Re: About installation DVD's

2013-05-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:49:12 -0700 Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: OK, Rupesh. Here's the process: 1) Debian releases the downloadable CD/DVD/Blu-ray disk images. For reasons already covered, they release the first three DVD as .iso images and the rest as '.jigdo templates. (As

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-12 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2013-05-11, Mauro mrsan...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I've did not mention that the machine where the new kernel does not work has an amd64 processor. On 11 May 2013 09:53, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: On 10 May 2013, Mauro wrote: I have two pc, same distro, debian sid,

Re: Video and sound in Wheezy: Howto?

2013-05-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 08 May 2013 20:34:23 -0600 Paul Condon pecond...@gmail.com wrote: I installed Wheezy on a HP computer which had been running Squeeze about a week or two ago. I've done installs of Debian many times before on other hardware, and earlier versions of Debian. This install went very

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 8 May 2013 22:49:52 +0300 Valaki Valahol ozolt...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello Sven... I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to me then simply downloading it from http of ftp... It's not as simple for sure, but jigdo is not that hard to use and a very useful

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 08 May 2013 16:19:59 -0400 Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 05/08/2013 03:49 PM, Valaki Valahol wrote: Hello Sven... I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to me then simply downloading it from http of ftp... Can I find it somewhere in these

Re: Xfce 4 + LXDM problem

2013-05-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:55:33 -0500 Patrick Thomas pwthoma...@satx.rr.com wrote: I installed LXDM. I could not get it to run it as the default display manager (yes, I had /usr/sbin/lxdm in /etc/X11/default-display-manager), I had to login and run it from tty. I managed to fix that by adding

Re: Thanks to All (Was: MUA Yahoo)

2013-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:47:01 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:21:54 +0100 Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:07:01 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Patrick, Sylpheed accepts plugins, too. To

Re: XEN 4.0 and Debian 6 HVM Problem.

2013-04-18 Thread Alan Drees
hardware is not too dissimilar, I have a Giga-Byte GA990FXA-UD3 with FX 8120, and an Asus HD5450. Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Alan Drees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Mozilla Firefox ESR for 64bit systems

2013-04-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 22:27:41 -0400 Charles Kroeger ckro...@frankensteinface.com wrote: On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:20:04 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I use Firefox not with Debian, but other distros. I didn't notice that..I see Arch Linux listed among the multitudes:

Re: Nvidia Driver Working [Was: Running Nvidia Driver Without an xorg.conf]

2013-03-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Well, that was easy:  Just created, since there wasn't one by default, an xorg.conf per instructions in the Debian Nvidia wiki == Section Module     Load        glx EndSection

Re: lightweight dns server

2013-02-27 Thread Alan Chandler
server if you need that too. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/512e29f7.9070...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

node.js npm and buster

2012-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
/node_modules Can someone give me some definitive instructions of getting buster.js to run in Debian -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: node.js npm and buster

2012-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On 13/12/12 02:34, Bob Proulx wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to setup buster.js to run under node.js in Debian Sid. The name conflict of the much too generic node became one of those irreconcilable differences. After a very long discussion it was referred to the technical committee

Connecting to MS Sql Server from php/apache

2012-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist (severity 9) I have no idea whats wrong, and I find it quite difficult to find some decent instructions of how to set up a dblib connection. Can anyone help me investigate and solve this problem -- Alan Chandler http

Re: Connecting to MS Sql Server from php/apache

2012-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 02/12/12 08:06, Alan Chandler wrote: Failed with message: SQLSTATE[HY000] Unable to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist (severity 9) I managed to fix this myself. There were two problems 1) Password was one character wrong. 2) The connection string should

Failing to install virt-manager on Sid

2012-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
0.10.1-2 I can see that experimental has that version, but its does not seem to be able to get into sid. I am not sure why Is there a freeze or something on. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Failing to install virt-manager on Sid

2012-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On 30/11/12 23:37, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 30.11.2012 18:43, Alan Chandler a écrit : I am trying to install virt-manager on sid, but I am getting a dependancy blockage which I don't understand virt-manager ultimately depends on libvirt0 - which seems to have version (0.9.12-5

Trojan Detected by Kaspersky in One Debian DVD

2012-11-02 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
.deb\data.tar\.\usr\share\doc\nepenthes\README.VFS The Trojan is called Trojan-Downloader.BAT.ftp.z Is this a real Trojan? If so, why would it be there? If not, what is it? Thanks, Alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Trojan Detected by Kaspersky in One Debian DVD

2012-10-31 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
-6_amd64.deb\data.tar\.\usr\share\doc\nepenthes\README.VFS The Trojan is called Trojan-Downloader.BAT.ftp.z Is this a real Trojan? If so, why would it be there? If not, what is it? Thanks, Alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On 10/10/12 17:00, Alan Chandler wrote: On 10/10/12 09:49, Chris Davies wrote: 4. Failure (bounce) message to root@avalon is being lost - and this is the issue at stake Absolutely correct. I think I have discovered - at least part of the problem - maybe the whole thing. The inaddr.arpa

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On 07/10/12 22:31, Chris Davies wrote: Alan Chandlera...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am using Debian Squeeze on a virtual machine that I lease. It has exim4 (light) version as its mail server. - its name is avalon.hartley-consultants.com However, it looks to me like its trying to send

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-10 Thread Alan Chandler
server normally - I normally use my ISPs normal mail server. This was just so it was already pre-configured IF I SHOULD NEED IT. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-05 Thread Alan Chandler
, relaying only 127.0.0.1 and my home ip addresses, Anyone any idea what is happening - and how I can change the configuration of exim to tell me when mail, like the above, is being refused. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

2012-07-12 Thread Alan Chandler
. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ffea8fc.9040...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On 08/07/12 04:13, cletusjenkins wrote: I know I go against most people when I say that now I've gotten used to Gnome3 I really like it and would not want to go back. It may be that I run a two screen set-up, but for me the really nice features are -- Alan Chandler

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-07 Thread Alan Chandler
frustrated with the fact that there was only a suspend and not a power off - but now the shell extensions are available to add that facility back I don't have any issues at all. I don't miss the taskbar or the minimize button, and so far I haven't missed the menu either. -- Alan Chandler http

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a a raid device, copy the current root fs in to it - but I

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 07:24, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a a raid device

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 08:15, Alan Chandler wrote: On 06/07/12 07:24, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 18:56, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/07/12 01:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Alan Chandlera...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am trying to figure out

how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-04 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a a raid device, copy the current root fs in to it - but I then need to tell grub to set up this up as the root for the boot. How do I do this? -- Alan Chandler http

Kdevelop-php and debugging

2012-06-23 Thread Alan Chandler
-php-debugger.html Lots of other posts refer to this. But for a starters - its suggesting I need various kdevelop plugings, but the links he gives don't work, and if you try and look in the same place for later releases of kdevelop, the specific plugins are not there. -- Alan Chandler http

Using the find command

2012-06-19 Thread Alan Chandler
directory which udev is using. However I can't find any real documentation on find which explains why it outputs that error message. Can any gurus out there explain -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Using the find command

2012-06-19 Thread Alan Chandler
On 19/06/12 19:42, Shane Johnson wrote: Alan, from what I can see, it's just supposed to delete files and not touch directories, any files name utmp or innd.pid. the ! prefixing the tests negates the test to pull the opposite. By using xtype it's just handling links differently. This command

Re: Rotation of Xorg log files

2012-06-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/06/12 06:36, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 06:23 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions of the log Wow, fortunately my X logs for Debian are limited

Re: Rotation of Xorg log files

2012-06-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/06/12 12:53, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:23:44 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions of the log I experienced something similar in my Wheezy system

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On 15/06/12 07:28, Alan Chandler wrote: On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard

Rotation of Xorg log files

2012-06-16 Thread Alan Chandler
Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions of the log -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and using aplay to send a .wav file works

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
On 13/06/12 21:19, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: ... One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up the files on the disk in that virtual machine. The best I can do is back up the entire

Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
going via pulse-audio, or that pulse audio has not found a real device and is using a dummy one. NOTE: the same upgrade seemed to screw up udevd - I get an error message about failing to queue file, and I have to unplug and replug my usb mouse and keyboard to make them work. -- Alan

KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Alan Chandler
presume that some of the devices will not be the same. Does Windows manage with these changes, or would I be better creating an environment from scratch (including re-installing all my key applications) -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Problem setting up a subdomain

2012-06-09 Thread Alan Chandler
site, because it acts as a catchall for any other domains that happen to be pointed at the same IP address. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Having great difficuty

2012-05-28 Thread James Alan Brown
I wonder if you can help I placed an order for Debian Linux at inuxcentral.com they took my credit card details but they now say that there not going to ship the order. My order number is 05192012122325-0001 It was for Debian Linux 6.0.5 i386 8 dvd set software regards James Alan Brown

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Alan Chandler
succeeded. It reading the microphone and putting it out through your headphones. Sorry can't help you turn it off - but presumably doing something your were doing to turn it on. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How do you debug with php

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
it still doesn't seem to work. This leaves me to believe that I am doing something wrong, but I just don't know what. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: How do you debug with php

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/04/12 07:01, Alan Chandler wrote: On 17/04/12 01:16, Chris Hiestand wrote: I have never used a debugger for PHP; I think your struggles are part of the reason why. Neither have I until now. But I don't understand why this isn't a typical many eyes make the problems trivial

Mythtv problem with versions

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
works, but I do tend to want to save programs mid way through or want to rapidly skip forward and backward. The media play that is launched by the browser doesn't seem to all any of this.] -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Mythtv problem with versions

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/04/12 19:24, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a server running Squeeze. It has mythtv-backend to record all my TV programs. On my desktop I run Sid. After an update over the weekend, my Mythtv Frontend will no longer connect to my backend, complaining that This version of MythTV requires

How do you debug with php

2012-04-16 Thread Alan Chandler
with phpstorm, but it seems to need the entire php code within the web space, and doesn't allow for document root somewhere inside the directory hierarchy (at least i can't find a way to set it up). debian doesn't seem to support the potential addings to vim and emacs. What do others use? -- Alan

Re: Happauge Nove-T 500 no channel data

2012-04-12 Thread Alan Chandler
using those preconfigured channels. On 4th April I lost BBC channels, but on a rescan I got them back. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: skype?

2012-04-11 Thread Alan Chandler
a NAT box). Unfortunately the convenience of the mobile phone meant they never really used it] -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-11 Thread Alan Chandler
etc. over the internet. IANL of course! Unfortunately you can't. You still need a TV licence to watch via iPlayer. It says so on the BBC web site. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: TV with Linux

2012-04-11 Thread Alan Chandler
to get a clear answer on when I asked - the incoming digital signal is in MPEG2 format and MythTV stores the stream as mpeg2. The PI only has a (firmware) codec for Mpeg4, so not sure if transcoding between mpeg2 and mpeg4 is going to be necessary. -- Alan Chandler http

Re: How to create empty git with master / development branch ?

2012-04-03 Thread Alan Chandler
/github_ssh_access -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f7ac017.50...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-03-30 Thread Alan Chandler
repositor) that I generally install on the servers are web packages like (for instance) drupal or wordpress. But they just use the underlying LAMP stack. If these extra packages don't work with Squeeze, I just regard that as one more criteria with which to judge them as unsuitable. -- Alan

Re: ethernet card problem

2012-03-25 Thread Alan Kerns
, but the installer launched from within the live DVD cannot access the firmware that is on the DVD. The hours wasted, and the mounting frustration, lead me to ask again: what ethernet card(s) will definitely work with the standard installer? Cheers Alan Kerns On 03/25/2012 03:57 PM, Scott Ferguson

ethernet card problem

2012-03-24 Thread Alan Kerns
on a different partition. Any helpful advice would be appreciated. Alan Kerns

Re: Problematic upgrade

2012-03-22 Thread Alan Chandler
-install desktop-utils (which meant for instance that until that point I was unable to run nautilus). -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

latest chrome won't play videos full screen

2012-03-11 Thread Alan Chandler
Anyone experiencing an issue I have discovered after a chrome update yesterday. Videos will no longer play full screen. Firefox(Iceweasel) display just fine. Is there any known way around the limitation -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Aptitude failing on squeeze with package file problems

2012-02-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On 28/02/12 14:40, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:59:49 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I just tried to do an aptitude update on my Debian squeeze server. I get error message like ... E: Encounted a section with no Package: header E: The problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists

Aptitude failing on squeeze with package file problems

2012-02-27 Thread Alan Chandler
can't do anything other than close aptitude. I tried Cancel Pending Actions (from the Actions menu) and got a segfault in aptitude. Anyone else seeing anything like this? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: nfs idmap change

2012-02-10 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2012-01-27, Alan Greenberger ala...@ptd.net wrote: I recently rebooted a squeeze client which does nightly backups to a squeeze nfs server with exports (rw,no_root_squash) using rsnapshot (with cmd_cp) and started getting nightly mail from cron that: rsync: chown /the_mount/daily.0/etc

Re: Converting to btrfs

2012-01-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On 30/01/12 13:02, Christian Dysthe wrote: On 01/30/12 at 06:52am, Alan Chandler wrote: On 29/01/12 18:21, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I have an older laptop running Sid I like to play around with. I would like to check out the new btrfs file system and know you can easily convert from ext4

Re: Gnome3 login failure

2012-01-29 Thread Alan Chandler
was running I was working again. This morning it happened just after login - but again I just logged in again and it worked. Running Debian SID -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Converting to btrfs

2012-01-29 Thread Alan Chandler
that initramfs has the bttrfs driver in it. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f263e44.3070

nfs idmap change

2012-01-27 Thread Alan Greenberger
I recently rebooted a squeeze client which does nightly backups to a squeeze nfs server with exports (rw,no_root_squash) using rsnapshot (with cmd_cp) and started getting nightly mail from cron that: rsync: chown /the_mount/daily.0/etc/fetchmailrc failed: Invalid argument (22) The only thing

Re: Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-05 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2012-01-04, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/01/12 19:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: Apologies Alan, I overlooked your post. On 04/01/12 03:08, Alan Greenberger wrote: On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: The auto fsck/root problem

Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-03 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: The auto fsck/root problem (if ever encountered) could be got around by using the Wheezy live CD/USB[*1] which is the path I chose thanks to your chroot tip. It looks like you have gotten Wheezy live to work. I have not been

Re: Iceweasel really slow

2011-12-29 Thread Alan Chandler
On 28/12/11 10:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/12/11 19:48, Alan Chandler wrote: I am finding that Iceweasel seems to be really slow at times loading a web site. Whilst it is being slow the user interface is locked solid. I am not talking the odd second - delays of 20/30 seconds are occuring

Iceweasel really slow

2011-12-28 Thread Alan Chandler
to be related to the ad system. I thought it might be my add ons - although they are the standard ones - but I disabled all of them and still its occuring. Anyone else seeing this issue -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Gnome 3 update makes PDFs open in inkscape

2011-12-26 Thread Alan Chandler
it a bit harder because I think you have to set up a desktop file with the right info in. (Take a look at the files in /usr/share/applications - which has the ones which should be installed on your system) -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Force USB low speed on an specific port.

2011-12-22 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-12-21, Marc Aymerich glicer...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Alan Greenberger ala...@ptd.net wrote: On 2011-12-18, Marc Aymerich glicer...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Today I've tried to connect my mouse through +10meters USB cable. Seems that it works pretty well despite

Re: Force USB low speed on an specific port.

2011-12-20 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-12-18, Marc Aymerich glicer...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Today I've tried to connect my mouse through +10meters USB cable. Seems that it works pretty well despite of what the RFC says about maximum cable lenght :) the only problem I have is that ~5% of mouse clicks are lost. I want to try

Re: web server migration

2011-12-10 Thread Alan Chandler
# else output nothing -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ee4628b.5040...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

X being shutdown without warning

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Chandler
to report a bug, but I am not sure where to go from here to find what actually caused it. I don't think MythTV updated yesterday, so I assume it wasn't that Anyone any ideas what could have happened here. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: X being shutdown without warning

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On 09/12/11 17:07, Alan Chandler wrote: Anyone any ideas what could have happened here. just seen a message on debian-kde that implies it could have been libdrm-intel1 -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: iceweasel fills in my textareas

2011-12-04 Thread Alan Chandler
On 04/12/11 07:55, Bob Proulx wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: In a recent upgrade (last day or two) iceweasel suddenly started filling in empty text areas with text from a previous visit to the web site. ... Does anyone know a way of turning this behaviour off. Are you talking about form fields

iceweasel fills in my textareas

2011-12-03 Thread Alan Chandler
what I did last time. I've noticed it when asking a question on Stack Overflow, I noticed again just now when filling in a bug report on my home network using BT Mantis. Does anyone know a way of turning this behaviour off. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: a short cut on desktop on gnome3

2011-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
of the mouse to the top left corner (or hitting the logo key on my keyboard to shrink in the windows to the desktop and get at the Icons I wish to use. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: a short cut on desktop on gnome3

2011-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 02/12/11 20:45, Erwan David wrote: On 02/12/11 21:26, Alan Chandler wrote: I populate the Activity Bar with those applications I use all the time (Web Browser, Mail, Terminal Window, Text Editor, Virtual Box, MythTV, LibreOffice writer and Freemind) and now its just a flick of the mouse

Re: AW: Gimp acting strangely

2011-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On 29/11/11 23:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote: --- Yes, mv ~/.gimp* ~/.gimp.backup Since GNOME3 is a PITA, take a look at gimp --help-gtk, anyway, at least start it by gimp --verbose Tried gimp --verbose and it started up fine. Looks like it was a sid temporary glitch -- Alan Chandler http

Gimp acting strangely

2011-11-29 Thread Alan Chandler
they would have come up as unsatisfied dependancies and been reinstalled if gimp needed them. Any one any clues as to what might be going on. I am on Sid. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
should see a window with the left pane having three options Wallpaper, Activity and Mouse Actions. Instead I see a window with only two options, View and Mouse Actions. Have I not installed something I should have? or has this changed and all these web pages are out of date? -- Alan

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
able to both find the application and make it the default. Thanks for the persistance. We got there in the end -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/11 10:43, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/11/11 20:00, Alan Chandler wrote: With the problems I seem to be having with Gnome3 (not the problem that most people have with the shell, which I like - but other applications which seem to have become flakey - Gedit crashes on closing a tab

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/11 09:00, Alan Chandler wrote: ... This shows I have two activities both named New Activity. I should then right click on a desktop and select Desktop Settings I should see a window with the left pane having three options Wallpaper, Activity and Mouse Actions. Instead I see a window

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
/activities-a-change-in-workflow/ Thanks - very useful and I think I understand activities now. Very useful concept for me - and one which makes it worthwhile for me to stick back with KDE for a while. Sorry Gnome3 - I liked your concept, but this just a lot better. -- Alan Chandler http

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/11/11 17:16, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 06:50:18 +, Alan Chandler wrote: On 24/11/11 16:09, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:19:26 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I have some Freemind mindmap files ending with the .mm filename. Up until recently clicking

Re: Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

2011-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/11/11 23:52, Bob Proulx wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: Over the last few weeks iceweasel has started to operate strangely. The whole application stops whilst trying to open a web page. you can't switch tabs. Sometimes it gets SO BAD that the entire desktop locks for a while. Am I the only

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
where nautilus gets its list of applications to display to associate file extensions. That I think will be the key to this -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Has iceweasel (or maybe flash) gone single threaded

2011-11-25 Thread Alan Chandler
to do with Javascript or Flash - Slashdot is a good candidate to cause this to happen - although it often appears from the status bar at the bottom that it is trying to fetch some advert info. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-24 Thread Alan Chandler
files back to Freemind? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ece1a2e.1000...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On 24/11/11 16:09, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:19:26 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I have some Freemind mindmap files ending with the .mm filename. Up until recently clicking on the filename would automatically start Freemind. (...) Anyone any idea how I can change the default

Re: Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On 22/11/11 01:43, Brian Flaherty wrote: On 11/21/2011 05:17 PM, Brian Flaherty wrote: On 11/21/2011 12:33 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/11/11 13:03, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/11/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:35:38 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I just did my normal sid

Re: Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Chandler
to the bug report this fix is related to it is supposed to have fixed the problem - but it hasn't. I just had nautilus cause the hang up. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup

2011-11-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/11/11 13:03, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/11/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:35:38 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I just did my normal sid update (every few days I do one of these) and today I seem to have hit a problem. My screen locks solid, and input (mouse or keyboard

Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup

2011-11-20 Thread Alan Chandler
. This is Gnome3. Is anyone else experiencing this? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ec8c9ea.2080

Re: Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup

2011-11-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/11/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:35:38 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I just did my normal sid update (every few days I do one of these) and today I seem to have hit a problem. My screen locks solid, and input (mouse or keyboard) no longer has any affect. Screen updates

Little Cron difficulty I would like help with

2011-11-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-backup mount /dev/raid/vm-backup /mnt/vm-backup rsync -aq --delete --inplace /mnt/vm-backup/ owl:/bak/alan/backup/VirtualBox VM s/ umount /dev/raid/vm-backup # All this to remove the snapshot - see Debian Bug #549691 sleep 10 sync sleep 10 dmsetup remove /dev/mapper/raid-vm--backup dmsetup remove

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