Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/22/2012 11:09 AM, lina wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sun 22 Jul 2012 at 22:01:50 +0800, lina wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Heaven above knows why you need a firewall. These services are quite

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-23 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/22/2012 11:19 PM, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:58:36 +0200 Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: However, I have noticed a tendency for things to be installed or started that open new ports, and it's easy to overlook them. Aptitude in particular will install extra packages that

Re: Purge Empathy messes up apt

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/25/2012 1:17 PM, cortman wrote: Hi all, I have a brand new installation of Debian Wheezy, updated to the current weekly build installed on my Toshiba A505 laptop. I chose to install the graphical desktop environment, laptop uitilites, and standard system utilities at tasksel during

Re: Purge Empathy messes up apt

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/25/2012 3:37 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Mark Allums wrote: cortman wrote: Is this a bug? No, it's dependency hell. No. Dependency Hell[1] would require a rigidity of dependencies that are difficult to resolve. These resolve fine. And as is they are not causing any problems. It is just

Re: Purge Empathy messes up apt

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/25/2012 7:53 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: I recall an incident where I wanted to remove some cruft (can't recall, but it was something silly, like AMOR) and apt wanted to remove 3/4 of the packages on my system, over 700 packages. Next time you hit a case like that it would be great if you

Re: Synaptic problem

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/26/2012 3:32 PM, ricccardo wrote: Hi, I recently updated from squeeze to wheezy and I notice some problem with synaptic. In particular: ric@ricmbp:~$ sudo synaptic synaptic: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.4.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: Synaptic problem

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/26/2012 6:05 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 7/26/2012 3:32 PM, ricccardo wrote: Hi, I recently updated from squeeze to wheezy and I notice some problem with synaptic. In particular: ric@ricmbp:~$ sudo synaptic synaptic: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.4.10: cannot open

Re: Instability in Wheezy system

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/26/2012 9:37 PM, Carl Fink wrote: I report a problem I experienced. I have a homebrew tower built around the AMD FX-8120 running Wheezy. 16 GB of RAM, an 80 GB SSD for the OS and a 2 TB spinning disk drive for data. Today I had a 30 minute Skype call. (2.2 client) After I hung up, I

Re: Synaptic problem

2012-07-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/27/2012 2:40 PM, ricccardo wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 18:18 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 7/26/2012 6:05 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 7/26/2012 3:32 PM, ricccardo wrote: Hi, I recently updated from squeeze to wheezy and I notice some problem with synaptic. In particular: ric@ricmbp

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/29/2012 8:27 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: used. But if it can be demonstrated that a twenty character password can be forced in a time-frame which makes sense I'll stop doing it and most On (exceedingly) rare occasions, it does happen that the

Re: multiple swap areas and RAID 1

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 8/8/2012 8:25 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Hi. I'm going to configure Debian GNU/Linux with software RAID 1 and I think to put swap area on RAID 1 (/dev/mdX), but someone told me that if the computer have multiple swap partition (e.g. /dev/sda2, /dev/sdb2) with equal priorities, linux kernel

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-09 Thread Mark Allums
On 8/9/2012 11:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:58:55PM +0100, Laurence Hurst wrote: On 09/08/2012 16:50, Darac Marjal wrote: Fair point. However, comparing[3] popcon results for xfce4-session[1] and gnome-session[2], less than 4% of debian users use[4] xfce, compared to a

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/1/2012 3:17 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Can squeeze boot when / is on an LVM over RAID1? Can it boot if /boot is on the LVM over RAID1? Or when /boot is on a nonRAID nonLVM partition but / is on an LVM over RAID? Context: I have to remove the hard drive my / is on. The available space to

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/1/2012 3:17 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Can squeeze boot when / is on an LVM over RAID1? Can it boot if /boot is on the LVM over RAID1? Or when /boot is on a nonRAID nonLVM partition but / is on an LVM over RAID? Context: I have to remove the hard drive my / is on. The available space to

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/1/2012 4:46 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:02:54 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/1/2012 3:17 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Can squeeze boot when / is on an LVM over RAID1? Can it boot if /boot is on the LVM over RAID1? Or when /boot is on a nonRAID nonLVM partition

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/1/2012 4:58 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/1/2012 4:46 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:02:54 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/1/2012 3:17 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Can squeeze boot when / is on an LVM over RAID1? Can it boot if /boot is on the LVM over RAID1? Or when /boot

Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Allums
Is this normal behavior? Is this relevant?: I'm running the 3.5-trunk kernel from experimental. Running it on assorted VMs with no problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/1/2012 10:12 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:18:33 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I would add that Squeeze probably does not write the MBR to all disks at install time if installed using the default automated install, but with an expert install (that you are already using since

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Allums
, Sep 1, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: On 9/1/2012 4:46 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Thanks. Will try it in the next few days. Will also install grub to the MBR of all my disks, so whichever gets picked at boot time will work. Is there an eaasy way to do this, so that they'll

Re: Can squeeze boot into a LVM over RAID?

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/1/2012 9:51 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:42:45 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: Can squeeze boot when / is on an LVM over RAID1? Can it boot

Re: VirtualBox and USB

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/2/2012 12:03 AM, T o n g wrote: Hi, I created my VirtualBox VM using the script from http://www.halfdog.net/Misc/TipsAndTricks/VirtualBox.html in which it adds USB support like this: # Add usb if needed vboxmanage modifyvm ${_setup_vboxName} --usb on --usbehci on However, when I

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-09-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/2/2012 12:44 AM, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 09:38:42 +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/alsa-base/alsa-base_1.0.25+2+nmu1/changelog (...) According to aptitude, alsa-base

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/2/2012 8:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:59:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU? Is this normal behavior? You mean while system is idle? And it happens continously? Yes, exactly. I have a fairly beefy system, so it should be 1% I would

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/2/2012 11:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:04:14 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/2/2012 8:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:59:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU? Is this normal behavior? You mean while system is idle

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/2/2012 11:49 AM, John Hasler wrote: The Wanderer writes: Thus, the newest packages are always in sid. (Or, in some cases, possibly in experimental; I've never quite gotten the exact function of experimental figured out.) The function of Experimental is experimentation. Packages uploaded

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/2/2012 11:54 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/2/2012 11:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:04:14 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/2/2012 8:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:59:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU? Is this normal behavior

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/2/2012 12:23 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:54:48 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/2/2012 11:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: You mean while system is idle? And it happens continously? Yes, exactly. I have a fairly beefy system, so it should be 1% I would think. YOu can create

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/2/2012 12:39 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/2/2012 12:23 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:54:48 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/2/2012 11:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: You mean while system is idle? And it happens continously? Yes, exactly. I have a fairly beefy system, so it should

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/2/2012 12:39 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/2/2012 12:23 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:54:48 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/2/2012 11:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: You mean while system is idle? And it happens continously? Yes, exactly. I have a fairly beefy system, so it should

Desktops, was Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/2/2012 1:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 14:03 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Based on the various Google results, I am thinking that Nautilus has a serious set of bugs. It uses 1G of memory, which is horrendous, but another 22G become unavailable, form memleaks or

tracker-miner, tracker-store, etc., was Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Allums
I noticed that tracker is doing a lot . How important is it? Is it inadvisable to disable it? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/2/2012 2:29 PM, lee wrote: Mark Allums m...@allums.com writes: I am going to temporarily retreat to another window manager and desktop for a while, and see if this bug gets fixed. Fvwm-crystal is awesome. You have icons on the desktop background? The windows cover them all the time

Advice about removing cruft?

2012-09-03 Thread Mark Allums
In an effort to improve system stability without completely reinstalling, how would someone pick and choose things to trim or remove from a Desktop/Workstation? My favorite and main Linux/Debian machine is flaky right now, and I don't want to commit the time and mental effort to completely

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-03 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/3/2012 5:06 PM, Gaël DONVAL wrote: Le dimanche 02 septembre 2012 à 12:28 -0500, Mark Allums a écrit : I noticed a low-grade but continuous disk activity. Check with atop or another tool like that. The two main culprits for completely unknown and continuous IO transfers are tracker-miner

Re: Advice about removing cruft?

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/4/2012 2:48 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 03:23:21PM -0700, Weaver wrote: I find the packages 'cruft' and 'deborphan' work fairly well together. I find Bleachbit to be a little too militant. All of the above will find packages that are not being used. But, packages that

Re: deprecated (Re: What Version To Install On iMac?)

2012-09-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/12/2012 6:44 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:26:09PM +0200, lee wrote: Are you saying it's not possible to say that the administrator installed disapproved software because disapproved cannot be used as an adjective? Yes I would say, in American English* the

Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/14/2012 3:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:22:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: Which probably means building a new file system and copying all the files. Even if it's possible to upgrade in place, it would probably mean preserving the existing low-level structure, like 512-byte

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: Peter Viskup skupko...@gmail.com writes: there is something like HTML5 already out. Try to have a look on http://www.youtube.com/html5 and then search for HTML5 support for your favorite browser and you will get an answer. Hmmm. They are saying I'm

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: How do I get h.264 support in seamonkey? It will probably happen eventually, but h.264 has patents, so it may not happen soon. You can always add it yourself through a plugin. But you may have to *write* the plugin yourself, and it may not be legal in some

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/16/2012 2:22 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/15/2012 11:48 PM, lee wrote: Hmmm. They are saying I'm participating in a test and seamonkey supports Video-Tag and WebM (whatever that is) and doesn't support h.264. They are saying chromium supports all of it. How do I get h.264 support

Re: Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/18/2012 4:46 PM, lee wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Ma, 18 sep 12, 19:24:45, lee wrote: 2) Is msdos a valid option to choose for this hard drive? Is msdos a useful partition type for you? Try Linux, and if it works, you can try to change it to msdos.

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/18/2012 5:13 PM, Martin Smith wrote: On 18/09/2012 22:52, Lisi wrote: Hi, Lionel, On Tuesday 18 September 2012 22:31:21 Lionel Trésaugues wrote: I am experiencing a physical pain whenever I am in front of my computer running either Debian (Wheezy) or Debian-based distributions (such as

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/18/2012 7:53 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Sat, 9/15/12, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: From: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de Subject: Re: What is playing videos in web browsers? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, September 15, 2012, 11:08 PM Adobe says on their website: Flash

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/19/2012 5:33 PM, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 19 September 2012 22:40:30 Lionel Trésaugues wrote: Yes. Me neither. The only parameter I couldn't check (due to my lack of knowledge) is the horizontal refresh rate. Any idea how I can get this value ? I still feel that a very minor difference

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/19/ LCDs do not flicker. I *explicitly* did not say flicker. I do not mean flicker. Flicker is perceptible to the viewer. Minitors *do* refresh. They do not all refresh at the same rate. The OP is complaining of eye-strain and headaches. These are real, and quite reasonably he

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/19/2012 6:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 00:03 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 19 September 2012 23:38:48 Mark Allums wrote: On 9/19/2012 5:33 PM, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 19 September 2012 22:40:30 Lionel Trésaugues wrote: Yes. Me neither. The only parameter I

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/20/2012 8:59 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 07:18:58, Mark Allums wrote: LCD do not refresh in the same sense as CRTs. They project a continuous picture. If a pixel doesn't change, it stays lit. No fading. OPs problem is not due to refresh, unless it is a CRT. His problem

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/20/2012 9:51 AM, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2012 15:37:54 Mark Allums wrote: Never had that experience or heard of it or dreamt of it. You obviously feel that your experience is more valid than anyone else's when it comes to monitors. But you appear to know nothing at all

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/20/2012 10:16 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 09:37:54, Mark Allums wrote: I have however seen LCD monitors behave significantly different depending on refresh rate. Entire areas were blury, but everything was fine when I switched to another refresh rate (60Hz - 75Hz if I

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/20/2012 2:36 PM, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2012 18:20:49 Mark Allums wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2012 15:37:54 Mark Allums wrote: Never had that experience or heard of it or dreamt of it. You obviously feel that your experience is more valid than anyone else's when

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/20/2012 3:37 PM, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 20 September 2012 20:50:40 Mark Allums wrote: You were obsessed with the refresh rate. This is absurd. I mentioned it twice, amid a lot of other things. It is you who are obsessed. If you want to continue this absurd attack on me, may I suggest

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/25/2012 4:42 PM, lee wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: http://www.iba.org.il/gimmel/?entity=869508type=269page=248 Clicking the little red headphone-with-emanating-sound-waves brings up this message: You must install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin. Click here to

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/28/2012 1:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:27 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Try: $clive -f best http://vimeo.com/24972836; Does it download and convert long YouTube videos on the fly or does it take hours? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KufCS2ad0eE Regards, Ralf

Re: Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid

2012-09-30 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/30/2012 12:13 AM, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:30:01 +0200 Pascal Obry pas...@obry.net wrote: A clean-up of an old driver? I would advise to uninstall everything, exit X session and install back from a console. Pascal. Thanks for this suggestion, I did this, as you

Re: Nvidia upgrade 304.48.1 in sid

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/30/2012 5:14 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:00:01 +0200 Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: did you run $nvidia-xconfig I tried your suggestion and got this: ~$ nvidia-xconfig bash: nvidia-xconfig: command not found and this one: $ $nvidia-xconfig bash: -xconfig

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/30/2012 7:32 PM, Joel Rees wrote: (Mark, did you set the screen grab to give you raw images or compressed?) 'Twasn't me. I had a minor disagreement with another user over the topic of refresh while trying to make a suggestion, but it wasn't my problem. I wasn't the OP. Mark --

Re: Virtualbox 4.1

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/30/2012 8:13 PM, m...@mylug.org wrote: I am using Virtualbox 4.1 (non-free edition). Everything works, but for a minor issue. To access usb drives, I am supposed to add the user to vboxusers group. But, that group is non-existent. I can create that group. But, to access the usb drives,

Re: Virtualbox 4.1

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/1/2012 2:37 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 9/30/2012 8:13 PM, m...@mylug.org wrote: I am using Virtualbox 4.1 (non-free edition). Everything works, but for a minor issue. To access usb drives, I am supposed to add the user to vboxusers group. But, that group is non-existent. I can create

Re: openmotif 3

2012-10-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/2/2012 4:18 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 09:25:16PM +0200, Dan wrote: I would like to run a program that requires libXm.so.3 but libmotif3 has been replaced by libmotif4 and I can not find anywhere libXm.so.3. Any idea? I have found that symlinking LibXm.so.3 to

Re: can multiarch break my system?

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/3/2012 10:08 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:14:51 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: Hi folks, I would like to install wine on my pure 64-bit system. Wine is telling me, that I need to add i386 architecture on it (dpkg

Recurring email messages in IceDove and I'm feeling deja vu

2012-10-13 Thread Mark Allums
I am using Icedove, AKA Thunderbird, with an IMAP server. After deleting (or marking for deletion), the messages will reappear in the Inbox, or if in the Inbox and marked, they will become unmarked. This happens whether I do it manually or a filter rules moves the message to a folder. (The

Re: Debian 6.0.5 32 bit Library Required for 64 bit System

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/17/2012 10:20 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running the 64 bit 6.0.5, but need the 32 bit canberra-gtk-module. Where can I find it? Do you have ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk installed? Start by installing those. Then go to http://packages.debian.org/ and search for

Re: Debian 6.0.5 32 bit Library Required for 64 bit System

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/17/2012 2:29 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/17/2012 02:14 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:58 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:22 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 10:20 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running the 64 bit 6.0.5, but need the 32 bit canberra

Re: Debian 6.0.5 32 bit Library Required for 64 bit System

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/17/2012 2:50 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 2:29 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/17/2012 02:14 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:58 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:22 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 10:20 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running

Re: 32bit binaries on 64bit system?

2012-10-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/17/2012 10:56 PM, Curt Howland wrote: Dear Debian-user, newly installed AMD64 Squeeze. I've decided to try installing Debian in 64bit for the first time, and restoring my home files has exposed a 32bit legacy. wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 So I installed all the ia32libs, but the error is

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/20/2012 5:02 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Dear package-teams, please do not put everything to multiarch! Just let me explain, why I think so. As already reported here, many users (and me too) got into a lot of problems, beccause the 32-bit nvidia drivers are now put into multiarch. Doing

Re: Installing Debian on Windows 7 machine?

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/20/2012 2:09 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Since my current box is still having random lockups with no solution in sight I am likely to be purchasing a new computer soon. It will, in all likelihood come with Windows 7 pre installed. I want to load Debian on it, as well. I am familiar with

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/20/2012 6:10 PM, lee wrote: John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com writes: Lisi writes: A bug report can, I believe, be a request for something that is not there. Yes. It's called a wishlist bug and it is one of the choices offered by reportbug. I have already sent a bug report, and it is

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/21/2012 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 21 oct 12, 13:00:00, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: What I do not understand: Why does skype want to install lots of new 32-bit libs, when the package (and this is the 32-bit one) already can use either ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk (which are also

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/21/2012 12:35 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Mark, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: What some of you are missing is that the transitional package ia32-libs in sid is uninstallable unless you allow experimental, because of some of the dependencies. It's just not a viable option unless

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/21/2012 12:48 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 21 oct 12, 11:27:05, Mark Allums wrote: What some of you are missing is that the transitional package ia32-libs in sid is uninstallable unless you allow experimental, because of some of the dependencies. It's just not a viable option unless

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/21/2012 3:28 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/21/2012 12:35 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Mark, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: What some of you are missing is that the transitional package ia32-libs in sid is uninstallable unless you allow experimental, because of some

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/21/2012 5:00 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 21 oct 12, 21:42:45, Claudius Hubig wrote: I have to admit I did not look into that any further, but, yes, the dependencies are rather screwed up: ia32-libs:amd64 depends on ia32-libs-i386, which is only available in the i386 architecture

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/22/2012 4:40 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 21 oct 12, 17:33:17, Mark Allums wrote: Yes, because you have to enable multiarch before upgrading ia32-libs. This is documented in the wheezy Release Notes: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/22/2012 8:06 AM, lee wrote: Claudius Hubig debian_1...@chubig.net writes: Hello lee, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Claudius Hubig debian_1...@chubig.net writes: the advantage that not one big package has to be updated each time one of the libraries it contains changes, but only one

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-23 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/23/2012 3:59 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 22 oct 12, 22:11:11, Mark Allums wrote: Debian devs regard the nvidia closed source drivers anathems. They disdain them, and pay no heed to bug reports filed against them. They also ignore kernel bug reports if the nvidia driver is loaded

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-23 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/23/2012 2:30 PM, John Hasler wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Debian devs regard the nvidia closed source drivers anathems. They disdain them, and pay no heed to bug reports filed against them. They don't regard them as anathema. They regard them as Nvidia's problem. Which they are. I've

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-23 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/23/2012 4:43 PM, John Hasler wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Debian devs regard the nvidia closed source drivers anathems. I wrote: They don't regard them as anathema. They certainly *do* regard them as anathema, as they do all closed-source and non-free software. False. I am a Debian

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact you'll never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend a dual core AthlonII X2 @ 3.4GHz. I have the 3GHz model and the 2nd

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/2/2012 5:05 PM, Riccardo Romoli wrote: Hi to all, I'm a newbie of Debian but using the Debian-Wiky I was able to install Debian 6 as single boot, on my MacBookPro (v.3.1). The only problem I notice, till now, is about the Alt key. I bought the computer as used from a German guy

Re: about java and wheezy

2012-05-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/13/2012 12:28 PM, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi Installation of openjdk-6-jdk in wheezy i386 would lead to deletion of much gnome, including openoffice, with reinstallation of gnome and abiword, but not of openoffice/libreoffice, if I understand. Otherwise, java is often useful. Any

Has anyone successfully installed Cinnamon in Debian?

2012-05-19 Thread Mark Allums
What with one thing and another, my GNOME 3 will only run in fallback mode (GNOME Classic), and I have been looking at alternatives. There are things to like about Xfce, LXDE, MATE, and others, but I have not heard of anyone trying Cinnamon. One issue seems to be the version of Clutter that

Re: Has anyone successfully installed Cinnamon in Debian?

2012-05-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/20/2012 6:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: At the forums there is a success install reported: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6t=76039sid=5f678a70c70f1dd3106da45010681a90start=15#p424163 But carefully read the Cinnamon readme for Debian:

Re: Has anyone successfully installed Cinnamon in Debian?

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/21/2012 3:21 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 06:34:45PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: What with one thing and another, my GNOME 3 will only run in fallback mode (GNOME Classic), and I have been looking at alternatives. There are things to like about Xfce, LXDE, MATE, and others

Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior restored. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/15/2012 5:38 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/15/2012 7:18 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 16/06/12 10:08, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/15/2012 7:01 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make

Re: Root password usage - was [Re: Intermittent installation related problems]

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/21/2012 9:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 13:55:49 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 07:37:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: But ;) The new install will not accept root password. User password is fine. That may be intended. I don't

Re: Log flooding: Oct 28 11:44:21 localhost kernel: [ 3348.008429] option: option_instat_callback: error -2

2012-10-28 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/28/2012 5:49 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi Folks, since some time my logs are flooded with the folowwing message: Oct 28 11:45:09 localhost kernel: [ 3395.992226] option: option_instat_callback: error -2 Oct 28 11:45:14 localhost kernel: [ 3401.009057] option: option_instat_callback:

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/28/2012 12:36 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 10/27/12 23:10, David Christensen wrote: I finally settled on Wheezy OOTB as much as possible with LUKS, ext4, and VirtualBox, Correction: And Intel HD 2000 graphics support, single head. On 10/28/12 04:32, Mark Allums wrote: I don't

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/28/2012 3:14 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 28 oct 12, 06:32:45, Mark Allums wrote: My own opinion on i3 is that it;s a bit underpowered for a modern system, even a Linux system. If i7 seems like overkill to you, then the obvious compromise is i5, which is what i recommend to most non

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/29/2012 2:51 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 28 oct 12, 22:09:01, Mark Allums wrote: Ah, I misunderstood your requirements quite a bit. i3 is adequate for media center work. Some Atoms are fine for decoding 1080p, but it's better to rely on dedicated hardware. Do you know for sure

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-30 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/29/2012 1:43 PM, Worrier Poet wrote: On 10/29/2012 02:15 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and

RE: CPU scaling problems

2012-11-15 Thread Mark Allums
Francesco wrote: I have installed Debian testing on a X1 Carbon, processor i5-3427U. My problem is the following: when the `ondemand' governor is active, the processor clock never scales up, it always stays at 800Mhz. The situation changes when using the `conservative' or the `performance'

RE: CPU scaling problems

2012-11-15 Thread Mark Allums
-Original Message- From: Mark Allums [mailto:m...@allums.com] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:34 PM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: RE: CPU scaling problems Francesco wrote: I have installed Debian testing on a X1 Carbon, processor i5-3427U. My problem

RE: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Mark Allums
Hello, Is there anyone having luck with skype 4.1 in debian ? I have tried to install it and get the following dependency issue and also lost my working skype 4.0 ` dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (i386) does not match

RE: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Mark Allums
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:06:46 -0600 Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Hello, Is there anyone having luck with skype 4.1 in debian ? I have tried to install it and get the following dependency issue and also lost my working skype 4.0 ` dpkg: warning

RE: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Mark Allums
The only fix I know short of installing 32-bit Wheezy in a chroot or virtual machine is to satisfy all of the dependencies, which will all need to be i386 versions. Don't worry; both the i386 and amd64 versions can be installed side- by-side. I'm sorry, please be extremely cautious about

RE: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-20 Thread Mark Allums
At Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:35:37 +, Claudius Hubig wrote: Don’t use dpkg --force-architecture, but rather enable multi-arch as detailed in the various how tos online. To get Skype 4.1 working via multi-arch, you will need some packages from unstable, install them. If dpkg complains about

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