Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:27:46 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: 7.6.2011 17:25, Camaleón kirjoitti: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:00:21 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: aptitude update aptitude upgade works fine (this is lenny, where aptitude is the better). I'm afraid cron-apt uses apt-get by

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-08 Thread nhadie ramos
i would suggest you troubleshoot your network first. if you have a laptop/pc, configure the IP to: IP Address 41.134.19.90 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.248 Default Gateway 41.134.19.89 then connect the laptop/pc directly to the router and ping 41.134.19.89 if 41.134.19.89 responds, try to

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Panen
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:59 AM,  titantopp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, You might want to try the following: - Disabling the CD-ROM as an apt source by commenting them out (add a # sign before deb cdrom...) - Changing your

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:00:24 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 08/06/2011 13:16, Camaleón: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:28:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: I can't remember the last time I put my mouse on a clear (glass?) surface. But if I did, then I'd use a mousepad. And what happens if you

Re: USB stick no longer automounting at boot

2011-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:36:28 +0100, Russell Gadd wrote: I have today set up a new installation of Linux Mint and it is exhibiting the same symptoms as my installation of Squeeze as follows - I have a USB stick permanently plugged in (for backup purposes) and when the system boots the stick is

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-08 Thread titantoppler
Hm in that case, what does aptitude full-upgrade do? On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:59 AM, titantopp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, You might want to try the

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread briand
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:14:35 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hi all, x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command line + options to gnome-terminal. if you try, for example,

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Panen
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:49 PM, titantopp...@gmail.com wrote: Hm in that case, what does aptitude full-upgrade do? On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:59 AM,  

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Mark Paten wrote: Just installed Debian 6.0.0 and synaptic. The Officially supported (main) etc on the first tab cannot be checked. They where checked when i first installed synaptic but after i changed mirrors they will not be checked. I still have the correct mirrors in sources list but

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-08 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
08/06/2011 15:42, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:00:24 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 08/06/2011 13:16, Camaleón: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:28:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: I can't remember the last time I put my mouse on a clear (glass?) surface. But if I did, then I'd use a

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:04:02 -0700, briand wrote: x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command line + options to gnome-terminal. if you try, for example, x-terminal-emulator --geometry=80x50 it doesn't seem to work. bug ? Hum... here (lenny) neither

File URIs; was Re (6): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-08 Thread peasthope
Scott others, From: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:07:01 +1000 I seem to remember a number of URL handling exploits that could cause a problem (if they still exist). All the admonitions about security have been hypothetical. Nobody has painted a

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Panen
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: Mark Paten wrote: Just installed Debian 6.0.0 and synaptic. The Officially supported (main) etc on the first tab cannot be checked. They where checked when i first installed synaptic but after i

Native Oberon; was Re: Re (4): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-08 Thread peasthope
* From: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net * Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:37:25 -0500 By the way, Native Oberon the Niklaus Wirth OS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Oberon; Regards, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca Shop pages

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-08 Thread Brian
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 19:03:28 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html#list-of-stanzas-in-eni refers to man 5 interfaces which doesn't seem to explain what software is doing the work after the plugin of the ethernet cord... and only if auto and

Re: Native Oberon; was Re: Re (4): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 11:25 AM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: * From: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net * Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:37:25 -0500 By the way, Native Oberon the Niklaus Wirth OS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Oberon; And it runs Firefox? -- Neither the wisest constitution

Bad links; was Re: Re (4): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-08 Thread peasthope
Scott, These are the links that don't work (for one reason or another):- Thanks, I'll repair, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca Shop pages http://carnot.yi.org/ accessible as long as the old drives survive. Personal pages

Re (2): Native Oberon

2011-06-08 Thread peasthope
From: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:38:28 -0500 And it runs Firefox? Reference the last topic in this message. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg00521.html The best it can do is FF on another machine via VNC. ETHNO can easily be installed from a

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:09:41 +0100, Brian wrote: On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 19:03:28 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html#list-of- stanzas-in-eni refers to man 5 interfaces which doesn't seem to explain what software is doing the work after the

Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Frank McCormick
Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case for two months now. Is there a solution ? -- -- Frank -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank McCormick wrote: Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case for two months now. Is there a solution ? You're certainly not the only one. I have not found a solution: it does not seem to be

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-08 17:58 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when trying to look inside deb files ? No, you're not alone. This has been going on , in my case for two months now. Is there a solution ? See

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-08 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 16:06:34 +, Camaleón wrote: It seems it can fail, at least under some scenarios ;-) ifupdown: /etc/init.d/networking should support allow-hotplug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550014 This isn't a failure of allow-hotplug but a perceived defect in

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:26:02AM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: aha, I did this : which x-terminal-emulator and got this : /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator which is a script. Hmm, I would expect that to be a link to /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator. Cheers, Tom -- The

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/08/11 at 07:26am, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:14:35 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hi all, x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command line + options to

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case for two months now. Is there a solution ? It's the time to use ar -x. Or be patient.

Re: Time Issues

2011-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 iun 11, 21:24:33, Ralf Mardorf wrote: After installing Debian I had to correct /etc/default/rcS too, I'm from the same time zone. I'm not sure if I randomly made a mistake when the installer asked me, or if it's a bug. On recent installers the question is not asked anymore (or

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2011 schrieb Brian: On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case for two months now. Is there a solution ? It's

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-08 19:51 +0200, Brian wrote: On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case for two months now. Is there a solution ? It's

Re: [OT] Mice (was: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse)

2011-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:32 +, Camaleón wrote: What happens is that modern mice are a bit ostentatious and full of buttons (or they're targeted to notebook users and are a bit small). Yes, I'm very picky with my input peripherals :-) +1 As for not working on clear surfaces,

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:27:44 +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 16:06:34 +, Camaleón wrote: It seems it can fail, at least under some scenarios ;-) ifupdown: /etc/init.d/networking should support allow-hotplug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550014 This

Re: Re (2): Native Oberon

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 12:02 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:38:28 -0500 And it runs Firefox? Reference the last topic in this message. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg00521.html The best it can do is FF on another

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 iun 11, 14:39:40, Matt wrote: I gather in the apt-get world the equivalent is: apt-get update apt-get upgrade I think anyway? Being used to yum I like there way better. ;-) Just out of curiosity: is there an equivalent for 'apt-get update' (checking for updates without

Re: Problems installing grub/lilo with RAID1 on /

2011-06-08 Thread Felix Natter
tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com writes: Hi, 06/06/2011 20:16, Felix Natter wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: hello Tom, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Felix Natter felix.nat...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: I am trying to install squeeze (from live DVD[1])

[OT] Native Oberon

2011-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 14:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: ETHNO can easily be installed from a diskette in an evening. I experienced having a disk notcher at hand is very comfortable http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/cip/mix_disk_notcher_01.jpg :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 22:08 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 06 iun 11, 14:39:40, Matt wrote: I gather in the apt-get world the equivalent is: apt-get update apt-get upgrade I think anyway? Being used to yum I like there way better. ;-) Just out of curiosity: is there an

Re: problems with Gnome and KDE

2011-06-08 Thread Vladimir Kerka
On 06/08/2011 03:26 AM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: On Lun 06 Jun 2011 16:08:17 Vladimir Kerka escribió: Hi, Lisandro, thanks for your reply. I am using Sid for several years, with no major problems, I didn't notice crashing window manager before. I was not sure what to report

Re: problems with Gnome and KDE

2011-06-08 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On pirmadienis 06 Birželis 2011 00:44:59 Vladimir Kerka wrote: 2. major problem: I use KDE 4.6.X from Sid, but the session crashes immediately after start (this is the reason, I sent the copy to debian-kde). I tried to rename .kde in the home, no luck. More than that, when I try to

Fwd: Re: problems with Gnome and KDE

2011-06-08 Thread Vladimir Kerka
Sorry, I sent it to Modestas only, not to the list Vlada Original Message Subject:Re: problems with Gnome and KDE Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:12:25 +0200 From: Vladimir Kerka ke...@dinmont.cz Reply-To: ke...@dinmont.cz Organization: Dinmont To: Modestas

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:43:41 +0200 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-06-08 19:51 +0200, Brian wrote: On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when trying to look inside deb files ? This has

Iceweasel's security.checkloaduri; was Re: File URIs;

2011-06-08 Thread peasthope
* From: Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com * Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:09:58 + (UTC) ... opening file:// links from http:// documents. That is disabled by default for security reasons, but can be enabled by toggling the value of the security.checkloaduri configuration

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-08 Thread Lisi
Putting back on list, having erroneously taken it off. Sorry Mark. :-( On Wednesday 08 June 2011 17:59:58 Mark Panen wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 08 June 2011 14:41:36 Mark Panen wrote: I don't understand why aptitude update shows 560

Re: [OT] Native Oberon

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 02:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 14:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: ETHNO can easily be installed from a diskette in an evening. I experienced having a disk notcher at hand is very comfortable http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/cip/mix_disk_notcher_01.jpg

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 06:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:28:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/07/2011 01:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I still see some disadvantages for laser or BlueTrack based mice: 1/ They do not work on crystal or clear surfaces I can't remember the last time

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 06:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I use alcohol to clean the ball and internal rollers. But I'm afraid laser based mice get also dirty (bottom surface has also to be cleaned for fast sliding). Once a year. Maybe. But as I said on my previous post to Ron, I

Git and gpg agent issues

2011-06-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
This is strange and perhaps someone has an answer. I tried to create a signed tag in a Git repository today on my desktop and I get the following: gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use error: gpg failed to sign the tag error: unable to sign the tag The tag message has been left in

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread briand
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:04:22 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/08/11 at 07:26am, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:14:35 -0400 William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/11 at 10:04pm, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hi all,

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-08 Thread briand
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:59:03 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:04:02 -0700, briand wrote: x-terminal-emulator is a script stand-in that simply redirects the command line + options to gnome-terminal. if you try, for example, x-terminal-emulator

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:05:30 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote: ... Does Debian drop valid hardware, that isn't brand new? I use a PS/2 mouse with Debian, but it does not have a wheel; so I can't address your specific situation. But as to your more general question about hardware support, I

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Panen
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Putting back on list, having erroneously taken it off.  Sorry Mark. :-( On Wednesday 08 June 2011 17:59:58 Mark Panen wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 08 June 2011 14:41:36

Setting up networking on eth0

2011-06-08 Thread Mark Panen
Hi I am using KDE on 6.0.0, knetworkmanager uses auto eth0 to get a DHCP address. I have added a wired connection for a static address, but each time i reboot it uses the auto eth0 and i want a static address. Here is my setup: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 08:02 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] - install SMART utilities and run smartctl -A /dev/your drive -- the first line is usually the raw read error rate -- if the value (last entry on the line) is anything except 0, that's the sign that your drive is failing, if it's in the

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-08 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 6/8/2011 15:15, Ron Johnson wrote: What's bluetrack? I agree with not wanting wireless, though. Bluetrack in mice is a proprietary Microsoft made tracking method for their optical mice. Physically, they have larger holes for the emitter and the light is blue instead of red. A quick

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/06/11 01:58, Frank McCormick wrote: Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case for two months now. Is there a solution ? No problems here Squeeze with Iceweasel and Icedove backports,

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/07/2011 08:02 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] - install SMART utilities and run smartctl -A /dev/your drive -- the first line is usually the raw read error rate -- if the value (last entry on the line) is anything except 0, that's the sign that your drive is failing,

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