Inability to launch Cinnamon

2013-03-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've just installed cinnamon to try it out again on a new monitor. but when i try to access it i don't get any desktop just the gdm3 greeter background. i suspect i have corrupt desktop for it from my last attempt at using it, so I've deleted all items saying cinnamon i can find in .local. and .sha

Bluetooth stop working after update

2013-03-22 Thread Gean Ceretta
Hello friends, I have an Sony Vaio VPCEG-15FB with Debian Wheezy, my bluetooth was working well until the last week updates, when a message in the boot says something like 'error on load bluetooth firmware'. One of the things I have done that maybe start this problem was an instalation of powert

Re: I saem to have lost maildrop's xfilter command

2013-03-22 Thread Alois Mahdal
Hi, On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:59:36 -0400 "Eric d'Halibut" wrote: > Sorry I don't have much more hard data, but my maildrop > scripts, after years of good service, seem all of a sudden > broken. I have no xfilter command, which is required by my > scripts. I don't know maildrop, so this may not be

Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: use a 3TB WD Mybook on old etch system kernel 2.6.18-6-486. parted 1.7.1 has bugs. can I use modern parted on other system and move over drive

2013-03-22 Thread Mitchell Laks
> ok so I will try it tomorrow. > Thank you very much > I will report back > > Mitchell And the answer is: The drive was not recognized as partitioned and formated as two ext3 partitions of size 1.5T. even after I partitioned it on a modern sid system. The old debian kernel 2.6-18-2 recogniz

Re: Aptitude access again.

2013-03-22 Thread Weaver
On Fri, March 22, 2013 3:30 am, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 01:52:50AM -0700, Weaver wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> Anybody know what application this has? >> ~~~ >> root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update >> Get: 1 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable Rel

Re: vlans

2013-03-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi Sven, >>> What I do NOT want is to have names like eth0.60 for vlan.60 >>> incoming on interface eth0. Because if I decide it would be better >>> to have vlan60 come in on eth1 I would have to rename all (firewall, >>> etc.) scripts that refer to that name. >>> What I w

RE: vlans

2013-03-22 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Sven, >> What I do NOT want is to have names like eth0.60 for vlan.60 incoming >> on interface eth0. Because if I decide it would be better to have >> vlan60 come in on eth1 I would have to rename all (firewall, etc.) >> scripts that refer to that name. >> What I would like to have is names

RE: vlans

2013-03-22 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Darac >> What I do NOT want is to have names like eth0.60 for vlan.60 incoming on >> interface eth0. >> Because if I decide it would be better to have vlan60 come in on eth1 I >> would have to rename all (firewall, etc.) scripts that refer to that name. >> >> What I would like to have is nam

Re: vlans

2013-03-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > What I do NOT want is to have names like eth0.60 for vlan.60 incoming > on interface eth0. Because if I decide it would be better to have > vlan60 come in on eth1 I would have to rename all (firewall, etc.) > scripts that refer to that name. > What I would like to have is

Re: vlans

2013-03-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 02:27:13PM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > I am going to implement vlans on my Linux router. Have been reading about > this about from when Squeeze was released and was ready to take the plunge > today when I read this: http://wiki.defcon.no/guides/debian/vlan > See

Re: Run script at boot time

2013-03-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:50:15AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, that solution didn't seem to work. > > Indeed, in this instance, it doesn't matter when the script is run, > except that the network must be running, so on the face of it, rc.local > would fit the bill.

vlans

2013-03-22 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, I am going to implement vlans on my Linux router. Have been reading about this about from when Squeeze was released and was ready to take the plunge today when I read this: http://wiki.defcon.no/guides/debian/vlan Seems the documentation I had found so far is about to be outdated. What I do

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 01:53:11AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Don't be afraid to search google *BEFORE* posting your question, have a > read of: > > http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html G! Sorry. That should be: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- "If you're n

Re: problem

2013-03-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:54:48AM -0500, s...@mdselectronics.com wrote: > I have installed Debian on my computer, but there is no "add/remove > applications" like on a different computer with Debian on it that I > have. > How do I install it? (I have tried synaptic and I can't find it) > I think

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:05:35AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > 1] What is a MUA? You are using: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130116 Icedove/10.0.12 That is your Mail User Agent. Icedove is just a repackaged thunderbird. > 2] Other than the HTML, Use pla

Re: pkg-config not returning correct version number - help please

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Fisichella
Alberto Luaces : > Chris Fisichella writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I did something to cause pkg-config to not return the correct >> version number. I issue: >> >> $ pkg-config --exists --print-errors 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' >> Requested 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' but version of Fontconfig is 2.10.2 >> >> T

Re: Run script at boot time

2013-03-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 20/03/13 19:24, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:53:09 + > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> On 20/03/13 14:29, Adam Wolfe wrote: >>> I'd go with /etc/rc.local >>> That's what it is for. >>> >>> >>> On 03/20/2013 10:23 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running Squeeze, I would

Re: Aptitude access again.

2013-03-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 01:52:50AM -0700, Weaver wrote: > Greetings all, > > Anybody know what application this has? > ~~~ > root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update > Get: 1 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [836 B] > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable Rel

Re: Installer not reading preseed.cfg

2013-03-22 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:43 PM, keshav prabhakar wrote: >> >> I just remembered, I'm using a linux 5 template ('Guest OS: Debian >> GNU/Linux 5 (64-bit)') to install Debian 6. not sure if that's causing the >> issue, somehow. (I'm using ESXi 4.0 server, which is quite old and it >> doesn't suppor

Aptitude access again.

2013-03-22 Thread Weaver
Greetings all, Anybody know what application this has? ~~~ root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update Get: 1 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [836 B] Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable Release Fetched 836 B in 0s (4,067 B/s) E: Release file for http://ftp.au

Re: pkg-config not returning correct version number - help please

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Chris Fisichella writes: > Hi, > > I did something to cause pkg-config to not return the correct version number. > I issue: > > $ pkg-config --exists --print-errors 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' > Requested 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' but version of Fontconfig is 2.10.2 > > This is after I (believe I) succ

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS, take a look at the source, after it's coming through the list, it's plain text, not HTML: [snip] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [snip] On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 22:15 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 22:15 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:41:26AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > > > > I set the parameters for this list to text only. > > > > When part of the email is HTML, Icedove defaults to HTML. > > > > I now see my error... > > > > I have t

Re: Run script at boot time

2013-03-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 20 mar 13, 15:51:53, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If Debian still should use init, than /etc/rcS.d/, by lexical order. The order is generated automatically, based on dependency information in the headers. Joe explained it nicely. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUse