Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?
Hello List: Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy. Cheers, Jerome On 20/07/12 08:20, Britton Kerin wrote: Hi everyone, I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep failing. Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages always fail. I'm wondering if ftp.us.debian.org is really overloaded or something? Thanks, Britton -- 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/5008f9d3.3050...@rezozer.net
Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?
my mistake. On 20/07/12 09:48, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 20 iul 12, 08:25:23, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy. What do you mean by that? Wheezy is not being released just yet, it's just been frozen (it will take a few more months). Kind regards, Andrei -- 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/500910fa.70...@rezozer.net
Re: UEFI install
Have you tried with Wheezy ? On 10/08/12 11:17, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD? Kindly give links or procedure to keep windows and linux. You don't have to do anything special. Just partition the disks the way you like. Linux installers normally expect that dual booting is a common requirement so they usually handle it pretty well. I think it is not so easy as I have googled it. Intel RST, UEFI etc making things difficult and many have bricked their system. Hence my post. I think the issues you read about are for Windows 8 and the 'secure boot' feature of the UEFI bios? I have not tried Squeeze, Wheezy works fine on a Thinkpad with the UEFI bios, SSD mSata. I think Squeeze does not support UEFI properly. It would at least need a 3.2 backport kernel What did you do to make it work? I have tried two times to get either of: - GPT + UEFI - MBR + UEFI - GPT + BIOS to work on a ThinkPad T520 and the only think that works right now is - MBR + BIOS My problem was that the UEFI boot menu never offered to boot from the EFI boot partition that I made. I think I might have been missing some efibootmgr magic that was explained here or elsewhere before, but as you managed to get to work, I´d like to know the exact steps or a link to a guide that works, before trying again. Why the GPT + BIOS stuff did not work is beyond me – I hat a BIOS boot partition for GRUB and grub-install also seemed to use it. I bet its not really faster tough since the ThinkPad doesn´t take much time in the BIOS anyway. And due to LVM I do not really need GPT, but it would be nice to have it anyway. Thanks, -- 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/5024d295.2000...@rezozer.net
Re: man in the middle attack ?
http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/ssh/ - Don't ignore ssh host key warnings (at the end) On 21/08/12 05:43, lina wrote: On Tuesday 21,August,2012 04:29 AM, Dr Beco wrote: Dear linuxers, Today I registered a lot of students in the class, and 4 hours later I was in home and got a message one of them could not log in. So I tried and got this message: @@@ @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed. The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is 66:09:66:e3:e1:54:dc:65:e4:a4:74:99:c4:df:3e:ff. Please contact your system administrator. Add correct host key in /home/beco/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message. Offending key in /home/beco/.ssh/known_hosts:1 I met similar things many times, you may just simply vim /home/beco/.ssh/known_hosts delete the line 1 key there, or you may delete all. and ssh again, Thanks, Best regards, RSA host key for beco.poli.br has changed and you have requested strict checking. Host key verification failed. What should I do, or where should I look, to understand this problem? Can I log in with my account remotely to see the problem, or should I better log in locally? Thanks, Beco. -- 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/50330753.6090...@rezozer.net
Re: compressor
gz: tar zcf bzip2: tar jcf xz: tar Jcf On 22/08/12 16:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PPS: For my needs tar czf aka .tar.gz is the best way to go. More compression doesn't lead to smaller files, but it takes much more time. -- 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/5034e994.50...@rezozer.net
Re: compressor
On 22/08/12 16:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:15 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: xz: tar Jcf I'm using a distro that packages with xz. I'm sure that there never was a big difference between gz: tar zcf and bzip2: tar jcf for the length of the files, that higly depends on the nature of the files: if the files are compressed file, teh difference is zero; otherwise `xz -9e' is most of the time better. but the time for packing and unpacking does differ very much. bzip2 compression is a good compromised between speed and size. xz compresses slowly, but decompress fastly. Other criteria can enter into account: if rsync is used, tricks may be applied. Jerome Speaking for Linux backups and audio data backups. -- 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/5034edb0.6060...@rezozer.net
Re: Obtaining a Newer Kernel
On 27/08/12 05:30, lina wrote: On Monday 27,August,2012 11:13 AM, Alex Robbins wrote: On 08/26/2012 09:48 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: or you could install: linux-headers-amd64 linux-image-amd64 this would insure you always had the latest kernel and headers. Your architecture may be different so you might want to look to that in regard to my examples. This does not at all answer my question. (And I already have linux-image-amd64 installed.) The first paragraph of the original email: I am running Debian testing, which currently has kernel 3.2.23-1, same as unstable. experimental has 3.5.something. I am looking to run kernel version 3.3 or higher. Here is what I did, 1] Download the latest stable from kernel.org 2] copy old .config from currently working one Here is one link, recommended by someone from list to me before. http://andreas.goelzer.de/kernel-config-based-on-lsmod-output and then run configure and make-kpkg more precisely: make oldconfig make-kpkg ... Frankly speaking, in the past several kernel I tried, even though I do believe it's built very blindly, but overall it works. For the security reason you concerned, I don't know, but stability are very well. Best regards, -- 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/503aea93.1020...@rezozer.net
Re: What Version To Install On iMac?
On 07/09/12 16:34, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:28:25 -0700, T Elcor wrote: - Original Message - Hello, I would like to know which version of Debian 6 I would download for installing on iMac with specifications shown below. Model Name:iMac Model Identifier:iMac8,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo amd64 or i386 both should work, I would go with amd64 (see http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ ). I'm usually in favor of 64-bits but when it comes to Apple products I would first ensure all their special hardware have the corresponding drivers available for 64-bits. I would also install Debian 7 (wheezy) as Debian 6 will probably be deprecated soon. Installing Squeeze shouldn't be much problematic given the computer is ~3/4years old and there's still the bakported packages, should needed. OTOH, Debian 6 has (more or less) one year and a half of support (when Wheezy is out -and that should happen around February, 2013- in 6 months !? Squeeze will become then the oldstable and will receive security fixes and patches until Jessie comes to play or a year later). Greetings, -- 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/504a0887.3080...@rezozer.net
icedove and IceOwl: ICS attachment
Hello List: I use IceDove to manage my emails. Today I got a message with an ICS (Calendar) attachment. IceOwl detects the event: a banner ``This message contains an invitation to an event'' is printed. But, amazingly, I can not figure out a way to make IceOwl register the event: any idea ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/506041f1.5060...@rezozer.net
Re: icedove and IceOwl: ICS attachment
Hello List: On 24/09/12 16:30, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:20:17 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I use IceDove to manage my emails. Today I got a message with an ICS (Calendar) attachment. IceOwl detects the event: a banner ``This message contains an invitation to an event'' is printed. But, amazingly, I can not figure out a way to make IceOwl register the event: any idea ? It should be handled (added) automatically by the calendar, at least that's what happens with iceowl-extension. iceowl-extension is installed Do you have the .ics mimetype associated to IceOwl? I guess not: how can I check that part of the Story ? P.S. Consider a replacement for IceOwl (Sunbird) because AFAICT is not being maintained upstream anymore. This is true. What is the suggested replacement ? Jerome Greetings, -- 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/50607d60.2020...@rezozer.net
Re: Current status for wl driver in Wheezy
On 24/09/12 19:13, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:14:52 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) so can anyone confirm the wl driver cannot be compiled right now in Wheezy? Are you dealing with broadcom-sta ( http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/broadcom-sta ) ? It works well on my Wheezy box. Jerome (...) No one using the wl driver in wheezy? W-o-w:-) Greetings, -- 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/5060a34e.5090...@rezozer.net
Re: icedove and IceOwl: ICS attachment
On 24/09/12 18:50, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:33:52 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: On 24/09/12 16:30, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:20:17 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I use IceDove to manage my emails. Today I got a message with an ICS (Calendar) attachment. IceOwl detects the event: a banner ``This message contains an invitation to an event'' is printed. But, amazingly, I can not figure out a way to make IceOwl register the event: any idea ? It should be handled (added) automatically by the calendar, at least that's what happens with iceowl-extension. iceowl-extension is installed Oops, then IceOwl should not be needed. Do you have the .ics mimetype associated to IceOwl? I guess not: how can I check that part of the Story ? Mmm... as you have iceowl-extension this one has to process the ICS attached files, that's what happens in my case (note that I have no Sundbird nor IceOwl installed but the calendar extension) which makes me wonder if the ICS file you received was properly formatted. Run a quick test by sending to yourself an invitation to a self-created event This is a good idea indeed :-; I sent to an other address of mine an invitation, but there was no ICS attachment: is it expected ? how can we attach an ICS invitation ? and check how it goes. Jerome P.S. Consider a replacement for IceOwl (Sunbird) because AFAICT is not being maintained upstream anymore. This is true. What is the suggested replacement ? For the Mozilla project I guess the former successor is Lightning (i.e., iceowl-extension) but you can look for another standalone calendar app. Greetings, -- 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/5060b768.2010...@rezozer.net
Re: GRUB: error incompatible license. Entering rescue mode...
Hello List: I have exactly the same issue, and the same wondering: any (fresh) idea ? When rebooting this newly cloned guest system I got the following error: GRUB loading. Welcome to GRUB! error: incompatible license. Entering rescue mode... grub rescue I felt a bit baffled and had no clue so I rebooted GRML again, and this time ran the grub-install after doing a chroot into the cloned system. That worked. Still, I'm wondering where this incompatible license error comes from. I cannot find it in the current GRUB2 source code. Has it anything to do with VMware? Google shows a couple of hits for this message but no real answer to where there should be a license issue. Any ideas? Jerome -- 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/4fac4d24.4040...@rezozer.net
Re: Backup2l config
Hello List: Have you tried with the given sample (slightly adapted) ? It can be a time stamp issue: what is the fs type of the partition of your directory ? Jerome On 11/05/12 11:08, Bastien Rocheron wrote: Hi, I'm trying to backup a directory with backup2l and I don't understand the 'Backup parameters'. I don't understand the levels, max full backups... because with the current settings I end up with my disk filled very quickly. The directory is 1GB approx and every day backup2l eats up another GB so I guess this is not quite differential. If anybody could explain how that works in a simple way or point to some simple doc (which I could not find) I would be delighted. In the meantime I'm trying other settings. Thanks, Bastien. -- 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/4fad0a8b.3020...@rezozer.net
Re: GRUB: error incompatible license. Entering rescue mode...
Hello List: On 12/05/12 11:04, Brian wrote: On Fri 11 May 2012 at 01:20:04 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: I have exactly the same issue, and the same wondering: any (fresh) idea ? Your setup is possibly inconsistent. The modules in /boot/grub do not match the version of GRUB in the MBR. This is certainly true as to fix the issue I played with `grub-install --recheck'. The error message sounds them rather inappropriate. Jerome -- 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/4fae61b2.5000...@rezozer.net
Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?
http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers On 16/05/12 12:12, aditya menon wrote: Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glxfrom an answer I got on StackOverflow. Everything I do results in X failing to start. In fact I just re-installed X and now it refuses to start at all. So are there a set of commands I can use to simply install the driver? My primary need is to raise the resolution of the monitor... Thanks! -- sincerely, aditya menon - http://www.forrst.me/adityamenon -- 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/4fb382ed.30...@rezozer.net
Re: something about slurm-llnl
Hello: On 14/06/12 18:28, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-11, linalina.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 /usr/share/doc/slurm-llnl/README.Debian.gz Shall I configure the slurm on my personal laptop, 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 why it's installed on your machine in the first place. ? By the way a computer cluster is a set of loosely connected computers that work together so that in many respects they can be viewed as a single system according to our friends from Wikipedia. SLURM can also be run on a multi-core box: it makes sense to use SLURM on a Mac Pro (24 cores). It can also be installed on a box for developing and testing jobs. I don't know much, so feel free to tell me as much as possible. Thanks with best regards, Jerome -- 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/4fda1679.6040...@rezozer.net
Re: something about slurm-llnl
Hi ! On 14/06/12 19:07, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-14, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: SLURM can also be run on a multi-core box: it makes sense to use SLURM on a Mac Pro (24 cores). It can also be installed on a box for developing and testing jobs. Thank you. I don't think the OP fits into any of the use cases for this software. Correct. Nevertheless, I wanted to shake a bit the cluster idea of your post. Jerome -- 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/4fda27fe.5010...@rezozer.net
Re: Wheezy on UEFI
Hello: There is actually a discussion about it on the debian-devel list. Jerome On 11/07/12 04:08, Darren Baginski wrote: Hi list! Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more particular. While installing I faced some issues. Looks like installer can't recognize and do not ask whenever system is BIOS or UEFI and installs grub-pc, while grub-uefi required in such case. Thus making system unbootable. One need to 'fix' it from the bootable cd/usb. After manually installing grub-uefi-amd64 and running `grub-install --bootloader-id=debian` you have to run `modprobe efivars` `efibootmgr -c -l '\efi\debian\grubx64.efi' -L Debian` and then remove/edit boot entries with `efibootmgr -B -b N` I found those steps not so easy to perform for many users and bielive such functionality should be intergrated in to the Debian installer. My question is there a work in progress on that? If so, how can I help ? -- 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/4ffce93e.9020...@rezozer.net
Re: Wheezy on UEFI
On 11/07/12 09:19, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: On 11/07/12 04:08, Darren Baginski wrote: Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more particular. While installing I faced some issues. Looks like installer can't recognize and do not ask whenever system is BIOS or UEFI and installs grub-pc, while grub-uefi required in such case. Thus making system unbootable. One need to 'fix' it from the bootable cd/usb. After manually installing grub-uefi-amd64 and running `grub-install --bootloader-id=debian` you have to run `modprobe efivars` `efibootmgr -c -l '\efi\debian\grubx64.efi' -L Debian` and then remove/edit boot entries with `efibootmgr -B -b N` I found those steps not so easy to perform for many users and bielive such functionality should be intergrated in to the Debian installer. My question is there a work in progress on that? If so, how can I help ? There is actually a discussion about it on the debian-devel list. Please bottom-post. That discussion isn't about UEFI but about UEFI's Secure Boot feature. ``EFI and Secure Boot'' precisely. Jerome -- 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/4ffd3022.1010...@rezozer.net
Re: Macintosh LCD brightness control
Hi List, have you tried pommed ? http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/pommed Best wishes, Jerome On 14/11/12 13:31, lina wrote: On Wednesday 14,November,2012 08:03 PM, adam wolter wrote: Release 6.0.6 (squeeze) i have the PowerPC version installed on a lampShade iMac G4. LCD monitor brightness is controlled by function keys F1 and F2 which have brightness markings. it all works well. i just want to know HOW so i can make similar support in ubuntu. Volume controls work well also and i can find XF86 Keyboard Shortcuts. xdotool key XF86MonBrightnessDown works also but there is no Keyboard Shortcut for it ! Can someone tell me how the F1 key is bound to XF86MonBrightnessDown Until now, it has been more than two years. In the past, if I wished to adjust the brightness of the monitor, I would come back to Mac OS. It worked even switch back to debian. please. -- Sent from my recycled old computer. [:C≡N:]− , I ≤ 2πrEħc ln 2 -- 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/50a39097.2000...@rezozer.net
Re: adobe reader + multiarch
Hi, have you tried the acroread debian ball at www.deb-multimedia.org ? hth, Jerome On 24/12/12 21:44, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I am trying to install adobe reader with multiarch. Has anybody done that? This is as far as I got: === Script started on Mon 24 Dec 2012 02:28:50 PM CST root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# dpkg --print-architecture amd64 root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# dpkg --print-foreign-architectures i386 root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# dpkg -i AdbeRdr9.5.1-1_i386linux_enu.deb Preparing to replace adobereader-enu 9.5.1 (using AdbeRdr9.5.1-1_i386linux_enu.deb) ... Unpacking replacement adobereader-enu ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adobereader-enu: adobereader-enu depends on libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.4). dpkg: error processing adobereader-enu (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: adobereader-enu root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# dpkg -l libgtk2.0-0 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==-==-==-= ii libgtk2.0-0:amd64 2.24.10-2 amd64 GTK+ graphical user interface library root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libgtk2.0-0 E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libgtk2.0-0' root@SDB03:/home/hugo/Downloads# exit exit Script done on Mon 24 Dec 2012 02:32:27 PM CST === Hugo -- 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/50d8c156.20...@rezozer.net
Re: Adobe Reader 9.5.4 on 64 bit Linux
Hello List, as Wheezy is on the edge to get stable, a good option would be either to wait for Wheezy or to migrate right now to Wheezy then make the Wheezy box a bi architecture one (i386+amd64), and then to install the acroread Multimedi-Debian deb ball. Jerome On 28/02/13 10:46, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:24:42PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2013 18:59:06 Claudius Hubig wrote: Dear Lisi, Lisi Reisz wrote: There has, I know, been quite a lot about 32 bit on 64 bit systems recently. But I am not clear where I should start with this one. Are you on Squeeze or Wheezy? For Squeeze, install the ia32-libs* and then dpkg --force-architecture the Adobe Reader .deb root@Tux-II:/home/lisi/Downloads# dpkg --force-architecture -i AdbeRdr9.5.4-1_i386linux_enu.deb dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64) (Reading database ... 137946 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking adobereader-enu (from AdbeRdr9.5.4-1_i386linux_enu.deb) ... Setting up adobereader-enu (9.5.4) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... root@Tux-II:/home/lisi/Downloads# What is output of: root@tal:~# apt-cache policy ia32-libs-* -- 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/512f2e25.5000...@rezozer.net
Re: moving /var
Hello List, On 01/03/13 09:53, Lars Noodén wrote: On 3/1/13 10:41 AM, Maroš Žilka wrote: What would be better way to do it ? Is it even possible to do such change on running system without worries to lose some data ? I wouldn't do it on a running system. Better to boot from a live CD or similar and do it from there. A simple live CD is sufficient: Debian netinst minimal CD in rescue mode is sufficient to do so. Do not forget to update the /etc/fstab configuration file with respect to the change; to clean up the /var (and let an empty one) in the `/' (root) partition. Jerome About a different way, the way I have done it is with tar using the -p option. I'm not sure if that's inherently better, but it is another way. Regards, /Lars -- 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/51306fd3.5030...@rezozer.net
Re: moving /var
Hello, On 01/03/13 12:06, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Hello List, On 01/03/13 09:53, Lars Noodén wrote: On 3/1/13 10:41 AM, Maroš Žilka wrote: What would be better way to do it ? Is it even possible to do such change on running system without worries to lose some data ? I wouldn't do it on a running system. Better to boot from a live CD or similar and do it from there. A simple live CD is sufficient: Debian netinst minimal CD in rescue mode is sufficient to do so. Do not forget to update the /etc/fstab configuration file with respect to the change; to clean up the /var (and let an empty one) in the `/' (root) partition. It is simpler to move the partition in single user mode. Just issue the command (as root) Indeed. I will think about it next time. # shutdown now (not 'shutdown -h now' or 'shutdown -r now'), wait the system go down and enter the root password when asked. You will have just a root shell running. An even more secure way (in case single user leaves some program running) is to reboot and pass the argument init=/bin/sh to the kernel by editing the kernel command line in grub. You will start a system with only a running shell as pid 1 and the root mounted read-only. Then remount the root read-write: # mount -o remount,rw / and do the dirty work. When you finish, unmount all partition other than the root, remount the root read only with # mount -o remount,ro / and reset the computer (shutdown will do nothing). João Luis. -- 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/5130947b@rezozer.net
Re: wheezy / gnome3
Hello List: On 09/11/11 00:12, Richard wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:54:17 + (UTC) Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote: Hi there : help ! Here we go :-) I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming Oh, yes... what a sad day. My desktop is now blue and with no live, text is rendered blurry and life has turned completely grey :-( 1. It runs in fallback mode on a ati radeon mobility 1350 (...) Check if you have 3D capabilities on (glxinfo | grep -i render). I can trurn kms on, on /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf , but the desktop is a bit unusable, pretty but unusable. You have KMS disabled and radeon driver still works? That's good but maybe KMS is needed to get gnome-shell working :-? 2. Any reasonable gnome 3 guide to get things work out ? (no shortcuts, no panel config, no desktop icons and the two panels (upper an lower) are black and no config i can guess) I have to surrender. I know all of the settings can be tweaked by editing the corresponding CSS file but this file will be overwritten with any of the upcoming update affecting gnome-shell, so I decided to leave the gnome-shell as is (in a very bad shape) and wait for better times to come (aka: wait for gnome-tweak-tool to be in wheezy). Greetings, The gnome-tweak-tool is in wheezy, but the gnome3 extensions are not, nor is the side panel with the apps you use most. At the moment its a awkward hybrid. What would be a temporary good alternative ? xfce4 ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4eba5d4e.6080...@rezozer.net
Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?
Hello List: On 14/11/11 12:08, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, I'm going to start using xfce4. Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Or should I expect any side impacts ? Depends on what you call 'safely' and on what you are going to remove (gnome is actually dozens of pakcages). Side effects will be all of those not-so-evidetlty-related-to-gnome packages which you might remove and which are doing important stuff on your system, for example gdm3, network manager, gedit etc. Policykit stuff probably Has anyone done this before ? Yes I did it. Although I don't think just purging gnome tout-court has any motive if not experimental/learning. The best option would probably be fresh install with xfce4. Anyway after removing most gnome-related packages I installed xdm and slim as replacement to gdm, had to fiddle wit various low-level system files to get gui shutdown/reboot working and mount usb disks as users. I am still currently unable to manage network-manager through the nm-applet as user. Lots of information is available on-line and in other community supported channels (email, IRC), you just have to be patient enough to search for it and experiment. concerning the wireless network connect: with wpasupplicant running in roam mode applets are not needed: This last week-end I migrated from Gnome 2/3 to Xfce (I wonder why), this approach allowed a smooth migration. IMHO only do this if: - you have a backup of your important files - you are confident enough to work from console only (i.e. desktop environment un-bootable, possibly wifi not working so maybe better with fixed network connection) - are not in the middle of the most important project of your life :) Lorenzo. thank you Joao hth, Jerome -- 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/4ec0f95b.5090...@rezozer.net
Re: wifi without applets [WAS] Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?
Hello: On 14/11/11 12:34, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Jerome, On 14/11/11 12:19, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: On 14/11/11 12:08, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: [...] I am still currently unable to manage network-manager through the nm-applet as user. [...] concerning the wireless network connect: with wpasupplicant running in roam mode applets are not needed: This last week-end I migrated from Gnome 2/3 to Xfce (I wonder why), this approach allowed a smooth migration. This is really interesting. Could you elaborate a bit more? Do you think it's hardware dependent? Does the 'hardware' switch (of any) work? Any pointers to guides tutorials, maybe willing to share your own setup? You can find information in the Debian README file od wpasupplicant, /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz , section 3 entitled `Mode #2: Roaming Mode'. hth, Jerome -- 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/4ec1046b.3010...@rezozer.net
BibTeX memory limits
Hello List: I encounter memory limit issue with BibTeX similar to the ones reported in Q37 of the `BibTEX Tips and FAQ' by Michael Shell and David Hoadley : I know that memory limits for tex and its derived, for metapost can be can be configured in the /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf configuration file: can we do something similar for bibtex ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4ec4e574.9070...@rezozer.net
Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?
Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4ec52c0f.9000...@rezozer.net
Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?
Hello: On 17/11/11 17:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this ? Right-click on the document, choose Properties, and select another application as the default. As I can not does that from evince itself, I did it from the File Manager: so far it works. Is there a way to set it system wise rather than per user ? Thanks again, Jerome Patrick -- 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/4ec536ee.1090...@rezozer.net
Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?
On 17/11/11 17:37, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 04:45:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this ? Install epdfview. I have just tried it: it appears that it can not open attachments. Thanks, Jerome Please check all recommends of task-xfce-desktop is installed using aptitude. Osamu -- 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/4ec53eb1.6010...@rezozer.net
Re: BibTeX memory limits
Hi ! On 17/11/11 19:18, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:44:04 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I encounter memory limit issue with BibTeX similar to the ones reported in Q37 of the `BibTEX Tips and FAQ' by Michael Shell and David Hoadley : Who also add additional tips to deal with the problematic: *** (...) Some versions of BibTEX have been patched to allow for the memory limits to be changed via the contents of a “bibtexmemory.config” file (without having to recompile), but, unfortunately, such systems don’t seem to be very common. There is also a version of BibTEX with a much larger capacity. “8-bit” BibTEX was written by Niel Kempson and Alejandro Aguilar-Sierra [20]. On many systems with 8-bit BibTEX (MiKTEX), the executable is called bibtex8.7 Maybe you can Google for these two options :-? I did one of the other options: just improve my BibTeX BST code to workaround the encountered limitation. Before my email I was not familiar with BibTeX Style hacks, and it sounded obscure: I am getting familiar with it. (Amazingly it remind me the old good time of the HP calculators :-).) My hope was to set up some parameters in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf as it can be done for the different variant of tex, for metapost, ... I know that memory limits for tex and its derived, for metapost can be can be configured in the /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf configuration file: can we do something similar for bibtex ? There is also a program named biber aimed to solve that memory limitations, maybe you can give it a wirl: biber comes with biblatex: I want to stay with bibtex to avoid endless issue. http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/ And while searching for this program, I've found a request for package bug report in Debian BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570018 Greetings, Thanks, Jerome -- 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/4ec584be.4030...@rezozer.net
Xfce: manual lock screen
Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4ec6804e.8050...@rezozer.net
Re: Xfce: manual lock screen
On 18/11/11 17:00, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 18/11/11 16:57, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Yes. With the command xflock4 - part of the xfce4-utils which you probably already have installed. You are right. It can also be bound to a keyboard shortcut. I would prefer a `button' near the `Log Out' one: I guess it can be done ... how ? Thanks again, Jerome Lorenzo. Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4ec6891c.9090...@rezozer.net
comment diff files
Hello List: Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4ecfd177.3000...@rezozer.net
Re: comment diff files
Thanks ! On 25/11/11 19:14, Clive Standbridge wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Interesting question. I don't know, but perhaps this paragraph from the patch(1) may help: patch tries to skip any leading garbage, apply the diff, and then skip any trailing garbage. Thus you could feed an article or message con- taining a diff listing to patch, and it should work. If the entire diff is indented by a consistent amount, or if a context diff contains lines ending in CRLF or is encapsulated one or more times by prepending - to lines starting with - as specified by Internet RFC 934, this is taken into account. After removing indenting or encapsulation, lines beginning with # are ignored, as they are considered to be com- ments. Of course, I read `man diff' before sending the email to the list. Jerome -- 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/4ecffbdb.8060...@rezozer.net
Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp
On 28/11/11 19:07, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little problematic. While running Midnight Commander to open (on-the-fly decompression for browsing the archive) the kernel source package (a ~75 MiB .tar.bz2 file) I got this error: http://picpaste.com/mc-error-YXdyRawO.gif My Atom based netbook is not a powerful system but has 2 GiB of ram and 250 hard disk so, what was happening? df -H told me: S.ficheros Tamaño Usado Disp Uso% Montado en /dev/sda2247G 7,7G 239G 4% / tmpfs5,3M 4,1k 5,3M 1% /lib/init/rw tmpfs212M 664k 211M 1% /run tmpfs5,3M 0 5,3M 0% /run/lock tmpfs423M 423M 0 100% /tmp --- here! udev 1,1G 0 1,1G 0% /dev tmpfs423M 238k 423M 1% /run/shm Okay, so /tmp is full. Fine. I know how to solve it but I can foresee more situations like this in the future so some questions arise. As the current tmpfs default settings for /tmp seem a bit unrealistic (just % 20 of the RAM?) for even doing common tasks: 1/ How many room should be set for a /tmp partition? I never had it one so I can't make any good estimation. on my laptop my /tmp partition is about 225 Mb: 1] most of the time it is empty (right now only 1% is used); 2] I have a huge /scratch partition that is used when the /tmp is not big enough; 3] I guess that the relevant size depends on what kind of file is used on fly (read, uncompress, compress, write, ...). 2/ Would be better to simply disable tmpfs for /tmp? This is how I've been doing all these years. I guess the /tmp mounted on a partition of /dev/sda is better idea than tmpfs one. (having a sepated partion for /tmp is good idea.) Any comments are welcome :-) My 2 cents, Jerome Greetings, -- 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/4ed3dbed.30...@rezozer.net
libpam-ssh
Hello List: What have happened to libpam-ssh ? Is it replace by an other package ? Thanks in advcane, Jerome -- 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/4eda9f6b.40...@rezozer.net
Re: libpam-ssh
On 03/12/11 23:29, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 11:15:07PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: What have happened to libpam-ssh ? It was removed, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650644 Poor me: I really like it ! Is it replace by an other package ? No. Shade and sweet water! I am lost here. Thanks anyway, Jerome Stephan -- 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/4edab73c.2040...@rezozer.net
Re: libpam-ssh
Hello: Actually it sounds as maintained project, as the last update is stamp 2011/06/14: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-ssh/ On the other hand, I have no trouble with it on my boxes. Jerome On 04/12/11 03:38, Allan Wind wrote: On 2011-12-04 00:56:44, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Poor me: I really like it ! Yeah. Me too. /Allan -- 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/4edb4847.5050...@rezozer.net
Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux
what about D ? On 24/12/11 21:56, David Christensen wrote: On 12/24/2011 06:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Lisp Smalltalk Erlang Haskell Caml/OCaml APL - if you're crazy or want to be; or you could go all the way to Brainfuck (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck) for that matter, Ada, if you're writing mission-critical/safety-critical systems If you're really interested in programming languages: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ Interesting shopping list. :-) David -- 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/4ef63eed.30...@rezozer.net
Fwd: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux
Original Message Subject: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:23:46 -0500 From: tony baldwin tonybald...@gmx.com To: g62993...@rezozer.net - Original Message - From: Jerome BENOIT Sent: 12/24/11 04:06 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux what about D ? On 24/12/11 21:56, David Christensen wrote: On 12/24/2011 06:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Lisp I do like lisp. I've barely played with it, but something about it is...I don't know, lisp code is pretty to look at. Is it weird that I think that? Should I seek therapy? I've decided I'd really like to learn it, at the very least. (I know: I like tcl, now lisp...I should start speaking latin, too.) Ruby looks fun. It looks like the bastard child of tcl and perl, or something. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.net All Tony, all the time! -- 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/4ef65479.5040...@rezozer.net
Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux
On 24/12/11 23:13, Miles Fidelman wrote: Nah... D is just warmed over C. may be more than a better C. Now E, on the other hand, adds significant capabilities for secure distributed computing based on the object-capability model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_%28programming_language%29 Jerome BENOIT wrote: what about D ? On 24/12/11 21:56, David Christensen wrote: On 12/24/2011 06:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Lisp Smalltalk Erlang Haskell Caml/OCaml APL - if you're crazy or want to be; or you could go all the way to Brainfuck (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck) for that matter, Ada, if you're writing mission-critical/safety-critical systems If you're really interested in programming languages: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ Interesting shopping list. :-) David -- 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/4ef6550d.10...@rezozer.net
xfc4 migration next step: get rid of gnome
Hello List: I have recently migrated to Xfce, and now I would get rid of gnome as it seems to become an heavy machinery: what is the best way to so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4f0091bf.7070...@rezozer.net
Re: sbin
On 01/01/12 17:58, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:42:10 +0800, lina wrote: Is it safe to add /sbin into PATH? To you user env? If it's not an exposed system, I'd say yes. and if you really know what you do ! Why the default path not include /sbin, I guess this is a FHS recommendantion. if not one of the key point. Jerome Greetings, -- 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/4f00928d.50...@rezozer.net
D programming: rdmd
Hello List: Where is rdmd in Debian ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4f05cee9.4010...@rezozer.net
Re: D programming: rdmd
Thanks. I am looking for Debian ways: right now I play with gdc-4.6 On 05/01/12 17:56, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:25:13 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Where is rdmd in Debian ? *** http://www.d-programming-language.org/faq.html#q5 Will D be open source? The front end for the dmd D compiler is open source, and the complete source comes with the compiler, and is available on github. The back end for dmd is licensed from Symantec. The runtime library is completely open source using the Boost License 1.0. The gdc and ldc D compilers are completely open sourced. *** Maybe is not there because the backend if not GPL licensed? :-? Compiled packages are available here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html Greetings, -- 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/4f05d980.2080...@rezozer.net
Re: D programming: rdmd
Hello List: On 05/01/12 18:10, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Thanks. I am looking for Debian ways: right now I play with gdc-4.6 It appears that rdmd.d is distributed within the source of the pacakge gdc-4.6. Jerome On 05/01/12 17:56, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:25:13 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Where is rdmd in Debian ? *** http://www.d-programming-language.org/faq.html#q5 Will D be open source? The front end for the dmd D compiler is open source, and the complete source comes with the compiler, and is available on github. The back end for dmd is licensed from Symantec. The runtime library is completely open source using the Boost License 1.0. The gdc and ldc D compilers are completely open sourced. *** Maybe is not there because the backend if not GPL licensed? :-? Compiled packages are available here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html Greetings, -- 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/4f07a99e.5000...@rezozer.net
Re: xfc4 migration next step: get rid of gnome
On 08/01/12 16:17, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 01/01/2012 19:48, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:02:55 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I have recently migrated to Xfce, and now I would get rid of gnome as it seems to become an heavy machinery: what is the best way to so ? I would start by removing the related metapackages (gnome, gnome-desktop- environment, gnome-core...). If removing tries to do crazy things (like deleting packages or libraries that you still want to leave installed), I would then go with a selective package removement. It will be slower but this way you ensure to keep the things you want and those that can be still needed or even useful for xfce. In my case I went for a slightly more 'radical' (but very educational) way of backing up may home dir, reinstalling vanilla debian and then xfce4 and xfce4-goodies. Eventually I did install gnome related packages e.g. to have network-manager and such, but overall my system is much lighter. Something not directly related to xfce, but interesting for keeping installs slimmer, is a useful option for apt-get I learned in the process, it is the --no-install-recommends (which I then made permanent), as it seems recommends is abused to some extent. I am waiting for the next stable Debian release to do so. Jerome Ciao, Lorenzo. -- 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/4f09b42c.7090...@rezozer.net
Re: thread issue
Hello List: just use a job scheduler as SLURM: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/slurm-llnl Jerome On 04/08/11 16:23, lina wrote: Thanks for suggestions, Actually I got a job which contains several small jobs inside. if run the bash script, it will do those one by one and it is pretty slow, waiting ... I can run each small jobs separately, but use a bash script kind of easy to make some changes in amount and manage. I just wonder are there some simple way to do it? another question, if I don't have root previlege, can I adjust my nice level in some cluster? I noticed mine NI was kind of 19, totally crazy slow. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Frank Lanitzfr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: Am 04.08.2011 15:12, schrieb lina: Hi, I noticed when make -j 8, the 8 cores can be fully occupied. can I use some way to enable 8 cores at the same time when I run something, such as a bash script? Hard to say as it depends on the software you are running. On shell scripts you might can do it by intelligent forking of processes doing the single tasks. How can I fork of processes doing each single tasks? Other applications do need to support multi threading in most cases already inside source code. Cheers, Frank -- 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/4e3aa979.7010...@frank.uvena.de -- 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/4e3ac2ba.7090...@rezozer.net
Re: thread issue
Hello List: On 04/08/11 18:26, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/4/2011 11:03 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: just use a job scheduler as SLURM: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/slurm-llnl She already has PBS. Apparently you didn't read her posts. She run jobs on a lab cluster and on her personal Debian laptop, and she is not really aware of job scheduler [1] Jerome [1] personal communication. -- 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/4e3ac95c.7050...@rezozer.net
Re: Best linux Distro 2011
Hello List: On 08/08/11 19:30, Chris Brennan wrote: On 8/8/2011 11:36 AM, shawn wilson wrote: I would have gone with slackware. But that's just me. :) Slackware is a great way to learn Linux without many 'isms to worry about. Slackware 4.x/5.x was my first distro to try on my own and I used it for a very long time. It taught me the fundamental basics of what I needed to know about compiling software and it's dependencies. It's something I do recommend to people who want to aggressively learn Linux without the overhead of learning how a specific OS does something. Granted I haven't used Slackware since 9.1 so I have no idea how much has changed since then... Why have you switched to Debian ? Jerome -- 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/4e401e58.5090...@rezozer.net
Re: ntp problem: the server clock slowly recedes
Hell List: On 09/08/11 09:40, owl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, the server clock continually recedes as you can see the ntpq -p offset is too high. Setting the right time at hand not solve anything after a while the server clock slowly recedes Any suggestions? ahve you tried an other server ? remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == ntp1.inrim.it .CTD.1 u 46 64 377 23.641 329686. 2517.77 ntp2.inrim.it .CTD.1 u 29 64 377 25.236 329834. 2524.50 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 14 09:42:28 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- 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/4e40e536.9010...@rezozer.net
orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src
Hello List: On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src , /usr and /usr/local being mounted on different partitions. I guess it is a common practice. Whatever, I have noticed that in my /usr/src (- /usr/local/src) an orphaned link was created linux-kbuild-3.0.0 - ../lib/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 : the /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 does exist, but not /usr/local/lib/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 I could create a link /usr/local/lib , but because of the version suffix, this approach is not an appropriate one. Of course, I can unorphan the link by hand, but I am looking for a permanent solution. Any idea ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4e44293e.9030...@rezozer.net
Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src
Hello List: On 12/08/11 08:08, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-11 21:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src , /usr and /usr/local being mounted on different partitions. I guess it is a common practice. It might be common, but it is not a good practice since /usr/src is distribution territory. I.e. Debian packages will overwrite any local files without warning. My understand is the /usr/src is an exception: and /usr/src is meant to to build kernel images. Second, my set up forced the distribution territory: on my box: /usr is mounted read only, whereras /usr/local is not. Whatever, I have noticed that in my /usr/src (- /usr/local/src) an orphaned link was created linux-kbuild-3.0.0 - ../lib/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 : the /usr/lib/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 does exist, but not /usr/local/lib/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 I could create a link /usr/local/lib , but because of the version suffix, this approach is not an appropriate one. Of course, I can unorphan the link by hand, but I am looking for a permanent solution. Any idea ? My advice would be to delete the symlink and move any files belonging to Debian packages to /usr/src. Use dpkg -S usr/src to find out which files belong to packages. If you don't want to do that, use a bind mount rather than a symlink for /usr/src. Then the /usr/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 symlink will work (but /usr/local/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 will not). This sound better: I will try soon. Sven -- 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/4e44d65b.5010...@rezozer.net
Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src
My advice would be to delete the symlink and move any files belonging to Debian packages to /usr/src. Use dpkg -S usr/src to find out which files belong to packages. If you don't want to do that, use a bind mount rather than a symlink for /usr/src. Then the /usr/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 symlink will work (but /usr/local/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 will not). In other words, the issue remains. Is there a way to ask to the involved package to link via an absolute path rather than a relative one ? May I fill a bug report here ? Thanks, Jerome -- 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/4e45a110.5050...@rezozer.net
Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src
hello List: On 13/08/11 08:13, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-12 09:29 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 12/08/11 08:08, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-11 21:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src , /usr and /usr/local being mounted on different partitions. I guess it is a common practice. It might be common, but it is not a good practice since /usr/src is distribution territory. I.e. Debian packages will overwrite any local files without warning. My understand is the /usr/src is an exception: and /usr/src is meant to to build kernel images. This is true. Nevertheless, install Debian some tarballs (kernel sources, modules sources, ...) in /usr/src : for practical reasons, I prefer to build my own specific kernel in /usr/src in such a way I have an eye on what is going on. If I was working in an other folder, I would not noticed the presence of the link installed by kbuild. You can build kernel images anywhere you like, there is no need or advantage whatsoever to build them under /usr/src. Second, my set up forced the distribution territory: on my box: /usr is mounted read only, whereras /usr/local is not. That does still not explain why you need /usr/src to be writable. Sven Jerome -- 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/4e478fe7.1090...@rezozer.net
Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src
Hello List On 13/08/11 08:24, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-12 23:54 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: If you don't want to do that, use a bind mount rather than a symlink for /usr/src. Then the /usr/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 symlink will work (but /usr/local/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 will not). In other words, the issue remains. Is there a way to ask to the involved package to link via an absolute path rather than a relative one ? Not really, although it might be possible to convert it to absolute after unpacking if you install a dpkg trigger which does that. This sound as a dirty trick that I wan to avoid. May I fill a bug report here ? Debian policy requires the link to be relative¹, so the Debian kernel team will not change their packages to accommodate you. Thanks to remind me this part of the story. My current understanding is that my set up is not appropriate: my plan is to remove `/usr/local/src' and to mount `/usr/src' on its own partition. This will fix the issue, and this will allow to keep `/usr' mounted read-only and to play as before in `/usr/src' to build my own specific kernel images. Thanks for the small discusion, Jerome Sven ¹ http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.5 -- 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/4e479153.7070...@rezozer.net
What happens to kernel.org ?
Hello List: does anyone know why `www.kernel.org' can't be found ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4e693dd3.30...@rezozer.net
Re: What happens to kernel.org ?
Hello List: Thanks for your replies: indeed it is `down for maintenance' according to itself. Jerome On 09/09/11 02:02, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: does anyone know why `www.kernel.org' can't be found ? The servers are probably still being rebuilt after the recent hack. You can get the latest kernel(s) from github. -- 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/4e69d872.2050...@rezozer.net
gvim: hide hidden files
Hello List: Since a while, I have noticed that File-Open in gvim exhibits hidden files: is there a way to hide hidden files ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4e6cbbb2.60...@rezozer.net
Re: gvim: hide hidden files
Hello List: thanks for the quick reply. On 11/09/11 17:45, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:46:26 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Since a while, I have noticed that File-Open in gvim exhibits hidden files: is there a way to hide hidden files ? Usually all of the GTK+ based menus share the same options. Never played with gvim before but in GNOME based apps this can be turned off by right clicking on the files part and unselect [ ] show hidden files. I have just checked gconf-editor and GONME-System-'File Management'-View : the `show hidden files' box is not stick. My guess is that there is an option in gvimrc to set. Jerome Greetings, -- 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/4e6cdbb3.4070...@rezozer.net
Re: Nvidia drivers
Hello List: have your tried the Debian instead: http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nvidia-cuda-dev hth, Jerome On 12/09/11 15:05, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them working ages ago but an update broke them whilst I was trying to get CUDA to work. I'm trying to do this properly the nvidia way, and have tried to remove all of the packages using apt, and them used m-a prepare m-a auto-install nvidia and everything went to plan, but when I reboot X fails saying it can't find the modules. ja@Hawaiian:~$ uname -a Linux Hawaiian 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 7 05:21:45 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux Hawaiian:/home/ja# find / -iname 'nvidia.ko' /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko lsmod shows an nvidia module Hawaiian:/home/ja# lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia 10852808 0 i2c_core 25424 2 i2c_i801,nvidia But it doesn't seem the same size as the other two, which are different from each other. Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13294487 Sep 12 12:40 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11670161 Jan 12 2010 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko Not exactly sure where to go from here, any advice or requests for more information gratefully received. Thanks, James -- 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/4e6e01db.7090...@rezozer.net
Re: Nvidia drivers
Have you tried to neutralized the wrong nvidia module by renaming it. On 12/09/11 16:30, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, problem is that I can't get x to start now and need some help, any ideas? On Sep 12, 2011 1:58 PM, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello List: have your tried the Debian instead: http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nvidia-cuda-dev hth, Jerome On 12/09/11 15:05, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had them working ages ago but an update broke them whilst I was trying to get CUDA to work. I'm trying to do this properly the nvidia way, and have tried to remove all of the packages using apt, and them used m-a prepare m-a auto-install nvidia and everything went to plan, but when I reboot X fails saying it can't find the modules. ja@Hawaiian:~$ uname -a Linux Hawaiian 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 7 05:21:45 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux Hawaiian:/home/ja# find / -iname 'nvidia.ko' /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko lsmod shows an nvidia module Hawaiian:/home/ja# lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia 10852808 0 i2c_core 25424 2 i2c_i801,nvidia But it doesn't seem the same size as the other two, which are different from each other. Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13294487 Sep 12 12:40 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/nvidia/nvidia.ko Hawaiian:/home/ja# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11670161 Jan 12 2010 /lib/modules/2.6.30-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko Not exactly sure where to go from here, any advice or requests for more information gratefully received. Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org mailto:debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org mailto:listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e6e01db.7090...@rezozer.net -- 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/4e6e1acd.4040...@rezozer.net
key shortcut rendering xterm console full screen
Hello List: Since a while on my Wheezy box, by accident under Gnome, my fingers slide and render the xterm console full screen. As I would like to reproduce it and to scape from it, but not by accident, I want to know the involved key shortcut. Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4e88910e.9000...@rezozer.net
Re: key shortcut rendering xterm console full screen
On 02/10/11 18:56, Dom wrote: On 02/10/11 17:27, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since a while on my Wheezy box, by accident under Gnome, my fingers slide and render the xterm console full screen. As I would like to reproduce it and to scape from it, but not by accident, I want to know the involved key shortcut. Might you have accidentally pressed F11? That is used on some applications as a switch between window and full screen mode. No, only left and right lower keys on my Apple keyboard are involved: -- 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/4e88a5ac.50...@rezozer.net
Re: key shortcut rendering xterm console full screen
Hello List: On 02/10/11 22:38, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:27:58 +0200 Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello List: Since a while on my Wheezy box, by accident under Gnome, my fingers slide and render the xterm console full screen. As I would like to reproduce it and to scape from it, but not by accident, I want to know the involved key shortcut. Thanks in advance, Jerome ALT+ENTER works here. This is the shortcut: to get full screen and to escape from it Is it specific to Gnome or to X stuff ? Thanks again, Jerome -- 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/4e88d0e4.3040...@rezozer.net
Re: i wish to generate a Debian package from source written in c++ with makefile already prepared
Hello: you may ask on the Debian mentor list. hth, Jerome On 21/03/12 12:58, Gershon Celniker wrote: i wish to generate a Debian package from source written in c++ with makefile already ready, so i used dh_make and prepared all the needed configuration file, all but rules file - this one is a bit tricky, because i cant find a way to execute the make command at the destination folder. my question is how to write the generate file so it will copy the source files to /usr/share/my folder and execute make command there. Best, Gershon Celniker Bioinformatics developer - TAU - Tel Aviv University -- 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/4f69cb4c.1010...@rezozer.net
Re: skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb
Hello Mathieu, On 12/06/11 11:10, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: $ sudo dpkg -i skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb Selecting previously deselected package skype. (Reading database ... 120513 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking skype (from skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype: skype depends on lib32stdc++6 (= 4.1.1-21); however: Package lib32stdc++6 is not installed. ... Why put amd64 in the name then... Skype is only available on 32 bits version: amd64 system can run both 32 bits and 64 bits binaries, so amd64 can run Skype provided that some basic 32 bits libraries are also installed. You may use something as dselect to install Skype and its dependencies. hth, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit-at+rezozer*dot_net -- 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/4df4905b.1040...@rezozer.net
Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro
Hello List: My boxes are Apple boxes running Debian (stable): a MacMiniServer and a MacBookPro 15 (MacBookPro6,2). Let say that the installation may not be so straightforward for Debian newbies, second, for recent Apple, you may install a recent kernel and recent graphics support. hth, Jerome On 25/06/11 19:56, lee wrote: Danganc...@gmail.com writes: I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian? A while ago, I looked briefly into installing Debian on a Mac because being confronted with their MacOS feels like having traveled back in time about 20 years. I found out that it's difficult, to say the least, and decided not to pursue it any further. You might be better off asking which laptops are best suited to run your favourite OS and get one that's suited well. -- 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/4e077893.4030...@rezozer.net
Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro
Hello, On 03/07/11 14:19, lee wrote: Jerome BENOITjgm...@rezozer.net writes: The very first stage is to install refit ( http://refit.sourceforge.net/ ) from Mac OS X. And then Debian can be installed quite as usual. For more details see http://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro Thanks for the info :) It seems once you get refit working, you could use a Debian installer CD and get it installed. However, the Mac sucks too much to try: You can't install more then two disks, what do you mean by disk ? and you can't install any of them in the right orientation. I am getting more confused here: are you dealing with a MacBookPro or a MacPro ? I have another disk I could use (if the Mac supports SATA disks), but since it's always been installed in the right orientation, it's too likely to fail. Your issues seem rather as hardware issues. Jerome -- 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/4e106abf.4090...@rezozer.net
Re: printing image full page
a2ps ? On 05/07/11 06:03, T o n g wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a script-able way to print any arbitrary image onto a full printer page (letter, A4, etc). All the image viewing tools that I tried didn't give me such feature, and so far the only solution I have is,cough,cough, doing it in winword. Thanks -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit-at+rezozer*dot_net -- 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/4e128f0a.7000...@rezozer.net
Re: help to choose right printer to buy
On 26/07/11 23:04, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and have no idea how good their drivers/support are. Check them in the printer database which may be found here: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting As a rule of thumb, I would advise against buying a printer which does not support native printing of PostScript, PDF or PCL. These are guaranteed to work, and work well, without the need for special vendor-specific drivers (you might need a PPD file to enable device- specific features like duplexing and the like, but that's it). If it doesn't support one of the above languages, it's most likely a raster device which requires the host to render the page image; this type of printer has numerous issues, including in many cases the inability to print a full page at high resolution and/or lose data due to timing issues and lack of sufficient memory to buffer an entire page. I've had good experiences with HP LaserJets and currently have a Kyocera FS-C5025N which does native IPP to talk to CUPS. I have a good experience with HP LaserJet P2055dn . Reviews can be read on amazon. hth, Jerome Regards, Roger -- 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/4e2f2d7e.9040...@rezozer.net
Re: Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support
Hello List: I have a very naive question regarding the multiarch transition: will the upgrade of Debian box from Squeeze to Wheezy be messy ? or as smooth as previous upgrades ? Jerome On 26/07/11 13:04, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: --- The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support pr...@debian.org July 26th, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110726b --- Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support During this years annual Debian Conference DebConf11 made the introduction of multiarch support a release goal for the coming Debian release 7 Wheezy to be released in 2013. Multiarch is a radical rethinking of the filesystem hierarchy with respect to library and header paths, to make programs and libraries of different hardware architectures easily installable in parallel on the very same system. Multiarch is a major enhancement to Debian's ability to deliver on the promise of being a universal operating system explains Steve Langasek, driving force of the implementation, not only will it make crossbuilding easier, but also enables better support for legacy 32-bit applications on new 64-bit installations and in the future will even allow live migrations from 32-bit to 64-bit systems. People interested in the topic can watch the talk by Steve Langasek Multiarch in Debian: 6 months (or 6 years) on today at 16:00 CEST (14:00 UTC) by using the DebConf web frontend at http://debconf11.debconf.org/watch.xhtml. About Debian The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal operating system. Contact Information --- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail topr...@debian.org. -- 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/4e2f2e82.1030...@rezozer.net
Re: Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support
On 27/07/11 04:16, T Elcor wrote: --- On Tue, 7/26/11, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: I have a very naive question regarding the multiarch transition: will the upgrade of Debian box from Squeeze to Wheezy be messy ? or as smooth as previous upgrades ? In my case, the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy was rather straightforward and no more difficult than previous upgrades. I am not surprised. Nevertheless the question is: has ``multiarch'' features already reached Wheezy ? Jerome -- 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/4e2fbd2c.4060...@rezozer.net
kernel 3.0 : shutdown issue
Hello List: I have just installed kernel 3.0.0 on my Squeeze box (with some Wheezy stuff): while shutdown process works well with kernel 2.6.39 , it gets into troubles with kernel 3.0.0. In fact, I do not where to look. Any hints is welcome, Jerome -- 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/4e31082c.3060...@rezozer.net
Re: kernel 3.0 : shutdown issue
Hello List: On 28/07/11 17:32, lina wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello List: I have just installed kernel 3.0.0 on my Squeeze box (with some Wheezy stuff): while shutdown process works well with kernel 2.6.39 , it gets into troubles with kernel 3.0.0. What's kind of trouble. you may wanna be more specific. You are right. I tried 3.0.0 on Wheezy. So far so good. Thanks for the feed-back. Finally I figure out the issue: it appears that the trouble comes from chrony . I will dig it. Sorry for the noise, Jerome In fact, I do not where to look. Any hints is welcome, Jerome -- 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/4e31082c.3060...@rezozer.net -- 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/4e31c983.50...@rezozer.net
Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file
Hello List: I have just migrated from Squeeze to Wheezy. It appeared that gnome-keyring agent interferes with my ssh-agent set-up: I want to disable gnome-keyring agent for ssh. At the end of the README.Debian for gnome-keyring, it is suggested to ``simply edit /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop''. This sounds good, of course I can edit it, but which entry to add or to modify to disable it ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- 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/4e36914e.3050...@rezozer.net
Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file
Hello List: Thanks for the link. On 01/08/11 13:51, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:43:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I have just migrated from Squeeze to Wheezy. It appeared that gnome-keyring agent interferes with my ssh-agent set-up: I want to disable gnome-keyring agent for ssh. At the end of the README.Debian for gnome-keyring, it is suggested to ``simply edit /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop''. This sounds good, of course I can edit it, but which entry to add or to modify to disable it ? I remember something similar (or related) has been commented time ago in this mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/05/msg01062.html The solution made here is a per user solution suggexted in the README.Debian file, I am looking for a system wide solution. Finally I applied a brute force solution: I purged gnome-keyring. Jerome Greetings, -- 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/4e36e4cf.6090...@rezozer.net
Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file
Hello List: On 01/08/11 19:53, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:39:27 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/08/11 13:51, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:43:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I have just migrated from Squeeze to Wheezy. It appeared that gnome-keyring agent interferes with my ssh-agent set-up: I want to disable gnome-keyring agent for ssh. (...) I remember something similar (or related) has been commented time ago in this mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/05/msg01062.html The solution made here is a per user solution suggexted in the README.Debian file, I am looking for a system wide solution. Mmm... Finally I applied a brute force solution: I purged gnome-keyring. Wow, how drastic! I am agree. Should you have removed/renamed If I remember well, this causes trouble. -or edited accordingly to do not start- the system wide /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-*.desktop file I think it would have been enough... It was looking to do so, but I got no clear answer. Thanks, Jerome Greetings, -- 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/4e36ea50.3090...@rezozer.net
Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file
On 01/08/11 20:19, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:02:56 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/08/11 19:53, Camaleón wrote: (...) Should you have removed/renamed If I remember well, this causes trouble. I meant removing the `/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop' It shouldn't, at all. Is what README file says (removing the involving elements from the menu so they don't run at start-up). -or edited accordingly to do not start- the system wide /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-*.desktop file I think it would have been enough... It was looking to do so, but I got no clear answer. Testing is sometimes the best master :-) Indeed: my test was just to see if my box could survive without gnome-keyring (and the associated pam module) as I do not really need it. I do prefer to play with libpam-ssh : my box survived, and ssh-agent is lauched by libpam-ssh as before but with not interferences. You run gnome-session-properties and remove the check for the desired gnome-keyring entries. Then you look at the .desktop files of your user profile and see what have changed to apply the same settings to the system wide ones. It likes there are a lot of way to disable, what let me think that is a big machinery that I wanted to avoid. Jerome Greetings, -- 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/4e36f189.2080...@rezozer.net
Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file
On 01/08/11 22:16, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:16:43 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I disagree. If the package isn't useful then removing it is very likely the easiest solution. Why frustrate yourself trying to work around the problem when removing the problem is a good solution too. IMO, removing should be the last resort, the last thing to do. No it is not. That is one of the strengths of Debian. You are free to create a installation based upon what you want to have installed. That's another and complete different thing. For instance, I do not use NM on my workstation boxes nor Avahi-zeroconf so I disable those, but I disable those not because I don't know how to setup them but becasue I don't like what they provide. And I prefer to keep them installed because they can be useful in some scenarios so I keep them -disabled but installed-, they do not disturb my day-to-day work. I know that with some other distributions you are expected to have a set bundle of packages installed and any deviation from that bundle isn't tolerated very well. But that isn't Debian. In Debian it is perfectly fine to install what you need and to not install what you do not need or do not want. Really! Yes, but Jerome was not complaining about a bloated system but how to solve a specific problem he had with gnome-keyring and how to disable it. He read the docs and did not found a convenient nor easy way to do what he wanted to get. And I also think that in this case, the README file lacks for basic instructions on what exactly has to be edited and in what manner. Should he had found this steps easily, I bet that gnome-keyring is still on his system :-) Indeed, because I would suspect that a lot of packages depend on gnome-keyring as I could read on Google. But as only a `minimal' Gnome is actually installed on my box, it appeared that no package depends on it. OT: Gnome sounds heavy to me, and I plan to migrate to an alternative sooner or later. Maybe if the package is completely broken or if by-passes do not work as expected, then it's okay to get rid off it (even in such cases I prefer to first open a bug report at tell that something supposed to work it fails). I like to understand how stuff works. Of course understanding how things work is great. And filing bug reports as appropriate improves things for everyone. But when software is mostly a packaging of an upstream and the upstream isn't very responsive or has their own vision and agenda then sometimes it just isn't productive. You have heard the old RAH quote, Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. Unfortunately sometimes that is true of software projects too. I really don't think this is a packaging/packager issue nor a problem with unresposive devels... Anyway, gnome-keyring is part of the GNOME security stack and password management and I find it very convenient for this task, but that's of course up to each user. If it is good for you then that is great! I found that was completely broken for my use and I had to work around it in order to make things work for me. My workaround was much less pleasant than removing the broken package. But I expect that either one or both of gnome-keyring or libpam-gnome-keyring will be removed from my systems until the offending behavior is corrected. And that is perfectly okay from a Debian viewpoint. Nobody said it's not okay to remove a package. I said (or wanted to state) that removing a package because something is unknown (in this case, how to widely avoid gnome-keyring-ssh from starting) is not what I would have done, I don't like to surrender to my OS (being Debian or whatever OS you prefer...), I prefer to fight;-) Greetings, Jerome -- 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/4e37142a.2030...@rezozer.net
Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file
Hello List: On 02/08/11 00:10, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20110801_230130, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Indeed, because I would suspect that a lot of packages depend on gnome-keyring as I could read on Google. But as only a `minimal' Gnome is actually installed on my box, it appeared that no package depends on it. OT: Gnome sounds heavy to me, and I plan to migrate to an alternative sooner or later. Jerome In Squeeze, Gnome key-ring can be disabled in the drop down menus by going to System-Preferences-Startup Applications Then look under the Startup Programs tab There you will find three check boxes that mention GNOME Keyring in their description line. Un-check them, Close, and re-boot According to the README.Debian of `gnome-keyring', this is also supported in Wheezy. This does not actually remove gnome-keyring, but it does allow lower level system software to handle SSH keys, for instance. Yes, but is it a per user set up, not a system wide set up. Disabling things that are only available in GNOME should be the first step in transitioning to a less heavy GUI. Your control over GNOME features can't be anything but less reliable in the foreign environment. What is it meant by `foreign environment' ? Greeting, Jerome HTH -- 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/4e37a208.1050...@rezozer.net
Re: Firewall Setup
quid firehole ? On 02/08/11 09:04, Jude DaShiell wrote: Why not check out arnos-iptables-firewall? On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Alan Chandler wrote: On 01/08/11 21:56, Paul Stuffins wrote: Hi Guys, I am trying to set iptables up, but am getting into a right mess editing the rules direct in the init script. What are peoples recommendations of a front end, either one that I can run via an Apache VirtualHost, obviously on a secured and locked down VirtualHost so that only I can access it, or via SSH. --Paul I am not sure I understand exactly what you mean, but this is my set of firewall rules which I reference in /etc/network/interfaces/pre-up. They are stored in file /etc/firewall Unlike the other replies I hand crafted these from scratch quite a few years ago now and they seem to have stood me in good stead. Although some of the destination changing rules refer to programs I haven't used for at least 5 years (GPL refers to Grand Prix Legends - a car racing sim) The only other rules are generated by fail2ban dynamically locking out smtp attempts to send me junk. #!/bin/sh # # INETIF=$1 KANGA=192.168.0.12 POOH=192.168.0.11 test -x /sbin/iptables || exit 0 #set -e echo Setting up firewall on interface $INETIF # # Start up ensuring that the tables are all empty # (ignoring any errors because there is nothing there yet) # iptables -F iptables -t nat -F iptables -t mangle -F iptables -X # # This is for established communications coming in from the internet just # so that I can get an idea what sort of packets they are. # iptables -N i-estab iptables -A i-estab -p tcp --sport www -j ACCEPT iptables -A i-estab -p tcp --sport imap -j ACCEPT iptables -A i-estab -p tcp --sport imaps -j ACCEPT iptables -A i-estab -p tcp --sport nntp -j ACCEPT iptables -A i-estab -p tcp --sport domain -j ACCEPT iptables -A i-estab -p tcp --dport ssh -j ACCEPT iptables -A i-estab -p tcp --sport ftp -j ACCEPT iptables -A i-estab -p tcp --sport ftp-data -j ACCEPT iptables -A i-estab -p tcp --sport 9418 -j ACCEPT # Accept everything not so far accepted iptables -A i-estab -j ACCEPT # # Route packets going out from here onto a new table so that we can do # things with them (logging etc) # iptables -N to-inet # # Just want to count a few things # iptables -A to-inet -p tcp --dport www -j ACCEPT iptables -A to-inet -p tcp --dport imap -j ACCEPT iptables -A to-inet -p udp --dport domain -j ACCEPT iptables -A to-inet -p tcp --dport nntp -j ACCEPT iptables -A to-inet -p udp --dport 67:68 -j ACCEPT iptables -A to-inet -p tcp --dport iax -j ACCEPT iptables -A to-inet -p udp --dport iax -j ACCEPT # #Note ICMP packets I am sending out # iptables -A to-inet -p icmp --icmp-type destination-unreachable -j ACCEPT iptables -A to-inet -p icmp --icmp-type source-quench -j ACCEPT iptables -A to-inet -p icmp --icmp-type time-exceeded -j ACCEPT iptables -A to-inet -p icmp --icmp-type parameter-problem -j ACCEPT iptables -A to-inet -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT iptables -A to-inet -p icmp --icmp-type echo-reply -j ACCEPT # # Prevent any netbios stuff leaking out from here # iptables -A to-inet -p tcp --dport netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -j LOG iptables -A to-inet -p tcp --dport netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -j DROP iptables -A to-inet -p udp --dport netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -j LOG iptables -A to-inet -p udp --dport netbios-ns:netbios-ssn -j DROP # # # Accept every thing else # iptables -A to-inet -j ACCEPT # # Now make the connection to the table # iptables -A OUTPUT -o $INETIF -j to-inet # # Common internet Stuff # iptables -N from-inet # # Stuff already established is allowed but jump to chain to count things # iptables -A from-inet -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j i-estab # #Deal with ICMP packets # iptables -A from-inet -p icmp --icmp-type destination-unreachable -j ACCEPT iptables -A from-inet -p icmp --icmp-type source-quench -j ACCEPT iptables -A from-inet -p icmp --icmp-type time-exceeded -j ACCEPT iptables -A from-inet -p icmp --icmp-type parameter-problem -j ACCEPT iptables -A from-inet -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT # Already accepted by related iptables -A from-inet -p icmp --icmp-type echo-reply -j ACCEPT # # ftp-data started by mine (already accepted in related) # iptables -A from-inet -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport ftp-data -j ACCEPT # # Socks probes should be dropped so that IRC does not thing we are screwwing them # iptables -A from-inet -p tcp --dport socks -j DROP # # Drop these before logging them (just collecting them to see what they are) # iptables -A from-inet -p tcp --dport 1635 -j DROP iptables -A from-inet -p tcp --dport 1370 -j DROP # # DHCP messsages - I need to drop server requests # iptables -A from-inet -p udp
Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file
Hello: On 02/08/11 17:42, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:06:48 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 02/08/11 00:10, Paul E Condon wrote: (...) This does not actually remove gnome-keyring, but it does allow lower level system software to handle SSH keys, for instance. Yes, but is it a per useir set up, not a system wide set up. Mmm, maybe not... There is only one file located under /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring- ssh.desktop and no more, I mean, there is no such a .desktop file under user's profile. Also, according to official docs¹, disabling from start-up applications is one of the ways to go... and curious is that it says nothing about this is a per user setting. do you mean that here a user has root privilege ? Disabling things that are only available in GNOME should be the first step in transitioning to a less heavy GUI. Your control over GNOME features can't be anything but less reliable in the foreign environment. What is it meant by `foreign environment' ? I think it refers to non-GNOME desktops/window managers :-) ¹http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Ssh Greetings, -- 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/4e38323e.2050...@rezozer.net
Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file
Hello: On 02/08/11 19:46, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:22:06 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello: On 02/08/11 17:42, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:06:48 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 02/08/11 00:10, Paul E Condon wrote: (...) This does not actually remove gnome-keyring, but it does allow lower level system software to handle SSH keys, for instance. Yes, but is it a per useir set up, not a system wide set up. Mmm, maybe not... There is only one file located under /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring- ssh.desktop and no more, I mean, there is no such a .desktop file under user's profile. gnome seems not to follow some Linux customs. Also, according to official docs¹, disabling from start-up applications is one of the ways to go... and curious is that it says nothing about this is a per user setting. do you mean that here a user has root privilege ? Nope, I mean what I read :-) How do you interpret the docs? I was ironic because I guess that you know this is implicit because the start-up applications is set per users. Gnome really sounds to me as a big machinery, may be not as the late hal, but something towards it. I have just read the LightDM was chosen over GDM in Ubuntu: it seems I am not the only one to think this. Greetings, -- 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/4e384eaf.2070...@rezozer.net
Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file
Hello: On 03/08/11 14:07, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:23:27 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 02/08/11 19:46, Camaleón wrote: (...) This does not actually remove gnome-keyring, but it does allow lower level system software to handle SSH keys, for instance. Yes, but is it a per useir set up, not a system wide set up. Mmm, maybe not... There is only one file located under /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring- ssh.desktop and no more, I mean, there is no such a .desktop file under user's profile. gnome seems not to follow some Linux customs. I'm not aware of any in particular. GNOME used to be committed to freedesktop standards :-? Also, according to official docs¹, disabling from start-up applications is one of the ways to go... and curious is that it says nothing about this is a per user setting. do you mean that here a user has root privilege ? Nope, I mean what I read :-) How do you interpret the docs? I was ironic because I guess that you know this is implicit because the start-up applications is set per users. That's the expected. But gnome-session-properties is a beast I still don't understand very well how it goes. I see some applications available that have not their corresponding .desktop file neither under ~/.config/autostart nor /etc/xdg/autostart, so where are these coming from? :-? Anyway, I sincerely doubt the only way to widely disable gnome-keyring- ssh starts by forcing the user to compile the application with ssh keyring-app disable, that is a non-sense. Applications that need to be run for all of the users are located in /etc/xdg/autostart so by removing the ones you don't want should do the job with no additional drawbacks. Gnome really sounds to me as a big machinery, may be not as the late hal, but something towards it. I have just read the LightDM was chosen over GDM in Ubuntu: it seems I am not the only one to think this. Yes, GNOME (and KDE) are becoming big developments, they scare. But also offer lots of facilities for the lazy users (include me in the last sentence :-P). OTOH, gnome-keyring should be only installed if you select the full gnome-desktop-environmnet package or a close related tool. lazy in the wrong way :-) Have anyone submit a bug report for it ? Jerome Greetings, -- 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/4e397863.20...@rezozer.net
Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file
Hello: On 03/08/11 19:04, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:33:39 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 03/08/11 14:07, Camaleón wrote: (...) Anyway, I sincerely doubt the only way to widely disable gnome-keyring- ssh starts by forcing the user to compile the application with ssh keyring-app disable, that is a non-sense. Applications that need to be run for all of the users are located in /etc/xdg/autostart so by removing the ones you don't want should do the job with no additional drawbacks. Gnome really sounds to me as a big machinery, may be not as the late hal, but something towards it. I have just read the LightDM was chosen over GDM in Ubuntu: it seems I am not the only one to think this. Yes, GNOME (and KDE) are becoming big developments, they scare. But also offer lots of facilities for the lazy users (include me in the last sentence :-P). OTOH, gnome-keyring should be only installed if you select the full gnome-desktop-environmnet package or a close related tool. lazy in the wrong way :-) Have anyone submit a bug report for it ? To enhance the gnome-keyring doc/readme? Nope (most probably because of the aforementioned lazyness) :-) I see ! In fact, a bug report was submit in April: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623539 I have just added some comments. Jerome Greetings, -- 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/4e39854e.9070...@rezozer.net
Re: lenny squeeze etc etc
Hi , On 21/12/10 10:18, Jim Pazarena wrote: what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system which throws the novice? do you really think that novices are lost with `goofy name' (as you said) rather than version number ? Novices are generally lost with version numbers. Jerome -- 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/4d1014df.8070...@rezozer.net
Re: o/t ipod
have you tried to share your iTune stuff ? On 26/12/10 21:24, shawn wilson wrote: On Dec 26, 2010 7:57 AM, Ted Wager t...@trufflesdad.plus.com mailto:t...@trufflesdad.plus.com wrote: My son has bought me an ipodtouch for Xmas..Anyone tell me how I can transfer the music files on his ipod to mine ?..I only have Linux on my machines but can get access to a Winbox at a neighbours... IIRC, there is no real good answer for linux. I think rythmbox has some capabilities (that can be enabled or configured). You could also jailbreak it and just scp stuff over (though you might need to hack around with plist xml files). Itunes on windows is an option (though I'm not sure how to handle account security or drm issues here). Also, if you go that route, you're not really going to be able to keep your music synced up. If your computer can handle it, you might research into running itunes inside of a windows virtual box session. -- 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/4d1743bd.7020...@rezozer.net
Re: what process is sending this packet?
quit all unnecessary applications as firefox, and as root enter: lsof -i it may give an idea. On 27/12/10 22:29, S Mathias wrote: I can see, that theres a program that keeps sending packets on port 25: Dec 27 14:11:46 a kernel: [ 6336.992320] O_D_LOG: IN= OUT=lo SRC=127.0.0.1 DST=127.0.0.1 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=61533 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=37263 DPT=25 WINDOW=32792 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Dec 27 14:12:01 a kernel: [ 6352.635704] O_D_LOG: IN= OUT=lo SRC=127.0.0.1 DST=127.0.0.1 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=55853 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=40644 DPT=25 WINDOW=32792 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Dec 27 14:12:04 a kernel: [ 6355.641085] O_D_LOG: IN= OUT=lo SRC=127.0.0.1 DST=127.0.0.1 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=55854 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=40644 DPT=25 WINDOW=32792 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Dec 27 14:12:10 a kernel: [ 6361.649059] O_D_LOG: IN= OUT=lo SRC=127.0.0.1 DST=127.0.0.1 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=55855 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=40644 DPT=25 WINDOW=32792 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 but where or how could i find out, that what process sends these packets? thank you! -- 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/4d18a49b.4000...@rezozer.net
Re: Where to download rtl8168d-1.fw
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5t=58390 On 30/12/10 16:22, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: My one machine need rtl8168d-1.fw . Dell Studio 1557. network is not working on that machine. And how to install this .fw file on my system. #NSDJ -- ┌─┐ │Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─┘ -- 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/4d1c4285.1030...@rezozer.net
Re: Web calendar sharing in Evolution
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/calendarserver On 30/12/10 21:13, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/30/2010 07:55 AM, Camaleón wrote: Last time I searched for such solution in Icedove I reached the conclusion that having a local server for ical (calendar sharing in the LAN using caldav protocol) is the best option because e-mail clients (Evolution, Iceweasel, Kmail...) all of them can have problems for direct sharing a networked .ical file (muti-user read/write/lock operations perform better when caldav protocol is in charge). could you explain what server/app/package that is? I tried apt-cache search ical, and it gave me back 350 packages ( including everything with automatICALly).. -- 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/4d1c8770.9040...@rezozer.net
Fwd: Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny
On 19/01/11 23:16, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:09:30 +, Steve Kleene wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. I'm replacing a seven-year-old PC, now running Lenny, that has been crashing off and on for a couple of years. When I built my first Debian machine, I had to use testing (Etch at the time) because stable (Sarge) didn't yet support my NIC. Is there anything in new hardware that I should particularly avoid because it might not be suppprted by Lenny? I'll be keeping the old peripherals, so this only concerns the components inside the case. I have many computers running lenny with no problems at all. All devices are properly detected and configured. Note that Squeeze is frozen: it is near to get stable. What I mean is that you may want to wait for Squeeze. Jerome As per the NIC cards in use, I can tell you the chipsets: 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller 06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit EthernetController (rev 05) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13) I uploaded this info to the HCL so other users can benefit from it: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ Greetings, -- 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/4d370431.7040...@rezozer.net
Re: Let's talk about compression rates
On 22/01/11 18:44, S Mathias wrote: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf $ ls -Sl total 461252 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 93174605 Jan 22 11:03 linux-2.6.37.tar.gz -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 73552510 Jan 22 11:10 linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 66333786 Jan 22 11:16 linux-2.6.37.7z -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 64035788 Jan 22 11:16 linux-2.6.37.tar.7z -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 63480808 Jan 22 11:20 linux-2.6.37.tar.xz $ I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ? XZ is very recent compare BZ2 This is the same as in PDF's. DJVU files could be amazing too. They could compress [convert] a 400 MByte PDF to a 20 MByte DJVU. Amazing. Why don't these technologies spread?? Any opinions regarding it? Thanks. -- 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/4d3aba46.6090...@rezozer.net
Re: Release file expired
Hello Joe, On 01/02/11 21:58, Joe Riel wrote: Ran apt-get update today and received E: Release file expired, ignoring http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/dists/testing/Release (invalid since 6h 36min 31s) Do I have to install/update an ssh key? Have you tried an other mirror ? Jerome -- 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/4d487524.1020...@rezozer.net
Re: Squeeze release date according to distrowatch
Hello Mark, you may want to read the news: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/02/ Jerome On 05/02/11 12:51, Mark Panen wrote: Hi, A few days ago i read on distrowatch that squeeze will be released on the 6h Feb, can't find the article now again. Is this true? Mark -- 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/4d4d3b7a.8000...@rezozer.net
Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit
amd64 On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: * amd64 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ * armel http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/armel/iso-dvd/ * kfreebsd-i386 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/kfreebsd-i386/iso-dvd/ * kfreebsd-amd64 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/kfreebsd-amd64/iso-dvd/ * i386 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/i386/iso-dvd/ * ia64 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/ia64/iso-dvd/ * mips http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/mips/iso-dvd/ * mipsel http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/mipsel/iso-dvd/ * powerpc http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/powerpc/iso-dvd/ * sparc http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/sparc/iso-dvd/ * s390 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/s390/iso-dvd/ * source http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/source/iso-dvd/ * multi-arch http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/multi-arch/iso-dvd/ which version for intel chipset 64bit? -- 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/4d511c39.7020...@rezozer.net
Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit
who does play with Itanium box ? expert or newbie ? On 08/02/11 14:53, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 4:55 AM: On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:33 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: which version for intel chipset 64bit? (...) amd64 Or i386, that's up to the user ;-) Neither of these is correct if he has an Itanium box, in which case he needs the IA64 distro. The OP's question was vague, as Intel has two 64 bit ISAs: IA64 and x86-64 (the latter called EM64T/Intel64/etc by Intel, depending on the mood of their marketing department on a given day/week/month/year--why I despise marketing people). -- 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/4d514d59.4010...@rezozer.net
