Yes, it is quite possible, use the same format and replace the desired key. for
instance, i had a machine that rebooted on ctrl+alt+del (shutdown -r now) and
shutdown on ctrl+alt+h (shutdown -h now) iirc, on that machine i had to switch
to a tty first but might be a setting error on my part
Computer suddenly dropped into initramfm after power loss, help getting back
into file system would be helpful, and appreciated, stuck doing email from my
phone
thanks in advance, hopefully the basic steps will b all i need
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Hello, been a while since I posted, working on setting up a partition which
will run mainly console programs, however, I was interested in setting up X to
run a few programs (or maybe the framebuffer) a quick search of the web yielded
no help. Any suggestions on where to look.
Running lenny
--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Because of this lack of success, I am unable to upgrade or
install any
packages in this laptop. Is there a way to get out of this
catch-22
situation, and consequently upgrade tzdata successfully,
and upgrade and
install
--- On Fri, 8/1/08, myblog1980 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip I'm an Ubuntu user who is having an ongoing problem
with USB file
transfers. This issue also seems to be affecting a
significant number
of other Ubuntu users, and I have also been reading reports
of it
appearing in other
also thought check out
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105871
seems to be in the sync flag on the new kernels (if i am reading it correctly)
and also suggests fixes, it may help
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
Registered Kubuntu User #19678
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just wondering which P2P clients are best, seems to be slim pickings in the
base debian repository so I figure that I am missing a repository or will have
to go the long way to find a good client (however, I do not want to have to
find and install a lot of dependencies that are also not in the
From: Gordon Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: need install 'how to' help
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sunday, June 8, 2008, 11:40 AM
need 'howto' help, newbie to linux, want to install debian to hd on
laptop, specs follow
You need a local user group. Google for Linux User
Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/14/2008 08:57 AM, Javier Barroso
wrote:
Hi list,
Hi Javier.
Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes [unresponsive] during
three or four seconds.
First I experiment it with swiftfox, then I used Firefox (iceweasel) 2 and
the
well i have been working on getting an old compaq
armada 7770dmt up and running with debian etch 4.0r2.
everything works good, only i cannot get alsa to find
the sound card at boot, sound card is a ess-1878.
added the sound module to /boot/modules but that
didn't seem to help, checked alsa
my mistake forwarding to list
--- joseph lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 01:39:40PM +, Steve
McIntyre wrote:
[ /me sets the Reply-To: to debian-cd again... ]
But not Mail-Followup-To:...
At a bare
take it as you will, but I think that it would be
useful to group the terminal and lightweight apps
together, just seems a waste to download (25 for etch)
disks to install onto a low powered computer, when
everything together would all fit on one disk (that is
base system and all terminal apps
Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I see all the messages
generated by
a bash command (configure make make install,
for example) to standard output(computer screen),
and at the same time make sure that all is
written to a text file for later analysis.
It is a redirection but I don´t
Well, the BIOS recognises the drive, udev isn't
giving you nodes. Is
the kernel seeing it? Check dmesg.
no mention of the drive in dmesg
What do you have under /dev? When you say the
device node, do you mean
/dev/sd? or do you mean /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrom?
What about
that knocked out our power and after recovering
from
UPS is your friend...
UPS? - big brown trucks?
that my DVD burner seemed to go AWOL (that is the
device nodes just vanished)
checked syslog and no errors there, nothing on
udev
documentation seemed to help, and STFW didn't
well, about a week ago we had a lovely thunderstorm
that knocked out our power and after recovering from
that my DVD burner seemed to go AWOL (that is the
device nodes just vanished)
checked syslog and no errors there, nothing on udev
documentation seemed to help, and STFW didn't help
either. i'd
I am trying to burn a Data DVD+R
snip
When I hit the burn button, the dialog box that
pops up normally has a
drop down box which says the type of media
detected. This remains
steadfastly saying no media loaded regardless of
whether I have or
not - meaning I cannot start the
is there a way to have gimp or whatever print a
sample of each
font on the system without manually writing them all
out? tia.
try gucharmap
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
Registered Kubuntu User #19678
this user is penguin powered
I thought that at one point (in the past, when I was
paying a little more attention) that a certain
ubuntu release might be better
installed as a clean reinstall (rather than trying
to upgrade from a previous release). Hearing that
(or thinking I heard that),
I simply extrapolated the
only thing that i have ever had in /var/archives are
the md5sum's and tarballs for backups created by
backup manager (needless to say i have since sent
backup manager to /dev/null)
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
Registered Kubuntu User #19678
this user is penguin powered
did you check to make sure that the appropriate users
are added to wheel group?
gpasswd -a wheel username
or
usermod -G wheel username
also check /etc/pam.d/su if PAM is installed
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
Registered Kubuntu User #19678
this user is penguin powered
--- Joe Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a very basic Debian question. I downloaded
all of the 25 Debian .iso files and want to
convert/write them to CDs. I am trying to use the
InfraRecorder program that I downloaded from the
Ubuntu web site. (I also plan to install Ubuntu's
I can log in as root (shown above) both on tty1
and in the GUI (gdm).
Running Sid, up to date
This is not a show stopper, but it makes me go,
hm. Any ideas?
and I can do sudo su.
When you are using su, are you using your password
or root's password?
sudo, miy
Interesting stuff all this!
Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point.
I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for
needs.
Thanks to all.
no problem, i made it for a personal need, then put it
on cli-apps so that it would not just get lost
jwlockhart
Registered
I'll be trying to pitch Debian as the OS for a
project to my employer.
One of the arguments will be to mention a few really
big and important
Debian implementations. I tried to see if there was
such a list on the
Wikipedia Debian article but found none. I couldn't
find info about it
on
i'm also open to suggestions
Hmmm, I'll readup on metapackages.
Never maintained anything, but how hard would it be
to prepare
ONE dummy .deb that pulls all the CLI admin/rescue
tools I want?.
After a standard net-install one would just do a
wget and a dpkg.
As an alternative,
i am wondering if anyone has experience with the
c3270, x3270, s3270 packages? the help and
documentation for these seems more sketchy than most.
The computers i use for work run attachmate's extra!
which is a tn3270 emulator. the computers that they
connect to are ibm 3270's (as far as i can tell
appolgies, forwarding to the lists
Note: forwarded message attached.
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
Registered Kubuntu User #19678
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Never miss a thing. Make
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folk,
timidity is installed. Yet when iceweasel opens
http://www.contemplator.com/ and when VLC opens
a local midi file, there is silence.
Is there a way for VLC to recognize and play a
midi?
How should iceweasel play a midi? iceweasel
--- abdelkader belahcene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I want to know the name of my network card, it is
detected by the
system, I just want name of the driver used and
other info?
Is there a program which gives the info of hardware?
( included network card)
thanks bela
hardinfo
i've been trying to download the DVD images from
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r2/i386/iso-dvd/
every attempt had the images giving me an error on the
download after aproximately 24% completion (DVD 1
errors at 24% every time, other images are within a
percentage or two), resuming the
Maybe you could use bittorrent?
that would be possible, but many isp now make it hard
to download large torrent files (in a supposed attempt
to stop movie piracy) so torrent is out, and i admit i
did not check all the mirrors, though stopping at the
same spot is certianly odd
jwlockhart
Don't blame DEBIAN.
I'm getting hit hard from everywhere!!!
phishing and Nigerian is up significantly.
A huge increase from previous months.
On 1/7/08, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
I see we have been hit by another flood of spam.
Who lowered the
--- Scott Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
joseph lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
ok, checked my computer today and found strange
output
on ttys1 which i only use for boot messages,
[A[Dj[2~[G[Cp;vy[Co[D+ut [Dc +[Ci[Dx+ryi[D+
ri[D+ri[D+rc[C6[D[1~i+ 6[D[1~9[2+i 6[1~[yejsw
--- Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:07:40PM -0800, wathavy
wathavy wrote:
[snip problems burning DVD image to DVD]
Do you have any suggestion on obtaining 4.0r2
DVD-1 iso image file?
Especially for free ISO image extractor, other
than CDBurnerXP?
ok, checked my computer today and found strange output
on ttys1 which i only use for boot messages,
[A[Dj[2~[G[Cp;vy[Co[D+ut [Dc +[Ci[Dx+ryi[D+
ri[D+ri[D+rc[C6[D[1~i+ 6[D[1~9[2+i 6[1~[yejsw
[password:
no results on google, altavista, or any other search
engine that i could think of
[EMAIL
--- Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:16:49PM -0500, Rick
Thomas wrote:
The big deal is that the 3.1r6a iso's are broken.
They don't offer
oldstable as an option for the distribution to
install. So you
have to choose stable (or even testing) and
apologies, forwarding to list
Note: forwarded message attached.
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
Registered Kubuntu User #19678
this user is penguin powered
Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo
--- Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West
wrote:
...
I can control my system, I can't control my
clients' computers, so
I want a minimum of possible errors on their
computers.
I would not want to make it easy for someone to
--- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
joseph lockhart wrote:
just wondering if anyone else has trouble using
wine?
everytime that i install it, i cannot get the
program
that i would like to use with it to work (so far
windows media player 9, realplayer 10, and a few
other
programs
--- Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 29, 2007 9:31 PM, joseph lockhart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
just wondering if anyone else has trouble using
wine?
everytime that i install it, i cannot get the
program
that i would like to use with it to work (so far
windows media
ok, here is my system info, basically the hardinfo
report generated by Hardinfo for my primary partition,
if i switch over to my etch install i will post the
same for it if necessary
Computer
Summary
---
-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz
Memory
just wondering if anyone else has trouble using
wine?
Not most of the time, and the rest of the time, not
if I read and
follow the instructions.
everytime that i install it, i cannot get the
program
that i would like to use with it to work (so far
windows media player 9, realplayer 10, and a
i was browsing around and ran into the following
http://www.mslinux.org/
kind of disturbing, microsoft doing linux
here is a quote
How do I get MS Linux?
We are now offering the MS Linux Introductory CD at a
special introductory price of only $249.99 (plus
shipping and handling), if you order
just wondering if anyone else has trouble using wine?
everytime that i install it, i cannot get the program
that i would like to use with it to work (so far
windows media player 9, realplayer 10, and a few other
programs that my wife wanted me to try and install for
her). infact all that i have
ok, looking for a way to set the TTYS colors so that
the stay that way (not reset by ls or other things
like rebooting, basicly need the location of the
config file)
echo -e \033[31m
and
echo ^[[1;31;40m
both work but do not persist after ls and other such
anyway anyone got an idea (i am
--- michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whilst, it's a Fedora distro I've on the machine in
question, I think
the same problem manifests itself with Debian, LVM
and WinXP so hoping
somebody can help!
I'm looking for a solution for (re-)installing WinXP
on my slave disk
when I have Fedora
Further to the attached post, I now discover that I
can no longer open
in Konqueror any html files. What I get instead of
a document in html,
format I get a plain text document including all the
html codes.
I discovered that this fault and the inability to
open tabs with ctrl-t
only happen
strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands
from the command line
aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade
lately on running the full upgrade x crashes, well i
shouldn't say crashes, the system goes through its
normal reboot (first time it left me going huh), no
error message in system
I've never heard of the full-upgrade option; what
does it do?
(other than cause your computer to reboot?) :)
following is from the man page for aptitude...
full-upgrade
Upgrades installed packages to their most
recent version, removing or installing packages as
necessary. This
From what I remember you're generally not supposed
to run any sort of
updates while in an X environment; If I were you I'd
quit X and change
to TTY1 before administering any changes (Especially
if the changes are
X.org or libX related)
fair enough, though this was just an update to TeX
(well
Which packages are to be upgraded? What is the
output of
aptitude -F %p %30v %30V search ~U
this was today's package list
The following packages have been kept back:
k3b
The following packages will be upgraded:
libkpathsea4 texlive-base-bin
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to
Does this happen every time you run an upgrade?
Does apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade do
the same thing?
can't answer this one, i only use apt-get source
--download-only and that only rarely
Does it get through the whole upgrade process and
then reboot, or is
it rebooting while
ran aptitude update again and the key seems to be
back, it was kind of strange though
thanks anyways
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
this user is penguin powered
Be a better pen pal.
Text or
The new seagate usb hard drives spin down after aprox
3 min, this then causes the computer to get a
waiting response that it interperates as a bad
device while the device spins back up, but being
logged as a bad device it will not let you access the
drive. basically you need to clear the log so
okay, i don't know how i did it but i lost my apt key
for
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
or at least my box thinks it did, anyway to get it
back?
sorry if it sounds like a noob question, just haven't
run into it before
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
this user is
ok, thanks, i will look at screen closer
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Get easy, one-click access to your favorites.
Make Yahoo! your homepage.
okay here is the first built of my terminal
metapackage terminalphile, hosted at
http://www.cli-apps.org/content/show.php/terminalphile?content=70610PHPSESSID=26584a2ddcfc64625645d1153b141684
feedback would be great
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
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okay, i got the deb to make, but i am still unable to
use it to install the dependant/suggested programs,
probably my fault, missed something in setting it up, suggestions?
jwlockhart
Registered Linux User #458799
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thanks to everyone who has commented on this,
especially to Doug for his useful and timely advise.
as far as i am concerned i consider the topic closed
jwlockhart
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well to an extent this is an extension of my last
thread. does anyone know of any metapackages that
contain all the cli tools in one place, if not then i
am off to RTM at http://people.debian.org/ on creating
metapackages and try to work something out, though it
is not something that i am strong
my other intrest would be to create a ncurses
based
overlay for terminal that would allow multiple
screens
without logging into more than one tty, though i
am
not sure if one exists or not (i am also going to
look
at twin)
That sounds like a description of screen...
yes, i can see that, but
well to an extent this is an extension of my last
thread. does anyone know of any metapackages that
contain all the cli tools in one place, if not
then i
am off to RTM at http://people.debian.org/ on
creating
metapackages and try to work something out, though
it
is not something that i am
footprint of around 9GB (though several of these
are
not essential and some are repetative like firefox
in
Hmm. That sounds like a lot of stuff. I have quite a
bit installed as
well, a full KDE gui environment, firefox/iceweasel
plus other stuff,
yet my install footprint only reaches close to 5
trying to make a dummy package in equivs, followed all
instructions and edited the resulting control file as
root. on the equivs-build step get the following
output
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/terminalphile-0.1$ sudo
equivs-build terminalphile
822-date: warning: This program is deprecated. Please
use
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:24:55PM -0800, joseph
lockhart wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas
A. Tutty wrote:
thank you doug, appreciate the responce, yes i
want it with
absolutely
no x, the plan is to put it on an old box to force
me to learn the
commandline better (i
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas A.
Tutty wrote:
After you reboot and get a prompt, use aptitude
and install what you
want: exim4 and mutt for mail, lynx and perhaps
links2 (does
javascript), and of course mc (midnight
commander). Finish off with
your editor-of-choice (I
apologies for sending this twice, left the subject off
the previous one and wished to maintain the continuity
of the thread
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas A.
Tutty wrote:
After you reboot and get a prompt, use aptitude
and install what you
want: exim4 and mutt for mail,
i am wondering if anyone has found or created a
terminal only version of debian (similar to the slax
frodo) or if such a thing could be installed from the
net install. let's just say that it is for special
purposes though i would like to have things like lynx,
finch, ircii, mpc, and so forth
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:40:12PM -0800, joseph
lockhart wrote:
i am wondering if anyone has found or created a
terminal only version of debian (similar to the
slax
frodo) or if such a thing could be installed from
the
net install. let's just say that it is for special
purposes though i
My previous post had a link to where I have Cleanapt
available on the
web, but I will repost it here to make sure that
people get it. It is
not packaged as a .deb file.
http://mysite.verizon.net/~mshapiro_42/index.html
From the main page, take the 'Misc' link, scroll to
the
--- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew Reid wrote:
On Friday 16 November 2007 22:02, David Fox wrote:
On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or
auto-clean. Check the man
page. It will remove debs that
--- Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:50:44AM -0500, Tom Ashley
wrote:
I'm stumped and need help with configuring my
computer for sound with
video. I can play CD's and listen to audio
streams but get no sound
with video feeds (CNN, MSNBC, You Tube,
--- Sarunas Burdulis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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Robert Jerrard wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-11 at 19:02 +0100, Florian Kulzer
wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:19:14 -0700, Robert
Jerrard wrote:
I understand that fdf files are dynamic pdf
files
--- Steve Kleene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL
service via a Netgear hub
(router) at home. Sometime in the last two days,
the machine lost its
network connection to the outside world. It seems
to be a software problem.
It had been fine since I
Here's a template where you can fill in your
favourites; feel free to
add missing categories:
audio player:
*
vlc
cd-ripper:
*
(don't use much)
desktop OR window manager:
*
KDE fluxbox
development:
*
bash
disc burner:
*
k3b
e-mail client:
*
--- Michael M. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 10:59 +1100, hce wrote:
Hi,
Is the firefox the best browser?
I can say definitively that Dillo is the best
browser.
There, that's settled.
is it, Dillo is good, but i think Lynx is faster (of
course that may
--- jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello:
I am trying to set up a Minolta Magicolor QMS
printer.
The printer is a postscript laser printer.
(The actual model number is QMS 6110 and it is dis-
continued). The printer is set up to connect via
ether-
net.
I obtained the software for it
i'll through in my 2cts worth on this. i personally
find that aptitude is a stronger program, especially
for newer users, after using both, aptitude seems to
keep the system cleaner with less loose ends and is
less likely to break dependencies. at least that is my
experience
jwlockhart
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