man pages sometimes blank initially

2009-06-02 Thread Jason Dunsmore
Hello, Occasionally, when I view a man page, the man page shows up blank. It's not completely blank... there will be maybe blank 10 lines, followed by the less status line (eg. Manual page emacs(1emacs-snapshot) line 1), followed by blank lines. If I press the up arrow key, the man page displays

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-06-01 Thread Jason Dunsmore
lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de writes: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:25:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: I'd gladly do that, but how would I watch the videos then? Check out the mtube greasemonkey script for Firefox. It allows you to play youtube videos in mplayer via mplayerplug-in.

Re: detailed disk usage package?

2009-05-04 Thread Jason Dunsmore
Zhengquan Zhang zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com writes: Dear debian community, I was doing du -ka . | sort -nr once in a while to do disk usage analysis. I was wondering if anybody here are using a package that can do detailed disk usage analysis. and the program can email a detailed report to

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-23 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 6/18/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:14:35 -0500 Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting ever more sluggish. I

Re: how to undo e16keyedit config in enlightenment?

2007-06-01 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 5/31/07, Jason Dunsmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to configure keybindings using the ~/.enlightenment/keybindings.cfg file, but I've previously used e16keyedit and I'm having trouble undoing the changes made by it. I'm trying to restore a few keybindings that I deleted using

how to undo e16keyedit config in enlightenment?

2007-05-31 Thread Jason Dunsmore
Hi, I'd like to configure keybindings using the ~/.enlightenment/keybindings.cfg file, but I've previously used e16keyedit and I'm having trouble undoing the changes made by it. I'm trying to restore a few keybindings that I deleted using e16keyedit to verify that the keybindings.cfg file is

Re: updatedb cron job never finishes

2007-05-30 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 5/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:42:30AM -0700, Jason Dunsmore wrote: Whenever updatedb runs via cron, it goes to sleep and never finishes the job, leaving all these processes running: 29519 ?S 0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON 29520

updatedb cron job never finishes

2007-05-29 Thread Jason Dunsmore
?SN 0:00 /usr/lib/locate/frcode -0 29577 ?SN 0:00 su nobody -s /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/find / -ignore_readd 29578 ?SN 0:01 /usr/bin/find / -ignore_readdir_race ( -fstype NFS -o What could be causing this? It happens on Etch for x86 and AMD64. Jason Dunsmore

usbmount replacement?

2007-01-25 Thread Jason Dunsmore
I noticed that usbmount is no longer in Etch. I read that it was replaced by pmount, but pmount doesn't automatically mount usb devices the way usbmount did. I want my usb storage devices to be automatically mounted under /media/usb[0-7]. I've installed pmount, hal, dbus, and udev, but the

Re: usbmount replacement?

2007-01-25 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 1/25/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which DE or wm do you use? Enlightenment. I don't need the desktop icons to show up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usbmount replacement?

2007-01-25 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 1/25/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: udev and pmount should do the trick for you. Maybe your udev rules are wrong? Thanks for the help. Neither udev or pmount will automatically mount the device. I found ivman, which I think does what I want, when used with udev, hal, dbus.

Broadcom wifi card needs reboot to set essid

2007-01-16 Thread Jason Dunsmore
Hi, my laptop has a Broadcom BCM4318 802.11g wireless card, and I've been using ndiswrapper with the bcmwl5 driver for over a year now. The problem is if I boot up with the wrong or no essid set in /etc/network/interfaces, I can't re-set the essid on the card. I have to change the configuration

Re: Modified Config Files

2006-12-17 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 12/17/06, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 17, 2006, at 5:32 AM, Chris Stork wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 04:52:19AM +0100, Chris Stork wrote: Hi, What would be an easy way to list the config files that have been changed on my system? Find a file

Re: mouse freaks out

2006-12-06 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 12/6/06, Ben Breslauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Dunsmore wrote: My Logitech usb mouse (model M-BT96a) has a tendancy to freak out a couple of times per hour. When this happens, the mouse cursor suddenly goes to one of the screen corners. When I try to reorient myself by moving

Re: using bootchart

2006-12-06 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 12/5/06, Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:34:09AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, When I used bootchart to benchmark booting of Debian sarge, I found S40hotplug took nearly 15 seconds. S40hotplug calls {pci,usb,isapnp}.rc, and installing some modules.

keyboard problems on boot

2006-12-05 Thread Jason Dunsmore
Hi, I'm using a Goldtouch 4200U usb keyboard with Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.16.13. The keyboard layout resembles a laptop keyboard, with about half of the keys on the right half having dual function as a number pad. When I first start the computer, those keys don't work on the gdm login screen.

mouse freaks out

2006-12-05 Thread Jason Dunsmore
My Logitech usb mouse (model M-BT96a) has a tendancy to freak out a couple of times per hour. When this happens, the mouse cursor suddenly goes to one of the screen corners. When I try to reorient myself by moving the mouse to see where it went, the mouse moves rapidly all over the screen.

Re: usb drive errors with automount

2006-11-17 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 11/16/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can use 'usbmount' for automatic mounting of usb storage devices. However I'm afraid your USB flashdisk is dead... The USB flashdisk isn't dead. It works when I mount it manually. I didn't know about usbmount. I'll give it a

Re: /dev/hd* gone with udev

2006-11-17 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 11/17/06, Anton Piatek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, mine works but there are loads of rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/ %ls /etc/udev/rules.d/ 020_permissions.rules z25_persistent-net.rules 025_libgphoto2.rulesz45_persistent-net-generator.rules 025_libsane.rules

Re: usb drive errors with automount

2006-11-17 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 11/17/06, Roby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usbmount: This package automatically mounts USB mass storage devices (typically USB pens) when they are plugged in, and unmounts them when they are removed... Seems like doing an umount after/during unplug would lead to data loss if the device had

usb drive errors with automount

2006-11-16 Thread Jason Dunsmore
I just started having trouble automounting my usb drive. When I plug it in, the kernel recognizes it: usb 5-8.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 usb 5-8.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi34 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device

/dev/hd* gone with udev

2006-11-15 Thread Jason Dunsmore
I recently upgraded my Debian testing system. When I rebooted, almost all the device nodes in /dev were gone, and the system wouldn't boot all the way up (got all the way to starting nfs, somehow). I ended up removing udev and installing hotplug through the single-user recovery console. I'd

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-13 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 11/12/06, Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I am having trouble browsing my banks web site to do online banking. I can log into the site but web pages don't seem to load up in the browser. This is only the case when running testing or unstable, I can navigate the site just

meaning of dependency score?

2006-11-10 Thread Jason Dunsmore
What does Score is -19 mean in this context? ... # aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: php4 php4-mysql

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 10/31/06, Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment to Fluxbox. I'm very happy now but guess I may get bored and try

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-30 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 10/30/06, celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/06, Edward Guldemond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much RAM do you have in your system? In my expreience, Firefox takes more memory than Opera does. -- Ed My Firefox (1.5 on Sid) is really, really slow (startup, getting / rendering

Re: HELP! No sound in Mozilla w/flashplayer

2006-10-18 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 10/18/06, Rev. John Missing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I go to a site with Flash video, the video plays but I get no sound. Can anyone suggest where to start looking for the problem? when you start mozilla with aoss mozilla, does it work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-17 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 10/5/06, Jason Dunsmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On two different occasions over the past month, text from the console was sent to the printer. It prints 3-4 copies of 2-3 pages from the console. The text is printed out just like it's shown in the console, with both the commands

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-06 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 10/6/06, Lubos Vrbka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mumia W.. wrote: There is no way to disable the special input modes. That's why Debian provides both rxvt-xpm (rxvt) and urxvt (rxvt-unicode). ok, good to know... maybe i should return back to uxterm :) BTW, I can input accented characters in

security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-05 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On two different occasions over the past month, text from the console was sent to the printer. It prints 3-4 copies of 2-3 pages from the console. The text is printed out just like it's shown in the console, with both the commands and their output. I use urxvt as my X console, and I run

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-05 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 10/5/06, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/05/2006 09:34 PM, Lubos Vrbka wrote: On two different occasions over the past month, text from the console was sent to the printer. It prints 3-4 copies of 2-3 pages from the console. The text is printed out just like it's shown in the

Re: system is up 1 year

2006-09-18 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 9/16/06, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2006-09-15 09:47:12, schrieb Jason Dunsmore: Can you give some references? Thanks. What references do you want? I was wondering if there were references that support what you said about security and Linux uptime (see below

Re: system is up 1 year

2006-09-15 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 9/13/06, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2006-09-10 14:12:51, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: Hi, http://klive.cpushare.com/2.6.11.6-procmail/ shows that the system is up one year. Not bad. FALSE! - Realy Bad! I run a Router/Firewall with Linux 2.4.32 and its uptime is

ehci_hcd module and USB 2.0 IDE adapter device

2006-09-13 Thread Jason Dunsmore
I have an external USB drive that doesn't work with the ehci_hcd module (USB 2.0) from the 2.6.16-2-686-smp kernel. It also didn't work with several previous 2.6 kernels. Here is what happens when it ehci_hcd tries to recognize it: usb 4-2: USB disconnect, address 2 usb 1-6: new high speed

usb hard drive changes from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb with sarge

2005-12-10 Thread Jason Dunsmore
once in a while (can be every couple days or every couple weeks), my usb hard drive changes from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb, and i see this in dmesg: scsi11 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device ReiserFS: sda1: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry scsi11 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device