Re: plugin-containe high CPU

2012-10-29 Thread Jochen Spieker
Mark Panen: > > What is the story with plugin-containe? Every distro i have ever > used it eventually eats your CPU usuage? including: It's a Firefox/Iceweasel process that runs browser plugins like Adobe Flash. J. -- Atrocities committed in Rwanda pervade my mind when I am discussing mundaniti

how to get graphics in fbcodecor enabled kernel ?

2012-10-29 Thread J. B
Hello list, I have compiled kernel 3.6.3 with fbcondecor patch. How can I now display images at terminal background ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.de

Re: Controlling automount

2012-10-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 02:40:28PM -0400, Len Berman wrote: > I am running Debian stable (Linux foobar 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu > Aug 23 07:41:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux). > > If rhythmbox is up when I plug in my digital camera, rhythmbox grabs it > as a 'removable device' and I cannot

Re: Using Debian wheezy

2012-10-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 04:16:31AM -0700, rodrigo tavares wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using Debian 6;0 Squezze, in my mail server, so I need to cyrus-2.4, but > in repository > > come only cyrus-2.2. So I comment my sources.list, and add reposotory  > wheezy. So I run apt-get update, and i got ins

plugin-containe high CPU

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, What is the story with plugin-containe? Every distro i have ever used it eventually eats your CPU usuage? including: Squeeze amd64 6.0.6 -- Cheers Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/29/2012 9:17 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:06:36 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 10/29/2012 6:08 PM, Celejar wrote: >> >>> Interesting. Google shows that there was a thread on /. a year ago >>> about the question of ARM on the desktop, but a quick skim shows no >>> obviou

screensaver occasionally stops running (squeeze, gnome)

2012-10-29 Thread Andrew Bennett
Hello, My Gnome (Debian Squeeze) screensaver occasionally stops working. It happens every few days (2? 4-5? It doesn't appear to be regular). Toggling the state of the Power Manager Inhibit Applet (inhibit sleep then re-enable sleep) will fix it (also a reboot will fix it). The problem is that

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:06:36 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/29/2012 6:08 PM, Celejar wrote: > > > Interesting. Google shows that there was a thread on /. a year ago > > about the question of ARM on the desktop, but a quick skim shows no > > obviously compelling reason why it won't ever happe

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/29/2012 6:08 PM, Celejar wrote: > Interesting. Google shows that there was a thread on /. a year ago > about the question of ARM on the desktop, but a quick skim shows no > obviously compelling reason why it won't ever happen. Thoughts? There a dozens of reasons. First and foremost, ARM se

[sloved] OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 18:52 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote: > What's the '+100' supposed to do? ### Killall and Restore session started=$(date +%s) SECONDS=0 sleep 2 ### Time month=$(date +%B) mon=$(date +%b) d_y_t=$(date '+/%d/%Y %T') done=$(date +%s) done_2=$SECONDS ((seconds=(done-start

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 21:31 +, Dom wrote: > Would this do what you are after? > > ### Killall and Restore session > started=$(date +%s) > sleep 2 > > ### Time > month=$(date +%B) > mon=$(date +%b) > d_y_t=$(date '+/%d/%Y %T') > done=$(date +%s) > echo > printf "Attended time to restore sessio

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:44:16 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/29/2012 1:15 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: ... > > I think that ARM will become interesting enough to have some competition > > going on. > > ARM will never be a desktop CPU so is irrelevant to this discussion. > AMD doesn't comp

lenny vs squeeze eth drivers

2012-10-29 Thread Jim Pazarena
I had lenny monitoring a "tigon3" eth in promiscuous mode watching a mirrored switch port that carried a dozen or so 802.1q tagged vlans. The monitoring of the traffic worked great and as expected. I then upgraded the server to squeeze and monitoring failed brutally. While the eth on squeeze saw

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #2551

2012-10-29 Thread Wendell Cochran
On 10/29/12, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2012 : Issue 2551 > > Today's Topics: > Re: OT: A question about bash script [ Neal Murphy >Re: OT: A question about bash script [ Ral

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-29 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, October 29, 2012 04:31:03 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > FOR YOUR EXAMPLE, IIUC IT SHOULD BE? ... > > ### Killall and Restore session > started=$(date +%s) > sleep 2 > > ### Time > month=$(date +%B) > mon=$(date +%b) > d_y_t=$(date '+/%d/%Y %T') > done=$(date +%s) > #((seconds=(don

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/29/2012 1:15 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: >> On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact you'll never make use

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-29 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, lee wrote: > John Hasler writes: >> I wrote: >> Andrei writes: >>> >>> "apt-get build-dep" should establish the required environment. >>> Assuming a pure Debian environment. As it turns out the OP does have >>> foreign libraries installed. >> >> I don't. > > Then

Re: Modoarchive - Again

2012-10-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Any Ideas?? I am having problems w/ Mondoarchive. 1] For some unknown reason the system thinks that the hard drive is sda. Maybe, the file system was corrupted and I ran fsck with hard drive unmounted. 2] My command line for backup

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-29 Thread Dom
On 29/10/12 20:31, Ralf Mardorf wrote: (trimmed) I want ((seconds=(done-started)-(((done-started)/60)*60)+100)) min_sec=$(((done-started)/60))":"${seconds: -2} in one line, instead of two lines. I don't understand your reply. Even if I would add ${min_sec: 2} to each "echo" command (ther

Re: dpkg --set-selections

2012-10-29 Thread Erwan David
On 29/10/12 21:25, jon@gmail.com wrote: > I am having trouble with the following: > > $ dpkg --get-selections >list (this appears to work okay) > > but: > > # dpkg --set-selections > The command gives an error which is repeated over and over. > > dpkg: warning: package not in database at line

Re: dpkg --set-selections

2012-10-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 29 oct 12, 16:25:30, jon@gmail.com wrote: > I am having trouble with the following: > > $ dpkg --get-selections >list (this appears to work okay) > > but: > > # dpkg --set-selections > The command gives an error which is repeated over and over. > > dpkg: warning: package not in dat

Re: apt-get depend list problem

2012-10-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 29 oct 12, 20:49:37, Mark Nesterovych wrote: > Hello. > Having problem with installing a couple of self created packages. > > Example: > Have package A which keeps in control file depend to package B.B > (=8.4.4-9) > In the repo I also have newer package B with version 8.4.4-14 > > If

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-29 Thread lee
John Hasler writes: > I wrote: >> "apt-get build-dep" should establish the required environment. > > Andrei writes: >> Assuming a pure Debian environment. As it turns out the OP does have >> foreign libraries installed. > > I don't. Then you would have to send the bug report: It was closed beca

Re: dpkg --set-selections

2012-10-29 Thread Wayne Topa
On 10/29/2012 04:25 PM, jon@gmail.com wrote: I am having trouble with the following: $ dpkg --get-selections>list (this appears to work okay) but: # dpkg --set-selections serious bugs of dpkg (-> ) #690823 - gadfly: build wrong version of the packaging during a binNMU (Fixed: dpkg/1.16

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread lee
Marc Shapiro writes: > I don't know if this makes a difference, but... While this is a home > machine there are three of us here. Myself, my wife and daughter. We > are all logged in all the time and we are all running separate X > sessions all the time. Get an Intel 4 or 6 core that provides r

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread lee
Marc Shapiro writes: > if it will stay up without locking. The new desktop will be using a > modern MB and DDR3 memory. Given your budget constraints, you're looking at getting used hardware off ebay (or maybe craigslist, depending on where you live ...). You're also locking at getting at leas

dpkg --set-selections

2012-10-29 Thread jon....@gmail.com
I am having trouble with the following: $ dpkg --get-selections >list (this appears to work okay) but: # dpkg --set-selections xfce -> claws-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> ... WHILE I WONT THIS 2 lines, AS ONE LINE, INCLUDING THE FORMATTING: Oops, an evil typo ;), it should be "... while I want". The capital letters aren't for shouting, just to distinguish the mail's text from the script. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 15:59 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Monday, October 29, 2012 03:26:20 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 15:00 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi :) > > > > > > > > > >

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-29 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, October 29, 2012 03:26:20 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 15:00 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf > > > > wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > > > how can I get rid of the variable "seconds"? > > > > > > ((seconds=(done-started)-(((done-

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Worrier Poet
On 10/29/2012 03:06 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Worrier Poet > wrote: >> >> At the same time, I have reservations about supporting AMD -- or more to >> the point their subsidiary, NVidia -- when purchasing hardware. It seems >> to me that Intel has been a better f

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 15:00 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > Hi :) > > > > how can I get rid of the variable "seconds"? > > > > ((seconds=(done-started)-(((done-started)/60)*60)+100)) > > min_sec=$(((done-started)/60))":"${seconds: -2} > >

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Worrier Poet wrote: > > At the same time, I have reservations about supporting AMD -- or more to > the point their subsidiary, NVidia -- when purchasing hardware. It seems > to me that Intel has been a better friend to FOSS than its competition. > I run my systems

apt-get depend list problem

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Nesterovych
Hello. Having problem with installing a couple of self created packages. Example: Have package A which keeps in control file depend to package B.B (=8.4.4-9) In the repo I also have newer package B with version 8.4.4-14 If I am running apt-get install A=8.4.4-9 getting next message below A: D

Controlling automount

2012-10-29 Thread Len Berman
I am running Debian stable (Linux foobar 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 07:41:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux). If rhythmbox is up when I plug in my digital camera, rhythmbox grabs it as a 'removable device' and I cannot get photos from the camera. (Apps like gthumb or gphotofs fail.) Onc

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Worrier Poet
On 10/29/2012 02:15 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: >> On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact you'll never make us

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > > On 10/27/2012 08:27 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > On 10/27/2012 7:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > >> I'm really getting annoyed by my random system lockups, so I have > > >> been looking

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > On 10/27/2012 08:27 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 10/27/2012 7:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> I'm really getting annoyed by my random system lockups, so I have > >> been looking at new motherboards, new systems, etc. > > > > ... > > > >> I s

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact > >> you'll never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend > >> a

Re: Modoarchive - Again

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 28 October 2012 8:06:11 pm Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear List - > > > Any Ideas?? > > I am having problems w/ Mondoarchive. > > 1] For some unknown reason the system thinks that the hard drive is sda. > Maybe, the file system was corrupted and I ran fsck wit

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2012 schrieb Mark Allums: > On 10/29/2012 2:51 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 28 oct 12, 22:09:01, Mark Allums wrote: > >> Ah, I misunderstood your requirements quite a bit. i3 is adequate > >> for media center work. Some Atoms are fine for decoding 1080p, but > >> it

spanning workspace switcher across two monitors

2012-10-29 Thread Patrick
Hello Everyone I have used a large number of debian derivatives and unstable but I have never run stable. I am very happy with it and only have one more obstacle to overcome to have the perfect set up. I am one overloaded Dad! I have many things on the go at once. I prefer to use 60+ work

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/29/2012 06:54 AM, Celejar wrote: Not sure this will be relevant to your situation, but be aware that obtaining memory for obsolete architectures can sometimes cost *more* than for current architectures. I have a ThinkPad T61, which I'm quite happy with, but although I'd love to double its

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Go Linux
--- On Sat, 10/27/12, Marc Shapiro wrote: > From: Marc Shapiro > Subject: Advice on system purchase > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Saturday, October 27, 2012, 7:29 PM > Several replies have recommended Antec cases and I'd like to second that. I've been very happy with the NSK4480

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:07:29 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: ... > I tend to keep my systems going for a long time, as evidenced by the > fact that I am looking to replace a single core Athlon 2800+ with 2GB > max memory at this time (while possibly keeping it running as a server > to supplement my

Using Debian wheezy

2012-10-29 Thread rodrigo tavares
Hello, I'm using Debian 6;0 Squezze, in my mail server, so I need to cyrus-2.4, but in repository come only cyrus-2.2. So I comment my sources.list, and add reposotory  wheezy. So I run apt-get update, and i got installed cryus-2.4. I read the version testing come more new recentes packages.

Re: Is Wheezy going to be more stable than Squeeze?

2012-10-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:03:45AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > I expect this post could cause annoyance in some quarters but I can > > stand abuse if you want to give it. > > I am tempted to insult you in funny ways, but at the moment I cannot > think of any. :) What about: "His mother was a

Re: Log flooding: Oct 28 11:44:21 localhost kernel: [ 3348.008429] option: option_instat_callback: error -2

2012-10-29 Thread cubells
, Vicent Cubells, Tel: 659 06 36 14. - Reply message - De: "Darac Marjal" Para: Asunto: Log flooding: Oct 28 11:44:21 localhost kernel: [ 3348.008429] option: option_instat_callback: error -2 Fecha: lun., oct. 29, 2012 11:39 On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 02:09:36PM -0400, Jude DaShiell w

Re: Log flooding: Oct 28 11:44:21 localhost kernel: [ 3348.008429] option: option_instat_callback: error -2

2012-10-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 02:09:36PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > > > > since some time my logs are flooded with the folowwing message: > > > > Oct 28 11:45:09 localhost kernel: [ 3395.992226] option: > > option_instat_callback: erro

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/29/2012 2:51 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 28 oct 12, 22:09:01, Mark Allums wrote: Ah, I misunderstood your requirements quite a bit. i3 is adequate for media center work. Some Atoms are fine for decoding 1080p, but it's better to rely on dedicated hardware. Do you know for sure (i

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 28 oct 12, 22:09:01, Mark Allums wrote: > > Ah, I misunderstood your requirements quite a bit. i3 is adequate > for media center work. Some Atoms are fine for decoding 1080p, but > it's better to rely on dedicated hardware. Do you know for sure (i.e. first hand experience) they can do

RE: Repair a remote PC

2012-10-29 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> How I can do to repair a remote PC, I would like to install a software >> and I would like to move some directory or some files. >> Remote PC have LINUX or Windows XP, the Server have Debian ''Squeeze" > > [] > > Thank you for your answer, what do you think about this software, > it's