Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread keith
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 19:55 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:55 +0100, keith wrote: On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 03:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Mmmm, surely it is faster to read something than to listen to someone reading it aloud? Perhaps not if you're blind

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-15 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:05:16AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: Far a while now the adobe flash player/plugin in Debian's Chromium browser has been 'out of date' with the approriate warnings popping up , asking to update the flashplayer. I thought the flashplayer was 'built in' in Chromium as

Clobbered digest volumes (more info)

2012-06-15 Thread Gary Roach
Looking closer at the problem, (see Clobbered digest volumes in Volume 2012 #1342) I find that I occasionally receive a correct message. The returns of my own are correct and some others. The bad messages all have the header information after the text and trigger the error message: Error:

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 05:55:07PM +0100, keith wrote: On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 03:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Mmmm, surely it is faster to read something than to listen to someone reading it aloud? Perhaps not if you're blind I doubt a blind person would be asking for printed

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Dom to...@rpdom.net writes: What does aptitude why texlive-fonts-extra say? See original posting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 6/14/2012 4:51 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: These commands don't match the pastebin. The pastebin shows you creating a 4 disk RAID5 as /dev/md0. Really :-? That kind of (wrong) analysis is one of the many

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: Please consider the output of aptitude -D full-upgrade below. I do not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also does not seem to see one. But it still wants to install the package. Why? Probably because texpower

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 04:54:17PM +, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-15, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: 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

Re: Problem with Dovecot

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Mmm... default Exim4 configuration should not require for you tweak nothing in order to send local messages so I would start from here and once this works as expected you can start the next step but if local mails do not work the rest will

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: Please consider the output of aptitude -D full-upgrade below. I do not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also does not seem to see one. But it still wants to install the

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-15 21:58 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: Please consider the output of aptitude -D full-upgrade below. I do not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also does not seem to

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: 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

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 19:32 +0100, keith wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 19:55 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:55 +0100, keith wrote: On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 03:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Mmmm, surely it is faster to read something than to listen to someone

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-15 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 14:46 -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree And once again this marvelous list has come thru for me. Thanks John!! That did the trick. I'm surprised I have not heard of this b/4 but will file it away in my tips/tricks area. frosty -- To

Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior restored. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

..selling a surplus wintendo sticker, was: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:57:13 +0100, keith wrote in message 1339750633.2316.9.camel@hp-g62: However, there is a code sticker on the bottom of a laptop, that may let you get a copy from the manufacturer. ..I bought a laptop with a wintendo install that I used to pick up the

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/15/2012 5:38 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-15 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:48:12 +0700 Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com suggested this: Good time of the day, Charlie. You worte: This happens with both powered and powered only through a USB connection, external hard drives. Both with ext3 file systems: Message from syslogd@nomad at Jun 16

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2012-06-15 18:38 +0200, Tom H wrote: Run aptitude search '?reverse-depends(texlive-fonts-extra)' and you'll see that it's dpkg that's pulling it in. Sorry, you seem to be mistaken: texlive-fonts-extra depends on dpkg,

Re: ..selling a surplus wintendo sticker, was: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 00:34 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:57:13 +0100, keith wrote in message 1339750633.2316.9.camel@hp-g62: However, there is a code sticker on the bottom of a laptop, that may let you get a copy from the manufacturer. ..I bought a laptop with a

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password.  Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop?  I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the

Re: configuring interface configuring MTA time out

2012-06-15 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/15/2012 12:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:18:03 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 06/15/2012 10:35 AM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, I'd also run the following tests: 1/ Just for testing purposes, you can momentary disable wicd and test with a static IP configuration

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password.  Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop?  I want only users with root

Re: ..selling a surplus wintendo sticker, was: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
People should ask for one of this free as in free beer Windows medias from their local Microsoft licensed hacker. Now I vague remember that beside hacked versions, there are licensed versions illegal go the circuit. A real human being contract with the devil and indeed, typing some numbers, it

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Richard Hector
On 16/06/12 10:08, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior restored. I

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior restored. Then I don't understand users. Only root has got root privileges. If other users should have the same permissions,

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior restored. Then I don't understand users. Only

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0500 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 6/15/2012 8:36 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: First of all I tried to set the raid5 with the WD 20EARS and didn't have much luck. They led to fail events when mdadm builds the array. They worked in my Netgear NV+

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/15/2012 7:18 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 16/06/12 10:08, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/15/2012 7:01 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Charlie. You worte: Tried different cabling: blkid says, /dev/sdb1: UUID=4bb48afe-02d7-487f-a51f-ff378edbc98d TYPE=ext3 Then in a terminal: mount /mnt/lpics mount: special device /dev/sdd1 does not exist Why don't You mount /dev/sdb1 but /dev/sdd1 ? Also,

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