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