On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 05:42:18PM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote:
[...]
> After running my laptop for a bit over 2 months, I've started getting, for
> example when running urxvt from another terminal:
>
> Maximum number of clients reachedurxvt: can't open display :0.0, aborting.
>
[...]
> xlsclient
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 02:21:33PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:49:36 -0400 (EDT), François Patte wrote:
[...]
>
> > 3- Is it possible to install a package without its dependencies with
> > apt-get? I wanted to install auctex but apt-get wants to install a lot
> > of TeX
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:28:18PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 15 Jun 2011 at 07:46:08 -0700, Adrian Rocha wrote:
>
> > > It may not be possible if the connection quality is too low. What does
> > > 'iwpriv scan' say when you are in the middle?
> >
> >
> > Hi Brian,
> > iwpriv scan? maybe you m
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 05:34:34PM -0700, Adrian Rocha wrote:
> Hi people, I work with my laptop and use a wireless conection in an
> enterprise network. When I go to other floor, the wireless access
> point change automatically. I can see this change using the command
> "iwconfig". Is there any wa
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 04:58:14PM +0100, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I downloaded some new levels for the arcade game supertux. I tried
> supertux -d .
> on the directory where I had downloaded the levels but presumably I
> used the option incorrectly because the programme exited imm
Ah nevermind, sorry for the noise list.
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/140453
hooks not supported over http until version 1.6.6... I'm on stable, so
1.5.6 or so.
A
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:59:06PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> Hi list,
>
&g
Hi list,
they may be beter served on a git list, but I'm starting here anyway.
I've got a bare git repo on my server and I push and pull through
http. This works fine, but now I'm trying to run some hooks for
various reasons.
I've done chmod +x on hooks/post-update and hooks/post-receive in th
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:30:56AM -0400, ABS Doug wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Huang, Tao wrote:
>
> > so the torrents render you wireless disconnected.
> >
> > if your wifi adapter driver supports auto-reconnecting, everything
> > should be solved. but i have no idea on how to get
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:50:17AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sb, 19 iun 10, 12:13:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:06:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > > On 2010-06-19 21:01 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > [...]
> > &g
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:06:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-06-19 21:01 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:51:56PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >> On Lu, 14 iun 10, 09:52:32, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> > A section
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:51:56PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 14 iun 10, 09:52:32, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > A section from today's issue of the Debian Project News:
> >
> > Debian Community Poll
> > -
[...]
> >
> >12 : http://tinyurl.com/3y33ska
>
> "The poll is
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:18:27PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> ABS Doug writes:
> > I had a Vic-20, but that was 1980 I think. Tape cassette, hooked to
> > TV... I'm feeling old.
>
> I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late
> seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the he
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:35:00PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> On 17/06/10 01:22 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:53:49 +0100, James Allsopp wrote:
> >
> >> When I'm testing things with X I l want to be able to log via SSH and
> >> restart X, how can I do that in a console? I'm using Gnome.
fixing the quoting...
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:08:17PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote:
> On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George wrote:
>
> >
> > A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem:
> >
> > The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to
> > F9.
> >
> > My system is Debia
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:03:52AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Chris Bannister wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>On 06/16/2010 06:09 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> >>>Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 1:50 PM:
> >>>
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:31:41AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote:
> Many thanks to all that responded to try to solve this LVM problem.
> I could not recover any data from the crashed system. I could not find any
> method of mounting drive 2 or 3 as individual drives and the system would
> not
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:59:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/15/2010 02:17 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:50:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >>[snip]
> >>>
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:50:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> [snip]
> >an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of data with the
> >most critical ~400GB backed up is definitely preferable than no
>
>
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:56:51PM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:25:56 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:27:32AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote:
> > > Hi Boyd,
> > > At what point and how do I insert -P in t
rver
> > is now happy with my SMTP settings.
> >
> > On Tuesday 15 June 2010 01:25:56 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big
> >> enough to hold the data.
> >
> > Would you feel
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:59:46AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/15/2010 09:48 AM, Lisi wrote:
> >
> >Thanks for this. I was originally responding to Andrew's saying:
> >
> >There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big
> >enough to hold the data.
> >
> >
> >I can thin
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:27:32AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote:
> Hi Boyd,
> At what point and how do I insert -P in the lvm system?
man lvchange
> Many thanks to all respondents, and NO I did not have a backup, no drive big
> enough to hold all data.
um... really? I've heard all sorts of rea
(On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 04:10:22PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 14 June 2010 16:01:57 Camaleón wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:52:32 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > A section from today's issue of the Debian Project News:
> > >
> > > Debian Community Poll
> > > -
> >
> > (.
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:24:37PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2010 12:00:02 Mark Allums wrote:
> > On 6/8/2010 11:02 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 08 June 2010 10:46:03 Mark Allums wrote:
> > >> I was/am a computer guy (back in the day), but I hav
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:04:24PM -0500, Nathan Martin wrote:
> Help!
>
> After the setup process for Lenny, the system reboots to start the new
> installation but the GUI does not come up. The screen remains blank. I
> checked the option for "Desktop" in the set up process. Everything seems to
>
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 05:39:52PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> > "SJ" == Sven Joachim writes:
>
> SJ> Yes, actually you can do it at build time by using the configure option
> SJ> --program-transform-name. Say you want grub to be named grub2 to
> SJ> distinguish it from grub-legacy,
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 04:05:58PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> SPAM deb...@list
lol
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On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 08:52:39AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> In /etc/grub.d/00_header we see
>
> transform="s,x,x,"
> grub_prefix=`echo /boot/grub | sed ${transform}`
> locale_dir=`echo /boot/grub/locale | sed ${transform}`
>
> Isn't that sed line one big no-op?
looks like it to
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:15:49AM +0200, Nick Douma wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:05:15AM -0400, JobsCentral wrote:
> > Sorry you need a HTML email client to view this message.
[...snip spammy stuff]
>
> Lol, this is precisely why I use mutt to read my mail :P.
Please don't actually quote
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 06:30:58PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> This may, at first glance, appear to be an exercise into insanity, but it is
> a rather important little project to me.
>
> I have this old Toshiba Satellite laptop (P-120, 6GB had drive, and a
> whoppong 24MB RAM) that is currently ru
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:10:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Han Huynh put forth on 3/21/2010 10:20 PM:
>
> > I think someone broke into my hotmail account and sending some type of
> > e-mails out. Please ignore all e-mails from my hotmail account.
> >
> > My yahoo account if fine. If you
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:16:32PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:11 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 12:00 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wro
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 10:39 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:34:09PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:34:09PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to
> Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel).
> Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try to open
> an account.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:11:14PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
[...]
>
> OK, we learn a lot from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.
>
> Your Integrated graphics card is
>
> > (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 5333:8d04:1462:3908 S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8
> > KM266/KL266] rev 0, Mem @ 0xe100/524288, 0xd8
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:07:16AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
[...]
> The problem is, at home, on our debian box, she runs
> Kmail. When she clicks on the inbox it takes forever to bring in all the
> messages, and if she clicks on another folder NOT in her inbox, next time she
> goes back, it
putting this back on-list...
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:03:54PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
>
>
> --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Andrew Sackville-West
> wrote:
[...]
> > 1. just install only X (package xorg, or even manually pick
> > out
> > packages) without a DE
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 07:47:05AM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote:
[... snipped 115!! lines of unnecessary quoting ...]
> >>Can you please let me know how to modify it to have ethereal
> >installed on my Lenny ?
> >>
> Ethereal is now called Wireshark
> Larry
Please learn to trim your replies at
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 02:24:05PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
> Hello, been a while since I posted,
Hi Joe!
> working on setting up a partition which will run mainly console
> programs, however, I was interested in setting up X to run a few
> programs (or maybe the framebuffer) a quick search
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote:
[...]
> Before moving an image of the old [i686] partition to the new computer I
> installed the amd64 kernel. I completed the install by using gparted from a
> rescue disk to merge the larger new partition with the old smaller one fr
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 05:11:07AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote:
[... snip nice explanation of why this won't work...]
> So I dis-assembled the code and I was lucky to find the related
> subroutine . It is short in length but I cannot decode it to find the
> logic in behind . So I need to find a de-
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:00:52AM -0500, Bryce wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:24:19AM -0500, Chris Jones
> > wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> I have changed that laptop's keyboard 4-5 times already,
> >> an
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:24:19AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
[...]
> I have changed that laptop's keyboard 4-5 times already, and since
> replacements only cost about $20.00 + S&H.. a cost-effective solution is
> to swap in a new keyboard when the current one stops working to my
> satisfaction,
[.
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 11:05:55AM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 20:35:26 -0800 Mark wrote:
> > I've done the typical Internet scrubbing and didn't find anything
> > specific to tax software for Debian (something similar to TurboTax,
> > for example). I found a few interesting
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:44:45AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Celejar wrote:
> > This is the networking subsystem attempting to configure the wireless
> > interface.
> >
> >
> >> Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96
> >> Sending on Socket/fallback
> >> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.2
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:04:54PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
[...]
>
> After a couple of reboots, and after running wicd-client from the actual
> machine instead of over ssh, the machine did not lock up; it did see the
> various ACUWireless networks, but when I tried clicking on the first
> one, i
> On 2010-01-17 at 17:27:52 -0500, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> > My latest apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade wants to install
> > [...] *all* the xserver-xorg-video-* packages,
you should probably be using aptitude, but regardless, you have
installed, at some point, xserver-xorg-video-all, which d
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:35:47PM +, 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
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:13:56AM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
[...]
> Is it possible to let the iPod appear consistently at /media/ipod so
> that I can use it with GtkPod, which expects it to be at that mount
> point (or any other consistent mount point I guess)? If so, how does one
> do that
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:58:48AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I have a desktop computer with onboard VGA and option to add a
> discrete video card. It has plenty of spare USB ports for mice and
> keyboards.
>
> Does Debian support using this computer for _two_ workstations, each
> with their own
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:28:50PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > With all due respect, if you aren't prepared to deal with
> > occaisional breakage, then you should be running testing.
>
> s/should/should not/
indeed. th
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:43:53AM +, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Dear all
> How would I roll back system upgrades?
As I understnad it, generally speaking you don't. You *can* if you use
dpkg directly and still have the .deb files from the previous version
of a package lying around (/var/cache/ap
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:48:22PM +0100, Amar Cosic wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Roy wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is anyone from you guys using Msn protocol, and unable to bring it up?
> >
> > It has been two/tree days now, unable to use Pidgin or Centerim, and so
> > is a friend of
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:27:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
[...]
>
> How might I kill and restart Xorg from a (remote) console?
sudo /etc/init.d/[kgx]dm restart
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On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:54:01PM +0100, roberto wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Tony Nelson
> wrote:
> >> From your reply it is not clear, to me anyway, if you do have the
> >> console-tools package installed. The showkeys program is in that
> >> package. If you need to figure out ho
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:30:40PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
>
>
> How can I realise the subject? Say, I have SSH daemon, in Debian it
> starts with root privileges from /usr/sbin/sshd.
I'm not sure you *can* realize what you want.
>
> When connection is established (a user has succe
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:13:46PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:18 -0800
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote:
> > > On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > [...
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote:
> On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[... snip resolution to dns delays...]
> >>
> >> How did you go about checking this? I use OpenDNS as dns servers and no
> >> other firewall than wha
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:41:35AM +0100, Nick Douma wrote:
> On 7-12-2009 1:15, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
[..]
> >>>
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > >
> > > there are clearly some differences. the lenny machine is ma
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> > there are clearly some differences. the lenny machine is making a
> > ? request (whatever that means) while the squeeze machine is
> >
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:37:44AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:07:34, Celejar wrote:
> >
> > /me sets up a bookmark with
> > url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=%s and
> > keyword=db
> >
> > Hey! It works! Thanks!
>
> Great stuff, but I did it like
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:37:23PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote:
> I tried the same test with wget'ing Google, these are the results:
>
> $ wget google.com
[...]
>
> These results seem just as consistent as those from Andrew.
>
> 3 connections = 15 sec
> 2 connections = 10 sec
> 1 connection = 5 se
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:15:55PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:58:12 -0800
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > meanwhile, some tests using
> >
> > time wget http://www.google.com
>
> ...
>
> > > real
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 09:01:51AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:38:53 -0800
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:44:42PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > II) Try a DNS cacher (dnsmasq)
> >
> >
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 02:17:05PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:51:03 -0800
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I am having prob
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:44:42PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:06:49 +0100
> Nick Douma wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > To further elaborate, when I send a message in Thunderbird, I notice
> > that the "sending message" dialogue spends most of its time in the
> > "Looking up server" stag
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
>
> > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and
[...]
>
> This is what happens when I try to dist-upgrade now:
>
>
> squeeze:/home/frank# aptitude dist-upgrade
[...]
> The following packages will be upgrad
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:41:00PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote:
> Since I full-upgraded my Debian installation from lenny to squeeze, I
> have been experiencing slow connections buildup. This is especially
> evident when I ssh to another server, while on other workstations
> (debian lenny and windows)
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:07:45PM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:34:33 -0800, Tech Geek wrote,
> > The source of your NIC driver should be in all kernel sources for each of
> > the kernel that is installed on your system. Does that help?
>
> Yes. Thanks.
>
> pc:/us
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:45:37PM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
> > RAID0 is a truly silly misnomer. But many people use it because it
> > gives them "one large and fast HD" on Windows, OS X, and Linux. If
> > that is what Mathieu wants to do in spite of the lack of redundancy...
>
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:25:40PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:09 PM, S Scharf wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Mathieu Malaterre
> > wrote:
[...]
> >> For the first time I am trying to install debian on a system with
> >> multiple disk. I was hoping tha
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:59:21AM +, David Goodenough wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote:
> > > 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot
> > > loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
> > > installer. The last time
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:22:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
> LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
>
>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda14623486
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:17:36PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
>
> >>at the moment 'grub-pc' is broken in sid. When you have a separate /boot
> >>partition, the package generates a wrong '/boot/grub/grub.cfg'. Look at
> >>the BTS for bug #558042. There is also the workaround for the problem.
> >>
>
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:14:58AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2009/11/29 Andrew Sackville-West :
> > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:22:15AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> > will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial
> >> > caps *only* the
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:22:15AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial
> > caps *only* then:
> >
> > grep "^[A-Z][a-z]*$"
> >
> > would match those.
> >
>
> Thanks. I meant that caps could only be at the beginning of a word,
> not in
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:00:33AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > ISTM that because the output of strings is not discrete list of
> > potential words, but is instead a long list of concatenated
> > characters, this problem is really rather daunting. The output should
> > probably be first broken up
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:32:59AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <880dece00911280713n6193b8das6970e8a071fc2...@mail.gmail.com>, Dotan Cohen
> wrote:
> >Is there a way to grep the output of strings in order to only show
> >lines that contain words found in the aspell dictionary? Thanks
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:02:40AM -0800, Brian Denheyer wrote:
>
> This is using gnome (and the gnome wm, which is called ?):
>
> switch user
> you get the login prompt
> login
> now I get the xscreensaver prompt
>
> I check the screensaver prefs and not only is the lock screen option
> NOT che
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:13:14PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
[... huge snip of history of metacity & gnome panel faiilng to start
... ]
> Tony suggested polluting my new user alter ego with the gnome
> configuration files from my regular self. I started by just
> renaming .gconf, .gnome2 and
I see you've made progress elsewhere in this thread, so just a couple
of points below...
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:36:42PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:30:08 -0800
> Andrew Sackville-West dijo:
[...]
>
> > I'm wondering if you'r
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:31:14AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
[...]
> That day arrived a few days ago. I decided start over from scratch. I
> used the netinst CD and reinstalled completely, reformatting the new
> disk. Until yesterday afternoon I spent my time installing and
> configuring as
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:09:55PM +0200, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
[..]
>
> It boots, finds the hard disk, and loads stuff. Last stuff it prints on
> screen is usual boot stuff, and in addition to that Arno's Firewall
> output. I think that is normally printed to screen console. All logging
> sho
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:23:34PM -0500, Zachary Uram wrote:
> Running Debian lenny. I installed the Catalyst driver (from
> manufacturer) for my ATI Radeon
> HD 4550 card and it seems to be working, but I noticed something weird.
> Now when I move a window it no longer shows the window static as
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 01:25:57PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Fresh install of Lenny, minimal (unselected everything in Tasksel during
> the install, then aptitude install'd xorg and icewm).
>
> The minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (not included here, but available)
> did not allow xorg to detect bo
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:47PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> >
> > I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why?
> >
> > my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of
> > traffi
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:10:58PM -0800, Mark wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:09:42PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> > I'm very unfamiliar w/ the PPC architecture, but a friend has a laptop
> > he'd like me to install a Linux distro onto. Debian offers a powerpc
> > version on the downloads page.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:07:21PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following is the results of a poll that has been running for over a
> week, one which questions readers of debian-user to list their
> favourite FLOSS -> Free (Libre) or Open Source Software.
[...]
>
> sidenote:
> thi
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:13:05PM -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 09-11-11 17:15:06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen
> &g
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen
> resolution was automatically set to 1024x768.
> This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the
> output of 'xrandr'.
> The native screen resolut
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:32:01PM +1300, C.T.F. Jansen wrote:
> Greetings,
> What does the daemon ksuspend_usb do ?
[...]
I *think* it monitors usb and suspends the usb subsystem when it's not
being used. This is a powersaving feature. But that is really only a
guess based on the name of
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:42:14AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
[snip recap of troubles..]
>
> Because I have not yet been able to figure out how to make metacity and
> gnome-panel start automatically on booting as they are supposed to,
> plus the additional issues recently discovered, I have
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 04:23:37PM -0500, vr wrote:
> I have a fresh install of Debian Lenny 503 amd64 via a netinst CDROM. I've
> only installed a couple of packages like openbox because I want to run as
> lean a desktop I can to try out virtualbox-3.0.
>
> I figured openbox would be enough to ha
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:56:48PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something
> doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities.
> Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more
> than one entrant
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:16:55AM +, AG wrote:
[...]
> I'm thinking that the way forward would be via the GRUB prompt I was
> able to get off of an old floppy, but to do so would mean being able
> to by-pass LILO and boot into the first partition on the HD (/), and
> then go into LILO.conf and
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:53:07PM +0100, roberto wrote:
> hello,
> i try to install geogebra using its ".bin.sh" script and i get the
> following message:
>
>
> Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
> Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
> No J
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:08:00PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On Sunday 01 November 2009 17:57:49 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> >
> > So here is the real success part of the story: my backups worked! I
> > had weekly backups of /etc and daily backups of /home. Since I
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:20:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 02:57:49PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > Hi all, mildly off-topic, perhaps.
> >
> > Due to a cascading series of errors on my part yesterday, I managed to
> > not only wipe o
Hi all, mildly off-topic, perhaps.
Due to a cascading series of errors on my part yesterday, I managed to
not only wipe over my partition table, but also overwrite enough data
in the actual disk to prevent reasonable recovery of the partitions
with such tools as gpart.
I could recover /boot, and
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