I read in several places that there is a debian pkg for the mail
filter tool `pryzor', however aptitude can find no hint of it.
aptitude search pryzor
Turns up no hits.
Maybe I need something added to my sources.list. Currently it looks
like:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing
Running (recently upgraded from wheezy) 'Testing'.
I see something happen when using ~/.inputrc that I don't now how to
track down.
In console (noX) mode the things I have in ~/.inputrc work as
expected.
And example might be
set keymap emacs-meta
f: find -iname '* *'
So pressing
Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes:
[...]
Right, and do we know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc. ...
Dear OP, do you know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc.
... my sliver of memory from ~6 or more years ago is not in any way
definitive, of course.
From
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
Ralph Katz wrote:
Also of course:
~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager
I think the alternatives tool is better.
$ update-alternatives --list x-window-manager
$ update-alternatives --list x-session-manager
Then to configure it:
#
Sharon Kimble boudic...@talktalk.net writes:
On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:21:57 -0400
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
Ralph Katz wrote:
Also of course:
~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager
I think the alternatives tool is better
I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up
lately.
Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in.
I boot to console out of long habit, using startx when I want X, so
with this peculiar phenomena I can't login to console.
It appears to be something
Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes:
On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up
lately.
Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in.
..
It appears to be a mashup of the grub screen (light
Ralph Katz ralph.k...@rcn.com writes:
On 08/04/2013 10:25 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Summary: How to make focus follow mouse when all settings appear to be
set for focus to follow mouse but still it does not happen.
Details:
Running an lxde desktop. I'm setup for ~/.xinitrc to invoke lxde
Can anyone explain what the final line from an
aptitude update (After setting sources.list to testing)
aptitude full-upgrade
This very last line from aptitude seems like its probably full of
meaning, but not much use if I cannot find out what the heck it means.
It apparently sums up what
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes:
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:21:14AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
Can anyone explain what the final line from an
aptitude update (After setting sources.list to testing)
aptitude full-upgrade
This very last line from aptitude seems like
I'm building emacs for the bzr sources but keep being told I don't
have x development pkgs installed.
I installed several xorg.*dev pkgs.. and a few others that looked like
they might be what I need. But still getting the report from
configure that x development files are not found, and offers
Thanks to all.
That `apt-get build-dep emacs' is great... thanks, I'd forgotten about
that.
Teemu posted the needed list... very helpful.
As it happens, I'd already gotten lucky tracking down the needed pkgs
(and probably a goodly number of unneeded) since my OP.
I will know better next
Summary: How to make focus follow mouse when all settings appear to be
set for focus to follow mouse but still it does not happen.
Details:
Running an lxde desktop. I'm setup for ~/.xinitrc to invoke lxde.
I dug around in the settings and found where I could set 'focus follows
mouse' so that
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
On Thu 09 May 2013 at 12:02:07 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
All the Debian ISOs are isohybrids, so
cat debian.iso /dev/sdX
and you are on your way to a no fuss installation. A simple one line
easily
cat /etc/debian_version
7.0
---- ---=--- -
I got here from an oldish wheezy install by setting my sources.list to
testing and running
aptitude update
aptitude full-upgrade
The problem I'm about to describe was already there
What should the sources.list of someone following testing look like
now with wheezy released?
My old settings were:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes:
[...]
Harry wrote:
My old settings were:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
This is fine. This will keep you on testing (wheezy-jessie)
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
Julian Rüger j...@gmx.net writes:
Hi Harry,
Thank you for the input and your offer:
Yes I am interested, and please do.
you may have seen my post in the other thread, I think I CC-ed you:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/05/msg00443.html
Thank you, yes I saw it. I'm a litte
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
All the Debian ISOs are isohybrids, so
cat debian.iso /dev/sdX
and you are on your way to a no fuss installation. A simple one line
easily remembered command. Couldn't be easier.
I could be easier... especially if you explain a little more about
what
Julian Rüger j...@gmx.net writes:
Harry: If you are interested, I could give you a little step-by-step
howto.
Thank you for the input and your offer:
Yes I am interested, and please do.
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Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
On Wed 08 May 2013 at 19:59:02 +0200, Julian Rüger wrote:
Hi Harry, Brian and others,
Hello Julian,
It is far less convenient than booting from an isohybrid and only works
with a netinst ISO if the user is prepared to jump through a number of
small
I'd like to try installing debian from an iso file but not burn a
disc. Google turns up actual piles of reports and instructions for
doeing that, but as I plow thru I'm finding they all (so far) seem to
expect the user is installing debian on a windows machine.
I'm already running a linux
Running Wheezy as guest in win7 64 bit host with virtualbox.
How can I set Focus follows mouse in lxde desktop?
I've installed lxde-core, lxde-common, lxde and task-lxde-desktop
Usually I found that setting under the settings dialog, then windows
amongst the settings for windows.
I do not
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Running Wheezy as guest in win7 64 bit host with virtualbox.
How can I set Focus follows mouse in lxde desktop?
I've installed lxde-core, lxde-common, lxde and task-lxde-desktop
Usually I found that setting under the settings dialog, then windows
Sorry for taking advantage of the list a bit but as happens pretty
often, this list is more likely to provide useful info on the subject.
I want to begin some training in computer security... training I can
do online... and hopefully a hands on approach.
I'm already an old man at 66 but would
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
Does it happen the same when you launch iceweasel as another user? For
instance: gksu icewasel
Yes, looks just the same
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This should be sort of simple I think, and yet it turns out not to be.
I want to mount my blackberry's sdcard on a wheezy machine
I'm getting an odd comment when I try the mount
mount /mnt/bbsd
Unable to find suitable address
---- ---=--- -
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:16:02 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
I see old bugs from 2011 where this problem is claimed to be solved but
I'm getting the problem now on wheezy.
After installing iceweasel, when I try to run it:
,
| XPCOMGlueLoad error
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes:
I'd purge that, and reinstall it, someone has tampered with it;
otherwise why would /usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0/libxul.so be missing.
It was not missing but was being reported as missing. Anyway I did
remove and purge:
xulrunner-10.0
iceweasel
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes:
And still:
ls -l /usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0/libx*
root root15048 Jun 29 09:52 /usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0/libxpcom.so
root root 20280312 Jun 29 09:52 /usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0/libxul.so
So not an ounce of progress... I guess.
FWIW, did you run
I see old bugs from 2011 where this problem is claimed to be solved
but I'm getting the problem now on wheezy.
After installing iceweasel, when I try to run it:
,
| XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0/libxpcom.so:
| libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
But unless squeeze is free of the horrible and fast march of updates
one experiences on wheezy it may not be a goal after all.
Why do you feel that you need to closely track Unstable? There is
usually no urgent need to upgrade
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:17:27PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
Err yup, looks like Marty Feldman, although now deceased, could make a
comeback otherwise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlPAVm8Gl6M
Hilarious. Marty's wall eyes
Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
However, I think that happenstance
Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes:
I would suggest uncommenting the wheezy bits, commenting out the
squeeze buts (perhaps adding contrib and non-free at your option) and
running another apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and seeing what it
wants to do. It's likely to want to
Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly
incompetent klutz might be able to blunder thru a huge bout of ripping
out kde and most of X
I've recently done a tremendous amount of removing and purging. I
wanted rid of kde and finally to install lxde. And threw into the
bargain moving from testing to stable.
There is plenty of howto available for installing lxde, but I'm a bit
puzzled by the output of `aptitude -s install lxde'
It
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes:
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 06:55:48PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
I've recently done a tremendous amount of removing and purging. I
wanted rid of kde and finally to install lxde. And threw into the
bargain moving from testing to stable
ACro a...@bluebottle.com writes:
Does this list look a little ridiculous?
It doesn't :-) AFAIK this is the default behaviour when installing
xserver-xorg,
although not all packages may really be needed.
[...]
Thanks for the details regarding the xserver stuff.
Jochen Spieker
I still do not fully understand the debian system of versioning at its
relationship to the install isos.
If I wanted a new system that was the stable released version, which
install iso would I use?
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I have a light minimalish system (noX) and not a lot installed but for a the
last few weeks, when I try to update with emerge -vuD world
It caves about a perl versioning problem, and specifically about:
perl-core/Module-Build-0.400.0
Abbreviated output:
,
| Emerging (1 of 12)
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Please disregard the Original post... it was inadvertently posted to
the wrong group.
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With this sources.list:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://emacs.naquadah.org/ unstable/
deb-src http://emacs.naquadah.org/ unstable/
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian import
An
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
apt-cache has no knowledge of one.
From
http://cheops-ng.sourceforge.net/
5/29/2005 - Nobodys home :( I have been unable to work on this project,
too much going on and no help. Sorry :( maybe someone can help out with
this project
It bit the
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
Unless ifupdown is smart enough (don't know, you have to research this)
the second DHCP might override the default gateway of the first[1].
Assuming you may want to connect other devices to the OpenWrt you
probably don't want to tinker
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
Thanks for all those details ... very helpful
[...]
To use /etc/init.d/networking, you can either change
allow-hotplug to auto (or allow-auto) or add
auto/allow-auto lines to the allow-hotplug ones (I've never
tried the latter but Bob Proulx suggested
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
So, it seems there is no way around thinking both addresses are on a
single nic since there is only one ethernet wire attached to
localhost.
As above; erroneous. Find out about MAC addresses and ARP. They are
basic to communication on an ethernet network
I'd like to know exactly how to start/stop retart etc the network
configuration.
But first it seems one must determine what is actually running them.
in /var/log/boot I see:
grep -i NetworkManger /var/log/boot
Mon Feb 13 13:27:14 2012: Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager.
OK,
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes:
If a package's installed, use
dpkg -S /path/to/file
If it isn't installed, install apt-file, run apt-file update, and use:
apt-file search /path/to/file
Ok, again talking through my hat. I miss-remembered apt-file as
apt-cache.. So sure was I that it was
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
[Snip]
Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way
by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply work with the
tools that control networking
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way
by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply work
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes:
Harry wrote:
The way I did do it was to reverse the names in:
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
...
Can any anyone tell me if that will survive an upgrade?
Andrei responded:
Yes
Harry wrote:
Or can anyone tell me if there is a better
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
Harry wrote:
Running wheezy - 3.0.0-1-686-pae
Camaleón replied:
Wheezy has now 3.1.0 :-?
Harry:
I've missed a couple of updates... the last notice I received on my kde
desktop showed 200+... yikes.
Camaleón:
He... yes, that hurts :-)
I've
Jesse Thompson jes...@gmail.com writes:
There's a lot of things which aren't clear to me. Let's recap the
following for clarity:
Sorry for the lack of clarity... I just posted new information that
fills in most of what you requested
You mention there are two, wired nics in your box, only one
I've made a thorough going mess of this thread by changing the game a
couple of times during the course of it. Very foolish of me, and a
number of people have put time and effort into trying to help.
Thank you.
I really am sorry for causing the confusion. My poorly thought out
posts and bad
Running wheezy - 3.0.0-1-686-pae
I'm getting confused by what I see in /etc/network/interfaces,
compared to what I see with ifconfig -a.
What I see in /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Does not match what I see with
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:13:22 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
Running wheezy - 3.0.0-1-686-pae
Wheezy has now 3.1.0 :-?
I've missed a couple of updates... the last notice I received on my
kde desktop showed 200+... yikes.
I'm getting confused by what I see
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
I can think of no way ifupdown is able to bring up an interface it has
no knowledge of. Other network configuring programs could be in on the
act though.
Its been a pretty good while since I set up networking but I think I
did it by hand edit of
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes:
On Sb, 11 feb 12, 17:29:25, Harry Putnam wrote:
A little more to the story is that the address shown in ifconfig -a
for eth0 (192.168.1.54) is ping-able from around the network.
There is only 1 ethernet wire connected to the machine
Jesse Thompson jes...@gmail.com writes:
the interfaces file is really only going to come into pay during
bootup, or when using eg ifup/ifdown scripts.
You indicated that you may have configured the interfaces by hand via
ifconfig; if so those changes will not survive a reboot. How long
Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org writes:
Even that doesn't really work, since numbers stay upper case to what
ever symbols are the upper case for each (sometimes).
Upper case numbers?
Read it again...
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Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
By the way... The IBM Model M keyboard is an example of one of the
finest keyboards ever made. Unicomp bought the rights to continue
making that same keyboard. By all reports they are excellent.
I agree. I got this one on the strength of reviews and
Running Wheezy - kde plasma
Running Debian / windows7 on a KVM switch (IOGEAR miniview 4 port DVI)
Keyboard is from `Unicomp' and weighs about 10 lbs. Its not that old
but is in the old style with serious stand up keys and lots of clatter
when typing.
I've been running thru this switch for
Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de writes:
Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop
I want to get rid of pulseaudio.
I've found [0] very useful
[0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1381284
Great thread, thanks.
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Claudius Hubig nfs_2...@chubig.net 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
2) gnome-core
Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes:
I use KDE (on Squeeze) and Pulse rarely uses more than 2% even when
networked to multiple boxen.
Interesting, so likely local config problems.
Not that I'd call 5-8% CPU chugging anyway (chugging means the CPU is
at close to 100%).
I
$ apt-cache show gnome-core
gnome-core is really only a meta package depending upon the stuff
‘central to gnome’. Removing the meta package will not remove
anything else, unless you use, for example, apt-get autoremove.
It might therefore be helpful to check the dependencies of gnome-core
Running Wheezy and kde plasma desktop
I notice whiptail hogging cpu and decided to get rid of it and return
to the package it is replacing `dialog'.
aptitude remove whiptail... offers a few decisions, and I made the ones
that replace whiptail with dialog.
None the less, whiptail is still here
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 appear to be pretty ridiculous
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
None the less, whiptail is still here hogging away at 75-80 percent
cpu.
When `aptitude remove' leaves the nasty bugger behind what is the
procedure to finally be clear rid of it?
# apt-get install procps
# pkill whiptail
Or use 'killall' if you
Ashton Fagg ash...@fagg.id.au writes:
On 21 January 2012 10:55, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
However, if I start synaptic it immediately pegs resources (as viewed
in `top') around 92-95 percent us.. And there it stays until I close the
partially open synaptic gui.
At that point
Running wheezy on P4 intel cpu 3.06 Ghz 2gb ram
kde desktop
I rarely have ran the gui tool synaptic and normally do things with
`aptitude'.
I haven't noticed any particular system sloth. Nothing unusual
anyway.
I happened to be looking at the openoffice.org wiki and started to
follow the
Can anyone tell me if there is a debian oriented repository somewhere
that has moneydance software?
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Is anyone here willing to talk to me off list via email about the
native woods in there area.
I'm looking for branches of very hard dense woods, like rock maple,
american hornbeam, Iron wood, Lignum Vitae, and any very heavy wood.
I want to make a variety of very heavy walking sticks. Its
Michael Heerdegen michael_heerde...@web.de writes:
Hello Harry,
just for the case you didn't know this: there is also an emacs-snapshot
package for Debian, here:
http://emacs.naquadah.org/
Thanks... good to know.
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Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.uk writes:
[...]
Very strange. I get 2,660,000 results, and the second is the one to
which I was referring: package libgtk2.0-dev. (Did you perhaps include
the quote marks? I didn't.)
Yes with the quotes. I assumed that was your intent.
| sure you
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
Which development and image libraries needed to build emacs-24
Can anyone offer a suggestion of what pkgs might be missing.
A good place to start is with the build dependencies for emacs23.
# apt-get install build-dep emacs23
Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.uk writes:
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
When I run this configure command:
./configure --with-xft --with-x-toolkit=lucid \
--prefix=/usr/local/src/vcs/bzr/test/
I get this final error:
| configure: error: You seem to be running X
I'm sorry since I asked this question a while back but am not finding
the answers now... search.gmane.org only turns up the same question by
me from 2008.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/342622
Googling brings up this same thread as the first hit.
But apparently the package
Wayne Topa linux...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
Forget this. I was working on an xserver problem and my Old Mind went
dead. :-(
Hehe... got a good chuckle out of that... That very thing is why I had
to post the query When I hit that error... my OLD MIND went dead.
Not sure its even
Kevin Ross ke...@familyross.net writes:
On 01/02/2012 07:12 AM, Rob Owens wrote:
aplay -d hw:1,0 some.wav (for card #1, device #0 -- adjust as necessary).
That should be an uppercase -D (lowercase -d is for setting a delay).
Glad you got it working anyway, though!
Hee hee, no wonder it
Running Wheezy
Can anyone suggest pointers, urls, or coaching toward getting an
m-audio USB Fast Track Pro (external sound card) working?
(Please do not reply just to suggest google).
When I run `alsamixer' it lists the Fast Track as one of the sound
cards available. When I choose it,
Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes:
However, when I attempt tp play something with `mplayer some.wav', I
get no sound.
You may need to specify which sound card to send/receive the sound
through.
To see all your sound devices, run:
aplay -l
Figure out what card # and device # your
Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes:
On 03/01/12 01:39, Harry Putnam wrote:
Running Wheezy
Can anyone suggest pointers, urls,
Yes - but...
or coaching toward getting an
m-audio USB Fast Track Pro (external sound card) working?
(Please do not reply just to suggest
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
So after dozens of small edits and restarts and makemaps ... cutting
to the chase:
/etc/mail/authinfo
(password obfuscated)
,
| Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com U:root I:hputn...@gmail.com P:??XX?? M: LOGIN
PLAIN
| Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 U:root
Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes:
You don't show your authentication settings eg.:-
define(`CERT_DIR’, `/etc/mail/certs’)
define(`confCACERT_PATH’, `CERT_DIR’)
define(`confCACERT’, `CERT_DIR/ca-bundle.crt’)
define(`confCRL’, `CERT_DIR/ca-bundle.crt’)
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes:
You don't show your authentication settings eg.:-
define(`CERT_DIR’, `/etc/mail/certs’)
define(`confCACERT_PATH’, `CERT_DIR’)
define(`confCACERT’, `CERT_DIR/ca-bundle.crt’)
define(`confCRL
First let me say, I'm not interested in switching mta's.
I want to use gmails' smtp server as Smart Host for my single user
debian box running sendmail-8.14.4
I'm hooked up to an ISP called direcpath.tv in Atlanta that uses gmail
smtp servers for its clients with addresses like
I haven't rebooted wheezy for a while... and there have been many
updates .. I'm not sure which ones have caused this problem but when
bootup starts I get to grub and immediately a prompt rather than a
selection screen.
It shows grub version 1.99 ?? something.. so is that grub2... It must
be
Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net writes:
set root (hd0,1) (in grub1 that would be hd0,0)
linux /vmtab
.._here_ is where you wanna tell grub about your initrd,
it (/boot/initrdtab?) should match your /vmtab .
boot
gackk .. I've spent too many yrs booting gentoo with no initrd... I
just
Johann Spies jsp...@sun.ac.za writes:
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:38:22PM +0200, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm bunrning a systemRescue cd now... but any suggestions will be most
welcome.
Booting with a live CD (like systemRescue) or the standard Debian
Install CD will help.
'chroot
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net writes:
set root (hd0,1) (in grub1 that would be hd0,0)
linux /vmtab
.._here_ is where you wanna tell grub about your initrd,
it (/boot/initrdtab?) should match your /vmtab .
boot
gackk .. I've spent too many yrs
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 09:13:39 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
For future reference... how does one bring a hybernated computer out of
hybernation gracefully. And more important how does one disable
hybernation entirely.
GMOME? KDE? XFCE4? None
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes:
On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 08:44:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
When I run update-grub, it appears to be working but ends with
something akin to an error:
root # update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image:
/usr/share/images/desktop
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
How does the system boot up if /boot is not mounted?
You don't need /boot mounted in order to boot. It only needs to be
mounted in order to be updated. Booting happens before the operating
system is loaded and so those files are not needed at operating
Camaleón wrote:
If the package is installed and the config file needs to be updated the
upgrade routine uses to ask what to do (keep the old file, compare both,
replace it with the nre one...). If the partition where the file lies is
not mounted then it's up to the admin user what to
I keep two major directories available thru samba to win7 machines on
my lan.
A peculiar thing happens when ever I first access them after a reboot
on windows. (I think a reboot of linux or even a restart of samba
would cause the same thing).
When, in wind7 gui, I click on the shares, I'm
Wayne Topa linux...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
I have only been using Debian since 1993, 18 years, and do not recall
ever having boot 'not' mounted. This is on syatems where I had boot
on a separate partition and, currently, everything on one partition.
I'll defer here. As I mentioned... I
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
But even with that, yes, it was sloppy not to catch it, but isn't that
just the kind of place where a warning of some kind might be well
placed.
It is okay if you want to keep your /boot not mounted and only mount
it when needed. That's fine. But I think
Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes:
You could try:
aptitude reinstall backuppc
and see if that gets you anywhere.
Thanks, I did mention in OP that I could neither install nor remove.
Surely there is someway to get rid of the pesky stuff.
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