Re: under GDM3 printer outputs only blank pages

2013-09-12 Thread Kailash
On Thursday 12 September 2013 08:24 AM, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > Hello: > > I finally upgraded to Wheezy and GDM3 in August. Since then, my > Postscript printer which functioned correctly under GDM2 outputs > ONLY blank pages when print requests are submitted to CUPS. > > The print

Re: only GDM3 greeter screen works

2013-09-12 Thread Kailash
On Friday 13 September 2013 06:38 AM, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > Hello, > > Apparently I have mucked something up. The GDM3 greeter screen (i.e. the > screen that displays your name, and solicits the password) functions, > but it will not sign me on. > > I can sign on via a termina

Re: -- SPAM --Re: nm eth0 connection

2013-09-12 Thread Robert Holtzm
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:23:50AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:13:30 -0700 > Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:22:38AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > > > >snip... > > > > > > What's "no-auto-default=00:21:CC:B6:06:8F,"?! > > > > > > I'v

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-12 Thread Beco
> As one might expect of a system designed by vendors to make security easier, > WPS is very flawed, and a security risk. > > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Wi-Fi-Protected-Setup-made-easier-to-brute-force-Update-1401822.html > > http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/01/hands-on-hacking-wifi

diff ignore list

2013-09-12 Thread Ash Narayanan
Doing: diff -r -X .ignore-list doesn't seem to work if .ignore-list contains entries of the form / Entries of the form do however work. This is a problem since I might have multiple files named in different sub-directories, some of which I don't want ignored. There doesn't seem to be much in

only GDM3 greeter screen works

2013-09-12 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Hello, Apparently I have mucked something up. The GDM3 greeter screen (i.e. the screen that displays your name, and solicits the password) functions, but it will not sign me on. I can sign on via a terminal session, so it isn't a userid or password problem. I've run "dpkg-reconfigure gdm3", b

Php5 error message

2013-09-12 Thread John W. Foster
I want to get rid of these messages: HOW! > PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated > in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 > PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated > in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/ming.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 >

Re: Frequent kernel panics

2013-09-12 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Thursday 12 September 2013 10:23:15 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > I did look in both places and did not see the crash report there. Also > looked at /var/log/messages--same thing, no crashes shown there. > > Jen http://www.av8n.com/computer/htm/kernel-lockup.htm especially point 3: "3[1].

How to eliminate these 'Script ETH1START is broken'

2013-09-12 Thread John W. Foster
How to get rid of these messages; System is working fine, but I get these now and then when installing or uninstalling debian apps > insserv: Script ETH1START is broken: incomplete LSB comment. > insserv: missing `Default-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. > insserv: Script ETH1START is br

Frequent kernel panics

2013-09-12 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Im running an up-to-date Wheezy on a newish desktop box. In the past the machine would crash with apparent kernel panics on occasion, but in the last week or 2 the machine is crashing almost every day. Ill step back to it and there will be a crash screen with a timestamp log beginning "cut here"

Re: nm eth0 connection

2013-09-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:13:30 -0700 Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:22:38AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > >snip... > > > > What's "no-auto-default=00:21:CC:B6:06:8F,"?! > > > > I've never seen "no-auto-default=..." before but I'd blame it for > > your NIC not com

Re: Frequent kernel panics

2013-09-12 Thread laurent debian
Hi all, Normally you could find it in /var/log/syslog and in /var/log/kern.log Regards, Le 12/09/2013 13:49, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum a écrit : Im running an up-to-date Wheezy on a newish desktop box. In the past the machine would crash with apparent kernel panics on occasion, but in the last week

Re: vanilla kernel + firmware

2013-09-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/12/2013 12:41 PM, laurent debian wrote: ... > 2) My question was only if the procedure describe in first message is a > proper way to compile a vanilla kernel using the firmware form > kernel.org ( ? ... >> cd linux >> git pull >> make clean >> cp /boot/configXXX .config (+ m

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:31:16 -0400 shawn wilson wrote: > [...]- just > immagine all of the juicy info you can get from that. There's > probably more awesome info there than search terms. And since > they're not encrypted and awesome little udp packets of > goodness, my prism would've been just for

Re: which program can reduce quality of mp3

2013-09-12 Thread Long Wind
mp3 can be played on Linux, Windows and cell phones which player can play Opus? On 9/12/13, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> > Agreed. Opus will be vastly superior at such low bitrates > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: which program can reduce quality of mp3

2013-09-12 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Vlc has opus support since version 2 also can do decode/re-ecode from whatever. Also mp3 playback is not a given on linux nor older versions of windows Long Wind wrote: >mp3 can be played on Linux, Windows and cell phones >which player can play Opus? > > > >On 9/12/13, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>>

Re: Frequent kernel panics

2013-09-12 Thread Erick Ocrospoma
Hi, I would suggest at first doing a fsck on your HDD, then testing RAM (with memtest maybe or using another RAM), as almost everybody said, this is due to hardware problems. ~ Happy install ! Cellphone : +51 950307809 Blog : http://piobox.blogspot.com/ LUG : http://www.utpinux.o

Problem with IBus

2013-09-12 Thread emmanuel FRAISSE
Hello, I am using Debian with french as main language, and use IBus for writing traditionnal chinese. On this monday, there was an update of IBus and im-config in sid. From this day, IBus is no more functionnal at all. Can you give me some help in solving this problem ? I am using debian sid b

Re: nm eth0 connection

2013-09-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:22:38AM -0400, Tom H wrote: snip... > > What's "no-auto-default=00:21:CC:B6:06:8F,"?! > > I've never seen "no-auto-default=..." before but I'd blame it for your > NIC not coming up automatically since "00...8F" is its MAC address! That line is comme

Re: sid upgrade

2013-09-12 Thread François Patte
Le 12/09/2013 20:51, Brian a écrit : > On Thu 12 Sep 2013 at 19:44:46 +0200, François Patte wrote: > >> I made an attempt to upgrade sid (amd64); apt-get report some bugs: >> Summary: >> libklibc(1 bug), debhelper(1 bug), dh-python(1 bug), upower(1 bug) >> >> is it safe to proceed or shall I wai

Re: ldirectord troubleshooting

2013-09-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 03:59:07PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm running a couple of ldirectord/ipvsadm software loadbalancers in > front of web servers running Debian. Since upgrading to debian 7, on > one server the connections just don't seem to get through . > Each time I do

Re: Frequent kernel panics

2013-09-12 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Eike Lantzsch wrote: > If it is always the same error (there you need to have a look into > the log) it might be a recently installed driver or firmware. The > log may give you an idea which one. > Do you use binary blobs like video drivers? > Has there been a recent update? > Any new hardware in

Re: ldirectord troubleshooting

2013-09-12 Thread Frank Van Damme
2013/9/12 Dan Ritter > Are all your ethernet ports working? Maybe you need firmware for > one of them with the new kernel. > No, no chance. It's a virtual machine running on VMWare. -- Frank Van Damme "My new computer came with Windows 7. Windows 7 is much more user- friendly than Windows Vis

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread recoverym4n
Hi. On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:44:42 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 12:08 -0300, Beco wrote: > > Nice this startpage. I'm recommending to my students. > > I'm satisfied with it too :). We now have to trust > https://startpage.com/ by ixquick, that their claims are true. But I >

Re: sid upgrade

2013-09-12 Thread Brian
On Thu 12 Sep 2013 at 19:44:46 +0200, François Patte wrote: > I made an attempt to upgrade sid (amd64); apt-get report some bugs: > > grave bugs of upower (0.9.21-2 -> 0.9.21-3) > #722474 - upower: on update fails with critical glib errors & doesn't > work properly after reboot Please read the

Re: Frequent kernel panics

2013-09-12 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Thursday 12 September 2013 09:49:07 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Im running an up-to-date Wheezy on a newish desktop box. In the past the > machine would crash with apparent kernel panics on occasion, but in the > last week or 2 the machine is crashing almost every day. Ill step back to > it a

sid upgrade

2013-09-12 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, I made an attempt to upgrade sid (amd64); apt-get report some bugs: grave bugs of upower (0.9.21-2 -> 0.9.21-3) #722474 - upower: on update fails with critical glib errors & doesn't work properly after reboot serious bugs of libklibc (2.0.1-3.1 -> 2.0.2-1) #720290 - klibc: FTBFS on m

Re: nm eth0 connection

2013-09-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > > To my knowledge nm has always worked with > > /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf as shown above unless something > > changed managed=true to managed=false. Tried changing t

Re: nm eth0 connection(2)

2013-09-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:14:07AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 07:47:10AM -0400, Tom H wrote: ...snip... > >> > >> What's the output of > >> > >> nm-tool > >> cat /etc/network/interfaces > >> cat /etc

Re: sid upgrade

2013-09-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:44:46 +0200 François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I made an attempt to upgrade sid (amd64); apt-get report some bugs: > > grave bugs of upower (0.9.21-2 -> 0.9.21-3) > #722474 - upower: on update fails with critical glib errors & doesn't > work properly after reboot > se

Re: vanilla kernel + firmware

2013-09-12 Thread laurent debian
Hi all, sorry for last messsage, So basicily this is not relevant with my question because : 1) my /usr/lib/firmware (attached) contains this exact firmware except for AVERY which I don't care 2) My question was only if the procedure describe in first message is a proper way to compile a vanilla

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 12:08 -0300, Beco wrote: > Nice this startpage. I'm recommending to my students. I'm satisfied with it too :). We now have to trust https://startpage.com/ by ixquick, that their claims are true. But I never heard anything bad about ixquick. IMO startpage is better than ixquic

Re: Frequent kernel panics

2013-09-12 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
I did look in both places and did not see the crash report there. Also looked at /var/log/messages--same thing, no crashes shown there. Jen > > From: laurent debian >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; bg271...@yahoo.com >Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 12:55

Re (2): Interactive definition of a shell function.

2013-09-12 Thread peasthope
From: Vincent Zweije Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:19:32 +0200 > The closing } is only recognized where a new command could have > started. Terminate your command with a semicolon. > > cpST () { cp Source Target; } Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 1234567

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 01:48 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I wrote: > > The Internet is new for the human race, we need to educate our children > > and our children need to educate their children and so on, this will > > change our societies and make crap, such as the NSA useless and then > > spyi

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 9/12/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 14:23 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Edward Snowden > > In the first placed he joint a job for a company that is working for the > USA government. This company and he are members of the black hat > community. They do not join the white hat

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Beco wrote: > Hi guys, > > Thank you all for your valuable information and help! > > I just bought a black-only EPSON M105 inkjet printer, with WIFI. > > It printed perfectly! > > No cables needed, no CDs, nothing. Just energy, and the WPS botton to > connect to m

Re: which program can reduce quality of mp3

2013-09-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > MP3 is notoriously bad for low Bitrate audio. Look at Opus and/or Speex > encoding. > > > On 12 September 2013 11:35, Long Wind wrote: > >> I use the command below: >> >> lame --mp3input --preset 30 input.mp3 output.mp3 >> >> Thank you

Organic SEO for Debian.org

2013-09-12 Thread Mark Peterson
style="font-size:11pt">Hello,style="margin-bottom:0in">Hope you are well. As part of our client research, we came across your website "Debian.org" and noticed your site is not ranking in the most important search engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing. I was wondering i

Re: UI lag in 7.0 on Dell Precision T3500

2013-09-12 Thread Carlo
Hi, can you tell us the model of graphic card? And also have you installed some programs before this problem or was there just at beginning ? thanks 2013/9/12 Michael P. Soulier : > Hi, > > I just "saved" my workstation at work, from the evil clutches of Windows 7. > Unfortunately, in X running n

Interactive definition of a shell function.

2013-09-12 Thread peasthope
Suppose a user wants to make shell function such as this. cpST () { cp Source Target } The shell is waiting for a command so it can't be typed directly at the prompt. This also doesn't work. peter@dalton:~$ dash -c "cpST () { cp Source Target }" dash: 1: Syntax error: end of file unexpected

Re: How to setup notify-osd

2013-09-12 Thread 斟酌鵬兄
After 2 days of googling. I just found that the notification system is somewhat hard coded in gnome-shell. Here: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2011-February/msg10655.html As the mail above. I think they have taken the name org.freedesktop.Notifications. Thus this makes notify-osd

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Beco
Hi Ralf, Nice this startpage. I'm recommending to my students. Thanks, Beco On 12 September 2013 07:31, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Somebody mentioned https://startpage.com/ off-list, as somebody already > does in a reply to the list. > > For testing purpose I made it the startpage for all browsers

Re: Interactive definition of a shell function.

2013-09-12 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:06:11AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: || Suppose a user wants to make shell function such as this. ||cpST () { cp Source Target } || The shell is waiting for a command so it can't be typed || directly at the prompt. Yes, it can. || This also doesn't work.

UI lag in 7.0 on Dell Precision T3500

2013-09-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, I just "saved" my workstation at work, from the evil clutches of Windows 7. Unfortunately, in X running nouveau on the platform mentioned in the subject, the UI was painfully slow. Moving anything with the mouse resulted in lag, like trying to move the windows through mud, along with some flic

Re: vanilla kernel + firmware

2013-09-12 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:04 AM, laurent debian wrote: > > Sorry stan but this is ... not helping. > Maybe I should rephrase my question. > Is there any chance that the build I perform can [Experience Kernel oops due > to the ] lack [of] some firmwares ? > Le 12/09/2013 03:00, Stan Hoeppner a éc

Re: nm eth0 connection

2013-09-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 08:15:35AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:48:03PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote

Re: nm eth0 connection

2013-09-12 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 08:15:35AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:48:03PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >

Re: nm eth0 connection(2)

2013-09-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 07:47:10AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote: >>> >>> Running updated wheezy on a thinkpad T420i w/ xfce DE. >>> >>> With great embarrassment, after stoutly defending nm, et

ldirectord troubleshooting

2013-09-12 Thread Frank Van Damme
Hi list, I'm running a couple of ldirectord/ipvsadm software loadbalancers in front of web servers running Debian. Since upgrading to debian 7, on one server the connections just don't seem to get through . Each time I do a request, I get one more "inActConn". Nothing ever arrives on the actual we

Re: vanilla kernel + firmware

2013-09-12 Thread laurent debian
Hi all; Sorry stan but this is ... not helping. Maybe I should rephrase my question. Is there any chance that the build I perform can [Experience Kernel oops due to the ] lack [of] some firmwares ? best regards, Laurent. Le 12/09/2013 03:00, Stan Hoeppner a écrit : Le 12/09/2013 03:00, Stan H

OT: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 18:35 -0400, Shawn Wilson wrote: > google auto-uncorrecting my searches and bringing up results without > words I put in a search in a 2 word query might be worse There's a wanted difference between searching for term_1 term2 and "term_1 term_2" perhaps you missed the quo

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Somebody mentioned https://startpage.com/ off-list, as somebody already does in a reply to the list. For testing purpose I made it the startpage for all browsers I use and I guess I'll keep it. Until now I had no issues with using it, good hits, in some cases the missing auto complete recommendati

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 14:36 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > But seriously, in country areas (not mine, but when I was a child) > nobody locked their doors And the world changed, we've got overpopulation, rich and poor people, but nearly no middle class. While we've got already overpopulation we st

Re: Security?

2013-09-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 14:23 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Edward Snowden In the first placed he joint a job for a company that is working for the USA government. This company and he are members of the black hat community. They do not join the white hat community instead. Lamenting about the evi

Re: Apache2 neds to ne reset

2013-09-12 Thread Jochen Spieker
Balamurugan: > > Please download apache as a tar.gz and try installing in a local > path rather installing as a system(/usr/bin or /usr/local/bin). This is bad advice. This installation will not receive any automatic upgrades and any problems the OP has with the Debian package can occur here as w