Re: Bug after unstable upgrade

2010-07-01 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 07/01/2010 01:36 PM, Satellite wrote: Yesterday, after within an upgrade I issued also 'dist-upgrade' and it upgraded 'cups' package. I'm also using Canon i-SENSYS MF4120 multifunctional printer/scanner, so I had drivers from the official Canon site installed ('cndrvcups-common_2.00-2_i386'

Re: Debian Community Poll

2010-06-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 06/14/2010 06:49 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: 2010/6/14 Mark Goldshtein: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: A section from today's issue of the Debian Project News: Debian Community Poll - +1 Aye. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Affordable big endian machine to run debian

2010-05-26 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/26/2010 03:42 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi there, For a toy project I am looking for a big endian machine where I could run debian on it (of course!). I tried using qemu + a powerpc image but running a C++ compiler / linker was extraodinarly slow. G5 is just way to expensive for m

Re: No CORE DUMP.

2010-05-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/22/2010 08:10 PM, Avinash H.M. wrote: Hi All, I am using DSL [ damn small linux ] which is branched from debain. I am trying to use GCC, GDB. Able to install both of them. I am doing following - run a helloworld.c program whic has a while loop. So while running, its stuck in while

Re: Gnome not working anymore?

2010-05-19 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/19/2010 05:45 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 15:43:01 Aioanei Rares wrote: [snip] Is your graphic card a nvidia? If so, blacklisting nouveau seams to do the trick. Thierry Thierry Yeah, it is, but the nouveau modules is/was blacklisted since long

Re: Gnome not working anymore?

2010-05-19 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/19/2010 04:56 PM, RyanJB wrote: Not really well versed in this, but: What kernel do you use before the upgrade, is it the 2.6.33-2-amd64?? Obviously the upgrade broke the system somehow. Maybe broken dependencies? Try 'apt-get -f install'. And also, a testing + sid system is never free

Gnome not working anymore?

2010-05-19 Thread Aioanei Rares
Howdy y'all, I really don't want this to be a useless mail like "x doesn't work. it worked. it works in $distro. make it workoneone", so I'll try to make it as usable as possible. 1. System is Testing/Unstable. 2. Did a dist-upgrade as I always do. 3. Pressed the akregator panel launcher on

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/13/2010 12:31 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: On 5/12/2010 2:53 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd go with an i386 install unless you have more than 3GB of RAM, in which case I'd go with an amd64 install (or an i386 with a 686-bigmem kernel). The 64-bit vs 32-bit argument is multi-faceted.

Re: only output the nth line

2010-05-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Cross-posting ain't nice, Jozsi... -- 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/4beae142.7050...@gmail.com

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/11/2010 09:02 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:56, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: Adobe's 64bit flash player does not function on all the sites that the 32bit plugin will. [citation needed] Cheers, Kelly Clowers I call bulls**t. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: 64 bit-flash failing sites

2010-05-11 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/11/2010 05:23 PM, deloptes wrote: Jordan Metzmeier wrote: -- Camaleón http://hulu.com is an example. AFAIK its only available to people with U.S. IPs. I'm in europe and it's working fine, though it said that it can not show video because of 64bit limitation on linux.

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/11/2010 04:40 PM, Oscar Corte wrote: Hi: I would like to test Debian on a new PC. It's a DELL XPS Inspiron 8100 with a Core i5 64 bits processor. What would it be the recommended architecture/versioin to choose for download an install? Could Intel IA-64 work right? Regards --

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/07/2010 06:06 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: The x-www-browser is respected by K desktop apps, and in my config, they all now use Iceweasel instead of Konqueror when I click on links. I don't know what other apps might or might not respect the x-www-browser setting, but I would think any deskt

Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

2010-05-07 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/07/2010 05:11 PM, T o n g wrote: [snip] Thanks Sven, and everyone who replied. Just FYI, I was able to start iceweasel by either firefox or mozilla before. A symlink might help you accomplish that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Current through USB bus

2010-05-06 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/06/2010 07:51 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, How can I know how much current goes through each USB port for its related device(s)? Thanks. You can use a voltmeter; after all, it's working with electricity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

KDE's LCD weather station applet

2010-05-06 Thread Aioanei Rares
Hi everyone, Can anyone tell me what package provides the KDE applet called "LCD Weather Station"? I found a bug in it and don't know against what should I report it against. 'aptitude search' and grep don't seem to help (or I'm having a blank moment). Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: a submission

2010-04-23 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/23/2010 04:12 PM, IAN DELANEY wrote: I think this version of reportbug doesn't get to submit the bug. Can you take this as a bug and post it please. That's all, thanks This must be the shortest and useless "bug report" ever. What version of bugreport? Debian stable, testing or unstabl

Re: Moving to Debian: updated software

2010-04-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/22/2010 11:54 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I am looking for KDE 4.4.2 and Open Office 3.2 packages for Lenny. I have found qt-kde.debian, Debian Experimental, Testing, Unstable, and Backports. It looks to me that Backports is the best for an everyday user who values stability, and prefers to use

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

2010-04-21 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/21/2010 08:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:14:09 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: Further to my original post, it was and is my intention to use replace the internal graphics card with Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card, which I have already but have yet to install. It will of course w

Re: Cannot Connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-18 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/18/2010 03:32 PM, David Baron wrote: Neither "normal" reportbug or the reportbug-ng can connect to debian bts right now. Is there something wrong there? Some recent Sid upgrade zapped access? Cannot really keep system up-to-date without access to debian bts. If I attempt to access

Re: which package can show CPU temperature and fan speed

2010-04-18 Thread Aioanei Rares
Of course, if the hardware isn't capable of detecting temperature (eg hardware sensors), you're pretty much out of luck. -- 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.

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

2010-04-17 Thread Aioanei Rares
You might wanna take a look at Midori, which is also webkit-based. So far, I tend to like it. -- 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/4bc9f1b0.9080...@gmail.

Re: reportug

2010-04-17 Thread Aioanei Rares
Since you figured out how to finalize the bug report, why don't you just report ? -- 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/4bc9c28b.3000...@gmail.com

Re: /etc/bash_completion ?

2010-04-17 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/17/2010 03:57 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-04-17, Aioanei Rares wrote: Howdy, Following this link ( http://www.debian-administration.org/article/An_introduction_to_bash_completion_part_1 ) and if I type at the terminal '. /etc/bash_completion' everything works top

/etc/bash_completion ?

2010-04-17 Thread Aioanei Rares
Howdy, Following this link ( http://www.debian-administration.org/article/An_introduction_to_bash_completion_part_1 ) and if I type at the terminal '. /etc/bash_completion' everything works top-notch. However, if I put the above command in the global .profile or in my user's profile, after ty

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-16 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/16/2010 04:31 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 7:06 PM: Are you guys displaced Ubuntu users who landed on debian-user after a tornado came through Kansas? ;) I guess you've never seen "The Wizard of Oz". You made me dig m

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/16/2010 01:59 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will theoretically work better. I have one module in a dual-channel mobo and it works ok. Most desktop/workstation mobos do. No

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/16/2010 02:33 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 04/15/2010 07:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Aioanei Rares put forth on 4/15/2010 3:16 PM: No, it means that 2 one-gig modules in same-coloured slots will theoretically work better. I have one module in a dual-channel mobo and it works ok

Re: Dual channel memory question

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/15/2010 11:09 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, The Wiki on dual channel memory says: "The memory modules are installed into matching banks, which are usually color coded on the motherboard. These separate channels allow each memory module access to the memory controller, increasing throu

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/15/2010 08:06 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: On my system, sid, this command wouldn't work: $ update-alternatives --display x-www-browser this command will: $ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser why is that? Works here... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/15/2010 04:50 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: On 04/15/2010 04:28 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: [as root] update-alternatives --config x-www-browser and choose iceweasel. Problem solved. Sorry for the trivial question, I had forgotten about this command. Shouldn&#

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/15/2010 04:28 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: On 04/15/2010 04:17 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: You're using Gnome, right? Check system->preferences->preferred applications (or something) Yep. And that is what I wanted to mention in my OP: `Iceweasel

Re: Icedove always loads Epiphany when URL is clicked

2010-04-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 04/15/2010 04:17 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I am using Icedove for some e-mails. If I click on a link in a message, _most often_ Epiphany loads the page. Sometimes, Iceweasel loads the page at the place of Epiphany. My default browser is set as `Iceweasel' and Icedove should consequently a

Re: NIC issue or other?

2010-04-01 Thread Aioanei Rares
Stan Hoeppner wrote: bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 3/31/2010 10:06 PM: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:45:37 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Got this error message stream on a server today. Never seen this before. Does this mean my NIC is going south? Or is something else going on? I tried man

Re: Linux-image testing

2010-03-31 Thread Aioanei Rares
JW Foster wrote: Can anyone tell me the difference between the trunk version & the other version. I installed the trunk version & it seems to be running well but the last update tried to install the other version in testing. Why? & it does not install, craps out with a lot of errors.?? Pas

Re: squeeze - dvd drive not seen

2010-03-30 Thread Aioanei Rares
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 30 March 2010 14:59:31 Aioanei Rares wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I did a fraich install of squeeze. All OK "except" two things: The dvd drive is not seen. Fstab seems OK: /dev/hdb/media/cdrom0udf,iso9660 user,noauto

Re: squeeze - dvd drive not seen

2010-03-30 Thread Aioanei Rares
Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I did a fraich install of squeeze. All OK "except" two things: The dvd drive is not seen. Fstab seems OK: /dev/hdb/media/cdrom0udf,iso9660 user,noauto00 Inserting a cd in it then dmesg does not show anything. K3b says there isn' t a optical drive, k

Re: GUI for IPv6

2010-03-29 Thread Aioanei Rares
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I recently (finally!) got an IPv6-functional router, and now IPv6 is native. Two systems are utilizing IPv6 through configuration of /etc/network/interfaces, but on others WICD does not support IPv6. Yet. Anyway, WICD

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Aioanei Rares
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,29.Mar.10, 13:05:18, S Scharf wrote: Anyone know why there hasn't been any testing updates since March 25th? See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00010.html and the follow-ups on debian-devel. Regards, Andrei debian-user rocks

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Aioanei Rares
S Scharf wrote: Anyone know why there hasn't been any testing updates since March 25th? Stuart http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00010.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Debug files for kget?

2010-03-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
Hey, I got a crash from kget and besides installing kde{base,libs}-dbg, I have no idea what other *-dbg files to install in order to get a meaningful backtrace for reporting. Anyone can please help ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
Jason Filippou wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Aioanei Rares wrote: On 03/22/2010 07:42 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hi, My mobo's network card's crashed and I was wondering if I'd have to be weary on which would be the next one I'd have to purch

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/22/2010 07:42 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hi, My mobo's network card's crashed and I was wondering if I'd have to be weary on which would be the next one I'd have to purchase as far as Debian compatibility is concerned. Are there ethernet adapters out there that have incompatibility problems

Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Aioanei Rares
Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as reported by df : /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot /dev/sda5 345G 232G 96G 71% /home /dev/sda8 29G 172M 27G 1% /tmp /dev/sda

Re: Empty folder gives a `hand' cursor icon (foolish)

2010-03-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, After having deleted the content of a folder of mine (on an external HDD), clicking on the empty folder's icon gives me an empty folder (that is normal), but the cursor keeps being a `hand' (just like when one can click one something). Note that I have activated the `on

Re: pen drive without format and can not find it

2010-03-13 Thread Aioanei Rares
Germana Oliveira wrote: This really seems bizarre - you're saying that it shows up in dmesg as /dev/sda, but 'ls /dev/sda' shows 'No such file or directory' ?! Please report the *exact* dmesg and ls output here. How can i find my pen drive so i can format it. If you can't fin

Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-13 Thread Aioanei Rares
Martin wrote: I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude then with synaptic without worry that something will break? They both use same database of installed packages, right? I guess the answer is 'yes' - I just want to be sure. Martin yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dotan Cohen wrote: Yes, we installed the Linux modules on the devices as instructed on that page, but when connecting them to the Linux box there are no '/dev/usb/tts/0' or '/dev/ttyusb0'. And you , of course, modprobe'd them? No :) I've never had to install drivers before, everyt

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dotan Cohen wrote: So you did what is specified in here : http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=supportdetail&ProductID=12&SupportID=27 Right? Yes, we installed the Linux modules on the devices as instructed on that page, but when connecting them to the Linux box there are no '/dev/

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
John W Foster wrote: -Original Message- From: Paul E Condon To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: need help with xorg.conf Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:42:16 -0700 I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much inf

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dotan Cohen wrote: Please detail. I am trying to use this device with the drivers and software from the same site: http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=productsdetail&ProductID=12 When I run the ntfytool it tells me that it cannot find the device. So you did what is specified

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dotan Cohen wrote: Are you able to use the device? No, but I am not sure if the problem is with the device drivers or with the software that I am trying to use to operate it. Please detail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dotan Cohen wrote: No, it only means that this combination of vendor ID 104f (WB Electronics) and device ID 0006 (Infinity Smart) is not listed in your /var/lib/usbutils/usb.ids file. You can run "update-usbids" to get the newest version. The contents of the usb.ids have no influence on the proce

Re: disable shutdown in System menu in gnome (not splash screen)

2010-03-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Maria McKinley wrote: Hello all, I cannot believe how difficult this is to figure out. In Debian Lenny, Shut Down appears in the System menu in the top panel by default, for all users. In Debian Squeeze, this does not appear to be the case. I have looked in every gnome configuration file and

Re: Keyboard is beeping when holding Shift for long

2010-03-11 Thread Aioanei Rares
Martin wrote: I have Lenny 5.0.4 from DVD. I am using blackbox window manager and bbkeys. I am mostly working in xterm, screen (end emacs under screen). As I am working with some program it often happens that I 'forget' my finger on the Shift key pressed. If I hold it pressed for several seconds

Re: how to install debian on an usb pendrive

2010-03-10 Thread Aioanei Rares
Vadkan Jozsef wrote: Does someone has any docs/howtos/solutions about it? :\ i would thank that:\ I just want a netinstall on a pendrive. [but when i just boot from a cd, and install to the pendrive, it just "hangs" for 2 days, formatting the pendrive... :\] thank you! First of all, google

Re: Problem using totem

2010-03-09 Thread Aioanei Rares
Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-09, John Salmon wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:26 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-08, John Salmon wrote: I'm running Lenny on a PC. When I try to use totem to display a .mpg file I get the fpllowing; --- SNIP --- The program

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 07:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:33:21 -0500, Carlos Mennens wrote: > > >> I just did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze X64 and I can't find Adobe >> Flash Plugin anywhere via Apt. >> > My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: > > http://labs.adobe.co

Re: Flash Player Install Confusion

2010-03-09 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 07:33 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I just did a fresh install of Debian Squeeze X64 and I can't find > Adobe Flash Plugin anywhere via Apt. > > I searched the Wiki and found this link: > > http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer > > My current source.list looks like: > > deb http://ftp.us.d

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 02:35 AM, thib wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: xfs as a /boot partition? Why not? [This is so going off topic.] -thib Ok, so let's prevent this and end the thread. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 02:30 AM, Clive McBarton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Moore wrote: Is this checksum failing for every file, or just some? It's the checksum for the partition that changes. I don't have checksums of the individual files but since the metad

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 02:09 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-08 17:50, thib wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: How do you check this "checksum of the partition" ? I'm guessing OP literally checksums the volume from the block device. If I'm right, it could be anything, really,

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 02:01 AM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:45:55 +0200 Aioanei Rares wrote: ... 2. external HDD's wear out faster, so if you wanna get a drive for They do? I thought that they were the same disks internally, except for the addition of the USB bridge si

Re: Installing Debian

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/08/2010 11:32 PM, ahpurdy wrote: I am now operating with Windows XP. I would like to try Debian. I wonder that if I purchased a a USB plug in hard disc, loaded Debian into it, would I be able to select either XP or Debian. This would be a good way to learn Debian I think. Is this possib

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/09/2010 12:11 AM, Clive McBarton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I reboot, the partition /boot (it is a separate partition, not a directory) changes. It is not supposed to. None of the files on it have changed or can change, since it is mounted with option "ro". B

Re: Problem using totem

2010-03-08 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/08/2010 10:05 PM, John Salmon wrote: I'm running Lenny on a PC. When I try to use totem to display a .mpg file I get the fpllowing; epc_publisher_create_server: listening on http://peace:58293/ ** (totem:12145): DEBUG: Init of Python module ** (totem:12145): DEBUG: Registering Python plugi

Re: Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)

2010-03-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/06/2010 01:09 AM, Mark wrote: I hope there is a simple answer to this question (fingers crossed): how do I overwrite an existing partition (hda2 for example) with all zeros (essentially blanking the partition clean in preparation for installing Lenny), without destroying the partition tab

Re: critical bugs of libc6 - a problem for sid?

2010-03-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/06/2010 12:47 AM, John Magolske wrote: When trying to `aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-vesa` I see: The following packages will be upgraded: ... libc6 ... ... critical bugs of libc6 (2.9-6 -> 2.10.2-6) #555205 - libc6: segfault when upgrading from 2.9-25

Re: Kword

2010-02-24 Thread Aioanei Rares
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Re: Asrock G31M-GS compatibility...

2010-02-20 Thread Aioanei Rares
Andrea Giuliano wrote: Hi, I'm pretty sure that this motherboard works with recent Linux kernels, but since I'm going to buy it on-line I would like to know if there is anybody out there who has it actually working. Till now I haven't found reliable info about compatibility with Linux. Best re

Re: Asus MBs

2010-02-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
David Baron wrote: On Monday 15 February 2010 21:52:38 Aioanei Rares wrote: David Baron wrote: Does Debian plain vanilla kernel run well on Asus MBs (P!V 2.6ghz, etc)? Hi David, Please be more specific so someone can help : is there a certain type of ASUS motherboard that you

Re: Asus MBs

2010-02-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
David Baron wrote: Does Debian plain vanilla kernel run well on Asus MBs (P!V 2.6ghz, etc)? Hi David, Please be more specific so someone can help : is there a certain type of ASUS motherboard that you want to buy/use? I gather that you have a P4 CPU running at 2.6 GHz. Generally, hardwar

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
Sam Varghese wrote: the kernel image listed above was added to my system (testing on an ibm thinkpad) during a recent dist-upgrade. it runs through all the regular boot messages but then refuses to bring up the log-in screen. the boot loh does not indicate anything unusual. this isn't a major i

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Aioanei Rares
A more practical approach : what should the average user do in order to get his/her Debian back after this GRUB bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Synchronize two computers

2010-01-21 Thread Aioanei Rares
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi to all Debian users. I just bought the Acer One netbook, on which Lenny seems to work fine. What I need now is: 1) connect it to my old Hyundai laptop so to share data between the two; 2) periodically save, e.g. to the Hyundai the changes I made in my home director

Re: debian - joomla accesso ai file

2010-01-19 Thread Aioanei Rares
Carlo Langaro wrote: Salve a tutti, sono nuovo di debian anche se da qualche anno lavoro con ubuntu. Sto installando per una associazione no profit, di faccio parte, un sito con joomla. L'associazione mi ha messo a disposizione un server dove ho installato debian ho poi installato lamp e utilizz

Re: Strange work of eth0.

2010-01-18 Thread Aioanei Rares
Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Why I have such situation: $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0 SIOCDELRT: No such process $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18 inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::219:b9ff:fe

Re: No flamewar please!

2010-01-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
James Allsopp wrote: Hi, I'd like to keep Gnome if possible, but some of the libs it proposes removing sound critical. Here's the output anyway. Thanks. James Hawaiian:/home/ja# apt-get purge mono-2.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime tomboy Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree

Re: No flamewar please!

2010-01-12 Thread Aioanei Rares
James Allsopp wrote: Hi, I'm using gnome but want to remove all traces of mono from my system, I've a clean install of Squeeze. Can I, apt-get purge mono-2.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime tomboy No offence, if you want to use it fine, but I'd like rid of it. Tried running with simulate and it s

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-10 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 01/10/2010 12:15 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,05.Jan.10, 13:41:18, Mark Allums wrote: I guess your sarcasm meter is broken today. Better get it service. (The hotmail post is satire, guys.) Quote from RFC 1855, section 2.1.1 (emphasis mine): "Remember that the recipient is a

Re: Gnome apps in KDE

2010-01-07 Thread Aioanei Rares
Nima Azarbayjany wrote: I checked for gnome-themes. It was surely already installed but even reinstalling it did not help. Is gnome-settings-daemon started? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Gnome apps in KDE

2010-01-06 Thread Aioanei Rares
Nima Azarbayjany wrote: Thanks all. Now I have install gtk-qt-engine and the qtcurve package. I cannot find any thing in KDE Control Center which might allow me to do the configuration. I ran the module which is supposed to appear in KDE Control Center manually but I was presented with only

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze Not Upgrading

2010-01-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
chris kerr wrote: First time I've tried to upgrade my distro. Following the directions I edited /etc/apt/source.list and changed all "lenny" to "squeeze" and all "stable" to "testing". Example: deb http://debian.crosslink.net/debian/ squeeze main Then I 'aptitude update' and get output: Er

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
Arthur Machlas wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Aioanei Rares mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com>> wrote: Arthur Machlas wrote: Guys, have you heard about this? It's called hotmail. You want to write a letter to your friends? Just click compose,

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-05 Thread Aioanei Rares
Arthur Machlas wrote: Guys, have you heard about this? It's called hotmail. You want to write a letter to your friends? Just click compose, write, send. Need to send a recipe to a friend? Look at this: It's got attachments. You just click upload, ok, send. Wham, bam, hotmail spam. It's so eas

Re: Gnome apps in KDE

2010-01-03 Thread Aioanei Rares
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:55:46 +0330, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: Can anyone tell me why Gnome applications look so ugly in KDE and if something can be done about it to make them look as in their native Gnome environment?! ;) KDE Control Center used to have a section to cont

Re: /proc can be navigated to as ordinary user -- not as root!?

2009-10-28 Thread Aioanei Rares
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 28. 10. 2009 16:46:47 je Klistvud napisal(a): Dne, 28. 10. 2009 15:12:42 je Aioanei Rares napisal(a): Klistvud wrote: Howdy, fellow Debianites, I have bumped into a most peculiar situation lately. On my laptop (running a fully updated Lenny with Gnome) I

Re: /proc can be navigated to as ordinary user -- not as root!?

2009-10-28 Thread Aioanei Rares
Klistvud wrote: Howdy, fellow Debianites, I have bumped into a most peculiar situation lately. On my laptop (running a fully updated Lenny with Gnome) I can easily navigate into / proc (both with Nautilus and Gnome-Commander). When I try to run these browsers with gksu or su, however, they nev

Re: Optical Dell Mouse - seems standard doesn't work on xorg

2009-10-28 Thread Aioanei Rares
Thomas Douillard wrote: 2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares <mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com>> Thomas Douillard wrote: 2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com> <mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com <mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com>

Re: Optical Dell Mouse - seems standard doesn't work on xorg

2009-10-27 Thread Aioanei Rares
Thomas Douillard wrote: 2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares <mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com>> Thomas Douillard wrote: 2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares <mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com> <mailto:debian.dev.l...@gmail.com <mailto:debi

Re: Optical Dell Mouse - seems standard doesn't work on xorg

2009-10-27 Thread Aioanei Rares
Thomas Douillard wrote: Hi, I've got a problem since an upgrade (I don't kwon since when unfortunately), my standard optical wheel mouse don't work anymore on X, on an debian SID I don't know who I must blame (hal, udev, the kernel, xorg ...) so I can't post a bugreport on the good package. I

Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

2009-10-27 Thread Aioanei Rares
surreal wrote: I just caught hold of a C source code from 2005. This code is a local DoS which fills up the entire memory on Linux 2.6.N kernels. At that time, I used Fedora Core 4 and a pentium 4 machine with 512 MB ram. After compiling and running this program on the old machine, it used to

Re: seek complete errors on boot up

2009-10-09 Thread Aioanei Rares
Jude DaShiell wrote: I'm getting seek complete errors both on boot up and at certain times after login which are being sent out over the console interface to my user account. This happens even though I think e2fsck runs when I boot up. Any ideas as to what the cause for this problem is as well

Re: Virtual Memory and long use

2009-09-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
Ivan Marin wrote: Hello all, I'm running Sid (kernel 2.6.30) on a Core i7 with 4G of memory. Everything runs smoothly until some programs hit the VM (like using eclipse, amarok, iceweasel and azureus at the same time). Even if one of the memory hoggers is killed, or all of them, if the VM was

Re: sudden power off ... ?!?

2009-09-21 Thread Aioanei Rares
Dan wrote: Hello List, It is few days that I installed (standard installation) Debian Lenny on this pc. Randomly (maybe once or sometimes two a day) it powers off like if it has suddenly been plugged off from the AC. If I then soon turn it on no problems to start up. I suspect this could be a

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-09-18 Thread Aioanei Rares
Jochen Schulz wrote: Merciadri Luca: However, when booting Debian, it is put at 75%, and keeps using this value until I change it (by clicking on the applet, and choosing "Performance" or "2.66Ghz", or "100%"). What does # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor say

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-09-18 Thread Aioanei Rares
Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do not want to go "there", as GNOME suits my needs better than KDE. However, I deeply think that one must use an interface from the beginning to the end. It is nonsense to use parts of an interface and parts of another. Someti

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-09-18 Thread Aioanei Rares
Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aioanei Rares writes: Try kpowersave. It works with kpowersave (I just tried), but it would show the supremacy of KDE versus GNOME... - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-09-18 Thread Aioanei Rares
Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am using GNOME with Debian Lenny, with a 2.6.26-2-686 kernel. I have added to one of my panels the GNOME's default CPU scaling applet. It allows me to modify CPUs' frequency (not independently, as I have 4 CPUs on the

Re: aptitude still running after terminal crash

2009-09-17 Thread Aioanei Rares
Guy Marcenac wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:40:11 +0200, Guy Marcenac wrote: While doing a safe-upgrade, my remote term crashed. the running process is "aptitude safe-upgrade" Maybe you could wait 'till the process changes its state or finishes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

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