Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 06:11:18PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > As far I see, Kaspersky supports only Windows. There's Mac and Linux products also from them. -- Bob Bernstein I am dissatisfied, profoundly so, with the world as it is. But I would be dissatisfied with any world. A

Re: who could take the time to figure out how to contact linux ? so complicated !

2013-10-13 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 05:13:31 +0100 "larry mckenna larrymcken...@gmail.com" sent this: >hi folks, finding myself in limbo directly downloaded debian only to find i >need flash player can download flash but can't install ! also tried to >download other version of ubuntu and it down

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Joel Rees wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:11 AM, wrote: >>> >>> [...] if you think that people are free to >>> give themselves the label they want, so you must accept that other are >>> also >>> free to give the labels they want. >

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 5:06 AM, wrote: > Hi. > >> On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: >> >> IIUC this is the thingy that doesn't allow to close a tab. When this >> happens for Firefox here, I kill Firefox and then start it again. >> Firefox usually asks, if the last session s

linux debian

2013-10-13 Thread larry mckenna
hi folks, finding myself in limbo directly downloaded debian only to find i need flash player can download flash but can't install ! also tried to download other version of ubuntu and it downloads but get address not recognised or soft ware needs to be installed to allow install ! i looked through

Re: xtrs z80

2013-10-13 Thread Beco
On 13 October 2013 17:22, Beco wrote: > Hi guys, > > Is xtrs broken under wheezy? > > I cant manage to run it. I only get a blank window. > > Anyone here uses it? > > Thanks! > Beco. Probably nobody uses it, but for the record (someone googling his way to here): Downloading the tar.gz from http

who could take the time to figure out how to contact linux ? so complicated !

2013-10-13 Thread larry mckenna
hi folks, finding myself in limbo directly downloaded debian only to find i need flash player can download flash but can't install ! also tried to download other version of ubuntu and it downloads but get address not recognised or soft ware needs to be installed to allow install ! i looked through

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread recoverym4n
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:54:41 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > Disable javascript, reload offending tab (optional), close offending > > tab, enable javascript. > > I mean, why bother with complex solutions if there are simple ones? > > I never tried it that way, because I couldn't find where to

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:54:41PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I've got Ghostery installed, I'm using Ghostery to detect trackers, but > I can't find how to use it to disable scripts. Install the extension/addon 'noscript' -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the peopl

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Hartge wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Can you verify that the UUID of your root device and the UUID that > > doesn't boot on grub's kernel command line are the same? > > ... > > Can you check to see if they do or do not match on your system? I > > suspect that they do not match and that is wh

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-13 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > The UUIDs match. All is good. Can you check to see if they do or do > not match on your system? I suspect that they do not match and that > is why the system will not boot. Because if they match then it should > work. This is the default when booting Debian Wheezy on inst

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-13 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: >> I have the same problem as Jesse, roughly since the update to >> mdadm-3.3 in Sid. > I am using mdadm 3.3-1 in Sid on the machine I am typing this on now. > But I am using LVM which might be the difference. With LVM the UUIDs > are present but are one l

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-13 Thread Antonio Paiva
I don't have to use the new kernel. Whatever works... But, what is Debian Jessie? On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > Antonio Paiva writes: > > >>> I have recently acquired an old Sony Vaio PCG-C1VN (aka, a > "PictureBook") > >>> and installed Debian wheezy. The problem i

Re: broken links after 7.2.0 release

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Fred Ulisses Maranhão wrote: > It seems that after the 7.2.0 release, page > http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ contains a lot of broken links > (example: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.1.0/i386/jigdo-cd/) Since 7.2 just released it may take a short time for everything to catch up. It will

broken links after 7.2.0 release

2013-10-13 Thread Fred Ulisses Maranhão
Hi, It seems that after the 7.2.0 release, page http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ contains a lot of broken links (example: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.1.0/i386/jigdo-cd/) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > Thanks everyone for the feedback. Bob asked for more information about > what is going on with my system. Thanks for the story! It really does help make more sense of your setup there. > I have some dead or detached disks; since they might come back I > don't want to elimin

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, There used to be a very similar discussion on the Debian Devel mailing list... On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:46:41AM +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > Tom H writes: > > >> Oh I have fond memories of aptitude breaking my system. Once it > >> suggested me to remove most of my system, including apt,

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 15:23 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > If you want your text to be word wrapped by the reader then the sender > is obliged to set format=flowed. Outlook has long been wrongly > sending long lined messages without using that setting. But it is > wrong. Exactly! It would be idiotic

Re: Problems creating preseed.cfg - syntax?

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm having several problems getting desired results from preseeding. > My Environment: > No internet/LAN > Install media > Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 "Wheezy" - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 > 20130615-21:54 > preseed.cfg on USB stick You and Brian and I had an good di

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 00:06 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi. > > > On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > > > > IIUC this is the thingy that doesn't allow to close a tab. When this > > happens for Firefox here, I kill Firefox and then start it again. > > Firefox usuall

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 21:49:40 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:00:50AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > The data on the drive are gone. Do > > > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=1 > > > > to remove all traces of the iso you put on it and start from scratch. > > …why

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Hartge wrote: > I have the same problem as Jesse, roughly since the update to mdadm-3.3 > in Sid. I am using mdadm 3.3-1 in Sid on the machine I am typing this on now. But I am using LVM which might be the difference. With LVM the UUIDs are present but are one layer deeper in the LVM PV laye

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark Allums wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I don't nag about endless lines, > > ... > > It's not the end of the world, but unfavourable when you argument about > > not running into issues with your computer, while causing issues for the > > list, when you're using Windows, > > ... > > IOW you mi

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:00:50AM +0100, Brian wrote: > The data on the drive are gone. Do > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=1 > > to remove all traces of the iso you put on it and start from scratch. …why? As things currently stand, the user could possibly reconstruct the partition

xtrs z80

2013-10-13 Thread Beco
Hi guys, Is xtrs broken under wheezy? I cant manage to run it. I only get a blank window. Anyone here uses it? Thanks! Beco. -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." (H. Jackson Brown Jr.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Re: virtualbox fails to compile module on 3.10

2013-10-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:20:07AM +0200, Nickolay Todoroff wrote: > Dear Ralf, dear Hugo, > > I'm stuck with the same problem as Kent. I'm running on Wheezy with the > 3.10-0.bpo.3-amd64 kernel (backports). > > The problem is actually that the virtualbox versions (esp. the OSE one) > from the re

Re: virtualbox fails to compile module on 3.10

2013-10-13 Thread recoverym4n
Hi. On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 11:20:07 +0200 Nickolay Todoroff wrote: > I'm stuck with the same problem as Kent. I'm running on Wheezy with the > 3.10-0.bpo.3-amd64 kernel (backports). > > The problem is actually that the virtualbox versions (esp. the OSE one) > from the repositories do not work wit

Re: Problems preseeding Wheezy (7.1)

2013-10-13 Thread Richard Owlett
Tom H wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Tom H wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Tom H wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: 2. I base my preseed.cfg on the example at http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ex

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread recoverym4n
Hi. > On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > > IIUC this is the thingy that doesn't allow to close a tab. When this > happens for Firefox here, I kill Firefox and then start it again. > Firefox usually asks, if the last session should be restored or not, so > don't restore the

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > This has nothing to do with Windows. You need to set your MUA to use word > > wrap. Stop bitching about Windows and fix your MUA. Umm no. The above is what *YOU* sent! > "Official" "third party" repository :D. > Your MUA is

Logitech unified wireless

2013-10-13 Thread Catherine Gramze
I ran into a snag getting this set up on my new computer. I found a gem of info online, telling me I had to use a USB 2 port and not a USB 3 port, but it still wouldn't work. I finally figured out it was a pairing problem, due to me having multiple keyboards, mice, and unifying receivers. I used t

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:19:18PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > though most include routers and other > > useless stuff. > > ..when it is normally customary to refer to them as routers. Pedants > might call them modem-routers, but nobody else does. Um, you can get routers without a modem, so the diffe

Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks everyone for the feedback. Bob asked for more information about what is going on with my system. I have some dead or detached disks; since they might come back I don't want to eliminate them from LVM's knowledge yet. Here's the fuller story. It seems simplest to explain chronologically.

RE: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:14:14 -0400, Antonio Paiva wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:25:06 +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: >> >> First of all, have you tried to boot your kernel with vga=ask option? > > Thank you Dmitrii. > > I did try "vga=ask" but that option is no longer supported by the > debian k

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:11:01AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >If you own a system you control it and can do whatever you like > >with it. > >You can give yourself whatever label you want (sysadmin, > >superuser, top > >dog etc) - it matters not. How about "Debian Despot"? > > O

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 13:44 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Does Synaptic not use the same repo source files aptitude uses? IIRC it does, but it perhaps doesn't use the same configurations, e.g. to hold packages. I don't remember and might confuse it with another tool. Mixing tools could be tricky

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On 13/10/13 01:02 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 01:10:14PM -0300, msl09 wrote: Oh I have fond memories of aptitude breaking my system. Once it suggested me to remove most of my system, including apt, I thought it was going to upgrade it so I confirmed it. I had to reinstall

Re: Set widescreen resolution in console

2013-10-13 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Antonio Paiva writes: >>> I have recently acquired an old Sony Vaio PCG-C1VN (aka, a "PictureBook") >>> and installed Debian wheezy. The problem is that I can only get the >>> *console* to run at 640x480 resolution. >> >> First of all, have you tried to boot your kernel with vga=ask option? > > I

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 06:04 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:56:13AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 19:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > > I suspect that the problem's in the examples above are simply PEBKAC. > > > > Likely, since the libre to break a syste

Re: Problems preseeding Wheezy (7.1)

2013-10-13 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Richard Owlett >> wrote: >>> Tom H wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > 2. I base my preseed.cfg on the example at > http://www.debian.org

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 02:05:23PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > May be 3 years ago now, but I tried various options back then, and > mpop was the fastest (really fast compared to fetchmail) which did not > have other problems for me, at that time. Three years is a long time for a piece of softw

Re: 64-bit VM on 32-bit host OS on 64-bit hardware

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 18:42 +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > Can you run an amd64 virtual machine if the host is running > Debian i386 ? The hardware would be a recent AMD CPU, so > Pacifica/AMD-V is available. > > The virtualisation systems I'm most interested in are KVM and > Xen but if this sort o

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:56:13AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 19:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > I suspect that the problem's in the examples above are simply PEBKAC. > > Likely, since the libre to break a system temporarily sometimes is > needed to fix issues, or to make transi

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 01:10:14PM -0300, msl09 wrote: > Oh I have fond memories of aptitude breaking my system. Once it > suggested me to remove most of my system, including apt, I thought it > was going to upgrade it so I confirmed it. I had to reinstall apt from > the debian packages website. >

64-bit VM on 32-bit host OS on 64-bit hardware

2013-10-13 Thread Andre Majorel
Can you run an amd64 virtual machine if the host is running Debian i386 ? The hardware would be a recent AMD CPU, so Pacifica/AMD-V is available. The virtualisation systems I'm most interested in are KVM and Xen but if this sort of configuration is not possible under every platform virtual machine

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Morten Bo Johansen writes: > On 2013-10-13 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > >> I think that aptitude works quite well for the easiest cases. And it is >> the only instrument I know which allow to see dependency chains. It was >> dselect some time ago which could do it too as I know, but now it seems >> to

Re: which file should I download

2013-10-13 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 01:36:56 +0530 Anjan Mitra wrote: > debian-7.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso > >2013-06-16 01:39 3.7G > > debian-7.1.0-amd64-DVD-2.iso >

Re: Problems creating preseed.cfg - syntax?

2013-10-13 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-13, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Unfortunately when I try bash responds "command not found". apt-get install debconf-utils http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/all/debconf-utils/filelist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Morten Bo Johansen writes: >> Sure. But the gist of the discussion to me was the point of view of the >> naive user, i.e. how the two package managers behave out of the box. Out of the box? Sorry, I'm frightened when I'm talking with oracle. I see you can read so well between the lines. >> No

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 09:58:47 -0400 John Lindsay wrote: > Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried > my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned (this > disc was made late 2011/early 2012 and it did an update prior to > scanning). If I run i

Problems creating preseed.cfg - syntax?

2013-10-13 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm having several problems getting desired results from preseeding. My Environment: No internet/LAN Install media Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 "Wheezy" - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20130615-21:54 preseed.cfg on USB stick Section "B.4. Contents of the preconfiguration file (for wheezy)" at

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-13 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 13. Oktober 2013, 11:00:50 schrieb Brian: > On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 00:54:44 +, mark ryan wrote: > > I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another > > external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb > > when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 16:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > > Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried > > my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned (this > > disc was made late 2011/earl

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried > my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned (this > disc was made late 2011/early 2012 and it did an update prior to > scanning). If I run ice

ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread John Lindsay
Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned (this disc was made late 2011/early 2012 and it did an update prior to scanning). If I run iceweasel after a reboot the ukash blocker shows up. How can I ge

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joel Rees wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:11 AM, wrote: [...] if you think that people are free to give themselves the label they want, so you must accept that other are also free to give the labels they want. Long time ago, I studied the "dark side of computer sciences", and the first things

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joel Rees wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: J[...] Now.. as to the larger question at hand: Bottom Line: - I certainly feel comfortable saying that I DO a lot of systems and network administration, - I would feel on very shakey grounds calling myself a (profession

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-13 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Jesse Molina wrote: >> As I said before, the md RAIDs are being assembled. udev, or >> something else, is failing to properly create the device nodes. > A shot in the dark but... Have you added a new md device recently but > forgotten to update the /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf fil

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:11 AM, wrote: > [...] if you think that people are free to > give themselves the label they want, so you must accept that other are also > free to give the labels they want. > Long time ago, I studied the "dark side of computer sciences", and the first > things I have le

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > J[...] > Now.. as to the larger question at hand: > > Personally, I run, support, and configure: > - my own computers (laptop, development "sandbox" under my desk, android > smartphone, android tablet, backup storage device, printer) > - my

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Morten Bo Johansen wrote: On 2013-10-13 Ralf Mardorf wrote: apt-mark hold or echo hold | dpkg --set-selections or Synaptic's lock option Sure. But the gist of the discussion to me was the point of view of the naive user, i.e. how the two package managers behave out of the box. No compelling

Re: Problems preseeding Wheezy (7.1)

2013-10-13 Thread Richard Owlett
Tom H wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Tom H wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: 2. I base my preseed.cfg on the example at http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/example-preseed.txt . Near the end of the install process I'm asked to sp

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 6:21 AM, wrote: > Le 11.10.2013 23:06, Brian a écrit : >> >> "are you root?" > > > It does only means you own the system. Not that you can claim to be a > sysadmin. I own my car. I am not a mechanic, but I anyway have the > *authorizations* to tinker it. It's what root, or

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
On 2013-10-13 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > apt-mark hold > or > echo hold | dpkg --set-selections > or > Synaptic's lock option Sure. But the gist of the discussion to me was the point of view of the naive user, i.e. how the two package managers behave out of the box. No compelling arguments have been

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 14:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > less ~/.xsession-errors Since you don't get an output, when you launch pcmanfm in a terminal, take a look if .xsession-errors shows something that might be related to pcmanfm, unlikely that there will be output for pcmanfm. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 13:46 +0200, Tazman Deville wrote: > Oh, and something I've neglected to mention: > I have also aptitude remove purged it and reinstalled it, as well, > several times, and this also produces no change. Did you remove it's configuration file(s) in $HOME/??? too? -- To UNSU

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 13:44 +0200, Tazman Deville wrote: > Well, someone suggested looking in dmesg, but, of course, there's > absolutely nothing relevant there. This would display the output of the kernel ring buffer, to see what's going wrong during a session, first take a look at ~/.xsession-er

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-13 Thread Tazman Deville
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 01:44:48PM +0200, Tazman Deville wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > Friends, > > > > For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. > > I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo, > > but not

Re: pcmanfm no window/gui, one user only

2013-10-13 Thread Tazman Deville
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0200, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Friends, > > For some reason, when I try to use pcmanfm as my user, I can not. > I can start it as other users on the system, or with gksu or sudo, > but not for my user. > > Or, really, what happens is, it seems to start (can find

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 12:24 +0200, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > On 2013-10-13 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > > > I think that aptitude works quite well for the easiest cases. And it is > > the only instrument I know which allow to see dependency chains. It was > > dselect some time ago which could do it t

Debian mirror analysis by release

2013-10-13 Thread Andre Majorel
Is there a program out there that will scan a Debian mirror (E.G. created by debmirror) and, for each file in it, list the release(s) by which it's used ? Thanks in advance. -- André Majorel bugs.debian.org, a spammer's delight. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-13 Thread Jesse Molina
I did the following today: Indeed, the /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules file does exist in the initramfs. I tried "udevadm control --reload-rules", but there was no output that I can use. I also think I tried it with --debug, and I saw some info, but nothing helpful. I decid

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
On 2013-10-13 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > I think that aptitude works quite well for the easiest cases. And it is > the only instrument I know which allow to see dependency chains. It was > dselect some time ago which could do it too as I know, but now it seems > to be dead. BTW, it provides with good

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 00:54:44 +, mark ryan wrote: > I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another > external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb > when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was my external drive with the iso on it, and > other files. I am

Re: Re: virtualbox fails to compile module on 3.10

2013-10-13 Thread Nickolay Todoroff
Dear Ralf, dear Hugo, I'm stuck with the same problem as Kent. I'm running on Wheezy with the 3.10-0.bpo.3-amd64 kernel (backports). The problem is actually that the virtualbox versions (esp. the OSE one) from the repositories do not work with new kernels (newer than 3.2 as far as I checked). It

Re: Ethernet bonding mode 5 only using one Slave adapter.

2013-10-13 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/11/2013 2:42 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > [Cut]. > > Are dual and quad port Intel NICs available in your country? > > > > Not very easily but yes, we can arrange. i personally have PCIe 4 Port > > intel NIC. > > so this can

Re: Recursion is needed (Wheezy)

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Yudi wrote: > I just used Wheezy's BIND9. > There is a problem where checking nslookup, example nslookup www.google.com > > But Recursion is needed. Please show us what error you are having. Otherwise no one can help you. Please cut and past the error verbatim. Bob signature.asc Description:

Recursion is needed (Wheezy)

2013-10-13 Thread Yudi
Dear all, I just used Wheezy's BIND9. There is a problem where checking nslookup, example nslookup www.google.com But Recursion is needed. 1. resolv.conf Search mydomain 127.0.0.1 My DNS's IP Public DNS IP 2. named.conf.options I have added : allow-query { any; }; al

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Tom H writes: >> Oh I have fond memories of aptitude breaking my system. Once it >> suggested me to remove most of my system, including apt, I thought it >> was going to upgrade it so I confirmed it. I had to reinstall apt from >> the debian packages website. >> >> In this new installation I gave

Re: Debian installer and raid0

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: > PS: You did not comment whether the "pipe' command that I use to verify > grub has a general validity. As far as I could use it, I found it > equivalent to examining each disk, one at a time. It was clever! It was definitely in the spirit of the Unix philosophy. At the

Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:54:18PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > 3) Lots of updates > > I got a whole batch of updates, apparently coinciding with the release of > Debian 7.2. Am I missing something in sources.list? Before wheezy these > point releases were basically non-events for me because I

Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > Setting up lvm2 (2.02.95-8) ... > [] Setting up LVM Volume Groups... Couldn't find device with uuid > GKasb9-Qo8q-vC83-S0N7-cvUd-nE0J-EEeMgv. > Couldn't find device with uuid eDiLHt-Pzom-tjdr-Ky12-Z6Gx-o3Iz-lYh1wL. > [snip more errors] > Refusing activation of partial