Re: internet probably broken

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 09:28:27PM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:12:11PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages > > 47% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]E: > > Method gave inva

.xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister > > I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read > > because of the xterm settings. > > Resources, whether for xterm, urxvt, or similar, usually are not > config

Re: Debian 8 to be called "Jessie"

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 02:31:53PM +, Camaleón wrote: > Hi, > > I just read it from "debian-devel-announce"¹: > > *** > Surprise! > - > > It's become a tradition that the reward for reading all the way through > our first post-freeze mail is to be one of the first few to know the > n

Re: gnome doesn't know monitor size under nvidia x server

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 08:32:22PM -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On 07/28/2012 04:14 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 03:43:15PM -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > > > .snip... > >>Since the official (And proprietary.) nVidia driver has no support > >>for KMS, t

Re: mail server

[Please trim your posts.] On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:53:19PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > is there any good howto on Debian Squeeze on following tools Google is your friend. It also corrects spelling mistakes. :) > -postfidx Web Results 1 - 10 of about 276,000 for +squeeze +postfidx +ho

Re: Printing files under KDE in wheezy

--- On Sat, 7/28/12, Camaleón wrote: > To print to a physical printer you need a printing service. > The election > of the service will depend on your needs. > > More info here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting#Other_printing_Systems > > Thought basically and simplifying a lot, yes:

Re: internet probably broken

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:12:11PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages > 47% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]E: > Method gave invalid 200 URI Start message > > Every contact made with http.debian.net

Re: gnome doesn't know monitor size under nvidia x server

On 07/28/2012 04:14 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 03:43:15PM -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote: .snip... Since the official (And proprietary.) nVidia driver has no support for KMS, this sort of feature never "natively" works in a desktop environments' own mon

Re: Thread supplicate

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:32:34AM +0200, Srdja Micic wrote: > Hi, when I was about 16 I made an thread on your site, a rather bad one, with > lots of question and exclamation marks etc., with my real name. Every time > somebody googles me, that thread shows up. Is there any possiblity that you > c

HTPC box - XBMC sound problem

Hi all! I buy a few time ago a new box for HTPC usage. It has a Nvidia Ion2 HDMI graphic card and it works very fine, but I have some problems. I installed Debian Unstable, with Gnome as graphical environment. The, I discover that XBMC was added to the Debian repositories, so I installed it. On G

Re: Debian 8 to be called "Jessie"

W dniu 28.07.2012 o 23:49 Paul Johnson pisze:On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: It's become a tradition that the reward for reading all the way through our first post-freeze mail is to be one of the first few to know the name of the next release.  Continuing in

Re: Debian 8 to be called "Jessie"

On 28/07/12 22:49, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> >> It's become a tradition that the reward for reading all the way through >> our first post-freeze mail is to be one of the first few to know the >> name of the next release. Continuing in that vein,

Re: Debian 8 to be called "Jessie"

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > It's become a tradition that the reward for reading all the way through > our first post-freeze mail is to be one of the first few to know the > name of the next release. Continuing in that vein, we are happy to > announce that Debian 8.0 will

Re: Re: mail server

> > is there any good howto on Debian Squeeze on following tools > > -postfidx > -dovecot > -postfixadmin (web interface) > -roundcube > -spamassassin > -clamv Most of that list is covered by the tutorials at http://workaround.org/ispmail/ I have used the tutorial for Debian Lenny and found it

Re: gnome doesn't know monitor size under nvidia x server

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 03:43:15PM -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote: .snip... > > > > Since the official (And proprietary.) nVidia driver has no support > for KMS, this sort of feature never "natively" works in a desktop > environments' own monitor settings. My recommendation is

Re: Installing - partitioning failing

Sorry all. Sent this by mistake to Gary off-list. Forwarding here now for completeness for the archives. Lisi -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Installing - partitioning failing Date: Saturday 28 July 2012 From: Lisi To: Gary On Saturday 28 July 2012 16:41:57 Gary wrot

Re: gnome doesn't know monitor size under nvidia x server

On 07/28/2012 02:41 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 28/07/12 03:24 PM, Britton Kerin wrote: I installed all the nvidia driver kernel xserver packages, but now it seems that gnome doesn't know what size the monitor is anymore (all fonts way too large etc.) System->Preferences->Monitors looks like the at

Re: mail server

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:01:09 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> actually i have spent 3 years working with Mailer daemon v7.0 so when >> ever some one say a name "mail server" unintentionally mailer daemon >> comes in my mind. this is my firs

Re: gnome doesn't know monitor size under nvidia x server

On 28/07/12 03:24 PM, Britton Kerin wrote: I installed all the nvidia driver kernel xserver packages, but now it seems that gnome doesn't know what size the monitor is anymore (all fonts way too large etc.) System->Preferences->Monitors looks like the attached screenshot The odd thing is the exp

Re: hard-link question

On 28/07/12 03:08 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: this output is before i hard-linked a 4.4 MB mp3 file $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2677688728 112432972 531334324 18% / tmpfs 1987692 0 1987692 0% /lib/init/

Re: Installing - partitioning failing

Fixed! Thanks, all. The suggested tool worked perfectly, and the problem was indeed that there were 4 primary partitions. -- 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.

links won't open using icedove/wheezy

Just checking to see if others are having the same problem. Using Wheezy and a couple of months ago (guessing) I did a dist-upgrade and all of a sudden my links would only open a new iceweasel window and only to my home page. I have been patient waiting to see if this bug would get fixed but so

Re: startx vs. xdm

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:31:51PM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >> > In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found >> > that startx fails whereas xdm succee

Re: Installing - partitioning failing

Camaleón wrote: > First thing to do when resizing NTFS partitions is performing a scan disk > and defragmentation over the partition, better from Windows itself. Yeah, I did that. > from Gparted LiveCD do whatever you need (resizing and creating new > partitions...) and finally, run Debian ins

Re: Installing - partitioning failing

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:41:57 +0100, Gary wrote: > I have a system with a Windows 7 installation (NTFS) which I'd like to > keep and use "alongside" Debian. During the installation process I > reduced the size of the main partition which left a "hole" that the > installer labelled "unusable". I was

Re: internet probably broken

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:12:11 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: (yet another new thread... >:-) ) > Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages > 47% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]E: > Method gave invalid 200 URI Start message > > Every conta

Re: http.debian.net different error message

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:35:06 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: "Different" than what, exactly? What are you comparing? Should your replies were kept in the same thread they will be easier to follow >:-) > 87% [Connecting to debian.cc.lehigh.edu]E: Method gave invalid 200 URI > Start message And the

Re: Installing - partitioning failing

On 28/07/12 11:41 AM, Gary wrote: I have a system with a Windows 7 installation (NTFS) which I'd like to keep and use "alongside" Debian. During the installation process I reduced the size of the main partition which left a "hole" that the installer labelled "unusable". I wasn't sure what to do w

internet probably broken

Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages 47% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]E: Method gave invalid 200 URI Start message Every contact made with http.debian.net eventually gave the kind of message shown above today. Probaly some lin

Re: Auto mounting Westerni Digital external Hard disk.

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:25:25 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Can't tell what can be wrong from your specific ruleset but I would try >> to debug udev on real time. I don't know if this will be still a valid >> source: >> >> http://www.reactivat

Re: startx vs. xdm

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:31:51PM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found > > that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds. The logs are here. > > startx fails: http://carnot.yi.or

Re: Auto mounting Westerni Digital external Hard disk.

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:28:22 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > >> I have squeeze in two machines a PC and a net book. I have the following >> 80-usb-wd.rules file in /etc/usb/rules.d/ folder. > (...) >> Any solutions to find out reasons why it is not wor

Re: Printers using free software only

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:17:22 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 13:37:22 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> But I already knew there are printers in the market that direct print >> to PDF (as well as options 2/ and 3/ are also possible). I did not >> asked about that. I asked what *you* we

Installing - partitioning failing

I have a system with a Windows 7 installation (NTFS) which I'd like to keep and use "alongside" Debian. During the installation process I reduced the size of the main partition which left a "hole" that the installer labelled "unusable". I wasn't sure what to do with that, but tried to use LVM to ge

http.debian.net different error message

87% [Connecting to debian.cc.lehigh.edu]E: Method gave invalid 200 URI Start message Hardware eventually fails; software eventually works, no amount of band width can fix poor design Jude

Re: Printers using free software only

On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 13:37:22 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:49:53 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > It matches your "1/". Here is another one: > > > > > > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/18972-18972-3328060-15077-236268-3965798-3965802-3965808.html?dnr=1 > > Ah, you

Re: debian wheezy netinst questions

This situation gets funny, so anyone reading further is warned to be sitting on the floor or you'll likely get hurt falling off of your chairs. The talking arch linux disk and instructions for installing talking archlinux had changed but even with that I managed to get archlinux to partition a

Debian 8 to be called "Jessie"

Hi, I just read it from "debian-devel-announce"¹: *** Surprise! - It's become a tradition that the reward for reading all the way through our first post-freeze mail is to be one of the first few to know the name of the next release. Continuing in that vein, we are happy to announce that

Re: Auto mounting Westerni Digital external Hard disk.

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:28:22 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > I have squeeze in two machines a PC and a net book. I have the following > 80-usb-wd.rules file in /etc/usb/rules.d/ folder. (...) > Any solutions to find out reasons why it is not working PC? Can't tell what can be wrong from your specific

Re: black screen but have audio playing

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:57:16 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > on squeeze amd64, when i played video with totem & mplayer > - no video/screen is black > - only audio > > video black, only sound (...) Have you checked if it happens with all kind of video files? From ogg to mpeg, comercial DVD's

Re: Thread supplicate

On Saturday 28 July 2012 04:32:34 Srdja Micic wrote: > Hi, when I was about 16 I made an thread on your site, a rather bad one, > with lots of question and exclamation marks etc., with my real name. Every > time somebody googles me, that thread shows up. Is there any possiblity > that you could era

Auto mounting Westerni Digital external Hard disk.

I have squeeze in two machines a PC and a net book. I have the following 80-usb-wd.rules file in /etc/usb/rules.d/ folder. ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="57442D575845304139395337303334", SYMLINK+="wd%n" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="57442D575845304139395337303

Re: mail server

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:01:09 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > actually i have spent 3 years working with Mailer daemon v7.0 so when > ever some one say a name "mail server" unintentionally mailer daemon > comes in my mind. this is my first time that i am implementing MTA on > linux.since i hav

Re: Printers using free software only

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:49:53 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 10:58:02 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:26:05 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >> > http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/review/1956699/review-hp-laserjet-cp4525-colour-printer >> >> Uh, what is this link for? :-? > > You

Re: mail server

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > thanks, good example. if i say ISPs which provide SMTP relay. are > using MTA where they dont want to store emails (unlike i have to do in > office) rather just relay all the messages to destination. Correct? Generally correct, thoug

Re: mail server

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan > wrote: > >> -postfidx >> -dovecot >> -postfixadmin (web interface) >> -roundcube >> -spamassassin >> -clamv >> >> btw i have a question in my mind . postfix is mail server. but the >>

Re: mail server

actually i have spent 3 years working with Mailer daemon v7.0 so when ever some one say a name "mail server" unintentionally mailer daemon comes in my mind. this is my first time that i am implementing MTA on linux.since i have just started to shift from Microsoft to Linux. there is lot to learn.

Re: Printers using free software only

On Sat 28 Jul 2012 at 10:58:02 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:26:05 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/review/1956699/review-hp-laserjet-cp4525-colour-printer > > Uh, what is this link for? :-? You didn't read all of the content? It matches your "1/". Here is a

Re: SD slot read card failed.

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Keith McKenzie wrote: >> @ lina >>> I just don't want to waste the slot, if it can be used. >> >> >> I'm thinking your slot only supports SD & not SDHC cards. >> >> I have an early netbook that will only rea

Re: [Partial Solution] Re: wifi connect _FAILS_ - was [Re: FROZEN Wheezy netinst - Where to get?]

Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 27 iul 12, 07:00:08, Richard Owlett wrote: Unfortunately I did not keep a record of what choices I made so I don't now exactly what was done differently. I've a gut feeling the problem may be more a "man-machine interface" than "software" problem. "Operator error" i

Re: mail server

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > -postfidx > -dovecot > -postfixadmin (web interface) > -roundcube > -spamassassin > -clamv > > btw i have a question in my mind . postfix is mail server. but the > question raising in my mind if postfix is the complete server then why

Re: Thread supplicate

On 07/28/2012 05:32 AM, Srdja Micic wrote: Hi, when I was about 16 I made an thread on your site, a rather bad one, with lots of question and exclamation marks etc., with my real name. Every time somebody googles me, that thread shows up. Is there any possiblity that you could erase that thread

Re: Printing files under KDE in wheezy

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:40:00 -0700, T Elcor wrote: > I'm a bit confused what packages I need to install to be able to print > files under KDE in wheezy. Is it lpr, cups or pdq? Something else? To print to a physical printer you need a printing service. The election of the service will depend on

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:33:07 -0500, Kent West wrote: > On 07/27/2012 11:35 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I remember something related to the "/etc/nsswitch.conf" file, the >> order of the queried facilities and also the avahi issue with ".local" >> domains... (...) >> Just for testing purposes yo

Re: Printers using free software only

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:26:05 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 27 Jul 2012 at 16:21:42 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:43:24 +0100, Brian wrote: >> > >> > Its a balance. Pros and cons. With a PDF printer: >> >> Define a "PDF printer". What's that? (...) >> Because until now I ha

Re: the rest of the postgresql mystery

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:25:45AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Files from previous versions of postgresql are on the system and I found > it impossible to remove those packages with aptitude after several > attempts. For that reason I will be reinstalling debian and not > reinstalling postgre

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

On Vi, 27 iul 12, 13:45:36, Kent West wrote: > > As mentioned in another post, changing the line in /etc/nsswitch.conf from: > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 > > to: > > hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4 > > seems to have solved

Re: mail server

Muhammad Yousuf Khan: > > btw i have a question in my mind . postfix is mail server. but the > question raising in my mind if postfix is the complete server then why > we have to add several other tools like mentioned above > (dovecot,spamassassin etc) ? When Unix/Linux people talk about mail ser

Re: mail server

On Sb, 28 iul 12, 12:53:19, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > is there any good howto on Debian Squeeze on following tools > > -postfidx > -dovecot > -postfixadmin (web interface) > -roundcube > -spamassassin > -clamv > > btw i have a question in my mind . postfix is mail server. but the > questio

Thread supplicate

Hi, when I was about 16 I made an thread on your site, a rather bad one, with lots of question and exclamation marks etc., with my real name. Every time somebody googles me, that thread shows up. Is there any possiblity that you could erase that thread. It would really mean a lot to me in terms

Re: [SOLVED] gtk-color-scheme for gtk3 themes not being applied?

On 28/07/12 00:30, Adrian Fita wrote: > > How does one configure a theme's color settings for gtk3? :S Fixed. It turns out I was editing the wrong file. gtk3 colors are defined in the gtk.css file of the theme. I just copied the whole theme's gtk-3.0 directory contents into ~/.config/gtk-3.0 and

Re: mail server

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:20 AM, J. B wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:58:39 +0800 >> Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> >>> 2012/7/25 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : >>> > need suggestions, i know there are few populer mail servers like >>> > postfix, san