Re: Migrating 32 -> 64

2013-08-11 Thread David Christensen
On 08/11/13 19:44, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I ate the $10 NIC putting it on a shelf because return shipping + restocking fee is almost $10. Second time around I emailed the e1000 driver list. An Intel engineer responded and verified that the universal model of the Pro/1000 GT should work. Ordered

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-11 Thread Kailash
On Monday 12 August 2013 06:06 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Finally able to boot my machine with my new debian distro! Thanks a lot! I am gonna stay here forever! Some post-installation questions, 1) The desktop seems to be unusable, no icons on the desktop and I cannot right click onto it. Or it n

Re: Migrating 32 -> 64

2013-08-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/11/2013 4:08 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > David Christensen wrote: >> Gregory Seidman wrote: >>> I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's >>> showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC >>> was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > have resulted in Gnome being install, too. More or less. So I > > > > just did as root in /root a 'dpkg --download,' and then an > > > > '--unpack' thinking that would uncompress the .deb file in /root > > > > from which I wo

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-11 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Finally able to boot my machine with my new debian distro! Thanks a lot! I am gonna stay here forever! Some post-installation questions, 1) The desktop seems to be unusable, no icons on the desktop and I cannot right click onto it. Or it normal? Is there a setting to unlock the desktop? or is som

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Friday 09 August 2013 19:51:25 Bob Proulx wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Further, I tried to run mysql and receive the following message- ERROR 2002 can't connect to local mysql server thru socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) TIA Ethan === Dear List -

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-11 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Aug 11, 2013 1:56 PM, "Brian" wrote: > > On Sun 11 Aug 2013 at 07:00:37 +, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > > Thanks a lot, I read the documentation and mistook the word mounted for > > unmounted. > > Can we clear on this so that people do not lose confidence in using an > isohybrid image? > > 1. Y

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-11 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Thanks a lot, I am finally able to install debian using a bootable USB, just had to leave the stick unmounted before attempting to copy the contents of the iso. I also read the whole documentation regarding installing debian for my architecture, and it really helped. It took me two hours though!

Re: How to apply patch?

2013-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 03:48:46PM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hi, > > I've found it -> > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/gnomeradio/raring/view/head:/debian/patches/gnomeradio-device.patch > > And I wish to apply on my system. What is output of root@tal:~# apt-ca

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Sunday 11 August 2013 19:58:14 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Here is my sources file -- [snip many commented out lines] deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib #deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
Reposting to list, where it should have gone in the first place. :-( Sorry, again, Ethan. On Sunday 11 August 2013 19:58:14 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Here is my sources file -- [snip many commented out lines] > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib > #deb-src http://

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 11/08/2013 20:21, Stephen Powell a écrit : > On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:49:36 -0400 (EDT), François Patte wrote: >> >> I have just finished my debian installation and I have a few >> questions: >> 3- Is it possible to install a package without its dep

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread John Hasler
François Patte wrote: > 3- Is it possible to install a package without its dependencies  with > apt-get? I wanted to install auctex but apt-get wants to install a lot > of TeX packages which I don't want. Auctex does not depend on any Tex packages. It merely recommends them. Just use "--no-insta

Re: Migrating 32 -> 64

2013-08-11 Thread Bob Proulx
David Christensen wrote: > Gregory Seidman wrote: > > I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's > > showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC > > was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was > > hanging). > > Ins

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > have resulted in Gnome being install, too. More or less. So I > > > just did as root in /root a 'dpkg --download,' and then an > > > '--unpack' thinking that would uncompress the .deb file in /root > > > from which I would get the single svg file I needed, and then jus

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 11 August 2013 17:49:36 François Patte wrote: > 3- Is it possible to install a package without its dependencies  with > apt-get? I wanted to install auctex but apt-get wants to install a lot > of TeX packages which I don't want. > > I know, auctex is made for TeX, but I install texlive di

Re: icedove configuration problem

2013-08-11 Thread Joe
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:08:40 +0200 François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 11/08/2013 11:48, "Karl E. Jørgensen" a écrit : > > Hi > > > > On 11/08/13 10:22, François Patte wrote: > > > Bonjour, > > > > > > > > > It fails! For 2 reasons: > > > > 1- I

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 02:21:33PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:49:36 -0400 (EDT), François Patte wrote: [...] > > > 3- Is it possible to install a package without its dependencies with > > apt-get? I wanted to install auctex but apt-get wants to install a lot > > of TeX

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Friday 09 August 2013 19:51:25 Bob Proulx wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > I am trying to install mysqldump. Something is broken in your sources.list file. Fix it first. A month ago Ethan had both Squeeze DVDs and wheezy http's enabled simultaneously in his sources.list. So he ma

Re: post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:49:36 -0400 (EDT), François Patte wrote: > > I have just finished my debian installation and I have a few questions: > > 1- For some reason the root account was not activated (I, maybe, missed > some step); so I activated it following the docs, but there are two > problems:

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 07:00:37AM +, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Thanks a lot, I read the documentation and mistook the word mounted for > unmounted. > > I will be more careful next time. > > One question though, Will the installation still need Internet to continue, > in-spite of having download

Re: kernel version

2013-08-11 Thread John Lindsay
Thanks for the info -- Running kernel 2.6.x.xx so I know which USB driver I need to install On 11/08/13 01:02 PM, Kruppt wrote: On 2013-08-11, John Lindsay wrote: What I want to know is how do I determine the kernel version of my debian 6 system so I can load the correct version

Re: kernel version

2013-08-11 Thread Kruppt
On 2013-08-11, John Lindsay wrote: > What I want to know is how do I determine the > kernel version of my debian 6 system so > I can load the correct version? > > > John > > run "uname -a from a term" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: ice weasel

2013-08-11 Thread John Hasler
John Lindsay writes: > I know that deleting history deletes cookies and passwords and 'saved' > sign-ons. To prevent such a thing from re-occurring again any ideas as > to how it refused to close iceweasel? Install NoScript. Authorize JS selectively only from sites you trust and that actually req

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 08/09/2013 08:05 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I am trying to install mysqldump. Here is what I get - apt-get install mysql-client-5.5 Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to corr

post-install questions

2013-08-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I have just finished my debian installation and I have a few questions: 1- For some reason the root account was not activated (I, maybe, missed some step); so I activated it following the docs, but there are two problems: a) root can login t

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Kailash wrote: > On Sunday 11 August 2013 10:39 AM, Dom wrote: > > On 11/08/13 03:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> > >>> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Changing subject as suggested by Chris, an

ice weasel

2013-08-11 Thread John Lindsay
A site has grabbed hold of ICEWEASEL and when I try to leave or close iceweasel a pop-up appears asking This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave - data you have entered may not be saved. I select leave and it just keeps poping back. I cannot close iceweasel. I rebooted and w

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Dom wrote: > On 11/08/13 03:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original > >>> question. > >>> ---

Re: Fwd: Re: an other question about installer [SOLVED]

2013-08-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 09/08/2013 10:15, François Patte a écrit : > > >>> I encounter a difficulty while partitionning. >>> >>> The situation: >>> >>> 4 disks: >>> >>> 2 "old" HDD with the previous install (fedora 10). These 2 disks >>> contain 2 raid(1) arrays, on

Re: icedove configuration problem

2013-08-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 11/08/2013 11:48, "Karl E. Jørgensen" a écrit : > Hi > > On 11/08/13 10:22, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > > > It fails! For 2 reasons: > > 1- I presume that icedove check if my email address is a "valid" > address (and it is, I use it

Re: kernel version

2013-08-11 Thread David Guntner
John Lindsay grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > What I want to know is how do I determine the kernel version of my > debian 6 system so I can load the correct version? "uname -r" will do it. "man uname" for more. :-) --Dave smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

kernel version

2013-08-11 Thread John Lindsay
I have two files, linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip and linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip. Each 'unzips' to the following files. These are Silicon Labs USB drivers. linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip cp210x.c

Re: Migrating 32-64

2013-08-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/08/13 10:28 AM, Doug wrote: On 08/11/2013 09:12 AM, David Baron wrote: Results like not worth the effort, though it can be done now as a crossgrade much more easily. I had tried the dbootstrap method. Almost got there but ... had to restore. The main question is whether 32 bit packages

Re: Partitions

2013-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 09:58:19 -0400 (EDT), Klaus Jantzen wrote: > > by "some magic" the partitions on a HDD receive a block-id > or UUID (for fstab). > > Does the ID of a partition change when the partition is moved > or when a new partition is created in the unallocated space > between two partit

Re: Migrating 32-64

2013-08-11 Thread Doug
On 08/11/2013 09:12 AM, David Baron wrote: > Results like not worth the effort, though it can be done now as a > crossgrade much more easily. I had tried the dbootstrap method. Almost > got there but ... had to restore. > > > > The main question is whether 32 bit packages will be gradually phas

How to apply patch?

2013-08-11 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Hi, I've found it -> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/gnomeradio/raring/view/head:/debian/patches/gnomeradio-device.patch And I wish to apply on my system. Thanks

Re: certificates error with FF23

2013-08-11 Thread Brad Alexander
I am seeing the same issue on my internal domain. since these certificates are not directly exposed to the internet, I can't point the ssltest site to my certificate. Is there some way to get firefox to divulge what is giving it heartburn, or else an openssl incantation that can be made to do so?

Re: Re: failure to configure and compile a source code.

2013-08-11 Thread atar
Bob wrote: atar wrote: I've downloaded from bluez.org the source of the 5.7 package but Any reason not to use the Debian packaged version already in Debian? when I ran ./configure on it, it emitted an error message at the bottom of all the messages saying: "checking for GLIB... no configu

Re: Migrating 32-64

2013-08-11 Thread David Baron
Results like not worth the effort, though it can be done now as a crossgrade much more easily. I had tried the dbootstrap method. Almost got there but ... had to restore. The main question is whether 32 bit packages will be gradually phased out. One can already find missing pieces. If this be

Winfast TV 2000XP Expert with Squeeze

2013-08-11 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Dear Users, I wish to use my TV/Radio-Tuner but when I run Gnomeradio and found stations I can't hear any sounds from it. I've set all the available options without any success. :( Please Help using Tuner

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-11 Thread Kailash
On Sunday 11 August 2013 10:39 AM, Dom wrote: On 11/08/13 03:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original question. -

Re: icedove configuration problem

2013-08-11 Thread Dom
On 11/08/13 10:22, François Patte wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, As thunderbird is banned from debian, I try to setup my email account using icedove. It fails! For 2 reasons: 1- I presume that icedove check if my email address is a "valid" address (and it is, I

Re: Migrating 32 -> 64

2013-08-11 Thread Kailash
On Sunday 11 August 2013 12:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/10/2013 7:25 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-11 Thread Kailash
On Sunday 11 August 2013 12:05 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Thanks a lot greg. Exactly what I wanted to hear. So i have got a backup of my home in an extern hard disk. I will only copy documents and other source files. However the installation problem still holds. On Aug 11, 2013 11:31 AM, "Grego

Re: icedove configuration problem

2013-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 11:22:09AM +0200, François Patte wrote: > > What shall I do? Change my email address? Use mutt? If you like mutt, why would you use anything else? :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people

Re: HDMI output

2013-08-11 Thread The_Ace
Have you looked at refresh rates and screen resolutions ? TVs can be very picky when it comes to these. On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Seth Bauer wrote: > Andrei POPESCU gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On Jo, 31 ian 13, 11:29:17, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have a HP dv6 laptop, r

Re: icedove configuration problem

2013-08-11 Thread Karl E. Jørgensen
Hi On 11/08/13 10:22, François Patte wrote: The Fizzback Group Limited ("Fizzback") is registered in England under company number, 04768253. The registered office of Fizzback is at Tollbar Way, Hedge End, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2ZP. Confidentiality: This communication and any attachmen

Re: icedove configuration problem

2013-08-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 11/08/13 11:22, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > As thunderbird is banned from debian, I try to setup my email account > using icedove. > > It fails! For 2 reasons: > > 1- I presume that icedove check if my email address is a "valid" address > (and it is, I use it since almost 20

icedove configuration problem

2013-08-11 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, As thunderbird is banned from debian, I try to setup my email account using icedove. It fails! For 2 reasons: 1- I presume that icedove check if my email address is a "valid" address (and it is, I use it since almost 20 years at Paris Desca

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-11 Thread Brian
On Sun 11 Aug 2013 at 07:00:37 +, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Thanks a lot, I read the documentation and mistook the word mounted for > unmounted. Can we clear on this so that people do not lose confidence in using an isohybrid image? 1. You ensured the USB device was unmounted. 2. You did eithe

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-11 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this list, see: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html] On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 07:00:37AM +, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Thanks a lot, I read the documentation and mistook the word mounted for > unmounted. > > I will be more careful next time. > > One question tho

Re: Migrating 32 -> 64

2013-08-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/10/2013 7:25 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I have a low-cost (i.e. old and refurbished) server at home, but it's > showing indications of impending hardware failure (e.g. the on-board NIC > was being reset automatically every 2 seconds for a while because it was > hanging). As a result, I have

Re: Problems installing wheezy

2013-08-11 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Thanks a lot, I read the documentation and mistook the word mounted for unmounted. I will be more careful next time. One question though, Will the installation still need Internet to continue, in-spite of having downloaded one dvd? On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:34 AM, st wrote: > Anubhav Yadav wr