Re: Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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 /et

Fresh install, Bookworm, XFCE keeps recreating directories

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

Re: removing file??

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > 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:

(Solved) Re: Systemd start that won't stop

> 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

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

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. Only t

Systemd start that won't stop

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?

Re: Buster install

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

Re: Buster install

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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 the

Buster install

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Just installed Buster. I know some kinks will work out, but seriously, /sbin is not in root's path by default? - -- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. --- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

SOLVED Re: Missing libGL.so.1 from ldconfig

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--

Missing libGL.so.1 from ldconfig

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

Wacom tablet not recognized in Debian 8

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:

Re: mount MTP phone

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I've never been able to mount any MTP phone to Linux. Different phones, different Android versions, different Linux installations, nada. - -- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. --- William

Re: Jessie, problem compiling kernel 4.3

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 <howl...@priss.com> wrote: > So, there I was, doing a compile of the new kernel, 4.3 > > I ge

Jessie, problem compiling kernel 4.3

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

up-to-date Jessie, cannot turn off OpenVPN tunnel

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.

Re: up-to-date Jessie, cannot turn off OpenVPN tunnel

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 howl...@priss.com wrote: Hi. I have OpenVPN with a tunnel that I use occasionally, and since the upgrade to Jessie

Debian Stable, 3.14.15 kernel, Web cam and Google Hangouts

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

exFat permissions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

Iceweasel run-lock stuck

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,

Re: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

Re: Scratchy sound with debian wheezy on ASUS A73B series

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Vincent Hobe=EFka vincent.hobe...@gmail.comwrote: I am completely lost. Can anyone give me some hints regarding this please? Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Well, good to know I'm not the only one. I thought it was just flash audio, but Pandora gets the

[SOLVED] Re: Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com 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. Failed to install using DKMS

Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox

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.

Re: Up to date Sid: Custom kernel, trying to install Virtualbox

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling j...@aenertia.net 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

Printer brand recommendations

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

Re: Printer brand recommendations

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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.

Re: sid is not for newbies.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net 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.

32bit binaries on 64bit system?

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 ELFCLASS32

Re: [solved] Re: Debian won't install via businesscard

On Tue 17 Jul 2012 at 10:13:10 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: gt; It was not clear to me that a Debian installation via businesscard requires an gt; 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:

Sid, kernel 3.2.0.3 Removable media not working

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

Email headers in the digest

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

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

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

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

Joey Hess jo...@debian.org 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

Re: Use example.com/org when giving example hostnames, please!

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

Re: Why did UDEV renumber my ethernet interface again?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 February 2012, David Goodenough david.goodeno...@btconnect.com 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

Why did UDEV renumber my ethernet interface again?

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

Re: New computer planned

Sian Mountbatten poenik...@fastmail.co.uk 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

Up to date Sid, Compile error, Linux 3.0

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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: ***

Re: Compile error in Linux 3.0

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

Re: Compile error in Linux 3.0

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 your kernel with:

Compile error in Linux 3.0

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

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

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- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

So much for Skype.

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.

Problems with USB

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Debian vs. other firewall/server operating systems

From: Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr 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

re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 /

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 February 2011, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk 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

Middle button copy/paste

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Middle button copy/paste

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: system beep after upgrade to squeeze

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,

Re: XFCE and debian menu?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 February 2011, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org 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

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 February 2011, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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

Re: Squeeze. After Trinity istall no boot background picture

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 February 2011, mark.goldsht...@gmail.com 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

Re: Backup media - double-layer DVD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 = 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 -i

[SOLVED] Re: APC ES-550 almost works perfectly

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: APC ES-550 almost works perfectly

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 can

APC ES-550 almost works perfectly

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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.

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com 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:

Re: transition from Ubuntu - Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

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 Debian

Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 thought about a simple log-structured filesystem

Fun with DVD-RAM

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Google Earth error?

Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr 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

Google Earth error?

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

Re: Mainline kernel source curiosity

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Viewing Office 2007 files

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 September 2010, Eric Viseur eric.vis...@gmail.com 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.

Mainline kernel source curiosity

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,

Re: Mainline kernel source curiosity

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 the

LXDE and removable media

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: LXDE and removable media

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 August 2010, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com 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-working

wget question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 July 2010, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 July 2010, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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.

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 July 2010, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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-

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

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

Trouble compiling generic kernel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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,

Re: Trouble compiling generic kernel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 July 2010, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

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

Problem removing nvidia-glx

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

DVD-Ram

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

[SOLVED]Re: DVD-Ram

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 partition found (1

Just finished Squeeze XFCE install, no Debian menu

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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,

Re: Resources for learning Linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 April 2010, James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com 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

Continuous wifi errors

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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)

GUI for IPv6

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: mpg123 won't play

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 great

Re: mpg123 does not play

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 March 2010, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net 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

Re: [Semi-OT] Incredibly useful Firefox addon: Hyperwords

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 March 2010, Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com 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

Re: mpg123 does not play

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 March 2010, Martin adsrtg-ml...@yahoo.com.au 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

Re: mpg123 does not play

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 March 2010, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net 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

Re: Installing Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

(Solved) Re: Squeeze, Java script in Iceweasel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 you

Squeeze, Java script in Iceweasel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

x.509 gpgsm and kmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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. Google is

Re: x.509 gpgsm and kmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 turns out that (DN

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