Re: Noniteractive Installation

2012-08-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 09 aug 12, 17:35:10, r...@aarden.us wrote: > > What do I need to search for to find out how to do this? Is there > already a tool to do all of this? Keywords: preseed, fai Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mail

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 10 aug 12, 17:36:15, Camaleón wrote: > > Yes, and here we had a problem with communication: users were not aware > about this "issue" until they've read it from external sources (blogs, > magazines, etc...). I'm susbscribed to Debian News and Debian Announce > (and now added debian-devel

Re: BD-RE mount problem

2012-08-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I did another test using system rescue cd. While it gives me the same error > when I run dvd+rw-format, I note that mkudffs complains about multiple > extents. I don't know why it gives a different message under system rescue > cd than under Debian/Wheezy but I thought it might be a clue as

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10.08.2012 18:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > GNOME3 isn't a successor of GNOME2, Xfce is much closer to GNOME2. And MATE is even closer :) - -- Mika Suomalainen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key: h

Re: Internet conecction

2012-08-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/08/12 10:45 PM, Vicente wrote: Good day, if someone can provide some help, many Thanks in advance. Turns out I have a computer with a wireless network card and a usb modem, running a Debian testing, is that I want configure the devices as follows: The USB Modem output to have internet and

Re: could not grab your keyboard

2012-08-10 Thread lina
On Saturday 11,August,2012 12:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:53:02 +0800, lina wrote: > >> I met following problem: >> >> "Could not grab your keyboard. >> A malicious client may be eavesdropping on your session or you may just >> clicked a menu or some application decided to get

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Lili-Anne Girard
> Do you really think that XFCE is tested in the same way that GNOME (and > Dothe same goes for Razor-QT and KDE, for instance)? I mean, there are more > Dothe GNOME/KDE users out there than XFCE/LXDE/Razor-QT and more users means > well probed software. To make a DE as a default for a distribution

Internet conecction

2012-08-10 Thread Vicente
Good day, if someone can provide some help, many Thanks in advance. Turns out I have a computer with a wireless network card and a usb modem, running a Debian testing, is that I want configure the devices as follows: The USB Modem output to have internet and wifi card to connect to my local networ

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-08-10 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Gary, 4.08.2012: > Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 30 Jul 2012 at 19:43:25 +0100, Gary wrote: > > > > > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > > No, squeeze-backports has binary packages (linux-image-3.2*) that you > > > > can just install. > > > > > > > > > That didn't go well :( > > > > It might not be a b

Update: Who's interested in project management & collaboration tools?

2012-08-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Thanks to all who've sent me comments! The new, and hopefully improved Kickstarter page and video are now up at: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th Take a look! Comments welcome. So are donations, likes, tweets, diggs, +1s, re-dis

Re: disabling slowkeys in gdm3

2012-08-10 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joe Pfeiffer writes: > I've also run into the problem with slowkeys automatically turning > itself on when I hold the shift key too long, as described in > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657969 > > It isn't clear to me why the display manager has anything to do with > this, bu

disabling slowkeys in gdm3

2012-08-10 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I've also run into the problem with slowkeys automatically turning itself on when I hold the shift key too long, as described in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657969 It isn't clear to me why the display manager has anything to do with this, but apparently the solution is to use

Re: krunner crashes[SOLVED]

2012-08-10 Thread Roman V.Leon.
On 10.08.2012 21:57, Roman V.Leon. wrote: I wish you all a good time of day/night. Gents, after last upgrade I got a problem with krunner on my debian testing x64. After i'm logging into KDE session i'm getting an error that something was crashed. After some investigations of .xsession-errors, i'

Re: BD-RE mount problem

2012-08-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/08/12 12:46 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/08/12 10:33 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i can reproduce the symptoms by a read-only situation of drive and media. (It should not happen with BD-RE in a BD writer, of course.) open_sr0.c with O_NDELAY yielded: open: fd= 3 , errno= 0 write: ret= 20

krunner crashes

2012-08-10 Thread Roman V.Leon.
I wish you all a good time of day/night. Gents, after last upgrade I got a problem with krunner on my debian testing x64. After i'm logging into KDE session i'm getting an error that something was crashed. After some investigations of .xsession-errors, i've found that the reason of this this cr

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 13:07 -0400, Guy Gold wrote: > Yes, there it is : > > from : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWheezy > > === > Packages & versions > > apt: 0.9.7 > kernel: Linux 3.2 > gcc: 4.7.1 > > Gnome 3.4, KDE 4.8, Xfce 4.8 > > libc: eglibc 2.13 > X Server: Xorg R7.7

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:22:48 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 10 Aug 2012 at 14:23:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:41:37 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >> > But the process of how the decisions are made and who makes them is >> > the same. >> >> Yes, but that does not change the fact

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Brian
On Fri 10 Aug 2012 at 14:23:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:41:37 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > But the process of how the decisions are made and who makes them is the > > same. > > Yes, but that does not change the fact a decision (being a big change or > a small one) is wrong o

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Guy Gold
Yes, there it is : from : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWheezy === Packages & versions apt: 0.9.7 kernel: Linux 3.2 gcc: 4.7.1 Gnome 3.4, KDE 4.8, Xfce 4.8 libc: eglibc 2.13 X Server: Xorg R7.7 == On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Camaleón wrote: >

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:35:52 -0400, Guy Gold wrote: > Does that mean that future releases of Debian will no longer support > GNOME 2 ? Yes, I think so... since Wheezy and until Squeeze is supported. GNOME2 has been (or will be soon) deprecated/dead end from upstream GNOME project (the same it w

Re: BD-RE mount problem

2012-08-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/08/12 10:33 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i can reproduce the symptoms by a read-only situation of drive and media. (It should not happen with BD-RE in a BD writer, of course.) open_sr0.c with O_NDELAY yielded: open: fd= 3 , errno= 0 write: ret= 2048 , errno= 0 I get the same behavior w

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/10/2012 11:08 AM, Doug wrote: > All of that is quite correct, but it neglects one parameter: if the > RF connection depends on directional antennas, which it will > for any reasonable distance--say 1/2 mile or more--then wind may > become a significant effect if it causes the antennas to jigg

Re: install issue

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:27:56 -0400, Ryan Nematz wrote: (please, no html posts, thanks...) > I burn my own DVD Install discs Was the ISO downloaded from the official repositories? > and when Debian was in the middle of installing I got a > message...please insert Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 _Squeez

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-10 Thread Doug
On 08/10/2012 12:52 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:00 AM, lina wrote: On 9 Aug, 2012, at 23:05, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:00:18PM +0800, lina wrote: I don't know the reliable of the connection between the two servers, I guess it's okay. But from m

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:19:38 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 14:23 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Why not? If that's what people wants (let users decice!). There are >> other options, of course. > > By upstream GNOME3 force to install pulseaudio, when I upgraded once > upon a time,

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:24:54 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 14:13 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Do you really think that XFCE is tested in the same way that GNOME (and >> the same goes for Razor-QT and KDE, for instance)? I mean, there are >> more >> GNOME/KDE users out there than

Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:42:20 -0400, Guy Gold wrote: > On Fri,Aug 10 02:35:PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Anyway, being a MacOS client, you should be able to use IPP and thus >> avoiding messing up with another client/server protocols that may >> require setting up the correct credentials for accessing

Re: Conexion de internet

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 22:52:28 -0500, Vicente wrote: > Buen dia, si alguien me puede brindar un poco de ayuda, muchas gracias > de antemano. (...) Yes, but please, forward this post to the Spanish mailing list or ask again in English :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 14:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > Why not? If that's what people wants (let users decice!). There are > other options, of course. By upstream GNOME3 force to install pulseaudio, when I upgraded once upon a time, GNOME2 became GNOME3 and pulseaudio had broken my Debian. Than I go

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 09:33 -0400, Guy Gold wrote: > On Fri,Aug 10 02:26:PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > However, I don't know whether you can really say "Debian+GNONE3". Debian > > is nothing without the packages. Gnome 3 is part of Debian. > > When was GNOME3 the default desktop for Debain ? (luc

Re: package wxmacmolplt broken

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:27:22 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: (please, don't cross-post without warning the users about it) > Package wxmacmolplt on wheezy is broken. It currently requires > libglew1.6, while libglew1.7 is currently installed. Mmm, I see no package in Debian repos with that name :

[Closed] Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 14:26 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Is this [1] true? I welcome this. > > Partly. See http://lists.debian.org/jvu3q0$kgo$1...@dough.gmane.org and > the ongoing thread. > > However, I don't know whether you can

Re: How to add self-compiled kernel module in debian installation

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:04:06 -0700, ML mail wrote: > Well I am also starting to develop some kind of love/hate relationship > with these RAID cards... And those cards from LSI are one of the most valued RAID cards in the market, at least when it comes to their hardware specs. But then it comes

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Guy Gold
On Fri,Aug 10 09:55:AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > GNOME 3 is quite different from the GNOME 2 series, and has made > some people correspondingly upset. XFCE is fairly similar to > GNOME 2, and may suit those people better. In particular, GNOME > 3 really wants 3D accelerated video. XFCE doesn't care much

Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-10 Thread Guy Gold
On Fri,Aug 10 02:35:PM, Camaleón wrote: > Anyway, being a MacOS client, you should be able to use IPP and thus > avoiding messing up with another client/server protocols that may require > setting up the correct credentials for accessing the printing resources > (e.g., samba). It is a good solu

Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:57:48 -0300, David Roguin wrote: > I have a debian server which have an epson printer installed to it. The > printer works fine with windows and linux clients but when I try to > print with a mac it asks for a password and then the printer stops with > the error > "/opt/epso

Re: BD-RE mount problem

2012-08-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i can reproduce the symptoms by a read-only situation of drive and media. (It should not happen with BD-RE in a BD writer, of course.) open_sr0.c with O_NDELAY yielded: > open: fd= 3 , errno= 0 > write: ret= 2048 , errno= 0 I get the same behavior when i put a DVD into a DVD-ROM drive. It al

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread John Hasler
Guy writes: > When was GNOME3 the default desktop for Debain ? Gnome was the default desktop for quite a while. It was assumed that Gnome3 would be the default for Wheezy but it turns out to be too large to fit on the first CD. Gnome3 will presumably be a choice in Tasksel. It would be possible,

Re: How to add self-compiled kernel module in debian installation

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 07:46 -0700, ML mail wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a new LSI MegaRAID card which is not recognized by the Debian 6.0 > squeeze installer so I thought I would modify the initrd.gz installation > image which gets loaded at PXE boot in order to include my self-compiled > latest

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 14:13 +, Camaleón wrote: > Do you really think that XFCE is tested in the same way that GNOME > (and > the same goes for Razor-QT and KDE, for instance)? I mean, there are > more > GNOME/KDE users out there than XFCE/LXDE/Razor-QT and more users > means > well probed so

Re: [LAU] OnDemand-performance was(OT: klang)

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 00:22 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:34:03AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > every email address in the mail is shown as is, so at least respect > > the privacy of others and remove email addresses, or much better, > > If you post to a mailing list,

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:41:37 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 09 Aug 2012 at 16:33:39 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:43:38 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >> > You've already provided a major reference for the discussion which >> > has taken place on debian-devel. It included controversy

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:33:04AM -0400, Guy Gold wrote: > On Fri,Aug 10 02:26:PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > However, I don't know whether you can really say "Debian+GNONE3". Debian > > is nothing without the packages. Gnome 3 is part of Debian. > > When was GNOME3 the default desktop for Debain

Re: could not grab your keyboard

2012-08-10 Thread lina
On Friday 10,August,2012 09:53 PM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I met following problem: > > "Could not grab your keyboard. > A malicious client may be eavesdropping on your > session or you may just clicked a menu or some > application decided to get focused. Try again" > > It has never happened befor

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 18:35 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 08 Aug 2012 at 16:23:28 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > Subject says it all. > > How can this be [OT]? It's about Debian. It concerns Wheezy. And the > installer is involved, too. > > > I ask because I've read this from two different sources

could not grab your keyboard

2012-08-10 Thread lina
Hi, I met following problem: "Could not grab your keyboard. A malicious client may be eavesdropping on your session or you may just clicked a menu or some application decided to get focused. Try again" It has never happened before. It's my first time met above problem. When I use wireless. Are

install issue

2012-08-10 Thread Ryan Nematz
I burn my own DVD Install discs and when Debian was in the middle of installing I got a message...please insert Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20120512-13:45. Where do in find this .iso?

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Guy Gold
On Fri,Aug 10 02:26:PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > However, I don't know whether you can really say "Debian+GNONE3". Debian > is nothing without the packages. Gnome 3 is part of Debian. When was GNOME3 the default desktop for Debain ? (luckily , it was not in squeeze, which came with GNOME2 , I'm unni

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 03:08:50PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Is this [1] true? I welcome this. Partly. See http://lists.debian.org/jvu3q0$kgo$1...@dough.gmane.org and the ongoing thread. However, I don't know whether you can really say "Debian+GNONE3". Debian is nothing without the packages.

Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Is this [1] true? I welcome this. Regards, Ralf [1] Forwarded Message From: To: linux-audio-user Subject: [LAU] Debian desktop news Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:40:37 -1000 Debian is dropping GNOME3 as their default desktop environment, and going with XFCE. Why? Because they can

Re: [s...@hardwarefreak.com: Re: Help with KVM/libvirt/win2008r2. Guest loosing time.]

2012-08-10 Thread William Thompson
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:25:14AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On 8/6/2012 2:46 PM, Chris Davies wrote: > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> This would be much simpler if the Windows scheduler had more > >> granularity. You can only schedule per day or greater. AFAIK you can't > >> schedule events

Re: BD-RE mount problem

2012-08-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I'm wondering if the problem is the iso9660 file system that K3B put onto > the disc? I seriously doubt. At least dd should have no scruples to overwrite any filesystem. The block device driver has no idea of filesystems. The only connection would be open(2) flag O_EXCL. mount uses it to

package wxmacmolplt broken

2012-08-10 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi all: Package wxmacmolplt on wheezy is broken. It currently requires libglew1.6, while libglew1.7 is currently installed. thanks francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: BD-RE mount problem

2012-08-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/08/12 05:23 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, -fd = open("/dev/sr0", O_RDWR); +fd = open("/dev/sr0", O_RDWR | O_NDELAY); open: fd= 3 , errno= 0 write: ret= 2048 , errno= 0 This explains why xorriso or dvd+rw-format can open the drive device file. (The failure to re-format is a diffe

Re: BD-RE mount problem

2012-08-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > -fd = open("/dev/sr0", O_RDWR); > > +fd = open("/dev/sr0", O_RDWR | O_NDELAY); > open: fd= 3 , errno= 0 > write: ret= 2048 , errno= 0 This explains why xorriso or dvd+rw-format can open the drive device file. (The failure to re-format is a different problem.) > No one in Debian

Re: UEFI install

2012-08-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Have you tried with Wheezy ? On 10/08/12 11:17, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: Has any one installed

UEFI install (was: Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD)

2012-08-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: > On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > > > On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: > > >> Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in > > >> ultrabooks

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2012 schrieb Darac Marjal: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:14:50PM +0800, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, > > > > from one server to another server. > > > > I checked that rsync is faster than scp, > > but in my situations rsync has

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2012 schrieb Johannes Wiedersich: > On 08/08/12 09:14, lina wrote: > > It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, > > > > from one server to another server. > > > > I checked that rsync is faster than scp, > > but in my situations rsync has elapsed for 1 hour, I guess t

Re: BD-RE mount problem

2012-08-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/08/12 01:50 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, fd = open("/dev/sr0", O_RDWR); root@transponder:/home/garydale# ./open_sr0 open: fd= -1 , errno= 30 open: Read-only file system This is surprising, because xorriso uses open(..., O_RDWR | O_NDELAY); when it acquires a drive. (I would have

Re: debian 6.0.5 ISO installation issue. GRUB .. file not found

2012-08-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
ok it is resolved, here is what i did. since the grub has mistakenly installed on RAID drive (md0) and not on /dev/sda or /dev/sdb MBRs. however i could not understand why is that happen. i am following the same linux installation that i used to with old version it just happen to me with 6.0.5. an