RE: X Window System error

2013-05-23 Thread Kailash Kalyani
> I just update debian6 to 7 and bad surprises: > > lazaro@utopian:~$ mtpaint > The program 'mtpaint' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflects a bug in the program. > > lazaro@utopian:~$ emelfm2 > (emelfm2:3422): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tree_store_iter_next: assertion > `iter-

Re: HOWTO: Exporting index in PDF file

2013-05-23 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:20:24PM +0800, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: > Hello world! > > Some pdf files has a built-in index that can be used for navigation, which > in most cases, are shown in the left side plate of the PDF browser, for > example `evince`. If still not clear, you may think of latex g

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-23 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:06:23PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 22 May 2013 at 07:34:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian laptop installation as I use > > my browser to access email/calendar online via my tablet or phone. > > > > When I attempt to do so

Re: Remove Evolution

2013-05-23 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 08:44:03AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > It's off topic, but I was *sure* this was about a Creationist trying to > interfere with biology education. > -- > Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com ---end quoted text--- LOLz -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Pr

Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?

2013-05-23 Thread David Guntner
tv.deb...@googlemail.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Hi, if you don't use it (have no use for mdns/zeroconf stuff on your > network) you can do without, I sure do. Few packages actually depend > on it, most often it's a "suggest" or "recommend". If a metapackage > depends on it (like Gnome)

Re: What the proper way to update debian/changelog

2013-05-23 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 23 May 2013 18:55:11 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > That's where you run it, iirc. thanks Richard. -- 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.org/knmila$m39

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 23 May 2013, Greg Madden wrote: > On Monday 20 May 2013 22:47:46 you wrote: > > On Mon, 20 May 2013, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:04:25 -0700 > > > > > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > One would think from what is said in the mans that the -t option > > > > would

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 20 May 2013 22:47:46 you wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 2013, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: > > On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:04:25 -0700 > > > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > One would think from what is said in the mans that the -t option > > > would do that. Don't know why it doesn't. > > > > > > Also,

Re: virtual host/user and gui configuration

2013-05-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 5/24/13, Pol Hallen wrote: > I installed postfix+courier with apache and all with virtual host. > Using squirrelmail, users can check and send email. > Is there a gui tools to automatically add/remove/modify own email setting? Provide a webmail option, and users can configure their account fro

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

2013-05-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/23/2013 11:30 AM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank you Klaus. /dev/sda is hd0 and is the permanent hard disk. It has the MBR on which I want to install Grub. /dev/sdb is the removable hard disk.Its first partition is, as you say, hd1,msdos1 on which grub2 is installed under /boot/grub.

Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?

2013-05-23 Thread Wayne Topa
On 05/23/2013 04:46 PM, Sean Alexandre wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:39:16PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: >> I'm still running Squeeze for a while longer before I finally upgrade to >> Wheezy - want to let it shake out a bit before taking the plunge. :-) >> >> A question that I've been ponderi

Re: GRUB2 error (Solved)

2013-05-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/21/2013 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I caught it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the Welcome to Grub notice appears and then: error:file not found Entering rescue mode gru

Re: Troubleshooting apt-get -f install

2013-05-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 23 May 2013 22:18:38 +0200 Alois Mahdal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm following instructions[1] from Debian Wiki to install Skype > on Wheezy. > > [1]: http://wiki.debian.org/skype#Debian_7.0_.22Wheezy.22 > > In a nutshell: > > # dpkg --add-architecture i386 > # apt-get update >

Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?

2013-05-23 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 23/05/2013 22:15, David Guntner wrote: > (I'm on the list, so replying back to the list is probably best.) > > theart...@zoho.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> Check it 'deborphan', in the archive. It does a reverse >> dependency lookup on a package, similar to apt-cache's

Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?

2013-05-23 Thread Sean Alexandre
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:39:16PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: > I'm still running Squeeze for a while longer before I finally upgrade to > Wheezy - want to let it shake out a bit before taking the plunge. :-) > > A question that I've been pondering for a while now: Is the > avahi-daemon *really*

Re: Troubleshooting apt-get -f install

2013-05-23 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Thu, 23 May 2013 15:36:45 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [...] > Yes, that happened to me also. The "solution" that I > found was to do a new install and install skype this way very > early in the process. YMMV. You don't mean complete OS re-install, do you? Give me a break! I did not need it

Re: Troubleshooting apt-get -f install

2013-05-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alois Mahdal wrote: Hi, I'm following instructions[1] from Debian Wiki to install Skype on Wheezy. [1]: http://wiki.debian.org/skype#Debian_7.0_.22Wheezy.22 In a nutshell: # dpkg --add-architecture i386 # apt-get update # wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/...snip

Re: wheeezy-backports - strange policy?

2013-05-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 mai 13, 13:38:51, Paul Condon wrote: > There is no such thing as "wheeezy-backports" , or even > "wheezy-backports". The name was changed to "wheezy-updates". No it hasn't. wheezy-backports and wheezy-updates are completely different. If you found any piece of documentation saying oth

Troubleshooting apt-get -f install

2013-05-23 Thread Alois Mahdal
Hi, I'm following instructions[1] from Debian Wiki to install Skype on Wheezy. [1]: http://wiki.debian.org/skype#Debian_7.0_.22Wheezy.22 In a nutshell: # dpkg --add-architecture i386 # apt-get update # wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/...snip # dpkg -i skype-inst

virtual host/user and gui configuration

2013-05-23 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks! I installed postfix+courier with apache and all with virtual host. Using squirrelmail, users can check and send email. Is there a gui tools to automatically add/remove/modify own email setting? For now, I user userdb to handle every user but I'd like permit to do this from gui web int

Re: avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?

2013-05-23 Thread David Guntner
(I'm on the list, so replying back to the list is probably best.) theart...@zoho.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Hi David, > > Check it 'deborphan', in the archive. > It does a reverse dependency lookup on a package, similar to apt-cache's > depends and rdepends commands, but only shows insta

Need help setting up bluetooth file transfers

2013-05-23 Thread Thomas H. George
paired my desktop computer and my tablet but file transfers failed. The tablet said the failure was because the computer does not use obexftp so I installed obexftp and obexfs. hciconfig found the bluetooth device to be hci0 so I entered the command obexfs -b hci0 This was accepted but did not

avahi-daemon: Is it *really* needed?

2013-05-23 Thread David Guntner
I'm still running Squeeze for a while longer before I finally upgrade to Wheezy - want to let it shake out a bit before taking the plunge. :-) A question that I've been pondering for a while now: Is the avahi-daemon *really* needed? All it seems to do is spew the occasional message to my syslog,

Re: wheeezy-backports - strange policy?

2013-05-23 Thread Paul Condon
On 05/23/2013 10:59 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi folks, I made my minds about wheezy-backports now for a long time, and allow me, to open this discussion. Pleae correct me, if I am wrong: IMO wheezy-backports is the successor to debian-volatile and is intended for use of debian/stable users (a

Re: backported vs upstream libreoffice 4

2013-05-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 23 May 2013 09:36:34 you wrote: > A recent thread made me aware of the availability of > LO4 in wheezy-backports. Then I started wondering what > advantages were to be gained from using this version, > given that DEB packages are provided by the upstream > developers themselves ? > Perh

Re: Searching for process filling root FS.

2013-05-23 Thread Slavko
Dňa 23.05.2013 19:02 Sthu Deus wrote / napísal(a): >> Usually its good to leave at least 10-20% of the filesystem free to >> avoid fragmentation. > > And that makes 10-20% extra money spending on HDD purchase. :o) You aren't right. The 1 TB disks are 2x bigger than 500 GB, but they cost is not 2

[OT] root (was: wheeezy-backports - strange policy?)

2013-05-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-23 19:26 +0200, root wrote: Argh. That should teach me not to start an Emacs session as root under X. I completely forgot that this Emacs was a bit special, started Gnus and even replied here… Sorry, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

2013-05-23 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Thank you Klaus. /dev/sda is hd0 and is the permanent hard disk. It has the MBR on which I want to install Grub. /dev/sdb is the removable hard disk.Its first partition is, as you say, hd1,msdos1 on which grub2 is installed under /boot/grub. After I boot into /dev/sdb1 with supergrub I run grub-i

backported vs upstream libreoffice 4

2013-05-23 Thread baldyeti
A recent thread made me aware of the availability of LO4 in wheezy-backports. Then I started wondering what advantages were to be gained from using this version, given that DEB packages are provided by the upstream developers themselves ? Perhaps less disk space / memory bloat because system libra

Re: wheeezy-backports - strange policy?

2013-05-23 Thread root
On 2013-05-23 18:59 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I made my minds about wheezy-backports now for a long time, and allow me, to > open this discussion. > > Pleae correct me, if I am wrong: IMO wheezy-backports is the successor to > debian-volatile No, it's not. Please read http://backports.de

Re: Searching for process filling root FS.

2013-05-23 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Martin. Thank You, Martin, for Your time and answer. You wrote: > btrace /dev/dm-0 > > on an otherwise idle system might help. If system is not idle > otherwise you likely get too much output. At random, I have found who ate the space( or one among others) - I just catche

wheeezy-backports - strange policy?

2013-05-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I made my minds about wheezy-backports now for a long time, and allow me, to open this discussion. Pleae correct me, if I am wrong: IMO wheezy-backports is the successor to debian-volatile and is intended for use of debian/stable users (aka wheezy at the moment). As far as I read, p

Re: Gain owner of a file using vim :w!

2013-05-23 Thread Frank Miles
On Thu, 23 May 2013 00:50:01 +0200, Beco wrote: > Dear users, > > I'm astonished by this (maybe I'm naive and I'm missing something). > > Yesterday as root I saved a file skel.bashrc in my /home/beco user, > owned by root, group root. > > Today I edited it, logged as beco, and vi told me "warni

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 23 May 2013, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le 20/05/2013 23:14, Greg Madden a écrit : > > On Monday 20 May 2013 13:04:25 you wrote: > >> apt-cache show > >> libreoffice > > > > The 'apt-cache + options" command works on the package cache, which > > includes , afaik, all the packages reference i

Re: GnuTLS versus OpenSSL.

2013-05-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 mai 13, 09:10:06, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Can anyone explain why Debian uses OpenSSL rather > than GnuTLS? Is it just that OpenSSL was available > first and many packages use it? I doubt there is any general Debian policy of using OpenSSL rather than GnuTLS. If a particular softwa

GnuTLS versus OpenSSL.

2013-05-23 Thread peasthope
Can anyone explain why Debian uses OpenSSL rather than GnuTLS? Is it just that OpenSSL was available first and many packages use it? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca http:/

HOWTO: Exporting index in PDF file

2013-05-23 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
Hello world! Some pdf files has a built-in index that can be used for navigation, which in most cases, are shown in the left side plate of the PDF browser, for example `evince`. If still not clear, you may think of latex generated pdf files (most of them has this structured index navigation). *Ho

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2013-05-23 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
Hello world! Some pdf files has a built-in index that can be used for navigation, which in most cases, are shown in the left side plate of the PDF browser, for example `evince`. If still not clear, you may think of latex generated pdf files (most of them has this structured index navigation). *Ho

Re: vlc, mplayer unable to play one particular CDDA / wav file

2013-05-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Chris Bannister wrote, on 22/05/13 22:24: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:25:19PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I'm a bit stuck as to how to report a problem with only a particular track on a particular commercial CD failing to play in mplayer or vlc (current versions in unstable) but playing alrigh

Re: vlc, mplayer unable to play one particular CDDA / wav file

2013-05-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Darac Marjal wrote, on 22/05/13 21:22: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:25:19PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I'm a bit stuck as to how to report a problem with only a particular track on a particular commercial CD failing to play in mplayer or vlc (current versions in unstable) but playing alright i

Re: Hi, I have a serious problem with Debian 7. [snip]

2013-05-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Please add a subject to the message body :D. -- 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.org/1369305446.685.271.camel@archlinux

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-23 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 20/05/2013 23:14, Greg Madden a écrit : On Monday 20 May 2013 13:04:25 you wrote: apt-cache show libreoffice The 'apt-cache + options" command works on the package cache, which includes , afaik, all the packages reference in the sources.list. 'apt-get' install stable packages unless the

Re: debian desktop installation crashing

2013-05-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 02:03:36PM +0530, unni krishnan wrote: >Hi >My debain installation on lenovo laptop is crashing at random times. Logs >I can see in /var/log/message are :  >=== [cut] >May 23 13:42:48 debian kernel: [ 5186.471525] -

Re: Hi, I have a serious problem with Debian 7. The system is very slow, work with MySQL databases is slow and painful. On Debian 6.0.7 system is very fast and stable, works on ext3 and ext4 on Debian

2013-05-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 23 May 2013 09:15:29 Andrei Hristow wrote: Could you perhaps send this again legibly, i.e. with plain text and in the body of the email? Thanks. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

debian desktop installation crashing

2013-05-23 Thread unni krishnan
Hi My debain installation on lenovo laptop is crashing at random times. Logs I can see in /var/log/message are : === May 23 13:42:48 debian kernel: [ 5186.468312] Call Trace: May 23 13:42:48 debian kernel: [ 5186.468318][] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0x8c

Hi, I have a serious problem with Debian 7. The system is very slow, work with MySQL databases is slow and painful. On Debian 6.0.7 system is very fast and stable, works on ext3 and ext4 on Debian 7.

2013-05-23 Thread Andrei Hristow

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

2013-05-23 Thread Klaus Doering
On 23/05/13 00:45, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: I meant to say /dev/sda > set root=(hd1,msdos1) > Is your removable hd still attached? IIRC grub counts discs from "0", so your "hd1" would then refer to your second hd. Do you have grub installed on the aptosid system? What's your BIOS boot pre

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