[SOLVED] Re: upgraded testing and now gpg is not working

2016-11-06 Thread H.S.
On 11/06/2016 07:19 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: I'm using pinentry-gtk2 which also works in text-mode. KDE users may prefer pinentry-qt or pinentry-qt4 which also works in text-mode. Regards, jvp. Frank, JVP, Thanks for the info. This completed the solution for me. Based on your info and s

Re: upgraded testing and now gpg is not working

2016-11-05 Thread H.S.
On 11/05/2016 05:50 PM, Frank wrote: Op 05-11-16 om 21:23 schreef H.S.: Still, however, decryption my file using gpg2 does not work: it does not ask for my passphrase on the std in and just times out. gpg1 works though. What am I missing? Package I have on my testing box: $ COLUMNS=75 dpkg -l

Re: upgraded testing and now gpg is not working

2016-11-05 Thread H.S.
On 11/05/2016 02:53 AM, Frank wrote: Op 05-11-16 om 03:55 schreef H.S.: I upgraded my testing box last night and now my gpg decryption does not work anymore. gpg2 can't find your secret keys because it stores them elsewhere. For gpg1 they are in the secring.gpg file and gpg2 looks a

upgraded testing and now gpg is not working

2016-11-04 Thread H.S.
I upgraded my testing box last night and now my gpg decryption does not work anymore. I have a file encrypted for myself which I have been using. Till recently I was able to decrypt it successfully for years. After last night's upgrade, I get the following: $> gpg -d somefile.txt.asc gpg: e

is nvidia cuda toolkit package broken?

2016-01-26 Thread H.S.
Folks, I am trying to install Nvidia CUDA toolkit package (to try out CUDA programming) but seem to be getting this circular dependency problem: ~$ sudo aptitude install nvidia-cuda-toolkit The following NEW packages will be installed: libcublas6.5{a} libcuda1{a} libcuda1:i386{a} libcuda1-i38

Re: gnome: cannot use the applets (power, network settings, etc)

2014-10-26 Thread H.S.
On 10/04/2014 11:35 AM, H.S. wrote: Folks, Since a few months now, I have not been able to use some settings from the applets (top right corner of screen, gnome). The log off button works, but reboot/shutdown doesn't. I am also not able to configure my wired network connection from the a

how to get pulse audio controls with easily again?

2014-10-26 Thread H.S.
Till some months ago, before I got a big gnome upgrade in my Debtian Testing machine, I could right click on the audio icon on the status barn in gnome, click on properties and get the pulse audio controls. I cannot do that anymore. I have first open properties window, find the audio section

gnome: cannot use the applets (power, network settings, etc)

2014-10-04 Thread H.S.
Folks, Since a few months now, I have not been able to use some settings from the applets (top right corner of screen, gnome). The log off button works, but reboot/shutdown doesn't. I am also not able to configure my wired network connection from the applet. Any change I make does not stick.

Re: motion: problem finding codec

2012-10-31 Thread H.S.
On 10/30/2012 10:05 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 09:12:45PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> On 10/21/2012 08:12 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:12:45PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >>>> >>>> Here is what appears to

Re: motion: problem finding codec

2012-10-30 Thread H.S.
On 10/21/2012 08:12 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:12:45PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> >> Here is what appears to have changed since my last night's upgrade: >> >> [UPGRADE] ffmpeg:amd64 7:0.11.1-dmo5 -> 7:1.0-dmo1 >> [UPGRADE] gstreame

Re: motion: problem finding codec

2012-10-20 Thread H.S.
On 10/20/2012 10:09 PM, H.S. wrote: >>From my yesterday's logs, here is what I was getting when the camera worked: > Oct 18 09:40:28 red motion: [0] Processing thread 0 - config file > /etc/motion/motion.conf > Oct 18 09:40:28 red motion: [0] Motion 3.2.12 Started > Oct 18

Re: motion: problem finding codec

2012-10-20 Thread H.S.
t;ffmpeg LIBAVCODEC_BUILD 3482368 LIBAVFORMAT_BUILD 3478784" appears to be missing now. I wonder whether something during today's upgrade? Thanks. On 10/20/2012 09:53 PM, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Today out of the blue, the 'motion' (ver 3.2.12-3.2) application on my &

motion: problem finding codec

2012-10-20 Thread H.S.
Hello, Today out of the blue, the 'motion' (ver 3.2.12-3.2) application on my Debian Testing (kernel 3.2.0-3-amd64) box has stopped working. It appears as if it cannot find the necessary av codec. It doesn't matter what video output format I choose (avi, flv, swf, etc.), or if I run it with "sudo

cannot detect USB3 external hard disk, uas the problem

2012-10-20 Thread H.S.
Hello. I have a Hitach Touro USB3 external hard disk. When I connected it to a USB port (the one on the front of the case, it is usb2), my Debian testing (amd64, running 3.2.0-3-amd64) does not detect the disk. /var/log/syslog reports errors and I have pasted those further below. Searching variou

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread H.S.
On 08/05/2012 07:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 19:16 -0400, H.S. wrote: >> >> The Tomtom device makes itself a network device, not sure why. > > Ok. Did you test if this software runs on wine, before you used VBox? No. How do I do that? I just now ins

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread H.S.
On 08/05/2012 07:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 18:33 -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Alright, just restarted the whole machine. What is happening now is the >> following (or so it seems to be from the log, pasted further below): >> 1. Usbcore sees teh device. >

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread H.S.
On 08/05/2012 06:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Sorry, I forgot to shorten the text and to reply to this. Because so > much is involved, the host and guest, a restart IMO is a good idea. > > Alright, just restarted the whole machine. What is happening now is the following (or so it seems to be

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread H.S.
On 08/05/2012 05:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I'm using VBox + XP guest on Arch Linux, so the VBox versions might > differ. > > 1. I experienced that adding "virtualbox-ext-oracle" can improve USB > issues. Dunno if there's a Debian package available, if necessary. > http://aur.archlinux.org/p

usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread H.S.
Sorry for the long post. I have a Debian Testing machine, fully update, using VirtualBox (VBox) with Windows XP installed as a guest OS. $ uname -a Linux red 3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Apr 15 16:47:38 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux I am trying to access a USB device from with the guest OS, XP, after co

Re: recent version of iceape buggy?

2012-03-20 Thread H.S.
On 12/03/12 10:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:05:32 -0400, H.S. wrote: > > Try by reinstalling the package (or check for a package update) and then, > should you encounter no gain and still sluggish, back to the last version > that workded fine. If you can&#

Re: recent version of iceape buggy?

2012-03-11 Thread H.S.
On 10/03/12 01:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Before anything, I would first try with an empty and fresh browser > profile and check if you still experience the slowness when typing at the > location bar from there. I tried that today. It happens in the new profile as well. Mostly when I am entering

Re: recent version of iceape buggy?

2012-03-11 Thread H.S.
On 10/03/12 01:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:12:51 -0500, H.S. wrote: > >> Since the last some days, I am experiencing a slowness and sluggishness >> in the text I type in Iceape's location bar (this version of iceape has >> the new blue logo).

recent version of iceape buggy?

2012-03-10 Thread H.S.
Since the last some days, I am experiencing a slowness and sluggishness in the text I type in Iceape's location bar (this version of iceape has the new blue logo). For the first some times, it appears fine, but then the response of the location bar slows down very fast and becomes sluggish. Eventu

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-30 Thread H.S.
On 29/01/12 09:07 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Clear the VirtualBox log, reset all warnings, then retry. Then post the > log to paste.debian.net and post a link here. Nothing much in the logs. I get the following errors though: 00:00:12.331 nspr-2 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE (0x8

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-29 Thread H.S.
On 29/01/12 09:42 AM, H.S. wrote: >> This leads me to believe the device name being assigned to the device >> is "usb0". Try this in /etc/network/interfaces: >> >> iface usb0 inet manual >> >> That line should tell ifupdown that the configuration

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-29 Thread H.S.
On 29/01/12 01:14 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> H.S. wrote: >>> So, looks like I need to somehow make network manager not mess with >>> Tomtom when it is plugged in. >> >> I would be useful for others if you post your success at getting NM

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 11:03 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 28/01/12 10:52 PM, H.S. wrote: >> On 28/01/12 10:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >>> >>> Before starting that VB machine, go into Settings => USB, and add the >>> filter for TomTom (not a generic filter). Then start

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 10:52 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 28/01/12 10:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> Before starting that VB machine, go into Settings => USB, and add the >> filter for TomTom (not a generic filter). Then start the VB machine. > > > I am not getting anything

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 10:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 29/01/12 14:29, H.S. wrote: >> On 28/01/12 10:00 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 29/01/12 13:45, H.S. wrote: >>>> On 28/01/12 08:53 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> > > >>> >>>

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 10:00 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 29/01/12 13:45, H.S. wrote: >> On 28/01/12 08:53 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> > > >> >> >>> I get occasional warnings related to USB about lack of space when >>> starting a VirtualBox ma

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 09:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Update: A little searching found this in 'man dhclient.conf'. > >The supersede statement > > supersede [ option declaration ] ; > >If for some option the client should always use a >locally-configured value or values r

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 08:53 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > I haven't had any issues with USB on Windoof 7 - but I'm not running > TomTom. My fstab is a little different:- > > $ grep -e usb /etc/fstab > none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=110,devmode=664,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 > > NOTE: that it's not commented o

Re: screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 09:13 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Earlier, my network card was being monitored by network manager. >> Recently due to various changes, I had the need to give my network card >> a fixed address. To do so, I took out the following line from >> /etc/n

screwed up my network starting

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
Feeling a bit embarrassed here. Recently I seem to screwed up my network related stuff on my Debian Testing machine running KDE. Earlier, my network card was being monitored by network manager. Recently due to various changes, I had the need to give my network card a fixed address. To do so, I to

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/01/12 08:18 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > grep -e usb /etc/fstab $ grep -e usb /etc/fstab # none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=122,devmode=664 0 0 Also: $ groups hs adm cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev bluetooth scanner powerdev pulse pulse-access vboxusers -- Please reply to

debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-28 Thread H.S.
I am running Virtualbox 4.1.8-75467~Debian~squeeze on my Debian Testing machine. I have Windows 7 (32 bit) installed as a guest OS. When I connect my Tomtom Via 1535 gps unit to a USB port while the guest OS is running, the unit gets listed as a USB device in virtualbox and I can click on it to se

Re: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

2012-01-05 Thread H.S.
On 16/12/11 12:09 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:20:47 -0500, H.S. wrote: > >> On 13/12/11 11:50 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> Oh, there is also bug report in Debian BTS: >>> >>> esniper: SSL certificate authentication fails

Re: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

2011-12-14 Thread H.S.
On 13/12/11 11:50 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:19:05 -0500, H.S. wrote: > > There's a lengthy thread in this forum thread about the issue: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/openssl-ssl-error-code-14090086-verify-the-ca-cert-is-ok-certi

error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

2011-12-11 Thread H.S.
Hello. I keep getting this message when I try to set up my esniper client for bidding. Auction : Cannot connect to URL ��: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERV

Re: IP address depending on the MAC

2011-10-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/10/11 02:08 PM, Ireneusz Szcześniak wrote: > Dnsmasq is a DHCP and DNS server combined. As I mentioned before, I > can't use a DHCP server. > > On 02.10.2011 20:02, H.S. wrote: >> On 02/10/11 12:31 PM, Ireneusz Szcześniak wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>

Re: IP address depending on the MAC

2011-10-02 Thread H.S.
On 02/10/11 12:31 PM, Ireneusz Szcześniak wrote: > Hi, > > I'm planning to install an image of Debian to a number of computers. > Each of these computers will have the same configuration except the > hostname and the IP address. The IP configuration has to be static. I > can't use a DHCP server.

[Solved, sort of] Re: cannot find and install some dev packages

2011-08-22 Thread H.S.
On 22/08/11 10:57 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 20/08/11 11:07 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: >> apt-cache policy libhighgui.dev > > And I am still getting this: > $> sudo aptitude install libhighgui.dev > Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "libhighgu

Re: cannot find and install some dev packages

2011-08-22 Thread H.S.
On 20/08/11 11:07 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > apt-cache policy libhighgui.dev And I am still getting this: $> sudo aptitude install libhighgui.dev Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "libhighgui.dev" Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "libhighgui.d

Re: cannot find and install some dev packages

2011-08-20 Thread H.S.
On 20/08/11 01:42 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > 2011-08-20 06:08, H.S. skrev: >> Hello. >> >> I am trying to install the following dev packages but aptitude keeps >> telling me it can't find them: >> libopencv-highgui-dev >> libglew1.5-dev >> >

cannot find and install some dev packages

2011-08-19 Thread H.S.
Hello. I am trying to install the following dev packages but aptitude keeps telling me it can't find them: libopencv-highgui-dev libglew1.5-dev The package's developer information, however, lists them (I have Testing on an amd64). Could somebody tell me what I am missing here? Thanks. -- Pl

How to get cedet working in emacs?

2011-08-13 Thread H.S.
I am trying to follow instructions on http://alexott.net/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html to get variable completion and other nifty stuff working in Emacs in Debian Testing. Unfortunately, no success yet. It appears that some things are broken or not in their older placed due to the recen

Re: virtualbox cannot see USB anymore

2011-06-26 Thread H.S.
On 25/06/11 04:58 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:19:03 -0400, H.S. wrote: > > (...) > >> First, I tried the virtualbox-ose from Debian repos until I realized it >> does not support USB. Next, I discovered I can install Virtualbox from >> Oracle to get

mixer and audio recording in Debian

2011-06-26 Thread H.S.
Hello. Does anyone have any experience with using the Alesis MultiMix 8 USB 2.0 (http://www.alesis.com/multimix8usb20) with Debian machines? I have Debian Testing on am Amd64 and am looking to buy a mixer. I was initially considering a Mackie mixer (which provides stereo outputs) but realized tha

virtualbox cannot see USB anymore

2011-06-24 Thread H.S.
Hello. I am running an updating Testing box. For some reasons, I had to use Windows 7 and installed Virtualbox. First, I tried the virtualbox-ose from Debian repos until I realized it does not support USB. Next, I discovered I can install Virtualbox from Oracle to get USB support (after installin

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/06/11 07:18 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/06/11 11:01, H.S. wrote: >> On 11/06/11 07:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:37 -0400, H.S. wrote: >>>> On 11/06/11 07:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>>> On 12/06/11 08:48, Ralf

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/06/11 06:12 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, answers inline. > >> 12/06/2011 00:12, H.S. wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I have experienced this problem on and off for the past several months. >> But today it was the worst case. I am trying to burn a bu

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/06/11 08:00 AM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from H.S.'s message of 2011-06-12 00:12:04 +0200: > > Afaik Debian uses a vastly inferior version of cdrtools called cdrkit, > so it may simply be due to a bug in cdrkit. > > Regards, > Philipp > > If i

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-11 Thread H.S.
On 11/06/11 09:32 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 11/06/11 09:30 PM, H.S. wrote: >> On 11/06/11 09:09 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> >> >>> Does gnomebaker work? >> >> Haven't tried it yet. In fact, I have no idea how to use it to burn an >> audio CD

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-11 Thread H.S.
On 11/06/11 09:30 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 11/06/11 09:09 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > >> Does gnomebaker work? > > Haven't tried it yet. In fact, I have no idea how to use it to burn an > audio CD from mp3 files. It is quite dumb really in that respect. Sorry

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-11 Thread H.S.
On 11/06/11 09:09 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/06/11 09:52, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:37 -0400, H.S. wrote: >>> On 11/06/11 07:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> On 12/06/11 08:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>>> >>> >

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-11 Thread H.S.
On 11/06/11 07:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:37 -0400, H.S. wrote: >> On 11/06/11 07:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 12/06/11 08:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>>> Sorry, I can't help you, but perhaps there's a better way to eject a CD

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-11 Thread H.S.
Additional info: If it matters, when I insert a blank disc in to the drive, gnomebaker starts automatically even if I am KDE. I close it promptly and continue with using k3b. However, the same thing happened when I was able to burn some cds successfully in the recent few days. Also, I have returne

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-11 Thread H.S.
On 11/06/11 07:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/06/11 08:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Sorry, I can't help you, but perhaps there's a better way to eject a CD. >> I don't know how Debian currently does mount those drives, but perhaps >> this isn't outdated: >> >> http://www.crazysquirrel.com/compu

k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-11 Thread H.S.
Hello. I have experienced this problem on and off for the past several months. But today it was the worst case. I am trying to burn a bunch of mp3 files to make an audio CD using k3b. I was able to so do for the first one after burning only a single coaster. The second one is still not done and I

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

2010-08-01 Thread H.S.
On 01/08/10 10:19 AM, Mr Smiley wrote: Hi I remember now how i used it. First you have to run a smbmount // command, this fails but creates the cifs directory, it doesn't exist till your first smbmount command. It's a temporary directory which disappears on next boot. then run echo 0> /pr

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

2010-08-01 Thread H.S.
On 01/08/10 02:52 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:45 PM, H.S. wrote: On 29/07/10 02:23 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:11:31AM -0400, H.S. wrote: ~$ sudo mount -v -t cifs -o user= //sambaserver/Share ~/mnt/Share Password: mount.cifs kernel mount

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

2010-07-31 Thread H.S.
On 31/07/10 06:02 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: I did that, too, and then I clicked on the flashblock placeholder icon for the video; it loaded and played normally. Yes, that is due to flashblock, I have to click that too to let flashplayer do its job. Didn't work on cnn for me. Note that I h

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

2010-07-31 Thread H.S.
On 29/07/10 02:23 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:11:31AM -0400, H.S. wrote: ~$ sudo mount -v -t cifs -o user= //sambaserver/Share >~/mnt/Share Password: mount.cifs kernel mount options: ip=192.168.0.8,unc=//sambaserver/Share,,ver=1,user=,pass= mo

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

2010-07-31 Thread H.S.
On 29/07/10 02:26 PM, Mr Smiley wrote: Sorry, also try echo 0> /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled and then smbmount again. It's one of the two, but at the mo can't remember which, but both at the same time won't hurt. Try echo 0> /proc/fs/cifs/OplockEnabled then try and smbmoun

Re: hypervisor choices on Debian Testing amd64

2010-07-31 Thread H.S.
On 30/07/10 06:02 PM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: The most straight virtualisation solution on Debian testing (squeeze) is KVM. You can use virt-manager and libvirt to manage the VMs. PS: virt-manager can also manage Xen VMs. Thanks for these suggestions. I am looking into these as well. Regards.

CNN vidoes no playable in iceape (mozilla browser)

2010-07-31 Thread H.S.
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 installed, I am not able to play the video linked on this news

hypervisor choices on Debian Testing amd64

2010-07-30 Thread H.S.
I am thinking of installing a couple of virtual machines on my Debian Testing amd64 system. I am trying to find out what choices in hypervisors do I have to accomplish that. One open source choice is Xen. Vmware is another choice, but not open source. I am sort of banking towards Xen. There

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

2010-07-29 Thread H.S.
On 29/07/10 02:09 PM, Tom H wrote: Good. So the hs user is "samba-enabled" and can get a list of the shares on red. Going back to your initial email, you had "mount error(13): Permission denied", so you now have to check whether the share that you are trying to access as hs has the correct mode

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

2010-07-29 Thread H.S.
On 29/07/10 11:09 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: This is grasping at straws, but you can try: mount -t cifs //192.168.0.8/user$/share -o username=hs /mnt/share ("user$" is a literal string here and does not indicate variable substitution or similar.) No luck, same problem :( But please che

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

2010-07-29 Thread H.S.
On 29/07/10 11:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:48:21 -0400, H.S. wrote: Nothing in "dmesg"? :-? nope. "Permission denied" sounds a bit cryptic. I assume you are mounting the share being "root". Does accessing via nautilus/konqueror ("smb

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

2010-07-29 Thread H.S.
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 regarding the smbclient command that worked last night, and this

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

2010-07-29 Thread H.S.
On 29/07/10 12:28 AM, H.S. wrote: On 28/07/10 11:46 PM, Tom H wrote: Please try again smbclient -L // -U for both users Aha! Works for both users. Here is the output for my username on sambaserver machine named "red": $ smbclient -L //192.168.0.8 -U hs Enter hs's password

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

2010-07-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/07/10 11:46 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:37 PM, H.S. wrote: No. But I tried that name as well which I was using from the Windows box. Here is what I get with the command you mentioned: $ smbclient -L -I ///Share -U hs Enter hs's password: Connection to -I failed (

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

2010-07-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/07/10 09:12 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:32 PM, H.S. wrote: On 28/07/10 04:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:30:41 -0400, H.S. wrote: IP address instead of the hostname doesn't make any difference. Strangely, I am not getting any errors in the logs o

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

2010-07-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/07/10 04:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:30:41 -0400, H.S. wrote: IP address instead of the hostname doesn't make any difference. Strangely, I am not getting any errors in the logs on the samba server. Then you can increase the log level verbosity in "smb.conf&qu

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

2010-07-28 Thread H.S.
On 28/07/10 02:51 PM, Aniruddha wrote: I encountered the same problem a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I don't have the correct command in bash_history anymore. Can you try: sudo mount -t cifs -o user=,password= ///Share ~/mnt/Share sudo mount -t cifs -o user=guest //r/Share ~/mnt/Share Whic

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

2010-07-28 Thread H.S.
I have a Debian machine running Unstable acting as a samba server. The server was installed a few days ago after a reinstall of the OS. The older installation's samba configs were backed up and restored after installation. The Samba shares are accessible if I access them from a Windows 7 cl

Re: Internet filtering

2010-07-26 Thread H.S.
On 26/07/10 09:39 PM, vr wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:09:44 -0400, "H.S." wrote: I am not familiar with ATT. Is your service ADSL or cable? They call it VDSL. Sorry, never used it. Do they give a modem for the connection? I'm interested in more info about the t

Re: Internet filtering

2010-07-26 Thread H.S.
On 26/07/10 08:46 PM, vr wrote: The service provider (ATT) provided a four port 2-Wire router that is both wireless and wired. I am not familiar with ATT. Is your service ADSL or cable? It has very few options for firewalling and is required to connect to their service. I think I have used

Re: Internet filtering

2010-07-26 Thread H.S.
On 26/07/10 07:38 PM, vr wrote: What is a good utility to block outbound traffic on the home network? Ideally it will not need to be set in a browsers proxy setting to be effective. You need to describe your network and the desired control to get some relevant answers. Without knowing these

Re: [Solved ??? Please do not follow web resources without checking]: Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-26 Thread H.S.
On 17/07/10 02:38 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: at the readme file also made me recall wondering in the past as to why the heck do the kind of things like the following still remain, "...There is one limitation in SCIM, that you must tell SCIM the UTF-8 locale you want to use SCIM in..." *Must* I?

Re: cloning/saving system

2010-07-21 Thread H.S.
On 21/07/10 08:41 AM, B. Alexander wrote: 3. Build the new machine with the netinst or businesscard cd. When asked what type of system to build (package selection), uncheck all the boxes. Reboot into your new system, copy pkglist.hostname from step 1 onto the machine. Do the following: I thi

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

2010-07-20 Thread H.S.
On 17/07/10 02:02 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, My Google-fu must not be up to snuff, because I've Googled much without any luck. USB Audio 32-bit Sid ALSA 1.0.23+dfsg-1 Flash 10.1r53 (from adobe.com) Iceweasel 3.6.4-1 (experimental) vlc 1.1.0 users are in group audio Sound plays fine from local

Re: cloning/saving system

2010-07-18 Thread H.S.
On 18/07/10 09:14 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: Backup Windows first, put the old HD into the new computer, boot up to Linux (you might have to edit Grub at this point) then dd the MBR to the new drive on the new computer, Regarding the dd'ing of grub, why not just do (after booting in to the sy

Re: [Solved ??? Please do not follow web resources without checking]: Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-17 Thread H.S.
On 17/07/10 07:49 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Sourcing ~/.bashrc does not work for programs started by menu as I understand. So this is not the best solution. Isn't the file read when one logs in to a DE? That is what appears to be happening when I log in to KDE. Since I put those variables in ~/

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 02:25 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Yeah, I guess you could write a bash script to: 1. determine the amount of free space. 2. Divide that by some efficient block size. 3. dd if=/dev/urandom of=${VFAT}/foo.bar \ obs=${BLKSIZ} count=${BLKCNT} Coincidentally, that is exactly what I did (but

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 02:03 PM, Mark wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, H.S. wrote: On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Aren't you askig the wrong list? The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using Linux tools and the partition just happens to be a Wi

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 01:42 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: This is rather a philosophical question than a technical one: it is part of UNIX mentality to have simple tools that can be put together to complete complicated tasks. Practically seen, if the original poster was educated with the principles of UNIX de

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 01:01 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: I don't think you can of= just the "empty" parts of your partition. Attached is a Python script I use to "zero" out the free space of a mounted partition. Thanks for the script. You are basically writing 0xFF to the available disk space. I used to ha

[SOLVED] Re: iceowl (lightning) extension and calendar data migration problem on amd64

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 14/07/10 10:50 PM, H.S. wrote: On 14/07/10 06:24 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:56:28 -0400, H.S. wrote: (...) However, the calendar extension in my icedove (on amd64 installation) does not entertain those files, as if it is not reading it. Have I done this correctly? How do I

Re: How to reread changed udev rules without rebooting?

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 10-07-16 11:48 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Sex, 16 Jul 2010, "H.S." wrote: given eth2 while I wanted eth0). After tweaking udev rules, can I have them reapplied, or the rules reread, without having to reboot? If yes, how? I have tried restarting udev and hal, but that didn&

Re: Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Aren't you askig the wrong list? The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using Linux tools and the partition just happens to be a Windows installation* but could be any generic storage device. So, no. I presume you are imp

How to reread changed udev rules without rebooting?

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
I just now had to change my /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file so that a new network card be give the same number (it was being given eth2 while I wanted eth0). After tweaking udev rules, can I have them reapplied, or the rules reread, without having to reboot? If yes, how? I have

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 10-07-16 10:56 AM, H.S. wrote: On 16/07/10 05:59 AM, Sunita Barve wrote: I have been using debian 5.0.3. I had changed disk and had connected on two different machines. Now I am getting the following error I am in a similar situation. kinit: trying to resume from /dev/sda5 kinit:No

Re: kernel panic error

2010-07-16 Thread H.S.
On 16/07/10 05:59 AM, Sunita Barve wrote: > I have been using debian 5.0.3. I had changed disk and had connected on two > different machines. Now I am getting the following error I am in a similar situation. > kinit: trying to resume from /dev/sda5 > kinit:No resume image, doing normal boot... >

[Solved] Re: Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-15 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 01:50 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 06/07/10 05:53 PM, Lisi wrote: >> >> I may not have time to do this tomorrow - and must get myself to bed now >> before I fall asleep at the keyboard. :-( But I'll do it in the >> foreseeable future. >> >> Lis

Re: audio not working on amd64

2010-07-15 Thread H.S.
On 15/07/10 04:17 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:53:27PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> >> All I need to look for now is to see if this Ekiga and audio stuff is >> stable. >> > I've been using pulseaudio for several years now on Lenny. I need it

Re: Conclusion: FAT mount, UTC and localtime

2010-07-15 Thread H.S.
On 15/07/10 03:12 PM, John Hasler wrote: > H.S. writes: >> So, er, I am still not sure how to understand this: >> "To change the computer to use UTC after installation, edit the file >> /etc/default/rcS, change the variable UTC to no. If you happened to >> insta

Re: Conclusion: FAT mount, UTC and localtime

2010-07-15 Thread H.S.
On 14/07/10 09:01 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:44:49 +, T o n g wrote: > Thanks to Dave's solution, problem solved now. Reposting below: > > The bug report contains the following work-around, as root run these > commands: > > hwclock --systohc --utc > hwclock --hctosys --utc >

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread H.S.
On 15/07/10 12:31 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: >> >> Its first and second partitions (sdc1 and sdc2) are vfat. I was thinking >> of mounting these on /mnt/scd1 (and scd2) and then doing: >> # dd if=/dev/zero > /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin; rm -f /mnt/sdc1/zeros.bin >> >> and the same for scd2. The idea is fi

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