bug report

2023-09-24 Thread Sarah Marsh
I am emailing to find information on how to file a bug report with Debian. I received a message on my command line to file a report for the issue that I am having with the command line and the Computer itself. The website says to file through the command line but my commands do not work, I am

recommended imapd?

2015-07-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
I finally removed the long-unsupported uw-imapd and have so far been unsuccessful setting up a replacement that is available in Debian. Currently I have mailutils-imap4d installed but am unsure of configuration needed. All it needs to do is to access the files in /var/mail/user and be

Re: recommended imapd?

2015-07-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote on 31/07/15 02:26: I finally removed the long-unsupported uw-imapd and have so far been unsuccessful setting up a replacement that is available in Debian. Currently I have mailutils-imap4d installed but am unsure of configuration needed. All it needs to do is to access

debugging / logging udev?

2015-06-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
I'm trying to track down what is going on with my eth0 interface not coming up automatically on my amd64 machine with recent versions of udev 219-10 or later, see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787364 Are there any good guides to debugging / logging udev? I'm unsure how to

SOLVED - Re: alsa-utils save / restore not working http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768665

2014-11-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote on 09/11/14 20:04: Hi On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 06:12:32PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Pardon me, but I'm a bit frustrated on how to debug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768665 does /var/run get saved across reboots? I would not expect so. http

alsa-utils save / restore not working http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768665

2014-11-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
Pardon me, but I'm a bit frustrated on how to debug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768665 does /var/run get saved across reboots? Where are the state of the sound card(s) saved / restored? How can one increase debugging to see whether it is happening or not? What determines

good disk/cpu/videocard temperature display that works in KDE

2014-11-07 Thread Arthur Marsh
I finally upgraded my other pc to KDE 4.14.2, and am looking for a temperature display for the hard disks, CPU, video card and motherboard. It needs to show actual temperatures and also have some labelling of which temperature is for what device. Any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

using Nokia C5-00 handset as an internet connection - looking for suggestions

2013-12-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I've had a read and experiment with using a Nokia C5-00 handset as an internet connection and am stuck. There are multiple options the mode of USB connection that the handset supports (PC Suite, mass storage, PTP transfer, media transfer and Connect PC to web). I tried Connect PC to web

Re: vlc, mplayer unable to play one particular CDDA / wav file

2013-05-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Darac Marjal wrote, on 22/05/13 21:22: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:25:19PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I'm a bit stuck as to how to report a problem with only a particular track on a particular commercial CD failing to play in mplayer or vlc (current versions in unstable) but playing alright

Re: vlc, mplayer unable to play one particular CDDA / wav file

2013-05-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Chris Bannister wrote, on 22/05/13 22:24: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:25:19PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I'm a bit stuck as to how to report a problem with only a particular track on a particular commercial CD failing to play in mplayer or vlc (current versions in unstable) but playing

vlc, mplayer unable to play one particular CDDA / wav file

2013-05-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I'm a bit stuck as to how to report a problem with only a particular track on a particular commercial CD failing to play in mplayer or vlc (current versions in unstable) but playing alright in mplayer2. The track can be extracted by cdparanoia and plays fine in vlc and mplayer when saved

Re: easiest workaround for oom_adj to oom_score_adj transition (new kernels and kdeinit from KDE 3.5)

2012-10-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 13/10/12 15:54: Hi, I've stuck with KDE 3.5.10 as it does what I want, but the new kernels have removed support for /proc//oom_adj and insist on using /proc//oom_score_adj. The only part of KDE 3.5.X that uses /proc//oom_adj is kdeinit, but I have had

Re: easiest workaround for oom_adj to oom_score_adj transition (new kernels and kdeinit from KDE 3.5)

2012-10-13 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 13/10/12 21:43: After some tinkering and using archive.debian.org I was able to rebuild kdelibs 3.5.10 for AMD64 with it set to use oom_score_adj. Next task is to do the same for i386. Arthur. Building kdelibs 3.5.10 from source for i386 with the oom_score_adj fix

easiest workaround for oom_adj to oom_score_adj transition (new kernels and kdeinit from KDE 3.5)

2012-10-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I've stuck with KDE 3.5.10 as it does what I want, but the new kernels have removed support for /proc//oom_adj and insist on using /proc//oom_score_adj. The only part of KDE 3.5.X that uses /proc//oom_adj is kdeinit, but I have had no success so far in rebuilding it from

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Keith wrote, on 18/04/12 05:26: On 17/04/12 14:53, Arthur Marsh wrote: Thanks for your suggestions, but I've tried several browsers on the AMD64 machine and experience the same fault, so I'm tending towards an AMD64-specific bug that happens with the realtek 8169 chipset. Arthur. I

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Indulekha wrote, on 17/04/12 00:44: Arthur Marsharthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Yes, gtklauncher from libwebkit on each machine. Probably worth a try with elinks (or opera or iceweasel or some other proper browser), as libwebkit purports to be made to be embedded in other

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Camaleón wrote, on 17/04/12 00:25: On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:34:55 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Camaleón wrote, on 15/04/12 23:43: (...) Are you accessing to the router web interface using the same browser from both machines? What's the browser that gets stuck after the login screen? Yes

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Camaleón wrote, on 18/04/12 00:02: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:23:14 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Camaleón wrote, on 17/04/12 00:25: (...) Are there any differences between both computer environments (e.g., same package version of libwebkit?). Also, 32 and 64 bits package versions can make

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
Camaleón wrote, on 15/04/12 23:43: On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:30:14 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I've tried to run through all I can think of and am getting a bit stuck. I have two machines running Debian (one a dual-core Pentium4 with i386, the other a quad-core AMD64-X2 with amd64), both

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-15 Thread Arthur Marsh
Stan Hoeppner wrote, on 16/04/12 05:27: On 4/14/2012 11:00 PM, Arthur Marsh wrote: ... The AMD64 machine has recently taken to stalling after entering the username and password for the adsl router's browser interface, and I've tried downgrading recent package upgrades, and different kernels

SOLVED Re: writing Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji with a US keyboard

2012-03-07 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 07/03/12 14:56: Kelly Clowers wrote, on 07/03/12 13:03: 2012/3/6 Kazuo Ishiifreepar...@gmail.com: Now I use Japanese input method using US keyboard on Debian Wheezy. Anthy and Mozc is good. And I use ibus. Please, input sudo apt-get install ibus-anthy (on Squeeze

writing Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji with a US keyboard

2012-03-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, what is the best way under Debian to write Japanese text? Is a Japanese keyboard a major help or can a US keyboard work alright. What needs to be installed and configured to compose kana and kanji characters? Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: writing Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji with a US keyboard

2012-03-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Kelly Clowers wrote, on 07/03/12 13:03: 2012/3/6 Kazuo Ishiifreepar...@gmail.com: Now I use Japanese input method using US keyboard on Debian Wheezy. Anthy and Mozc is good. And I use ibus. Please, input sudo apt-get install ibus-anthy (on Squeeze or Wheezy) or sudo apt-get install

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

2011-04-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Brian wrote, on 09/04/11 18:33: On Sat 09 Apr 2011 at 15:13:55 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I'm running Debian unstable but don't have GNOME or KDE 4 installed. Can anyone suggest a Free PDF viewer that can search for text phrases that may be broken by a line break in the original PDF

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

2011-04-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Brian wrote, on 09/04/11 23:40: On Sat 09 Apr 2011 at 20:50:55 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Thanks, the '/' command in mupdf 'just works'tm. Is there any Free PDF viewer in Debian that works outside of GNOME/KDE that can both search for text across line breaks and allows copying of text from

Re: Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

2011-04-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Brian wrote, on 10/04/11 01:39: On Sun 10 Apr 2011 at 01:22:21 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: Thanks, right again. From the manual page: Dragging with the right mouse button selects an area and copies the enclosed text to the clipboard buffer. I generally just paste with the middle mouse button

Free PDF viewer that can search for text across line-breaks?

2011-04-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I'm running Debian unstable but don't have GNOME or KDE 4 installed. Can anyone suggest a Free PDF viewer that can search for text phrases that may be broken by a line break in the original PDF? I've tried xpdf and evince-gtk and neither seem to offer that capability. Arthur. -- To

1908:1320 digital photo frame success with 2.6.10.1 gphoto / libgphoto2

2010-08-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, as a non-developer I had reported a lack of success in using a digital photo frame under Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561972 Hans de Goede had reported success with supporting digital picture frames with the following USB ID's: 1403:0001 1908:1315 1908:1320

updated Re: 1908:1320 digital photo frame success with 2.6.10.1 gphoto / libgphoto2

2010-08-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 25/08/10 15:46: Hi, as a non-developer I had reported a lack of success in using a digital photo frame under Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561972 Hans de Goede had reported success with supporting digital picture frames with the following USB

IDE lost interrupt followed by lock-up

2010-08-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I've had sporadic problems with errors such as the following: Aug 2 05:09:10 victoria kernel: [616687.192331] ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50) Aug 2 05:09:10 victoria kernel: [616687.192467] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Aug 2 05:09:10 victoria

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrei Popescu wrote, on 24/07/10 16:29: On Sb, 24 iul 10, 09:18:04, Arthur Marsh wrote: xhost + This is insecure: http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/tech/x/xhost-plus-2010-06-29-22-42.html Regards, Andrei Agreed about the xhost + being insecure but it took a few tries to work out

Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not

2010-07-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Thomas H. George wrote, on 23/07/10 01:00: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:42:39PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: 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

Re: Installing memtest86 in Lenny fails to copy the actual binary

2010-05-29 Thread Arthur Marsh
Klistvud wrote, on 30/05/10 02:29: Howdy, fellow Debianites! I tried to install memtest86 on my Lenny box (using Synaptic). Everything appeared to go smoothly, even a new memtest entry wass added to my grub.cfg - but the actual memtest86.bin file was never copied to disk! Interestingly enough,

Re: X freezes with 2.6.32-5; okay with 2.6.26-2

2010-05-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
Kent West wrote, on 13/05/10 23:12: I've got an older 600MHz PIII running Sid; if I boot into the installed 2.6.26-2-68 kernel, everything's fine, but if I boot into the installed 2.6.32-5-68 kernel, everything's fine until X is started (either manually or with a session manager or even when

reporting bugs in a helpful way [was Re: Want it? Give]

2010-04-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Brent Clark wrote, on 11/04/10 12:26: Hiya I came across this blog http://ryanbigg.com/2010/04/want-it-give/ and I couldn't agree more with this person. Please mention the gist of what someone is saying rather than expect people to bring up the link in their $BROWSER. The subject you

Re: ftp.master

2010-04-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Brad Rogers wrote, on 2010-04-06 16:48: On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:41:50 +0930 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Hello Arthur, First, I must tell you that I'm not a Debian officer/official )call them what you will), so anything I say isn't to be taken as policy. (Disclaimer

Re: Missing option in manual page for getconf

2010-04-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Razvan Deaconescu wrote, on 2010-04-06 22:10: Hi! I was toying around with getconf and was looking for options to print all configuration values. I've found there is a -a option for that. You can find about it by running getconf with no arguments: --- raz...@valhalla:~$ getconf Usage: getconf

Re: ftp.master

2010-04-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Brad Rogers wrote, on 2010-04-04 01:38: Hello All, For those that haven't seen the announcement(1) ftp.master is back up and running. Obviously, it's going to take time before packages start emerging. (1) http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/04/msg5.html I'm still having

Re: SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

2010-03-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Stephen Powell wrote, on 2010-03-24 01:29: On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:56:05 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Marsh wrote: Stephen Powell wrote, on 2010-03-23 00:50: OK, there are a couple of things to check. First of all, make sure you have MODULES=most listed in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf. grep -v

Re: SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

2010-03-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Stephen Powell wrote, on 24/03/10 01:29: On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:56:05 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Marsh wrote: Stephen Powell wrote, on 2010-03-23 00:50: OK, there are a couple of things to check. First of all, make sure you have MODULES=most listed in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf. grep -v

Re: SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

2010-03-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Stephen Powell wrote, on 25/03/10 02:47: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:05:13 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Marsh wrote: Why shouldn't the eata driver be loaded once the PCI bus has been scanned and a device that the eata driver knows about [1044:a400] in this case is detected? 00:08.0 SCSI storage controller

Re: SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

2010-03-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Stephen Powell wrote, on 2010-03-23 00:50: OK, there are a couple of things to check. First of all, make sure you have MODULES=most listed in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf. grep -v \# /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf|uniq MODULES=most BUSYBOX=y KEYMAP=n BOOT=local DEVICE=eth0

SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

2010-03-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I have a DPT 2044W SCSI adaptor in this pc for a non-boot disk, and previously had it working fine with dependency-based booting with the required SCSI module eata listed in /etc/modules, all under Debian Sid on i386. Module eata would load about 4 seconds into the boot before the INIT

Re: SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

2010-03-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
Stephen Powell wrote, on 21/03/10 21:58: On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:25:45 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I have a DPT 2044W SCSI adaptor in this pc for a non-boot disk ... Your post is quite long; and after reading it twice, I still don't understand exactly what your question is or what

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
Constantine wrote, on 05/03/10 23:24: blkid On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: Hi, Recent udev packges in squeeze/sid lack vol_id command since 22 Aug 2009 (146-1). What is the best way to obtain UUID of partition? I could read it like ... $ ls -l

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Dave Thayer wrote, on 05/02/10 16:01: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:01:00PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: In my case I have: UUID=4823-93A9 /mnt/usb8gigvfat defaults,users,uid=65534,gid=65534,umask=000,shortname=win95 0 2 (all on one line) If I change that trailing 2 to a zero

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Richard Hector wrote, on 06/02/10 09:07: On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 07:39 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Last question is, what guarantee is there that the device file will have been generated (assuming that the USB drive is present) before the @reboot cron event is run? The standard mount script

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Pier Paolo wrote, on 04/02/10 04:07: Il giorno mer, 03/02/2010 alle 16.35 +, Camaleón ha scritto: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:04:26 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Camaleón wrote, on 03/02/10 21:52: You should not list your devices in fstab if you want to make use of your DE hotplug capabilities

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Camaleón wrote, on 04/02/10 03:05: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:04:26 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Camaleón wrote, on 03/02/10 21:52: You should not list your devices in fstab if you want to make use of your DE hotplug capabilities. As I just posted in another message in this thread, I'd like

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
Frank McCormick wrote, on 03/02/10 16:00: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The bottom line: There is no problem even if flashdrives/cameras etc are in fstab but not present- you simply get the error logged Well, there is a definite problem in my case (Debian unstable on

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
Camaleón wrote, on 03/02/10 21:52: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:30:47 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: Camaleón wrote: Mmm... I think LABEL would take precedence over another mount option (UUID, ID or PATH) so if you tag your media device with a LABEL, it should be mounted when plugged under

auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I found that initscripts seems to attempt to run fsck on non-existent devices that appear in /etc/fstab, and different fsck programs for different filesystem types give different error codes. What is the easiest way to set up Debian to automatically mount specific devices if they are

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Frank McCormick wrote, on 03/02/10 02:11: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:00:41 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:25:12 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I found that initscripts seems to attempt to run fsck on non

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Frank McCormick wrote, on 03/02/10 06:16: To the OP: The bottom line: There is no problem even if flashdrives/cameras etc are in fstab but not present- you simply get the error logged Cheers - -- Frank Well, there is a definite problem in my case (Debian unstable on i386). Error code

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Frank McCormick wrote, on 03/02/10 10:01: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:42:40 +1030 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: The bottom line: There is no problem even if flashdrives/cameras etc are in fstab but not present- you simply get

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Elimar Riesebieter wrote, on 2009-09-26 23:21: * Andrew Perrin [090926 09:08 -0400] [...] Of interest is that the stock 2.6.30-amd64 kernel boots fine. I am posting my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and the .config file to http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/grub.cfg and I guess you need an initrd

Re: how to identify the package containing a file?

2009-09-12 Thread Michael Marsh
$ dpkg -S filename Or install apt-file and run $ apt-file search filename This will return matches in packages that aren't installed, as well, so you can find out what you *need* to install to get a particular file, which can be very useful. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh

Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Marsh
be in the default configuration. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Extract attachments from message/partial emails

2009-07-19 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andre Majorel wrote, on 2009-07-19 18:10: Anyone knows of a program, preferably command line, that can extract attachments from a mailbox file full of message/partial emails ? Thanks in advance. Have you tried munpack from package mpack ? Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Debian mirror in Australia [was Re: Cups - printer..........]

2009-07-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Charlie wrote, on 2009-07-05 08:34: ... The following NEW packages will be installed: ghostscript-cups 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 73.8kB of archives. After unpacking 250kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Err

Re: What to do with bugs forever ?

2009-06-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
Debian wrote, on 07/06/09 00:36: Hello, here are two bugs that exists for years and where no solution is in sight: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252896 I used the package gamin instead of fam. Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Can I preserve the case of folder name after a vfat partition is mounted?

2009-05-29 Thread Arthur Marsh
ronggui wong wrote, on 2009-05-30 12:08: Dear All, I use this setting in /etc/fstab to mount fat32 partitions. /dev/hda6 /media/wine vfatuser,umask=000 0 0 It works fine, except that the upper case of folder name becomes lower case when the name contains upper case letter

Re: dvd authoring footage from sd camcorder

2009-05-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Leonardo Canducci wrote, on 2009-04-25 17:57: I have some footage shoot with a jvc hcsd camcorder I'd like to put on a dvd. Every clip is stored as a .mod file that should be a standard mpeg-ps file with ac3 audio. Once renamed as .mpg each clip plays out of the box. I'd just like to: join all

Re: In sid, linux-image-686 tracks an unavailable kernel

2009-04-11 Thread Arthur Marsh
jida...@jidanni.org wrote, on 11/04/09 08:53: In sid, linux-image-686 no longer tracks the latest kernel, but instead tracks a kernel that has already been removed from sid! http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519028 I keep stable and testing in my /etc/apt/sources.list even

Re: xemacs flickers

2009-03-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Peter Robinson wrote, on 2009-02-20 08:47: Hi all, I have xemacs21 installed on a the following system (PC) deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb-src

Re: Mailing-list conventions (was: what's the difference and superior between gtk+ and gecko?)

2009-03-04 Thread Michael Marsh
, always note that fact in the body of your message. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

2009-03-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mark Neidorff wrote, on 2009-02-18 01:21: Is there a solution to configuring sound? If not, where is the proper place to ask for one? There is an alsa-user mailing list http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Mailing-lists I've found part of the fun being that there isn't a clear

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Osamu Aoki wrote, on 03/03/09 00:46: Do you use modern desktop? Gnome, KDE, ... then it automounts. If non X system, just add it to /etc/fstab Osamu It didn't work for me in KDE 3.5.10 (running Debian unstable here). I might have the wrong packages installed. I see. Did you label drive

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-01 Thread Arthur Marsh
Osamu Aoki wrote, on 2009-03-02 01:25: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:56:12PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: Hello people, the subject says it all. I (often, but not always) have a portable USB disk connected to the computer that I would like to have automounted on boot. I could just knit some init

Re: Exploit in Upgrade Chain?

2009-02-28 Thread Arthur Marsh
Stan Katz wrote, on 13/02/09 14:44: Mystery solved. Samba wants to protect smbpasswd with mode 600. User must point Samba to password path. Sample smb.conf that loaded during last lenny upgrade pointed to /etc., not /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Maybe I missed a prompt during the upgrade to fully

Re: Why do xorg developers hate gamers and use that stupid mouse acceleration to anger them?

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Marsh
or xset m 5 1 (a recommended setting on one page I saw). Zero-times as fast as normal when moving zero pixels is what 0 0 means. Check out the first link (for me at least) when googling xset m (with quotes). -Mike -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com

Re: device UUID versus /dev

2009-02-08 Thread Arthur Marsh
Frederik Kriewitz wrote, on 2009-02-09 07:49: On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:14 PM, ghe g...@slsware.com wrote: I'm hoping this is all in a huge state of flux, and that somebody smarter than I am will figure out a simple and reliable solution to it all. Have a look at /dev/disk/by-*

Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Magnus Therning wrote, on 2009-02-06 21:57: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string mc appears in lots of package

aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string mc appears in lots of package names. (I used apt-get to install mc). How does one get some text in the search box in aptitude to match the start of line or

Re: ext4 as default FS ?

2009-01-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote, on 2009-01-25 22:01: Does anybody know when (and if) will ext4 be the default installation filesystem of debian testing? Besides what the previous respondent said about the need for working rescue disks, I believe that there is still more work required in GRUB for it to

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-25 04:50: I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they could not help with that problem and so did not read the post. Since this is a totally different track to solving my

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Celejar wrote, on 20/01/09 12:45: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:07:03 +1030 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: ... Arthur (finding 6876 kbps downstream of ADSL considerably faster than the 3 kbps downstream of a V.34 modem). Your dialup modem only got 3 kbps downstream? Actually

Re: ensuring SCSI drive is mounted correctly whether or not a USB drive is plugged in at boot-up time

2009-01-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Ron Johnson wrote, on 20/01/09 06:08: On 01/19/2009 01:30 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 2009 January 19 13:15:28 Arthur Marsh wrote: I have a machine that boots from and IDE drive then finds an internal SCSI drive after any USB drives are found. The SCSI disk gets fsck'd

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
Celejar wrote, on 2009-01-21 11:36: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:41:25 +1030 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Actually it would connect at 31200 bps, so 3.12 kbps. Am I missing something, or are you off by a decimal point? Arthur. Celejar You are correct, I should have

ensuring SCSI drive is mounted correctly whether or not a USB drive is plugged in at boot-up time

2009-01-19 Thread Arthur Marsh
I have a machine that boots from and IDE drive then finds an internal SCSI drive after any USB drives are found. The SCSI disk gets fsck'd and mounted fine if there is no USB drive in the machine, but the mount -a process at start-up mounts the USB drive in place of one of the partitions of

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-19 Thread Arthur Marsh
Celejar wrote, on 2009-01-19 07:59: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:05:21 -0600 Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com wrote: Greetings; When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network down so much that I can't do much of anything else that wants to get to the internet, either on the machine

Re: gtkam not recognizing camera any more

2009-01-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-18 15:26: I'm having more problems since my upgrade to Lenny. My digital camera, a Kodak Easyshare C813, is no longer recognized by gtkam. It worked before, on Etch. I had to add the VendorID and ProductNumber to (I believe) /etc/udev/libgphoto2.rules to get

Re: video MOV

2009-01-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Antonio Macchi wrote, on 2009-01-18 19:19: Hi my camera creates MOV videos in a manner that my liunx machine can't read properly. I have upload a very little example (1.3MB): www.webalice.it/antonio_macchi/test2.MOV can someone tell me if can view this video? file reports:

Re: serial port program

2009-01-11 Thread Arthur Marsh
J.H.Kim wrote, on 2009-01-11 18:17: Hi, everyone Is there serial program like windows hypertermal in debian other than minicom? When I use minicom, it is killed after being received non-ascii characters. I want to serial program to minitor rs-232 which shows ascii characters and hex data.

Re: Character mode for telnet

2009-01-10 Thread Arthur Marsh
Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-10 14:43: I know that, after I connect with telnet I can got to command mode and enter 'mode char' to get into character mode. Is there any way to have telnet start up in character mode? I am trying to control a robot through a wireless connection and I need to

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote, on 07/01/09 09:09: On Tuesday 2008 December 30 12:30:40 Barclay, Daniel wrote: However, when you're releasing N thousand changes every 18 months or so, it's arguable that maybe you should be releasing N/2 thousand changes every 9 or 10 months. Bah. I think that

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, mitch debianu...@mll.dissimulo.com wrote: Thanks. That was one of the tips I did find, the parentlock. Removed it before killing all and Iceweasel will still not start. What about after killing? Did iceweasel re-create the lock files? -- Michael A. Marsh

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Marsh
files. Iceweasel/Firefox usually removes these when it exits, but depending on how you kill it, it might not have the opportunity. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Family Tree Program

2009-01-05 Thread Arthur Marsh
Александр Владимирович Екимов wrote, on 05/01/09 21:14: On Monday 05 January 2009 13:38:56 Zaki Akhmad wrote: Dear all, I am looking for family tree program. Anybody can give me suggestion? -- Zaki Akhmad www.gramps-project.org gramps is in Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ssh-agent without graphical display manager? how?

2009-01-04 Thread Michael Marsh
out a solution? Advice? I haven't tried this, but does running ssh-agent from ~/.ssh/rc (or /etc/ssh/sshrc) do what you need? -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server

2009-01-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Stephen Liu wrote, on 2009-01-05 00:20: --- Eugene V. Lyubimkin jackyf.de...@gmail.com wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I also have problem running apt-get update. # apt-get update Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://security.debian.org

Re: Anyone got qc-usb working with kernel 2.6.28 and amd64?

2009-01-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Micha Feigin wrote, on 2009-01-05 11:54: I'm trying to get a Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Web (lego webcam based on logitec) working on my box running kernel 2.6.28 amd64 kernel. I managed to fix compilation errors using a patch I found on the bug tracking system plus some extra modifications. The

Re: How do I get the japanese font back that is broken since the last update?

2009-01-03 Thread Arthur Marsh
Dirk wrote, on 2008-12-23 12:34: debian/unstable Thanks for shutting the up if you don't have the solution. If you want to retrieve a particular version of a package that is no longer in stable, unstable or testing, look at: http://snapshot.debian.net/ To find and obtain what

Re: monitoring HP NetRaid-1si hardware raid card

2009-01-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Douglas A. Tutty wrote, on 2009-01-02 15:21: I have four HP NetServer LPr PII/450 servers. Two of them have HP NetRaid 1si hardware raid cards (the others have NetRaid-1 cards). Have you posted this query to the HP business support forums? Registration is required but fairly painless:

Re: manual of C library

2008-12-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
J.H.Kim wrote, on 2009-01-01 13:20: Hi, everyone I installed manpages-dev.deb to see manual page for C libray. But when I do man open, the openvt of Linux User Manual showed up. How can the man page of C libary show up first? man 2 open if you have manpages-dev installed. -- To

Debian social contract - who reports bugs upstream?

2008-12-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
I read this at http://www.debian.org/social_contract : 2 We will give back to the free software community When we write new components of the Debian system, we will license them in a manner consistent with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We will make the best system we can, so that free

Re: How often do the repositories get updated?

2008-12-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
Sven Joachim wrote, on 2008-12-31 18:43: On 2008-12-31 01:57 +0100, Dean Chester wrote: I am just wondering how frequently do the repositories get updated for kernels as ive not been able to update to the new kernel 2.6.28. My custom built kernel doesn't work:(. I am running debian sid and i

Re: Java on Debian

2008-12-26 Thread Arthur Marsh
Amit Uttamchandani wrote, on 25/12/08 17:55: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:03:15 -0600 Jordi Guti__rrez Hermoso jord...@gmail.com wrote: 2008/12/17 Girish Kulkarni gir...@hri.res.in: 1. What is the Java Runtime Environment? And the Java Development Kit? The JRE includes a virtual machine for

SOLVED Re: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created

2008-12-23 Thread Arthur Marsh
Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2008-12-09 00:53: lee wrote, on 2008-11-29 04:07: Hm, I've always been using the kernels from kernel.org without problems. How do you make .deb's of kernel.org kernels under Debian (kernel-package, checkinstall, ???) Arthur. To make the DPT SCSI card work, I

Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Marsh
owners could be fined for maintaining an attractive nuisance without adequate security. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

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