Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-02-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 12:00:30 -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: > > Isn't it the case where the randomness of the key/password composes the > overall quality of the crypto substitutions in such a way that 4096bit > keys would necessarily provide better protection against cryptanalysis > when com

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:11:24 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I am helping a buddy with his Sid system. He went several months > without upgrading. Then recently tried to upgrade. This resulted in > some problems. Currently the system produces a segmentation fault > when trying to install package

Re: Audio vanished with jessie

2013-09-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 17:33:39 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > It's an ASUS 1HE running jessie. > > Today sound wouldn't work, though it worked a few weeks ago. > > I won't say nothing has changed; I have been doing regular upgrades using > aptitude. > > I don't even know how to begin diagno

Re: Audio problems [With Squeeze & KDE]

2012-06-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 03:09:46 -0500, J Paulo wrote: > Hi there! > > I have installed Debian Squeeze & KDE Desktop. The audio devices never > worked. I'm not sure if It's a Debian problem or a KDE problem. I has > installed OpenSUSE with GNOME before and worked ok. > > If I try to up volume wit

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
d, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:35:25 -0500, mike wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote earlier: > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in > > > SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i386, aborting > &

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > For the last few days apt-get upgrades in Sid always fail with this > message: > > E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in > SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i386, aborting > > According to bug report 669060 t

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please turn off the HTML part of your messages. ] On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 14:48:15 +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: > Hi, > I installed debian stable kde with live cd > "debian-live-6.0.3-i386-kde-desktop.iso". My PC was not connected > with internet, so after the installation, my source.list file

Re: No sound from Gnash in Iceweasel or Epiphany or from VLC

2012-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
(Please try to turn off the HTML part of your messages.) On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 14:19:15 -0400, Kevin Williams wrote: > Hi, > > The video works just fine in both applications, but it has no sound. > However, I can play ogv videos with sound just fine from Gnome Sound > Recorder and Totem Movi

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

2012-04-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 14:11:37 -0400, Dale Harris wrote: > Anyone else having problems with iceweasel (on SID) pixelating text > within it's window? Chromium is not doing the same thing, so why it > makes me think it's not a video card driver problem. I have been having similar issues for a fe

Re: problems with apt-get

2012-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:50:15 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > Hola! > > I am given the command > > sudo apt-get -t sid install ^r-cran > > but gets > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the un

Re: Ctrl-/ interpreted as Backspace in text console

2012-03-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 00:56:12 +0800, Liu Binsheng wrote: > Hi, > > When I press Ctrl-/ in the text console, it deletes a char like > backspace. But if I use Gnome and press Ctrl-/ in gnome-terminal, > Ctrl-/ behaves normally. [...] > Here's the results of running `showkey -a` in text console

Re: encrypted root - change keyboard layout

2012-03-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 01:30:21 +0100, Matthias Weiler wrote: > Hello everyone! > > As the subject suggests: I've encrypted my root partition with a super > secret passphrase. The problem is that there is one character that I > don't know how to enter with the english keyboard layout. > > I get

Re: No sound from Adobe's flash player

2012-02-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 20:51:43 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I'd love to get help here: > >> - how do I work around the problem so that Adobe's flash plugin gives > >> me sound? > >> - why is ALSA's dmix refusing connections (after all, its name claims > >> it's a mixer, so it should accept m

Re: No sound from Adobe's flash player

2012-02-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 00:27:14 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I recently updated my Debian testing desktop (which moved it to Gnome 3) > and now the Adobe flash plugin doesn't give me any sound any more. > Luckily, Gnash gives me sound OK, but I'd still like to solve the issue > with the Adobe pl

Re: pulseaudio /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf

2012-02-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:42:34 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Seb wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Is anyone else also seeing this problem? > > > > I do, also in a sid system with latest pulseaudio. > > I filed this bug: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661095 I found an U

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 00:36:02 +0800, lina wrote: > Supplementary Information: > > # nm-tool > > NetworkManager Tool > > State: disconnected > > - Device: eth0 > - > Type: Wired > Driver:tg3 > Stat

Re: Microphone not picking any sound -- Debian Testing/Wheezy (KDE 4.6.5)

2012-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 17:11:51 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > Debian Wheezy AMD 64 weekly build 13/Feb/2012 > KDE 4.6.5 (default) desktop > Kernel 3.2.0 (stock from the weekly build) > on Toshiba C640 laptop. > > alsamixergui shows - audio device is shown as Intel Conexant CX20590. > I can hear sound

Re: Flash plugin not producing sound

2012-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 14:07:02 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:01:02 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > >>Hello All > >> > >>I have the flashplugin-nonfree package installed on my system > >>(versio

Re: Flash plugin not producing sound

2012-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:01:02 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hello All > > I have the flashplugin-nonfree package installed on my system > (version 1:2.8.3) That suggests that you are on Wheezy (testing) or Sid (unstable); which one is it exactly? Is it fully up-to-date? > so I can get the

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 17:59:16 -0500, brian wrote: > On 02/18/2012 04:09 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: > >>On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: > >>>On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > &g

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: > On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: > >On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > >>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658128 > >> > >>I cannot follow further as I'm on dialup and do not have debian > >>installed >

Re: URW Bookman Font

2011-12-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 19:55:23 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: > I have just installed Debian Squeeze. I have replaced the open office > package with Libre Office 3.4.3. I am trying to use the URW Bookman L > font. I have the bold, italic, and the bold italic. The non-bold & > non-italic are both missin

Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

2011-02-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 15:43:50 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Spaces make no difference in the old aptitude search form and the new > search form leads to the same result: > > on another mixed system I get > > apt-show-versions | grep -c /experimental > 35 > > aptitude search '~S ~i ~Ae

Re: [really solved] Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?

2011-01-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 02:27:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 16 ian 11, 01:00:50, Javier Barroso wrote: > > When you invoke aptitude unmarkauto ... aptitude has all your packages > > with auto mark, so aptitude will want to delete these unused packages > > *before* it start with your oper

Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?

2011-01-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 13:01:30 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] > How can I: > > - set everything to auto-installed > - automatically mark as manually installed the ones in the list > > ? > > I already tried (as root): > > aptitude markauto ~i > > This will try to remove everything

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

2010-11-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: [...] > I had done > apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment > > then > startx > gives an error along the lines of : "startx: unknown command." > > Now I have also done > apt-get install gdm > apt-get install gnome >

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 16:35:55 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > I'm trying to use the GSM data connection of my Nokia N95-3 as a modem > for my Squeeze laptop over USB. > > The Ubuntu wiki indicates that my Nokia is compatible with USB > tethering but a patch to hal rules is required (As per a

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:16:43 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 05:21:44PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 13:13:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:47:33 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > >

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 13:13:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:47:33 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:18:07PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> What happens if, after the system has booted, > >> you issue a manual mount command as root, using t

Re: Aptitude cannot upgrade libperl5.10

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 00:17:19 +, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:11:21 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >> % aptitude show libperl5.10 | awk '/^Package/,/^Version/' Package: > >> libperl5.10 > >> State: not installed > >>

Re: Aptitude cannot upgrade libperl5.10

2010-08-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 18:26:44 +, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:55:49 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: > >> libperl5.10: Depends: perl-base (= 5.10.1-12) but 5.10.1-14 is to > >> b

Re: What is Recommend CLI Package Manager Tool for Newb?

2010-08-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 04:46:03 +, T o n g wrote: [...] > $ apt-get install swatch [...] > The following extra packages will be installed: > libbit-vector-perl libcarp-clan-perl libdate-calc-perl libdate-manip-perl > libfile-tail-perl libperl5.10 libyaml-syck-perl perl perl-bas

Re: 2 packages with the same file

2010-08-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 19:36:32 +0200, spam.spam.spam.s...@free.fr wrote: > Hello, > > If I create a package with the same file than an other package which is > already > installed on my computer, I can't install it. But when I download a package > with > the same file than an other package whi

Re: CNN vidoes no playable in iceape (mozilla browser)

2010-07-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:17:45 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello. > > Anyone else having trouble playing videos on CCN website? I don't > frequent it and am not sure if this happens with all the vidoes > there. On Debian Testing amd64, in iceape with flashplayer, > flashblock, noscript and adblock inst

Re: samba: mounting as cifs not working (works in Windows though)

2010-07-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:48:21 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 29/07/10 10:29 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >mount -t cifs //192.168.0.8/share -o username=hs /mnt/share > > No luck. I get "mount error(13): Permission denied". > > Nothing in syslog of the server. > > In the samba logs, the only info I have is

Re: CUPS upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze breaks encryption - HELP

2010-07-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:22:31 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 06:41 +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:46:40 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > > Hello, all. We are in quite a pickle tonight - our CUPS printing is > > > complete broken after an

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 19:51:53 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 24 July 2010 17:21:28 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Furthermore, he is asking the wrong question if he wants real security. > > If one downloads via an insecure protocol (http, ftp) then it does not &g

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 14:04:16 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel > > > > > > > > > > > image because > > > > > > > > >

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 14:21:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/24/2010 01:50 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: > >Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: > > > >>Yes it is. That's why I suggested the kmuto installer. > > > >Is there any reference fro Debian web site to the kmuto site - I have > >found o

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 15:53:36 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:13:59PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:25:30 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:28:59AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > &g

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:25:30 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:28:59AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > > > My system, Squeeze, cann

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 20:09:27 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:43:46PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 15:58:59 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 15:58:59 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because > &

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because > dosfslabel finds a problem that prevents the installation of linux-base. > > Trying to resolve this I used e2fsck to check each of the disk > partitions and e2fsck

Re: Is it gdm3 that is logging me out?

2010-07-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 23:50:55 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 18/07/10 18:19, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 15:34:22 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: [...] > >>It has happened again whilst I was having lunch today. System had > >>been idle for ab

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 16:59:44 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/18/2010 04:05 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:44:10 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] > >>$ lsof +c0 $(find /dev/ -group audio) > >>COMMANDPID USER FD TYP

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:44:10 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/18/2010 03:54 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 18:41:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 07/17/2010 05:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>>On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:13:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wr

Re: Is it gdm3 that is logging me out?

2010-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 15:34:22 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > >On 14/07/10 17:25, Bob Proulx wrote: > >>Florian Kulzer wrote: > >>>Do you see signs of an X server restart or > >>>anything else that looks suspicious in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or > >

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 18:41:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/17/2010 05:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:13:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >>On 07/17/2010 04:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > >>>Run "alsamixer" and check the volume for all the channels :-? > >>> > >>> > >>First

Re: where's udevinfo ?

2010-07-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 13:12:44 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > pretty much every tutorial out there refers to udevinfo. > > the debian web search shows that it's in the udev unstable package, but > when I look at the list of files under udev, it's not present. > > has it been replaced by som

Re: how to make iceweasel & icedove look as pretty as in gnome?

2010-07-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:12:45 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > On 07/14/2010 11:10 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 21:53:36 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > > > >> Is there a way? > >> I tried by installing kde-config-gtk-style but both apps

Re: how to make iceweasel & icedove look as pretty as in gnome?

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 21:53:36 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Is there a way? > I tried by installing kde-config-gtk-style but both apps look terrible > and they also don't exit properly. Which themes did you try? I use "Clearlooks" from the package gtk2-engines; it works without glitches on my

Re: Is it gdm3 that is logging me out?

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:56:58 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Over the past few weeks there has been a change in my system behaviour. > > I frequently get back to my screen to find the gdm greeter inviting > me to log in again. At first I thought it might have been the > screen saver, but unlike

Re: holding back buggy packages

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:27:57 -0400, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > A common use case with aptitude (interactive mode ) / apt-listbugs is: > > a) order an upgrade > b) aptitude downloads packages > c) apt-listbugs reports some serious bug in a package > d) I decide not to install / upgrade the probl

Re: Help - CUPS printing stopped working

2010-07-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 14:02:56 -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I've been running pretty vanilla CUPS-based printing on my home and > office machines for years. After a recent dist-upgrade to testing, I > get on both machines this error when trying to browse to the admin > page: > > An error occurr

Re: corrupted firmware-linux-nonfree 0.26

2010-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 14:30:00 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 07/07/2010 02:05 PM, Paul Scott wrote: > >On 07/07/2010 01:46 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > >>On 2010-07-07 22:17 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >>>http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-f

Re: corrupted firmware-linux-nonfree 0.26

2010-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:50:09 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Hi, > > From everything I can find the versions of firmware-linux-nonfree > for sid and unstable (0.26) contain corrupted versions of > agere_sta_fw.bin and agere_ap_fw.bin version 9.48 > > Does someone know how I can the uncorrupted ver

Re: J-Pilot and Handspring Visor

2010-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 17:18:24 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > From: Florian Kulzer [...] > This is the output from dmesg: > > [637797.771076] usb 2-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=082d, idProduct=0100 > [637797.771083] usb 2-3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, &

Re: J-Pilot and Handspring Visor

2010-07-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please wrap your lines at 72 characters for readability. ] On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 19:34:04 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] > The visor is a great, but ancient device and the docs talk about using > a "fairly new kernel, like 2.4.17". I am using 2.6.32 from backports > and I have done 'modp

changing user password on KDE 4.4 (was: How 'stable' is squeeze?)

2010-06-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 23:34:38 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [...] > However, I still do not see a way to > change passwords as an ordinary user. How does an ordinary user who > does not use the command line (and thus passwd) and does not have the > root password change their password in

Re: GRUB2 - automatically generating extra entries

2010-06-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 21:35:53 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: > I use runlevel 3 for non-X boots (gdm, etc is disabled), and to boot > into it I append "3" to my "normal use" entry in the GRUB2 menu. I'd > like to just automatically generate the extra line, so that even after > a kernel upgrade it'll

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 20:00:43 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > You can ask aptitude directly: > > > >  aptitude why libfribidi0 > > Thanks, this is quite handy. I should have known about this but I > haven'

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ I am putting this back on d-u; please make sure to reply to the list. ] On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 16:05:17 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 09:55 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Your first hypothesis is most likely the correct one; the "optional > > depend

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:13:51 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: > Most of the times 'aptitude remove/purge package' removes ALL the unused > dependencies of the package. > > Sometimes however, even if I issue this command RIGHT after having > installed a package it only removes some of the dependencies

Re: Jumpy video after KDE 4.4 upgrade in Squeeze

2010-05-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 19:16:06 -0500, Gene Kodadek wrote: > I upgraded my Squeeze box to KDE 4.4 about a week ago, and have been > contending with jumpy, hesitant video performance ever since. I'm not sure > which package to file this bug against; if it helps I'm running an Nvidia > 7900GS usi

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 16:24:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >>This issue is because the new udev requires a> .31 kernel with > >>sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so d

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:18:05 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sun May 9 2010 08:20:40 Florian Kulzer wrote: > (snip) > > That is fine, of course, but why do you bother the list with your > > grievances if your mind is already made up and you are not willing to > > work

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 15:00:31 +0100, Lisi wrote: [...] > I do *not* ask otherwise and Dotan has been sending long, rude, unpleasant > emails direct to me. That is what I am complaining about. On-list complaints about unsolicited CC'ing are also against the code of conduct, so you are at lea

Re: Broken dependencies

2010-05-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 17:20:56 +0200, Alois Mahdal wrote: > Hello, > > because a stupid mistake, I have interrupted apt-get during early > stage of dist-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze. > > Now I cannot get apt-get working and I don't know how to fix it. > > Could anyone of you please help me? I

Re: asignar hora a PC

2010-04-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 16:11:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:14:15 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:28:23 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > >> That is indeed strange. I have never heard of an e-mail system that > >&

Re: asignar hora a PC

2010-04-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:28:23 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:16:20 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:57:59 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:22:53 -0400 (EDT), cosme wrote: > >>> ... > >>> y como quedaría dentro > >> > >> S

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

2010-04-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 00:57:49 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:08:23 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > >> Clive McBarton writes: > >>> The debian-multimedia-keyring is not restricted by patents or any > >>>

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

2010-04-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:08:23 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Clive McBarton writes: > > The debian-multimedia-keyring is not restricted by patents or any > > other licence issues. I understand why the other d-m packages are not > > in debian, but the keyring (and just the keyring) should be in debi

Re: Trunk version of linux-image ISSUE

2010-04-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 08:37:30 -0500, JW Foster wrote: > I', sent this previously but so far no reply. Can anyone tell me how to > get rid of this issue. I did an update & the trunk version of > linux-image was installed as the upgraded version. A few weeks later I > tried to install the newer re

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 23:27:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: [...] > Hal is certainly no longer working, see #567389. Yet, udev now also > stopped working... OK, I think I understand a little bit better how this is supposed to be working now. Try to add your touchpad options to the InputClass

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 21:24:19 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [ blah, blah, blah ] Uh-oh, the moment I sent my last message I finally remembered that I currently use an outdated version of the synaptics driver, because a serious bug of video-intel forced me to freeze my whole Xorg installation

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 19:38:23 -0500, francis southern wrote: > On 14 April 2010 16:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > >> Hi list, > >> > >> After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no lon

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Hi list, > > After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up > my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to > udev was required (see also the list history for several threads on that

Re: What prevents mounting of USB devices?

2010-04-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:09:03 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > Another thing to try is to activate the desktop icons for removable > > devices and test if users can mount the devices by clicking on the > > icons. > > Sorry to sound st

Re: What prevents mounting of USB devices?

2010-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 14:57:01 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 19:20:42 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > >> I run KDE and normally mount usb devices with the "Storage Media" applet > >> in the task bar. Recent

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 19:43:30 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read > power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page, > the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a > dpkg-reconfigure locales issue? It coul

Re: What prevents mounting of USB devices?

2010-04-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 19:20:42 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > > I run KDE and normally mount usb devices with the "Storage Media" applet > in the task bar. Recently I have been getting strange errors and > mounting failed: Which version of KDE, 3.x or 4.x? (I don't remember a task bar applet fo

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 08:45:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-10 02:20, Clive McBarton wrote: [...] > >Every HD that is even remotely close to being usable will always have > >zero bad blocks when seen from outside the HD. All HDs have error > >recognition and error correction and autom

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-04-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 05:01:03 +0100, Jen wrote: > I am blind, so selecting the kernel from the grub prompt is not > possible. I want to use the new kernel (not trunk) as my default. OK, now I understand your problem. It is unfortunate that the trunk version slipped into the normal repository an

Re: Why can't I reinstall locales? [SOLVED]

2010-04-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:18:24 -0700, Ernie Dunbar wrote: > For future reference, the solution to this problem is to manually download > the .deb file from the Debian website, then force the install like this: > > dpkg -i --force-depends locales_2.7-18lenny2_all.deb > > This works without issue

Re: HAL UID ?

2010-03-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 15:02:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Per some recent discussion here of command line mounting of plugable > storage, I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal. In the man page > for pmount-hal there is this: > > The first parameter (device) must be the HAL UDI or the devic

Re: Testing upgrade Failures:

2010-03-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:29:15 -0500, JW Foster wrote: > I just tried to do an upgrade on testing & I,m getting several errors. > First snip of output is regarding unknown types. I have no idea what > this is but I seen it before. > SNIP- > > Processing t

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 18:44:03 -0400, Mark wrote: > On Monday 22 March 2010 04:32:08 pm Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Please post the output of: > > > > lspci | grep -i wireless > > ~# lspci | grep -i wireless > 0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] > Network C

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 16:23:23 -0400, Mark wrote: > I had wifi, now I don't. > > I just upgraded my kernel (using aptitude) from 2.6.26-686 to > 2.6.32-3-686 and followed that with "aptitude full-upgrade", which > removed a number of packages (that I wasn't using anyway) because I > had previous

Re: Even More Grub & UUID

2010-03-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:19:26 -0700, Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:05:56 -0700 freeman wrote: > > > Finally installed grub legacy. (Long story. And no I don't want > > > Grub2/Grub-PC, whatever. [...] > However, the system still boots off menu.lst. It had to be edited to boot > t

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 14:15:53 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:44 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > >> Nobody will manually verify each package that is going to be installed. >

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:36 +, Bob Cox wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:09:05 -0400, Wayne wrote: > > > After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the > > > past month. I would like to propose a n

Re: aptitude package filtering

2010-03-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 17:23:11 -0400, Yavuz Yetim wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do > that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing) > gives me packages that are installed and available in testing and that's > not wha

Re: liblua5.1-gtk-0 problem

2010-03-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:25:05 +0100, Martin wrote: > I have installed Gtk binding for Lua > liblua5.1-gtk-dev > liblua5.1-gtk-0 > from Lenny DVDs. I also have Lua interpreter and dev libraries > lua5.1 > liblua5.1-0 > liblua5.1-0-dev > > When I try to run example program this is the error: > >

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

2010-03-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 14:12:37 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:18:30 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: [...] > > If after running "sudo update-usbids.sh" the device name is still not > > shown, is that a sign that the driver is not properly installed? > > As others (Florian) have explain

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

2010-03-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 22:19:05 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I am trying to get a USB device working. In lsusb the ID shows up, but > the name of the device does not. Is this an indication that the driver > is not properly installed? > > For instance, this is how functioning devices look in lsusb:

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

2010-03-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 14:47:34 -0800, 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 whe

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:17:09 -0800, Cecil Knutson wrote: > Florian, > Sorry it took so long for me to realize I did not respond to your > last email. No problem, I was pretty busy with work anyway. You have covered a lot of ground with Stephen Powell in the meantime, and I do not have to

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 19:36:18 -0800, Cecil Knutson wrote: > dimension8400:/home/cecil# grep '.*' /proc/asound/* /proc/asound/card?/* > /proc/asound/cards: 0 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106 > /proc/asound/cards: Live! 7.1 24bit [SB0413] at 0xcce0 > irq 17 > /proc/asound/c

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 19:11:05 -0800, Cecil Knutson wrote: > dimension8400:/home/cecil# lspci [...] > 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW > (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) [...] > 04:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Aud

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