopped working

2012-01-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
What is the output of the following commands? $ grep -A 9 -B 2 -i touch /proc/bus/input/devices [To see if the touchpad is still recognized by the kernel] $ grep -iE '(synaptic|option)' /var/log/Xorg.?.log [To see what the X server does with the touchpad] And may be the contents of /etc/X11/xo

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Panayiotis
On Σαβ, 2012-01-14 at 16:23 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > 14/01/2012 15:21, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > Thanks to all. > > > > On 01/14/2012 03:06 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> 14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H: > >>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis > >>> Karabassis w

Re: Long lasting issue with Asian fonts

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:11:57 +, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:07:10 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> I filed a bug report against package fontconfig and I have sent a >>> number of updates to the bug address, but I haven't received any >>> response: http://bugs.debian.org/479035 >> >>

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Siard
John A. Sullivan III wrote: > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited. --

Re: gnome 3 not loading

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:20:32 -0800, mond wrote: > Since the update of gnome3, I can only log in (from gdm3) gnome classic > which is essentially just gnome2. I can run gnome-shell (with replace > option) in gnome classic. If I choose to log in gnome3, the system > freeze at showing the wall paper,

Re: sasl authentication failed

2012-01-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:21 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:01:17PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:21:24PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:35:58PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> > > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:12:25 -0500, Tony Ba

Re: touchpad: multitouch stopped working

2012-01-14 Thread David Zelinsky
I received no response to the first query. Any suggestions where to look (e.g. other lists?) to diagnose why synaptics touchpad suddenly stopped responding to two-finger operations? -David David Zelinsky writes: > Running wheezy on my laptop, the touchpad had been working, complete > with two-

Re: Network not working on Shuttle XS35GTV2

2012-01-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:07:48 -0600, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > It probably isn't this simple but have you tried running the following? > > ifup eth0 Thanks for your suggestion! I've just tried it. With the static interface configuration it sets the IP address but I can't ping anything in the

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I did that once on an install and figured out what I did wrong too. This wasn't with debian though but with slackware. What I did was to allocate too little swap space in my swap partition. If you manually chose the amount of swap space you'll need to increase that amount then the problem go

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:57:21PM -0600, John W. Foster wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 00:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 13:04:16, Charles Blair wrote: > > > > > > Can somebody recommend software (preferably free) that > > > will deal with the bad windows stuff without

Re: virtualbox guest addon don't working

2012-01-14 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 12 January 2012 09:15:04 Balint Szigeti wrote: > On 12/01/2012 07:56, Michael Meskes wrote: > > [Why is this send to so many lists?] > > Because when I sent this mail, my problem isn't resolved So you don't get the reply you think you want after mis-posting to one list and failing to

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/01/2012 15:21, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Thanks to all. On 01/14/2012 03:06 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some packages to their Wh

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:21:15 -0500 (EST), Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > Can Lilo boot from an LVM partition sitting on top of mdadm? Ah! Well, that's a horse of a different color, as the old saying goes. I honestly don't know. There is information in the man pages for lilo and lilo.conf conc

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 01/14/2012 03:46 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:06:33 -0500 (EST), Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> >> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some >> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I >> am alarmed. >> >> One of the p

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thanks to all. On 01/14/2012 03:06 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > 14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H: >> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis >> Karabassis wrote: >>> >>> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some >>> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted

Re: malware infesting windows part of dual-boot

2012-01-14 Thread keitho
If you obtain a Trinity Rescue Disk (free download online) you can boot from that and run four different anti-virus softwares with one command. If I remember correctly, you can designate which partition to use them on. Using TRK: First, run updatetrk, then: virusscan -n -a clam;virusscan -n -a fpr

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:06:33 -0500 (EST), Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some > packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I > am alarmed. > > One of the packages was grub2 which was at version > 1.98+201008

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I am alarmed. One of the packages was grub2 which was at version 1.98+

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Saturday 14 January 2012 11:06:33 Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> >> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some >> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I >> am alarmed. >> >> One o

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > /dev/sda1              63  1953520064   976760001   fd  Linux raid > autodetect The post-MBR gap's OK. How large is "core.img"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some > packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I > am alarmed. > > One of the packages was grub2 which was at version > 1.98+20100804-14+sque

Re: grub-pc mdadm root

2012-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: > > I'm still having no luck booting an mdadm 1.2 root. > > grub2 works - I get into the boot kernel and initram.  But when it > comes to mount the real kernel, I fall into initramfs shell with a > message that the kernel can't be found.  And

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 14 January 2012 11:06:33 Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Hi, > > On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some > packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I > am alarmed. > > One of the packages was grub2 which was at version > 1.98+20100

Re: Setup a firewall/gateway/server

2012-01-14 Thread Csanyi Pal
Bob Proulx writes: > Csanyi Pal wrote: >> So far I have setup NIC's: > You are missing this line: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp allow-hotplug eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.10.1 Should I remve the gateway 192.16

iptable rule for bypassing netfilter queue for a matching address.

2012-01-14 Thread Arif Tuhin
I have two iptable rules for userspace modification : iptable -t mangle -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 9090 -j NFQUEUE iptable -t mangle -A OUTPUT -p udp --sport 9090 -j NFQUEUE I have the following network setup: client >Linux Box or router->server. What i'm

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 01/14/2012 12:31 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > 14/01/2012 11:06, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some >> packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I >> am alarmed. >> >> One of the packages

Re: Upcoming stable point release

2012-01-14 Thread Adam D. Barratt
[added the KDE bug and -release to Cc] Hi, On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 09:18 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Please, if possible, exclude "konqueror-nsplugins" from the default > KDE install in 6.0.4. > > It crashes as soon as user enters any flash-enabled website. (www.amd.com) > Very ugly user exper

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-13, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Just comparing the contents of /etc/rc1.d/ and /etc/rc2.d/ should give=20 > you a few hints. > Well, quite a few things are dead in runlevel one that are alive in runlevel two, including the network (I said one was a "subset" of two). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/01/2012 11:06, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hi, On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I am alarmed. One of the packages was grub2 which was at version 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded

Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hi, On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I am alarmed. One of the packages was grub2 which was at version 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14. To cut a long story short, I ended w

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:56:09PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I > would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would > be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any