Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> >> On 2009-08-01 12:33 +0200, Bret Busby wrote: >> >>> Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, reading >>> the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking using

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-02 01:02, Bret Busby wrote: [snip] I think it is the UUID's. Long character identifiers for partitions, that require a specific process to find what is the UUID for a partition, then it has to be entered, in a different syntax, to have logical drives automatically mounted, on bootu

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread CaT
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:02:56PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Brian Marshall wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >>> The problem with downloading the applications from seamonkey, is >>> that they are .tar.gz files, rather than .deb packages, and

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Johan Grönqvist
Bret Busby skrev: On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Brian Marshall wrote: The source of information that led me to believe that Debian requires java, is, on the web page at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html , where it states "2.7. Java now in Debian The OpenJDK

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Brian Marshall wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: The problem with downloading the applications from seamonkey, is that they are .tar.gz files, rather than .deb packages, and my experience with using .tar.gz files for installing software, rat

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:00:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > The problem with downloading the applications from seamonkey, is > that they are .tar.gz files, rather than .deb packages, and my > experience with using .tar.gz files for installing software, rather > than .deb packages, is that the .ta

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-01 12:33 +0200, Bret Busby wrote: Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, reading the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking using the package search facility on the Debian web site, I have found that Debi

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Allen Meyers
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-01 13:07 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 2009-08-01 05:33, Bret Busby wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, >>> reading the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking >>> u

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-01 13:07 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-01 05:33, Bret Busby wrote: > [snip] >> >> Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, >> reading the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking >> using the package search facility on the Debian web site, I ha

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-01 12:33 +0200, Bret Busby wrote: > Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, reading > the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking using the > package search facility on the Debian web site, I have found that > Debian 5.0 excludes Iceape and Seamonkey,

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-01 05:33, Bret Busby wrote: [snip] Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, reading the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking using the package search facility on the Debian web site, I have found that Debian 5.0 excludes Iceape and Seamonkey,

Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Bret Busby wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I am running Debian 4.0 on this computer. The facility Desktop -> Lock Screen, is not working. It's quite probable that this is just a configuration issue. What is your configuration?

Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-06-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Kousik Maiti wrote: Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:03:04 +0530 From: Kousik Maiti To: Bret Busby Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security Are you login as root user?? From root you can't use lock screen facility. On Wed, Jun 24, 20

Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-06-25 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I am running Debian 4.0 on this computer. The facility Desktop -> Lock Screen, is not working. It's quite probable that this is just a configuration issue. What is your configuration? Which configuration? In which file wo

Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-06-24 Thread Kousik Maiti
Are you login as root user?? From root you can't use lock screen facility. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Debian 4.0 on this computer. > > The facility Desktop -> Lock Screen, is not working. > > The facility Applications -> Debian -> Screen -> Lock

Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-06-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Bret Busby wrote: > I am running Debian 4.0 on this computer. > > The facility Desktop -> Lock Screen, is not working. It's quite probable that this is just a configuration issue. What is your configuration? If you are concerned about security, you should schedule your upgrade to Debian "lenny"

Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-06-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,24.Jun.09, 15:20:11, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Debian 4.0 on this computer. > > The facility Desktop -> Lock Screen, is not working. 1. You didn't mention what DE you are using (Gnome, KDE, ...) 2. Do you have xlockmore installed? Try running it directly. Regards, Andre

Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-06-24 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I am running Debian 4.0 on this computer. The facility Desktop -> Lock Screen, is not working. The facility Applications -> Debian -> Screen -> Lock -> KTux, raises a screensaver, but that screen can simply be closed, by clicking on the cross in the top right corner of the window, and