wine-utils progress to find .

2012-06-03 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I have such a case w/ *wine* upgrade - and it is for about a week that the packages are held back: The following NEW packages will be installed: libwine-bin{a} [1.2.3-0.3] libwine-gecko-unstable{a} [1.0.0+dfsg-1.1] The following packages will be upgraded: libwine [1.0.

what did hwinfo do to my machine?

2012-06-03 Thread Dan B.
After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at the beginning of booting. (GRUB takes about 8 seconds between displaying the the "Welcome to GRUB!" text and the "error: fd0 read error." text, and another 25 seconds for the screen to go blank on the way to displaying the men

Free Speech, Privacy and Technology Article Follow-Up

2012-06-03 Thread Fiona Causer
Hi There, I wanted to follow up with you about an email I sent a couple weeks ago asking if you wanted to read an article I recently wrote for an educational project of mine. The article discusses the amazingly complex and highly interesting relationship between technological advancement and l

wpa_supplicant.wlan1.pid

2012-06-03 Thread ariestao
I get this message: Sometimes the connection fails and sometimes it continues on as here: bound to xxx.xxx.x.xxx -- renewal in 34212 seconds. cat: /var/run/wpa_supplicant.wlan1.pid: No such file or directory Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2 Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Cons

Re: Troubleshooting Debian

2012-06-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/3/2012 7:07 PM, DragonDon wrote: > Greetings all! > > I know this will be a rather difficult thing to answer I think, but > are there any generic steps listed somewhere on how to troublehshoot a > problem on a Debian/Linux system? I understand that each problem can > be rather unique on how

Re: Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless Card

2012-06-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/3/2012 5:46 PM, Andrew Bryant wrote: > I recently bought a System76 Pangolin laptop. It had Ubuntu preinstalled on > it but I decided that I wanted the stability of Debian Squeeze. I quickly > realized that Squeeze doesn't support the wireless card that the laptop > has, which is a Realtek RTL

Troubleshooting Debian

2012-06-03 Thread DragonDon
Greetings all! I know this will be a rather difficult thing to answer I think, but are there any generic steps listed somewhere on how to troublehshoot a problem on a Debian/Linux system? I understand that each problem can be rather unique on how you approach it but I have yet to see a kind of fl

Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless Card

2012-06-03 Thread Andrew Bryant
I recently bought a System76 Pangolin laptop. It had Ubuntu preinstalled on it but I decided that I wanted the stability of Debian Squeeze. I quickly realized that Squeeze doesn't support the wireless card that the laptop has, which is a Realtek RTL8188CE card. I have searched google for a solution

Re: Screen unresponsive

2012-06-03 Thread Abou Al Montacir
On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 17:04 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:32:17AM -0500, KS wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012, at 12:51 AM, KS wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > The last few days I ahve noticed that when I return to my machine > > > (always ON), the screen doesn't respond.

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Weaver
> On 02/06/12 11:33 PM, Jeremy Allard wrote: >> Frank McCormick writes: >> >>> I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's >>> configuration file. >>> Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the >>> "best" GUI editor which handles XML ?? >>> > >> You

sl-modem-daemon forces off-hook all the time

2012-06-03 Thread Paul Zimmerman
Well, as soon as I solve one problem another one pops up. Running Linux is like playing whack-a-mole. For some reason the sl-modem-daemon on my system has started forcing the phone line off-hook at all times. This means it will cause the phone line to shut down until you disconnect the phone wi

Re: Subject: Re: dhclient does not recognize config file

2012-06-03 Thread Paul Zimmerman
Camaleón wrote: >Put the logs here or better yet, upload them to >www.pastebin.com (remember to hide/remove any >sensitive data contained at the logs). >Also, as you are using WICD, it could >be that >there is a configuration file that you to edit >for this purpose... how about the "/etc/wicd

Problem with kernel patching

2012-06-03 Thread dobrima...@yahoo.pl
Hello, I have a problem with patching kernel 2.6-2.6.32. I'm trying to add PVUSB [1] support in Xen. According to [1] I should add a patch [2] to kernel. I was trying to do it with steps described in [3]. I had to make some changes in the patch file because in the meantime some other changes a

Re: Setting up the scanner

2012-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 21:34:04 +0200, steef wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:19:11 +0200, steef wrote: >> > <..>> >>> further: the udev structure in the mint os is quite different from the >>> udev structure in squeeze. >> >> (...) >> >> But you don't have t

Re: Setting up the scanner

2012-06-03 Thread steef
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:19:11 +0200, steef wrote: <..>> further: the udev structure in the mint os is quite different from the udev structure in squeeze. (...) But you don't have to follow the instructions "word by word" but understanding what the prob

Re: Flashplayer problems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-03, Lisi wrote: > > I already have. I have removed - purged - all the packages to do with Gnash > or Falshplayer 7 that were ever installed. Nothing is installed. But there > are some residual files. Removing them is something I can try. What else > can I do? There are no relev

Re: Flashplayer problems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 June 2012 18:25:38 Curt wrote: > That's not how we remove files that are installed by packages in these > parts.  We remove (and purge, eventually) the incriminated package > itself. I already have. I have removed - purged - all the packages to do with Gnash or Falshplayer 7 that we

Re: epson printer prints WHITE PAGE !!!

2012-06-03 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Jun 2012 at 23:03:13 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: [Snipped: Description of a problem with CUPS and an epson C20SX parallel printer.]. > Can you suggest any fix please ? Not at the moment. But knowing the version of cups you are using would be useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: epson printer prints WHITE PAGE !!!

2012-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 23:03:13 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > I have a epson C20SX parallel printer. I have bought a parallel to usb > cable so that I can use it with my laptop. After connecting the cable I > have seen the new H/W has been detected. (...) > Now I have checked by both cups and system-c

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Brian
On Sun 03 Jun 2012 at 02:28:43 -0700, Aubrey Raech wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:07:15 -0400 > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > here's another interesting one: > > http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html > > > > From the description: > > > > --- > > Woof (Web Offer One File) tries a diff

epson printer prints WHITE PAGE !!!

2012-06-03 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, I have a epson C20SX parallel printer. I have bought a parallel to usb cable so that I can use it with my laptop. After connecting the cable I have seen the new H/W has been detected. From lsusb ` Bus 001 Device 069: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305

Re: Flashplayer problems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-03, Lisi wrote: >> >> I thought the question was what deb package brings in the file >> 'libklashpart.so' so that you could "get rid of it," as per your >> original article. > > I'm afraid that you have lost me. I am trying to get rid of it, as you say, > (I have already purged it),

Re: can server directly access exported nfs dir ?

2012-06-03 Thread dave selby
Thanks for that, I appreciate it Cheers Dave On 3 June 2012 18:07, rjc wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 04:19:09PM BST, dave selby wrote: >> I have a server that provides a nfs share to several computers on my >> network, I also want to back up this nfs share. >> >> Do I need to mount this shar

Re: can server directly access exported nfs dir ?

2012-06-03 Thread rjc
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 04:19:09PM BST, dave selby wrote: > I have a server that provides a nfs share to several computers on my > network, I also want to back up this nfs share. > > Do I need to mount this share on the server itself before I access it > for backup or is it OK to access it directl

Re: Flashplayer problems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 June 2012 16:55:32 Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-03, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 03 June 2012 16:01:12 Curt wrote: > >> On 2012-06-02, Lisi wrote: > >> >> locate libklashpart.so > >> > >> konqueror-plugin-gnash (brings that in)? > > > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > Konqueror claims that it

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/06/12 12:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 03/06/12 07:41 AM, Weaver wrote: Frank McCormick writes: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the "best" GUI editor which handles

Re: Subject: Re: dhclient does not recognize config file

2012-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:29:29 -0700, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > Tom H writes: >>For the record, this works for squeeze without NM or WICD - for me. > >>Check how well or badly dhclient's behaving by changing "RUN=no" to >>"RUN=yes" in "/etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/debug", restarting your >>netwo

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 02/06/12 11:33 PM, Jeremy Allard wrote: Frank McCormick writes: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the "best" GUI editor which handles XML ?? You should check out the xml-

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/06/12 07:41 AM, Weaver wrote: Frank McCormick writes: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the "best" GUI editor which handles XML ?? How is Conglomerate looking these da

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/06/12 11:08 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:52:17 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the "best" GUI editor which handles XML ?? He

Re: [OT] Re: Computer case

2012-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:45:01 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Camaleón, > > the cases I own are around 14" high. I could place any case <= 26" high. > I like the relatively unobtrusive design of CHIEFTEC, but I don't trust > the sidewall catch. > Since better cases seems to be expensive, I'm googl

Re: Flashpalyer poroblems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-03, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 03 June 2012 16:01:12 Curt wrote: >> On 2012-06-02, Lisi wrote: >> >> locate libklashpart.so >> >> konqueror-plugin-gnash (brings that in)? > > Thanks for the reply. > > Konqueror claims that it is Shockwave Flash 7.0. > I thought the question was what deb

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:58:27 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Just for you to get the idea, in my system (64-bits with 8 GiB of RAM), >> Firefox takes "99 MiB" of real memory (now 101 MiB)... go figure. > > Wow, that isn't much! I have 8GB

Re: Flashplayer problems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 June 2012 13:59:44 rjc wrote: > If your locate database is up to date it means that the file is no > longer there and your plugins registry simply doesn't reflect that. Erm, yes. But that still means that I can't play Flashplayer!! As I mentioned earlier, I think that the time has c

Re: The permissions of the apache2 log dir

2012-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:17:35 +0200, Titanus Eramius wrote: > Last week i ran into the very restrictive folder permissions of the > apache2 log dir. They where "drwxr-x--- root adm" but I changed them to > "rwxr-xr-x root adm" so a unprivileged user may opdate webalizer[1] at > night. Uff... don't

Re: Flashpalyer poroblems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 June 2012 16:01:12 Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-02, Lisi wrote: > >> locate libklashpart.so > > konqueror-plugin-gnash (brings that in)? Thanks for the reply. Konqueror claims that it is Shockwave Flash 7.0. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

can server directly access exported nfs dir ?

2012-06-03 Thread dave selby
I have a server that provides a nfs share to several computers on my network, I also want to back up this nfs share. Do I need to mount this share on the server itself before I access it for backup or is it OK to access it directly ? I am not sure how picks nfs is with respect to direct access of

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:52:17 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's > configuration file. > Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the > "best" GUI editor which handles XML ?? Here you have an extensive lits of s

Re: what happened to spam filters of this list

2012-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:23:02 +0600, Aft nix wrote: > So many spams are directed to this list. Any spam filter there? Yes, there are. And they can be fed-trained from your input :-) http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ListMaster > I've accidentally replied one of them, no 100's mails are flodding my

Re: Flashpalyer poroblems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-02, Lisi wrote: > >> locate libklashpart.so konqueror-plugin-gnash (brings that in)? -- 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/slrnjsmv2q.1us.cu...@

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:51:12 -0700, Aubrey Raech wrote: > Sometimes I have the need to send files that are too large for email to > a friend directly (such as recordings of music I am working on, or > similar projects). I'm wondering if there is a program that I could use > for direct transfer, ho

Re: Setting up the scanner

2012-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 23:19:11 +0200, steef wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:28:21 +0200, steef wrote: >> >>> Camaleón wrote: >> >>> hi camaleon: one mote time! in udev i find: >>> >>> <.> >>> quote #MP280 series SYSFS{idVendor}=="04a9", SYSFS{idProduct}==

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 02:31:02AM -0700, Aubrey Raech wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:16:19 +0100 > Chris Davies wrote: > > > 7. Use rsync (over ssh) or sftp to copy the files. Remember to tell > > them to use port 10022 (or whatever you decided in #1) instead of the > > default port 22. >

Re: Flashpalyer poroblems on Lenny.

2012-06-03 Thread rjc
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 05:32:15PM BST, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 02 June 2012 07:59:40 rjc wrote: > > locate libklashpart.so > Tried that :-( If your locate database is up to date it means that the file is no longer there and your plugins registry simply doesn't reflect that. > > apt-file is us

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 08:41:40AM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > I agree with using ssh, but I'd configure it to force sftp upon login > > like this: > > I figured I'd frighten the OP if I added too much complexity. > Fair enough! > > > It's simpler to just AllowUsers user1

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Aubrey Raech wrote: On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:07:15 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: here's another interesting one: http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html Woof is excellent! Woof's also in the debian package repositories, as is fex (from your previous message). Thank you for finding these, tr

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Weaver
> Frank McCormick writes: > >> I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's >> configuration file. >> Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the >> "best" GUI editor which handles XML ?? How is Conglomerate looking these days? Regards, Weaver. --

Re: libmx-1.0-2 : Depends: libmx-common (= 1.4.5-1) but 1.4.6-1 is installed

2012-06-03 Thread Hor Jiun Shyong
Temporarily I have removed libmx-common, libmx-1.0-2 and all dependencies. Update: Just did "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -V" . libmx-1.0-2, and libclutter-imcontext are installed successfully. Setting up libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0 (0.1.4-2+b2) ... Setting up libmx-1.0-2:

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Aubrey Raech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:41:40 +0100 Chris Davies wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > I agree with using ssh, but I'd configure it to force sftp upon > > login like this: > > I figured I'd frighten the OP if I added too much complexity. Yes. :-/ > > >

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Aubrey Raech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 18:24:22 -0500 "Christofer C. Bell" wrote: [snip] > > That said, there have been a number of suggestions towards modifying > the OP's requirements and I'm interested in seeing the reasoning > behind the requirements themselves.

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Aubrey Raech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:16:19 +0100 Chris Davies wrote: > Aubrey Raech wrote: > > Sometimes I have the need to send files that are too large for > > email to a friend directly [...] > > > 1. Not a proper server (http, ftp) > > 2. No usernames? (scp,

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Aubrey Raech
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:10:53 +0300 Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 02.06.2012 09:21, Aubrey Raech wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 08:08:44 +0200 > > Tom Rausner wrote: > > > >> Dropbox ? > > > > Ah, and avoiding third-party servers was also a hopeful :-/ I'd > > prefer not to have my files "out the

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Aubrey Raech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 20:28:22 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 09:34:55 -0500, green wrote: > > > Brian, you seem to be assuming that the router has a public IP (on > > the WAN side), which is often not true. Unfortunately, many ISPs > > pr

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Aubrey Raech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:16:09 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 15:27:15 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > > I guess it depends on which packages you tell the installer to > > load. One of the options is "web server," but

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Aubrey Raech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:07:15 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > here's another interesting one: > http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html > > From the description: > > --- > Woof (Web Offer One File) tries a different approach. It assumes that

Re: The permissions of the apache2 log dir

2012-06-03 Thread Nicky Thomassen
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 18:10:51 -0500 "Christofer C. Bell" wrote: > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Titanus Eramius > wrote: > > Hi list > > > > Last week i ran into the very restrictive folder permissions of the > > apache2 log dir. They where "drwxr-x--- root adm" but I changed them > > to "rwxr-x

Re: Re (2): Computer case

2012-06-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/2/2012 4:42 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 04:04 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> The mounting holes are the same dimensions. But the server chassis must >> be designed for dog ear mounting. Many/most today are designed for >> slide rail use, meaning the dog ears alone aren't

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Davies
Brian wrote: > ssh is a waste of time and effort in the circumstances as we know them. I wasn't suggesting ssh as an application. I was recommending ssh as a transport, on which one would layer an application such as WinSCP or FileZilla. But others are already making this point so I'll sit back

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Davies
Rob Owens wrote: > I agree with using ssh, but I'd configure it to force sftp upon login > like this: I figured I'd frighten the OP if I added too much complexity. > It's simpler to just AllowUsers user1 user2 user3 Fair point in the circumstances. >> 6. Make sure that your password, and yo

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-03 Thread Jeremy Allard
Frank McCormick writes: > I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's > configuration file. > Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the > "best" GUI editor which handles XML ?? > > Thanks > > > -- > Cheers > Frank You should check out the xml-mod