Re: raid problem

2013-11-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/29/2013 4:43 PM, François Patte wrote: > Bonsoir, > > I have a problem with 2 raid arrays: I have 2 disks (sdc and sdd) in > raid1 arrays. > > One disk (sdc) failed and I replaced it by a new one. Copying the > partition table from sdd disk using sfdisk: > > sfdisk -d /dev/sdd | sfdisk /de

Linux support vs Debian support (was ... Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ... [OT])

2013-11-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 04:39:35PM +, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > > > > Please note - this has *nothing* to do with Debian, I've marked it OT > > accordingly. > > > > Unless you are asking about Debian peculiarities or whether to raise bug > > repo

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 05:21:38PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Don't believe a claim that something should be the best MUA, that are > just our opinions for the way we use MUAs. Yeah, but some suck less than others! :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people wh

Re: apparently they somehow have their adler32 cake as part of Debian Linux ...

2013-11-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ also, adler32 is internally used by widely used packages such as rsync and zlib, so it should be available somehow ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Getting apt-cdrom to work

2013-11-29 Thread Brian Sammon
I'm trying to get apt to install packages from a Debian 7.0.0 CD (just disc 1) I made a while ago. I mounted the CD, ran "apt-cdrom add" and it seemed to work successfully (it added a line to /etc/sources.list). When I run "apt-get update", I get six lines of "Ign cdrom://"... which is worrying,

apparently they somehow have their adler32 cake as part of Debian Linux ...

2013-11-29 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=adler32&mode=filename&suite=stable&arch=any ~ but you can't eat it? ~ http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=adler32&mode=exactfilename&suite=stable&arch=any ~ http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=cont

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ... [OT]

2013-11-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/11/13 03:39, Tom H wrote: > > This is your opinion (just as it was your opinion to say the same > thing to the person asking about bogofilter recently). WTF? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: OT Gnome Blocks Gimpusers Forums

2013-11-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:16:01PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Did you subscribe? I don't know if those list is a open list. > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > > List master/s: mitch at gimp.org, schumaml at gmx.de > > Subscribe to the forums here: http://www.gimpusers

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Joe
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:37:55 -0500 Jeff Bauer wrote: > On 11/29/2013 05:21 PM, Joe wrote: > > But I came from Gnome2, and LXDE feels more comfortable than Xfce. > My first experience with Linux and KDE was with a Knoppix live CD. > KDE? Never. Again. > I haven't tried KDE for a while, and I'm n

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Jon N
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Jeff Bauer wrote: > On 11/29/2013 05:21 PM, Joe wrote: >> >> But I came from Gnome2, and LXDE feels more comfortable than Xfce. > > My first experience with Linux and KDE was with a Knoppix live CD. KDE? > Never. Again. > > I boot to a tty prompt, log in, and type

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Jon N
On Nov 29, 2013 5:29 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 16:34 -0500, Jon N wrote: > > Enlightenment seems a long way from the heavyweights like Gnome, Mate, > > etc. Why do you feel that is also a no-go? > > During the years I tested it several times and it never was stable when

raid problem

2013-11-29 Thread François Patte
Bonsoir, I have a problem with 2 raid arrays: I have 2 disks (sdc and sdd) in raid1 arrays. One disk (sdc) failed and I replaced it by a new one. Copying the partition table from sdd disk using sfdisk: sfdisk -d /dev/sdd | sfdisk /dev/sdc then I "added" the 2 partitions (sdc1 and sdc3) to the a

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 11/29/2013 05:21 PM, Joe wrote: But I came from Gnome2, and LXDE feels more comfortable than Xfce. My first experience with Linux and KDE was with a Knoppix live CD. KDE? Never. Again. I boot to a tty prompt, log in, and type "startx" which brings up my forever faithful ratpoison WM. Betwe

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 16:34 -0500, Jon N wrote: > Enlightenment seems a long way from the heavyweights like Gnome, Mate, > etc. Why do you feel that is also a no-go? During the years I tested it several times and it never was stable when I used it. > Funny you should mention that. One of the th

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Joe
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:45:53 -0500 Jon N wrote: > > All this talk about desktops has me thinking of what I will install > when I get my new system. I really like what I think is a traditional > desktop, such as what Gnome2 gave me. I like the idea of some of the > lightweight environments suc

Re: Stable Package: PostgreSQL 9.1 to 9.3 ?

2013-11-29 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 08:43:51PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Hi, > It is always best to stick to the official Debian package when possible. > Upstream debs are sometimes not very high quality. 9.3 is now in In this special case https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt / apt.postgresql.org is backed

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Jon N
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 15:43 -0500, Jon N wrote: >> The only reason I prefer gdm3 is it gives me options on which >> environment I want to load. Normally I use Mate, but xdm didn't offer >> any choice and I don't know how to change it. > > Tha

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Jon N
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 12:44 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >> If you want to avoid GNOME then I would install either 'xdm' or >> 'lightdm' and then install 'xfce4'. It is much more likely to operate >> correctly and successfully. > > Confirmed! > >

Re: OT Gnome Blocks Gimpusers Forums

2013-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Did you subscribe? I don't know if those list is a open list. https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List master/s: mitch at gimp.org, schumaml at gmx.de Subscribe to the forums here: http://www.gimpusers.com/users/new If it doesn't work, I would ask at the mailing list or write

OT Gnome Blocks Gimpusers Forums

2013-11-29 Thread Thomas H. George
When I sign in to gimpusers.com and try to start a new discussion on the Help & Support forum the thread is locked in to gimp-user-list.gnome.org. Worse, gimp does not run properly on the gnome desktop! My system is Debian and I had been using the gdm3 window manager and the gnome desktop.

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 15:43 -0500, Jon N wrote: > The only reason I prefer gdm3 is it gives me options on which > environment I want to load. Normally I use Mate, but xdm didn't offer > any choice and I don't know how to change it. That's not a good reason. A good reason to use GDM3 might be acce

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Jon N
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Jon N wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Jon N wrote: >>> I know I shouldn't mess with things, I really don't know what i'm >>> doing for the most part. But sometimes I can't resist. >> >> It is okay to mess with things as long as you

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 12:44 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > If you want to avoid GNOME then I would install either 'xdm' or > 'lightdm' and then install 'xfce4'. It is much more likely to operate > correctly and successfully. Confirmed! LightDM + Xfce does cause less issues on all distros I tested. I

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Jon N
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jon N wrote: >> I know I shouldn't mess with things, I really don't know what i'm >> doing for the most part. But sometimes I can't resist. > > It is okay to mess with things as long as you learn about the system > through the process. :-) > >>

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, November 29, 2013 02:44:58 PM Bob Proulx wrote: > Now some people might claim that GNOME *is* the operating system. But > don't believe it. It is not. This is proven by the number of people > that use Debian every day but do not have GNOME on the system at all. I would say they don'

Re: Re: No Video

2013-11-29 Thread Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 29 nov 13, 12:41:12, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: >> >> Andrei -Sorry for the problem. If it is allowed, I can attach large >> files. What is the policy of the list?TIAEthan > > 38kB is not very large and as you can see the filters let it through. > > [s

Re: debian xfce network tethering an SGS2

2013-11-29 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:45:50 + Ron Leach wrote: > After further testing, this would never be possible in wicd. Why bother yourself with an inferior network configurator (wicd), then you have superior one (ifupdown) already? > # ifup usb0 > replies with > "Ignoring unknown interface u

Re: debian xfce network tethering an SGS2

2013-11-29 Thread Ron Leach
Apologies for responding to my own post, but here some more evidence of USB tethering failure, On 28/11/2013 15:56, Ron Leach wrote: Expected behaviour: - Plug in SGS2 to laptop USB port, set USB tethering - See a new interface listed in wicd After further testing, this would never be possibl

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Jon N wrote: > I know I shouldn't mess with things, I really don't know what i'm > doing for the most part. But sometimes I can't resist. It is okay to mess with things as long as you learn about the system through the process. :-) > Now, when I boot my computer, after the Nvidia screen shows (I

Re: Fwd: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-29 Thread Wally Lepore
My system specs with debian/Wheezy installed as a Virtual Machine (VM) are: Processor: Intel ATOM CPU N450 @ 1.66 GHz, 1.67 GHz, 1666 Mhz, 1 core(s), 2 Logical Installed Memory (RAM): 1.00 GB OS Name: Windows 7 Starter System Type: 32-bit operating system, x86-based pc On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:

Re: Can't install any packages, "APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined"

2013-11-29 Thread Bob Proulx
John Magolske wrote: > * Dom [131127 16:53]: > > To me it looks like it could be an issue with apt-listbugs. > > > > I'd suggest temporarily removing apt-listbugs using > > > > dpkg -r apt-listbugs > > > > then try the "apt-get -f install" again. > > > > If successful, reinstall apt-listbugs

Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

2013-11-29 Thread Jon N
I know I shouldn't mess with things, I really don't know what i'm doing for the most part. But sometimes I can't resist. Now, when I boot my computer, after the Nvidia screen shows (I'm running the drivers downloaded from Nvidia) I get a screen with an unhappy looking computer graphic in the cent

Re: No Video

2013-11-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 29 nov 13, 12:41:12, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: > > Andrei -Sorry for the problem.  If it is allowed, I can attach large > files.  What is the policy of the list?TIAEthan 38kB is not very large and as you can see the filters let it through. [snip Xorg.0.log] I can't spot anyt

Re: Fwd: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-29 Thread Wally Lepore
Also would like to add that my use for Debian (at this point in time) is to simply utilize the OS for everyday tasks i.e. gmail, Office suite etc. I am a heavy computer user in that on my "windows system" I have utilized such programs as Adobe Photoshop, MS Office, Open Office, Libre Office, a di

Bluetooth mouse and keyboard not detected after pause

2013-11-29 Thread Ennio-Sr
Hi all! The following message remained unanswered on debian-powerpc NG. I hope there is somebody among the many more followers of this list who may have had a similar problem with Squeeze. I'm particularly curious to know whether upgrading to Wheezy could solve the problem. Thanks for your attent

[OT] Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
First of all, this musate is Boeing composed on a tablet using one of those modern, GUI rich MUA that do not care of margins, the refore forgive me if some line is too long. > On 29/nov/2013, at 17:34, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 17:06 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: >> AP

Re: Fwd: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-29 Thread Wally Lepore
Hi Members, Thank you for all the kind suggestions and help. I have successfully installed Debian/Wheezy as a Virtual Machine (using VirtualBox) on my net book. The install was a very interesting and worthwhile experience as I now have a much better understanding of how-to utilize a virtual machin

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 12:56 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Emacs is an operating sustem??? see: > > http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EmacsAsOperatingSystem Fair play, nice to read :). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

RE: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
-Original Message- From: Ralf Mardorf [mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 11:34 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 17:06 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > AP writes:

Re: No Video

2013-11-29 Thread erosenberg
  - Original Message - From: Andrei POPESCU To: Cc: Sent:Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:32:36 +0200 Subject:Re: No Video On Jo, 28 nov 13, 23:53:44, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com [1] wrote: > > Karl -Thanks.Here [2] is Xorg.0.log [3] -- I appologise  for its length, but > I AM A NEWBIE and d

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ... [OT]

2013-11-29 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Please note - this has *nothing* to do with Debian, I've marked it OT > accordingly. > > Unless you are asking about Debian peculiarities or whether to raise bug > report please consider posting these sorts of queries to somewhere > approp

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 17:06 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > AP writes: > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Ralf Mardorf > > wrote: > > > > > KMail seems not to be better, but more worse than Evolution. > > > > Ok but Evolution works well in KDE too? > > Use Emacs, Luke! I used Emasc w

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 21:28 +0530, AP wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > KMail seems not to be better, but more worse than Evolution. > > Ok but Evolution works well in KDE too? > I guess I will test it this weekend or within the next month. But I also will t

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
AP writes: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > KMail seems not to be better, but more worse than Evolution. > > Ok but Evolution works well in KDE too? Use Emacs, Luke! -- /\ ___Ubuntu: ancient /___/\_|_|\_|__|___

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread AP
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > KMail seems not to be better, but more worse than Evolution. Ok but Evolution works well in KDE too? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread AP
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Of course I haven't. And I have never made such a claim. Ah, that was my rough guesswhich went wrong, that simple! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 14:10 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I don't recall ever "whining" about anything which could be laid at > the door of KMail, let alone frequently. Not about KMail, but about people who sent replies to the list that cause serious issues for you. Don't get me wrong, I also disli

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 29 November 2013 13:43:42 AP wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > With KMail, Evolution or any other MUA you can read all mails > > off-line. IMAP/POP does download the mails to your machine. You > > can decide if you want to delete the mails from the gmail se

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread AP
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > With KMail, Evolution or any other MUA you can read all mails off-line. > IMAP/POP does download the mails to your machine. You can decide if you > want to delete the mails from the gmail server after downloading them or > not. At the moment

Re: Postfix randomizing outgoing IP using [SOLVED]

2013-11-29 Thread M.Atıf CEYLAN
I wrote the perl script again. The new script contains my own ip address range check. if the IP of the domain is in my IP range it prints "200 dovecot:" message. #!/usr/bin/perl -w # author: Hari Hendaryanto #use strict; use warnings; use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock); use Net::DNS; use

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 09:32 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > IMAP/POP does download the mails to your machine. *chuckle* IMAP/POP enable the download by software used by the MUA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: Postfix randomizing outgoing IP using

2013-11-29 Thread M.Atıf CEYLAN
On 29-11-2013 01:30, Gregory Nowak wrote: The main.cf portion you posted didn't have a mydestination = line. If it in fact doesn't, then you probably want to add one as in: mydestination = example.com, host.example.com, localhost and do a postfix reload. Now, postfix won't do mx lookups when

Re: No Video

2013-11-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 28 nov 13, 23:53:44, erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: > > Karl -Thanks.Here is Xorg.0.log -- I appologise  for its length, but > I AM A NEWBIE and do not know what could be left out...[   [snip unreadable mess] The length is not necessarily a problem, but your mailer messed up all

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 21:13 +0530, AP wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > The easiest, though not the only, solution is to use Gmail with an > > email client via IMAP or POP3. I use KMail. I have clients using > > Icedove (Thunderbird). > > So with KMail can we re