Re: meta-question

2010-08-18 Thread Howard Eisenberger
Louis Hinman wrote: > I was accustomed some time back to post questions on linus.debian.user > (http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/topics). Recently, > I logged into this forum and tried to post. > > My post was rejected and I was informed I needed to register. I registered > as

USB Failures in Squeeze from Lenny upgrade

2010-08-18 Thread GhostlyDeath
Hello, once I upgraded to squeeze USB devices stopped working pretty much. Plugging anything in results in USB freezing and such, I never had the problem in lenny using the 2.6.26 kernel, only using the 2.6.32 kernel. Any suggestions? I've never filed a bug report however. The errors in dmesg (It

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/18/2010 07:12 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed August 18 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: I get my email from my isp using fetchmail, keep setting. I also pull the mail IOW, you leave the emails on the ISP POP server? but I delete them in Thunderbird, or move them to a deifferent folder on th

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed August 18 2010, Camaleón wrote: > > weird, it's not doing it any more, but it is still filtering it to my > > debian-users folder.. and I deleted 2 filters in kmail! > > Can you enable any Kmail filter log facility? :-? > > Greetings, well, kmail is pulling them in for my local user ( /var/

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed August 18 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I get my email from my isp using fetchmail, keep setting. I also pull the > > mail > > IOW, you leave the emails on the ISP POP server? but I delete them in Thunderbird, or move them to a deifferent folder on thunderbird. > > > into my laptop using IM

Re: Broken/Obsolete packages - I think we can do better.

2010-08-18 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:59:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > It's called "do-not-feed-the-troll". Package not found. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread B. Alexander
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:19:54 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > this only seems to happen with a thread, when it gets a message in the > > thread. I don't get 2 of the original messages, but I get 2 replies, as > > separate messages, that are t

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:55:14 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> I get my email from my isp using fetchmail, keep setting. I also pull >> the mail into my laptop using IMAP ( thunderbird). >> I have 300+ kmail filters.. I filter everything somewhere :) >> from  .kde/share/config/kmailrc > weird, it

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/18/2010 03:24 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed August 18 2010, Camaleón wrote: this only seems to happen with a thread, when it gets a message in the thread. I don't get 2 of the original messages, but I get 2 replies, as separate messages, that are the same. (...) can it be 2 filters

Re: Broken/Obsolete packages - I think we can do better.

2010-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/18/2010 02:48 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:56:44PM -0500, Timothy Legg wrote: I just installed a stable Debian package that advertises to perform so many wonderful tasks, but in reality, it does little more than provide an attractive graphical interface for a segment

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed August 18 2010, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I get my email from my isp using fetchmail, keep setting. I also pull the > mail into my laptop using IMAP ( thunderbird). > I have 300+ kmail filters.. I filter everything somewhere :) > from  .kde/share/config/kmailrc weird, it's not doing it any m

Re: smartctl test error

2010-08-18 Thread Kevin Ross
On 8/17/2010 10:26 PM, vishnuvardhan wrote: *I have run the following command and it is showing the following error for all the disks [ hda, hda1, hda2, hda5 ]* : # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed August 18 2010, Camaleón wrote: > > this only seems to happen with a thread, when it gets a message in the > > thread. I don't get 2 of the original messages, but I get 2 replies, as > > separate messages, that are the same. > > (...) > > > can it be 2 filters? > > How are you getting the e-

Re: Broken/Obsolete packages - I think we can do better.

2010-08-18 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:56:44PM -0500, Timothy Legg wrote: > I just installed a stable Debian package that advertises to perform so > many wonderful tasks, but in reality, it does little more than provide an > attractive graphical interface for a segmentation fault. > > I searched google and in

Re: Broken/Obsolete packages - I think we can do better.

2010-08-18 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/18/2010 03:21 PM, Celejar wrote: > If it's as broken as you say, there ought to be a bug of 'grave' > severity filed against the package (whether or not a fixed version is > available). Is there? If so, that would be a release-critical bug, >

Re: Broken/Obsolete packages - I think we can do better.

2010-08-18 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:56:44 -0500 (CDT) "Timothy Legg" wrote: > Hello, > > I wish to bring up something that bothers me. > > I just installed a stable Debian package that advertises to perform so > many wonderful tasks, but in reality, it does little more than provide an > attractive graphical

Re: Mandatory Access Control Systems?

2010-08-18 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:06:09PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > Are any MAC systems integrated into Debian other than SELinux? > (Also, does this differ between Lenny and Squeeze?) grsecurity exists for stable. You can google the differences between SELinux and grsecurity if you wish. AppArmo

Re: Broken/Obsolete packages - I think we can do better.

2010-08-18 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:56:44 -0500 (CDT) "Timothy Legg" wrote: > Hello, > > I wish to bring up something that bothers me. > > I just installed a stable Debian package that advertises to perform > so many wonderful tasks, but in reality, it does little more than > provide an attractive graphical

Mandatory Access Control Systems?

2010-08-18 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Are any MAC systems integrated into Debian other than SELinux? (Also, does this differ between Lenny and Squeeze?) -- Perry E. Metzgerpe...@piermont.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Broken/Obsolete packages - I think we can do better.

2010-08-18 Thread Timothy Legg
Hello, I wish to bring up something that bothers me. I just installed a stable Debian package that advertises to perform so many wonderful tasks, but in reality, it does little more than provide an attractive graphical interface for a segmentation fault. I searched google and indeed found others

Starting KVM with public bridge as normal user

2010-08-18 Thread T o n g
Hi, I setup my KVM public bridge according to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Networking But it doesn't say how I would start KVM with public bridge as normal user. This is what I get: $ kvm -net nic -net tap . . . could not configure /dev/net/tun: Operation not permitted Starting th

Re: Connecting to Sun EBS client via java web page

2010-08-18 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:06:11 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: (...) When I go to the site on port 9000, it offers me a pop-up to download the gconsole.jnlp file. I choose "Open with..." and select javaws. It opens Java, then thinks about it and says "Unable to launch the application.

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:19:54 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > this only seems to happen with a thread, when it gets a message in the > thread. I don't get 2 of the original messages, but I get 2 replies, as > separate messages, that are the same. (...) > can it be 2 filters? How are you getting

Re: Connecting to Sun EBS client via java web page

2010-08-18 Thread B. Alexander
Camaleón, It is sid (I failed to mention that, I guess). Your direction worked perfectly. Changed that sysctl to 0, ran sysctl and it started right up. Thank you for that! I have been fiddling with this for a couple of months now... --b On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On We

Re: Connecting to Sun EBS client via java web page

2010-08-18 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:06:11 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: (...) > When I go to the site on port 9000, it offers me a pop-up to download > the gconsole.jnlp file. I choose "Open with..." and select javaws. It > opens Java, then thinks about it and says "Unable to launch the > application." I click o

Re: Music Player to replace Songbird

2010-08-18 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:10:22 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > My wife has a Phillips Raga MP3 player that seems to only work if the > files are loaded by, or at least indexed by Songbird. Since Songbird is > no longer supported on Linux and does not create playlists usable on the > Raga, she is looki

Connecting to Sun EBS client via java web page

2010-08-18 Thread B. Alexander
I have a problem wherein I cannot connect to our Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software (version 7.6) page, so I wonder if it is a Debian thing. I'm using Iceweasel (3.5.9 through 3.5.11), and sun-java6 6.21. Ny coworker, running an old Fedora box (F-8 or F-9 maybe?) can connect to it. Unfortuna

weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
this only seems to happen with a thread, when it gets a message in the thread. I don't get 2 of the original messages, but I get 2 replies, as separate messages, that are the same. Debian Lenny KMail Version 1.9.9 uname -a Linux paulandcilla.homelinux.org 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Mon Jun 21 05:58:44

Re: apache2 php5 error

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed August 18 2010, Steven wrote: > >   Seems like you need to either: > > > >    a) Make the directory you've told it to save its logs in. > > > >    b) Change it to log to a directory which exists.  Perhaps > >     /var/log/apache2? > > Seems like the variable 'APACHE_LOG_DIR' isn't properly s

Re: smartctl test error

2010-08-18 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:56:07 +0530, vishnuvardhan wrote: > *I have run the following command and it is showing the following error > for all the disks [ hda, hda1, hda2, hda5 ]* : > # smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda Not errors "per se". It's a report of the disk activity. (...) > === START OF R

Re: apache2 php5 error

2010-08-18 Thread Steven
On Wed, August 18, 2010 09:06, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 18:52:32 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > >> # tail /var/log/apac*/error.log > > (This is good. Looking at error logs is the way you solve > problems yourself.) > >> [Tue Aug 17 18:49:40 2010] [error] (2)No such file or d