Re: Permissions Problem

2012-10-15 Thread hvw59601
Mark Neidorff wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2012 11:06:31 am Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have a HD on my system, sdc1 which has root root ownership. I created a directory, Apps, to which I gave computation computation ownership (user). I can create a file in the Apps directory without any problems

Re: libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

2012-10-06 Thread hvw59601
Kirsten Ciantar wrote: can you please tell me how to download this package for debian OS because it is not listed in the list of packages? Thanks http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/libstdc%2B%2B2.10-glibc2.2/ Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Slow boot when network up

2012-09-25 Thread hvw59601
Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi, I have noticed recently when my DSL router is on and connected and i power on my machine, it's gets to the part (after i hit enter on my kernel of choice) where a message appears "loading please wait" and this goes on for a few minutes. However if my router

Re: mysqld fails to start at boot time only

2012-09-23 Thread hvw59601
Jude DaShiell wrote: Alternatively in /etc/my.cnf comment all socket= lines and uncomment skip networking line. This will mean no more external access to mysql though if you do it but is more secure for those that like it that way. I think that should be /etc/mysql/my.cnf Hugo -- To UNSU

Re: mysqld fails to start at boot time only

2012-09-22 Thread hvw59601
rudu wrote: Hi, Running wheezy on my laptop. I can glimpse while booting a message : Starting MySQL database server: mysqld .. Failed! Indeed a command "ps aux | grep mysql " at the end of the boot returns nothing. But I can start it with "service mysql start" ok. /var/log/mysql.err and

Re: Looking for an emacs replacement

2012-09-08 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:21:30 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: lee wrote: T o n g writes: Time to look for an all purpose editor to replace emacs. And you want to drop it just because of a problem with your settings not being honored? Have you report it? http://en.wikipedia.org

Re: Looking for an emacs replacement

2012-09-08 Thread hvw59601
lee wrote: T o n g writes: Time to look for an all purpose editor to replace emacs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors You might as well use emacs more, there are so many little details one doesn't think about anymore and then misses in others ... Funny thing, that d

Re: qt embedded on Debian

2012-08-30 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:31:03 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Is it true that there is no package for QT embedded on Debian and that it has to be compiled from source using http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qt-embedded-install.html I wonder why it was removed and did not return

Re: HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I'm recurrently getting freezes because of HDD problems. During these freezes, that generally last until I shut down the computer, I get such messages: == smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build)

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread hvw59601
Gaël DONVAL wrote: Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 16:47 +0200, Sven Hartge a écrit : Maybe the alignment of the swap partition is off? SSD react very badly if you don't align your partitions to their erase block size. This is why I always recommend to align them to 1MB boundaries as most SSDs availa

hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-23 Thread hvw59601
Hi, Mindful of what Stan Hoeppner in various posts has written about SSD I thought I'd put swap on an SSD I installed (Samsung SSD 830 128GB) in order to get superfast hibernate. Surprise: it is slower than usual and the disk light is on. swap is here: + cat /proc/swaps Filename

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-15 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:52:59 -0700, Weaver wrote: What's the best programme to employ with regard to logging traffic speed from my ISP? Well, there are online tests that you can run to measure your (up/down) link speed: http://www.speedtest.net/ http://www.ookla.com/demo-cu

notify when package upgrade

2012-08-09 Thread hvw59601
Hi, I would like to be notified when package linux-source-3.2 (3.2.23-1) in Sid gets upgraded. Is that possible? I can look of course and find out, but it would be more interesting to be notified. I normally run wheezy which is still at 3.2.21-3. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: iptables: Protocol wrong type for socket.

2012-08-07 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:30:36 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Obviously I have not configured the kernel correctly because with the Debian kernels there are no errors. But what kernel configuration parameter might be missing/wrong? Can't tell for the

Re: iptables: Protocol wrong type for socket.

2012-08-07 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:10:03 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: I guess if this is [OT] I will hear about it :-) Nah, it's fine to me :-) Anyway, I installed Firehol on a sid system that runs a kernel that I have configured myself. However, I get lots of errors when Firehol tri

iptables: Protocol wrong type for socket.

2012-08-06 Thread hvw59601
Hi, I guess if this is [OT] I will hear about it :-) Anyway, I installed Firehol on a sid system that runs a kernel that I have configured myself. However, I get lots of errors when Firehol tries to start, like: ... ERROR : # 1. WHAT: A runtime command failed to execute (returned error

Re: installing source packages from snapshot.debian.org with apt-get source

2012-08-05 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:38:29 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:02:12 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux/ has in it 8 debian kernel source packages that I want to install consecutively to see if bug http

Re: installing source packages from snapshot.debian.org with apt-get source

2012-08-04 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:02:12 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux/ has in it 8 debian kernel source packages that I want to install consecutively to see if bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683768 is present. I want to do the

installing source packages from snapshot.debian.org with apt-get source

2012-08-04 Thread hvw59601
Hi, http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux/ has in it 8 debian kernel source packages that I want to install consecutively to see if bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683768 is present. I want to do the installs with apt-get source. How does one do this? Specifically, wha

Re: GRUB no long gives menu on boot

2012-08-03 Thread hvw59601
Tom H wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: I have the following setup which worked well after performing a squeeze install: /boot -> Software RAID5 / -> LVM on top of Software RAID5 I lost a disk of my RAID array a few months ago and ever since replacing it and rebuil

Re: slow hibernate after upgrade

2012-08-03 Thread hvw59601
hvw59601 wrote: hvw59601 wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-07-31 16:08:12 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: After wheezy dist-upgrade desktop hibernate is twice as slow as before. I've also found that putting the by Debian/unstable laptop into sleep with Fn+F1 takes much longer than before

Re: compile gctwiwax on squeeze

2012-08-02 Thread hvw59601
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: i tried to compile gctwimax and got below messages Why is this a Debian problem? Hugo -- 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/jve

Re: slow hibernate after upgrade

2012-08-02 Thread hvw59601
hvw59601 wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-07-31 16:08:12 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: After wheezy dist-upgrade desktop hibernate is twice as slow as before. I've also found that putting the by Debian/unstable laptop into sleep with Fn+F1 takes much longer than before. But this is

Re: slow hibernate after upgrade

2012-08-01 Thread hvw59601
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2012-07-31 16:08:12 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: After wheezy dist-upgrade desktop hibernate is twice as slow as before. I've also found that putting the by Debian/unstable laptop into sleep with Fn+F1 takes much longer than before. But this is more several doze

slow hibernate after upgrade

2012-07-31 Thread hvw59601
Hi, After wheezy dist-upgrade desktop hibernate is twice as slow as before. It is not drive related because it also happens when I move the swap space to another drive. The kernel was upgraded in this upgrade among many other things. If I stop X before hibernating the speed is as before. An

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread hvw59601
Mark Fletcher wrote: hvw59601 care2.com> writes: Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Then choose one that you like (because of price/design) and then check about its current support status in Linux ecosystem, though I would go for nvidia; th

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-29 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: I'm currently using an older AMD system with Debian Squeeze, using an Nvidia GeForce FX 5500. This work well on Squeeze with the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package and nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms, and I'm able to pla

Re: [OT] Alcatel OT-800A + Wheezy

2012-07-26 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 13:11:52 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) OTOH, wammu/gammu cell phone database lists yours as supported (at least at a certain degree¹) so maybe you need a special cable or you need to set some configuration within the phone before

Re: Nvidia binary blob and libcairo2 1.10+

2012-07-15 Thread hvw59601
Dan Serban wrote: For those unaware, running wheezy or squeeze + backports while using the Nvidia binary blob (and in some cases nouveau) drawing _anything_ in X is painful, it can take seconds to respond to a mouse click, or minimizing/maximizing a window. Scrolling speed is horrendous as well.

Re: slsc, i.e., spreadsheet calculator using s-lang (Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses)

2012-07-13 Thread hvw59601
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi, Wilko Fokken wrote: I remember 'slsc', a text based spreadsheet, based on 'sc', but more advanced. Unfortunately, Debian doesn't contain it any more. At least up to Debian 3, this prog was provided. If you can find an 'slsc' source, you might be instrumental in bri

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread hvw59601
hvw59601 wrote: hvw59601 wrote: Wilko Fokken wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:29:15PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? Hi, (Not a precise answer to your question): I remember 'slsc', a text based spreadsheet, based on 

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread hvw59601
hvw59601 wrote: Wilko Fokken wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:29:15PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? Hi, (Not a precise answer to your question): I remember 'slsc', a text based spreadsheet, based on 'sc'

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread hvw59601
Wilko Fokken wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:29:15PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? Hi, (Not a precise answer to your question): I remember 'slsc', a text based spreadsheet, based on 'sc', but more advanced. Unfortunately, Debian doesn't

Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-12 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: Hello, I'm running an updated wheezy and since weeks ago, when shutting down (or restarting) the system I can see this message: [FAIL] Killing all remaining processes... failed. Running wheezy also, but I haven't done a dist-upgrade since June 19th. I get an [ok] for tha

[OT] uvesafb + sound hiccup

2012-07-09 Thread hvw59601
Hi, Since the latest NVidia closed source drivers (running wheezy) there appears a message in syslog: NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of

Re: [OT] Alcatel OT-800A + Wheezy

2012-07-08 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 11:25:35 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 09:54:51 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: I'd like to connect an Alcatel OT-800A cellphone to a Wheezy desktop with the USB cable that comes with it. Googling is not much help. What firmware

Re: [OT] Alcatel OT-800A + Wheezy

2012-07-08 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 09:54:51 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: I'd like to connect an Alcatel OT-800A cellphone to a Wheezy desktop with the USB cable that comes with it. Googling is not much help. What firmware would I use? Firmware? I think no firmware is needed for this :-?

[OT] Alcatel OT-800A + Wheezy

2012-07-08 Thread hvw59601
Hi, I'd like to connect an Alcatel OT-800A cellphone to a Wheezy desktop with the USB cable that comes with it. Googling is not much help. What firmware would I use? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-23 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: Chris Davies: Siard: hvw59601: I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed that. Nope. I have a working Compose key in a VT. See my other post in this thread. Yes, I have it working now. In Wheezy (i.e. not in Squeeze

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-22 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work. Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote: I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed tha

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-22 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work. Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote: I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed tha

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread hvw59601
Doug wrote: On 06/20/2012 06:58 PM, hvw59601 wrote: Hi, I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no idea how I did that. The keyboard is a US keyboard. At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread hvw59601
Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 05:58:34PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote: /etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15. I'm afraid I'm not offering a proper solution here, but I would implore you to move to UTF-8 for your locale, and any files storing non-ASCII charac

accented characters in text console

2012-06-20 Thread hvw59601
Hi, I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no idea how I did that. The keyboard is a US keyboard. At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows: XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="us" XKBVARIANT="intl" #XKB

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:30:52 +0800, lina wrote: I feel something weird, since yesterday when I opened www.google.com it showed me "Bahasa Malaysia", but I have never used the www.google.com.my. (...) If Google says you are in Malaysia is that _you are_ there. Period. Or you

Re: CPU usage measurement

2012-06-12 Thread hvw59601
hvw59601 wrote: > J.Hwan Kim wrote: >> Hi, everyone >> >> Is there any method for mesuring CPU usage >> without specific applications like top and so on? >> > > http://paste.debian.net/174115/ > > That is a snippet of code, I calculate it myse

Re: CPU usage measurement

2012-06-12 Thread hvw59601
J.Hwan Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > Is there any method for mesuring CPU usage > without specific applications like top and so on? > http://paste.debian.net/174115/ That is a snippet of code, I calculate it myself. But I have to review it because at full throttle with 2 CPU's I only see 53% :-

Re: Is there a way to use a custom background in terminal mode?

2012-06-10 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:34:14 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:21:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 08:52:56 -0700, 斟酌鵬兄 wrote: Like a bitmap or jpeg? I remember openSUSE had (still has?) a cute background image when jumping to a tty console

Re: rootfs mounted twice

2012-06-09 Thread hvw59601
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-06-09 16:07 +0200, Roman V.Leon. wrote: Please give me a tip - is it normal that i see in 'df -h' output that my rootfs is mounted twice ?: Yes, that's normal. You did not see it in the past when /etc/mtab was a regular file, but now /etc/mtab is a symlink to /pro

Re: MySQL stored procedure slow with recent Wheezy upgrade

2012-06-04 Thread hvw59601
Daniel Kraft wrote: On 04/06/12 20:24, Daniel Kraft wrote: On 04/06/12 16:23, hvw59601 wrote: Daniel Kraft wrote: Hi, I'm running Wheezy, and a recent update to MySQL made a database application much, much slower. The query performed is a stored procedure containing some loops, which b

Re: MySQL stored procedure slow with recent Wheezy upgrade

2012-06-04 Thread hvw59601
Daniel Kraft wrote: Hi, I'm running Wheezy, and a recent update to MySQL made a database application much, much slower. The query performed is a stored procedure containing some loops, which before (at least on 24th May) took less than one second, and now (today) more than four minutes. I didn

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-02 Thread hvw59601
Miles Fidelman wrote: Aubrey Raech wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Debian users! Sometimes I have the need to send files that are too large for email to a friend directly (such as recordings of music I am working on, or similar projects). I'm wondering if there is a

Re: Problems with flashplayer on a new installation of Squeeze.

2012-05-26 Thread hvw59601
Lisi wrote: Is there a solution to the following problem? (See below) I see that the bug was reported two years ago, so I am tempted to go for purge, but that may leave some detritus. :-( And if I were to purge flashplugin-nonfree, what could I install that would actually work to play flash?

Re: wheezy upgrade gets 671812: xserver-xorg-core: segfault at exit

2012-05-22 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:16:48 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 08:53:01 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Dist-upgrading Wheezy is affected by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671812, when you exit from X it segfaults and (in my case?) hangs the

Re: wheezy upgrade gets 671812: xserver-xorg-core: segfault at exit

2012-05-21 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:16:48 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 08:53:01 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Dist-upgrading Wheezy is affected by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671812, when you exit from X it segfaults and (in my case?) hangs the

Re: OT: Google chrome stable question

2012-05-21 Thread hvw59601
John W. Foster wrote: I know Google Chrome is not directly supported by the debian community. I do however think there are some of you that use this browser and this question is directed to those folks. I have 'debianized' Google chrome stable from their website installed and I am getting an erro

Re: wheezy upgrade gets 671812: xserver-xorg-core: segfault at exit

2012-05-21 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 08:53:01 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Dist-upgrading Wheezy is affected by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671812, when you exit from X it segfaults and (in my case?) hangs the system. I ssh'd into the desktop and found the backtrace in th

wheezy upgrade gets 671812: xserver-xorg-core: segfault at exit

2012-05-21 Thread hvw59601
Hi, Dist-upgrading Wheezy is affected by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671812, when you exit from X it segfaults and (in my case?) hangs the system. I ssh'd into the desktop and found the backtrace in the log. The bug is closed so it does not appear in listbugs. Hugo --

Re: Wheezy removed ifupdown

2012-05-20 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2012 18:43:36 +0200, Tom H wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2012 16:07:52 + (UTC) Ramon Hofer wrote: But the problem is when I do a dist-upgrade it will ignore the ifupdown package? Should I now just install the pac

Re: Slow system and switching tabs on google chome

2012-05-16 Thread hvw59601
Odair Augusto Trujillo Orozco wrote: Hi, After an update at 20-05-2012, my system is slow down specialy when I switch tabs on Google Chrome, even Chromium, the graphics efects also get down speed specialy kde-window-back effect. I'm using Debian Wheezy i386, with Nvidia GeForce 6200 and the lat

Re: Shorewall 4.5.2.2 startup question

2012-04-30 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:13:36 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:48:58 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: After the recent Shorewall upgrade that replaced the previous configuration files, Shorewall now only starts 'manually' at the command

Re: Shorewall 4.5.2.2 startup question

2012-04-29 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:48:58 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: After the recent Shorewall upgrade that replaced the previous configuration files, Shorewall now only starts 'manually' at the command line: e.g. #shorewall start. I can't find where this problem can be corrected in the

Re: Sid upgrade problems

2012-04-18 Thread hvw59601
Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit update-initramfs: Generating /b

Re: Sid upgrade: slow tabs in Chrome.

2012-04-13 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:57:33 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Running Sid and just did a dist-upgrade. Use google-chrome-beta as browser and after the upgrade the tabs are "slow": when you click one with mouse or kbd, there is a slight hesitation before the page is selected t

Re: Sid upgrade: slow tabs in Chrome.

2012-04-09 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:57:33 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Running Sid and just did a dist-upgrade. Use google-chrome-beta as browser and after the upgrade the tabs are "slow": when you click one with mouse or kbd, there is a slight hesitation before the page is selected t

Sid upgrade: slow tabs in Chrome.

2012-04-08 Thread hvw59601
Hi, Running Sid and just did a dist-upgrade. Use google-chrome-beta as browser and after the upgrade the tabs are "slow": when you click one with mouse or kbd, there is a slight hesitation before the page is selected that wasn't there before. Anyone notice the same? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Aptitude update - http://dl.google.com?

2012-04-08 Thread hvw59601
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, on my Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system when I update with aptitude I see lines: Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease Get: 35 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [198 B] Get: 36 http://dl.google.com stable

Re: apt-listbugs misses #665959 in Sid dist-upgrade

2012-03-30 Thread hvw59601
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-03-29 21:38 +0200, hvw59601 wrote: Just did an aptitude full-upgrade on Sid and it upgraded all sorts of stuff, also ncurses-base. That is affected by bug #665959 which messes up all the dpkg dialogs and also mc. Yes, sorry about that. But it gives a fix: copy

apt-listbugs misses #665959 in Sid dist-upgrade

2012-03-29 Thread hvw59601
Hi, Just did an aptitude full-upgrade on Sid and it upgraded all sorts of stuff, also ncurses-base. That is affected by bug #665959 which messes up all the dpkg dialogs and also mc. But it gives a fix: copy /lib/terminfo/l/linux from the previous version. But apt-listbugs did not list that

Re: Why was oom-killer invoked?

2012-03-19 Thread hvw59601
Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/19/2012 3:48 AM, tim truman wrote: Please help me understand why oom-killer was invoked? You already know the answer: what does "oom" stand for? >From the SAR logs we can see that there is lots of memory in use by the system cache, but free is low. How can we ens

Re: howto log screen output while booting

2012-03-07 Thread hvw59601
Johan Scheepers wrote: On 07/03/2012 14:51, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:38:24 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: On wheezy testing how can the screen output be logged. There seem to to be a bit problem with some missing modules. Too fast can not read it. (...) Boot logs go under "/v

Re: Latest update borks

2012-03-05 Thread hvw59601
hvw59601 wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: On 05/03/12 08:58 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Frank, Frank McCormick wrote: sid:/home/frank# aptitude full-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-webkit-3.0 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0

Re: Latest update borks

2012-03-05 Thread hvw59601
Frank McCormick wrote: On 05/03/12 08:58 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Frank, Frank McCormick wrote: sid:/home/frank# aptitude full-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-webkit-3.0 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 l

Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-04 Thread hvw59601
pierpaolo pilla wrote: Hi I have this bug when trying to install security updates (in update manager), and when trying to install mon-apache-server (with apt-get-install): " Error retrieving bug reports from the server with the following error message: W: HTTPClient::KeepAliveDisconnected It co

max bandwidth measurement tool

2012-02-22 Thread hvw59601
Hi, My ISP is messing with my bandwith and it is getting lower all the time. I can find out what it is by killing all apps and use wget to download something fairly large: currently 110 KB/s. It used to be 600 KB/s. Is there a tool that will tell me what my max bandwith is at any one moment?

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread hvw59601
Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:28:44AM -0600, hvw59601 wrote: yudi v wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run at the sametime. I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the following command: startx startxfce4

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread hvw59601
yudi v wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run at the sametime. I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the following command: startx startxfce4 -- :1 There are couple of issues I am trying to resolve: 1. when I switch back

Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330

2012-02-15 Thread hvw59601
Anthony Campbell wrote: I bought one of these in December and it worked well with the driver from Avasys. A couple of days my HDD crashed. After reinstalling on a new one I find that the drivers for this scanner are now being provided by Epson and they are not installable on Debian because of de

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

2012-02-12 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:25:10 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: (...) I do have it. My "xorg.conf" settings for nvidia are as simply as telling xorg what driver to load, no more no less: Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Driver

Re: Hacked e-mail account!

2012-02-06 Thread hvw59601
Marc Shapiro wrote: It looks like my Yahoo mail got hacked. Several e-mails were sent out earlier today from this account containing only a single link as content. I have no idea what the link goes to, but do not click on it. Nothing good can come of it. I will be changing my password as s

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-06 Thread hvw59601
John Hasler wrote: Scot writes: Even "facts" are built on belief. For certain values of "belief". For all values of "belief", otherwise they could not be "facts". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Broken System After Update

2012-02-04 Thread hvw59601
Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I am running Sid and a couple of months ago I updated my system including the kernel. After restarting my machine, I realised that my system was broken. Whenever I start the machine, I get a message lilke this: No init found. Try passing init= bootarg BusyBox

Re: connection problems

2012-02-02 Thread hvw59601
Angela Brune wrote: Hi, I installed Debian 6 on my machine. Everything was going fine, but at some point, after installing Gaussian 09 and writing in the .bashrc file the lines I'm reporting below, the connection starting oscillating. Sometimes it goes for 2 or 3 minutes, then it comes back and

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-01-22 Thread hvw59601
T o n g wrote: Hi, I just tested my network speed. It is only 10MB. But I think it can do better. So, - How can tell if my network cards can do better than 10MB? - What's the most probable reason for the slow network speed? I.e., which is a good order that I check for the problem? Very

Re: [SOLVED] no compiz after libgtk2.0-0 upgrade

2012-01-22 Thread hvw59601
hvw59601 wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:15:20 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: Running Sid. Upgrade to libgtk2.0-0 disabled Compiz. Was upgrade from 2.24.8-2 to 2.24.8-3. Perhaps this will straighten itself out. What's the error you're getting? The changelog of the package

Re: no compiz after libgtk2.0-0 upgrade

2012-01-21 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:15:20 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: Running Sid. Upgrade to libgtk2.0-0 disabled Compiz. Was upgrade from 2.24.8-2 to 2.24.8-3. Perhaps this will straighten itself out. What's the error you're getting? The changelog of the package: *** gtk+2.0

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-01-21 Thread hvw59601
T o n g wrote: Hi, I just tested my network speed. It is only 10MB. But I think it can do better. So, How did you test it? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

no compiz after libgtk2.0-0 upgrade

2012-01-20 Thread hvw59601
Hi, Running Sid. Upgrade to libgtk2.0-0 disabled Compiz. Was upgrade from 2.24.8-2 to 2.24.8-3. Perhaps this will straighten itself out. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: hvw59601 wrote: Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III wrote: This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment. I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rathe

Re: Debian-Stable and KDE crashes

2012-01-14 Thread hvw59601
Alexey Eromenko wrote: It turns out, that Debian-stable (6.0.3, both i386 and AMD64) has constant KDE crashes, by default. Due to bug in konqueror-nsplugins: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549309 What to do? I would like to up priority to critical for this package, so that it

Re: Exim4 configurations

2012-01-13 Thread hvw59601
TCP wrote: This question I'd posted to the forum before but they asked me to "join the group". I think what it mean is to post it here. I've tried to make debian can send message via gmail but couldn't know how to set it correctly. Which I followed the instructions from the web. (http://www.

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread hvw59601
Bob Proulx wrote: hvw59601 wrote: Brian wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: Tom H wrote: You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear about it in 5+ years of Debian. /etc/init.d/gdm3 But I don't find 'tex

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread hvw59601
Curt wrote: On 2012-01-13, Bijoy Lobo wrote: Hi Everyone, I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way I can achieve this? For me the easiest way to boot into the cli is to either disabl

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread hvw59601
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 13:27:56, Brian wrote: On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 15:23:33 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear about it in 5+ years of

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread hvw59601
Brian wrote: On Fri 13 Jan 2012 at 15:23:33 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 13 ian 12, 07:06:12, Tom H wrote: You can add "text" to the "linux" grub line. Do you have a reference on this? It is the first time I hear about it in 5+ years of Debian. /etc/init.d/gdm3 Well I'll be darne

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread hvw59601
Sharon Kimble wrote: On 12 January 2012 14:28, hvw59601 wrote: Sharon Kimble wrote: I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext 3. It is currently named as '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. I've tried using e2l

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread hvw59601
Sharon Kimble wrote: I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext 3. It is currently named as '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. I've tried using e2label as follows;- sudo e2label /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ /media/ba

Re: debian-boot and usb keyboards

2012-01-10 Thread hvw59601
Jude DaShiell wrote: on both squeeze and wheezy I tried them on an amd computr that got its ps/2 port broken but still has usb ports available. That does not work. Works here with Wheezy. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: start-stop-daemon: stop several processes

2012-01-10 Thread hvw59601
hvw59601 wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:02:13 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: There are 2 systems behind a Thomson TG585V8 router connected to the internet. Currently about once every halfhour the 'internet' LED on the router goes out (no internet connection) then goes red

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