Re: Laptop and HDMI output selective working

2012-03-15 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
I will give a try, but it will be the next week when I go back to my office ;-) Now I have installed the previous kernel (3.2.0-1) from my apt archive. I will keep you informed :-) Only curiosity: if the problem is with the kernel, what con I do to solve it? Best regards and thanks! El 16/03/12

Are there any current label printers that works with Linux/amd64?

2012-03-15 Thread Allan Wind
Hi, Does anyone have a current label printer working with Linux/amd64? Brother QL-580N appears to be decent hardware, but apparently a brick under amd64[1][2]. Neither the install instructions (--force-all) or the source code I looked at inspired confidence. Dymo is supported under CUPS, but

Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-15 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/03/12 13:38, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > Recently, I have been getting an error message both from an update > manager applet, and, in checking for system updates. > > The error message is: > > " > An internal error has occured and the operation has been aborted. > Error message: > Fetch

Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-15 Thread Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
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Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-15 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 15 March 2012 7:26:53 pm Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have had to replace the hard drive in my laptop computer, which is an > HP/Compaq NX5000, as the previous hard drive appeared to have failed. snip > With this policy change by the Debian people, to exclude "firmware", so > as t

Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-15 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I have had to replace the hard drive in my laptop computer, which is an HP/Compaq NX5000, as the previous hard drive appeared to have failed. The computer had Windows XP, Ubuntu 8.04, and Debian 4 or 5 (I think it may have been 5, but am not sure) installed on it. So I thought that I

Re: Re: vsftp problems

2012-03-15 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: Try running /usr/sbin/vsftpd by hand (as root) from a session on your server. Does it print any diagnostic output? OK. Now I have 3 machines that are setup identically. The vsftpd.conf files have the following settings: Listen=YES #Listen_

Re: Re: Bash argument expanded inside alias

2012-03-15 Thread rcb
> From Chris Davies, Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:36:43 + > And the function is trivial. Just pop it in your .bashrc >  muda() { local M="$1" D="$2"; find "${D:-.}" -mtime -"${M:-1}"; } > Why are you so reluctant to use functions? Even the bash man page says, > "For almost every purpose, aliases are sup

Problem with Update repository

2012-03-15 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. Recently, I have been getting an error message both from an update manager applet, and, in checking for system updates. The error message is: " An internal error has occured and the operation has been aborted. Error message: Fetch failed: W:Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/de

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 10:10 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 15/03/12 09:18 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 20:58:32 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: and found that Grub had written 3 lines,(into grub.cfg) all the same for the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way). Ah, I'm with you n

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 09:18 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 20:58:32 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: and found that Grub had written 3 lines,(into grub.cfg) all the same for the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way). Ah, I'm with you now, I think. There are three entries for Absol

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 20:58:32 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > and found that Grub had written 3 lines,(into grub.cfg) all the same for > the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way). Ah, I'm with you now, I think. There are three entries for Absolute Linux in grub.cfg. I can see

Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:27:55 -0700, Baruch wrote: [Snipped: apt-get doings] > My guess is that this is a bug somewhere in the 'alternatives' system, > and that it is (against my wishes) trying to force me to have a > graphical browser installed. > > Against what package should I file the bug?

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 07:40 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I installed yet another distro yesterday (on sda7), chose not to have it install the boot loader, exited after the install and rebooted into Debian Sid. From the command line I updated grub.cfg via u

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 07:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 15 mar 12, 16:12:04, Frank McCormick wrote: Any clues as to why Grub is doing what it's doing ? Please post the full output of an 'update-grub' run. Kind regards, Andrei sid:/home/frank# update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found background

Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Baruch, Baruch wrote: > My guess is that this is a bug somewhere in the 'alternatives' system, and > that it is (against my wishes) trying to force me to have a graphical browser > installed. Probably not. > Against what package should I file the bug? (FWIW - debian wheezy) Probably a

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > I installed yet another distro yesterday (on sda7), chose not to have it > install the boot loader, exited after the install and rebooted into > Debian Sid. From the command line I updated grub.cfg via update-grub. > Rebooted aga

Advice for a bug report

2012-03-15 Thread Baruch
The debian bug reporting system webpage wrote to e-mail this list for advice regarding against which package a bug should be reported, so here goes . . . I had decided to:     apt-get -s purge iceweasel* firefox* But apt-get insisted:    The following extra packages will be installed:        ic

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 15 mar 12, 16:12:04, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Any clues as to why Grub is doing what it's doing ? Please post the full output of an 'update-grub' run. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-commu

Re: Laptop and HDMI output selective working

2012-03-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 15 mar 12, 14:35:24, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > I have Debian Sid totally updated. It was working a week ago. Since > that, the only upgrade was a new kernel (3.2.0-2). No xorg related updates. I suspect this is your problem. Please try the old kernel if still installed, otherwise you

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 15 mar 12, 23:35:22, Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: > > I usually run startx as a user to get it up & running; I'm puzzled > > by your insistence on 'xinit'. :) > i tryed startx. I get more output: > > hostname: Name or service not known > xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "$HOSTNAME:0" in "add

Re: XKBOPTIONS:"ctrl:nocaps" is not working with console-cyrillic

2012-03-15 Thread Stayvoid
>>> Does it work when you're on a tty? No. (BTW, console-cyrillic doesn't work with X. Maybe it's not a problem and I should use something else.) > Also, check for any open bug there could for the mentioned package > ("console-cyrillic"): I haven't found any, but I found a solution. Maybe it's no

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-15 Thread Andriy Samsonyuk
> I usually run startx as a user to get it up & running; I'm puzzled > by your insistence on 'xinit'. :) i tryed startx. I get more output: hostname: Name or service not known xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "$HOSTNAME:0" in "add" command X: user not authorized... Can someone tell me what i

problem with apt-get upgrade

2012-03-15 Thread Richard
Hi All downloads , but I'm getting this:- Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-22) ... insserv: warning: script 'K50vmware-USBArbitrator' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'K01vmware' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'vmware' missing LSB tags and overrides

Re: CC-ing & gmane (was: Re: QuickCam Orbit AF Pan/Tilt Broken in Sid)

2012-03-15 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 15 March 2012 18:26:30 Walter Hurry wrote: > But even if I could cc, I don't think I would. I regard it as > discourteous to seek help from a mailing list without even bothering to > subscribe to it. I saw a complaint on another list about people who subscribe, ask a question, and the

Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
I installed yet another distro yesterday (on sda7), chose not to have it install the boot loader, exited after the install and rebooted into Debian Sid. From the command line I updated grub.cfg via update-grub. Rebooted again and found that Grub had written 3 lines, all the same for the new

Can Pan sort threads by date of most recent post?

2012-03-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
When I sort threads by date in Pan, it sorts them by their oldest posts, that is, the first post made in the thread. Is it possible to get it to sort threads by their most recent post, so I get the currently most active threads near the top of the list? If Pan won't do this, should I be usin

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-03-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:54:31 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. > Let me see if I understand grub's interpretation of menu.lst correctly. I have a boot stanza in my menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 3.0.0-1-686-pae

Boot problem : Operating System not found (was : how to make it verbose ?)

2012-03-15 Thread Bruno Costacurta
.. Another thing you can test is manually booting your Debian system from GRUB2 boot menu by reaching the command line. This way if you're lucky any error you get will be printed on the screen. .. Indeed you're right. 'Operating System not found' is displayed once boot via GRUB command line. I

Re: CC-ing & gmane (was: Re: QuickCam Orbit AF Pan/Tilt Broken in Sid)

2012-03-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:26, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:57:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:48:24 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> >>> Hello Camaleón, >>> >>> Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:08:00 -0700, Mike Alborn wrote: > Please CC me as

Re: CC-ing & gmane (was: Re: QuickCam Orbit AF Pan/Tilt Broken in Sid)

2012-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:26:30 +, Walter Hurry wrote: (...) > But even if I could cc, I don't think I would. I regard it as > discourteous to seek help from a mailing list without even bothering to > subscribe to it. Agree with that :-) But I have to say that I'm also in the role of the "spor

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-15 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 15/03/12 16:03, Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: after user login -> "X: user not authorized to run the X server" no ~/.xsession-errors no /var/log/Xorg.0.log root# xinit -> everything works fine what am i missing? I usually run startx as a user to get it up & running; I'm puzzled by your insi

Re: CC-ing & gmane (was: Re: QuickCam Orbit AF Pan/Tilt Broken in Sid)

2012-03-15 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:57:52 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:48:24 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: > >> Hello Camaleón, >> >> Camaleón wrote: >>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:08:00 -0700, Mike Alborn wrote: >>> > Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list. >>> >>> I can't CC, sorry

Re: Setting Icedove defaults to text format

2012-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:32:25 -0700, Peter Easthope wrote: > On 15/03/12 08:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> This is done from menu Edit → Account Settings → [you account] → >> Composition and Addressing and unckecking "[ ] Compose messages in HTML >> format". This will default the postings for that accou

Re: Setting Icedove defaults to text format

2012-03-15 Thread Peter Easthope
On 15/03/12 08:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: This is done from menu Edit → Account Settings → [you account] → Composition and Addressing and unckecking "[ ] Compose messages in HTML format". This will default the postings for that account to text based format. Thanks. I should have reviewed http://wi

Re: CC-ing & gmane (was: Re: QuickCam Orbit AF Pan/Tilt Broken in Sid)

2012-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:48:24 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Camaleón, > > Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:08:00 -0700, Mike Alborn wrote: >> > Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list. >> >> I can't CC, sorry :-( > > At least Claws-Mail supports an additional To: Header w

CC-ing & gmane (was: Re: QuickCam Orbit AF Pan/Tilt Broken in Sid)

2012-03-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Camaleón, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:08:00 -0700, Mike Alborn wrote: > > Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list. > > I can't CC, sorry :-( At least Claws-Mail supports an additional To: Header when posting via Gmane. Best regards, Claudius -- Confidence is the fee

Re: QuickCam Orbit AF Pan/Tilt Broken in Sid

2012-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:08:00 -0700, Mike Alborn wrote: > I have a Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF (USB ID 046d:0994). The Pan/Tilt > controls work fine under Debian Squeeze, but they fail under Debian Sid. > > When I plug in the camera, udev runs uvcdynctrl to load the pan/tilt > controls into the dri

Re: CUPS Again - Any ideas from the list?

2012-03-15 Thread Ken Wahl
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:49:51AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Brian - > > Thank you. > > Made the changes. Rebooted. Found Driver, Installed. rebooted. The > system finds the printer. Still won't print. > > Any ideas? All are welcome to reply. > > Ethan I'm running testing, a Brother HL

Re: Setting Icedove defaults to text format

2012-03-15 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, You might also want to > aptitude install enigmail . Enigmail wizard can automatically configure Icedove to send plain text and you would see GPG signatures of all people on list. It seems that some people (even from those who are more active tha

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-15 Thread Andriy Samsonyuk
> > i am starting from scratch - reinstalled X + default configuration > > Mmmm, unfortunately that won't overide any config files you may have > changed. since the config files changed by me were in /etc/X11/ i simply removed the directory before installing xorg for the second time ;-) > What v

Setting Icedove defaults to text format (was: Re: vsftp problems)

2012-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:15:00 -0700, Peter Easthope wrote: > On 15/03/12 07:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Icedove will use the default sending format setting defined for your >> account, which by default is "html". > > Where can the default be changed to text? This is done from menu Edit → Account Se

Re: vsftp problems

2012-03-15 Thread Peter Easthope
On 15/03/12 07:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: Icedove will use the default sending format setting defined for your account, which by default is "html". Where can the default be changed to text? You need to manually toggle "text format" at message composing when you want to get text based e-mails I'

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:36:19 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> That applies to non-Debian repositories but not to PPAs that's >>> probably why Ubunical created "apt-add-repository" with which you can >>> add any repository including PPAs and VirtualBox to

Re: Boot problem : how to make it verbose ?

2012-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:48:03 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: >>> I installed Debian Squeeze on a multi-boot PC where Ubuntu is the >>> first and bootable distro. >> Are you chainloading GRUB2s or are you loading Debian directly from >> Ubuntu's own GRUB2 version? > > I boot direclt from the Ubuntu

Re: Re: vsftp problems

2012-03-15 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-03-14 a las 12:43 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (resending to the list) > On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> On the client >>> >>> root@xx1:/etc# ftp xx2 >>> Connected to xx2.home. >>> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection >>> ftp> >>

Re: Chromium, the sync server is busy, please try again later (6.0.472.63 (59945) Built on Debian 6.0, running on Debian 6.0.4)

2012-03-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:55:36 +0100, Dan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:45:22 +0100, Bernard van de Koppel wrote: (...) >>> Signing in to the account works fine (before and after the "stop >>> synchronisation and remove data from google (trans

Re: NFS portmap - is it really needed and if so where is it?

2012-03-15 Thread Dom
On 15/03/12 06:07, Bob Proulx wrote: Dom wrote: Not quite sure why this isn't a depends or suggests of the nfs server package. Perhaps someone can enlighten me? But it does. $ apt-cache show nfs-kernel-server | grep --color nfs-common Depends: libblkid1 (>= 2.16), libc6 (>= 2.3), libnf

Re: Laptop and HDMI output selective working

2012-03-15 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
I have Debian Sid totally updated. It was working a week ago. Since that, the only upgrade was a new kernel (3.2.0-2). No xorg related updates. 15/03/12 12:33, Andrei POPESCU escribió: > On Jo, 15 mar 12, 09:54:29, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: >> When I'm at home, it works fine, but it is not wor

Re: sshfs and permissions

2012-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Pierre Penninckx wrote: > > @ Tom H: > This seems to be the problem but I must say that I don't really > understand what this paragraph means, especially this: >  "But the problem is, that the openssh sftp server indeed cares about > the server side umask [...] On

Re: Laptop and HDMI output selective working

2012-03-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 15 mar 12, 09:54:29, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > > When I'm at home, it works fine, but it is not working at work since a week. Kernel or Xorg upgrade? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-co

Re: Laptop and HDMI output selective working

2012-03-15 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
Yes, I'm using Gnome3 (Sid). No, the Gnome control center doesn't detect the external monitor. Xrand's output: $ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192 LVDS1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm

Re: Laptop and HDMI output selective working

2012-03-15 Thread Jon Dowland
Are you using a desktop environment, such as GNOME, and if so what version? In X, can gnome-control-center's "displays" panel detect your attached monitor? Does it show up in the output of "xrandr"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:16:52 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well. >>> >>> My guess is that is highly dependant on user's configura

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Mark Blakeney wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well. > > About 2 months ago I added a ppa to my Ubuntu 11.10 laptop, but didn't > like it so immediately just did a "ppa-purge"

Laptop and HDMI output selective working

2012-03-15 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
Hi! I'm running Debian Sid on a laptop. I usually connect a external monitor to the HDMI output of the integrated graphic card (an Intel, if relevant). When I'm at home, it works fine, but it is not working at work since a week. When I start with the monitor connected, I can see the manufacturer

Re: NFS portmap - is it really needed and if so where is it?

2012-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > I is trying to set up NFS for my LAN. The NFS-HOWTO says that portmap, > usually resident in /sbin or /usr/sbin, is essential as it has to be > started first. Well, I don't have it and it does not appear in the > Contents-i386.gz for sid