Re: apt-utility and repos.

2011-09-21 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Bob: Some maintainers will keep bugs open and tag them with the release the bug appears in. (e.g. Tagged squeeze.) But that is all manual effort on the part of the maintainers. So although some do this it isn't the default behavior provided by the Debian

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-21 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, Sthu Deus wrote, on 09/21/11 08:36: Thank You for Your time and answer again, Jörg-Volker: so hardware rendering is still used. (By the way, glxgears is not good for any performance test or comparison.) Yes. It does - as said, Just became much slower. Yet it gave me some numbers

Re: LUKS partition?

2011-09-21 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
21/09/2011 06:15, Perry Thompson wrote: Hi there. This may or may not be the best place to ask this, but I can't seem to find help anywhere else, so I thought I would ask. I have begun backing up my /home to a LUKS encrypted external hard drive using rsync. I just got a second one external

unable to ssh as user in konsole on shells

2011-09-21 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I always ssh into my Debian squeeze machine from a certain shell using konsole (number seven), first as user then as root, i have 7 open. Today i tried to ssh as user into the Debian box using my shell number six which i normally use for this and the connection timed out. I can ssh through

install network-manager without network

2011-09-21 Thread roberto
Hello, i've recently installed debian 6.0.2. I need to setup the network connection by network-manager and network-manager-kde. Can i supply the two .deb packages and then install them using: dpkg -i package_name.deb ? The system already has wireless-tools and wpasupplicant. I cannot understand

Re: install network-manager without network

2011-09-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/09/11 19:17, roberto wrote: Hello, i've recently installed debian 6.0.2. I need to setup the network connection by network-manager and network-manager-kde. Can i supply the two .deb packages and then install them using: dpkg -i package_name.deb ? Yes - you may get a message to the

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:20:22 +0700, Sthu wrote in message 4e784cc9.5267e30a.3a0f.3...@mx.google.com: Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: ..dunno OpenArena, to help investigate your problem, install and start FlightGear-2.4 and chk the orange number in the lower right hand corner,

Help need to upgrade tshark version in Debian

2011-09-21 Thread Muhammad Fahad
Hello Current version of tshark in my debian is 1.2.11, i want to upgrade to 1.4.x. Can anyone help me in this -- Muhammad Fahad.k +919844164764 +919663385645 Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

Re: Help need to upgrade tshark version in Debian

2011-09-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/09/11 21:35, Muhammad Fahad wrote: Hello� �Current version of tshark in my debian is�1.2.11, i want to upgrade to 1.4.x.� Can anyone help me in this -- Muhammad Fahad.k +919844164764 +919663385645 Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits. Wheezy and Sid

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/20/2011 3:01 PM, Lisi wrote: My / does not contain /home, which is on its own large drive. It contains everything else. hda1 is /, hda2 is swap. My / has been trundling along at around 30% full for years. Now it has suddenly filled up completely. This thread has been going on too

Re: xserver-xorg-video-intel does sometimes not resume

2011-09-21 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Julien, many thanks for the quick and useful reply. Am Tuesday, 20. September 2011 schrieb Julien Cristau: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:32:46 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, I have occasionally (maybe once a week) the problem, that my system does not resume after a suspend. To be

Re: 100% used / file system. Doh!

2011-09-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/20/2011 4:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Lisi wrote: Have just realised that I can't do this yet because I haven't yet solved the problem of installing it!! I am not sure how important this particular program is but I think it will help. snip Following this tangent is taking Lisi further

regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread lina
Hi, To avoid messing up Lisi's post, I started a new one. What's the acceptable saturation for the / partition, now my one reached 61% (377M of 658, wheezy), another reached 87% (483M of 657M, sid) only saw it increases, never saw it decreases. I followed Camaleón's suggestion, the output of

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:05:38 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 20 September 2011 15:47:22 Camaleón wrote: Lisi, calm down and don't forget the good manners of sending plain text formatted e-mails ;-) Sorry, Camaleón. :-( I *never* turn HTML on. I have it unticked. I simply don't know why

Re: How the kernel knows?

2011-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:29:06 -0300, David Roguin wrote: I was wondering, how does the kernel knows what module (or driver) to load given any hardware? Mmm, lspci lists hardware ID and kernel should know about that :-? And, can i see that in any log file? In many ways, but the most accurate

Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-21 Thread rypervenche
I am having trouble getting Xfce to work with startx. I have followed the instructions in the doc files for xfce4 and xfce4-session, but I am still unable to mount drives, start mylogin keyring, and shutdown via the GUI (shutdown and restart are grayed out). I even tried adding the proper command

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 13:26:56 Stan Hoeppner wrote: This thread has been going on too long Lisi.  Let's get this fixed already.  :)  Run these commands to see if you've run out of free space or run out of inodes: # df -h -x tmpfs # df -i -h -x tmpfs Thanks, Stan. Your concern is

USB Headset - no playback or recording

2011-09-21 Thread Eric Galaxy
I have a Sharkoon X-Tatic SP usb headset. It is the only playback/recording device I have. In sound preferences, it shows two devices, my onboard sound card and the headset. I put it to play through the headset, but it doesn't. It also does not record (according to the sound recorder, levels

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 14:27:47 Camaleón wrote: Kmail is a very good MUA, there has to be a switch you can toggle on to instruct that all messages are by default formatted as text and not html or auto. That setting uses to be under mail compositing preferences, but I can't be more

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 21 Set 2011, Lisi wrote: So now things are working again, but I would still like to know what went wrong, and shall work through all the suggestions until either I solve what went wrong or I run out of things to try. We cannot guess, not with only the vague information you've given us.

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 14:27:47 Camaleón wrote: As per the keyboard layout on this kind of media, usually you can select it at boot time from the menu. At the bottom there are some presets already made (screen resolution, keyboard layout...) but you can change that values, although

xorg - MatchIsTouchpad not working properly

2011-09-21 Thread David Roguin
Hi! I have an InputClass section in my xorg.conf that catches whenever a touchpad is detected (MatchIsTouchpad on), but the driver on that section never loads. If I change the MatchIsTouchpad for other Match like the MatchIsPointer the driver gets loaded, but of course it doesn't work

Re: KDE does not log out or shut down.

2011-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:02:20 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: I can not log out nor shut down from KDE in wheezy. - I have tried a newly created user too w/o luck. Does logout and shutdown work from command line? Ah... Do You mean from ttyN under

Re: KDE does not log out or shut down.

2011-09-21 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: Does logout and shutdown work from command line? Ah... Do You mean from ttyN under root? - For I do not know how to log out from KDE from x-terminal. Okay, you can run these two tests: 1/ Try to shutdown as usual by running shutdown -h now

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 14:54:03 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Qua, 21 Set 2011, Lisi wrote: So now things are working again, but I would still like to know what went wrong, and shall work through all the suggestions until either I solve what went wrong or I run out of

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-21 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Jörg-Volker: I want to try to login w/ failsafe session (just X-terminal available) but it fails for me - to try openarena there - to be out of K/LX -DEs - do You know what can be missing? Do you see any error message? Yes, this one: Xsession: X session

Re: xorg - MatchIsTouchpad not working properly

2011-09-21 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 15:56:42 David Roguin wrote: Hi! I have an InputClass section in my xorg.conf that catches whenever a touchpad is detected (MatchIsTouchpad on), but the driver on that section never loads. If I change the MatchIsTouchpad for other Match like the MatchIsPointer

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-21 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: you wanna fix your jack server, if you want fgfs with audio. Do You mean it is not running? If so, how I cam=n start it? - Some MIDI software asks for that but I have no script in /etc/init.d . May we can use some utilities for the issue? ..yup, try

Re: ATI Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS

2011-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:31:33 -0400, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote in message 4ae059fcfc262fd39f8bd71a9798a9a2.squir...@sax.esid.gecgr.co.cu: Hello I use Debian Squeeze Where I can find drivers for ATI Rage 128 PF / PRO AGP 4x TMDS for Linux?? ..e.g. aptitude search mach64 or apt-cache

Re: KDE does not log out or shut down.

2011-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:06:30 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: Does logout and shutdown work from command line? Ah... Do You mean from ttyN under root? - For I do not know how to log out from KDE from x-terminal. Okay, you can run these two tests: 1/

installation successful

2011-09-21 Thread roberto
Hello, i've successfully installed and configured debian 6.0.2, from cdrom iso. Now, i have to change the sources.list to download lots of packages from debian servers. Should i change the repos from deb-cdrom to normal ftp servers like, right ?

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:32:33 +0700, Sthu wrote in message 4e79f58f.83c9e30a.402b.6...@mx.google.com: Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: you wanna fix your jack server, if you want fgfs with audio. Do You mean it is not running? If so, how I cam=n start it? - Some MIDI software

Re: [g.l.d.user] Re: A quick Q: how do I command something in large amount

2011-09-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:15:08 +0700, Ivan wrote in message 86fwjtp3qr@gray.siamics.net: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.unix.shell as well. Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net writes: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:17:47 +0700, Ivan wrote:

Re: regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:16:53 +0800, lina wrote: To avoid messing up Lisi's post, I started a new one. Better, thanks to care about that :-) What's the acceptable saturation for the / partition, I always ensure there is at least 10% of free space so the whole system can operate smoothly.

Re: installation successful

2011-09-21 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:57:10 roberto wrote: Hello, i've successfully installed and configured debian 6.0.2, from cdrom iso. Now, i have to change the sources.list to download lots of packages from debian servers. Should i change the repos from deb-cdrom to normal ftp servers

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit. Not necessarily. On a server /var/log is a likely culprit, but on a GUI workstation I'd think /var/cache or /usr would be more likely, assuming the problem is a hosed/misconfigured program. If the

Re: xorg - MatchIsTouchpad not working properly

2011-09-21 Thread David Roguin
On Sep 21, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2011 15:56:42 David Roguin wrote: Hi! I have an InputClass section in my xorg.conf that catches whenever a touchpad is detected (MatchIsTouchpad on), but the driver on that section never loads. If I change the

Re: installation successful

2011-09-21 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 16:57 +0200, roberto wrote: Hello, i've successfully installed and configured debian 6.0.2, from cdrom iso. Now, i have to change the sources.list to download lots of packages from debian servers. Should i change the repos from deb-cdrom to normal ftp servers like,

Re: regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:10:53 Camaleón wrote: When you are out of space you will notice (you get a nice warning message), don't worry :-) I got no warning until it was already claiming to be 100%. :-( If I were you I would take some action before it gets that far. You are nearly

Re: installation successful

2011-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:57:10 +0200, roberto wrote: Hello, i've successfully installed and configured debian 6.0.2, from cdrom iso. Now, i have to change the sources.list to download lots of packages from debian servers. Should i change the repos from deb-cdrom to normal ftp servers like,

Re: installation successful

2011-09-21 Thread roberto
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:57:10 roberto wrote: Hello, i've successfully installed and configured debian 6.0.2, from cdrom iso. Now, i have to change the sources.list to download lots of packages from debian

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit. Not necessarily. On a server /var/log is a likely culprit, but on a GUI workstation I'd think /var/cache or /usr would be more likely,

Two Ethernet adapters Question

2011-09-21 Thread John W. Foster
Anyone know if there is a way to use two adapters as one to improve my bandwidth? I have the system recognizing both of them now. Thanks to the recent firmware updates for Gigabit cards from the development team. YEA!! I'm doing the research now, this list is always part of that. Thanks -- John

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit. Not necessarily. On a server /var/log is a likely culprit, but on a GUI workstation I'd think /var/cache or /usr would be more likely,

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread S Scharf
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit. Not necessarily. On a server /var/log is a likely culprit, but on a

Re: regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:24:49 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:10:53 Camaleón wrote: When you are out of space you will notice (you get a nice warning message), don't worry :-) I got no warning until it was already claiming to be 100%. :-( I did receive a message

Re: regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread lina
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:16:53 +0800, lina wrote: To avoid messing up Lisi's post, I started a new one. Better, thanks to care about that :-) You are welcome, I am on my way of learning. ^_^ What's the acceptable

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi Lisi, On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:39:45PM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit. Not necessarily. On a server /var/log is a likely culprit, but on a GUI

Re: regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread lina
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:10:53 Camaleón wrote: When you are out of space you will notice (you get a nice warning message), don't worry :-) I got no warning until it was already claiming to be 100%. :-( If I were

Re: Two Ethernet adapters Question

2011-09-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:35:26AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: Anyone know if there is a way to use two adapters as one to improve my bandwidth? I have the system recognizing both of them now. Thanks to the recent firmware updates for Gigabit cards from the development team. YEA!! I'm

Re: Gimp problem

2011-09-21 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/09/2011 18:01, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 18/09/2011 14:50, Frank McCormick wrote: I posted this question on the GIMP list but no one seems to know the answer. When I open an image in the latest GIMP 2.6 on Debian Sid the file extension choice window is too small and can't be resized

Re: Two Ethernet adapters Question

2011-09-21 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:58:47 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:35:26AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: Anyone know if there is a way to use two adapters as one to improve my bandwidth? I have the system recognizing both of them now. Thanks to the recent firmware updates

Re: Two Ethernet adapters Question

2011-09-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:35:26AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: Anyone know if there is a way to use two adapters as one to improve my bandwidth? Yes. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinkAggregation for a

Re: Two Ethernet adapters Question

2011-09-21 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/09/11 16:58, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:35:26AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: Anyone know if there is a way to use two adapters as one to improve my bandwidth? I have the system recognizing both of them now. Thanks to the

Re: regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:45:00 +0800, lina wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: I followed Camaleón's suggestion, the output of cd / du -h | grep [0-9]M | sort -n -r | less the first few ones even reached hundreds of M. Are those big figures

Re: Two Ethernet adapters Question

2011-09-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:09:42PM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:35:26AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: Anyone know if there is a way to use two adapters as one to improve my bandwidth?

Re: regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread green
lina wrote at 2011-09-21 08:16 -0500: What's the acceptable saturation for the / partition, now my one reached 61% (377M of 658, wheezy), another reached 87% (483M of 657M, sid) only saw it increases, never saw it decreases. or maybe I should wait until reached 95% to ask then? (now

Re: USB Headset - no playback or recording

2011-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:45:44 -0700, Eric Galaxy wrote: I have a Sharkoon X-Tatic SP usb headset. It is the only playback/recording device I have. In sound preferences, it shows two devices, my onboard sound card and the headset. I put it to play through the headset, but it doesn't. It

Re: regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread lina
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:45:00 +0800, lina wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: I followed Camaleón's suggestion, the output of cd / du -h | grep [0-9]M | sort -n -r | less

Re: regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:16:33 +0800, lina wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) are there some easy way to see which files sit on which partition? You can also use df for files, it will print the partition on what they're are mounted. For

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:46:27 Axel Freyn wrote: Hi Lisi, On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:39:45PM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit. Not

Re: multiboot fails -- debian + ubuntu

2011-09-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com [110921 02:09]: Given the grub version, it's your Wheezy install that's controlling boot. Thank you for noticing this. My intent was to have stable (Squeeze) controlling boot, because of the vagaries of testing. But this (Wheezy) may be better. Why did you run

Re: regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread lina
On Sep 22, 2011, at 1:34, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:16:33 +0800, lina wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) are there some easy way to see which files sit on which partition? You can also use df for files, it

python 3.2 on squeeze

2011-09-21 Thread olivier.scalb...@algosyn.com
Hello, I am on Squeeze, and I need to use Python 3.2 for one project. As Squeeze contains Python 3.1 and as I do not want to break my system, what can I do ? I have imagine to install a Debian testing on a VirtualBox but it seems a bit overkill !!! Thanks for helping me ! Olivier -- To

Qt-Creator Version

2011-09-21 Thread Luis Felipe Domínguez Vega
Why qtcreator has version 1.3 in repo, when it has v2.x

Re: python 3.2 on squeeze

2011-09-21 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/21/2011 09:35 PM, olivier.scalb...@algosyn.com wrote: I have imagine to install a Debian testing on a VirtualBox but it seems a bit overkill !!! Thanks for helping me ! My ideas: 2°) Build a Python-only virtualenv

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-21 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 09/21/2011 04:40 PM, rypervenche wrote: I am having trouble getting Xfce to work with startx. Did you try startxfce4 instead of startx? That's how I launch XFCE when not via the display manager... -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-09-21, rypervenche s...@ryper.org wrote: I am having trouble getting Xfce to work with startx. I have followed the instructions in the doc files for xfce4 and xfce4-session, but I am still unable to mount drives, start mylogin keyring, and shutdown via the GUI (shutdown and restart are

Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems

2011-09-21 Thread Brian
On Wed 21 Sep 2011 at 09:40:42 -0400, rypervenche wrote: I am having trouble getting Xfce to work with startx. I have followed the instructions in the doc files for xfce4 and xfce4-session, but I am still unable to mount drives, start mylogin keyring, and shutdown via the GUI (shutdown and

Re: Debian sid root path issue

2011-09-21 Thread Joseph Lenox
On 09/19/2011 09:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Just recently a new sudo entered Wheezy Testing and it changed the behavior of secure_path. See Bug#639841 for details. It no longer overrides your path with a standard system PATH by default. So now unless you set it in your /etc/suders file it will

kppp dialing process hang up on 'starting pppd'.

2011-09-21 Thread Illy
Dear friends Usually I use 3g modem for my internet connection. But since I did apt-get update apt-get upgrade, I can not use my 3g internet connection anymore. My kppp dialing process hang up on 'starting pppd'. I didn't change anything the configuration of my kppp. Anybody has ever

konqueror (or KDE???) is randomly starting libreoffice

2011-09-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, since a few days I noticed, that koqueror is randomly starting libreoffice when visiting websites. I am running debian/testing, and this appeared after an update. It looked for me, that this appears when using webkit as html-decoder. Using khtml in konqueror, this effect seems

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 20 September 2011 20:19:30 Thierry Chatelet wrote: If you have a basic fs, then gparted-live should do the job of resizing. Thanks, Thierry, As I hope you now know, this solved it for me. I clearly ought to have done that as soon as I had the problem, but I needed your prod. Lisi

Re: konqueror (or KDE???) is randomly starting libreoffice

2011-09-21 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 22:30:54 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hello list, Hi! Can you give us some of those addresses giving you problem,so we can validate them? Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Lisi wrote, on 09/21/11 19:47: On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:46:27 Axel Freyn wrote: Hi Lisi, On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:39:45PM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:16:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: And I have taken in that /var/log is a

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-21 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, Sthu Deus wrote, on 09/21/11 16:25: Thank You for Your time and answer, Jörg-Volker: I want to try to login w/ failsafe session (just X-terminal available) but it fails for me - to try openarena there - to be out of K/LX -DEs - do You know what can be missing? Do you see any error

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 9/21/2011 9:14 AM, Lisi wrote: And I have taken in that /var/log is a likely culprit. Not necessarily. On a server /var/log is a likely culprit, but on a GUI workstation I'd think /var/cache or /usr would be more likely, assuming the problem is

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, Claudius Hubig wrote, on 09/22/11 00:05: snip b) check not only the size of specific directories as given above but the size of _every_ directory in /: # cd /; du -shcx * The x option makes du stay on the root filesystem, so it ignores In this command the x is useless since * expands

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Jörg-Volker Peetz jvpe...@web.de wrote: Hi, Claudius Hubig wrote, on 09/22/11 00:05: snip b) check not only the size of specific directories as given above but the size of _every_ directory in /: # cd /; du -shcx * The x option makes du stay on the root filesystem, so it ignores In this

cursor theme Adwaita and DMZ on KDE

2011-09-21 Thread H Xu
Hello, On GNOME, Adwaita and DMZ cursor theme have their own waiting cursor, but on my KDE, their waiting cursor, resize cursor are the same as oxygen. I am wondering whether this is caused by the packaging of debian. Anyone meets the same problem? Thanks. Hong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Efficient remotely backed, locally encrypted block devices?

2011-09-21 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello There are a number of interests in my usage of remote storage that I haven't figured out how to combine without conflict yet: (if you find these cryptic, see my explanation of my current solutions below first) * encryption locally, so that when the remote storage server is hacked, my data

Re: cursor theme Adwaita and DMZ on KDE

2011-09-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/09/11 13:03, H Xu wrote: Hello, On GNOME, Adwaita and DMZ cursor theme have their own waiting cursor, but on my KDE, their waiting cursor, resize cursor are the same as oxygen. I am wondering whether this is caused by the packaging of debian. Anyone meets the same problem? Thanks.

Re: regards the /

2011-09-21 Thread lina
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:16:33 +0800, lina wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) are there some easy way to see which files sit on which partition? You can also use df for

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-21 Thread R. Clayton
When I have this problem, it's usually because I have too many kernel versions. Look in /boot or do $ dpkg --purge linux-imageescesc I keep the latest and the previous versions around, although I wait until the partition's full before culling the older versions, which happens during update.

Convert a pdf to text

2011-09-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have a 96 page pdf file that I need to convert to text in one run. I've imported it into inkscape but that only converts one page at a time. I've tried using pdftotext but i cant work out the syntax for that so am unable to test it out properly. I've tried pdfedit but that only works on one page

Re: Convert a pdf to text

2011-09-21 Thread The_Ace
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Sharon Kimble skimbl...@gmail.com wrote: I have a 96 page pdf file that I need to convert to text in one run. I've imported it into inkscape but that only converts one page at a time. I've tried using pdftotext but i cant work out the syntax for that so am

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