Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:22:51 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:43:15 +, Alan Chandler wrote: On 26/11/11 21:18, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, try this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/82652/file-association-to-unlisted- application It basically says that you have to append a

Re: reduce crypt partition

2011-11-27 Thread scar
Arno Schuring @ 11/27/2011 04:59 AM: Advice: use fdisk -u. [..] Total sectors = 5119*8192 = 41934848 thank you!! i added an extra 5120 sectors just to be safe and used +41939968 in fdisk. all seems to be working well and i now have ~18G free space. i'm surprised and pleased it's so simple

Re: .deb / dpkg for dummies

2011-11-27 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
Hi There is also great (freely available) chapter from debian administrators handbook [1]. it is more in-depth i guess, but it gives great overview of whole package management process. recommended. 1.

Re: .deb / dpkg for dummies

2011-11-27 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
and also, debian reference card. Regards - Roman On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Roman Khomasuridze khomasuri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi There is also great (freely available) chapter from debian administrators handbook [1]. it is more in-depth i guess, but it gives great

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 27 November 2011 8:29:19 am Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +, Cam Hutchison wrote: I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components. I don't like any of it. What I

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 11:11, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:22:37 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. The specifications for the root file system in /etc/lilo.conf and in /etc/fstab do not match. In /etc/lilo.conf, you

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Vasileios Karaklioumis
DNS is a big problem for me as well(DHCP mostly works), maybe just use static ips for that? On Nov 27, 2011 8:23 PM, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Also fails to configure automatically without host name. I think what's really happening here is a configuration is attempted and

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/11 11:11, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Its a bit difficult to grasp the concepts and differences between virtual desktops versus activies. I found the excellent blog of Chani, who develops on KDE activities as well, very help ful in understand activities. For example: {December 26, 2010}

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:36:27 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Let me know how that works out for you. I didn't see any obvious problems in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Well, that didn't work, but I purged all of the packages with conffiles (manually, as I did it

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +, Cam Hutchison wrote: I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components. I don't like any of it. What I like is the setup I had. I had GNOME 2 set up just the way

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 12:36, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/11 11:11, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:22:37 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. The specifications for the root file system in /etc/lilo.conf and in

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 13:30, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:36:27 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Let me know how that works out for you. I didn't see any obvious problems in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Well, that didn't work, but I purged all of the packages with

Re: Linux 3.1 and r300

2011-11-27 Thread Siard
Arno Schuring: Since the upgrade to the 3.1 kernel, I'm seeing display flickers on two machines with an older ATI card (a 9600 and X1500). One machine is very vocal about EDID errors and blinks the display roughly every ten seconds, making it impossible to work with. The other logs no EDID

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Those are available but you have to take a 30 year fixed mortgage on your house to pay for them. Those would help out with bittorrent too if they were economical.On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Vasileios Karaklioumis wrote: DNS is a big problem for me as well(DHCP mostly works), maybe just use static

Re: Linux 3.1 and r300

2011-11-27 Thread Siard
Arno Schuring: Since the upgrade to the 3.1 kernel, I'm seeing display flickers on two machines with an older ATI card (a 9600 and X1500). One machine is very vocal about EDID errors and blinks the display roughly every ten seconds, making it impossible to work with. The other logs no EDID

Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Robert S
I recently rebooted my server and mysql didn't start - it reported password problems. I have reset the root password but there are other errors: # /etc/init.d/mysql start Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables.. ERROR 1045

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Rob Andrews
On 27 Nov 2011, at 16:40, Francesco Pietra wrote: Installer debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded Nov27 2011 fails to configure DHCP either automatically, with hostname, or manually. Otherwise, the Realtek card works perfectly on this machine (I just wanted to reinstall in order to

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Richard
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:40:34 +0200 Vasileios Karaklioumis plandr...@gmail.com wrote: DNS is a big problem for me as well(DHCP mostly works), maybe just use static ips for that? On Nov 27, 2011 8:23 PM, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: Also fails to configure automatically

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:38:20 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: I reran lilo and rebooted, but the problems remained. I found that by changing the last column in /etc/fstab from '2' to '0' on the removable flash drives eliminated those errors. I hadn't noticed that, but yes, the pass option

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
This happens on an amd athelon k8 using wheezy not squeeze. On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Richard wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:40:34 +0200 Vasileios Karaklioumis plandr...@gmail.com wrote: DNS is a big problem for me as well(DHCP mostly works), maybe just use static ips for that? On Nov 27,

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:26:52 +1100, Robert S wrote: I recently rebooted my server and mysql didn't start - it reported password problems. I have reset the root password but there are other errors: # /etc/init.d/mysql start Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt, not

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Vasileios Karaklioumis
Oh, sorry. I meant define a fixed ip for the device on your network not the external one. When you configure settings, try to used a fixed ip address and define a google dns (4.4.4.4 8.8.8.8 are the ones and are much faster than my provider). BTW it iwas 5€/month here in Greece for a

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Norval Watson
Installer debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded Nov27 2011 fails to configure DHCP either automatically, with hostname, or manually. Possible workaround is once the DHCP config fails, hit Continue, select auto config step again, and then it may well succeed. Not very elegant, but

Re: Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Heckman wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Tim Heckman wrote: The last time dhclient was attempted with this would have been on Debian 5.0. In our most recent Debian 6.0 template someone decided to use dhcpcd, What were they using before? In Debian 5.0 dhcp3-client was the package

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:38:19PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Olivier BATARD obat...@gmail.com wrote: Envoyé de mon iPhone Anyone knows an offline tool like lastpass ? LastPass is online and KeePass is offline. Honestly, I would trust KeePass over

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Norval Watson wrote: Installer debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded Nov27 2011 fails to configure DHCP either automatically, with hostname, or manually. Possible workaround is once the DHCP config fails, hit Continue, select auto config step again, and then it may well succeed.

Re: Chromium in Sid not working

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 05:37:26PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: The linux Chrome binary from Google appears to work fine on both machines. I don't use the Debian Chromium as it's too old. I think you must be thinking of the Chromium in Stable Squeeze which released

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert S wrote: Subject: Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table I recently rebooted my server and mysql didn't start - it reported password problems. I have reset the root password but there are other errors: # /etc/init.d/mysql start Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt,

Re: Chromium in Sid not working

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen Allen wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: I don't use the Debian Chromium as it's too old. I think you must be thinking of the Chromium in Stable Squeeze which released with version 6. That isn't the one under discussion. Stable is stable and so that one won't be

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/11 03:40, Francesco Pietra wrote: Installer debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso ^ downloaded Nov27 2011 fails to configure DHCP either automatically, with hostname, or manually. Otherwise, the Realtek card works perfectly on this machine (I just wanted to

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:13:33 -0500, Carl wrote in message 2026131333.ga5...@panix.com: On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:06:00PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..are you using the radeon driver? Yes. (2 more alternatives to try, radeonhd and fglrx, I have no experience with those.)

Re: why does mplayer sound bad and flashplugin-nonfree sound good?

2011-11-27 Thread jidanni
C == Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: C What happens when ypu open the file with another media player? It sounds great! OK I filed http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=2019 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 05:26:52PM -0500, Robert S wrote: I recently rebooted my server and mysql didn't start - it reported password problems. I have reset the root password but there are other errors: # /etc/init.d/mysql start Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Robert S
Thanks. After backing up the entire system here's what I get when I try to reconfigure mysql: # dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.1 Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. 28 12:43:41 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 28 12:43:41 InnoDB:

Re: Wifi card Realtek 8192SEvB not working on a Lenovo Thinkpad T500 on Debian testing

2011-11-27 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 07:37:43PM +0100, Eric Veiras Galisson wrote: On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Eric Veiras Galisson eric.veirasgalis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i recently upgraded my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T500) from squeeze to testing and the PCMCIA Wifi card I was using now

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Robert S
As Bob mentioned, this is most likely because you deleted the debian-sys-maint user. Set up the user e.g. with: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'xx'; and make sure that the password mentioned in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf is valid.

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:49:53 +0200 SM kas...@hilla.kapsi.fi wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 04:07:32PM +, Brian wrote: The usual Debian way of dealing with that situation is to give users permission to mount removable devices by putting them in the plugdev group. Or just install

Booting into DOS

2011-11-27 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear list - My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS from the start-up screen I receive the messages: no argument specified adn no such partition. How do i fix this. Thanks. Ethan Debian 6.0.1a squeeze(sid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:51:58 -0500 Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: What about your /etc/shadow file and other config files in /etc? As I said, I have been running LUKS + cryptsetup on a number of machines for years: my laptop, a C2D P9600 - Built Nov 2010 my desktop, a C2D E4500

Some shell query

2011-11-27 Thread Kousik Maiti
Hi LIst, I have a text file like this 34 RADIO 2 RADWIN 1 RAGE 1 RAIL 1 RAU 3 RAU2 2 RE 2 RECEIVERS 13 RECEPTION 1 RECORDING 1 RECTIFIER 4 REF 3 REFURBISHED 4 REPEATER I want to sort this by first word(here it is number). Output should be like this 34 RADIO 13 RECEPTION 4 REF 4 REPEATER 3

Re: Some shell query

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Kousik Maiti wrote: I want to sort this by first word(here it is number). Output should be like this 34 RADIO 13 RECEPTION 4 REF 4 REPEATER 3 RAU2 3 REFURBISHED 2 RADWIN 2 RE 2 RECEIVERS 1 RAGE 1 RAIL 1 RAU 1 RECORDING 1 RECTIFIER How can I do this? Please anybody help.

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Oops! I sent my reply directly to Stephen, again. On 11/27/11 15:10, Stephen Powell wrote: Since your permanent root file system is not a logical volume, chances are there is no LVM stuff in your initial RAM file system. Therefore, it is trying to access the SUSPEND/RESUME device before it is

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 26, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: The way I like to set up the system is to set up /boot in its own partition on /dev/sda1. Then set up the rest of the disk in /dev/sda5 as a logical partition for an encrypted partition. Then use that encrypted partition for one large LVM

Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-11-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even asking for password... How I can change the behavior (to ask for password before granting root shell)? Thanks for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: For a new user it works too, but for the old one - all work except these two. I have searched through dir.s and files that were created for the new user (its home dir. was empty and did remove the appropriate dir.s in the home dir. of the

X app.s in full mode do not cover whole the screen.

2011-11-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. For some reason X app.s in full mode do not cover whole the screen - but just bigger part of it than in window mode. I have xorg.conf and I did not change it for a while, having no problem w/ full screen mode. Also I have installed only the drivers I need for my video card

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:01:15AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and pick or verify you have picked all your relevant UTF-8 locales, you may want to toss out your ISO-8859-* locales. Next, run aptitude and trawl 'n haul in all UTF-8 fonts, and make those your

Re: .deb / dpkg for dummies

2011-11-27 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 11/27/2011 07:53 PM, Rogelio wrote: Is there a good overview on how to really use these tools? I simply copy/paste commands all the time, and I'm hoping for some sort of primer or tutorial that helps be able to do this from scratch without a cheat sheet. Hi , I think the simplest way to

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Rick Thomas wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: The way I like to set up the system is to set up /boot in its own partition on /dev/sda1. Then set up the rest of the disk in /dev/sda5 as a logical partition for an encrypted partition. Then use that encrypted partition for one large LVM volume. This

Re: Uitnodiging voor de Bossche LUG!

2011-11-27 Thread Emilien Klein
Hoi Nederlandse Debian gebruikers, De eerste bijeenkomst zal worden gehouden in het Centrum van 's-Hertogenbosch: - Datum/tijd: Dinsdag 29 november 2011 - 20u00 - Locatie: In de Keulse Kar [0] Hinthamerstraat 101 5211 MH 's-Hertogenbosch Het parkeergarage in de Sint Josephstraat [1] is ongeveer

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