Backup all GPG secret keys

2013-01-04 Thread Tim D
Hey How do I backup all GPG keys? By all I mean the master keys and subkeys. Just by backing up the .gnupg directory? I am looking to reinstall Debian so need to restore the keys when done. -- timd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Error upgrading debian installation from stable to testing : malformed Release file?

2012-11-28 Thread Tim Long
Thanks for spotting of the error in the sources.list. It error message was confusing me. I did run apt-get dist-upgrade after apt-get update. The process ground to a halt with a problem over dependency error over 'default-jre' After googling the new error I had to run: apt-get -o

Can not get fan control going in wheezy. Any help appreciated

2012-11-28 Thread Tim Long
help would be appropriated. I think I need to report a bug with the lm-sensors package. Tim. -- 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

Error upgrading debian installation from stable to testing : malformed Release file?

2012-11-26 Thread Tim Long
is the correct list/bug tracker where I should report the problem if the issue is with the repository instead of my test laptop. Regards, Tim. The full apt-get update log is: # apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg Ign http://security.debian.org/ wheezy

Debian Wheezy Hangs

2012-10-12 Thread Tim D
Hi list, I just installed Debian Wheezy on my ThinkPad T430s (SSD, encrypted LVM). The problem is that the system freezes randomly, so much so that I cannot use it for more than twenty minutes without it freezing. Nothing seems to work and the only way I can recover it is to restart it. I tried

Debian Wheezy Hangs

2012-10-12 Thread Tim D
Hi list, I just installed Debian Wheezy on my ThinkPad T430s (SSD, encrypted LVM). The problem is that the system freezes randomly, so much so that I cannot use it for more than twenty minutes without it freezing. Nothing seems to work and the only way I can recover it is to restart it. I tried

Why was oom-killer invoked?

2012-03-19 Thread tim truman
Hi, Please help me understand why oom-killer was invoked? From the SAR logs we can see that there is lots of memory in use by the system cache, but free is low. How can we ensure there is more memory available in free to avoid triggering oom-killer? From Kernel Log: Mar 16 23:30:06 kernel:

Re: KVM virtualisation

2012-01-30 Thread Tim Rühsen
Hi James, looks like you didn't set the DISPLAY variable: Cannot open display: In my setup I have to 'xhost +localhost' as the desktop user. As root: export DISPLAY=:0 Good luck. Tim Ruehsen Am Wednesday, 25. January 2012 schrieb James Allsopp: Hi, I'm having trouble building a kvm virtual

Re: installing electricsheep in sid

2012-01-12 Thread Tim Rühsen
There are much newer versions on http://electricsheep.org You could download the sources and compile your private version of electricsheep, or you could get in touch with the debian maintainer... Regards, Tim Rühsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-28 Thread Tim Heckman
Thundebird. Sigh. I had not been paying attention to the subject that Thunderbird was setting. Not to get too far off-topic but I definitely need to work on a better work-flow for reading/replying to mailing lists. It's a bit of a rigmarole the way I do it now. Thanks again! -Tim

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-27 Thread Tim Heckman
PTR record we define for IP addresses. All of our ranges have default PTRs that are unique to that one address. As we've done this for many years it is the expected default. To change this would require we re-tool all current templates. -Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-27 Thread Tim Heckman
Bob Proulx wrote: Tim Heckman wrote: Luckily the two of these issues won't come in to play here. This is going to be used on a system that does not have X installed and will have a static IP address. We use DHCP to assign the address as it is easier to deploy a new distribution for our

Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
for the hostname to be set? -Tim

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
ideas it would be greatly appreciated! -Tim -- 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/4ed028a7.8080...@gmail.com

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
ideas it would be greatly appreciated! -Tim -- 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/4ed030c9.1060...@gmail.com

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
in '/etc/hostname'. It's a unique use-case, but in theory it should work. Getty is just a bit too energetic. :p Thanks for the insight and input, Bob. If I wish I would be able to use one of your recommendations as it would be easier. But just doesn't fit my needs. -Tim

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-25 Thread Tim Heckman
John Hasler writes: Tim Heckman writes: I've created a dhclient-exit-hook script to handle the processing. This checks whether the hostname should be set and completes the process. Only sets it if it really is needed. Try killing getty in your script (init will respawn it). You may also need

Re: [BackupPC-users] Put pool on an nfs mounted Solaris zfs share

2011-11-20 Thread Tim Connors
in perl. -- Tim Connors -- 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/alpine.deb.2.00.211611080.5...@dirac.rather.puzzling.org

Winbond W83L604G on Squeeze - I2C / SMBus

2011-07-01 Thread Tim Nelson
kernel module for operation? Any tips or pointers on how to make it available for control using I2C or SMBus? Thanks! --Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Diagnosing lack of sound problem on HP laptop

2011-04-26 Thread Tim Long
. to the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf but nothing has changed. The LinLatop website entry for the model also suggested the module option of: 'options snd-hda-intel model=laptop enable=1 index=0' but still no luck. Any ideas where to go from here? Regards, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Re: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

2011-02-24 Thread Tim | iHostNZ
Hi, It seems like this solved it for me: apt-get -f update ++Tim Hinnerk Heuer++ Website: http://www.ihostnz.com - Free Hosting! Blog: http://timheuer.com/hinnerk

Re: Console resolution

2011-02-17 Thread Tim Clewlow
). . This is from my install notes, may not be for the version of Debian you have installed, but hope it helps Tim. --- nvidia drivers I did this with lenny 5.x got this info from http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers make sure non-free is included in the /etc/apt/sources.list file remember to apt

System Hangs on Activating Swap

2011-02-04 Thread Tim Nelson
there and in /etc/rcS* on the root partition. Nothing is jumping out at me for a possible cause. How should I proceed to troubleshoot? Any ideas? Thank you! --Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: System Hangs on Activating Swap

2011-02-04 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:40:01 +0100, Tim Nelson scribbled: Greetings fellow Debian'ers- I've got a system (Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-486)that occasionally fails to boot fully. The last item noted on the console is 'Activating Swap', then nothing. I've

Re: Spam Rules, per argument (Re: Any package for surveys?)

2011-01-29 Thread Tim Clewlow
selfishness. It is not the fist time people have tried to do this. However, the advent of user generated mass communication, aka internet, has meant that many who thought they were alone in their ideas have been surprised to find they are not, and have become quite communicative as a result. Regards, Tim

Re: (OT) Re: Unidentified subject!

2010-09-23 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:28:35 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: The Matrix, coming for us :-) Greetings, Quick, check for dead pixels! -- . I checked, and all the red pixies have disappeared -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: need native app to listen to internet radios

2010-08-01 Thread Tim Clewlow
should define things like output port and codec type - for more info I would start with the docs on the vlc website, in particular http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ Regards, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: ALAC: decompressing to .wav.

2010-07-14 Thread Tim Clewlow
can also do mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -ao pcm:waveheader:file=output.wav input.m4a Cheers, Tim. -- 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

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
via Iceweasel and jigdo in the same Debian installation. So it's not a driver issue apparently. . I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the modem/router. Tim

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tim Clewlow t...@clewlow.org wrote: I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the modem/router. How can this be true when

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-19 Thread Tim Clewlow
to this question will help determine where the problem is. Regards, Tim. -- 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/8b5435ee3fabf15404802bbe46676ce1.squir

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-19 Thread Tim Clewlow
the default settings in your torrent client and see if that improves things (especially the maximum overall number of connections) Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Automated Installation - Copy files from CD?

2010-05-04 Thread Tim Nelson
) to the appropriate locations on the installation target. I've been through the preseed documentation and cannot seem to find it there. Any tips/pointers/etc? Thanks! --Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Should be easy

2010-05-02 Thread Tim Tebbit
On 05/02/2010 06:08 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: I'm running updated Lenny. I just got a droid phone and wanted to mount it on my Lenny box. So, I plugged the USB cable into the droid and the computer. I expected to see an sd? device show up with partitions (like sdb1, sdb2, etc.) but they

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-05-01 Thread Tim Clewlow
On 4/30/2010 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/26/2010 09:29 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, Since two of the drives (yes, I know the parity is striped across all the drives, but two drives is still the effect) are used

Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-26 Thread Tim Clewlow
really like to hear it is either 2 or 3 as I would prefer not to have an entire disk immediately marked bad due to one unrecoverable read error - I would prefer to be notified instead so I can still have RAID 6 protecting most of the data until the disk gets replaced. Regards, Tim

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-26 Thread Tim Clewlow
Ok, I found the answer to my second question - it fails the entire disk. So the first question remains. Does ext3 (and relevent utilities, particularly resize2fs and e2fsck) on 32 bit i386 arch support 16TB volumes? Regards, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-26 Thread Tim Clewlow
that affected, but data loss is something I'd really like to avoid. Regards, Tim. -- 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/c9c11079d529273f62a76ba3b0a00359.squir

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-26 Thread Tim Clewlow
during rebuild due to failed drive) that would be game over. Is this correct? Tim. -- 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/706fc98e51cb5ceddd4e32ea1bc05cc3.squir

Re: debian on a raid5 (4TB) issues

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
in the same raid segment on both disks - the odds of that are extremely low. my 2c,- tim -- 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/b15e5b53f92a5f588f473e131f0b6409

Running Debian Lenny from ramdisk

2010-03-15 Thread Tim Nelson
with Linux, CentOS and Debian in particular, but I'm severely lacking in this department. /textwall TLDR: How do I get Debian to run entirely from RAM? Thank you! Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Which Simple Video Design Application?

2010-03-15 Thread Tim Clewlow
be able to add them as a layer in a video editor (probably will be the only layer) and do things like fade in/out as well. Lastly add the audio file and then create the final. HTH, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Clewlow
I just had to - its probably a disorder :-D !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html head style body { margin:0px; } .left_column_50 { width:50%; float:left; text-align:center; margin:0px; } .right_column_50 {

RE: netstat ?

2010-02-23 Thread Tim Clewlow
host 172.16.4.1 -XX somefile ** if you want to know why you are doing this man tcpdump Regards, Tim. -- 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

RE: netstat ?

2010-02-23 Thread Tim Clewlow
tcpdump host 172.16.4.1 -XX if you want to save the data in a file for later analysis tcpdump host 172.16.4.1 -XX somefile ** if you want to know why you are doing this man tcpdump Regards, Tim. Thank you for your reply . Sorry , Is this equal to the following ? #tcpdump

RE: Decompiler?

2010-02-22 Thread Tim Clewlow
, it can be done. Please note, as others have said, you will not get any object names (variables or procedures) out of this, and you will always have to make educated guesses when data chunks are hard coded in. Regards, Tim. Thanks . As I don't want to completely analyze the whole

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-22 Thread Tim Clewlow
On 22/02/2010 13:01, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: (it is, isn't it? :-) ) So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo, and are searching for our new environment. From my personal experience I would say debian stable - any hard evidence to support the claim?

RE: Decompiler?

2010-02-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
or procedures) out of this, and you will always have to make educated guesses when data chunks are hard coded in. Regards, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Expand a .img raw disk image.

2010-02-16 Thread Tim Dobson
. Does anything know how I'd go about expanding the image - ie enlarging the debian usb boot image to make it ~975MiB uncompressed...? I'm not sure how clear what I'm asking is so please feel free to ask for clarification, Cheers, Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Debian on dual layer DVDs

2010-02-10 Thread Tim Tebbit
Ioannis Vranos wrote: Are there any dual layer DVD images of Debian available? Thanks, Here are your Official DVD's. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/i386/iso-dvd/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Install date

2010-02-10 Thread Tim Tebbit
Is there a file generated with a time stamp that would show the age of the current install somewhere? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64?

2010-02-03 Thread Tim Tebbit
Thomas H. George wrote: I find I now have vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 in my boot directory. ---8--- I assume this will be corrected in due course but I am curious, what is the significance of the trunk designation? I wondered that as well. It's been sitting in Sid for weeks now like that. --

Setting bootable flag on partition non-interactively.

2010-02-01 Thread Tim Legg
the employee boots the computer. Caveats: * Is it damaging to toggle the bootable flag on a partition that is currently mounted, or merely 'impolite' (i.e. bad practice)? Tim Legg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem? [SOLVED]

2010-01-28 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bruno wrote: You need a filesystem with stable device id and inode number so that faubackup can correctly find your files again. This may be violated by I think you're on the money here. I'm going to live with the bug, as otherwise faubackup is

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem? [SOLVED]

2010-01-28 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Powell wrote: ls -la /maxtor to remove also the hidden files can become a little arduous, for a start use rm -rf .??* OK I told a little lie...I used umount /maxtor/ cd /maxtor/ rm -r * cd mount /maxtor/ Problem solved... Thanks!

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-27 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Apologies if the first message wasn't clear enough: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 56G 55G 0 100% / tmpfs 237M 0 237M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 696K

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-27 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Olive wrote: Maybe you copied /document files to /documents without being hdb1 monuted? Try to umount /documents and see if there are still all files. t...@server:~$ umount /documents t...@server:~$ ls -l /documents/ total 0 As expected?

Re: Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-27 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Wu wrote: I wouldn't dismiss what Marc was onto. If you do the math, 44G in /documents + 11G in the rest of / == 55G, seems to be a bit more than coincidence. I know you already tried ls -l /documents/ after you umounted but just for

Root filesystem full; faubackup problem?

2010-01-26 Thread Tim Beauregard
/dev/hdb1 /documents ext3rw,users,exec 0 2 /dev/sda1 /maxtor ntfs-3g defaults If anyone has any suggestions I would be very grateful. Thanks, Tim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktfib0ACgkQsUUdIDHrdAWt2gCfSdb69IW

Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-23 Thread Tim Tebbit
Alex Samad wrote: Hi subject says it all I have a lv, which i have used luks to encrypt and now I would like to extend it. I am guessing the process is going to involve coping the files over to another partition and then back again ? Alex No not at all. Treat it as any other volume

Re: Any Linux CAD tools?

2010-01-17 Thread Tim Clewlow
to have any option for drawing smooth curves. What other options are available on the Linux platform? Regards, Ogya If you are looking for something similar to 3DS Max, or Maya, or Houdini, ie a full featured 3D modelling app, then hav a look at 'blender' http://www.blender.org/ Regards, Tim

Re: Out of the box USB wireless adapter

2010-01-17 Thread Tim Tebbit
ZephyrQ wrote: So, what USB wireless adapters will work out of the box, or is there a website that will list them? Friend just purchased the Alfa AWUS036H the other day and I did see him open the box. Worked find with the latest Kernel those guys are providing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [SOT] Preview pane settings Icedove/ Thunderbird

2010-01-12 Thread Tim Tebbit
AG wrote: In Icedove (Thunderbird) v2.0.0.22 on Debian testing is there an option to automatically jump to the bottom of an email using the preview pane to read it? Anybody been able to make that happen, and if so how? Not that I am aware of. space is more than fast enough for me. Between

Re: Video conversion

2010-01-05 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 05:32:10PM +, Tim Frink wrote: I would like to convert an old video file using the Intel indeo codec into a video format that is supported by nowadays video players. What software could I use for the conversion under Debian Lenny? There's a handy GUI called

Re: Squeeze vs. Lenny update frequency?

2010-01-04 Thread Tim Tebbit
Mark wrote: I just installed Squeeze for the first time last week and today it indicated 41 updates were available. I'm used to Lenny's couple of updates per week average; does Squeeze update that much more? I did some Googling but didn't find much out there as far as update frequencies.

multiple applications segfault with error 6

2010-01-04 Thread Tim Caulder
I get multiple messages like these from dmesg. I'm not sure if this is a bug in a library or something is fubar with my system. It seems only gnome applications are effected (crash). I thought this was an xrandr issue until today when I saw the messages for ld-2.10 (below). output from

Video conversion

2010-01-03 Thread Tim Frink
I would like to convert an old video file using the Intel indeo codec into a video format that is supported by nowadays video players. What software could I use for the conversion under Debian Lenny? Regards, Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: jmeter 2.3.4-2 bug report in unstable justified?

2009-12-15 Thread Tim Ruehsen
to verify it so far. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Tim Rühsen Am Tuesday, 15. December 2009 schrieb Gernot Hassenpflug: Dear all, I've been having trouble with jmeter-server not being able to access the host from java.rmi (java.net.SocketException: Network is unreachable). Version is 2.3.4-2

Re: jmeter 2.3.4-2 bug report in unstable justified?

2009-12-15 Thread Tim Rühsen
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/10/msg00573.html Mit freundlichen Grüßen Tim Rühsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Tim Legg
, Thanks Tim Legg Here is a good puzzler.  I got a second ATAPI disk in my machine that I was able to partition with fdisk, but cannot mkfs it.  It says that the device is already mounted but when I try to umount it, it says it is not mounted.  the blkid command I ran on the device contradicts

Re: aptitude question

2009-11-29 Thread Tim Tebbit
Neo Anderson wrote: env: debian unstable/ kernel 2.6.31/ dpkg 1.15.5.3 (i386)/ apt 0.7.24 for i386 compiled on Sep 25 2009 20:05:59 I try to exec `aptitude upgarde` ,but it hangs at the step Setting up grub-pc (2009xxx) ... even if I try to run sudp dkpg --configure -a it hangs at

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Tim Tebbit
Dotan Cohen wrote: My guess would be the popularity of Ubuntu. Much of the pie went there. As Ubuntu is Debian-derived, how about doing the poll there as well? Out of curiosity I extracted unique email address from ubuntu-users.mbox available from their archive site. The archive starts 15

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Tebbit
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at best. This seem to back that up.

Re: weird networking issue on lenny!

2009-11-12 Thread Tim Tebbit
Tom H wrote: Network Manager must be the culprit. You have quoted 260 lines and your answer was one sentence still at the end of the mail. Next time quote only the things which are necessary for someone else, who read your mail at google for example. You may have enough time to count

Re: Connecting a video camera

2009-11-12 Thread Tim Clewlow
play back a pre-recorded tape on the camera too, but I need to be root for this, so as Rob said, its probably a permissions issue on the /dev/raw1394 if you are running as another user. $ apt-cache search dvgrab dvgrab - grab digital video data via IEEE1394 and USB linkssearch Cheers, Tim

Re: Banging my head accessing my wifi

2009-11-04 Thread Tim Tebbit
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Here is part of dmesg: [ 32.017203] iwlagn :0c:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode [ 32.056427] iwlagn :0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 228.57.2.23 [ 32.056564] iwlagn :0c:00.0: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch Does this mean the

Re: Banging my head accessing my wifi

2009-11-04 Thread Tim Tebbit
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Tim Tebbit tteb...@gmail.com wrote: Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Here is part of dmesg: [ 32.017203] iwlagn :0c:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode [ 32.056427] iwlagn :0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 228.57.2.23

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread Tim Tebbit
godo wrote: Personally, I would bought aluminium suitcase with sponge inside. If you don't care if it is fancy go to some tool shop it will be much cheaper (and better quality). If in your country are Bauhaus shop you can find it for cca $50. Sliding a bit off topic, but I also ride

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
AG wrote: Could be my lack of clarity in writing and precision in terminology :-) I was installing Deb testing over a previously installed Slackware system due to a number of hardware restrictions. First I downloaded a new version of vmlinuz and initrd.gz and moved those into a directory

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: I am using Squeeze. I run aptitude update; aptitude full-upgrade every day. I want to connect my laptop to the Wi-Fi I've setup in my home. I am able to connect to it using Windows but not using Debian. I know the SSID and WPA2-PSK key I have set. Channel of the router is set

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: Please help me to get wireless working with Debian (recentmost Squeeze). What is the output of ifconfig wlan0? # ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3c:6b:d5:62 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: I just checked that I don't have the firmware-iwlwifi package installed. I'll be installing it now. But without the firmware package, why do I get an output for ifconfig wlan0? Is it because of some other firmware package being installed? Can I verify this somehow? I wish I

Re: Help needed in getting WiFi working with Debian

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Tebbit
Foss User wrote: How is it that modinfo iwl3945 is giving me output when I don't have the firmware installed? Because the driver has been included since around 2.6.24/26 but not the firmware. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Unable to record voice using sound recorder

2009-11-01 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Foss User wrote: Earlier in Lenny when I used to click the sound icon in gnome panel, I used to get options to control the mixer such as modifying PCM volume, setting 'Capture' on, etc. Now, in Squeeze, it is no longer visible. I Do you have

Re: Recent sid problems - proompting for removal of lvm/dmsetup/cryptsetup

2009-10-31 Thread Tim Tebbit
Steve Kemp wrote: So .. am I missing something obvious? Is there a bogus conflict here which is messing me about? Or horror of horror - Am I crazy and is removing LVM the correct thing to do these days? Please bear in mind my root filesystem, amongst others, are LVM-mounts:

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-10-31 Thread Tim Tebbit
AG wrote: Then I copied a netinst *.iso image onto a USB stick and booted. Thanks for any ideas. Does this mean you can boot from USB? If that's the case a simple debootstrap install from knoppix would be fairly quick and easy. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en --

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-10-31 Thread Tim Tebbit
AG wrote: Only the three options noted - CD, floppy and HD. The BIOS does not (appear to) support PXE ... at least that is not given as an option anyway. Sounds like you are left with physically removing the hdd. Of course you could try to /wish/ the OS to appear. :) You had mentioned the

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-10-31 Thread Tim Tebbit
AG wrote: Cheers for the suggestions. I may well be up the proverbial creek with this one. Thanks for the tips re removing the screws - I'll give that a shot. Coincidentally - and a long shot - I found an old set of Win3.1 installation floppies whilst looking around for something I could

Re: Security.debian.org confused?

2009-10-31 Thread Tim Tebbit
Jaime Di Cristina wrote: I think that there is something wrong with security.debian.org. A couple of days ago I did aptitude update and the updates did not come in until the third time i did aptitude update, I then installed the update as normal (never got an error). Then I checked to see

Re: Security.debian.org confused?

2009-10-31 Thread Tim Tebbit
Tim Tebbit wrote: Reading this thread made me realize I haven't seen an update for Sid in 2 full days. Perhaps something else is going on. Spoke too soon, or awakened the mouse running in that wheel. Current status: 25 updates [+18]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: wicd fails to detect wifi networks

2009-10-27 Thread Tim Tebbit
Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all More wicd blues. Some time ago I reported that wicd was failing to start the GUI [1]. After getting more and more dishearten with NetworkManager, I gave wicd another try. This time the wicd GUI starts all right, but it identifies a wired connection to which it

Re: Dueling Bonzis or Banjo Buddies

2009-10-23 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could this clever friend please delete corruption and greed next? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrh3ToACgkQsUUdIDHrdAW8fwCgrb/CMkHM7SuX7dcL+PW5Hwhr T7MAnR8oKczz0PZPvs0TXy446/WFGCvB =6noO -END PGP

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-10-22 Thread Tim Tebbit
David Baron wrote: Are these going to be released to SId? Repos still list rc6-experimental. I have seen references to 2.6.31.4 ! I don't pay close attention to what is in the repos, but I don't recall seeing an odd numbered packaged by the Debian kernel team. I could be wrong though. The

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

2009-10-22 Thread Tim Tebbit
Peter Jordan wrote: Wayne, Thu Oct 22 2009 19:07:04 GMT+0200 (CEST): Peter Jordan wrote: Neal Hogan, Thu Oct 22 2009 18:41:58 GMT+0200 (CEST): sorry, but as far as I understand, tagging in mutt means to select multiple message for a common action. I want to label a message with a tag like

Best method for stopping/starting MySQL?

2009-10-19 Thread Tim Legg
. Is there a better way? Tim Legg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Best method for stopping/starting MySQL?

2009-10-19 Thread Tim Legg
--- On Mon, 10/19/09, Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi wrote: From: Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi Subject: Re: Best method for stopping/starting MySQL? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:15 PM 19.10.2009 20:49, Tim Legg kirjoitti: Hello again! I would

Re: debian whitelist, posts that never show up and long delays

2009-10-17 Thread Tim Tebbit
Nick Lidakis wrote: And that was the result of a bran' spankin' new vim user. My apolgies. Now how do I save and quit this file again... esc : wq return Spend the 30 mintues.. run 'vimtutor' If you prefer a different editor you can configure that in your muttrc and system wide by

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Friday 16 October 2009 01:33:17 Tim Clewlow wrote: It sounds like your system is not using the xsession method of managing an X session, which means it is using the native xinit method. That's ok, and just as easy to work with. First check if you have a file called .xinitrc in your home

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Friday 16 October 2009 11:10:04 Tim Clewlow wrote: lol - that error makes quite a difference. It means pretty much what it says, ie X is already running, or, the combination of config files means the system ends up trying to start X twice. Yes, I am very sorry. I know that it is essential

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
Ok, I found out that there is an error in the .xsession file, the correct version is below, note the line 'icewm ' has now become 'icewm-session ' - this should bring back the correct background and hopefully the mouse will behave noremally again :-) #!/bin/sh xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults

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