Re: 60-serial.rules, broken

2023-06-14 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hello Gene, gene heskett writes: [udev update from proposed-updates] > I couldn't figure how to dl the file, so I snapshoted the diff screen > from [1], and will compare it to what I have from the patch, which it > appears I have not done to this machine, as I have /dev/serial/by-path > only

Re: 60-serial.rules, broken

2023-06-14 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hello, gene heskett writes: >> That's Debian#1035094 [1]. A fix was uploaded three weeks ago and is >> available in bullseye-proposed-updates [2] but not the regular Bullseye >> repository. If I understand the status page [3] correctly it's only >> scheduled for the next point release. Given tha

Re: 60-serial.rules, broken

2023-06-14 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hello Michael, Michael Biebl writes: >> Not sure if it's fixed in Bookworm already. The upstream fix went in at >> v253. Bookworm is at 252.6 which doesn't exist as a tag in the upstream >> repo so I cannot check if the fix was backported. > > stable/point releases can be found in the systemd-st

Re: 60-serial.rules, broken

2023-06-07 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hello Gene, gene heskett writes: > Greetings all; > > /dev/serial/by-id has not been created for quite some time. [...] That's Debian#1035094 [1]. A fix was uploaded three weeks ago and is available in bullseye-proposed-updates [2] but not the regular Bullseye repository. If I understand the st

Re: Complaints from mousepad.

2021-06-07 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hello Peter, pe...@easthope.ca writes: [...] > 0) mousepad --display=:0 /home/me/a & ;; [...] > (mousepad:8747): dconf-WARNING **: 06:30:53.773: failed to commit > changes to dco nf: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY > > How should the shell function or mousepad notify dconf that th

Automatic debug packages for Wheezy?

2012-07-31 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hi! The lack of a debug package for libglib reminded me (yet again) of a release goal that was originally set [1] for Squeeze: Automatic building of debug packages [2]. Does anyone know what happened to that goal? There's no trace of it anymore [3], even for Wheezy [4]. Sascha [1] https://lists.

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-15 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Jason Hsu's message of Mon Mar 14 19:31:00 +0100 2011: > How do you protect servers from lightning? [...] Others already answered this, but I'd like to stress the fact that you'll need proper protection on _all_ levels. Surge protectors will only do what they're intended to do if co

Re: Getting the memory used by a process

2010-12-08 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Mathieu Malaterre's message of Wed Dec 08 11:59:32 +0100 2010: [memory usage of short-lived process] > Any other tool, other than pmap to do find that information ? I > would also like to avoid something as heady as valgrind --tool=massif. If it's only a single process you're inte

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-15 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.'s message of Tue Oct 12 19:15:49 +0200 2010: [commands for restoring the packages that were installed on an old system] > Excellent list of commands! It satisfies OR'd dependencies the same way your > old system did, and restores the "automatically installed

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Lisi's message of Tue Oct 12 13:05:50 +0200 2010: > #dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.txt > #apt-get -u dselect-upgrade FWIW, this is what I used (based on [1]): dpkg --clear-selections dpkg --set-selections < dpkg-selections-installed.state debconf-set-selections < debc

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-26 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from lee's message of Fri Jun 25 20:31:15 + 2010: > what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with > Alt+Fx anymore? It's also not possible to kill the X session with > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, though this feature is not turned off in the > xorg.conf. I'm using fvwm-

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-05-01 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:20:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Is there such a DVD app analogous to cdparanoia? Or is it not possible due to the differing data, WAV vs. MPEG? The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. You coul

Re: Installing Sugar in testing

2010-04-06 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 03:55:20PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: Is there some way to install Sugar in Debian testing? I tried the "aptitude --with-recommends install sugar" but it basically forces me to downgrade most of Gnome to stable. Please see [1]. You probably want sucrose-0.86 for now

Re: Personal keylogger?

2010-02-09 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:40:09AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I am having a hard time finding one! I will continue googling, if I come up with anything then I will update the thread for the sake of future archive diggers. Maybe xkey [1] does the trick for you? It's a sample program to demonstrat

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze Not Upgrading

2010-01-06 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:15:27AM -0800, chris kerr wrote: I'm not sure what the 'domain' and 'search' parts are, but anyway, I can ping both debian.crosslink.net and ftp.us.debian.org and suffer no surfing troubles. OK, it's starting to get strange. Do you have any proxy configured (check $

Re: slow workspace switching ATI Radeon 3850 fglrx/non-free RandR

2010-01-06 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:41:38AM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: I'm encountering the same issue on a single head setup (never used Xinerama). What window manager are you using (ion3 for me)? I am using gdm, in an as-is apt-get-install-debian-testing-with-Gnome-installation. gdm is a display

Re: slow workspace switching ATI Radeon 3850 fglrx/non-free RandR

2010-01-06 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:26:39AM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: I recently switched from Xinerama to RandR to use my two monitors in a dual head configuration. After doing that the switching between workspaces is taking a lot of time (3-5 seconds), which was (almost) instantaneous with Xinera

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze Not Upgrading

2010-01-05 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:38:36AM -0800, chris kerr wrote: Err http://debian.crosslink.net squeeze Release.gpg Cannot initiate the connection to 8118:80 (0.0.31.182). - connect (22 Invalid argument) Sounds like your DNS resolver / resolving server is broken (0.0.31.182 is a reserved IP addr

Re: calling US 800 numbers from abroad via VoIP

2009-12-18 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 01:41:20PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: I want to call an 1-800 toll free US number, IdeaSIP worked fine for me when I had the same need some months ago. Asterisk config snippet: [ideasip-tollfree] ; USA toll-free exten => _001800NXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:2...@pr

Re: Permission denied when tweaking various /proc knobs (Lenny)

2009-12-08 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:22:37PM -0600, Brian Ryans wrote: bry...@esterhazy:~$ sudo echo up > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness bash: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness: Permission denied The redirection is set up by the current shell, i.e. with non-elevated privileges. Try this instead: sudo sh -c 'echo up

logrotate: olddir on different device?

2009-09-26 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hi! I'd like logrotate to move old (compressed) logfiles to a directory on a different device (from SD card to hard disk in this case). Unfortunately the "olddir" config option only works if both directories are on the same device (probably for easier handling of the first rotate step). Lastac

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-08-31 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:59:08PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** Depending on the hardware / driver bugs and your specific needs, suspend-to-disk might be an option as well. The computer

Reporting spam on bugs.debian.org

2009-05-30 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hi! Just noticed that bug #299930 contains a single SPAM message among several "normal" ones. When I follow the "this bug log contains spam" link, it asks for confirmation: "Yes, report bug 299930 as spam". What will happen if I confirm? Will the whole bug report be marked as SPAM (as the word

Re: OT Looking for certain Geode LX Board

2009-05-25 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 02:05:18PM -0500, Brent Kolasinski wrote: I'm pretty sure AMD stopped manufacturing Geode CPU's a year or so ago. Wikipedia says otherwise: [1]: In 2009, comments by AMD indicated that there are no plans for any future micro architecture upgrades to the processor and t

Re: Keyboard layout problem using Xephyr

2009-05-12 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:38:44PM +, Zoho Vignochi wrote: [...] I want to use Xephyr to be able to log into another user account without logging out of my user account. [...] It works very well except for the keyboard. It maps the wrong keys. You might be seeing Xorg bug #19365 [1]. [1]

Setting permissions for individual LVs permanently

2009-03-10 Thread Sascha Silbe
How do I set ownership and permissions for individual LVs permanently? I've managed to set permissions for the corresponding /dev/dm-* via udev, but I'd like to use symbolic names (i.e. /dev// or at least /dev/mapper/-) and can't figure out where to configure the permissions for those - they

install-info

2000-04-11 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hi! When trying to install an info file with install-info into /usr/local/info (which currently is empty) I get a locking error, the same one as in Bug #2904. With the install-info of the texinfo distribution it works fine. Why did you replace it with the one in the dpkg package? CU/Lnx Sascha