Re: Boot and shutdown routines frequently abort in Squeeze

2013-02-20 Thread Ken Heard
On 2013-02-21 09:19, Chris Bannister wrote: > Ouch! Have you ruled out hardware? Have you tried booting from a > live-cd, knoppix, grml, something like that? Actually no, I have not ruled out hardware failure. In fact there are other unusual problems which may indicate a hardware failure. I did

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Eduard Bloch wrote: > * Bob Proulx wrote: > > Please quote my exact words where I misused terminology. I do not see > > it. I never said GB nor GiB. I used a number. > > Yeah. A number as answer to something about "GB". Have you ever been on > the Jeopardy show? I interpreted the question as h

Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:55:06 -0600 "Mark Allums" wrote: > > Le 21/02/2013 00:32, Mark Allums a écrit : > > >> From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] > > >> On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: > > >>> Hello to all! > > >>> > > >>> How do I create two same-user sessions from GDM? > > >>> >

Re: Availability of mtpfs in Wheezy

2013-02-20 Thread nixuser
Thank you for these leads Bob. I will take a look. On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 18:59 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > nixuser wrote: > > I noticed on the Debian packages website that mtpfs is available under > > Sid and Stable, but not under Wheezy. A quick search under apt-cache > > when running Wheezy sho

Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:32:40 -0600 "Mark Allums" wrote: > [...] > As far as starting a new session at GDM, wouldn't it be like starting > any other session with GDM? Just choose your window manager+DE with > the pulldown menu? What am I missing? At the moment when you already have a session, it

Re: Boot and shutdown routines frequently abort in Squeeze

2013-02-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:06:25AM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > I have a Lenovo R61 laptop which I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze at > the end of November last. Ever since that upgrade the boot routine > frequently aborts. The kernel is installed, and the boot routine > continues as far as the point

Boot and shutdown routines frequently abort in Squeeze

2013-02-20 Thread Ken Heard
I have a Lenovo R61 laptop which I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze at the end of November last. Ever since that upgrade the boot routine frequently aborts. The kernel is installed, and the boot routine continues as far as the point where the font size changes. At that point the screen goes bl

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Allums
> Le 21/02/2013 00:32, Mark Allums a écrit : > >> From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] > >> On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: > >>> Hello to all! > >>> > >>> How do I create two same-user sessions from GDM? > >>> > >>> Say I'm logged in in Xfce (which I normally use, therefore have > >>

Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 21/02/2013 00:32, Mark Allums a écrit : -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:52 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM) On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello to a

RE: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Allums
> -Original Message- > From: Kent West [mailto:we...@acu.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:52 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM) > > On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: > > Hello to all! > > > > How do I create

Re: Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Kent West
On 02/20/2013 04:07 PM, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello to all! How do I create two same-user sessions from GDM? Say I'm logged in in Xfce (which I normally use, therefore have many windows / apps open) and want to quickly report a bug. But before I do that, I want to check if the same happens in GNO

Open new session with same user (in GDM)

2013-02-20 Thread Alois Mahdal
Hello to all! How do I create two same-user sessions from GDM? Say I'm logged in in Xfce (which I normally use, therefore have many windows / apps open) and want to quickly report a bug. But before I do that, I want to check if the same happens in GNOME. xfswitch-plugin ("User switching" in Pane

LXDE startup

2013-02-20 Thread Sharon Kimble
My LXDE startup at /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart has this in it '@termit -e ncmpcpp' which starts ncmpcpp, a MPD backend. Termit is a rather nice terminal with tabs that auto-resizes to the name you enter into it. But I use many tabs in it, currently eight of various programmes.But, how do I g

Re: Is there is any wifi firmware in main?

2013-02-20 Thread agroconsultor0
On 02/20/2013 12:21 AM, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: Le Mer 20 février 2013 1:33, agroconsultor0 a écrit : On 02/19/2013 11:00 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: So you'll probably have to live with non-free firmware, either shipped on the device itself or in some firmware-* package in non-free. To be honest

Re: Is there is any wifi firmware in main?

2013-02-20 Thread green
green wrote at 2013-02-20 07:55 -0600: > "Morel Bérenger" wrote at 2013-02-20 02:21 -0600: > > Le Mer 20 février 2013 1:33, agroconsultor0 a écrit : > > > On 02/19/2013 11:00 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > > >> So you'll probably have to live with > > >> non-free firmware, either shipped on the de

Re: Is there is any wifi firmware in main?

2013-02-20 Thread green
"Morel Bérenger" wrote at 2013-02-20 02:21 -0600: > Le Mer 20 février 2013 1:33, agroconsultor0 a écrit : > > On 02/19/2013 11:00 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > >> So you'll probably have to live with > >> non-free firmware, either shipped on the device itself or in some > >> firmware-* package in n

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-20 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Bob Proulx [Sat, Feb 16 2013, 01:54:44PM]: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Nah, not having much spare time to post doesn't mean I have to drop > > all the good habits. > > I had nothing in the mailbox for the last year of recent memory. I > will call that good enough to be called "a while". >

Re: Is there is any wifi firmware in main?

2013-02-20 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 20 février 2013 1:33, agroconsultor0 a écrit : > On 02/19/2013 11:00 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> So you'll probably have to live with >> non-free firmware, either shipped on the device itself or in some >> firmware-* package in non-free. To be honest, this is what I was expecting, but I th