Problem Installing libc6 (eglibc) from netboot image

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Hiestand
It seems that during a preseeded installation today my squeeze VM installed a proposed update when it shouldn't have: > root@test:/usr/share/doc# dpkg -l |grep 2.11.3-3 > ii libc-bin2.11.3-3 Embedded > GNU C Library: Binaries > ii libc6

Re (5): Display on IBM ThinkPad A22m

2012-02-17 Thread peasthope
From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:29:05 +0200 > Same problem, it's using some default values for the vertical refresh > and the horizontal sync ranges, which don't match your hardware. I would > suggest you put the correct ones in a file under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ > > Section

CUPS on Sid printing blank sheets

2012-02-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
I just noticed that my Sid box is printing blank sheets from CUPS to my Brother HL-5240 printer. It is connected to the network using an Axis 540+ print server which provides an LPD interface. I can print a text document using a2ps but anything from Iceweasel or LibreOffice results in a blank she

Resolved: Recommendations for how to watch Linux desktop from remote Windows?

2012-02-17 Thread keitho
> On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:59 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: >> Quick question (I think...): >> >> Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will >> allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop? > > I would recommend X2Go - www.x2go.org. It is based upon NX and is f

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread brian
On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: brian wrote: [snip] Hi Kelly, I'll gather together the other information as soon as I can (i.e. later today, hopefully) but if you plug "flash too fast Debian" into a Google search box, you will see plenty of other reports of the problem, dating fr

Re: Recommendations for how to watch Linux desktop from remote Windows?

2012-02-17 Thread Wayne Topa
On 02/17/2012 01:59 PM, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Quick question (I think...): Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop? My brother is in another state, and I want him to be able to see my desktop, not necessarily

Re: Mount external USB NTFS HD automatically

2012-02-17 Thread Josep
Hello The right process for me was: Install ntfs-3g Add fuse module to /etc/modules file Add user/s to fuse group Install kernel from squeeze backports...and all is ok, is a problem of squeeze kernel with my moterboard:( Greetings and thanks to all people who answered me. Josep ___

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Bob Proulx wrote: > > [1] "The gates of Hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent and > easy is the way. But to return, and view the cheerful skies, > In this the task and mighty labor lies." -- Virgil, The Aeneid=20 Matthew 5:38 and 39: ...resist not evil... --

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > But since that is nonfree it isn't in the free Chromium. AFAIK only > > the nonfree Chrome has the builtin Flash and Adobe and other such > > components. AFAIK that is the difference between Chrome and Chromium. > > I was responding to an unqualified statement

Re: Recommendations for how to watch Linux desktop from remote Windows?

2012-02-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:47:53PM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:59 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > > Quick question (I think...): > > > > Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will > > allow a Windows user to see my Linux deskto

Singapore Taxation (19 April 2012)

2012-02-17 Thread Layna Francisco
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Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:01:57 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:59:49AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca >> wrote: >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > When opening PDFs documents in Firefo

Re: Recommendations for how to watch Linux desktop from remote Windows?

2012-02-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 17 feb 12, 10:59:40, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > > My brother is in another state, and I want him to be able to see my > desktop, not necessarily control it. He only uses Windows, my system is > Debian using i3wm. x11vnc Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-17 Thread green
green wrote: > The Fit-PC3 requires non-free fglrx for radeon hardware? Stefan Monnier wrote at 2012-02-17 10:10 -0600: > No. The Free `radeon' driver should work just fine for those AMD Fusion > GPUs. Hey, that is great news; thanks. I was not aware of the free radeon driver. I have found t

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > But FF2-4, IE6-9, Moz1-SM2.0 on Linux and Windows > have all given me problems when running PDFs in the browser. Others my > be luckier. Well, the built-in, home-made Chrome PDF Viewer plugin is quite nice and smooth, and is even capable of filling in filla

Re: Recommendations for how to watch Linux desktop from remote Windows?

2012-02-17 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:59 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > Quick question (I think...): > > Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will > allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop? I would recommend X2Go - www.x2go.org. It is based upon NX and is far faster

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Bob Proulx wrote: > > But since that is nonfree it isn't in the free Chromium. AFAIK only > the nonfree Chrome has the builtin Flash and Adobe and other such > components. AFAIK that is the difference between Chrome and Chromium. I was responding to an unqualified statement (I di

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread Richard Owlett
brian wrote: [snip] Hi Kelly, I'll gather together the other information as soon as I can (i.e. later today, hopefully) but if you plug "flash too fast Debian" into a Google search box, you will see plenty of other reports of the problem, dating from 2006 onwards. I added "bug" to your search

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:03, Curt wrote: > On 2012-02-17, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> launch the PDF reader as a separate process from the browser, or >> save the PDF and then open it. PDF-as-plugin is just plain flaky. > > I find it superior to invoking a separate process; opening a pdf in > ch

Re: Recommendations for how to watch Linux desktop from remote Windows?

2012-02-17 Thread The_Ace
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:29 AM, wrote: > Quick question (I think...): > > Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will > allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop? > > My brother is in another state, and I want him to be able to see my > desktop, not necessarily c

Recommendations for how to watch Linux desktop from remote Windows?

2012-02-17 Thread keitho
Quick question (I think...): Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop? My brother is in another state, and I want him to be able to see my desktop, not necessarily control it. He only uses Windows, my system is Debian us

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread brian
On 02/17/2012 01:12 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 17 feb 12, 11:16:17, brian wrote: And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded direct from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's mobo claims to emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a little

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: > > 2) Why are you opening in the browser? I have never ever found that to > > work well, with any combo of OS, browser and PDF reader. I either > > I have found it to work very well in google-chrome, with the latter's > built-in pdf reader (should I say the latt

Re: debtags shows error

2012-02-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 17 feb 12, 19:02:25, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hello list, > > I am getting a strange errror, and I believe, the reason might be caused by > the debian server. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660180 Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and deve

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 17 feb 12, 11:16:17, brian wrote: > > And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded > direct from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's > mobo claims to emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a > little to find mine as my box doesn't carry a

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread brian
On 02/17/2012 11:38 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:16, brian wrote: And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded direct from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's mobo claims to emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a l

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-17, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > 2) Why are you opening in the browser? I have never ever found that to > work well, with any combo of OS, browser and PDF reader. I either I have found it to work very well in google-chrome, with the latter's built-in pdf reader (should I say the latter whe

debtags shows error

2012-02-17 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, I am getting a strange errror, and I believe, the reason might be caused by the debian server. Running "aptitude update" is showing me;: gn ftp://ftp.de.debian.org stable/non-free Translation-de Hole: 55 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org stable/non-free Translation-en Ign ftp://ftp.de.debian.

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers writes: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking on a PDF link >> in a webpage), it sometimes

Re: Since I've installed Firefox in ~, every update results in a reset

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers writes: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 13:22, Merciadri Luca > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> Quite everything is in the title. I'm running Debian Lenny (yes, I >> know, time to switch..., but hav

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:59:49AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca > wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking on a PDF link > > in a webpage), it sometimes h

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Julien Groselle wrote: > I'm sure my kernel is not so old :) > > # uname -r ; cat /etc/debian_version > 2.6.32-5-amd64 > 6.0.4 Oh, not you, Julien. I was addressing Frank who is running Lenny's kernel. That said, he seems to have sorted things out on his end, a

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Julien Groselle
I'm sure my kernel is not so old :) # uname -r ; cat /etc/debian_version 2.6.32-5-amd64 6.0.4 Le 17 février 2012 17:55, Christofer C. Bell a écrit : > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:34 AM, frank wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:26 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > > >> echo "- - -" > /sys/cla

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread frank
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:26 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Julien Groselle > wrote: > > > > So no, I didn't rescan anything... It's just what I need (a command line to > > recan all HDD device) > > Apparently it's as easy as this: > > echo "- - -" > /sys/clas

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:34 AM, frank wrote: > On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:26 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan > > Have you tried it? Or just copied and pasted? > > echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan > > -bash: /sys/class/scsi_host/hos

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Julien Groselle
I already have seen this blog, and the folder /sys/class/scsi_host/ is not populated (on my server, ofc) : # l /sys/class/scsi_host total 0 JG Le 17 février 2012 17:34, frank a écrit : > On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:26 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > > echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread frank
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:26 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan Have you tried it? Or just copied and pasted? echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan -bash: /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan: No such file or directory # uname -a Linux xxx 2.6.2

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Julien Groselle
> On Squeeze: > apt-get install scsitools > /sbin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh Humm... Nice ! For now i can't install this tools because of too many unwanted dependencies, but after installed it on a test server, it seems to give great results. Thank you for all your answer. I will make a return about the

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:16, brian wrote: > And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded direct > from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's mobo claims to > emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a little to find mine as > my box doesn't car

Re: Bind errors in syslog

2012-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Yes, indeed: > tony@tony-lx:~$ grep tftp /etc/inetd.conf > tftp dgram udp waitroot /usr/sbin/in.tftpd > /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot Comment out that line. Send a SIGHUP to the inetd. > Yes: > tony@tony-lx:~$ dpkg -l |grep tftp > ii tf

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Julien Groselle wrote: > > So no, I didn't rescan anything... It's just what I need (a command line to > recan all HDD device) Apparently it's as easy as this: echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan Where 0 is the the controller number. This information

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread frank
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 15:04 +0100, Julien Groselle wrote: > So no, I didn't rescan anything... It's just what I need (a command > line to recan all HDD device) > On Lenny: apt-get install scsiadd scsiadd -s On Squeeze: apt-get install scsitools /sbin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh Cheers Frank -- To

Re: Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Christofer C. Bell wrote: > cbell@circe:~/test$ time find rm -type f -exec rm {} \+ There isn't any need to escape the '+' character. time find rm -type f -exec rm {} + > It doesn't seem possible to run a similar test for unlink as it > appears it only operates on 1 file at a time. So it does

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread brian
On 02/17/2012 10:51 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:32, brian wrote: I've just switched my wife and myself to Debian because I got fed up with reinstall-type upgrades. We're both running Wheezy, all updates applied, my wife on an AMD Athlon X2, my PC is a Phenom X4. She's us

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Of course, the manufacturer distributes the GNU/Linux version of the >> product with a proprietary driver which is hell to get working on >> anything else than that specific Xorg+kernel combination. > I like to avoid that head-banging experience and the associated "why did I > ever purchase thi

Re: Since I've installed Firefox in ~, every update results in a reset

2012-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 13:22, Merciadri Luca wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Quite everything is in the title. I'm running Debian Lenny (yes, I > know, time to switch..., but haven't had time yet), and I precedently > installed Firefox in ~/ for various reason

Re: Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:22, Merciadri Luca wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking on a PDF link > in a webpage), it sometimes happens to my Firefox to stuck when > loading the PDF. The PDF seems to be complet

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:32, brian wrote: > I've just switched my wife and myself to Debian because I got fed up with > reinstall-type upgrades. We're both running Wheezy, all updates applied, my > wife on an AMD Athlon X2, my PC is a Phenom X4. She's using KDE, I'm using > XFCE. > > The problem

All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-17 Thread brian
I've just switched my wife and myself to Debian because I got fed up with reinstall-type upgrades. We're both running Wheezy, all updates applied, my wife on an AMD Athlon X2, my PC is a Phenom X4. She's using KDE, I'm using XFCE. The problem we're both having is that all Flash videos play FAR

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Julien Groselle
First, we use Soft Raid because we like mdadm so much ! ;) We have amazing performances and a nice supervision on all the RAID status. We will keep Software RAID. The only weak point is that HotPlug. To Frank, I have tried that : # echo "rescan" > /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0 And I have a write erro

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread frank
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 12:02 +0100, Julien Groselle wrote: > I use Soft Raid... and not Hard. So the disk array present me all the > disks without any RAID or control. > So if i want to remove a HDD, i have to set it faulty and logical > remove from mdadm before hard remove HDD physically. Have yo

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-17 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi Darac, Thanks for the very insightful information... On 17/02/12 13:38, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I am running XFCE 4.8 on debian wheezy on my laptop and since about two weeks the xfce Power Manager gets the battery charge percentage

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > I am running XFCE 4.8 on debian wheezy on my laptop and since about > two weeks the xfce Power Manager gets the battery charge percentage > wrong, the most critical problem being that the machine shuts off > without any previous warn

Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-17 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
I am running XFCE 4.8 on debian wheezy on my laptop and since about two weeks the xfce Power Manager gets the battery charge percentage wrong, the most critical problem being that the machine shuts off without any previous warning. I wonder where the problem might be. Indeed this battery is

Firefox and PDF incompatibility

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, When opening PDFs documents in Firefox (e.g. by clicking on a PDF link in a webpage), it sometimes happens to my Firefox to stuck when loading the PDF. The PDF seems to be completely downloaded, but does not load in the acrobat plug-in. However, F

Re: Since I've installed Firefox in ~, every update results in a reset

2012-02-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Claudius Hubig writes: > Merciadri Luca wrote: >>Quite everything is in the title. I'm running Debian Lenny (yes, I >>know, time to switch..., but haven't had time yet), and I precedently >>installed Firefox in ~/ for various reasons. >> >>The probl

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Julien Groselle
Hello Frank, Fist of all, thank you for your fast answer. I use Soft Raid... and not Hard. So the disk array present me all the disks without any RAID or control. So if i want to remove a HDD, i have to set it faulty and logical remove from mdadm before hard remove HDD physically. And when i wan

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Frank
If you use the onboard controller there is no need to do some software voodoo. Just replace a faulty drive by a new one. The rebuild starts automatically. Your device is /dev/cciss/c0d0 Frank Am 17.02.2012 um 11:35 schrieb Julien Groselle : > Hi, > > After peel the web to find any information

Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-17 Thread Julien Groselle
Hi, After peel the web to find any information about how to add / remove hard drive on Debian. My Hardware is HP ProLiant DL380 G7, with HP Smart Array P410i Controller version 3.50. I had preferred soft RAID solution with mdadm. But the only bad point for me is the Hot Plug. Could some one help

Re: Bind errors in syslog

2012-02-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/02/12 18:02, Bob Proulx wrote: Tony van der Hoff wrote: From time to time, folloing appears in my syslog. Always in pairs, always 10 mins apart: Feb 16 13:44:41 tony-lx inetd[1870]: tftp/udp: bind: Address already in use Feb 16 13:54:41 tony-lx inetd[1870]: tftp/udp: bind: Address alread

Re: knoppix vs grml (free software mini pi)

2012-02-17 Thread Joe
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:56:44 -0600 green wrote: > Joe wrote at 2012-02-16 13:50 -0600: > > A lot of the time, Knoppix will run a 'difficult' bit of hardware, > > but using mainstream modules that the Debian installer has not seen > > the need for. It is (mostly) then a matter of tweaking the Debi