kde wrong language after update

2015-11-28 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear list, after my last upgrade I suddenly got a kde desktop with a mixture of German, English and Dutch menus instead of (as configured in the setttings) German. I could not change the language from the settings menu in KDE. If someone gets a similar problem, here is the solution: 1. Stop kd

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2015, 09:41:38 schrieb David Wright: > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 15:42:29 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you > > do not need (for example

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Itay, maybe it is a problem with the UUID. Just check on the new harddrive the file /etc/fstab, if there is an UUID set for the harddrive. If so, comment it out and set just an entry with /dev/sda1 (or whatever) fpor the required. Here is an example: # /dev/sda7 / ext3

kamail2 inbox folder problem

2014-03-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi list, I accidently deleted my inbox folder (I mean the special "inbox" aka "Posteingang") in kmail2. Now I cannot create a new one. How can I get it back without messing with my settings and other folders? Thanks for any help! Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

systemd - fancontrol and sensors changed

2014-02-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, after changing to systemd, I recognized, that fancontrol on my EEEPC did not work properly any more. First I noticed nothing, but after some time I noticed, the fan did not run at heavy load. The reason for it, was the changed sensors. According to the debian wiki my working configur

Re: Mail without MUA?

2014-01-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> However a MUA won't download emails from a MTA, but from a POP or IMAP > server. Yes, of course from the pop3 server of my provider. > > What makes you think they were "downloaded". > I think, they were downloaded, for two reasons. First, they are already there, when I start my MUA. Second,

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2013-12-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> > No, php script *RUN* by root -> full system access > > php script run by www-data -> access to what www-data has access to. > > Owner/Group/Other permissions only affect who has access to the > file/folder, not the kind of access the file (process) itself has when > run. Two very different c

Re: trackball not working after sid upgrade

2013-12-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2013, 18:46:16 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > OK, previously, I added to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf > the following lines which make the Logitech Trackman Marble work > beautifully (left small button gives scrolling function not > backward/forward for browser tab

Re: HDD repair help please

2013-09-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2013, 18:08:54 schrieb Gábor Hársfalvi: > Hi, > > How could I repair my HDD with disk manager or similar? > > Because, it has got a lots of bad sector. > > Before I could do that with fsck in recovery mode after umount /home. But > now it can't work - it says device

Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Therefore I am starting to belive that stick can be broken after all :) > Nevertheless I will wait for some time expecting that somebody had > experienced something similar and can give me some other advice than to > throw away that stick. > > Martin > Bye Hi! Did you try "testdisk"? Nice tool

Akonadi / Kmail Problem

2013-09-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am running debian/jessie. After upgrading to kmail2 I discovered, that randomly (this means wthin one or two days a week), a window pops up, whch want me to enter the password for my mailaccount. Strangely it is every time the same mailaccount. I have several ones. It is no differe

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 3. September 2013, 19:23:20 schrieb Pascal Obry: > Le 03/09/2013 19:00, Mike McGinn a écrit : > > Has anyone in this group had any luck getting iTunes to work under Linux? > I believe, iTunes10 can be installed in Playonlinux, when you set a mark in the "testing" option. Sorry, but

Strange libs

2013-08-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, since 3 weeks I got two new directories, which is looking strange for me. These are /lib64 and /libx32. The second one was created by package "libc6-x32", but I cannot see the necessary of this libs. Can someone enlighten me, when and why this was installed? Must have been during an u

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Xfce isn't GNOME 2, but it's ok. Yeah! XFCE is great. Tried it, too, on my netbook. It is fast and well usable. I also was very pleased with LXDE, which is also very lightweight and highly usable. In fact, I still could not find a decision, which one is better or faster. So I did the bst thin

Re: How to suggest a new package?

2013-08-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 26. August 2013 schrieb Slavko: > You can both, do not matter if you are author or not ;-) > > For request, try to search for RFP (Request for Package) bugreports, > https://wiki.debian.org/RFP > > For providing new package try take look at http://mentors.debian.net/ > and mentors mai

How to suggest a new package?

2013-08-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, is it possible to suggest a new package for the repo, if one is not the devolper of the package? I only found, how to do that as a developer. If it is possible, I will do that myself, if you could enlighten me. The package I want to suggest is called "jNetMap", it is open source,

Re: Update wants to deinstall lots of packages

2013-08-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Probably best to wait a while. I run sid, and have never used KDE as > such, but I have quite a few of those packages you're about to lose. > Probably they haven't all made it into the repository yet. > > I do recall losing ksensors, but I wasn't actively using it, so I > didn't worry. Yes, I

Update wants to deinstall lots of packages

2013-08-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear list and Packagage maintainers, it looks like apt wants to deinstall a lot of packages when upgrading to KDE 4.10 in jessie. The reason is in the deinstallation of kdelibs4c2a, which is in conflict with the latest kdelibs-bin. So, isn't the possibility to let both libs reside on the syste

Re: with DHCP, forcing a DNS address at your local computer?

2013-08-25 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Chris, > Is that two different files spelled wrong (twice!)? One file > spelled wrong? > > Please check the post BEFORE sending. I know mistakes can happen but, > really? > ... Sorry for that mail. It was just a typo. The time I wrote it, I was a little bit tired and may not well concentrate

Re: with DHCP, forcing a DNS address at your local computer?

2013-08-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Randy, > Aside: I am having an intermittent problem with my network--it is possible > it is related to the Verizon nameservers. If switching to the Earthlink > nameservers doesn't solve the problem I will start another thread > explaining the problem (and what I've done so far to attempt to sol

question to live-build

2013-08-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I hope, someone is more experienced with live-build than me. The problem: I have set up a live-build for kali-linux, which I want often build for new updates. But I do not want to download the whole stuff every time, so I am using apt-cacher-ng, which is working perfectly I also wa

Re: Formatted Disk

2013-08-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag, 16. August 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 10:30 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Ethan Rosenberg, PhD: > > > I have a usb drive, with data on it, that I [stupidly!!] tried to > > > name using fdisk. Of course, it erased the data. I have not used > > > the drive sin

Re: 32-bit problems with nvidia packages

2013-08-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 13. August 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > Hi Hans, > > Is it possible that you have some version creep? I had this on my multiarch > sid system. There was a bug which made all of the VTs disappear. The quick > fix was to upgrade a few of the packages (including nvidia-glx, iirc) to >

32-bit problems with nvidia packages

2013-08-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, I need to use some 32-bit applications on my amd64 system. These are 3d- accelerated. But it looks lioke there is a bug in the packages. When I for example start googleearth, it starts, but I cannot see the planet. This problem exists since the change to multiarch. However, when I

Re: acpi problem

2013-08-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Reading and understanding the following may get you closer to your goal, > specifically the section on volume control: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpid Hi Stan! Yeah, that's what I was looking for. Great! It will help me a lot. I think, I will now be able to get this thing to

acpi problem

2013-08-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am looking for a solution of a little problem. My Acer 7520G has got a volume knob aside, and when I turn it, volume is getting higher or lower (it is just a digitally stepping wheel). But in my syslog I find thus messages: Aug 3 08:58:38 localhost logger: acpid: action VOLUP is

live-build questions

2013-07-17 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, don't know, if I may ask these questions here, but I allow me to do so. 1. How can build a new iso, when I already did a live build? (in case, when there are new package versions available) lb clean and lb clean --binary did not help. The second build started again, hen I did a lb clean

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Huh, and I forgot to mention "back-in-time". Based on rsync, nice tool, and there is a debian package available. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> This seems not to be a solution for most of us. > > Regards, > Ralf Yeah, it was just an idea. :) However, for backup purposes, my solutions are the following: Solution 1: If you have another server available, use rsync and make two copies. First one, just copy all files to a folder on the

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 13. Juli 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > I forgot to mention that we experience floppy disks as very reliable, > but useless for data of modern computers, because of the low amount of > data that can be stored. Don't know, if these are already mentionened. There are Datadisks called "wor

Re: wheezy keyboard shortcuts w/ lxde

2013-07-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Robert, just a clue. As far as I know, lxde iks using the environment of the shell. So just install and configure the packages consolöe-data, console-setup and maybe kbd to your needs. Also make sure, your packages for the required language are installed. These are moytly packages *-l10n-*, I

Repository pinning?

2013-06-29 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello folks, I want to add a repository to debian, exactly the kali repository, because it has packets, which are not in debian repo. But I do not want automatically debian packets from the kali repo. Can I use pinning for a special entry in sources.list so it does only install those packages,

Re: TRIM support with XFS

2013-06-29 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> So my question is: Does TRIM work with XFS in Wheezy and what should I do > to use it? > > John Hi John, as far as I know, the partitions will be correct created by debian. Trimmings is not a problem of the filesystem, but of partitioning. So, you can either partitition with debian (whhezy

Re: computer rendered un-usable

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 24. Juni 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Hi Hans :) > > On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 17:32 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Did I mention, I am a professionel? :) > This was just a little joke. :) > There's no need to mention this, because this is what my guess

Re: Separate partitions for filesystems (was Re: computer rendered un-usable)

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 24. Juni 2013 schrieb David Guntner: > Hans-J. Ullrich grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Oh, and please do not misunderstand. Of course, I know, that an extra > > partition is not really needed for /home. It is just a nice-to-have. I > > just wanted to point on thin

Re: computer rendered un-usable

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 24. Juni 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:52:34 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich > wrote: > > Hi Hans :) > Hi Ralf, > In my home there are exactly those configs you mentioned, but no data, > such as large audio productions, just a few pics etc., howeve

Re: computer rendered un-usable

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Yes, for the swap I agree, regarding to /home there aren't real advantages > on a home PC, when disk space was expensive it had a disadvantage, since > the user had to take care how to allocate the disk space. > > Mounting / as r only isn't really needed, if you install a new Linux and > you wa

debian.de failure?

2013-06-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi, is there a DNS problem known for the domain debian.de? Konqueror is telling me unknown domain:www.debian.de Yesterday everything worked fine, and strangewise I can still get channel.debian.de without any problem. If everything is ok, please let me also know. Best regards Hans -- T

Re: Root can startx, main user can't - new Wheezy install

2013-06-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Thanks for your thoughts, > > Nick Hi Nick! You might want to check the settings of .Xauthority in users ~/home. I had the issue, that its rights were changed from user:user to root:root after I started LXDE. When changed back to KDE, it won't start again. I manually deleted the file and l

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian: > On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes > > > fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. > > > > > > I'd like

Re: Remove user data of uninstalled packages

2013-06-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 9. Juni 2013 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 16:38:53 +0200 > "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > > Hello Hans-J., > > >just a question. Is there any way to remove user configuration files of > >uninstalled packages except to delete ~./whatever

Remove user data of uninstalled packages

2013-06-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi there, just a question. Is there any way to remove user configuration files of uninstalled packages except to delete ~./whatever manually? apt-get --purge ~c (and aptitude purge) does that for configuration files in /etc, but do you know a similar way for files below /home ? If this is not

Re: LINUX on floppy

2013-06-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2013 schrieb alex.pad...@laposte.net: > Hi, > > I have a bugg with fsck and I can't repare the file system of my hard disk. > Do you know an LINUX on floppy with a boot to repare my file system. > Thanks > Regards > > Alex Hi Alex, try Trinux (google at it) or you can use to

java and other plugins in konqueror

2013-05-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello all, I got into a slight problem, which I meanwhile could solve. The problem was, that konqueror didn't want to start the java-applet, when it was needed, although - java was existent - icedetea-plugin was installed - java path was correct - update-alternative --config java was correctly

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Du, 26 mai 13, 17:31:50, Dick Thomas wrote: > > sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 > > sudo sed -i 's/deb\ /deb\ [arch=amd64,i386]\ /g' /etc/apt/sources.list > > This is not necessary. > > Kind regards, > Andrei Hi Andrei, no this does not wo

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Dick Thomas: > On 26/05/13 07:21, Alex Moonshine wrote: > >> On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:01:33 +0200 > >> "Hans-J. Ullrich" mailto:hans.ullr...@loop.de>> > > > > wrote: > >> > This will not work. The pro

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-25 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Alan Ianson: > I just installed wheezy on an amd64 machine and am trying to run a > 32bit program but it doesn't run. I'm using the stock amd64 kernel and > the debian packaged nvidia drivers. I used to install an ia32 (or > somesuch) nvidia package to run 32 bit pr

wheeezy-backports - strange policy?

2013-05-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I made my minds about wheezy-backports now for a long time, and allow me, to open this discussion. Pleae correct me, if I am wrong: IMO wheezy-backports is the successor to debian-volatile and is intended for use of debian/stable users (aka wheezy at the moment). As far as I read, p

Re: Wheezy-backports

2013-05-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Wayne, > > topa@dj:~$ fping http://ftp.debian.org/debian > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian address not found > > For some reason, which I haven't figured out, is why they are not found? > DNS problem or ipv6 or ??? > Doesn't wor here, too. But try "ping ftp.debian.org" as root. Should work

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Lisi! > > It does. The lower pinning is to prevent backports from upgrading your > whole installation. If you install from Stable and do not change your > sources.list, upgrades will only be taken from Stable. To repeat what I > said earlier, packages from backports _and_ _only_ packages fro

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear Andrei > Dear Hans-J, could you please clarify your terminology? What do you mean > by 'automatically update' in above paragraph? Which one of the following > do you mean: > > 1. I have version 1 and expected version 2~bpo from backports > to be installed What I meant was "I have bla-3.0

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 19. Mai 2013 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > On Sunday 19 May 2013 17:05:40 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Your backported packages, _and_ _only_ your backported > > packages will be updated from wheezy-backports. > > Sorry, upgraded. > > Lisi Hi Lisi, no they did not. I thought, libreoffice would au

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Andrei, > > But I guess, there is an easier way, to update my ONLY my installed > > packages out of wheezy. In the wiki I read, you can use apt-get -t > > wheezy-backports install $package, which worked well. > > Not sure what you mean here, could you please rephrase/elaborate? > No, not qui

Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello all, I wanted to install LO4 in wheezy. I wondered, why it is in wheezy-backports but not in testing. Maybe the packages in wheezy-backports are too young for testing? However, I managed it by using aptitude and made sure, all dependencies are correct. But I guess, there is an easier w

libreoffice wheezy

2013-05-18 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello! Can someone explain why the version in wheezy-backports is higher than in wheezy (aka stable) ? IMO wheezy-backports should be older than stable, shouldn't it? Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

2013-05-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> as real root, googleearth won't install, > # apt-get install ./googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1_amd64.deb > No no, don't use apt-get. If you want to install via apt-get, the package must be in /var/cache/apt/archives. Just install it with dpkg -i /path_to_where_the_package_is/googleearth_bla

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

2013-05-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Seems ok for me. > $ /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin > /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared > libraries: libgoogleearth_free.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory Try to build teh package as real root, not with sudo and install the package

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

2013-05-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> $ /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin > gives: > /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared > libraries: libgoogleearth_free.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory > > # /usr/local/bin/googleearth > gives: > Couldn't run Google Earth (googleearth-

Re: W-Lan won't work

2013-05-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag, 10. Mai 2013 schrieb Mariusz Wojcik: > After an upgrade from wheezy to Sid W-Lan module won’t work. rfkill says me > that W-Lan is hard blocked but I haven’t blocked it hard. I use Asus X75A > with W-Lan with W-Lan modul Qualcomm Atheros AR9485. > > Greets, > > Mariusz Wojcik Maybe co

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

2013-05-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2013 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Thu, 9 May 2013 21:12:07 +0200 > "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > > Hello Hans-J., > > >Googleeartg will not run without 32-bit accelerator drivers. If you use > > Good point; I'd forgotten that. >

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

2013-05-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
uple of times, I removed it from my machine about 8 months ago. > > I installed googleearth-package, run make-googleearth-package, > installed the compiled googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1_amd64.deb. > Pretty standard. Googleeartg will not run without 32-bit accelerator drivers. If you use Nvidia-

Re: failed to install xserver-xorg-core

2013-05-06 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 6. Mai 2013 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Mon, 6 May 2013 14:47:57 -0400 > Kejia柯嘉 wrote: > > Hello Kejia柯嘉, > > >I purged the nvidia driver and re-installed it (by nvidia-installer). > >But the nouveau module is still loaded even if I did everything > >indicated here: > >http://www.pimp-

Re: failed to install xserver-xorg-core

2013-05-06 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 6. Mai 2013 schrieb Kejia柯嘉: > Hi, > > I tried to upgrade squeez to wheezy, but lost gui. I guess it is > necessary to re-install xserver-xorg-core, but failed to do that: > `` > apt-get install xserver-xorg-core > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > That is interesting. I have a similar setup on my workstation: > > /dev/sda2 ext4964532 59380856156 7% /boot > > With the rest of the filesystems in an encrypted LVM container. I built > (rebuilt) this machine

Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Today I learnt this: Do NOT use ext4 for the /boot partition, where your kernel resides. I did this on my EEEPC to speed up boot, and today I got at boot the error message: initrd.img corrupt. My EEEPC has got an ssd inside and /usr, /home and /var are encrypted partitions. It took me hours a

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Thank you for the pointer, but I just need to update my local repo as > I usually do. I actually was just intrigued as to why I could not find > this package on packages.d.o (and neither in my local repo), that's > all. It is evidently just hitting the repos. Very cool to see libre > debian-pack

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Thus, my question of where are these packages :) Just add the unstable repo to your sources.list, then do an "apt-get update" and after this you can install pocketsphinx. Either do "apt-get install pocketsphinx", or you can install any package by doing "apt-get install somepackagename/unstab

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
I suppose, they are more in unstable. :) Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201304211754.45383.hans.ullr...@loop.de

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Whatever I see in all your comments is this: Most of the people show a big uptime. 100 days, 400 days, 500 days, even more than a 1000 days! So many people do this. It proves, how stable a good system can be and it also shows the great work of the developers. If I compare it to other commerci

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-17 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
It is interesting. Whenever I someone is telling of big uptime, the arguiment is: Your server can not be secure! You have an old kernel! You MUST install/update the newest kernel and of course reboot. But this is not correct. For which reason a new kernel is necessary? 1. If there are extrem

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 schrieb Tixy: > On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 22:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > > > > 22:35:31 up 412 days, 10:05, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.97, 0.44 > > So you are over a year behind in installi

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > 22:35:31 up 412 days, 10:05, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.97, 0.44 Great, but beat this! More than 500 days. At about 650 days uptime I rebooted accidentlly. See the m

Re: syslinux, live-build - looking for files

2013-03-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013 schrieb David Sastre Medina: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 06:45:51PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013 schrieben Sie: > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 07:31:21PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > > > I am looking for

syslinux, live-build - looking for files

2013-03-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am looking for the following files for wheezy: ldlinux.c32 libcom32.c32 libutil.c32 They should be in package live-build: apt-file search ldlinux.c32 live-build: /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/extlinux/ldlinux.c32 live-build: /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux/ldlinux.c3

KDE4 - wrong root password?

2013-03-14 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my root password, this is not accepted. But - when I use the password of the user I am working with in this cases, it will work. This i

Update hanged, now stuck in loop

2013-02-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, during the last upgrade, it stuck during the update of the package "virtuoso- opensource-6.1". Now I am sticking in a loop. I cannot deinstall the package, as it wants configure itself and then hangs up, nor I can reinstall it, as I am running into the same loop again. I also tried

Re: admin password?

2012-12-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi! I know two ways, how to "crack" a system with a lost root password. 1. Use a livefile-cd like knoppix and mount the partitition witrh /etc/shadow on. Then remove everything at root between the first two :: At next boot, you will not be asked for a root password. 2. Boot with "kon-boot".

Re: kde - problem with automounter

2012-12-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> A typo it should be ~/.cache ;). > > Hth, > Ralf Hi Ralf! Good idea! But did not work, sorry, But I still think, it is a caching problem. Maybe some day it might repair itself??? Who knows Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: kde - problem with automounter UPDATE

2012-12-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Forgot to tell: I am running debian/wheezy, amd6. Sorry, to ne unprecise Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121022.04351.hans.ullr...@loop.d

kde - problem with automounter

2012-12-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, I cannot mount a usb-drive in kde (with the tool in the taskbar, you know, what I mean). IMO it might be a solution, to delete some cache, but I am not sure, which is the correct one. To see, what happens, here is my log: # this happens, when I input my drive: ec 22 20:07:05 localhos

Re: Laptop fan control

2012-12-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 22. Dezember 2012 schrieb Jack Schneider: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:33:31 +1100 > > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using a Dell vostro 3350 machine. > > > > At times I feel the intensity of the fan is unnecessarily high. > > > > This occurs when for example using firefo

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2012 schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: > is there any tool equivalent to yast in Debian? > > Thanks You might want to try "webmin" and/or "usermin". But it is no more in the debian repositories. I guess, no debian-developer took a look at it for years. They said at that time

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Martin, sorry, if I was too harsh in my last mail. Maybe I found not the best English words. Again, sorry for that. However, I found a solution indeed. 1. As googleearth package and skype do need ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk packages, I reinstalled them. 2. The other needed 64-bit-libs and

Re: Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Dennis, I would try to mount it in a livefile system. Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) comes there in my mind. It has some tools, which might save and restore data. You might also take a look at Recobery-is-possible (RIP), another fine rescue system. If ypur harddrive is Windows FAT or NTFS take a

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Martin, > > We had it in debian-user-german to an almost unbearable extent. Please > read some of the recent threads there. > > Thus please forgive me when this starts getting on my nerves. > > I may better try to stay away from this thread from now on. > > Thanks for your long answer. Wel

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Thanks for the answer, Andrei, but something is still not completely clear. > > When you purge a package (any package) all its files should be removed > by dpkg, but sometimes packages generate files on install and don't > clean up on removal[1]. This is usually a bug which should be reported. > I

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> > Current Wheezy: > - i386 packages can be directly installed as Architecture:i386 and > directly depend on X:i386 etc. as needed > - ia32-libs:amd64 is empty and depends on X:i386, Y:i386, Z:i386 to > ensure that if you upgrade from Squeeze, all libraries previously > found on your syste

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Maybe I described my problem not exactly enough. My English might be better. Let me try again. 1. I have a running amd64 system, which is running 32-bit applications perfectly (due to ia32-libs) 2. aptitude upgrade wants to deinstall ia32-libs, as there are dependencies in i386 repo (ia32-libs:

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Have a look at the contents of ia32-libs-*. The ‘new’ libraries APT > wants to install already exist on your system, just in one ugly > enormous package that has to be downloaded in full each time one of > the libraries it contains changes. You also don’t get to choose which > of the libraries in

multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am still fighting with multiarch. On my 64-bit system I have a several 32-bit applications installed. Just to name the best known: skype and googleearth. As they are 32-bit, I also installed ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk (and this already for since a long long time). Just to make cle

Spamd: How much memory is normal?

2012-11-28 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, just a little question. I am using spamassassin and bayes. The system is telling me, that two processes "spamd" are running with each about 600MB. I guess, this memory is forked and not 1,2 GB. Anyway, 600MB seems pretty much memory for spamd, but as far as I googled, it seems ok.

Re: wheezy amd64: google-earth black screen

2012-11-15 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag, 16. November 2012 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Hi, > > > I installed google-earth, but on starting it all I get is a black screen. > Googling this you get 100's of hits, referring to things that I have > installed. > Relevant to this I have installed: > > nvidia-glx > nvidia-glx-ia32 >

Log flooding: Oct 28 11:44:21 localhost kernel: [ 3348.008429] option: option_instat_callback: error -2

2012-10-28 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Folks, since some time my logs are flooded with the folowwing message: Oct 28 11:45:09 localhost kernel: [ 3395.992226] option: option_instat_callback: error -2 Oct 28 11:45:14 localhost kernel: [ 3401.009057] option: option_instat_callback: error -2 Oct 28 11:45:19 localhost kernel: [ 3406

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Could you please provide copy-paste of the output and also the output of > 'apt-cache policy skype' (or the full filename if you just downloaded > it). > > Kind regards, > Andrei Yes, i would kindly like to. Here is the output: apt-cache policy skype skype: Installiert: (keine)

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> What I'm trying to say is that ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk probably > contain all of those libraries. > > If you want to keep your system light you should probably install the > real 32-bit skype (not the pseudo-amd64 one), because that package will > depend only on the 32-bit libraries it real

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Hans, the state of multiarch, post-Wheezy, is that it is not ready for > use. As you have found, it is not compatible with everything, or > perhaps it should be put the other way: Not everything may be compatible > with it. People are advised to be patient about updating/upgrading, > especiall

please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear package-teams, please do not put everything to multiarch! Just let me explain, why I think so. As already reported here, many users (and me too) got into a lot of problems, beccause the 32-bit nvidia drivers are now put into multiarch. Doing so, several applications, like googleeearth,

Re: wi-fi connection and wicd

2012-10-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Lisi, > > What kernel version are you running? > > 2.6.32-5-686 > > Thanks for your reply, > Lisi there is also another bugreport by me from earlier times. But I guess, this reason might be in older kernels, too. At the moment I am running kernek 3.5 from experimental with no errors at all

Re: wi-fi connection and wicd

2012-10-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> When I try to connect I get the message that no wireless connection is > available. There are in fact 7 within easy wireless reach, one of them my > own, and my wireless router is currently about 9 inches away from the > netbook on the same desk. > > Where do I go next?? > > Thanks, > Lisi H

can multiarch break my system?

2012-10-01 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I would like to install wine on my pure 64-bit system. Wine is telling me, that I need to add i386 architecture on it (dpkg --add-architecture). Of course I need 32-bit libs. But before I do this, I want to make sure, that under no circumstances, other libs, that I need for wine (or

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