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On Friday 15 September 2023, Curt Howland was heard to say:
> I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and
> "Videos", but every time I delete them something recreates those
> directories.
Found /
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Good evening. Did a fresh install of Bookworm, installing desktop with
XFCE.
I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and "Videos",
but every time I delete them something recreates those directories.
I can't find where these are se
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> dpkg: error processing archive
> /var/cache/apt/archives/codeblocks-dev_20.03-3.1+
> b1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/usr/include/codeblocks/Alignment.h', which
is
> also in pac
> kage codeblocks-headers 20.03
> dpkg-deb: erro
> wrote:
> Just like the scanner in "Knight Rider", I see the picture.
Yes.
> What is the output of the following command?
>
> $ sudo systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait
Unfortunately, since I went above-and-beyond before saving the text, I
don't have the output, only that it didn't say
On 8/9/19, Curt Howland wrote:
> Hi. New Buster install.
> [ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h
> 54m 38s / no limit)
Those asterisks are also red, and moving left to right, the same as
seen during shutdown when something won't politely die.
O
Hi. New Buster install.
While X11 is working just fine, the console is unusable, due to a
startup message that never stops:
[ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h
54m 38s / no limit)
This goes on until the laptop is shut down.
How do I find the errant process? Th
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On Saturday 13 July 2019, Ansgar Burchardt was heard to say:
| The first difference is probably the most user visible one. Doing
| plain 'su' is a really bad idea for many reasons, so using 'su -'
is
| strongly recommended to always get a new
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On Saturday 13 July 2019, Curt Howland was heard to say:
> Just installed Buster.
>
> I know some kinks will work out, but seriously, /sbin is not in
> root's path by default?
Ok, the problem is /etc/profile is not being run when
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Just installed Buster.
I know some kinks will work out, but seriously, /sbin is not in root's
path by default?
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You may my glories and my state dispose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
--- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
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On Monday 17 June 2019, Gene Heskett was heard
to say:
> How is that resolved, by unroutable address blocks such
> as 192.168.xx.xx is now?
Yes, IPv6 does have such allocations. The first 64bits is network
block, then the last 64bits are your l
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One of the things I do with an SSD is turn down "swappiness" to a
minimum.
In /etc/sysctl.d/custom.conf
I put the following lines:
vm.swappiness = 0
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 40
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 10
vm.dirty_ratio = 40
There are also a
Good questions:
The Wanderer wibbled:
>
> At a first guess: what's the contents of /etc/ld.so.conf?
$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
> what snippets do you have there, and what directories they point to?
$ dir /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
total 24
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38 Jan 16
Ok. Having some difficulty getting GL to work.
Stable, up to date. Running Wine32, the package libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
is installed, but no matter what I do I keep getting
# ldconfig -p | grep libGL.so.1
libGL.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
On a different system
Debian Stable, fully updated this evening.
Just got a Wacom tablet and it's not working at all.
[ 203.144771] usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[ 203.297507] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=056a, idProduct=033b
[ 203.297518] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr
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I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different
phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations,
nada.
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You may my glories and my state dispose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
--- William Sha
I spoke too soon, someone in the ubuntu forums had the same problem,
installed libssl-dev and it worked.
Sorry to trouble y'all.
Curt-
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
> So, there I was, doing a compile of the new kernel, 4.3
>
> I get the following int
So, there I was, doing a compile of the new kernel, 4.3
I get the following interesting error:
===
scripts/extract-cert.c:21:25: fatal error: openssl/bio.h: No such file
or directory
#include
^
compilation terminated.
===
I'm accustomed to getting compile time
with the init script, then using the init script
to stop it works.
I beg Debian-user's pardon for this systemd waste of time.
Curt-
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have OpenVPN with a tunnel that I use occasionally, and since the
> upgrade to J
Hi.
I have OpenVPN with a tunnel that I use occasionally, and since the
upgrade to Jessie, with systemd, I cannot stop it from starting on
boot, and once running I cannot stop it.
The only way to turn the tunnel off is to uninstall OpenVPN, and then
reinstall it the next time I want to use it.
S
Debian Stable, latest mainline kernel and firmware. As recommended
elsewhere, verified that libv4l is installed:
# dpkg -l | grep v4l
ii libv4l-0:amd64 0.8.8-3
amd64Collection of video4linux support libraries
I bought a webcam, and when I plug it in I get
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Hi. Up-to-date Stable.
I have exfat-fuse and exfat-utils installed, and while exFat seems to
work just fine, there is an issue with the permissions that I don't
know how to track down.
I formatted the same thumb drive in Fat32 and exFat, and the
Dear Debianistas,
Up to date Wheezy, I can't start Iceweasel. Every time I try it gives
an error, "Iceseasel is already running and not responding. Stop the
existing session or reboot."
Trouble is, there isn't any running Iceweasel, and I just started the machine.
Logging in as another user, Ice
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On Saturday 11 May 2013, Kailash Kalyani was heard to say:
> Hi Curt,
Good morning.
> Caching and I/O scheduling give performance benefits which is why
> they're used with most media.
As I said, I don't mean media where transaction times are criti
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Dear Debian Users,
I was contemplating today the fact that I know several people who have
scrambled various removable disks and thumb drives by failing
to "unmount" or "eject" before removing them.
Mostly this has happened in Windows, not because
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Vincent Hobe=EFka
wrote:
> I am completely lost. Can anyone give me some hints regarding this please?
Paul Johnson wrote:
> Well, good to know I'm not the only one.
I thought it was just flash audio, but Pandora gets the little pops
constantly as well. No, it's n
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
> =
> Uninstalling modules from DKMS
> Attempting to install using DKMS
>
> Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.8/source ->
> /usr/src/vboxhost-4.2.8
>
> DKMS: add completed.
>
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:
> Just out of curiosity why are you not using KVM? It is better, faster,
> and integrated with the kernel. virt-manager is more than capable tool
> for provisioning VM's.
Because I have no experience with it. One must have a place to beg
Good evening. Up-to-date Sid, 32 bit.
I've been trying to install VirtualBox, both from the Sid main
archives and the Oracle
virtualbox-4.2_4.2.8-83876~Debian~wheezy_i386.deb package.
Both give the same error, that the kernel module cannot be built
because the kernel source tree cannot be found.
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On Monday 26 November 2012,
debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org was heard to say:
> Re: Printer brand recommendations
Dear Debian User,
The problem was that the default printer driver for the HP PSC2210 is
not the HPLIP driver at all.
Wh
Hi. I have a HP inkjet printer, PSC2100 from 2003, which still works
fine but something in Debian has changed.
It used to print graphics and photographs very well. But a year or so
ago graphics stopped being "nice" and started being grainy and
speckled, to the point where the names of roads can't
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Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> If the OP needs a
> reliable system and not new software, drivers etc., I would
recommend
> Debian Stable. If you need new software, drivers etc. I recommend
> Debian Testing.
Nonono, not testing. Testing goes through epic fl
Dear Debian-user, newly installed AMD64 Squeeze.
I've decided to try installing Debian in 64bit for the first time, and
restoring my home files has exposed a 32bit legacy.
"wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32"
So I installed all the ia32libs, but the error is occurring. Clearly
the "ELF class ELFCLASS
> On Tue 17 Jul 2012 at 10:13:10 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > It was not clear to me that a Debian installation via businesscard
> requires an
> > internet connection _during_ the installation:
On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:40:01 AM UTC-4, Brian wrote:
> It does not look to be possible:
>
>
Dear Debian User,
I updated three Sid systems this morning, two laptops and a desktop,
stupidly removing kernel 3.2.0.2 from two of them before testing all
functionality. What I'm seeing is that with kernel 3.2.0.2 removable
media like CDs, USB thumb drives, etc, mount just fine, but when
booted i
Dear Debian-User,
Maybe I'm the only person getting the group though debian-user-digest,
and maybe I'm the only one reading it in plain text, but has anyone
else noticed the HUGE increase in the quantity of digests, which
consist mostly of the expanded headers of every piece of mail?
And no longe
Joey Hess wrote:
> No, the businesscard image has never contained the Debian
> base system; it has always required a network connection to
> download and install Debian.
Please go find a Woody Business Card image and try it.
Business Card images since Woody all refuse to continue unless they
can
Please forgive the direct reply, I get the Debian-User list digest,
and any reply I make will "break the thread" anyway.
Like you, I enjoy a "minimalist" install, at least at first. Let me
give you my experiences with the various Debian install styles.
It used to be that the Business-card and Net
It was written:
> Just a heads up, EXAMPLE.COM and EXAMPLE.ORG are reserved as dummy names
> for giving example hostnames. This avoids linking to other sites that do
> exist (domain.com) or are not work safe (xxx.com) unintentionally.
I often use MPAA.org or RIAA.org so that the spammers have som
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On Monday 27 February 2012, David Goodenough
was heard to say:
> On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Curt Howland wrote:
> > > What doesn't make sense is _why_. There is only one ethernet
> > interface in this machine. Why is UDEV re
Dear Debianistas,
I'm aware of _what_ UDEV is doing, that is, renumbering my ethernet
ports to prevent conflicts. Yeah. There's only one, but it's getting
renumbered "eth3".
Trouble is, it wasn't renumbered yesterday. Just today. And a week ago.
About a week ago, UDEV decided to let eth0 remain
Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only
> downstairs from me, to build me a computer with hardware 3d
> acceleration, solid-state drive, 8Gb RAM. What else should I ask for and
> what works with Linux?
Sian,
Two years ago I did the same thing. Q
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Hi. I also got this error with the 3.0-rc, but I thought it might get
fixed.
Up to date Sid, the 2.6.x kernels compiled fine.
/usr/bin/make -j4 EXTRAVERSION=-random0.1 ARCH=i386 \
-C Documentation/lguest
make: *** Docu
> Selecting config option 'Make CPU Idle calls when idle' cures the problem.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/8/170
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/9/679
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/14/324
Thank you for the pointers and suggestion.
The compile failed on Documentation/lguest, so I'm just going to
>> Is anyone else getting this error?
>>=20
>> Building modules, stage 2.
>> MODPOST 2571 modules
>> ERROR: "pm_idle" [arch/x86/kernel/apm.ko] undefined!
>> ERROR: "default_idle" [arch/x86/kernel/apm.ko] undefined!
>> WARNING: modpost: Found 14 section mismatch(es).
>> To see full details build
Is anyone else getting this error?
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 2571 modules
ERROR: "pm_idle" [arch/x86/kernel/apm.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "default_idle" [arch/x86/kernel/apm.ko] undefined!
WARNING: modpost: Found 14 section mismatch(es).
To see full details build your kernel with:
'make C
I've found that I have to re-install the binary Nvidia driver often
after updates, when the X system gets updated, due to changes to
simlinks.
If you're using the Nvidia binary driver, try reinstalling it.
Curt-
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So Skype has been bought by Microsoft.
I expect the Linux version of Skype to be abolished in short order. Oh
well, thus the fate of proprietary software. I'm sure St. Ignucious is
shaking his head with the inevitability of it all.
This aught to re-ignite the effort to develop the alternatives.
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Hi.
Just upgraded my mobo to an ASRock M3A770DE, after the last mobo sound
system was burned out by microphone feedback.
Well, I'm having serious USB problems. I have a Lexar card reader that
has worked perfectly well for years, and it has always b
> From: Klistvud
> Because, without realizing it, people are usually their own worst =20
> enemy. Short-sightedness rules.
One of the reasons democracy is such an awful form of government.
It works in a voluntary organization, and the Debian project
demonstrates that admirably.
> Agreed, =20
>
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On Thursday 24 February 2011, Darac Marjal
> That's Canonical with a capital C. This is canonical with a lower
> case C.
Having never heard the word used in a computer context except in
reference to Canonical/Ubuntu, I plead simple error.
Good thin
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> I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN.
Don't use dd if its a mounted file system.
scp will work, but you have to be careful about thing like symlinks
which scp WILL FOLLOW, and which can increase disk space use.
> scp -r / root@17
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On Tuesday 15 February 2011, Radhakrishna Bhat was heard to say:
> Not sure, but I think you need to be running 'gpm' daemon for
> middle button paste to work.
That was the first thing I checked, as well as its configuration to
see if there was any s
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After updating Sid yesterday, middle button paste isn't working.
One of the most handy and wonderful features of UNIX is just ... gone.
I edited my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to EmulateThreeButtonMouse "yes", which
is the only place I could find such a sett
The only answer I could find was to put this line into my
.bash_profile and .bashrc files:
setterm -blength 0
That "solved" the problem without actually solving anything. How the
latest kernels get around not even having the hardware pcspkr module
loaded baffles me.
Easy enough to fix on a tower
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On Friday 11 February 2011, Carl Johnson was heard to
say:
> I am experimenting with a squeeze install of XFCE in VirtualBox,
> and I just noticed that XFCE doesn't implement the debian menu.
> Does anybody know how to add that menu into the XFCE me
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On Monday 07 February 2011, Sven Joachim was heard
to say:
> The problem is that the drivers got uploaded but were automatically
> rejected, see
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2011/02/msg00360.html for more
> information.
>
> I'm afraid this won'
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On Saturday 05 February 2011, was heard to
say:
> Years before I've used to be a KDE 3 user. KDE 4 experiments are
> not in my favorites, so after couple of years with Debian GNOME
> (Lenny mostly), I have decided to check out Trinity Project.
> Well
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> I prefer to store data in hard disks, but DVD-RAM (DL) could be
worth
> a try in the event I'd look for an "optical" backup solution.
Thanks, will check whether my drive supports them.
=
Here's one way to find out:
=
$ dmesg | grep
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Dear Debian-user,
And the answer is, "It doesn't do that." It's a failure of the USB
connected UPS, which I guess means that's just the way it is.
Thank you for all the help and advice, may your power never spike,
Curt-
Paul Cartwright wrote:
==
On Monday 31 January 2011, ow...@netptc.net was heard to say:
> >Curt
>
> Here is the config file. HTL
> Larry
Larry,
I'm sorry but I don't see any difference in the settings between yours
and mine.
I guess I'll have to take it to the apcupsd forums. Thanks for your
help.
Here's mine, so you
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Hi. First, this is on up-to-date Sid.
I bought an APC ES-550 battery backup from Office Depot, since the
power in this thrice-damned mud hole is the worst of any place I've
ever lived, and that includes the brown-outs of California after
2000.
Any
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On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Camaleón was heard
to say:
> Data stored in cookies is not what I understand for "sensitive".
> What kind of information do you think are cookies managing?
Maybe this would be enlightening:
http://codebutler.com/firesh
Mr. Johnson, good morning.
> Anyway, I just learned that in the next Ubuntu, they are adopting the
> "Unity Desktop". I did some checking on that and I totally hate it.
I understand completely. I've had the same reaction to KDE4.
> Can I escape Ubuntu to Debian?
Yes. Although the "default" in D
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On Monday 20 December 2010, Rick Thomas was heard to say:
> Curt Howland wrote:
> > Is there a
> > reason anyone can think of for not reformatting in ext2 or some
> > other "fsck-able" format?
> Have you tho
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Hi.
Having fun with DVD-RAM. Well, no, it's not fun.
Disk errors. Lost files. It's also mind-bendingly SLOW! But slow would
be something I'd put up with, if it weren't for the disk errors.
Obviously, I bought bad disks. Oh well, I've only lost a fe
Thierry Chatelet wrote,
> aptitude install lib32nss-mdns lsb
Thank you! That solved half the problem.
lib32nss-mdns is not availble in Sid. Is there a misspelling? I did a
few searches for variations, but didn't see anything.
lsb did install, and googleearth did launch and give me the splash
sc
Hi. Up-to-date Sid.
In fact, because of a power failure on Tuesday that somehow scrambled
something to do with X, this is on a freshly installed and up to date
Sid.
Installed googleearth-package, ran make-googleearth-package, came back
with "unrecognized version" like it usually does, so I ran
"m
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On Monday 20 September 2010, Arthur Machlas was heard to say:
> My guess is you need to build the header at least, and perhaps the
> source. It depends on how you're building the modules I suppose. In
> any case, you'll have to run either
> fakeroot ma
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On Monday 20 September 2010, Arthur Machlas was heard to say:
> And install the debs. Alternatively, build both just to be safe
> fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0 kernel_headers
> kernel_image
Very interesting. Any idea why "building th
Hi. Up to date Squeeze, compiling the latest 2.6.36-rc4 kernel.
Last time the problem was compiling the kernel at all, which is
working just fine now thank you Debian-User.
fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0 --initrd kernel_image
creates the .deb file just fine, it installs fine, bu
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On Sunday 19 September 2010, Eric Viseur was
heard to say:
> Must agree with Dotan.
> OOo 3.2 was a big step forward to a really efficient MSOffice
> alternative and should really be used instead of older versions
> when possible.
When OOo and Icewe
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On Sunday 22 August 2010, Andrei Popescu
was heard to say:
> On Du, 22 aug 10, 12:49:09, Curt Howland wrote:
> > What I could not find was any icon for the media, or such, to
> > graphically "eject". So I used the always-wo
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Hi. As a fugitive from KDE3, I'm trying out different desktops to find
one to use going forward.
I've recently been playing with LXDE, and when plugging in a USB SD,
it launched a notification and opened with the file manager just
fine.
What I cou
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Hi.
I've wanted to do one thing with wget that just seems like it should
be easy, but I haven't been able to get a combination of "recurse"
and "level" that will do it.
All I want to do is download all the files in a specific directory.
The direct
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On Monday 26 July 2010, Sven Joachim was heard to
say:
> You need to install the fakeroot package to build Debian packages
> as an ordinary user. In Squeeze, dpkg-dev recommends fakeroot for
> that reason.
Well, that solves that question. I thought
Well, I've run into another problem with the compile that folks might
find interesting.
All while running as the only user account on this machine (other than
root), I ran into a very interesting permissions error at the end of
the "make-kpkg kernel_image" process. I did the compile as root
succes
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On Sunday 25 July 2010, Sven Joachim was heard to
say:
> Not really. The libc6-dev package is too old, lacking sys/eventfd.
Got it. I will give up with this machine. I don't want to upgrade to
Squeeze due to preferring KDE3.
Curt-
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Those wh
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On Sunday 25 July 2010, Rares Aioanei was heard to say:
> If you are certain that the kernel tree isn't missing some files,
> then this is a situation for bugzilla.kernel.org . :)
Well, no, it must be just me. I pulled down and tried the 2.6.34.1
mai
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On Sunday 25 July 2010, Rares Aioanei was heard to say:
> If you are certain that the kernel tree isn't missing some files,
> then this is a situation for bugzilla.kernel.org . :)
As certain as I can be, having been careful not to delete anything.
Ju
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On Sunday 25 July 2010, Sven Joachim was heard to
say:
> > Setting CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 in your user environment should fix
> > this, at least, it used to.
>
> This only works if you use kernel-package to build the kernel. The
> generic way is to use
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On Saturday 24 July 2010, Sven Joachim was heard to
say:
> > Suggestions?
>
> Install libncurses5-dev and use "make menuconfig" or "make nconfig"
> (the latter is new in 2.6.35).
Got it, and it works fine. Thank you.
Not compiling often (as you can
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Hi. Lenny, up to date with security and backports.
I pulled down 2.6.35-rc6.tar.bz2 from kernel.org, and would like to
try compiling it to see what's Coming Soon To A Disto Near Me.
Its been about 9 years since the last time I compiled a kernel, but
One point on the NetInstall and BusinessCard images, they do NOT work
unless connected to the 'Net.
Up through Woody, those images would install a minimal system. But not
now, they error when there is no 'Net connection and will not continue
the install.
So for non-networked installs, CD#1of Gnom
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Hi.
I used to have an nvidia graphics card in my machine, I removed it
when I found the AMD/ATI drivers, and am now using the onboard video.
Well, I installed the AMD driver before removing the nvidia drivers,
and when trying to remove the nvidia-g
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On Wednesday 12 May 2010, Curt Howland was heard to say:
> Anyway, I believe the DVD drive handles DVD-RAM, and this is the
> message I get in the kern.log:
>
> [10357.909024] UDF-fs: No anchor found
> [10357.909032] UDF-fs: No par
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Hi. I have been interested in trying DVD-RAM due to its 30 year
shelf-life and supposed "ease of use" of just being mounted like a
regular disk without having to use CD or DVD writing software.
Anyway, I believe the DVD drive handles DVD-RAM, and th
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Hi. Just finished a fresh Squeeze install, xfce as the main manager.
Well, I've used xfce before, along with lots of others in Debian
because it's so bloody easy to have more than one. There has always
been a "Debian" entry in the main xfce menu, th
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On Monday 26 April 2010, James Stuckey was heard
to say:
> I would like to do a little
> reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of
> the more advanced topics, or to see if I have learned a lot of the
> things that might be ta
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Dear Debianistas,
I get the following messages continuously, via dmesg:
[10438.440147] wlan0: switched to long barker preamble
(BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50)
[10453.293891] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble
(BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50)
[10741.016287
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Hi.
I recently (finally!) got an IPv6-functional router, and now IPv6 is
native.
Two systems are utilizing IPv6 through configuration
of /etc/network/interfaces, but on others WICD does not support IPv6.
Yet.
Anyway, WICD is the only networking G
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As of March 8th,
Outstanding bugs -- Grave functionality bugs; Unclassified (1 bug)
1) #572920 libltdl3: Security update breaks mpg123
...the comment is, "It works in testing and unstable, I'll see about
fixing it in stable."
We await with grea
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On Saturday 13 March 2010, Paul Cartwright was
heard to say:
> On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >> http://www.hyperwords.net/
> > >
> > > it doesn't like iceweasel..
> >
> > Sure it does. Me using it is QED.
>
> when I click on the downl
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On Saturday 13 March 2010, Ron Johnson was
heard to say:
> > $ strace mpg123
[snip]
> > chdir("/usr/lib/mpg123")= 0
> > open("/lib/output_alsa.la", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or
> > directory)
>
> This is odd-looking.
>
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On Friday 12 March 2010, Ron Johnson was heard
to say:
> strace?
$ strace mpg123
Downloads/2008-10-05_041_thanks_for_the_inflationary_depression.mp3
execve("/usr/bin/mpg123",
["mpg123", "Downloads/2008-10-05_041_thanks_"...], [/* 31 vars */]) =
0
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On Friday 12 March 2010, Martin was heard
to say:
> On Lenny installed from DVD set mpg123 will not play an
> mp3 music. It complains as follow:
>
> $ mpg123 Aerodrom-Digni\ me\ visoko.mp3
> [module.c:110] error: Failed to open module alsa: file not
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On 2010-03-08 15:32, ahpurdy wrote:
> I am now operating with Windows XP. I would like to try Debian. I
> wonder that if I purchased a a USB plug in hard disc, loaded Debian
into
> it, would I be able to select either XP or Debian. This would be a
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On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Chance Platt was heard to say:
> /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf
Many thanks, that did solve the problem.
I had noticed that the error log from the Jigzone applet had "net"
written all over it, but when I tried the "Are
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Good evening, all. Just putting together a Squeeze laptop (network
hardware needs very recent kernel) and I simply cannot get Java to
run in Iceweasel (or Konqueror, but I expect that).
http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml
And Jigzone.c
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On Saturday 23 January 2010, Curt Howland was heard to say:
> Hi, Debian Users.
>
> A friend of mine asked if I could send him encrypted mail using
> X.509, rather than OpenPGP which I normally use.
Ok, to continue the discussion, it tu
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Hi, Debian Users.
A friend of mine asked if I could send him encrypted mail using X.509,
rather than OpenPGP which I normally use.
Apparently, gpgsm is used for X.509, and shows up in kmail so I figure
the capabilities are there.
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