Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-02-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 12:00:30 -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote: Isn't it the case where the randomness of the key/password composes the overall quality of the crypto substitutions in such a way that 4096bit keys would necessarily provide better protection against cryptanalysis when

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2013-10-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 03:11:24 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I am helping a buddy with his Sid system. He went several months without upgrading. Then recently tried to upgrade. This resulted in some problems. Currently the system produces a segmentation fault when trying to install packages.

Re: Audio vanished with jessie

2013-09-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 17:33:39 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: It's an ASUS 1HE running jessie. Today sound wouldn't work, though it worked a few weeks ago. I won't say nothing has changed; I have been doing regular upgrades using aptitude. I don't even know how to begin diagnosing

Re: Audio problems [With Squeeze KDE]

2012-06-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 03:09:46 -0500, J Paulo wrote: Hi there! I have installed Debian Squeeze KDE Desktop. The audio devices never worked. I'm not sure if It's a Debian problem or a KDE problem. I has installed OpenSUSE with GNOME before and worked ok. If I try to up volume with

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: For the last few days apt-get upgrades in Sid always fail with this message: E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i386, aborting According to bug report 669060 this is

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
at 09:35:25 -0500, mike wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote earlier: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i386, aborting According to bug report 669060 this is supposed

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please turn off the HTML part of your messages. ] On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 14:48:15 +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: Hi, I installed debian stable kde with live cd debian-live-6.0.3-i386-kde-desktop.iso. My PC was not connected with internet, so after the installation, my source.list file was

Re: No sound from Gnash in Iceweasel or Epiphany or from VLC

2012-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
(Please try to turn off the HTML part of your messages.) On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 14:19:15 -0400, Kevin Williams wrote: Hi, The video works just fine in both applications, but it has no sound. However, I can play ogv videos with sound just fine from Gnome Sound Recorder and Totem Movie

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

2012-04-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 14:11:37 -0400, Dale Harris wrote: Anyone else having problems with iceweasel (on SID) pixelating text within it's window? Chromium is not doing the same thing, so why it makes me think it's not a video card driver problem. I have been having similar issues for a few

Re: problems with apt-get

2012-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:50:15 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: Hola! I am given the command sudo apt-get -t sid install ^r-cran but gets Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

Re: Ctrl-/ interpreted as Backspace in text console

2012-03-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 00:56:12 +0800, Liu Binsheng wrote: Hi, When I press Ctrl-/ in the text console, it deletes a char like backspace. But if I use Gnome and press Ctrl-/ in gnome-terminal, Ctrl-/ behaves normally. [...] Here's the results of running `showkey -a` in text console:

Re: encrypted root - change keyboard layout

2012-03-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 01:30:21 +0100, Matthias Weiler wrote: Hello everyone! As the subject suggests: I've encrypted my root partition with a super secret passphrase. The problem is that there is one character that I don't know how to enter with the english keyboard layout. I get to the

Re: No sound from Adobe's flash player

2012-02-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 20:51:43 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd love to get help here: - how do I work around the problem so that Adobe's flash plugin gives me sound? - why is ALSA's dmix refusing connections (after all, its name claims it's a mixer, so it should accept more than one

Re: No sound from Adobe's flash player

2012-02-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 00:27:14 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I recently updated my Debian testing desktop (which moved it to Gnome 3) and now the Adobe flash plugin doesn't give me any sound any more. Luckily, Gnash gives me sound OK, but I'd still like to solve the issue with the Adobe

Re: pulseaudio /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf

2012-02-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:42:34 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Seb wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Is anyone else also seeing this problem? I do, also in a sid system with latest pulseaudio. I filed this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661095 I found an Ubuntu bug

Re: Microphone not picking any sound -- Debian Testing/Wheezy (KDE 4.6.5)

2012-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 17:11:51 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: Debian Wheezy AMD 64 weekly build 13/Feb/2012 KDE 4.6.5 (default) desktop Kernel 3.2.0 (stock from the weekly build) on Toshiba C640 laptop. alsamixergui shows - audio device is shown as Intel Conexant CX20590. I can hear sound from

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 00:36:02 +0800, lina wrote: Supplementary Information: # nm-tool NetworkManager Tool State: disconnected - Device: eth0 - Type: Wired Driver:tg3 State:

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 17:59:16 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/18/2012 04:09 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi

Re: Flash plugin not producing sound

2012-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:01:02 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Hello All I have the flashplugin-nonfree package installed on my system (version 1:2.8.3) That suggests that you are on Wheezy (testing) or Sid (unstable); which one is it exactly? Is it fully up-to-date? so I can get the

Re: Flash plugin not producing sound

2012-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 14:07:02 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:01:02 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Hello All I have the flashplugin-nonfree package installed on my system (version 1:2.8.3) [...] Please post the output of: lspci

Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly

2012-02-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658128 I cannot follow further as I'm on dialup and do not have debian installed HTH The

Re: URW Bookman Font

2011-12-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 19:55:23 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: I have just installed Debian Squeeze. I have replaced the open office package with Libre Office 3.4.3. I am trying to use the URW Bookman L font. I have the bold, italic, and the bold italic. The non-bold non-italic are both missing.

Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

2011-02-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 15:43:50 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Spaces make no difference in the old aptitude search form and the new search form leads to the same result: on another mixed system I get apt-show-versions | grep -c /experimental 35 aptitude search '~S ~i

Re: [really solved] Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?

2011-01-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 02:27:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 16 ian 11, 01:00:50, Javier Barroso wrote: When you invoke aptitude unmarkauto ... aptitude has all your packages with auto mark, so aptitude will want to delete these unused packages *before* it start with your operation

Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?

2011-01-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 13:01:30 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] How can I: - set everything to auto-installed - automatically mark as manually installed the ones in the list ? I already tried (as root): aptitude markauto ~i This will try to remove everything and I have

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

2010-11-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:03:28 +, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: [...] I had done apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment then startx gives an error along the lines of : startx: unknown command. Now I have also done apt-get install gdm apt-get install gnome wait a long

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 16:35:55 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: I'm trying to use the GSM data connection of my Nokia N95-3 as a modem for my Squeeze laptop over USB. The Ubuntu wiki indicates that my Nokia is compatible with USB tethering but a patch to hal rules is required (As per a bug

Re: Aptitude cannot upgrade libperl5.10

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 00:17:19 +, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:11:21 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: % aptitude show libperl5.10 | awk '/^Package/,/^Version/' Package: libperl5.10 State: not installed Automatically installed: no Version: 5.10.1-14 . . . $ apt

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 13:13:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:47:33 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:18:07PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: What happens if, after the system has booted, you issue a manual mount command as root, using the new

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:16:43 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 05:21:44PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 13:13:50 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:47:33 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:18:07PM -0400

Re: What is Recommend CLI Package Manager Tool for Newb?

2010-08-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 04:46:03 +, T o n g wrote: [...] $ apt-get install swatch [...] The following extra packages will be installed: libbit-vector-perl libcarp-clan-perl libdate-calc-perl libdate-manip-perl libfile-tail-perl libperl5.10 libyaml-syck-perl perl perl-base

Re: Aptitude cannot upgrade libperl5.10

2010-08-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 18:26:44 +, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:55:49 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libperl5.10: Depends: perl-base (= 5.10.1-12) but 5.10.1-14 is to be installed. So the problem is that aptitude

Re: 2 packages with the same file

2010-08-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 19:36:32 +0200, spam.spam.spam.s...@free.fr wrote: Hello, If I create a package with the same file than an other package which is already installed on my computer, I can't install it. But when I download a package with the same file than an other package which is

Re: CNN vidoes no playable in iceape (mozilla browser)

2010-07-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:17:45 -0400, H.S. wrote: Hello. Anyone else having trouble playing videos on CCN website? I don't frequent it and am not sure if this happens with all the vidoes there. On Debian Testing amd64, in iceape with flashplayer, flashblock, noscript and adblock

Re: CUPS upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze breaks encryption - HELP

2010-07-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:22:31 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 06:41 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:46:40 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Hello, all. We are in quite a pickle tonight - our CUPS printing is complete broken after an upgrade.

Re: samba: mounting as cifs not working (works in Windows though)

2010-07-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:48:21 -0400, H.S. wrote: On 29/07/10 10:29 AM, Camaleón wrote: mount -t cifs //192.168.0.8/share -o username=hs /mnt/share No luck. I get mount error(13): Permission denied. Nothing in syslog of the server. In the samba logs, the only info I have is regarding

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 19:51:53 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2010 17:21:28 Florian Kulzer wrote: Furthermore, he is asking the wrong question if he wants real security. If one downloads via an insecure protocol (http, ftp) then it does not matter if the URL

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 14:21:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/24/2010 01:50 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: Yes it is. That's why I suggested the kmuto installer. Is there any reference fro Debian web site to the kmuto site - I have found one reference

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 14:04:16 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because dosfslabel finds a problem that prevents the

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 20:09:27 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:43:46PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 15:58:59 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:25:30 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:28:59AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because dosfslabel finds

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 15:53:36 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:13:59PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:25:30 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:28:59AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because dosfslabel finds a problem that prevents the installation of linux-base. Trying to resolve this I used e2fsck to check each of the disk partitions and e2fsck

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 15:58:59 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because dosfslabel finds a problem

Re: Is it gdm3 that is logging me out?

2010-07-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 23:50:55 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On 18/07/10 18:19, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 15:34:22 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: [...] It has happened again whilst I was having lunch today. System had been idle for about 4 hours and when I came back to it I

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 18:41:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/2010 05:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:13:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/2010 04:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: Run alsamixer and check the volume for all the channels :-? First thing I did. Note,

Re: Is it gdm3 that is logging me out?

2010-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 15:34:22 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On 14/07/10 17:25, Bob Proulx wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: Do you see signs of an X server restart or anything else that looks suspicious in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old or /var/log/syslog? See also

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:44:10 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/18/2010 03:54 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 18:41:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/2010 05:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:13:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/2010 04:30 PM, Camaleón

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 16:59:44 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/18/2010 04:05 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:44:10 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] $ lsof +c0 $(find /dev/ -group audio) COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME mixer_applet2 2193

Re: where's udevinfo ?

2010-07-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 13:12:44 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: pretty much every tutorial out there refers to udevinfo. the debian web search shows that it's in the udev unstable package, but when I look at the list of files under udev, it's not present. has it been replaced by

Re: how to make iceweasel icedove look as pretty as in gnome?

2010-07-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:12:45 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: On 07/14/2010 11:10 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 21:53:36 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Is there a way? I tried by installing kde-config-gtk-style but both apps look terrible and they also don't exit

Re: holding back buggy packages

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:27:57 -0400, Celejar wrote: Hi, A common use case with aptitude (interactive mode ) / apt-listbugs is: a) order an upgrade b) aptitude downloads packages c) apt-listbugs reports some serious bug in a package d) I decide not to install / upgrade the problematic

Re: Is it gdm3 that is logging me out?

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:56:58 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Over the past few weeks there has been a change in my system behaviour. I frequently get back to my screen to find the gdm greeter inviting me to log in again. At first I thought it might have been the screen saver, but unlike

Re: how to make iceweasel icedove look as pretty as in gnome?

2010-07-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 21:53:36 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Is there a way? I tried by installing kde-config-gtk-style but both apps look terrible and they also don't exit properly. Which themes did you try? I use Clearlooks from the package gtk2-engines; it works without glitches on my KDE

Re: Help - CUPS printing stopped working

2010-07-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 14:02:56 -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: I've been running pretty vanilla CUPS-based printing on my home and office machines for years. After a recent dist-upgrade to testing, I get on both machines this error when trying to browse to the admin page: An error occurred

Re: corrupted firmware-linux-nonfree 0.26

2010-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:50:09 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, From everything I can find the versions of firmware-linux-nonfree for sid and unstable (0.26) contain corrupted versions of agere_sta_fw.bin and agere_ap_fw.bin version 9.48 Does someone know how I can the uncorrupted versions

Re: corrupted firmware-linux-nonfree 0.26

2010-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 14:30:00 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/07/2010 02:05 PM, Paul Scott wrote: On 07/07/2010 01:46 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-07-07 22:17 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree [...] That at least

Re: J-Pilot and Handspring Visor

2010-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 17:18:24 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: From: Florian Kulzer [...] This is the output from dmesg: [637797.771076] usb 2-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=082d, idProduct=0100 [637797.771083] usb 2-3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0

Re: J-Pilot and Handspring Visor

2010-07-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please wrap your lines at 72 characters for readability. ] On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 19:34:04 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] The visor is a great, but ancient device and the docs talk about using a fairly new kernel, like 2.4.17. I am using 2.6.32 from backports and I have done 'modprobe

changing user password on KDE 4.4 (was: How 'stable' is squeeze?)

2010-06-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 23:34:38 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [...] However, I still do not see a way to change passwords as an ordinary user. How does an ordinary user who does not use the command line (and thus passwd) and does not have the root password change their password in KDE

Re: GRUB2 - automatically generating extra entries

2010-06-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 21:35:53 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: I use runlevel 3 for non-X boots (gdm, etc is disabled), and to boot into it I append 3 to my normal use entry in the GRUB2 menu. I'd like to just automatically generate the extra line, so that even after a kernel upgrade it'll still

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:13:51 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: Most of the times 'aptitude remove/purge package' removes ALL the unused dependencies of the package. Sometimes however, even if I issue this command RIGHT after having installed a package it only removes some of the dependencies,

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ I am putting this back on d-u; please make sure to reply to the list. ] On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 16:05:17 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 09:55 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: Your first hypothesis is most likely the correct one; the optional dependency that keeps the package

Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

2010-06-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 20:00:43 +0100, Vasco Costa wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: You can ask aptitude directly:  aptitude why libfribidi0 Thanks, this is quite handy. I should have known about this but I haven't used Debian since over ten years ago (I

Re: Jumpy video after KDE 4.4 upgrade in Squeeze

2010-05-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 19:16:06 -0500, Gene Kodadek wrote: I upgraded my Squeeze box to KDE 4.4 about a week ago, and have been contending with jumpy, hesitant video performance ever since. I'm not sure which package to file this bug against; if it helps I'm running an Nvidia 7900GS using

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 16:24:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: This issue is because the new udev requires a .31 kernel with sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 15:00:31 +0100, Lisi wrote: [...] I do *not* ask otherwise and Dotan has been sending long, rude, unpleasant emails direct to me. That is what I am complaining about. On-list complaints about unsolicited CC'ing are also against the code of conduct, so you are at

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 09:18:05 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Sun May 9 2010 08:20:40 Florian Kulzer wrote: (snip) That is fine, of course, but why do you bother the list with your grievances if your mind is already made up and you are not willing to work with the people who care about

Re: Broken dependencies

2010-05-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 17:20:56 +0200, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello, because a stupid mistake, I have interrupted apt-get during early stage of dist-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze. Now I cannot get apt-get working and I don't know how to fix it. Could anyone of you please help me? I'll be

Re: asignar hora a PC

2010-04-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:28:23 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:16:20 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:57:59 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:22:53 -0400 (EDT), cosme wrote: ... y como quedaría dentro Solo en ingles, por

Re: asignar hora a PC

2010-04-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 16:11:38 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:14:15 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:28:23 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: That is indeed strange. I have never heard of an e-mail system that allows e-mails out but not in. (Except

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

2010-04-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 00:57:49 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:08:23 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Clive McBarton writes: The debian-multimedia-keyring is not restricted by patents or any other licence issues. I understand why the other d-m

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

2010-04-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:08:23 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Clive McBarton writes: The debian-multimedia-keyring is not restricted by patents or any other licence issues. I understand why the other d-m packages are not in debian, but the keyring (and just the keyring) should be in debian.

Re: Trunk version of linux-image ISSUE

2010-04-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 08:37:30 -0500, JW Foster wrote: I', sent this previously but so far no reply. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this issue. I did an update the trunk version of linux-image was installed as the upgraded version. A few weeks later I tried to install the newer

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 23:27:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: [...] Hal is certainly no longer working, see #567389. Yet, udev now also stopped working... OK, I think I understand a little bit better how this is supposed to be working now. Try to add your touchpad options to the InputClass

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 19:38:23 -0500, francis southern wrote: On 14 April 2010 16:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hi list, After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up my udev rules file. A few months

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 21:24:19 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [ blah, blah, blah ] Uh-oh, the moment I sent my last message I finally remembered that I currently use an outdated version of the synaptics driver, because a serious bug of video-intel forced me to freeze my whole Xorg installation

Re: What prevents mounting of USB devices?

2010-04-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:09:03 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Another thing to try is to activate the desktop icons for removable devices and test if users can mount the devices by clicking on the icons. Sorry to sound stupid, but how do I activate those

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hi list, After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to udev was required (see also the list history for several threads on that

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 19:43:30 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope paste from that page, the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a dpkg-reconfigure locales issue? It could

Re: What prevents mounting of USB devices?

2010-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 14:57:01 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 19:20:42 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: I run KDE and normally mount usb devices with the Storage Media applet in the task bar. Recently I have been getting strange errors

Re: What prevents mounting of USB devices?

2010-04-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 19:20:42 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: I run KDE and normally mount usb devices with the Storage Media applet in the task bar. Recently I have been getting strange errors and mounting failed: Which version of KDE, 3.x or 4.x? (I don't remember a task bar applet for

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 08:45:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-10 02:20, Clive McBarton wrote: [...] Every HD that is even remotely close to being usable will always have zero bad blocks when seen from outside the HD. All HDs have error recognition and error correction and automatic

Re: Why can't I reinstall locales? [SOLVED]

2010-04-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:18:24 -0700, Ernie Dunbar wrote: For future reference, the solution to this problem is to manually download the .deb file from the Debian website, then force the install like this: dpkg -i --force-depends locales_2.7-18lenny2_all.deb This works without issue

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-04-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 05:01:03 +0100, Jen wrote: I am blind, so selecting the kernel from the grub prompt is not possible. I want to use the new kernel (not trunk) as my default. OK, now I understand your problem. It is unfortunate that the trunk version slipped into the normal repository and

Re: HAL UID ?

2010-03-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 15:02:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Per some recent discussion here of command line mounting of plugable storage, I am investigating pmount and pmount-hal. In the man page for pmount-hal there is this: The first parameter (device) must be the HAL UDI or the device

Re: Testing upgrade Failures:

2010-03-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:29:15 -0500, JW Foster wrote: I just tried to do an upgrade on testing I,m getting several errors. First snip of output is regarding unknown types. I have no idea what this is but I seen it before. SNIP- Processing

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 18:44:03 -0400, Mark wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 04:32:08 pm Andrei Popescu wrote: Please post the output of: lspci | grep -i wireless ~# lspci | grep -i wireless 0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 16:23:23 -0400, Mark wrote: I had wifi, now I don't. I just upgraded my kernel (using aptitude) from 2.6.26-686 to 2.6.32-3-686 and followed that with aptitude full-upgrade, which removed a number of packages (that I wasn't using anyway) because I had previously

Re: Even More Grub UUID

2010-03-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:19:26 -0700, Freeman wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:05:56 -0700 freeman wrote: Finally installed grub legacy. (Long story. And no I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, whatever. [...] However, the system still boots off menu.lst. It had to be edited to boot the system

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:36 +, Bob Cox wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:09:05 -0400, Wayne wrote: After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the past month. I would like to propose a new

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 14:15:53 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:44 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: Nobody will manually verify each package that is going to be installed. apt-listbugs list

Re: aptitude package filtering

2010-03-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 17:23:11 -0400, Yavuz Yetim wrote: Hi, I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing) gives me packages that are installed and available in testing and that's not what I

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 14:12:37 -0500, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:18:30 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: [...] If after running sudo update-usbids.sh the device name is still not shown, is that a sign that the driver is not properly installed? As others (Florian) have explained, no.

Re: liblua5.1-gtk-0 problem

2010-03-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 04:25:05 +0100, Martin wrote: I have installed Gtk binding for Lua liblua5.1-gtk-dev liblua5.1-gtk-0 from Lenny DVDs. I also have Lua interpreter and dev libraries lua5.1 liblua5.1-0 liblua5.1-0-dev When I try to run example program this is the error: $

Re: How to know if USB device has driver properly installed?

2010-03-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 22:19:05 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I am trying to get a USB device working. In lsusb the ID shows up, but the name of the device does not. Is this an indication that the driver is not properly installed? For instance, this is how functioning devices look in lsusb:

Re: critical bugs of libc6 - a problem for sid?

2010-03-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 14:47:34 -0800, John Magolske wrote: When trying to `aptitude install xserver-xorg-video-vesa` I see: The following packages will be upgraded: ... libc6 ... ... critical bugs of libc6 (2.9-6 - 2.10.2-6) unfixed #555205 - libc6: segfault

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:17:09 -0800, Cecil Knutson wrote: Florian, Sorry it took so long for me to realize I did not respond to your last email. No problem, I was pretty busy with work anyway. You have covered a lot of ground with Stephen Powell in the meantime, and I do not have too

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 19:36:18 -0800, Cecil Knutson wrote: dimension8400:/home/cecil# grep '.*' /proc/asound/* /proc/asound/card?/* /proc/asound/cards: 0 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106 /proc/asound/cards: Live! 7.1 24bit [SB0413] at 0xcce0 irq 17

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 19:11:05 -0800, Cecil Knutson wrote: dimension8400:/home/cecil# lspci [...] 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) [...] 04:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy

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