Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-06 Thread cletusjenkins
> You'll have to use Gnome3. You can use it in "Gnome Classic" mode > (fallback) for now, but it has been strongly hinted that that option > won't be available for much longer. > > I've switched to XFCE, as Gnome3 was too much of a PITA to try and use > on my laptop (I used pinning to ke

Google Chrome is installed but won't run

2012-07-06 Thread Lisi
I have just installed Google Chrome on a vanilla almost default Squeeze/LXDE installation. It is there, but won't run. I have tried: click on icon in menu - nothing happens launch from launcher - command is accepted, but launcher then hangs run from terminal - command is accepted, but termina

Re: drive labels

2012-07-06 Thread cletusjenkins
> > I add one line to /etc/fstab for each labeled usb external drive like > the following: > > LABEL=gflx1 /media/gflx1ext3rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > And I create the named mount point in /media with: > > mkdir /media/gflx1 > > I have my own system of ch

Re: drive labels

2012-07-06 Thread cletusjenkins
> > I often see this when I install Debian on a PC using a USB stick. The > installer seems to put an entry in /etc/fstab to mount /dev/sdb > at /media/usb0. I just delete this line. > > -- > Tixy Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure if that is the problem I am having, I installed

Re: Postfix redirection.

2012-07-06 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 11:47:17AM +0200, Olivier BATARD wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just wondering, after googling a lot, how to redirect mail from a > user to another address without keeping mail to the original address. > I want to redirect mail directly. I've tried aliases but mail are sent > to both

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-06 Thread Dom
On 07/07/12 03:30, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 07/03/2012 06:47 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:48:53 +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: Is there an easy way to install gnome 3 and the latest packages in squeeze? Because that I can install. No. If you want GNOME3+gnome-shell, reconside

Re: custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-06 Thread Dom
On 07/07/12 00:08, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, While surely no expert I've been building my own kernels for a long time with little trouble but with a recent install of 'Squeeze' I'm stumped. I've built, reconfigured, built again for several days now. No joy. I've spent hours Googling for an

Re: bind: Address already in use

2012-07-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/07/12 02:17 PM, Chris Davies wrote: Gary Dale wrote: I've been connecting to the workstations by running: ssh -L 5900::5900 Today I'm getting the error: bind: Address already in use Any ideas? The address is already in use, probably from another ssh session using the same local an

Re: bind: Address already in use

2012-07-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/07/12 02:17 PM, Chris Davies wrote: Gary Dale wrote: I've been connecting to the workstations by running: ssh -L 5900::5900 Today I'm getting the error: bind: Address already in use Any ideas? The address is already in use, probably from another ssh session using the same local an

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 07/03/2012 06:47 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:48:53 +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: Is there an easy way to install gnome 3 and the latest packages in squeeze? Because that I can install. No. If you want GNOME3+gnome-shell, reconsider wheezy. Now that Wheezy is frozen (an

Re: drive labels

2012-07-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120706_105247, cletusjenkins wrote: > I have several USB external drives. I have them formatted as ext3 and have > assigned them labels (via tune2fs -L). All of my labels are made up of > letters no numbers, spaces or other special characters. When I connect a > drive, it's label is display

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 02:20:21PM +, Camale?n wrote: > You can still test with a different VB version (in a different box - > whether possible- to avoid mixing up both installs) so you can discard a > bug hitting a specific version of the program. I could, but since I got kvm working and it

Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-06 Thread Mike McClain
Howdy, I've used loadlin.exe for years but with my recent install of Squeeze loadlin reboots the computer rather than launching Debian. The flip side of the issue is that grub2 resets the computer trying to launch kernels that loadlin launches with no problem. Can anyone point me a

custom kernel without initrd and with udev

2012-07-06 Thread Mike McClain
Howdy, While surely no expert I've been building my own kernels for a long time with little trouble but with a recent install of 'Squeeze' I'm stumped. I've built, reconfigured, built again for several days now. No joy. I've spent hours Googling for any and everybody's thoughts on the error:

Re: drive labels

2012-07-06 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 10:52 -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: > I have several USB external drives. I have them formatted as ext3 and have > assigned them labels (via tune2fs -L). All of my labels are made up of > letters no numbers, spaces or other special characters. When I connect a > drive, it's l

Restore point needed

2012-07-06 Thread Leo
Hi!: I send a mail but I was'nt suscribe. I am from Uruguay, We use Linux system till a lot of years in our servers. (www.higiene.edu.uy). I think - if possible for developpers -, that a "restore point" could be a great step forward. When I make an : aptitude safe-upgrade, never I will now if

restore point needed

2012-07-06 Thread Leo
Hi!: I'am from Uruguay. I'm using Linux till. 10 years for all servers in my education institution (www.higiene.edu.uy). I think it could be un ENORMOUS contribution, if we can make all upgrades without care of loos all previous configuration. It would be a great step forward, if Linux "ge

Re: bind: Address already in use

2012-07-06 Thread Chris Davies
Gary Dale wrote: > I've been connecting to the workstations by running: > ssh -L 5900::5900 IP address> > Today I'm getting the error: >bind: Address already in use > Any ideas? The address is already in use, probably from another ssh session using the same local and/or remote port. On

USB mounts not presistent

2012-07-06 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, In the latest wheezy install of debian (K 3.2.0-2-amd64) I am finding that unlike before, when a USB disk (especially a USB external 2.5" harddisk) is mounted, it is not persistent after a suspend resume. Has anyone faced this in wheezy or am I missing anything here ? The same is happeni

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 18:56, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/07/12 01:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a part

drive labels

2012-07-06 Thread cletusjenkins
I have several USB external drives. I have them formatted as ext3 and have assigned them labels (via tune2fs -L). All of my labels are made up of letters no numbers, spaces or other special characters. When I connect a drive, it's label is displayed correctly in gnome (on the desktop and when br

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/07/12 01:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler >> wrote: >>> >>> I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its >>> just a partition at the moment). >>> >>> The plan is to make a a raid

Re: Two problems in Debian Wheezy

2012-07-06 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-07-06 a las 17:21 +0200, Kantacki escribió: (resending to the list) > W dniu 2012-07-06 16:25, Camaleón pisze: >> On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:15:03 +0200, Kantacki wrote: >> >>>I have found two problems in Debian Wheezy. >> (...) >> >> Can't comment/confirm on the problems you are experien

Re: bind: Address already in use

2012-07-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/07/12 12:42 PM, Gary Dale wrote: This has just started happening. I remotely administer an office by using ssh and vnc. Ssh is running on a Debian/Squeeze server while I have vnc on each of the workstations. I've been connecting to the workstations by running: ssh -L 5900::5900 IP addre

Re: Re(3): Joining pcl and jpg in Gimp.

2012-07-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:27:44 -0800, peasthope wrote: >> ... use a tool to convert the pcl file into something more manageable, >> like PostScript or PDF. ... GhostPDL (binary is "pspcl6") ... > > peter@dalton:~/ghostpdl-9.05$ make pcl > cd ./gs/tiff && ./configure --disable-jbig > checking bui

bind: Address already in use

2012-07-06 Thread Gary Dale
This has just started happening. I remotely administer an office by using ssh and vnc. Ssh is running on a Debian/Squeeze server while I have vnc on each of the workstations. I've been connecting to the workstations by running: ssh -L 5900::5900 IP address> where the workstation internal IP ad

Re: Kernel Panic

2012-07-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:08:18 +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: (please, no html posts, thanks...) > I saw a very strange error while installing debian cd - > > kernel panic - not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown block > (254,6) > > What might be the reason for this error? !!! I've neve

Re(3): Joining pcl and jpg in Gimp.

2012-07-06 Thread peasthope
* From: Gary Dale * Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:07:31 -0400 > Have you tried OpenPCL Viewer? peter@dalton:~/Downloads$ java -jar openpclviewer-installer.jar Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: Cannot load AWT toolkit: gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit at java.awt.Toolkit.ge

Re: Proposal for stage-1 secure boot Re: [POSTPONED] Re: installation with UEFI

2012-07-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:35:23 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > The fundamental problem we must solve is allowing the *user* to securely > choose which OS she wants to install. Whether that OS follows thru and > verifies all its parts is between the user and the person or group who > provided the OS (co

Re: Debian stable chromium does not open Facebook

2012-07-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:44:37 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Not sure what the issue is, but, I recently installed debian stable > chromium and set it as the default browser. I'm using only standard > settings & NO plugins. Any idea why Facebook will not open my or any > pages to that browser. (.

Re: pam_winbind.so missing when upgrade to wheezy/sid

2012-07-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:28:45 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i was using Squeeze 6.0.4 and upgraded to wheezy/sid and this machine is > working as SAMBA server with domain controller authentication. > > before the upgrade i had a file "pam_winbind.so" on /lib/security/ but > no there are ot

Re: Postfix redirection.

2012-07-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:47:17 +0200, Olivier BATARD wrote: > I'm just wondering, after googling a lot, how to redirect mail from a > user to another address without keeping mail to the original address. I > want to redirect mail directly. I've tried aliases but mail are sent to > both original and

Re: What is the best way to turn off the iptables

2012-07-06 Thread lina
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Sorry for replying directly but I think you may want to read this. No need sorry, very nice to have replies. > > You have: > Chain INPUT (policy DROP) > > This should be ACCEPT instead of DROP. Try: > > iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT > >

Re: firewall

2012-07-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 05:39:47PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 04 iul 12, 15:16:10, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > > Except on Debian you are required to do a fair amount of work to make > > your rules persistent across reboots and ensure you get ordering right > > to not lock yourself out of

Debian stable chromium does not open Facebook

2012-07-06 Thread John W. Foster
Not sure what the issue is, but, I recently installed debian stable chromium and set it as the default browser. I'm using only standard settings & NO plugins. Any idea why Facebook will not open my or any pages to that browser. There is no error message shown. Just shows the browser bar, opens the

Re: firewall

2012-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 iul 12, 15:16:10, Jon Dowland wrote: > > Except on Debian you are required to do a fair amount of work to make > your rules persistent across reboots and ensure you get ordering right > to not lock yourself out of the box (if remote): all problems that > do not exist if you install and u

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
The golden rule with random, that is, not reproducible by doing something, is you are looking at a hardware problem, not an OS problem. The way to diagnose the hardware is to replace with known good parts until the problem is resolved. Power supplies and motherboards are common culprits. Memory

Re: Two problems in Debian Wheezy

2012-07-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:15:03 +0200, Kantacki wrote: > I have found two problems in Debian Wheezy. (...) Can't comment/confirm on the problems you are experiencing but if the errors are consistent and easily reproducible, you can open a bug report in Debian BTS for each of them so they can be

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:19:44 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 05:43:41PM +, Camale?n wrote: > >> Also, check if the application you're running (Premiere Elements) does >> provide an option to disable effects (e.g., video overlay, 3D >> acceleration...) or somesetting that cou

Re: What is the best way to turn off the iptables

2012-07-06 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Sorry for replying directly but I think you may want to read this. You have: Chain INPUT (policy DROP) This should be ACCEPT instead of DROP. Try: iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT Then do the same for the FORWARD chain (if you want to get a "vanilla" configuration) On 05/07/2012 06:02 μμ, lina wrote:

Re: ot: slightly, is debian tied to a nonprofit?

2012-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 iul 12, 16:25:37, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > I ask because of the references to foundation? Alfi for a possible > funding project tied to a thread from a different Linux users list. http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-9 Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debi

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 iul 12, 17:21:39, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: > > Posting gpg signing keys works for many other websites. How it works and > how I suggest... > - Go to https://some-project-website.com. > - Some root CA vouches for the identity of some-project-website.com. > - The author posts his gpg pu

Re: pam_winbind.so missing when upgrade to wheezy/sid

2012-07-06 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i was using Squeeze 6.0.4 and upgraded to wheezy/sid and this machine > is working as SAMBA server with domain controller authentication. > > before the upgrade i had a file "pam_winbind.so" on /lib/security/ > (but no there are othe

pam_winbind.so missing when upgrade to wheezy/sid

2012-07-06 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i was using Squeeze 6.0.4 and upgraded to wheezy/sid and this machine is working as SAMBA server with domain controller authentication. before the upgrade i had a file "pam_winbind.so" on /lib/security/ but no there are other *.so file and others are missing. as per the requirement i had mention

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 08:15, Alan Chandler wrote: On 06/07/12 07:24, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a

Re: Postfix redirection.

2012-07-06 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 06.07.2012 12:47, Olivier BATARD wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just wondering, after googling a lot, how to redirect mail from > a user to another address without keeping mail to the original > address. I want to redirect mail directly. I've tried alia

Re: What is the best way to turn off the iptables

2012-07-06 Thread Budnev Vladimir
07/05/12 19:02, lina пишет: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:28:43PM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, What is the best way to turn off the iptables? # iptables --flush I tried before. # iptables -F # iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target pro

Re: Kernel Panic

2012-07-06 Thread Harshad Joshi
i am testing it on a dell vostro running Ubuntu 10.10 and Oracle Virtualbox..i havent tested it on real machine as yet.. the same iso runs well on older debian lenny and Virtualbox On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Kirill Sotnikov < kirill.sotni...@maxifier.com> wrote: > What motherboard do u use?

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-06 Thread Chris Davies
Carl Fink wrote: > Believe it or not that helped a lot. > I was using a command I found online somewhere: > virsh start /mnt/data/kvm-images/xp2 Ah. That tells libvirt to start a guest that has been previously configured within libvirt, and that /mnt/data/kvm-images/xp2 is the name of (not path t

Postfix redirection.

2012-07-06 Thread Olivier BATARD
Hi, I'm just wondering, after googling a lot, how to redirect mail from a user to another address without keeping mail to the original address. I want to redirect mail directly. I've tried aliases but mail are sent to both original and destination, and I want to forward directly mail. How can I d

Kernel Panic

2012-07-06 Thread Harshad Joshi
I saw a very strange error while installing debian cd - kernel panic - not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown block (254,6) What might be the reason for this error? !!! -- Harshad Joshi

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 iul 12, 23:15:33, Chris Bannister wrote: > > So you need to keep physically checking (maybe apt-cache policy) when a > new backport is available? aptitude search ~N will list any new packages (works for new kernels, since they have a different package name) aptitude search ~

Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install

2012-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 03 iul 12, 14:25:21, ss11223 wrote: > > Ah, today /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start no longer complains of no sound card, > but > the sound still only comes out of the motherboard speaker. Play with your mixer settings while running speaker-test -c2 (you can stop it with Ctrl+C), or post

Re: startup script

2012-07-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 02 iul 12, 19:14:45, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > > Neither of those variables is set here, so ~/.config/autostart looks > promising. Sadly, putting the link to my script in there doesn't cause > it to be run on login. ~/.config/autostart is for .desktop files. You can use one to call your

Re: What is the best way to turn off the iptables

2012-07-06 Thread lina
> > Maybe nobody is listening to that ports? > > What does > > netstat -plunt > > returns you? # nc -l -p 5000 # netstat -plunt Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:22

NetXtreme BCM5722 strangeness on Proliant ML115

2012-07-06 Thread Berni Elbourn
11:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5722 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express With standard squeeze kernel seemingly once a day this nic stops working. Looking at the switch port it seems the nic is transmitting (or retransmitting) something as fast as possible. A simple ifdo

Re: procmail filtering

2012-07-06 Thread lee
On 07/05/2012 09:59 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > lee wrote: >> I've looked at formail + procmail , but formail forces it into mailbox >> format which I dont want. > With Maildir format you don't need formail. Just pipe each individual > message to procmail. > > Of the top of my head and untested: > >

Re: procmail filtering

2012-07-06 Thread lee
On 07/05/2012 02:41 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > You can run procmail in "filter mode" and pipe it each mail that you wish to > filter individually, but you must keep track of which mails have been piped to > procmail and remove them/mark them 'processed' yourself, via shell scripts > etc. > > Make su

Re: What is the best way to turn off the iptables

2012-07-06 Thread bruno.deb...@cyberoso.com
Le Fri, 6 Jul 2012 15:31:22 +0800, lina a écrit : > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Joe wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 22:28:43 +0800 > > lina wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> What is the best way to turn off the iptables? > >> > >> or come back to its default settings. Flush my current one. > >> >

Re: What is the best way to turn off the iptables

2012-07-06 Thread lina
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 22:28:43 +0800 > lina wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> What is the best way to turn off the iptables? >> >> or come back to its default settings. Flush my current one. >> > > This is the script I use: > > #!/bin/sh > #/etc/iptables/iptables.flu

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 07:24, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a a raid device, copy the current root fs i