Hello
After having a recent fresh installation, I've noticed that the update
notifier no longer seeks root privileges before downloading/ installing
software packages.
This is not a big concern as I am the only user. However, I do like the
reassurance of having to deliberately do things as
Your question is user-support related, and as such belongs on the
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you've sent mail to are for user support questions. [I'm Cc:'ing this
response to debian-user@, and you should follow up there if you have
additional questions.]
H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just noticed that I cannot start or resume torrents in konsole
> with the usual CTRL+S rtorrent key combo in konsole as I was able to in
> the past (till several weeks ago perhaps). It instead suspends output
> (and CTRL+q needs to be pressed to cancel that). How do
Recently, my gnomebaker crashes frequently.
It crashes very often when I was just doing normal operations on it.
Did anybody meet this before? My system is lenny/2.6.24.
The following is the output info when I open it in terminal:
*** glibc detected *** gnomebaker: realloc(): invalid pointer: 0xb4
On Sun, 31 May 2009 03:07 -0700, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote:
> I've installed asterisk on lenny, along with zaptel and libpri. I'm
> working throught the O'Reilly Asterisk book. Things are going well
> untill I try a command that needs /dev/zap/ctl. The device isn't there.
> Apparently I n
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:12:09PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using
> >"eth0" or "/dev/eth0" before.
>
> In the rare case that I needed to specify an interface name, I used the raw
> kernel name (e.g. eth0) and not a pathname
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:25:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-05-31 04:14 +0200, lee wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:10:58PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote:
> >> If you tweak you flashplayer not to cache content locally, just tweak it
> >> back using the setting panel from Adobe t
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:44:15AM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote:
> lee wrote:
> > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:10:58PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote:
> >> If you tweak you flashplayer not to cache content locally, just tweak it
> >> back using the setting panel from Adobe there :
> >>
> >> http://ww
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:31:01AM -0500, lee wrote:
> Yeah, that something is plain text doesn't mean that it is human
> readable.
If its plain text it is definitely readable, it may just not be
comprehensible.
--
Chris.
==
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer g
During a recent update of squeeze this warning appeared.
warning: /usr/lib/python-support/hplip/python2.4/cupsext.so is linked but does
not belong to any package.
The currently functioning python is 2.5.
Is a corrective action needed? Will a
subsequent update solve the problem?
Thanks,
Hi,
since recently, all cups printers are disabled in my iceweasel and evince-gtk
print dialogs (I did
not check other programs). They are greyed out -- if I select one of them, the
"print" button is
disabled. The only way to print is to create a pdf, and then to print it via,
e.g., gtklp.
The
Le Sun, May 31, 2009 at 04:40:02PM +0200, Sven Joachim écrivait :
> On 2009-05-31 14:48 +0200, MoS wrote:
>
> > I finally upgraded my computer to Lenny, following the release notes
> > advices, and everything seemed to have worked quite well.
> > But after the reboot, I cannot login anymore !
> >
Yesterday I was running ia32-apt-get when e2fslib came up for installation
and that package converts libraries to be compatible with amd flavored
machines when it works. Yesterday, it didn't work because dpkg flagged
amd-e2fslib as being corrupt. When I removed ia32-apt-get from this
system t
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> lee:
> > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:41:57PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> >>
> >> Spying?
> >
> > look at
> >
> http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
> >
> > They get a list of sites you have
Rich Griffiths wrote:
> On Sun, 31 May 2009 12:50:11 +0200, thveillon.debian wrote:
>
>
>> Use Firefox "better privacy"
>> extension, it can wipe the .macromedia content automatically.
>>
>
>> Tom
>
> Thanks for this tip. I've been doing it manually once in a while.
>
> I should spend more t
On Sun, 31 May 2009 12:50:11 +0200, thveillon.debian wrote:
> Use Firefox "better privacy"
> extension, it can wipe the .macromedia content automatically.
>
>
> Tom
Thanks for this tip. I've been doing it manually once in a while.
I should spend more time looking over the available add-ons
Ohh .. :/ I use ctrl+=. I'm sorry.
Thanks
pch0317
Noah Dain wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:24 AM, pch0317 wrote:
Hi :)
In my Thunar 1.0.1 I can't make icons biger by "ctrl++".
"ctrl+-" works correctly.
Is it bug?
not really. ctrl+= is what you are hitting. try adding a shift
Hello,
I have an on-screen image that, unfortunately, is not all on the screen;
it's too big to fit on screen and there are scrollbars for me to scroll
to view this and that portion of the image.
Question: Is there a program that can perform a screen dump or a screen
grab of a scrolling window, t
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:24 AM, pch0317 wrote:
> Hi :)
> In my Thunar 1.0.1 I can't make icons biger by "ctrl++".
> "ctrl+-" works correctly.
> Is it bug?
not really. ctrl+= is what you are hitting. try adding a shift key
in there (ctrl+shift+=)
>
> Thanks
> pch0317
>
>
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pch0317 wrote:
> Hi :)
> In my Thunar 1.0.1 I can't make icons biger by "ctrl++".
> "ctrl+-" works correctly.
> Is it bug?
Works for me (v1.0.1). [Sorry for asking, but are you hitting shift?]
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I am getting a lot of these today:
... spamd[7741]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases
/root/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: Interrupted system call
There is no such file(s).
What is happening here?
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Thanks to all who helped with this. I don't think it's a Debian
thing, but something closer to the metal. I'm sometimes getting this
message with cp.
But certainly, the Debian way won't work on this computer at present.
I'll probably do a virgin install on another partition, and in the
meantime
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:59:29 +0100, AG wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it
> keeps throwing up errors.
[...]
> Under the preferences option of the Iceweasel Tor Button, running the
> test, this is the output:
>
> Tor proxy test: Intern
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:30:50 +0200, Raven wrote:
> Hi all.
> I am trying to install the 'gspca' driver for a Logitech webcam but
> compiling from source fails and I could not find any debian package
> containing that module.
> Any ideas?
All the recent Sid kernels should include the gspca modu
I realized that by installing basic Debian Lenny with netinst and manually
installing kde-desktop somehow does not have Desktop for user. Is this a bug
or 'feature'. I realized this when I want to make an application launcher
from Desktop but it is owned by root and there's no Desktop shortcut in
k
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 00:39:39 +1000, David Kinyua wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 16:55:33 +1000, David Kinyua wrote:
>>> Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:41:42 -0400, mathengejr AT aim DOT com wrote:
> How do i get video to work on
lee:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:41:57PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
>>
>> Spying?
>
> look at
> http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
>
> They get a list of sites you have visited --- and who knows what else.
No, they don't get that list. At lea
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri,29.May.09, 18:28:08, ghe wrote:
>
>>
>> # The primary network interface
>> allow-hotplug eth0
>> auto eth0
>
> You don't need both 'allow-hotplug' and 'auto'. If 'allow-hotplug' works
> use that, it will enable your
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 16:55:33 +1000, David Kinyua wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:41:42 -0400, mathengejr AT aim DOT com wrote:
How do i get video to work on vlc. I noticed this since I reconfigure
kernel.
[...]
v
On 2009-05-31 14:48 +0200, MoS wrote:
> I finally upgraded my computer to Lenny, following the release notes advices,
> and everything seemed to have worked quite well.
> But after the reboot, I cannot login anymore !
> The system complains about a missing library (libdl.so.2) ??
>
> A "failsafe"
On 2009-05-31_14:03:06, thveillon.debian wrote:
> marc wrote:
> > Jan Willem Stumpel said:
> >
> >> IMHO disabling an old and trusted functionality is simply introducing a
> >> bug, made worse by keeping silent about it (no word about it in
> >> changelog.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz).
> >>
> >> It must s
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:03:06PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote:
>
>> Note to self : disabling "rm"
>
> The default of both KDE and GNOME is to use the trashcan. There's also
> safe-rm. The literal 'rm -rf /' has also been disabled.
>
>> and "fdisk" commands, catching "s
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 16:55:33 +1000, David Kinyua wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:41:42 -0400, mathengejr AT aim DOT com wrote:
>>> How do i get video to work on vlc. I noticed this since I reconfigure
>>> kernel.
[...]
>>> vlc -vvv --no-plugins-cache --list |gre
I download from us.debian.org and security.debian.org and have had several
failures since yesterday to install this package. The desktop
accessibility previously provided by gnome-accessibility and gnome-orca
has been terminated until further notice too. Seems the rest of gnome
suddenly decid
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:03:06PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote:
> Note to self : disabling "rm"
The default of both KDE and GNOME is to use the trashcan. There's also
safe-rm. The literal 'rm -rf /' has also been disabled.
> and "fdisk" commands, catching "shutdown"
> and "reboot" commands to
marc wrote:
> Jan Willem Stumpel said:
>
>> IMHO disabling an old and trusted functionality is simply introducing a
>> bug, made worse by keeping silent about it (no word about it in
>> changelog.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz).
>>
>> It must surely be a tiny minority of users who press
>> control-alt-backs
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 03:07:29AM -0700, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote:
> I've installed asterisk on lenny,
Which gives you modules of the package Asterisk under
/usr/lib/asterisk/modules (just in cases someone finds this message in
the archives).
along with zaptel and libpri. I'm
> working
Hi,
I finally upgraded my computer to Lenny, following the release notes advices,
and everything seemed to have worked quite well.
But after the reboot, I cannot login anymore !
The system complains about a missing library (libdl.so.2) ??
A "failsafe" reboot using new Lenny kernel (2.6.26) provi
Jan Willem Stumpel said:
> IMHO disabling an old and trusted functionality is simply introducing a
> bug, made worse by keeping silent about it (no word about it in
> changelog.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz).
>
> It must surely be a tiny minority of users who press
> control-alt-backspace "by mistake"; I
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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 08:19:46PM -0700, andmalc wrote:
> So, yeah, looks like one of the lines the grub boot definition that you're
> booting with.
>
> Reboot, then when you see the blue Grub screen press 'e'. This will put you
> in edit mode. Rea
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 03:07:29AM -0700, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote:
> I've installed asterisk on lenny, along with zaptel and libpri. I'm
> working throught the O'Reilly Asterisk book. Things are going well
> untill I try a command that needs /dev/zap/ctl. The device isn't there.
> Appar
IMHO disabling an old and trusted functionality is simply
introducing a bug, made worse by keeping silent about it (no word
about it in changelog.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz).
It must surely be a tiny minority of users who press
control-alt-backspace "by mistake"; I find it hard to imagine
even. But for
Hello
I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it
keeps throwing up errors.
The logfile has been enabled to record debugging info (1024 "Log the
destination for requests Privoxy didn't let through, and the reason
why", 4096 "start up banner and warnings" and 32 "deb
lee wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:10:58PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote:
>> If you tweak you flashplayer not to cache content locally, just tweak it
>> back using the setting panel from Adobe there :
>>
>> http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.
I've installed asterisk on lenny, along with zaptel and libpri. I'm
working throught the O'Reilly Asterisk book. Things are going well
untill I try a command that needs /dev/zap/ctl. The device isn't there.
Apparently I need some modules, but they don't seem to be there.
Specifically, I'm look
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,29.May.09, 23:26:39, Peter Robinson wrote:
The sound levels are at max. I hear some system sounds but no audio
(e.g. youtube). The speakers are on full...
Ok, if you do hear some system sounds then you do have working sound.
Can you please tell exact
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 04:15:12PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> from the man page:
> Option "DontZap" "boolean"
> This disallows the use of the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace sequence. That
> sequence is normally used to terminate the Xorg server. When
> this
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,30.May.09, 13:19:32, H.S. wrote:
>
>> I also usually do an update and upgrade daily on this workstation. I
>> always know (from aptitude) if some processes need to be restarted. So I
>
> Huh, is there some feature of aptitude I missed?
I think it calls dpkg-reconf
Hi :)
In my Thunar 1.0.1 I can't make icons biger by "ctrl++".
"ctrl+-" works correctly.
Is it bug?
Thanks
pch0317
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On Sat,30.May.09, 13:03:41, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Just noticed that bug #299930 contains a single SPAM message among
> several "normal" ones.
> When I follow the "this bug log contains spam" link, it asks for
> confirmation: "Yes, report bug 299930 as spam".
> What will happen if I conf
On Fri,29.May.09, 18:28:08, ghe wrote:
> Here's a known working interfaces file from my LAN:
Nitpick:
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
>
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