"Christofer C. Bell" wrote:
>I'm wondering how the following Ubuntu-isms made it into Debian's APT
>configuration:
>
>cbell@circe:~$ apt-config dump | egrep 'verse|ubuntu'
>APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*";
>APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages";
>APT::Never-MarkA
Csanyi Pal wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I want to install GNUstep from sources on my Debian GNU/Linux SID
>sytem.
>
>How can I know where come installed files after I did run:
>./configure && make && sudo -E make install
>
>commands?
>
>this is important if I decide later to uninstall files installed from
>sou
Merciadri Luca wrote:
>Quite everything is in the title. I'm running Debian Lenny (yes, I
>know, time to switch..., but haven't had time yet), and I precedently
>installed Firefox in ~/ for various reasons.
>
>The problem is not here. The problem is that every time an update is
>done, or even quit
T o n g wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My wife uses gnome, but the problem is that her gnome settings goes
>berserk every now and then. It won't be long for her to find out this is
>not working as expect, then that is not working as expect. I use fluxbox
>instead of DM, so I don't know gnome well. So all I can
Hello Sylvain,
Sylvain wrote:
>Right now I'm a bit confused by the way chroot seems to work with users.
>I'd be grateful if someone had an idea on how to do have an ssh instance
>running on a specific port and allowing only certain users.
Check $(man sshd_config) and the AllowUser option. You
Camaleón wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Today I have run a dist-upgrade and tracker wanted to get installed.
>
>I didn't have it installed since I'm running wheezy.
>
>Why this hard dependency? Is tracker now a requirement for those who want
>a full GNOME desktop? :-?
>
>P.S. "gnome" requires "gnome-documents
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
>On 12/02/12 Claudius Hubig said:
>
>> Could you try without these options?
>
>That fixed the issue. I got those options from the Debian Wiki, specifically
>the Compiz page.
I took the freedom to add a corresponding paragraph to the
kei...@strucktower.com wrote:
>Sometime back I moved one of my laptops from using Gnome to using a wm (i3
>at present). I have been slowly trying to learn the various functions that
>the Gnome DE does in the background (hides from the user) so that I can
>replace the Gnome-related-software to softw
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
>(II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.1.0
>ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
>(II) Loading extension DRI2
>(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
>(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
>(I
Camaleón wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:13:01 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>> I don't think that's true. I've run these many times in the past and
>> they've run purely on my cpu, before direct rendering was enabled.
>
>Then the applications you run didn't require 3D hardware acceleration or
Claudius Hubig wrote:
>Hello lee,
>
>lee wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating
>>(thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? Like something that instead
>>of displaying a web page on screen as a web browser d
Hello lee,
lee wrote:
>Hi,
>
>is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating
>(thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? Like something that instead
>of displaying a web page on screen as a web browser does creates an
>image file that can be saved to disk (and then be resized to
Harry Putnam wrote:
>Claudius Hubig writes:
>
>>>Things like uninstalling gnome-core. Isn't that a bit dramatic just
>>>to get rid of pulseaudio?
>>>
>>> Remove the following packages
>>> 1) gnome-accessibility
Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop
>
>I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in
>linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a
>bit extreme some how.
>
>But anyway I don't need it.
>
>aptitude remove pulseaudio
>
>Offers what a
richard wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100
>Claudius Hubig wrote:
>
>> Hello richard,
>>
>> richard wrote:
>> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form
>> >was blank.
>> >Always worth checkin
Hello richard,
richard wrote:
>You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form
>was blank.
>Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want.
>Xpdf tells the truth, but its only a reader.
You can try printing the filled-in form as PDF from w
"John A. Sullivan III" wrote:
>1) OpenOffice PDF plugin - probably the best potential but it still
>sometimes chokes on some PDFs or mangles the formatting badly.
>
>2) Xournal - good and simple if you only want to add text but nothing
>beyond that.
>
>3) GIMP - extremely powerful and consequently
Jim Lill wrote:
>On 12/31/2011 3:15 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>> Jim Lill wrote:
>>> SLUG:~# php test.php
>>>
>>> -
>>>
>>> it just sits there, note the after the invocation
>>>
>>> Some othe
Jim Lill wrote:
>SLUG:~# php test.php
>
>-
>
>it just sits there, note the after the invocation
>
>Some other binaries do the same, but not all. What am I missing?
I don’t know about the NSLU2 in detail, but maybe a
# strace php test.php
might help. If you don’
Steve Kreyer wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>some time ago I've encountered a strange thing: After login into X
>(doesn't matter if e.g. Gnome or Fluxbox is used) and start of some
>applications (e.g. Thunderbird, Firefox and Rhythmbox) the system can't
>handle the focus of the windows correctly anymore. Fo
lina wrote:
>Thanks, I do notice the PDF printer and also unchecked the "Print page
>headers"
>but after click print,
>I don't know which/where the newly-printed PDF?
>sounds silly, I checked the currently working directory and also the
>possible directories, but none.
Try ~/PDF, that’s where t
Joel Rees wrote:
>(Sigh. My son hates programming. He likes mucking around with the
>source code for his customized Three Kingdoms MUD. Perl. I've tried to
>teach him C and it's like he thinks I'm trying to brainwash him for
>even mentioning it. Heh.)
A MUD written in Perl? Sounds like an…interes
Cam Hutchison wrote:
>I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried
>xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components.
>
>I don't like any of it.
>
>What I like is the setup I had. I had GNOME 2 set up just the way I
>wanted it, and there was nothing w
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>$ls -al /usr/lib/vlc/plugins-04041e-28.dat
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 382472 Jul 4 16:57
>/usr/lib/vlc/plugins-04041e-28.dat
I don’t have this file, however, I have:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 514787 2011-11-20 13:01
/usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins-04081e-fe8.dat
Googlin
"Dan B." wrote:
>For the various things that get installed for Gnome, KDE, etc.,
>which are specific to the chosen desktop environment, and which
>work with any desktop environment (or perhaps any sufficiently
>capable DE (e.g., FreeDesktop-compliant))?
>
>When a DE includes a (default) audio play
Raf Czlonka wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:52:14PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I don't understand why a few people have passed over ssh as being
>> overkill.
>
>SSH (Secure Shell) - you don't need security on home-only network.
That at least explains the millions of bots out there. Of course
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>~$ aptitude why apache2
>i phpsysinfo Depends apache2 | httpd
>
>phpsysinfo seems to have a false dependency--appears the package
>maintainer assumes the only httpd server on earth is apache2...
This shows that the phpsysinfo dependency is also fulfilled by httpd,
which is
Tomas Volka wrote:
>root@debian # passwd -S bin
>bin L 11/23/2010 0 9 7 -1
Excellent.
>root@debian ~ # dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda3 | grep -i creat
>dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
>Filesystem created: Tue Nov 23 21:11:56 2010
Please note that this will fail if the system was copied from one
Mark Panen wrote:
>Hi My 1.5 TB WD HDD has 384 bad sectors according to "fsck.ext4 -cvf
>/dev/x" Is this bad? Since last year October the HDD has been very
>slow to browse the folders.
Probably, yes. The output of dmesg and smartctl -a /dev/x would be
helpful. In any case, you should quickly back
Sthu Deus wrote:
>3. How I can configure konsole to start w/ multiple tabs in LXDE? - In
>KDE it saves session and starts as wanted but in LXDE - not - just
>single tab. I have searched the web and found that it is possible to
>specify additional tab by issueing
>
>konsole --new-tab
>
>but want mo
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Hello Richard,
Richard Bown wrote:
>On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 17:11 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>> I am currently using Claws Mail 3.7.10 on Testing and don’t see any
>> crashes whatsoever. There have been a few problems with libgnutls
>> breaking POP s
Richard Bown wrote:
>Hi
>me again
>Up to about a year ago I was using Claws Mail which has some very nice
>filter capabilities, expire on age in folders for instance.
>I moved to Evo as Claws would crash and freeze the whole machine, That
>was using Fedora,
>Has anyone had any problems with Claws
Роман Новиков wrote:
>hi, all.
>
>in a pure console (wheezy) i am trying to use org-mode (emacs), a lot of
>actions are performed with hotkeys like "Alt+smth" "Shift+smth". It does
>work in GTK-window of emacs, but not in a pure console: for example
>Alt+right arrow changes tty (instead of changin
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Claudius Hubig wrote, on 09/22/11 00:05:
>
>> 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
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, assuming
>the problem is a hosed/misconf
Regid Ichira wrote:
> Within a shell, what is the difference between [ -n undefinedString ] and [
> -n "$undefinedString" ] ?
>With bash I get:
>
>$ unset undefinedString
>$ [ -n undefinedString ] && printf "$undefinedString" | od -c
>000
You are just testing for the length of
Hello,
I recently switched to playing music directly on my notebook instead
of another computer somewhere else. This notebook runs Debian Testing
with Xfce 4.8 and a self-compiled kernel 3.0.
I can set the volume level of the system beep (which occurs, for
example, if you open a terminal and pres
Victor Munoz wrote:
>Both replicas are very large, and the few listed changes showed no
>large files, or so I thought. But it turns out I was wrong, and a 20M
>file was involved. I deleted the cache file, and reconstructed the
>mirror, and I finally discovered that unison hangs when this
>particul
Lisi wrote:
>On Friday 22 July 2011 17:45:32 Camaleón wrote:
>> Better "dmesg | tail -n 30" to get the latest full 30 lines :-)
>
>Bingo! Thanks, Camaleón!
>I thought I had HAL, but can't seem to find it.
>
>I actually ran your tests before Camaleón's - but hers cracked it.
So what was the probl
Lisi wrote:
>I am wanting to mount a Daisy/MP3** player as a block device to get access to
>the files on it. dmesg* lists it, but I am not succeeding in finding its
>device name. It did once mount itself (or rather, I imagine that HAL mounted
>it) but I cannot get this behaviour to repeat.
Brad Alexander wrote:
>This is sort of an odd question, but my desktop is a core2duo machine, which
>means it is capable of 32 or 64 bit operation. The last time I rebuilt the
>machine in 2007, there were still a number of deficiencies in 64bit Linux.
>However, some time in the intervening time, m
Camaleón wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:55:32 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
>
>> Keeping it short, i want to install zabbix-frontend-php, which depends
>> on apache; or httpd. I installed nginx from source (and used
>> checkinstall a while back i think so) it's listed in the installed
>> packages b
Hendrik Boom wrote:
>What do I have to do to make sure the network manager is off, either
>temporarily or permanently?
AFAIK, it won’t touch interfaces defined in /etc/network/interfaces.
Using update-rc.d, one can also completely disable the daemon like
this:
update-rc.d network-manager disabl
Camaleón wrote:
>I run GDM and NM is off :-)
Let’s just say that GDM is a good indicator of someone also using NM.
>But I take your point: if NM is not even capable of surviving from a
>remote ssh session then here you have a very good reason to disable it
>ASAP.
It ‘simply’ drops all network
Camaleón wrote:
>On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:47:38 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
>(...)
>
>> Or is there some devious trick I'm missing? Will an ssh connection from
>> another machine survive the upgrade process, for example?
>
>Yes, I would try that way.
>
>Given your current situation I'd say a SSH
Paul Scott wrote:
>On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote:
>> On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>>> 1024x768 60.0*
>>> 800x60060.3 56.2
>>> 848x48060.0
>>> 640x48059.9
>>> My LCD monitor's native resolution is 1280x1024
>> xrandr
Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
>Jul 1 07:35:01 home kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
>Jul 1 07:35:01 home rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd"
>swVersion="3.18.6" x-pid="2103" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";]
>restart
>Jul 1 07:35:01 home kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /
D G Teed wrote:
>If you run Debian on the desktop, note that the current updates
>coming down the pipe for 6.0.2 with safe-upgrades
>may include an xserver package update (did for me, and
>mine was up to date before).
>
>If you run your safe-upgrade from within an X windows
>session, it will cause
Hello,
rough summary of my goal: Caching filesystem which does not require
access to the underlying block device, has no data losses, encrypts
stuff nicely and doesn't crash.
longer version:
I am currently using two computers, a notebook and a (former)
desktop, now mainly serving as a file serve
Tom H wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been having a problem where when our vps provider decides to
>>> restart the server (running Debian 5.0.8), the server fails to
>>> remember changes to /etc/hosts. All I need is an database alias that
>>> is used for
Tapas Mishra wrote:
>Note the word database missing after 127.0.0.1
>without the database, and I have to manually change the file to get
>things to work. This has been happening for awhile and has become a
>nuisance, but I can't seem to find a way to get changes to stick.
>Anyone know what to do?
Volkan YAZICI wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:36:49 +0100, Claudius Hubig writes:
>> Volkan YAZICI wrote:
>>>Is it possible to disable the toolbar in Evince permanently?
>>
>> works for me permanently (i. e. after a restart of Evince).
>
>Strange, it doesn&#
Volkan YAZICI wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is it possible to disable the toolbar in Evince permanently?
View -> [ ] Toolbar
works for me permanently (i. e. after a restart of Evince).
Best regards,
Claudius
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Please use GPG
Aldyth Maharsha wrote:
>Hi list,
>i'm using debian squeeze with 2.6.32-5-686 kernel
>i have problem to using pidgin, if i'm create google talk account it is
>automatic change to XMPP protocol and cannot using gtalk protocol, any idea?
>
>root@testing:~# dpkg -l | grep pidgin
>ii pidgin
Albretch Mueller wrote:
>~
> ... or ls not properly displaying them in some cases.
>~
^ I don’t even want to know what these are doing here…
> but not all timestamps are formatted the same. You get them as, say,
>"Mar 24 2004", but also as "Dec 26 09:55" (without the year!) and they
>are (or see
Justin The Cynical wrote:
>On 12/20/2010 20:45, Petrus Validus wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:18 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>>> what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
>>> having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
>>> And there does appear to BE release
godo wrote:
>
>> Strange, in Opera 10.63 I get the full URL in the address bar; and, if I
>> hover the mouse pointer over the link, I also get the full URL in the
>> status bar at the bottom of the screen.
>>
>> Is there a change in Opera 11?
>>
>>
>Yes, I have 11.0 beta:
>Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i
is one owned by my Interet provider. So
>my ssh request did enter the Internet, answering one of my
>concerns. Although my provider closed the connection (timed out or too
>many password attempts?), I assume that the issue of the specific
>password is soley the concern of the two hosts being
ogFacility AUTH
> LogLevel INFO
>
> LoginGraceTime 120
> PermitRootLogin yes
> StrictModes yes
>
> RSAAuthentication yes
> PubkeyAuthentication yes
>
> IgnoreRhosts yes
> RhostsRSAAuthentication no
> HostbasedAuthentication no
>
> PermitEmptyPas
utput of “xev” when these keys are
pressed.
Best regards,
Claudius Hubig
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I tried to manually create a bridge
and set up the interfaces, but I seem to be unable to add wlan0 to
the bridge, it just tells me that the operation is “not permitted”.
Thanks for reading and your insights!
Claudius Hubig
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Claudius Hubig wrote:
>Could you post the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config from the server and the
>files /etc/ssh/ssh_config and ~/.config from the client? You could
I’m sorry, I meant to write ~/.ssh/config.
>also try running ssh with -vv which usually outputs more information.
Bes
"Elmer E. Dow" wrote:
>How can I diagnose this?
Most important: Which text editor are you using? Does it also happen
in, say, nano (a terminal program) or in a web browser when entering
text in a form field?
Best regards,
Claudius Hubig
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t the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config from the server and the
files /etc/ssh/ssh_config and ~/.config from the client? You could
also try running ssh with -vv which usually outputs more information.
Best regards,
Claudius Hubig
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Adam Hardy wrote:
>This has got to be a simple question: I have a sound card and I've just
>plugged
>in a microphone that I want to test (not USB obviously). Is there an easy
>program I can install onto lenny/xfce that I can use to test it?
>
>I just tried with bplay but it wants me to have /de
Hello Camaleón
thank you for your reply :)
Camaleón wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:41:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>> I like my audible bell very much. I really really like it –
>> unfortunately, Metacity (from current Testing) blocks it in the
>> following way:
>I t
Hello List,
I like my audible bell very much. I really really like it –
unfortunately, Metacity (from current Testing) blocks it in the
following way:
* "beep" works fine
* "xkbbell -force" works, but it doesn't w/o the "-force"
* Gnome-Terminal and all the other applications can only bell
"vis
"Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 9/1/08, Claudius Hubig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I got something very similiar to your setup and have to say - no, it
>> won't. You'll have to make your BIOS boot from the second disk (and
>> ha
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From what I recall reading the logs at startup if I put my boot system
>on a software raid 1 it appears to boot from disk #1 then mount the RAID
>and finish from there.
>
>Am I correct so far?
>
>The ultimate question is this:
>If I have a disk failure on
"Lóránd Erik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...and the pc is in a wooden box:D but the connector is grounded, could that
>be the problem?
I have a similiar problem with my desktop PC: After running for a
while and then being shut down, it wont turn on again. Waiting a few
minutes (quite a few in fac
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:50:01AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>> paragasu wrote:
>>
>> > AFAIK,
>> > you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files.
>> > the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. Bu
hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is the firefox the best browser?
Nope, the best browser is Opera!11oneeleven!!!11
>When I installed the Debian, it automatically included iceweasel. I
>removed it and tryed to install firefox by "apt-get install firefox",
>but it it got iceweasel gain. How can
Hi Florian,
first of all, I'd like to thank you for your answers. Unfortunately,
two systems (C & B) just got grilled - guess I'm currently having
other problems than printing, but I'll come back to this thread as
soon as I'm able to provide the information needed. :)
Greetings,
Claudius
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Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 15:42:32 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got the following systems, all connected to the local network:
>>
>> A: Running Debian Etch, no printer connected
>>
Hi,
I've got the following systems, all connected to the local network:
A: Running Debian Etch, no printer connected
B: Running Debian Etch, Epson Stylus C86 connected & published
C: Running Debian Sid, Canon IP 4200 connected & published
D: Running Debian Etch, no printer connected
A sees all t
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Problem: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement
>and running apps update normally on-screen in visible windows (gkrellm,
>gaim, etc).
Although you're not using Metacity, maybe have a look at bug #427406 [0],
the symptoms are exactly the
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in
>>> fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not
>>> correctly read: the line ends are not recognised.
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in
>fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not
>correctly read: the line ends are not recognised. The remedy is to cut the
>text
>and paste it into an
Hi Douglas,
Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee
>future performance, but what has the experience been like for
>non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that
>Lenny is ready for a desktop ru
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