Re: LightDM in Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204

2012-05-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 12:04:20PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: list. At the moment I'm testing several distros to find some that fit best to my needs. I'll set up a pro audio machine. Have you looked at LFS? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ Personally, I've always found a Debian base

Anyone rec msgs like this:? Evernote message: Emailed note was not submitted

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 05:51:01PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] Sent to me personally: -8 -8--- Evernote was unable to submit your note for the following reason: The storage limit for this account has been reached. [Cannot email more than 50

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 02:45:59PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 08:28:35AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: You must be from up north, LOL! Now *that's* rude. Only if you're from up north, and from where I'm sitting that includes just about everyone. :(=) -- Religion is

Re: Evernote message: Emailed note was not submitted

2012-05-09 Thread Chris Bannister
to Evernote account per day] Original message information: From: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz Delivered to: ledgemem.ecd...@m.evernote.com All recipients: debian-user@lists.debian.org; Subject: Anyone rec msgs like this:? Evernote message: Emailed note was notsubmitted Sent: Tue May

Re: Evernote message

2012-05-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:33:25PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Spam happens, discussions about junk mail are useless, as long as they are that rare, as they are at the moment. This isn't spam. It's more likely a misconfiguration somewhere. -- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common

Re: Evernote message

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:41:06PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: This is one more mail I (OOPS) DID NOT wanted to write. Spam, is spam, is spam. Your and my mail at this moment are spam too. Nobody else, but we send spam at the moment. Spam is unsolicited bulk email. It is precisely defined,

Re: Evernote message: Emailed note was not submitted

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:35:33PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 01:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Dunno, did you see that: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/05/msg00705.html Sent to you personally, because you send mails to the list and the list forwarded them

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:39:56AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 04:22:45PM +0200, Wilko Fokken wrote: After running 'pppconfig' to install a new dialup connection to a provider, I need to enter the directory /etc/ppp/peers/ and have to change the group of

Re: [not sure if OT] empty DVD menus with k9copy and devede

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 03:22:08PM +, Camaleón wrote: Then maybe is that something have changed in between. I mean, are you using the same versions of k9copy and devede that you were using before you reinstalled the system? :-? You can use /var/log/dpkg.log to check. -- Religion is

[scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com: Re: putting audio files onto a DVD]

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
- Forwarded message from Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com - Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 18:49:22 +1000 From: Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: putting audio files onto a DVD On 11/05/12 18:40, Jon Dowland

Re: [scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com: Re: putting audio files onto a DVD]

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 01:17:57AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: - Forwarded message from Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com - [snip] - End forwarded message - Big appologies. Slip of the finger. -- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people

Re: Evernote message: Emailed note was not submitted

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:51:16AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:34:41AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: You are obviously confused about a misconfiguration and *actual* spam. Actually spam is simply unsolicited, unwanted email. It really doesn't matter whether

Re: Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:44:02AM -0700, T Elcor wrote: --- On Fri, 5/11/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: Another thing that works is go to the mplayer homepage and download one of the codecs packages, extract the codecs, and put them in /usr/lib/codecs (create it if it

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 02:59:25PM +, Camaleón wrote: mode remember on We once faced a problem with faked posts in another mailing list. There was a user (with a severe Tourette Syndrom) that sent messages with the And you could tell this from his/her posts?, amazing!

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 03:18:02PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: Whilst the above is true, it's also true that inline signing isn't going away soon because of certain companies reticence about implementing it correctly or at all. Where it refers to the PGP/MIME standard, of course. Even if

Re: Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 05:14:41PM +0200, Tom wrote: On 05/11/2012 04:39 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: #deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free ---8 --- Note http://www.debian-multimedia.org; is commented out

Re: GCC - Best way to build cross compiler?

2012-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:49:36PM -0400, rbmj wrote: Hi all, So, I want to create packages for a cross compiler targeting powerpc-wrs-vxworks on Wheezy. I don't exactly know how to approach the problem. You'll _probably_ have better luck on the debian-embedded mailing list, mainly because

Re: A Resource Inquiry Regarding Free Speech, Privacy and Technology

2012-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:17:47PM -0700, Fiona Causer wrote: Hi There, I am curious if you are the administrator for this site: debian.org/News/weekly/2001/26 I am a researcher / writer involved with a new project whose mission it is to provide accurate and useful information for those

Re: wheezy Audio Works for Root, Dies for User and it's not Perms.

2012-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 06:27:43AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: Script started on Tue 15 May 2012 05:29:48 AM CDT martin@m:~$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ALSA lib conf.c:1220:(parse_def) show is not a compound ALSA lib conf.c:1686:(snd_config_load1)

Re: How to upgrade selective packages ?

2012-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 06:42:55PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, apt-get upgrade just upgrades all available upgrades. Yes, of course. How can I selectively upgrade packages ? apt-get install package P.S. If you are taking the risk of running testing/sid, then you *should* already

Re: wheezy Audio Works for Root, Dies for User and it's not Perms.

2012-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:54:09AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I used the wheezy netinst ISO image to run the install and my home directory was created from the installation media and the problem was immediately noticed. Since then, I copied my home directory from a working system to this

.pulse causes no sound (was ... Re: wheezy Audio Works for Root, Dies for User and it's not Perms.)

2012-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 09:32:09PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: After purging and restoring pulseaudio and all the applications that needed it, I started looking at .pulse in my home directory as I didn't put it there to begin with. I Creating another user would have produced the same

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade stops with a timeout.

2012-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:49:40AM -0400, songbird wrote: Guo Yixuan wrote: if this is not a typo on your part then this could be a problem elsewhere: tassksel-data is not a package, but tasksel-data is... Searching Timeout was reached in aptitude's source code doesn't have any

Re: need help on using ffmpeg for video grab

2012-05-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:59:52AM -0400, Long Wind wrote: I have bt848 card and watch TV with xawtv As another application shows: Device 00: BT848A video (Lifeview FlyVideo /dev/video0) Port 00: Television Port 01: Composite1 Port 02: S-Video Port 03: Composite3 I

Re: Spam filter -please !

2012-05-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 01:03:40PM +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: I know they catch about 40,000 spams a day, but that's not the issue. I was just surprised to see this HTML-monster getting through. AIUI, the filtering is set up to err on the side of caution, IOW, it is more important to let a

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 06:14:34PM +0100, rjc wrote: Personally it doesn't bother me as much as illeism. We are not amused. :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X

Re: need help on using ffmpeg for video grab

2012-05-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 02:59:39PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 05:51:51 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Wrong list! Please direct your question to a ffmpeg users list. I don't think so. It could be somehow [OT] but this list is okay for that kind of questions

Re: aptitude changelog gives You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

2012-05-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 05:04:02PM +, Camaleón wrote: You have no source repo listed. deb-src http://cdn.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free You don't need one. The only reason you'd need one is if you are going to be compiling any software. -- If you're not careful, the

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

2012-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:37:54AM +0800, Hor Jiun Shyong wrote: I checked and noticed the default runlevel under inittab is 5. (I must have changed it for reason I can't remember now).I have changed it back to run level 2 and will try the ati driver again to see if the problem still

Re: need help on using ffmpeg for video grab

2012-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 05:45:31PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2012 05:28:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 02:59:39PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 05:51:51 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Wrong list! Please direct your question to a ffmpeg

save bandwidth + disk space: deb-src entry unnecessary (was ... Re: aptitude changelog gives ...)

2012-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 05:46:41PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2012 05:39:29 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 05:04:02PM +, Camaleón wrote: You have no source repo listed. deb-src http://cdn.debian.net/debian testing main contrib non-free You

Re: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

2012-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:50:01AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 04:27:07 -0700, T Elcor wrote: E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Clean your local apt cache: apt-get clean Unrelated. The index files are stored

Re: kmail crashes on startup

2012-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 03:59:50PM -0400, m...@neidorff.com wrote: Hello, I'm using Mepis (a debian derivative) and I'm using kmail (4.4.4) as my e-mail client. It has been working just fine. Have you tried posting your question to the MEPIS Community Forum?

Re: GCC - Best way to build cross compiler?

2012-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:00:59PM -0400, rbmj wrote: Bump... Am I posting this on the wrong list? Did you see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/05/msg01511.html -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

2012-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 01:34:59AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:37:54AM +0800, Hor Jiun Shyong wrote: I checked and noticed the default runlevel under inittab is 5. (I must have changed it for reason I can't remember now).I have changed it back to run level

[r...@verizon.net: Re: GCC - Best way to build cross compiler?]

2012-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
let the list know so that, hopefully, the mistake will only be made once. - Forwarded message from rbmj r...@verizon.net - Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 12:34:27 -0400 From: rbmj r...@verizon.net To: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: GCC - Best way to build cross compiler

Code of conduct (was ... Re: need help on using ffmpeg for video grab)

2012-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 03:36:10PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 02:49:34 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: point because if so, we have to stop accepting posts asking how does Mutt work ... Good luck with answering that question. Seriously, questions like that should be directed

Re: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot find a free VT

2012-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 09:27:32AM +0800, Hor Jiun Shyong wrote: grep -v \^# /etc/inittab [output same as mine] Can't see anything different there. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the

Re: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

2012-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
Just to be clear. For the archives. On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 03:55:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 03:11:30 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: This: (We'll call it error 1 for clarity) E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead

Re: how to practice.

2012-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 04:55:48PM -0700, Freeman wrote: I like to use dwww, which does a good job of searching a term in all installed docs and manuals, of which I install many. apt-cache show recoll -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post!] On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 08:50:03AM +0200, David Seira wrote: I still having this problem. It seems like a problem with the repository but I've tried to change it with the same result; I've tried with the UK and Spain repositories. Has anyone the same problems? No.

Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

2012-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:15:30PM +1000, charlie wrote: If I log in as root, all works as it should and the GUI starts as it should. Does it look exactly the same as if you had logged in as yourself? I just tried startx as root and amazingly I get a GUI. (Never used to, got a message about

Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 02:18:46PM +1000, charlie wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2012 05:44:43 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: For a start, please post exact output of following commands. - ls -al .x* -rwxr--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1273 Feb 10 16:29

Re: Code of conduct (was ... Re: need help on using ffmpeg for video grab)

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:48:49PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 22 mai 12, 02:49:23, Chris Bannister wrote: Sorry, I don't see it that way. I don't see debian-user as italicthe first port of call and if you don't get any help ***THEN*** google and try to find out where

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please read http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html] On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:10:14PM +0200, David Seira wrote: Hi Chris, As I put in the first post the aptitude update output is: For testing purposes I'd like to see the output of LC=C apt-get update The LC=C is because this is an

Re: BD-R not getting finalized

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:37:10PM +0100, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi all, This is the second BD-R where growisofs fails during the last stage of finalizing the disk I am using a USB external writer but I do not see any USB related errors in the kernel. The end snippet is below

Re: Reading luks DVDs using cryptsetup

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:55:37PM +0100, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi, I have been using DVD+RW disks for storing data which are luks encrypted flat files. I have been successful in future with the below command but in the newer version this fails with the error as pasted below. Is this a

Re: Mythtv problem with versions

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:08:53PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Here is the thread where I asked about maintaining compatibility. I guess Christian Marillat either made a mistake or changed his mind. http://www.deb-multimedia.org/lurker/message/20111202.230526.5f4a397c.en.html There is some

Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 02:15:27PM +0100, Brian wrote: -rw--- 1 charlie charlie 14557184 May 21 16:25 .xsession-errors Any clues in .xsession-errors? (Please don't send it to the list, its too big.) The present one certainly is, but he could delete it and restart X to get

Re: Mythtv problem with versions

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 02:12:57AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:08:53PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Here is the thread where I asked about maintaining compatibility. I guess Christian Marillat either made a mistake or changed his mind. This explains the problem a bit

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 04:30:37PM +0200, David Seira wrote: Hi Chris, 2012/5/22 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz The result in english (sorry) is: [...] Get:10 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en [912 B] 59% [10 Translation-en bzip2 0 B] [Connecting

Re: why does control-4 generate SIGQUIT in X?

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 05:32:10PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 18:28:55 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: I recently noticed that when I hold the control key and press '4', it generates ^\, i.e. SIGQUIT. This happens in both gnome-terminal and xterm, and on two different kinds of

Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:53:45PM +1000, Charlie wrote: Thanks for your help Chris and you also Brian. But I think that it's something to do with my /home partition and I'm going to format it and reinstall again and see if something changes. Oh well, best of luck. Don't hesitate to post back

Re: why does control-4 generate SIGQUIT in X?

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:57:34PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Yes, stty quit works!! That disables SIGQUIT capability from the keyboard entirely, so the more usual ^\ also no longer works. Where are you setting it? Short version

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 04:45:47AM -0700, T Elcor wrote: --- On Wed, 5/23/12, David Seira davidse...@gmail.com wrote: I remove the index files in the directory you said but the result is the same: I solved my recent problem with aptitude (and apt) by installing bzip2 package. Until

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:20:55AM +0200, David Seira wrote: Yes. I have another servers with the same configuration in another places. Under  /var/lib/apt/lists/ is where the index files are kept. What I'd do is delete those: i.e. rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* then do apt-get update again.

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:52:49AM +0200, David Seira wrote: 2012/5/23 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz: What does ls -al /var/lib/apt/lists/ show now? -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31488757 may 18 00:56 ftp.es.debian.org_debian_dists_squeeze_main_binary-amd64_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program

2012-05-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 09:35:56AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions. I wrote several large programs in Pascal ten years ago but nothing since then. I'll take a quick look to see if it all comes back to me, otherwise I'll check out the other suggestions. The

Re: changing sound parameter on startup

2012-05-26 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't TOP POST! Please trim your posts!] On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 02:20:32PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 23:55 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: /etc/rc.local? The comment says # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel. which doesn't sound like

Re: If you want to install stable released version

2012-05-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 09:26:09PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: I still do not fully understand the debian system of versioning at its relationship to the install isos. If I wanted a new system that was the stable released version, which install iso would I use? Is the documentation at

Re: OT: Newbie questions on security

2012-05-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 04:47:14PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 09/03/12 02:40, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 08 mar 12, 12:52:01, Andrei POPESCU wrote: You can post them here as long as they are Debian related[2]. If there is a better list for any specific question you will get

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 09:31:03AM +0200, David Seira wrote: 2012/5/29 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com: On 18/05/12 17:13, David Seira wrote: Hi, I'm trying to update and upgrade a debian 6 system. I've run the aptitude update command and the output is: Des:1

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Bannister
. Is there a Unix command to do that right away? find /my/top/level/directory -name '*~' -delete will do that for you. Try: find /my/top/level/directory -name '*~' -print to see what it'll remove. -- Chris Bannister -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Troubleshooting Debian

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:20:58PM +1000, terryc wrote: On 05/06/12 03:55, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I've told O'Reilly that their books are rather useless for trouble shooting or learning for the average person. Ouch!, what did he say? Also, I have trouble envisioning the average person.

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Bannister
in it) or you could just use the -delete option in find. Much simpler. -- Chris Bannister -- 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/4fcdf843.80...@suddenmoves.org.uk

Re: Solved sort of - Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

2012-06-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:16:56AM +1000, Charlie wrote: Apologies especially to Chris and Brian, for my tardiness in the follow up to this post. I didn't reinstall the system. Good. What I did what was almost as sledge hammer to crack a nut though. I just removed all my . [dot]

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 06:20:12PM -0700, Weaver wrote: After all this time, he still doesn't understand that the free/open source software movement works for itself. He has a bit of an axe to grind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

Re: wpa_supplicant.wlan1.pid

2012-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 08:03:11AM +1000, Charlie wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:45:13 +0100 Keith McKenzie km3...@gmail.com suggested this: If you haven't tried 'firmware-non-free', it may be in there, mine was. It's a wheezy [testing] system and aptitude search firmware doesn't off me

Re: wpa_supplicant.wlan1.pid

2012-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 05:54:53PM +1000, Charlie wrote: On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 18:28:52 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz suggested this: It's a wheezy [testing] system and aptitude search firmware doesn't off me that package? Is the non-free entry in /etc/apt

Re: wpa_supplicant.wlan1.pid

2012-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 09:31:47PM +1000, Charlie wrote: On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 18:28:52 +1200 Chris Bannister What is output of: apt-cache policy firmware-linux-nonfree? Booted the lappy and my /etc/apt/sources.list contains: deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 06:55:48PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: I've recently done a tremendous amount of removing and purging. I wanted rid of kde and finally to install lxde. And threw into the bargain moving from testing to stable. Downgrades are not supported. You are in for an uphill

Re: wpa_supplicant.wlan1.pid

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 03:08:09PM +1000, Charlie wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:14:15 +1200 Chris Bannister Looks like a problem with your mirror. Just to be sure, can you do: apt-get update apt-cache policy firmware-linux-nonfree Here tis: apt-cache policy firmware-linux-nonfree

Re: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x400100 action 0x6 frozen

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:55:24AM +, Camaleón wrote: It can be something coming from the kernel or a hardware problem. I'd first locate the offending device and replace the SATA cable (always use good quality cables and discard the ones coming with the motherboard). When you say discard

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 05:04:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: There's a very detailed summary in this recent post: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00311.html Or there is this very detailed summary:

Re: about installing lxde (which xserver)

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:17:27PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: Err yup, looks like Marty Feldman, although now deceased, could make a comeback otherwise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlPAVm8Gl6M -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed,

Re: Recommend System requirements for Linux Debian

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 05:47:00PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Are you running Debian/Squeeze or Wheezy? Stable/Squeeze uses the older init system which starts things in sequence instead of in parallel. I believe Wheezy is moving toward a more modern startup system. Already available! I've tried

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:33:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:03:11 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Following with your allegory -and as I already explained- I'll be glad in cooking but the resulting meal can be just inedible as I lack for the proper recipes... Recipes can

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:43:28PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: Agreed there are many reasons for speech computing, as unique and individual as those who so choose...I imagine even a few who just want to work faster, since the human brain can process verbally with greater speed than visually.

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:51:03PM -0400, KS wrote: I might actually end up giving the machine to the owner with Linux slapped on it :p . searching for options now. Just say its the new Windows 8, :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 04:28:09PM +, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-11, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am a bit confused. Today during upgrade, it showed me Not starting slurm-llnl slurm.conf was not found in /etc/slurm-llnl Please follow the instructions in

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 05:55:07PM +0100, keith wrote: On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 03:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Mmmm, surely it is faster to read something than to listen to someone reading it aloud? Perhaps not if you're blind I doubt a blind person would be asking for printed

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 04:54:17PM +, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-15, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: It's for linux clusters, so I would say unless you're running or are part of a linux cluster, which doesn't seem to be the case, you shouldn't be running it. I wonder

Re: ..selling a surplus wintendo sticker, was: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:36:35AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 00:34 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:57:13 +0100, keith wrote in message 1339750633.2316.9.camel@hp-g62: However, there is a code sticker on the bottom of a laptop, that may let

Tip #42 dpkg-reconfigure (was ...Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian)

2012-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 03:45:14PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 14:46 -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree And once again this marvelous list has come thru for me. Thanks John!! That did the trick. I'm surprised I have not heard of

Re: How to use spamfilters at home

2012-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:19:44PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: You're right. Anyway, my question is about a shared database for spam, between spamfilters for home computer MUA and servers such as mailing list servers. I suspect that (for good reasons) there usually isn't such a shared

Re: netbook

2012-06-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:31:16PM +0200, tolv wrote: Hallo to all netbook-user, to be fast with your netbook which programms do you use for - e-mails mutt+maildrop+fetchmail - calendar remind+wyrd+builtin date and cal commands - contacts? abook -- If you're not careful, the newspapers

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 03:03:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: * note: I don't know that X is involved in painting the screen graphics on boot up from the Debian install CDs. When I think about it, X seems like an awfully heavy weight way to paint a picture. Suffice to say I don't want and

Re: Not getting mailing list response in my inbox

2012-06-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:45:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 10:30 +, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I already gave you some hints: [snip] P.S. I can't CC, sorry! So (at least) this mail is quiet useless ;). However, I send carbon +1 Does a falling tree make a sound

Re: Not getting mailing list response in my inbox

2012-06-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 01:11:39PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:51:29 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Camaleón, There is no option to setup a smtp server in Pan, I only can post to Isn't there? There used to be. Admittedly, it's only possible

Re: /etc/bash.bashrc instead ~/.bashrc

2012-06-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 05:24:59PM +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: You are right: I have the ~/.profile file missing. I don't know how can I miss this file, but it didn't exist at all. I copied this from another computer and it works. tal% less .profile # ~/.profile: executed by the

Re: / almost full

2012-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:57:13AM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: Personally, I would re install if this is a personal system, it will make life easier in the future. If you do decide to; create a / partition of about 10gb (minimum) a swap partition (if you want one) swap would be almost

Re: Hash Sum mismatch......

2012-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:09:59PM +1000, Charlie wrote: Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Get: 1 http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ wheezy/main libvlccore5 i386 1:2.0.1-dmo3 [444 kB] Get: 2 http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ wheezy/main vlc-data all 1:2.0.1-dmo3 [7,367 kB] Get: 3

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 03:30:11PM +, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, I'm sorry but I'm having a bit of a problem with Debian squeeze. The keyboard hardware is working as I can use it in grub but as soon as I get to GDM the keyboard does not respond. Even if I kill GDM via ssh, the keyboard

Re: mutt messed up. colors black on black cant read any messages

2012-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:55:33PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: Do you source config files from somewhere else? What happens when you comment out _all_ color statements? That didnt change anything. However I noticed that the /tmp file system was full (some pulse_* files) . So I

Re: Hash Sum mismatch......

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:59:23PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 29 iun 12, 14:25:26, Chris Bannister wrote: JFTR, problems with third party repositories are off topic on this list. The repository 'www.deb-multimedia.org' is not affiliated with Debian in anyway and in fact can

Re: Hash Sum mismatch......

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:01:01PM +1000, Charlie wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:25:26 +1200 Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz suggested this: JFTR, problems with third party repositories are off topic on this list. The repository 'www.deb-multimedia.org' is not affiliated

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:43:56AM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Tried both of those but nothing. I have a theory that it might be a Udev problem, but can't be certain. Does anyone have any ideas why a problem like that might arise? Do you have any data to backup your theory? -- If you're

Re: Joining pcl and jpg in Gimp.

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:28:23PM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: I have a pcl file to join to a jpg to make a collage. Gimp can not import pcl directly but I can try to convert it to jpg or png using netpbm. Can anyone recommend a favourite solution to this problem? Do a google search

Re: Reports of (Debian?) Linux kernel 2.6.32 livelocking when notified of leap second

2012-07-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 08:42:02AM +, Camaleón wrote: My lennies (2.6.26) are only reporting in both dmesg and kernel logs: Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC Mmmm interesting... root@tal:~# dmesg | grep leap root@tal:~# root@tal:~# less /var/log/dmesg.0 | grep leap root@tal:~#

Re: new kernel breaks postgresql on postgresql upgrade

2012-07-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 04:49:32AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: The transition from postgresql 8.4 to postgresql 9.1 almost worked over here except for a little matter of the linux kernel's shm value. This broke when I was involved with pg_upgradecluster and afterwards 9.1 wouldn't start.

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