RE: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> As far as a general monitoring solution is concerned, I would >> recommend the Nagios Core application. I have been using it for some >> time, and it does have plugins that can handle most, if not all of the >> items you listed in your e-mail. I have also deployed another server that >>

Re: WiFi issues after upgrade on Sid, wlan0 ; No such device

2012-05-14 Thread John Magolske
My problem was resolved with an `aptitude dist-upgrade` which removed some obsolete packages and allowed new things to get upgraded, including a new kernel. I was being cautious with `aptitude upgrade` and `aptitude safe-upgrade`, but now I see the value of dist-upgrade. * Camaleón [120512 22:23]

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:10:55PM +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: I support the reference to Nagios. We have used Munin together with Nagios when I was system administrator up to 2 years ago. Munin can be configured to use nagios' notifying system and provides nice graphical information. Rega

Re: Since safe-upgrade.........

2012-05-14 Thread computer.enthusiastic
2012/5/15 : > Did aptitude safe-upgrade with aptitude yesterday and there are a heap of > errors like: > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > A package failed to install.  Trying to recover: > Setting up fontconfig-config (2.9.0-3) ... > rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/defom

Re: A Resource Inquiry Regarding Free Speech, Privacy and Technology

2012-05-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 14 mai 12, 19:17:47, Fiona Causer wrote: > Hi There, Hi Fiona, > I am curious if you are the administrator for this site: > debian.org/News/weekly/2001/26 > > I am a researcher / writer involved with a new project whose mission > it is to provide accurate and useful information for tho

Re: A Resource Inquiry Regarding Free Speech, Privacy and Technology

2012-05-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 15 mai 12, 15:40:01, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:17:47PM -0700, Fiona Causer wrote: > > Hi There, > > > > I am curious if you are the administrator for this site: > > debian.org/News/weekly/2001/26 > > > > I am a researcher / writer involved with a new project whos

Re: Since safe-upgrade.........

2012-05-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 15 mai 12, 09:53:26, aries...@skymesh.com.au wrote: > rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/': Directory > not empty Move the contents of that directory somewhere else and try again. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://l

Re: black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

2012-05-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 14 mai 12, 22:54:17, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I decided to install the nvidia driver and used a package called > nvidia-xconfig to scribble a basic xorg.conf file that was sufficient > to start X11. You can probably get away with just this: Section "Device" Identifier "Device0"

Re: SOLIDWORKS

2012-05-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 15 mai 12, 04:13:13, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > IIRC, solidworks performance relies heavily on hardware accelerated > graphics. I'd be surprised to see wine handle this smoothly. I've heard rumors of games running better under Wine than pure Windows. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic d

QT

2012-05-14 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Hi list, I recently installed a fresh Squeeze and have just discovered that I need qt-4.7 (Squeeze has 4.6.3). Is there safe way to upgrade to a more recent qt version without breaking my current system? Many thanks, Peter -- //= -> Peter O'Doherty -> http://www.

Re: black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-05-14 19:26 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> On a Dell Precision workstation, there is an Nvidia Quadro card with a >> weird connector in which we have a "dongle" thing that provides plugs >> for four monitors. I've been running RedHat

Re: A Resource Inquiry Regarding Free Speech, Privacy and Technology

2012-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:17:47PM -0700, Fiona Causer wrote: > Hi There, > > I am curious if you are the administrator for this site: > debian.org/News/weekly/2001/26 > > I am a researcher / writer involved with a new project whose mission it is to > provide accurate and useful information for

Re: GCC - Best way to build cross compiler?

2012-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:49:36PM -0400, rbmj wrote: > Hi all, > > So, I want to create packages for a cross compiler targeting > powerpc-wrs-vxworks on Wheezy. I don't exactly know how to approach > the problem. You'll _probably_ have better luck on the debian-embedded mailing list, mainly bec

Re: Only 3.6gb of 64gb RAM recognized by 64bit squeeze

2012-05-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 14 May 2012, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/13/2012 7:02 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 11 May 2012, Seyyed Mohtadin Hashemi wrote: > >> On 5/10/2012 1:16 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> If this doesn't fix the issue, and memtest and other utils can see all > >>> 64GB just f

Re: SOLIDWORKS

2012-05-14 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Michelle Konzack wrote: > If you have a legal License od SolidWorks, you can install WINE and > run it from there (it works very nice under GNU/Linux) > IIRC, solidworks performance relies heavily on hardware accelerated graphics. I'd be surprised to see wine handle this smoothly. ---<)kaiam

Re: Dependency based boot sequencing and Canon printer

2012-05-14 Thread Rob Hurle
Further experiments on printing on the Canon printer through CUPS: >  The printer has stopped working!  I'm suspicious of the > dependency-based sequencing since that was the only upgrade which > mentioned the printer, but another one of the upgrades may well have > disturbed the printing system.

GCC - Best way to build cross compiler?

2012-05-14 Thread rbmj
Hi all, So, I want to create packages for a cross compiler targeting powerpc-wrs-vxworks on Wheezy. I don't exactly know how to approach the problem. With binutils it's easy enough to just grab the sources with apt-get source and then run 'TARGET=powerpc-wrs-vxworks debuild'. However, it's

Re: cron-apt, on wheezy, not sending email

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Mercer
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> # cat /etc/cron-apt/config >> # Configuration for cron-apt. For further information about the possible >> # configuration settings see /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/README.gz. >> APTCOMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get >> MAILON="upgrade" >> MAILTO"em...@address

Since safe-upgrade.........

2012-05-14 Thread ariestao
System: Debian Linux testing 3.2.0-2-686-pae on Acer 3614WLC laptop Did aptitude safe-upgrade with aptitude yesterday and there are a heap of errors like: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up fontconfig-config (2.9

Re: Wheezy USB Harddrive install grub2 issues

2012-05-14 Thread Brian
On Mon 14 May 2012 at 14:57:54 +0800, Bob wrote: > On 05/14/2012 06:24 AM, Brian wrote: >> >> Wouldn't '--root-directory=/' put GRUB's files in /grub? > > That was my reading of the man page however there is no /grub directory > so either the option doesn't work or it's could be a symptom of a b

Re: perl versioning problem, how to get beyond for @world

2012-05-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: Please disregard the Original post... it was inadvertently posted to the wrong group. -- 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/87likupdx4

perl versioning problem, how to get beyond for @world

2012-05-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I have a light minimalish system (noX) and not a lot installed but for a the last few weeks, when I try to update with emerge -vuD world It caves about a perl versioning problem, and specifically about: perl-core/Module-Build-0.400.0 Abbreviated output: , | >>> Emerging (1 of 12) perl-core/

Re: Only 3.6gb of 64gb RAM recognized by 64bit squeeze

2012-05-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/13/2012 7:02 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2012, Seyyed Mohtadin Hashemi wrote: >> On 5/10/2012 1:16 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> If this doesn't fix the issue, and memtest and other utils can see all >>> 64GB just fine, then I'd say you're dealing with a BIOS bug. >>

Re: Corrupted windows in KDE after last upgrade in debian/testing

2012-05-14 Thread songbird
wzabo...@elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl wrote: ... > When I've again restored the original name and restarted X, I've got > this corrupted screen back in KDE (in LXDE everything works good). i have the same chipset, but am running Gnome. had a font corruption bug in the panel on startup. so i woul

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Glenn English
On May 14, 2012, at 12:15 PM, shthead wrote: > As the other posters suggest, Nagios is great for monitoring services I used to have a significant Nagios system set up, and it did indeed do almost anything I needed. But if your needs aren't too big, take a look at Monit. It's a whole lot smalle

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread shthead
On 14/05/2012 9:34 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: Hello -- As far as a general monitoring solution is concerned, I would recommend the Nagios Core application. I have been using it for some time, and it does have plugins that can handle most, if not all of the items you listed in your e-mail. I

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread rjc
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 02:32:32PM BST, Denis Witt wrote: > Try remote logging using syslog-ng. rsyslog (Debian's default) supports remote logging. Regards, -- rjc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: Wheezy iso cd image not booting?

2012-05-14 Thread Josef Wetzel
Hi Joey thanks a lot! I'll do it asap. Josef On 14.05.12 19:21, Joey Hess wrote: Josef Wetzel wrote: Hi all I am trying to install Debian wheezy in VMWare Fusion 4.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.4. I downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (on 13. may 12) and configured Fusion to use this iso imag

Re: black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

2012-05-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-14 19:26 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > On a Dell Precision workstation, there is an Nvidia Quadro card with a > weird connector in which we have a "dongle" thing that provides plugs > for four monitors. I've been running RedHat Linux 5.5 for a while and > decided to try the Debian net in

Re: cron-apt, on wheezy, not sending email

2012-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:07:22 -0500, Adam Mercer wrote: > I've set cron-apt on my wheezy box and configured it to send me an email > whenever any updates are available. The /etc/cron-apt/config file > contains: > > # cat /etc/cron-apt/config > # Configuration for cron-apt. For further information

black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On a Dell Precision workstation, there is an Nvidia Quadro card with a weird connector in which we have a "dongle" thing that provides plugs for four monitors. I've been running RedHat Linux 5.5 for a while and decided to try the Debian net installer The graphical install proceeds as usual (I've d

Re: Wheezy iso cd image not booting?

2012-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Josef Wetzel wrote: > Hi all > > I am trying to install Debian wheezy in VMWare Fusion 4.1.2 on Mac > OS X 10.7.4. > I downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (on 13. may 12) and > configured Fusion to use this iso image as a cd drive. > When I power up the virtual machine, a blinking cursor i

Re: Wheezy iso cd image not booting?

2012-05-14 Thread Marvin Alonso
Hello Josef, I' just translate this from official debian page. ...which one to use? I don't know. "There are two different netinst CD images which can be used to install squeeze with the debian-installer. These images are intended to boot from CD and install additional packages over a network, hen

Re: Wordpress can't find uploads

2012-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 13 May 2012 17:25:47 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > I have multiple Wordpress blogs running using Debian's method of > pointing to different blogs. I'm posting here and not a Wordpress > specific list because I believe this is related to Debian's unique > method of installation. Which

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:05:28 +0100 Lisi wrote: Hello Lisi, > I have the impression, which may indeed be erroneous, that Google has > deliberately obsoleted Iceweasel in order to push its users into > Chrome or Most organisations are stopping support for older versions of browsers. FF/IW v3.5

Wheezy iso cd image not booting?

2012-05-14 Thread Josef Wetzel
Hi all I am trying to install Debian wheezy in VMWare Fusion 4.1.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.4. I downloaded debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso (on 13. may 12) and configured Fusion to use this iso image as a cd drive. When I power up the virtual machine, a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of the

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-14 18:26 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:57:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2012-05-14 17:46 +0200, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:56:08 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: >>> Iceweasel is unable to treat Google Mail adequately. >>> >>> This is som

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:57:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-05-14 17:46 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:56:08 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: >> >>> Iceweasel is unable to treat Google Mail adequately. >> >> This is something that can be reported, should the error is consi

Re: Sound on Lenny

2012-05-14 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Lisi, Lisi wrote: > Yes, I know. I shouldn't be using Lenny, and had in fact already tried to > change to Squeeze, but had trouble with my mail, and reverted. > > But I am soon going to be installing on a new box, so am waiting until then. > > That's the excuses out of the way. ;-) > >

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Indulekha
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 14 May 2012 16:57:28 Sven Joachim wrote: > > >> Iceweasel is unable to treat Google Mail adequately. > > > > > > This is something that can be reported, should the error is consistent > > > and fully reproducible. > > > > AFAIK this

Sound on Lenny

2012-05-14 Thread Lisi
Yes, I know. I shouldn't be using Lenny, and had in fact already tried to change to Squeeze, but had trouble with my mail, and reverted. But I am soon going to be installing on a new box, so am waiting until then. That's the excuses out of the way. ;-) Sound has disappeared. I imagine that it

cron-apt, on wheezy, not sending email

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I've set cron-apt on my wheezy box and configured it to send me an email whenever any updates are available. The /etc/cron-apt/config file contains: # cat /etc/cron-apt/config # Configuration for cron-apt. For further information about the possible # configuration settings see /usr/share/doc/c

Re: [not sure if OT] empty DVD menus with k9copy and devede

2012-05-14 Thread Eike Lantzsch
This post is just for the record to direct those who might have the same problem to turn to the right mailing-list and to finalize this thread. http://groups.google.com/group/devede-forum Thank you so much Camaleón, you are helping the community along so much. On Friday 11 May 2012 10:14:12 Eik

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Lisi
On Monday 14 May 2012 16:57:28 Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Iceweasel is unable to treat Google Mail adequately. > > > > This is something that can be reported, should the error is consistent > > and fully reproducible. > > AFAIK this is already known, and the problem is not the small difference > betw

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-14 17:46 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:56:08 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > >> Following extensive upgrading of 1386 wheezy, I am unable to get easily >> Mozilla Firefox as web browser. I have to commad with full path to its >> installation. > > What's your desktop?

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:56:08 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Following extensive upgrading of 1386 wheezy, I am unable to get easily > Mozilla Firefox as web browser. I have to commad with full path to its > installation. What's your desktop? Have you checked with "update-alternatives --list x-

Re: Corrupted windows in KDE after last upgrade in debian/testing

2012-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 14 May 2012 08:46:11 +0200, wzab wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2012 15:23:58 +0200, Camaleon wrote: | > | On Sun, 13 May 2012 15:23:58 +0200, wzab wrote: | > | > After last upgrade of my machines, one of them shows strange windows > | > layout in KDE sessions. I attach the photograph (unfortunat

Re: (Solved) Re: multiboot problem in squeeze

2012-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 14 May 2012 01:20:11 -0400, Long Wind wrote: > Thank Camaleón! > I decide I'll replace Mandrake 9.2 with etch and I have tested with etch > etch can boot squeeze Well, of course Etch -GRUB legacy- can boot Squeeze and Squeeze -GRUB2- can also boot Mandrake, but if that's an acceptable so

Re: about java and wheezy

2012-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 14 May 2012 13:14:44 +, Francesco Pietra wrote: > In answer to all who kindly considered the matter. > > I was to quick in posting. Having upgraded from squeeze to wheezy i386 I > ha such troubles. Then , wanting emacs gchempaint, and pieces of kde > (okular k3b), gnome 2 was updated

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread Indulekha
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:21:56AM -0700, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Mon, 5/14/12, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..try "vlc --ffmpeg-threads 0  > > file:///some/file/name.mp4", > > the zero here means "auto". > > Tried it, pretty much the same output: > > $vlc --ffmpeg-threads 0 file:///some/file/nam

Dropping users making output connections.

2012-05-14 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. Whats' wrong w/ my set up (I want to allow output traffic for the users that are in the allowed group only): iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -m owner ! --gid-owner allowed -j DROP but what I get is that all the users including those in the allowed group are blocked. If I write accep

RE: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hello -- As far as a general monitoring solution is concerned, I would recommend the Nagios Core application. I have been using it for some time, and it does have plugins that can handle most, if not all of the items you listed in your e-mail. I have also deployed another server that utilizes

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Denis Witt
On 14.05.2012 15:10, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? : I think this calls for a customizable solution with plugins (or so). Is there any such thing in Debian? How reliable is it? I recommend Nagios (http://www.nagios.org/).

server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? : * kernel + process images in memory * shape of the process tree * binary integrity of files + permissions * network connections * users, groups * user sessions * log files * ... I think this calls for a customizable so

Re: about java and wheezy

2012-05-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
Gary Dale rogers.com> writes: > > On 13/05/12 01:28 PM, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > Hi > > > > Installation of openjdk-6-jdk in wheezy i386 would lead to deletion of > > much gnome, including openoffice, with reinstallation of gnome and > > abiword, but not of openoffice/libreoffice, if I unde

Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

2012-05-14 Thread Hor Jiun Shyong
Hi All, Would be grateful if anyone could provide feedback on the below, thanks. After installing proprietary driver amd-driver-installer-12-4-x86.x86_64.run on Sid amd64, both console and X cannot be started. All was left after booting is a blinking "-" prompt. Xorg log as below. I then ss

Re: Solved! AWE64 Gold is Easy to Kill

2012-05-14 Thread Martin McCormick
Probably nobody else noticed this but I posted the following in the last message: > List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices > card 0: S16 [Sound Blaster 16], device 0: SB16 DSP [DSP v4.16] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > card 1: CS4237B [CS4237B], device 0: WSS [CS

Re: SOLIDWORKS

2012-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Alex Padoly, Am 2012-05-13 10:44:33, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Which GNU package I can installed on DEBIAN WORKSTATION to work as > SOLIDWORKS. If you have a legal License od SolidWorks, you can install WINE and run it from there (it works very nice under GNU/Linux) > Thanks! > Re

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread T Elcor
--- On Mon, 5/14/12, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..try "vlc --ffmpeg-threads 0  > file:///some/file/name.mp4", > the zero here means "auto". Tried it, pretty much the same output: $vlc --ffmpeg-threads 0 file:///some/file/name.mp4 VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547) [0x98710

Re: Wheezy USB Harddrive install grub2 issues

2012-05-14 Thread Bob
On 05/14/2012 06:17 PM, Indulekha wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:59:27PM +0800, Bob wrote: I've passed grub-install all three of the ids listed above and /dev/sda but so far none of them worked. Any other ideas? Thanks for all your help. Are you by any chance using a custom-built kernel

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 14 May 2012 03:28:18 -0700 (PDT), T wrote in message <1336991298.27242.yahoomailclas...@web121905.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>: > --- On Mon, 5/14/12, Bob wrote: > > > Try opening it from the a shell prompt with the option like > > below > > vlc --ffmpeg-threads 1 /home/bob/Videos/lolcat.mkv > >

Re: Corrupted windows in KDE after last upgrade in debian/testing

2012-05-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 14 May 2012 08:13:46 +0200, wzabo...@elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl wrote in message <4fb0a29a.2000...@elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl>: > On 13.05.2012 15:50, Roman V.Leon. wrote: > > On 13.05.2012 17:23, wzab wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> After last upgrade of my machines, one of them shows strange > >> wi

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread T Elcor
--- On Mon, 5/14/12, Bob wrote: > Try opening it from the a shell prompt with the option like > below > vlc --ffmpeg-threads 1 /home/bob/Videos/lolcat.mkv > > Let us know if that helps Didn't help but here's the output: $ vlc --ffmpeg-threads 1 file:///some/file/name.mp4 VLC media player 2.0.

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread Bob
On 05/14/2012 05:04 PM, T Elcor wrote: Hi, For some reason VLC player refuses to play video files. It starts up, shows the first frame of the video but doesn't play it further. What's strange, KDE DragonPlayer plays the same videos fine and I believe DragonPlayer relies on VLC libraries to pl

Re: Wheezy USB Harddrive install grub2 issues

2012-05-14 Thread Indulekha
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:59:27PM +0800, Bob wrote: > > I've passed grub-install all three of the ids listed above and > /dev/sda but so far none of them worked. > > Any other ideas? > > Thanks for all your help. > Are you by any chance using a custom-built kernel? -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indu

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread Tom Grace
On 14/05/12 10:04, T Elcor wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason VLC player refuses to play video files. It starts up, shows > the first frame of the video but doesn't play it further. > > Any ideas? Thanks > You may want to try running vlc from a terminal and seeing if you get any useful output.

Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Following extensive upgrading of 1386 wheezy, I am unable to get easily Mozilla Firefox as web browser. I have to commad with full path to its installation. Iceweasel is unable to treat Google Mail adequately. More importantly, Iceaweasel is unable to talk in/back with my connections to certain

Re: networking errors, what do they mean?

2012-05-14 Thread Shaun
On 11/05/2012 17:31, Camaleón wrote: > Have you turned auto-negotiation off? :-? No I haven't but it was disabled on the switch for some reason. I had it enabled and now I have full duplex and the errors have gone. Ta :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread T Elcor
Hi, For some reason VLC player refuses to play video files. It starts up, shows the first frame of the video but doesn't play it further. What's strange, KDE DragonPlayer plays the same videos fine and I believe DragonPlayer relies on VLC libraries to play videos. Any ideas? Thanks # aptitud

Re: Instalation and kernel headers

2012-05-14 Thread Pedro Alexi Perez
Hi all, thanks to all. Finally I found what's happen. I do not why, my Debian i386 Installation CD install an amd64 kernel, butm aparently, as Dave Thayer says, "You might be running a 64-bit kernel in a 32-bit userspace" because the kernel was 64-bit but I cannot install the 64-bit version o

Re: Wheezy USB Harddrive install grub2 issues

2012-05-14 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Bob wrote: > > grub-install /dev/sda will install to the MBR correct? Yes. What's the output of bootinfoscript[1]? 1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/files/bootinfoscript/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Wheezy USB Harddrive install grub2 issues

2012-05-14 Thread Bob
On 05/14/2012 06:24 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 13 May 2012 at 13:45:14 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Indulekha wrote: Probably want to skip that "--root-directory" option, unless you're trying to avoid the mbr for some valid reason... Might want to stick with genuine Debi