Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-21 Thread Josef Bailey
On 09/21, twpim-...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Hello, So for now I can not use that USB stick for anything. Can you give me any advice how to repair that disc? Thanks Martin Hello Martin You should download gparted and burn it to disc then boot it (Gparted)

Re: booting from raid1 fails after upgrading from kernel-3,2 to 3,10-3 amd64

2013-09-21 Thread deloptes
e.waelde wrote: Hello, my main workstation runs its root-filesystem on lvm on crypt_luks on raid1 (software raid). Everything works flawless with kernel-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 However, all later kernels that I tried fail to boot, e.g. kernel-image-3.10-3-amd64 + grub2 starts the kernel +

Re: Debian kernel runs 4 degrees cooler than my own

2013-09-21 Thread deloptes
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Debian's linux-image-3.10-2-amd64 runs 4 degrees cooler than my own kernel. Same workload. Can anybody figure the specifics for that? I had some same experience with custom 3.10 kernel which I build make old_config Had to update to y | # CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/21/2013 02:39 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:46:45AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: root@mysystem:/etc# service alsa-utils restart [ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done. [] Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message

Re: Don't want a desktop environment

2013-09-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 09/21/2013 03:58 PM, Josef Bailey wrote: i3 is a very good wm I just installed ran I3. I have a couple of issues. 1. it breaks Thunderbirds n to go to Next Message in another folder. So you have to constantly use the mouse to move to the next folder 2. You can no longer click on web links in

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root drwx-- 15 gary gary 4096 Sep 3 18:21 /root I do stand

Re: find'ing files containing certain words (all of them) ...

2013-09-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:46:34AM -0400, ken wrote: On 09/21/2013 07:56 AM Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 05:22:09AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: the short bash script bellow you can use to find text files containing one word, but my attempts at trying to make it find more than

Re: Download Past Mailing list

2013-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Josef Bailey wrote: I Had a question ... I was wondering if you can download past mailing list and then upload them to mutt .. I don't want to go that far back becasue it will be to much information I don't think these are immediately available to users. I would write to

Re: Don't want a desktop environment

2013-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
green wrote: If you want to be automatically logged in without authentication, try the nodm package. Otherwise, I do not know much about slim; can you try running `dpkg-reconfigure slim` as root? Previously I have used the lightdm graphical login manager for setting up kiosk mode. In the

Re: Download Past Mailing list

2013-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Bob Proulx writes: I don't think these are immediately available to users. I would write to listmas...@lists.debian.org and ask them to make archives available to you. But I don't know if they would do this or not. The complete Debian mailing-list archive back to 1994 is available at

Re: Changes in xmodmap or something?

2013-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: Bob Proulx writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I have been noticing for some time that my ~/.inputrc key combos don't work. Also the keyboard Alt key doesn't work in emacs if I run it in -nw more (in an xterm). Race condition. I just sent a similar answer to you in the

Re: Changes in xmodmap or something?

2013-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: I've reconfigured the keyboard stuff with dpkg. dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration I configured right alt to be alt_gr as you suggested was a common setup. And good because in your other message you said you rarely used Right Alt for anything. (I sometimes use

Re: Download Past Mailing list

2013-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
John Hasler wrote: Bob Proulx writes: I don't think these are immediately available to users. I would write to listmas...@lists.debian.org and ask them to make archives available to you. But I don't know if they would do this or not. The complete Debian mailing-list archive back to

Re: Download Past Mailing list

2013-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Bob Proulx writes: But the original poster was asking about getting local mailbox files of the last month of messages. I misunderstood. For that he may have to ask the list managers. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: find'ing files containing certain words (all of them) ...

2013-09-21 Thread David
On 21 September 2013 19:22, Albretch Mueller lbrt...@gmail.com wrote: the short bash script bellow you can use to find text files containing one word, but my attempts at trying to make it find more than one word within the same file haven't been successful Your question is not at all specific

Re: find'ing files containing certain words (all of them) ...

2013-09-21 Thread David
On 22 September 2013 12:55, David bouncingc...@gmail.com wrote: if [ -n ${files[*]} ] ; then oops, that line above (#7 from the end) works ok but it will run faster if changed to this more modern bash syntax: if [[ -n ${files[*]} ]] ; then (I was writing makefiles yesterday, I got stuck

Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 23:11 +0200, twpim-...@yahoo.com.au wrote: - on Windows box original folders are not visiable only newly created executable files are showed with icon as folders and without .exe extension It's normal for default settings, that Windows doesn't show extensions. Maybe

Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: As root run hdparm -r0 /dev/sd? where ? is for a, b, c ... z, IOW the number of your USB stick. ^^ ^^^ :D [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ hdparm --help -r Get/set device readonly flag (DANGEROUS to set) I suspect that the USB stick can't be

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