Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

2019-12-17 Thread Alberto Luaces
"0...@caiway.net" writes: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:40:52 +0100 > Alberto Luaces wrote: > >> "0...@caiway.net" writes: >> >> > But I do like systemd-container very much. >> >> What is that thing? Another name for systemd-nspawn?

Re: looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

2019-12-16 Thread Alberto Luaces
"0...@caiway.net" writes: > But I do like systemd-container very much. What is that thing? Another name for systemd-nspawn? -- Alberto

Re: GRUB key repeat too fast

2019-09-25 Thread Alberto Luaces
Pascal Hambourg writes: > Le 25/09/2019 à 13:34, Alberto Luaces a écrit : >> Pascal Hambourg writes: >> >>>> I have searched for a key repeat delay in the manual, but I found >>>> nothing. >>> >>> Which manual ? GRUB or the computer/mothe

Re: GRUB key repeat too fast

2019-09-25 Thread Alberto Luaces
Pascal Hambourg writes: >> I have searched for a key repeat delay in the manual, but I found >> nothing. > > Which manual ? GRUB or the computer/motherboard ? > GRUB's. > >> Does this ring a bell for someone? > > I read a report about a similar issue in a Debian-related forum. IIRC, > a workarou

GRUB key repeat too fast

2019-09-25 Thread Alberto Luaces
Hello, I have switched to a new computer an existing Debian installation. At boot time, at the GRUB menu, each key press is repeated very fast, as if the key repeat delay were close to zero: I can only select either the first or the last option, since pressing the arrow keys go all the way up or

Re: rocks n diamonds

2019-09-13 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alberto Luaces writes: > Paul Sutton writes: > >> dpkg-reconfigure rocksndiamonds > > Can you add "sudo" or become root for that? Well, and also check the installation of the debconf package? -- Alberto

Re: rocks n diamonds

2019-09-13 Thread Alberto Luaces
Paul Sutton writes: > dpkg-reconfigure rocksndiamonds Can you add "sudo" or become root for that? -- Alberto

Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver

2019-04-26 Thread Alberto Luaces
mick crane writes: > sorry to be a nuisance > can somebody explain generally what this scheme of things with the > dots has to do with ? > seen this in perl as the kind of hierarchy of modules but how is this > to do with the OS ? > > ~$ apropos nameserver > Net::DNS::Nameserver (3pm) - DNS server

Re: Question to rsync

2018-06-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Hans writes: > I am sure, this option stilll exists in the actual rsync version, but I can > not find it (although, there is a "--delete", but looks to do something else) I have always used "--delete" for that purpose. I interpret the "extraneous" term in the manpage as "not found in the targ

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

2018-05-24 Thread Alberto Luaces
Joe writes: > On the assumption that you are using a router of some kind, your public > IP address will be that of the router WAN port (cable, ADSL, etc.) and > there will be a method of determining that by connecting to the router > as an administrator. That method will depend entirely on the rou

Re: Kleopatra / gpgconf

2017-12-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Hans writes: > Now I know, who is to blame. :) However, so I hope, that this bugreport will > reach the correct maintainer. IMHO in this case, the reason for the bug is > clear, but as there are dependencies with kleopatra, libgpgme and gpgconf, > those who better know as me, will see, what can

Re: Kleopatra / gpgconf

2017-12-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Hans writes: > It is not clear for me, who is to blame now? My bad English... I mean, who > should be filed a bug. Huh... didn't you file the bug already? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883328 -- Alberto

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

2017-10-25 Thread Alberto Luaces
Michael Stone writes: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 12:16:49AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>On Tuesday 24 October 2017 23:02:39 Michael Stone wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:52:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> >But since its worked flawlessly for years, please explain what IS >>> > wrong w

Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall

2017-09-15 Thread Alberto Luaces
Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > I was wondering about that. I a-sumed maybe it tried to over-purge > other important packages the way that happens sometimes. There is no risk: only explicitly named packages are purged. The rest are deleted on demand. -- Alberto

Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall

2017-09-14 Thread Alberto Luaces
"larry owens" writes: > Colleagues > [...] > Unfortunately I > have been unable to find a set of instructions to safely remove > Maria. Can anyone point me to a working process (the one's on the web > currently don't seem to work). TIA Hi, as long as you installed it from Debian packages, you o

Re: How did you update to stretch?

2017-06-26 Thread Alberto Luaces
Jonathan Dowland writes: > That's not going to happen. I'm not even sure aptitude is maintained anymore. Yes, it is. And I am glad because it is my favourite tool for dealing with updating and conflict resolving: https://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aptitude.html -- Alberto

Re: Missing dependencies in steam package?

2017-01-19 Thread Alberto Luaces
Rémi DUCCESCHI writes: > I hope this is the right list to post. I think it is better to report it to the package maintainer: > reportbug steam:i386 Thanks for your report! -- Alberto

Re: k3b can't find cdrecord

2016-12-28 Thread Alberto Luaces
Gary Dale writes: > I'm running Debian/Stretch AMD64 using plasma desktop and I'm trying > to burn a CD image. However when I start k3b, I get an error message > "unable to find cdrecord executable" along with the suggestion that I > install cdrtools. K3b refuses to burn the CD image. > > There is

Re: sound disappeared

2016-11-08 Thread Alberto Luaces
Tony Baldwin writes: > looks like > Built-in Audio Analog Stereo Line Out (plugged in) > Here's a screen-shot of pavucontrol: > > http://tonybaldwin.me/images/pavucontrol110816124906.jpg > Analog Line Out for me as well, so that part could be covered. > > what you can see is line above "advanced

Re: bug - nvidia related

2016-09-15 Thread Alberto Luaces
"Janusz S. Kulpa" writes: > Hello. I am unsure which package is it related to and how to properly > summit a bug report. I think it may be nvidia-drivers, > xserver-xorg-video-nvidia or nvidia-kernel-dkms. > > I am running stretch. Yesterday I was updating the packages (900+), > including xserver,

Re: Newer mutt in stable

2016-07-19 Thread Alberto Luaces
Andre Majorel writes: > Things I'd rather not do : > - install from source, > - install a package from unstable or testing in case it drags in > new versions of libc etc., This is the first thing I would try, because it is the easiest path. If the number of dependencies is unbearable to you, t

Re: make cannot find file

2016-07-05 Thread Alberto Luaces
Danny writes: > Hi guys, > > I am having trouble with make. It complains about a missing header file > "asm/socket.h". > > I did a search for each package that contains this file and installed them but > the error still persists. > >

Re: CUDA 6.x in testing?

2016-04-07 Thread Alberto Luaces
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2016-04-06 18:17 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > >> Some weeks ago, nvidia drivers v352 entered in testing. Since those >> drivers no longer support older cards, a v340 legacy driver package was >> created. That is what I am using currently.

CUDA 6.x in testing?

2016-04-06 Thread Alberto Luaces
Hi, Some weeks ago, nvidia drivers v352 entered in testing. Since those drivers no longer support older cards, a v340 legacy driver package was created. That is what I am using currently. The problem now is with CUDA. I suspect that available CUDA drivers are also working only with newer cards

Re: "Debian Way" to automate startup of svnserve?

2016-03-21 Thread Alberto Luaces
Mark Fletcher writes: > Having played around with Linux From Scratch on another machine, I know > that systemd scripts for svnserve have been done -- curious as to why > Debian doesn't include one and if I'd be doing anything "wrong" from a > Debian perspective if I just lifted such a script from

Re: i3 Window manager without any other desktop environment

2015-11-13 Thread Alberto Luaces
Brian writes: > Indeed it is not! What is the correct term for xdm? "Display manager", according to the descriptions. -- Alberto

Re: Random freeze

2015-11-09 Thread Alberto Luaces
Paolo Cavallini writes: > My problem is theat with a random crash there is little I can do to > investigate, unless I have some suggestions. - Can you blacklist the wifi module to see if it keeps happening? - Or, can you get a stack trace of the kernel? See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questio

Re: emacs M-c

2015-08-19 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alberto Luaces writes: >> How do I get the default (Capitalize next word) back to M-c? >> > > I suspect this could be related to your configuration; the standard > procedure is to launch "emacs -Q" in order to make sure this is the > case. Oops. The thread

Re: emacs M-c

2015-08-19 Thread Alberto Luaces
Johann Spies writes: > I have been an emacs user for many years. For the last months (might be a > year or longer) M-c is do not capitalize the next word as described in the > documentation, but call up Calc. > This is not happening to me. > How do I get the default (Capitalize next word) back

typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Alberto Luaces
Richard Owlett writes: > Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine >> [SNIP] >>> >>> apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. >>> >>> Mart >> >> I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6 years. The list >> of stuff it

Re: Debian on Intel NUC?

2014-07-15 Thread Alberto Luaces
Bob Proulx writes: > I have been asked if there are any issues running Debian Stable on one > of the newer Intel NUC hardware. Something like this. > > Intel NUC i5 Intel HD Graphics 5000 > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102054 > > I don't have any experience with th

Re: Understanding multi arch

2014-04-29 Thread Alberto Luaces
I think you are pretty much correct. Try it, is not a risky operation. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87k3a7uz88@eps142.cdf.udc.es

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-23 Thread Alberto Luaces
Slavko writes: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:20:54 +0200 Alberto Luaces > napísal: > >> In order to get the clipping coordinates, "display" from the same >> package bringing "convert" can be used: press "c" and then drag the >>

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-16 Thread Alberto Luaces
Slavko writes: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Tue, 15 Apr 2014 03:48:29 -0700 "Kevin O'Gorman" > napísal: > >> SOLVED. Thanks to whoever gave me the clue that convert(1) could do >> the cropping. That and 2 bash scripts do all the work. > > See this > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/waldens

Re: [OT][SOLVED]Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-03-26 Thread Alberto Luaces
Paul E Condon writes: > I've been following (lurking?) this thread hoping to improve my > knowledge of the boot process. I've never heard of SGD. What is it? Super Grub Disk. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-13 Thread Alberto Luaces
lina writes: > I was advised by our admin that "It is something to do with the RDP > version on Linux. It has some compatibility issues with the more recent > version of MS-RDP. " Try with xfreerdp. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Help -- GPG error

2013-10-29 Thread Alberto Luaces
writes: > "W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release: The > following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is > not available: NO_PUBKEY 8B48AD6246925553" Try to update first the package debian-archive-keyring. The new version might contain the signatures

KDE IM and GTalk SSL certificate

2013-09-11 Thread Alberto Luaces
Hi, since yesterday I cannot connect to my gtalk account from KDE IM, since the "contacts" program says that the SSL certificate is not valid. Any clue about that? Thanks, -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Xorg high memory usage

2013-05-29 Thread Alberto Luaces
Veljko writes: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 04:20:04PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: >> I have tried to reproduce the problem as well but my Xorg's memory usage >> stayed constant (about 50M), iceweasel's memory usage went from 180M to >> 900M during the test. I used a periodic ps invocation to get the dat

Re: Xorg high memory usage

2013-05-28 Thread Alberto Luaces
staticsafe writes: > I don't think this is an Xorg issue, just tried the webpage you > suggested on Firefox in Windows 7, same issue, rapid memory usage > growth. Seems more like a Firefox issue, can you try a Nightly [0] build > and see if the issue still exists? I guess the problem is not firef

Re: Must _reboot_ to restart network

2013-05-28 Thread Alberto Luaces
Itay writes: > - Reboot solves the problem. When this happens to me in one of my computers, I remove and then load again the kernel module for my network card with "rmmod" and "modprobe" commands. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Xorg high memory usage

2013-05-28 Thread Alberto Luaces
Veljko writes: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:34:22AM +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> And what about the version numbers for iceweasel and firefox? > > Debian: > iceweasel -v > Mozilla Iceweasel 10.0.12 > > Slackware: > firefox -v > Mozilla Firefox 21.0 > > Fi

Re: Xorg high memory usage

2013-05-28 Thread Alberto Luaces
Veljko writes: > This is really weird as both Debian and Slackware use same xorg: > > dpkg -l |grep xserver-xorg-core > ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.12.4-6 amd64 Xorg X server - core server > > > ls /var/log/packages/ |grep xorg-server > xorg-server-1.12.4-x86_64-1_slack14.0 > And what about the ver

Re: pkg-config not returning correct version number - help please

2013-03-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Chris Fisichella writes: > Hi, > > I did something to cause pkg-config to not return the correct version number. > I issue: > > $ pkg-config --exists --print-errors 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' > Requested 'fontconfig >= 2.10.91' but version of Fontconfig is 2.10.2 > > This is after I (believe I) succ

Re: Steam on Debian

2013-02-01 Thread Alberto Luaces
"Mark Allums" writes: > Thanks for your reply. I am a bit skeptical that many distributions will be > officially supported. Certainly Ubuntu and direct derivatives, possibly > Debian and direct derivatives, probably Fedora and some other RPM-based > distros such as OpenSuSE. Slackware, Arch, an

Re: Running 32bit OpenGL program with amd64

2012-10-11 Thread Alberto Luaces
lee writes: > Alberto Luaces writes: > >> lee writes: >> >>> Francesco Pietra writes: >>> >>>> Hello: >>>> I would like to continue to use a 32bit graphical program based on >>>> OpenGL. It worked well on i386, requirin

Re: Running 32bit OpenGL program with amd64

2012-10-09 Thread Alberto Luaces
lee writes: > Francesco Pietra writes: > >> Hello: >> I would like to continue to use a 32bit graphical program based on >> OpenGL. It worked well on i386, requiring libXm.so.3 (from libmotif3). >> >> Is it conceivable to simply add libXm.so.3 (taken from my dismissed >> i388 PC) to ia32-libs? > >

Re: rdiff-backup code quality

2012-10-05 Thread Alberto Luaces
Celejar writes: > A long-time, reasonably happy rsnapshot user, I decided to give > rdiff-backup a whirl, in part due to its recent endorsements on this > list, and promptly ran into this: > > http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?29808 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623336 > > > >

Re: Unable to run skype on amd64

2012-09-27 Thread Alberto Luaces
Just to complete José Luis' answer, this is the output of the computer where I did not yet enabled multiarch: $ LANG=C aptitude show skype | grep Depends -A 2 Depends: lib32stdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21), lib32asound2 (> 1.0.14), ia32-libs, libc6-i386 (>= 2.7-1), lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21+ia32.libs

Re: Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-31 Thread Alberto Luaces
Mark Panen writes: > Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing a > nVidia driver for a GTS250? IIRC: 1. Make a backup copy of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then remove the original file. 2. Install nvidia-glx package. 3. Stop X server, unload any older nvidia modules a

Re: [Solved] Re: Suspend to RAM fails in Debian Wheezy 64 bits

2012-07-24 Thread Alberto Luaces
Seems it could be addressed in the 304.22-1 version from experimental: - Fixed a bug that could cause G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs to display a black screen or corruption after waking up from suspend. (Closes: #679577) It's working fine so far. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: [Solved] Re: Suspend to RAM fails in Debian Wheezy 64 bits

2012-07-24 Thread Alberto Luaces
Camaleón writes: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:34:35 +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: > >> Le vendredi 20 juillet 2012 à 17:45 +0200, Gaël DONVAL a écrit : >>> > > 3) DE >>> > > Typical Gnome 3.4 install. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > I'm having the same problem with nvidia drivers, but KDE4. >>> >>> I guess Nvidia

Re: Suspend to RAM fails in Debian Wheezy 64 bits

2012-07-20 Thread Alberto Luaces
Gaël DONVAL writes: > Le jeudi 19 juillet 2012 à 17:21 +, Camaleón a écrit : > [...] > 3) DE > Typical Gnome 3.4 install. > I'm having the same problem with nvidia drivers, but KDE4. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Alberto Luaces
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:20:28, Britton Kerin wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep >> failing. >> Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages always >> fail. >> >> I'm wondering if ftp.u

Re: The question of Wheezy

2012-06-05 Thread Alberto Luaces
Парфенович Никита writes: > Hello! Sorry for my English. Could you tell me how do I install Debian > Wheezy? Does anyone else what that means, except for installation of > Squeeze, and upgrade to Wheezy? Is there a setup CD, which can set it > Wheezy? Thank you! If you want to install Wheezy, yo

Re: QT

2012-05-15 Thread Alberto Luaces
Peter O'Doherty writes: > Hi list, > > I recently installed a fresh Squeeze and have just discovered that I > need qt-4.7 (Squeeze has 4.6.3). Is there safe way to upgrade to a > more recent qt version without breaking my current system? I am not completely sure, but I think it could work. You ca

Re: networking thru C language

2012-05-02 Thread Alberto Luaces
abdelkader belahcene writes: > Hi, > I am new to  networking  via C language I want to implemente   a command of > nmap > this one ( or another , any one just to see how it works) > > nmap -O -v scanme.nmap.org This is pretty complicated for a begginer in networking; however, I'd suggest to comp

Re: dhclient

2012-05-01 Thread Alberto Luaces
Bonno Bloksma writes: > Hi, > > I have a server with several NICs, most of them have fixes addresses. One has > an address assigned via DHCP as is it the cable internet connection. > I now have a problem with that connection and want to reconnect by forcing a > DHCP renewal, but... how? > > As o

Re: evolution mail

2012-04-25 Thread Alberto Luaces
John Gennard writes: > Is there a way to delete evolution without deleting gnome. There is a specific article on this very subject: http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article8/uninstall-meta-package -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-12 Thread Alberto Luaces
songbird writes: > in the years of tinkering on linux i've never > really dug into a lot of things, much preferring > to hope packages work out of the box and if > they don't give up and go find something else > to do (there's always something else to do :) ). [...] > > ok, i've used a small

Re: i wish to generate a Debian package from source written in c++ with makefile already prepared

2012-03-21 Thread Alberto Luaces
Gershon Celniker writes: > i wish to generate a Debian package from source written in c++ with > makefile already ready, > so i used dh_make and prepared all the needed configuration file, all > but rules file - this one is a bit tricky, because i cant find a way > to execute the make command at t

Re: Compiling non-Debian package (amaya) OpenGL libraries required

2012-03-06 Thread Alberto Luaces
Sian Mountbatten writes: > Hi All! > > Does anybody know which package provides OpenGL libraries for development? > > I am using the siduction distribution which is based on Debian sid. Look for libGL.so (as is, without trailing numbers) under your usr/. It could have been installed as a result

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-21 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alberto Luaces writes: > David Roguin writes: > >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >>> David Roguin writes: >>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >>>>> David Roguin writes: >>>>

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-21 Thread Alberto Luaces
David Roguin writes: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> David Roguin writes: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >>>> David Roguin writes: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >&

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-20 Thread Alberto Luaces
David Roguin writes: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> David Roguin writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is >>> manually write those commands >>> # echo &qu

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-20 Thread Alberto Luaces
David Roguin writes: > Hi, > > I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is > manually write those commands > # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_manual > # echo "4000" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_output > > Is there a package that controls the fan

Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

2012-01-25 Thread Alberto Luaces
Rémi Moyen writes: > OK, so now I get what I think should be a working up-to-date testing > system. Rebooting on the 2.6.32 kernel works again perfectly. But > rebooting on the 3.1 kernel starts to boot (it prints at least the > "waiting for udev to be populated" message) and then all I get is a >

Re: Nvidia Geforce GT 520

2012-01-25 Thread Alberto Luaces
richard writes: > If you want to install it the debian way read this:- > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > If you want to install the nvidia way read this lifted from:- > Debian - NVIDIA drivers quick and easy tutorial about how to install NVIDIA > drivers as simply as possible.

Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-18 Thread Alberto Luaces
Christopher Judd writes: > On Tuesday 17 January 2012 12:03:59 Alberto Luaces wrote: >> Alberto Luaces writes: >> > Grześ Andruszkiewicz writes: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues >>

Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-17 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alberto Luaces writes: > Grześ Andruszkiewicz writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues >> with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play >> any sound. Often these apps crash on e

Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-17 Thread Alberto Luaces
Grześ Andruszkiewicz writes: > Hi, > > I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues > with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play > any sound. Often these apps crash on exit (I am not sure if its > related). Since the last amarok update, I also have

Re: System doesn't start X on first boot

2012-01-05 Thread Alberto Luaces
George writes: > On 1/5/12, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> George writes: >> >>> When I boot my computer, most of the time I get a command line without >>> X starting. I have to "sudo reboot", wait for the system to reboot and >>> then I get the cor

Re: System doesn't start X on first boot

2012-01-05 Thread Alberto Luaces
George writes: > When I boot my computer, most of the time I get a command line without > X starting. I have to "sudo reboot", wait for the system to reboot and > then I get the correct X environment (I'm using awesome window manager > but I also have kde installed). > > Any suggestions to trouble

Re: qemu KVM: can't boot a qemu machine with liveCD (system rescue)

2012-01-03 Thread Alberto Luaces
Ekkard Gerlach writes: > How can I boot a qemu machine with liveCD (system rescue)? I think you can try: kvm -cdrom /dev/sr0 *without* mounting the CD before. Make sure you are root or in the ‘cdrom’ group. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: emacs load-path

2011-12-02 Thread Alberto Luaces
Nicolas Bercher writes: > Jude DaShiell a écrit : >> First make sure they'll load after running emacs and hitting meta-x >> and keying in the file names. Then read the original .el files for >> instructions. I expect you'll find code in them starting with >> (require that needs to be inserted in

Re: emacs load-path

2011-12-02 Thread Alberto Luaces
Nicolas Bercher writes: > Something is driving me crazy as it seems to be so trivial. > > I have a bunch of .el files I'd like emacs to load on startup (emacs-22, > Lenny). I saved them to ~/.emacs.d/elisp/: > > $ ls -l ~/.emacs.d/elisp/ > total 8 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 nbercher nbercher 496 déc 2

Re: emacs RMAIL -- help needed

2011-11-11 Thread Alberto Luaces
Sian Mountbatten writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> Sian Mountbatten writes: >> >>> Having loaded gnus into emacs23, in the group buffer I keyed ^ >>> and got a list of servers. Two entries caught my attention: >>> >>> {nnimap:Opera} (denied) >>> {nntp:nntp.aioe.org} (opened) (agent) >>> >>> Wh

Re: Usenet news - server required

2011-11-09 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alberto Luaces writes: > Sian Mountbatten writes: > >> I have succeeded in setting gnus-select-method to getting news, but >> I have not seen anything about how to get my mail. Can you tell me >> how to setup gnus to read mail? > > Here (http://www.emacswiki.org/

Re: Usenet news - server required

2011-11-09 Thread Alberto Luaces
Sian Mountbatten writes: > I have succeeded in setting gnus-select-method to getting news, but > I have not seen anything about how to get my mail. Can you tell me > how to setup gnus to read mail? Here (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusGmail) you have some hints to get your mail with POP or IM

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-09 Thread Alberto Luaces
Miles Fidelman writes: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 11/9/2011 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Miles Fidelman wrote: try smartctl -A /dev/sda that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive the one I always look at first is the absolute value

Re: Reproducible hard reboot on make -j4

2011-09-08 Thread Alberto Luaces
lina writes: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> Mathieu Malaterre writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>>   I am experiencing hard(soft?)-reboot every time I am doing parallel >>> compilation (eg. make -j4) on my laptop. I am starri

Re: Reproducible hard reboot on make -j4

2011-09-08 Thread Alberto Luaces
Mathieu Malaterre writes: > Hi, > > I am experiencing hard(soft?)-reboot every time I am doing parallel > compilation (eg. make -j4) on my laptop. I am starring at the log but > I do not see anything obvious. Does anyone knows how to prepare a good > bug report in this case ? * Check temperatur

Re: aptitude GUI shows strange messages

2011-07-07 Thread Alberto Luaces
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-07-07 13:51 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > >> Sven Joachim writes: >> >>> I'm not sure if anyone is >>> looking at aptitude's bugs these days, though. >> >> Where is the development gone, then? > > I

Re: aptitude GUI shows strange messages

2011-07-07 Thread Alberto Luaces
Sven Joachim writes: > I'm not sure if anyone is > looking at aptitude's bugs these days, though. Where is the development gone, then? I ask just in case there is a new "big thing" to be aware of when handling packages. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: updating gnome

2011-06-23 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alberto Luaces writes: > "Kristoffer Gustafsson" writes: > >> HI. >> I'm running squeeze and want to upgrade the gnome desktop to the latest >> version. >> How do I do that? > > It seems there are bad news: > > http://raphaelhertzog.c

Re: updating gnome

2011-06-23 Thread Alberto Luaces
"Kristoffer Gustafsson" writes: > HI. > I'm running squeeze and want to upgrade the gnome desktop to the latest > version. > How do I do that? It seems there are bad news: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/06/16/installing-gnome-3-on-debian-6-0-squeeze-no-sorry/ -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Camaleón writes: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:02 +0200, Alberto Luaces wrote: > >> Dom writes: >> >>> Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the >>> meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you >>>

Re: Threading (was: QCAD Pro in Squeeze)

2011-06-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > On Ter, 21 Jun 2011, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> Camaleón writes: >> >>>> But at least you did not reply to a digest. >>> >>> Sure. I'd say digests are for reading more than replying. >> >> In addition, th

Re: Question about the new kernel with PAE (Wheezy) - Report

2011-06-22 Thread Alberto Luaces
Dom writes: > Now here's the thing. I did the install, got the warning from the > meta-package (linux-image-2.6-686), and the kernel installed - as you > said. > > I then rebooted and... it works fine. It happened to me too! -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Threading (was: QCAD Pro in Squeeze)

2011-06-21 Thread Alberto Luaces
Camaleón writes: >> But at least you did not reply to a digest. > > Sure. I'd say digests are for reading more than replying. In addition, there are some MUAs that can extract individual messages from digests. Emacs gnus does this. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: How to install Software package on a Linux System when it do not have Internet - debbundle

2011-05-05 Thread Alberto Luaces
Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 05 May 2011 16:23:40 +0530, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > >> Problem - How to install Software package on a Linux System when it do >> not have Internet ? > > (...) > > A very interesting approach for many users! I already forwarded this > project news to another mailing

Re: which ISO image shall I use?/ Qué imagen ISO debo usar?

2011-04-02 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alberto Luaces writes: > Gustavo Marcano writes: > >> greetings, just want to make sure which ISO image should I use to >> install Debian squeeze on my laptop (compaq presario CQ-50) which use >> an AMD Semprom (tm) SI-40 2 Ghz processor? >> >> I ask thi

Re: which ISO image shall I use?/ Qué imagen ISO debo usar?

2011-04-02 Thread Alberto Luaces
Gustavo Marcano writes: > greetings, just want to make sure which ISO image should I use to > install Debian squeeze on my laptop (compaq presario CQ-50) which use > an AMD Semprom (tm) SI-40 2 Ghz processor? > > I ask this because I tried to do it with x-86 architecture, but it > kept presenting

Re: counter strike

2011-03-03 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alex PADOLY writes: > Hello, > > I would like to know How I can play to counter strike on Debian 6.0. > Thanks. Alex, get used to search for answers to the questions you already posted in the past: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg02880.html -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Peut-on jouer à counter strike sous DEBIAN

2011-02-28 Thread Alberto Luaces
alex.padoly@laposte.netwrites: > Bonjour à tous, > > Dans l'affirmatif, quels sont les paquets à installer? > Je vous remercie. Install the wine package. Then run CS installer with it. You can play using wine also. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] Build a single binary deb from source which produces many

2011-01-19 Thread Alberto Luaces
Tixy writes: > As per the Debian FAQ [1] I am building packages from source using: > > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b > > However, some source packages produce multiple binary packages, is there > a way of just rebuilding the specific binary package I'm interested in? > (I've tried this out i

Re: OT: emacs + psgml + console = NFG

2010-12-24 Thread Alberto Luaces
"Eric d'Alibut" writes: > I need to maintain some docbook-website sites on remote hosts to which > I have only console access via ssh (no X). > > But even on local hosts, running emacs in the console (with '-nw') > gives bad results with psgml. I can get to the 'Markup' menu via the > keyboard, b

Re: evolution-backup.tar.gz

2010-12-17 Thread Alberto Luaces
wi writes: > Hallo, > > ich sichere meine E-Mails in evolution stets über "Einstellungen > sichern". Jetzt habe ich zum ersten Mal das Problem, dass es nicht > funktioniert. > > Es wird die Meldung: unexpected end of file angezeigt. > > Der Befehl gzip -cd evolution-backup.tar.gz | tar -xvf - im T

Re: Retrieve process ID from process name

2010-11-23 Thread Alberto Luaces
"T. Alex Chen" writes: > I am trying to retrieve the process ID from a process' name, optionally with > its command parameters. > I look up the man page of 'sysctl' and the use of this API seems to be > discouraged. It points the /proc file system. > The /proc does contains all the running proce

Re: Atomic operations

2010-11-20 Thread Alberto Luaces
"T. Alex Chen" writes: > I post the following message on debian-devel mailing list but someone says it > is the wrong one so I post it here again. > Please bear with me if you have already seen it. > == > I want to do atomic operation and find there is already such implementation > in Li

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