Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

On 12/13/13, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 12/13/13, Brian wrote: >> On Thu 12 Dec 2013 at 17:23:31 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >>> What seemed like a good idea, at, the, time ... is longer looking so >>> good. Any ideas why this odd behaviour would appear as it does? >> >> You could try follo

Re: Dovecot *requires* MySQL?

On 1/2/2014 9:04 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Bob Bernstein > wrote: >> >> Setting out to install dovecot-imapd on a squeeze host via apt-get, >> I discovered that: >> >> The following extra packages will be installed: >> dovecot-common libmysqlclient16 libpq5 m

Re: Dovecot *requires* MySQL?

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: Apt installs recommended packages by default, but they are not required. Thank you *so* much. I wonder when apt finally got me completely cowed into submission? So that I just abjectly succumbed, without question, to its brute, totalitarian deman

Errors while running Netselect-Apt

Hi, I've faced some problems while using the Netselect-Apt. While giving the command */sudo netselect-apt/* I get the following errors: /*Did not find any valid hosts (you requested 10)*//* *//*netselect was unable to find a mirror, this probably means that*//* *//*you are behind a firewall and

Re: Dovecot *requires* MySQL?

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Setting out to install dovecot-imapd on a squeeze host via apt-get, > I discovered that: > > The following extra packages will be installed: > dovecot-common libmysqlclient16 libpq5 mysql-common > > I understand that neither of the two mys

Dovecot *requires* MySQL?

Setting out to install dovecot-imapd on a squeeze host via apt-get, I discovered that: The following extra packages will be installed: dovecot-common libmysqlclient16 libpq5 mysql-common I understand that neither of the two mysql debs named above provide MySQL _server_ function, so why ar

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 06:02:48PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 01 January 2014 17:49:59 Brian wrote: > > If 'less worse' is a colloquialism it has no charm or character to > > lift it out of the lazy speaking category. > > :-) Ain't that the truth! :-) (Sorry.) -- "If you're not car

Re: mtp://[usb:001,022]/131074

On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 00:13 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > 'Titanium Backup' only works on rooted phones, and it isn't rooted! > > What I need to do is to be able to back it up to the external SD card, > which I can then dismount, remove it from the mobile and mount it on my > linux box. From ther

Re: keyboard settings clobbered

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:55 PM, ChadDavis wrote: > Something keeps turning off my key repeater setting. I'm not sure if > that's the technical term, but pressing and holding a key doesn't do > anything. I have to go into System Settings and toggle the "repeat" > checkbox, then it works again. >

Re: tuxboot-SOLVED

On 01/02/2014 03:00 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > anyone use tuxboot?? I was trying to install Clonezilla using their > recommended tuxboot method. I'm running Wheezy. Either the download link > doesn't work, or the executable doesn't do anything. When I tried to run > the linux file(tuxboot-6), it

tuxboot

anyone use tuxboot?? I was trying to install Clonezilla using their recommended tuxboot method. I'm running Wheezy. Either the download link doesn't work, or the executable doesn't do anything. When I tried to run the linux file(tuxboot-6), it just returned my command-line. I was able to burn it to

keyboard settings clobbered

Something keeps turning off my key repeater setting. I'm not sure if that's the technical term, but pressing and holding a key doesn't do anything. I have to go into System Settings and toggle the "repeat" checkbox, then it works again. NOTE, it will then quit working in a short time frame, i.e.

Re: Disable ipv6.......

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 17:55:50 + Tom H sent: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Bonno Bloksma > wrote: > >>> > >>> # rmmod ipv6 > >>> > >>> libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1802 > >>> kmod_module_get_holders: could not open > >>> '/sys/module/ipv6/holders': No such file or directory Err

Re: Help: 'g++ -m32 ...' does not find

On 2014-01-02 19:22 +0100, Thomas Vaughan wrote: > Using Debian unstable and default g++ (4.8.2), I am recently unable to > build a project that was building a few weeks ago. > > ---BEGIN SNIPPET FROM BUILD LOG--- > libtool: compile: g++ ... -m32 -fmessage-length=0 -O0 -fPIC -ggdb3 > -fvar-tracki

Help: 'g++ -m32 ...' does not find

Using Debian unstable and default g++ (4.8.2), I am recently unable to build a project that was building a few weeks ago. ---BEGIN SNIPPET FROM BUILD LOG--- libtool: compile: g++ ... -m32 -fmessage-length=0 -O0 -fPIC -ggdb3 -fvar-tracking-assignments -W -Wall -Wconversion -Wshadow -Wcast-align -W

Re: Disable ipv6.......

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> >>> # rmmod ipv6 >>> >>> libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1802 >>> kmod_module_get_holders: could not open '/sys/module/ipv6/holders': No >>> such file or directory Error: Module ipv6 is in use >> >> So I am certain now that I don'

Re: Possible to add an LVM to existing Wheezy box

Ron Leach wrote: > Actually, the disk we are rescuing is the surviving member of a RAID1 > pair[1]. I realised, today, that I cannot simply install that in our > Wheezy box because (I think) it needs a software RAID layer in order > to read it (fstab refers to md1, md2 etc). It depends on the RA

Re: packages status

Diogene Laerce wrote: > >>Is there a simple way to get the list of packages installed since the fresh > >>installation of deby ? > >How long ago was your fresh installation? There are backups of the > >dpkg package status kept in /var/backups that go back a week. And if > >you have a system backu

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

Joel Rees wrote: > I wonder whether we could design a set of default update calls for > such a system. It's a project to keep on the back burner, I suppose. Interesting ideas. When I read your description two different ideas in different directions came to my mind. One was Linux containers. Int

Re: mtp://[usb:001,022]/131074

Andreas Weber wrote: > Whatever variant you pick, it seems to me that the whole MTP > implementation is still a bit buggy and slow. This is what I noticed as well. And I see that mtpfs has been removed from stable and testing. It is in Sid, however, so a better working version may be coming. I fo

Re: Disable ipv6.......

On 02/01/14 04:08, Charlie wrote: Apologies, let me say this before I resend it: Running Jessie: 3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux Toshiba c500/A00L w8 laptop Another thing I would like to do is to disable ipv6 on this system as satelli

RE: Disable ipv6.......

Hello Charlie, >> # rmmod ipv6 >> >> libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1802 >> kmod_module_get_holders: could not open '/sys/module/ipv6/holders': No >> such file or directory Error: Module ipv6 is in use > > Thank you Ivan and Pi for your help. > > I think the message above is spurious

Re: nano vs VI

On 01/02/2014 07:25 AM, shawn wilson wrote: No idea. I compile vim on Debian for ruby support (command-t). Probably vim-gtk. So I'm putting this back on the list. On Jan 2, 2014 7:19 AM, "Paul Cartwright"

Re: Disable ipv6.......

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 18:08:49 +1100 Charlie sent: > # rmmod ipv6 > > libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1802 > kmod_module_get_holders: could not open '/sys/module/ipv6/holders': No > such file or directory Error: Module ipv6 is in use Thank you Ivan and Pi for your help. I think the mess

Re: nano vs VI

No idea. I compile vim on Debian for ruby support (command-t). Probably vim-gtk. So I'm putting this back on the list. On Jan 2, 2014 7:19 AM, "Paul Cartwright" wrote: > On 01/02/2014 07:12 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > > > On Jan 1, 2014 7:43 PM, "Paul Cartwright" wrote: > > > > On 01/01/2014 07:0

Re: nano vs VI

On 01/02/2014 07:12 AM, shawn wilson wrote: On Jan 1, 2014 7:43 PM, "Paul Cartwright" wrote: > > On 01/01/2014 07:00 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > > Also perhaps: > > > > aptitude purge

Re: Disable ipv6.......

On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:39:47 +0100 Ivan Jurišić sent: > If wont to check loaded modules in memory try: > > lsmod nf_conntrack 70753 7 nf_nat,xt_state,nf_nat_ipv4,xt_conntrack,nf_conntrack_ ftp,iptable_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4 > or lsmod | grep ipv6 returns nothing? > then if not fin

Re: nano vs VI

On Jan 1, 2014 7:43 PM, "Paul Cartwright" wrote: > > On 01/01/2014 07:00 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > > Also perhaps: > > > > aptitude purge nano :-) > > > > Richard > thanks, I might do that also, since I use either VI or gedit.. > You do know about gvim right?

Re: nano vs VI

On 2014-01-02, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 01/01/2014 08:01 PM, John Hasler wrote: >> man select-editor > man select-editor > No manual entry for select-editor I think you need to install 'sensible-utils', which provides /usr/bin/sensible-browser /usr/bin/sensible-editor /usr/bin/sensible-pager

Re: how to configure pulseaudio to use analog speaker on motherboard not hdmi on video card

On 02/01/14 02:44, Mitchell Laks wrote: Before I kill pa the first time: mlaks@Rashi:~$ aplay -D front piano2.wav aplay: main:682: audio open error: Device or resource busy then I do: mlaks@Rashi:~$ ps aux|grep pulse 125 5074 14.4 0.0 457064 7192 ?Sl 21:13 1:07 /usr/bin/p

lm_sensors log

Bonjour, After the last upgrade of my debien sid, lm_sensors reports in logwatch (first time I see that! I didn't change anything in my config). Here is the last report: - lm_sensors output Begin acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1:

Re: Re: Sources.list file for Debian Wheezy

Thanks, Bob. I think I would go for the /*http.debian.net */after reading about it from your supplied link. And for the record, */ or **/ was unintentional and wasn't on my sources.list . Muntasim-Ul-Haque

Re: Disable ipv6.......

If wont to check loaded modules in memory try: lsmod or lsmod | grep ipv6 then if not find in output "ipv6" that module is not active. also check with /sbin/ifconfig | grep inet if got any line with "inet6" in that case You have up & running ipv6. Dana 02/01/2014 08:22, Charlie je napisa

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:22:15PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Better presupposes good. If something doesn't approach good, e.g. > someone misses the target by 10 metres are they "better" than the person > who missed by 20 metres? Or "less worse". To call the 10 miss "better" > is a version of

Re: Disable ipv6.......

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 18:22:09 +1100 Charlie sent: > On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 07:58:24 +0100 Ivan Jurišić sent: > > > Try this: > > > > 1. open file /etc/default/grub > > > > nano /etc/default/grub > > > > 2 add "ipv6.disable=1" in variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, > > example: > > > > GRUB_CM

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2014/1/2 Bob Proulx > Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > 2) The ownership of the files by root are safe. The default owner is > > > root. Files owned by root with the default permissions are not > > > writable by the web process. Files in the default configuration are > > > no

Message formatting: was Re: Sources.list file for Debian Wheezy

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/14 20:47, Bob Proulx wrote: > What is up with the */ and /**/ stuff? The HTML version has it bold and italic. I suspect it's icedove trying to be clever, and use 'formatting' in a 'plain text' format ... Richard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: packages status

Is there a simple way to get the list of packages installed since the fresh installation of deby ? How long ago was your fresh installation? There are backups of the dpkg package status kept in /var/backups that go back a week. And if you have a system backup you could retrieve older copies g

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > [...] > For example if you install squirrelmail it will include > /usr/share/squirrelmail/**.php files in the package. Root owns those > files. This is good because that prevents any other account from > being able to modify those files. Tha