Re: Reasons for rights policies, political or technical ? Was : Re: pm-hibernate as user

2012-12-19 Thread Michael Biebl
On 19.12.2012 16:58, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 19.12.2012 16:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Michael Biebl wrote: On 19.12.2012 01:04, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: On 19.12.2012 00:34, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Except using sudo, I know no solution

Re: pm-hibernate as user

2012-12-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 19.12.2012 00:34, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Except using sudo, I know no solution... sadly. Maybe you can do something with policykit, too, I never tried to understand how it works, but I think giving rights to some softwares is its role. sudo is one option, the other is to

Re: pm-hibernate as user

2012-12-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 19.12.2012 00:36, Michael Biebl wrote: $ dbus-send --print-reply \ --system \ --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower \ /org/freedesktop/UPower \ org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend thinko on my part: you want org.freedesktop.UPower.Hibernate, of course

Re: pm-hibernate as user

2012-12-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 19.12.2012 01:04, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: On 19.12.2012 00:34, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Except using sudo, I know no solution... sadly. Maybe you can do something with policykit, too, I never tried to understand how it works, but I think giving rights

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-15 Thread Michael Biebl
On 10.12.2012 00:09, Roger Leigh wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 02:43:36PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Ross Boylan wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: This nfs startup part is a part that seems to have suffered from the transition from boot time scripts to event driven scripts. This kind of thing use to

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.12.2012 10:00, Aidan Gauland wrote: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org writes: On 14.12.2012 05:06, Aidan Gauland wrote: How can I fix this? Given that HAL is deprecated, I suspect there is some other tool that serves the same purpose as pmount-hal that I should be using instead. yeah

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.12.2012 17:12, Michael Biebl wrote: Try gvfs-mount -d /dev/foo. This should prompt you for the passphrase, unlock and mount the file system under /media/FS_LABEL Just in case: If you run that command from a session which has no running dbus session bus, change that command to: dbus

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-13 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.12.2012 05:06, Aidan Gauland wrote: How can I fix this? Given that HAL is deprecated, I suspect there is some other tool that serves the same purpose as pmount-hal that I should be using instead. yeah, hal is dead. You might try udisks --mount instead. -- Why is it that all of the

Re: udev device mapper rules for early boot?

2012-12-11 Thread Michael Biebl
On 11.12.2012 19:00, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Hello, I have created a udev rule to set the owner of a specific block device: SUBSYSTEM==block, ENV{DM_UUID}==LVM-yYuoI8k05GWxZnz9BeEIwPUGGeojzF3dZZmXTYRqC051Tllj76OHdDlzYhKZUu7u, OWNER=1000 [..] I have added a custom hook to copy this rule

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-10 Thread Michael Biebl
On 10.12.2012 19:15, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: 3. The problem with the 32-bit nvidia accelerator (libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386) could I solve, that I removed all nvidia-packages from debian and used the installer from Nvidia's site. [..] The following packages have unmet dependencies: libxvmc1 :

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Biebl
On 08.12.2012 23:09, Ross Boylan wrote: 192.168.40.2:/usr/local/mnt/usr/local nfs defaults 0 0 192.168.40.2:/usr/local/var/media /usr/local/var/media nfs defaults 0 0 The root fs is mounted correctly (during the boot sequence, before it gets to fstab), but the other 2 NFS

Re: How to prevent daemons from starting at boot after update?

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Biebl
On 27.11.2012 20:52, Adrian Fita wrote: I just did a cups package update (yes, I'm running Debian unstable) and noticed that the cups daemon was started after the upgrade. And indeed, looking in /var/lib/dpkg/info/cups.postinst, the daemon is started with invoke-rc.d cups start after every

Re: How to prevent daemons from starting at boot after update?

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Biebl
On 27.11.2012 22:47, Adrian Fita wrote: - my current runlevel is 2, I made sure that cups is indeed disabled: /etc/rc2.d/K02cups What does ls -la /etc/rc?.d/???cups say? If you properly disable cups via update-rc.d, the service is not run via invoke-rc.d. I've just tested this on my system.

Re: How to prevent daemons from starting at boot after update?

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Biebl
what does `runlevel` say? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to prevent daemons from starting at boot after update?

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Biebl
On 27.11.2012 23:59, Adrian Fita wrote: On 28/11/12 00:52, Michael Biebl wrote: what does `runlevel` say? root@zero:~# runlevel N 2 Interesting. As already shown, I can't reproduce your problem. Not sure if this is because you ship a policy-rc.d script. It might help, moving that file away

Re: How to prevent daemons from starting at boot after update?

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Biebl
On 28.11.2012 00:22, Adrian Fita wrote: As soon as I reinstalled policyrcd-script-zg2, invoke-rc.d is starting the services again. So, is this expected behaviour, or is it a bug that I should report? I've never used policyrcd-script-zg2 and have no idea what this package is supposed to do,

Re: /lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed hang

2012-11-25 Thread Michael Biebl
On 25.11.2012 00:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Or should I simply ignore all binaries in /lib/ ? Exactly, those binaries are not supposed to be started by hand. That's also why they have no man page or --help. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are

Re: /lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed hang

2012-11-25 Thread Michael Biebl
On 25.11.2012 16:13, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 11/25/12, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 11/25/12, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: On 24.11.2012 14:40, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Zenaan

Re: /lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed hang

2012-11-24 Thread Michael Biebl
On 24.11.2012 14:40, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Any idea how to make use of systemd-hostnamed? Eg: $ sudo /lib/systemd/systemd-hostnamed Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed. Changing the local hostname might make it

Re: dbus and power management

2012-11-20 Thread Michael Biebl
On 20.11.2012 14:59, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I had an old python script for monitoring my laptop lid with dbus, and then suspending when it was closed. It doesn't work now because the dbus namespace on debian seems to have changed. dbus.exceptions.DBusException:

systemd hangs on fstab directory bindmount

2012-11-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: systemd Version: 44-5 Control: submitter -1 z...@freedbms.net On 20.11.2012 13:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 11/20/12, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 11/20/12, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: You mentioned, that you use some sort of encryption. Posting more details

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Michael Biebl
On 19.11.2012 16:07, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 11/19/12, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: First, systemd worked. Now it hangs on bootup, with the following messages: ... Nov 19 14:31:12 localhost named[2353]: error

Re: Gnome recommends iceweasel-l10n-all

2012-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, On 16.10.2012 18:29, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! On last Wheezy upgrade my system install all iceweasel-l10-* packages because gnome recommends -all package. Is it normal? I only need This is wanted, yes. To get a translated iceweasel. English and/or my native language and nothing

Re: Network manager DNS

2012-09-23 Thread Michael Biebl
On 23.09.2012 15:41, Marek Pawinski wrote: On 23/09/2012 13:06, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Marek Pawinskili...@pawinski.co.za wrote: Squeeze 6.05 amd64, I had backports enabled and made the mistake of updating to the latest back port kernel amongst other updates a few days

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Biebl
On 31.07.2012 21:05, Martin Steigerwald wrote: technical arguments like its Linux only and I found some limitations myself like its init script compabitibility does not take care of further initscript arguments like for openvpn initscript to tell it which VPN to start due to not supporting

Re: syslog filter

2012-07-10 Thread Michael Biebl
On 10.07.2012 16:24, Michael Biebl wrote: With rsyslog you have powerful filtering capabilities and you can basically match on any part of the syslog message and drop it with the ~ operator. http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/rsyslog_conf_filter.html http://www.rsyslog.com/doc

Re: syslog filter

2012-07-10 Thread Michael Biebl
On 10.07.2012 15:37, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: there is a very specific daemon log which is generating every minute and i want this log not written in syslog message however the daemon itself not providing the facility to stop it. so is there any thing that i could configure debian not to

Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-12 Thread Michael Biebl
On 12.05.2012 13:53, Tom wrote: This is on sid. I mostly use Openbox, starting notification- and gnome-settings-daemon from .xinitrc. Oddly enough, all applications that ought to notify me (I only use three: my music player, Icedove, and Transmission) do so exactly one time after their

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-28 Thread Michael Biebl
On 28.03.2012 20:27, Dom wrote: This change has caused me a number of (admittedly not too serious) problems. To get a better feeling for what kind of problems users with tmpfs-on-tmp run into, I think filing bugs against the affected packages would be a great idea. Ideally, usertagged, so they

Re: Latest update borks

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Biebl
On 05.03.2012 14:46, Frank McCormick wrote: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-2-686 FATAL: Module xhci not found. FATAL: Module ext4dev not found. FATAL: Module af_packet not found. FATAL: Module atkbd not found. FATAL: Module

Re: Gnome package now requires installing tracker?

2012-02-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.02.2012 17:04, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:55:28 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:52:25 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: Given this enormous amount of dependencies, I really don’t think you can

Re: Gnome package now requires installing tracker?

2012-02-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.02.2012 18:13, Camaleón wrote: I'm not speaking about gnome-documents but gnome. I have gnome and I don't have installed many of the listed applications. What makes this package different (and a requirement) is what I'd like to know. Seriously, what is so hard to understand. The

Re: Gnome package now requires installing tracker?

2012-02-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.02.2012 18:49, Tom H wrote: Perhaps Debian's GNOME maintainers could change the dependency to a file indexer and have users choose the indexer that strikes their fancy (I'm assuming that there are many but I only know of Beagle - does Google Desktop Search have a Linux version?). Someone

Re: Gnome-keyring problem

2012-02-07 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.02.2012 09:12, Camaleón wrote: Johann Spies jspies at sun.ac.za writes: On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 06:16:38PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: The following problem is preventing me from printing: WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-SkXSYp/pkcs11: No such file or directory

Re: icedove 8.0-2 not opening http links in browser

2012-02-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi everyone, On 20.01.2012 00:09, MRH wrote: Hi, After my recent update (Debian sid on amd64, icedove 8.0-2, iceweasel 9.0.1-1) everytime I click a link in email it asks me to choose an aplication to open the link with (Launch Application). I'm aware I can choose Iceweasel and tick to

Re: hi, how to set gnome3 in fallback mode?

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Biebl
On 20.01.2012 08:34, shiyao.ma wrote: I did a fresh installation of debian tesing on my laptop. After first login, the gnome3 told me that due to hardware problem, gnome3 was in fallback mode. Thus, I installed the linux-firmware-nonfree. After a restart, the gnome3 was in standard mode

Re: install GNOME 3 in debian 6.0.3

2012-01-07 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.01.2012 19:57, hamed hosseini wrote: *hi how can i install GNOME 3 in Debian 6.0.3? is GNOME 3 safe and stable for Debian 6.0.3?* No, that is not supported and easily possible. If you want GNOME 3, upgrade to testing or unstable. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Biebl
On 18.12.2011 01:00, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Is there a way to find which package has installed some file under /etc? For conffiles, there is dlocate or dpkg -S, but what about the other files (installed in postinst)? ucf is also used to manage configuration files. As those files are not

Re: for those who dislike gnome3-shell

2011-12-03 Thread Michael Biebl
On 03.12.2011 18:24, Richard wrote: It really is a shame that the extensions to gnome-shell haven't been added to the repos. IMO had the deb devs done that, 80 % of the winges would not have happened. The only extension I'd like is the one which puts shutdown on the menu as well as suspend.

Re: Sid, GNOME 3: Alt-F2 stopped working

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Biebl
On 01.12.2011 11:58, Richard wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 04:30:42 -0600 Michael Biebl, 1.12.2011: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649577 ALT F2, enter command is functional, so is ALT F1, kill current app. So does ALT Backspace, delete last word in a xterm. maybe you

Re: dbus issue

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Biebl
First of all, it is helpful to know if you are running (an up-to-date) squeeze, wheezy or sid system. On 01.12.2011 15:49, lina wrote: (it's related to former thread, but also different) Here the problem, gdm3 restart showed me Could not connect to system bus: failed to connect to

Re: Trouble with remote rsyslog

2011-11-30 Thread Michael Biebl
A couple of issues: On 30.11.2011 06:03, vr wrote: I'm having trouble getting remote rsyslog to work. Can anyone look over my config and offer clues what I've done wrong please? SENDING SERVER (99.30.25.3, Squeeze, up to date) /etc/rsyslog.conf $ModLoad imudp $UDPServerRun 514

Re: Sid, GNOME 3: Alt-F2 stopped working

2011-11-30 Thread Michael Biebl
On 01.12.2011 07:29, Brian Flaherty wrote: For a week or so, Alt-F2 (run a command) won't run anything. If I just type a command such as xterm, it says command not found. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649577 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent

Re: Gnome3 in fallbback mode even with radeon/R100_cp.bin is running ok

2011-11-26 Thread Michael Biebl
On 27.11.2011 05:56, Hor Jiun Shyong wrote: Hi, My Gnome 3 still runs in fallback mode even after installing firmware-linux-nonfree for radeon/R100_cp.bin. Appreciate if anyone could provide some advice, thanks. Jiun Shyong R100 type hardware is not sufficient (missing OpenGL

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Michael Biebl
On 20.11.2011 15:45, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:33:36 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Upgrade to Gnome 3 has enabled a screen lockout after inactivity. I used to be able to find such things. How do I disable this. Go to System configuration → Personal sub-section → Screen and turn

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Michael Biebl
On 20.11.2011 15:45, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:33:36 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Upgrade to Gnome 3 has enabled a screen lockout after inactivity. I used to be able to find such things. How do I disable this. Go to System configuration → Personal sub-section → Screen and turn

Re: disable Gnome 3 screen lockout

2011-11-20 Thread Michael Biebl
On 20.11.2011 16:00, Camaleón wrote: Start gnome-control-center, type lock, hit enter, et voila. That won't work in a localized GNOME ;-) In Spanish the term is bloquear so searching for lock returns no results. I obviously would assume that a Spanish speaking person would use the

Re: NIS user member of plugdev, gnome-mount of flash drive raises error [SOLVED]

2010-03-27 Thread Michael Biebl
On 27.03.2010 08:17, Joseph Lenox wrote: On 3/25/2010 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: You might try using at_console and consolekit. I tried installing policykit and using that, got identical errors as without (Dbus access error). How exactly do you users login and start their X

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Michael Biebl
On 26.03.2010 22:31, Paul E Condon wrote: I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and just today noticed that Removable Drives and Media is not available in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not Squeeze, at least not for me. Googling

Re: NIS user member of plugdev, gnome-mount of flash drive raises error

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.03.2010 23:38, schrieb Joseph Lenox: I tried the pam_group approach, and id says the user is in the plugdev group, but I'm still getting a permissions error from DBus. Adding the exact user to the plugdev group on the local machine worked as far as the mounter.

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 17.03.2010 09:05, schrieb Mark Allums: Gnash is a noble effort. Gnash sucks. I want choice, and my choice is Adobe Flash. Installing Gnash screws up Flash. Right now, I can refuse to update GNOME on Squeeze any further, but the time will come when that will not be a viable option.

Re: Change In Restarting Services

2010-03-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 18.03.2010 09:38, Adamou Nacer wrote: It seems to me that the debian way to achieve this task from the commandline is to use the following command: invoke-rc.d networking restart invoke-rc.d is not really meant to be used by the casual system admin/user. It was designed to be used in

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 18.03.2010 16:53, Clive McBarton wrote: My /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten periodically. Any ideas why? I thought network-manager was the culprit and deinstaled it, but the problem persists. If you are using network-manager, you can easily Open nm-connection-editor and select the

Re: Rsyslog template

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Biebl
On 27.01.2010 22:14, Stan Hoeppner wrote: /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html/ My Linux machines are all headless, and I've never bothered with trying to symlink all the various html doc directories into lighty virtual directories just to get access to them via a browser. That is a huge

Re: Rsyslog template

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Biebl
On 27.01.2010 06:21, Stan Hoeppner wrote: less than a fan of rsyslog after upgrading to Lenny and finding that rsyslog has a virtual memory footprint of over 30MB(!) compared to only a few hundred kilobytes for the old sysklogd. Rsyslog is a $deity d...@mn memory hog, and there's no good

Re: kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4

2010-01-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Thierry Chatelet wrote: This is a bug in kdm squeeze and sid. You have to log twice and it will work. Thierry This was actually an issue with consolekit and fixed consolekit packages are in unstable and will transition to testing in a few days. -- Why is it that all of the instruments

Re: syslog on Lenny

2010-01-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 14 January 2010 07:27:22 Roman Gelfand wrote: I am running a service which generates logs. What do I need to do to haave these log entries also appear in syslog? That's not how syslog works. There's isn't a process that goes through and gathers

Re: several udevd processes

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: On testing(squeeze) systems with udev version 149-1 there are running three udevd processes. Is this intended, and if yes, why? TIA for any hints. This is normal. Afaik this was done to speed up processsing of (new) devices. In previous versions, udevd spawned a new

Re: Laptop won't resume from suspend to ram

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Adriano Vilela Barbosa wrote: PS: Is there a way to know which packages migrated from sid to testing on a given day? If so, and given that some package upgrade was indeed what caused the problem, that would help me find the culprit. dpkg writes a log in /var/log/dpkg.log. You can check there

Re: Please test experimental gvfs packages

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Josselin Mouette wrote: Hi, Hi since Michael Biebl fixed IDE CD support in devicekit-disks, the GDU-enabled version of gvfs (currently in experimental) should be usable again. The packages and the versions are gvfs_1.4.1-5+gdu gvfs-backends_1.4.1-5+gdu gvfs-bin_1.4.1-5+gdu (optional) gvfs

Re: Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Preston Boyington wrote: (commented in-line) On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: snipped You are using Debian testing, so I guess you use NM 0.7. specifically 0.7.1-1 If so, you have two options: Mark the connection as system connection in nm

Re: Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Preston Boyington wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Mark the connection as system connection in nm-connection-editor (Available to all users). This way the key is stored system wide (in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/). That's basically

Re: Network Manager wants to access default keyring

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Preston Boyington wrote: I have Debian Testing with the Gnome environment setup on a friends' laptop. In an effort to make things easier to use I'm trying to stick with Network Manager because of the PPP support for the USB cellular broadband. Each time the computer is started (GDM auto

Re: CD Drawer open/close by itself

2009-10-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Antoine Cailliau wrote: The problem is the following one: when I open my cd drawer (with eject or by pressing the button on the drawer), the drawer open and then close (after less than 1 sec). I do not know what I can do to narrow my search and locate the faulty part in order to solve the

Re: Unable to shutdown or restart from gnome

2009-10-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Mr. Wang Long wrote: Hi, Recently I upgrade devicekit-power from 009-1 to 011-1 and gnome-power-manager from 2.26.3-1 to 2.28.0-1 (experimental). After that I cannot shutdown or restart or suspend from gnome: The shutdown item in system menu near the top-left corner disappeared, left only

Re: sid dist-upgrade: lvm2 conflicts with devicekit-disks so systems with / on lvm2 killed

2009-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Joe wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I recently did a sid dist-upgrade, and could no longer boot using linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmem kernel and had to boot off an old 2.6.26 kernel. .. This is a problem. I guess the real problem is, that you should be more

Re: sid dist-upgrade: lvm2 conflicts with devicekit-disks so systems with / on lvm2 killed

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I recently did a sid dist-upgrade, and could no longer boot using linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmem kernel and had to boot off an old 2.6.26 kernel. .. This is a problem. I guess the real problem is, that you should be more careful when doing dist-upgrades

Re: Sysv-rc (Urgent)

2009-09-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.09.2009 15:04, schrieb David Baron: 2. It may be a while before many debianers will in fact migrate. Some may never do so. Sysv-rc is uninstallable if the safety-check comes up with errors. Since, once these errors are fixed and one rally wants to go over, one must run

Re: Sysv-rc (Urgent)

2009-09-06 Thread Michael Biebl
David Baron wrote: Purging bittorrent and the othes leaves me with obsolete init.d scripts from jackd and timidity. I want these packages but not necessarily the init.d scripts to start them. (In fact, Timidity now has a separate daemon package.) So how do I fix this. The correct way to

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Stefan Monnier wrote: I'm not fond of wicd (I think its UI is pretty clunky), but at least it's not as fundamentally flawed as NM (which didn't seem to understand that Gnome is designed for POSIX systems which are by nature multi-user; Can you explain what exactly you mean by that and why NM

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Michael Biebl
JoeHill wrote: This is going to drive me nuts. I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of trouble, especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to the Internet, so everything starts in 'offline' mode. Assuming you are using testing/unstable: I guess

Re: Reliable remote logging with rsyslog on lenny

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Cameron Hutchison wrote: How do I enable the reliable logging feature of rsyslog? You will need to install the rsyslog and rsyslog-relp package from backports, as in lenny there is no rsyslog-relp package, thus no relp functionality. Cheers, Michael [1]

Re: Configuring polkit-gnome-authorization without a root password

2009-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
louish wrote: On 8/9/09, Michael wrote: (Sorry for the delayed reply.) LH wrote: What changes do I need to make to my Debian setup that would allow me to configure Authorizations without an explicit root password. I know http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536490 That

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 console-kit-daemons. Do I need all 60? What do they do? Actually there are 64 threads all the time. This describes the phenomenon: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57491 Nobody

Re: Configuring polkit-gnome-authorization without a root password

2009-08-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Louis Housman wrote: What changes do I need to make to my Debian setup that would allow me to configure Authorizations without an explicit root password. I know http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536490 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the

Re: X11 without HAL: DontZap in /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't work anymore

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 15, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote: setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp This is good to know. How often does this have to be done? Can I do it once and have it survive past closing my X session? Past logging out? Past a reboot? There was

Re: mounting ntfs partition

2009-06-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Nima Azarbayjany wrote: Yes, you're right. So can anyone tell me why is this message that the file system is unknown in printed? Do you have /usr on a separate partition? Because ntfs-3g on Debian is installed to /usr. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent

Re: automount - gnome-volume-manager vs. nautilus

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Wolodja Wentland wrote: Hi all, I have been using gnome-volume-manager to automount USB/CD/.. media but that no longer works for me. I am *not* running GNOME, but some GNOME related Does anybody have good suggestions? What kind of desktop environment are you running? If you need a

Re: automount - gnome-volume-manager vs. nautilus

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 17:12 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Wolodja Wentland wrote: Hi all, I have been using gnome-volume-manager to automount USB/CD/.. media but that no longer works for me. I am *not* running GNOME, but some GNOME related Does anybody have good

Re: How to add a hibernate shortcut?

2009-04-26 Thread Michael Biebl
tchomby wrote: Is there a way to add a one-click panel icon and/or keyboard shortcut to hibernate the computer? apt-get install gnome-power-manager -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description:

Re: Things I'm missing/misconfiguring in KDE 4.2

2009-04-25 Thread Michael Biebl
M. Henne wrote: Hi all, After playing with KDE 4.2 for a while, I was able to regain some functionality of KDE 3.5, but I'm still missing some things that I either haven't found yet or they did not exist. If they exist, can someone tell me how to get that function? 1. (program

Re: not an 8139C+ compatible chip, Try the 8139too driver instead

2009-04-23 Thread Michael Biebl
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Now in 2.6.29-1-686 it just says 8139cp :00:0f.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too I assume use here is short for using and means I, the emitter of this message, will use, and not you, the person reading this message,

Re: not an 8139C+ compatible chip, Try the 8139too driver instead

2009-04-23 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl wrote: jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Now in 2.6.29-1-686 it just says 8139cp :00:0f.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too I assume use here is short for using and means I, the emitter of this message, will use, and not you, the person

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. That's usually not a good way to start a discussion (admitted, you said it's a rant, but aI'll try to answer anyway). I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. That's usually not a good way to start a discussion (admitted, you said it's a rant, but aI'll try to answer anyway

Re: remote log apache2

2009-04-04 Thread Michael Biebl
michal krajcirovic schrieb: Hello, I have a simple network architecture in which the need to remotely log on apache2. On servers running the same sites for which requests are sent via loadbalancers. And I want to periodically (eg every minute) the logs send to a central log server.

Re: Problems bridging wpa-supplicant

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Bob van der Moezel wrote: I am trying to bridge a wireless channel with a wired channel (and some KVM tap/tun channels for virtual servers). I am running Debian Testing, bridge-utils 1.4-5 and wpasupplicant 0.6.4-3. Any ideas to get this to work? (I sent two days without any luck). I

Re: Suspend/Resume issues - Custom scripts not running? Mouse frozen?

2009-02-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Alex Riebs wrote: Hi. I recently installed Debian Lenny onto my Dell Studio XPS 16 laptop. I'm having issues getting resume to work properly. I can suspend, but when I resume and compiz was running, my screen shows up with only my cursor and some corrupted textures. I attempted to solve this

Re: Is there a way to recover network-manager wep keys without network manager

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Micha Feigin wrote: I moved to wicd some time ago from network manger and I have a wep key to a network I used to work with some time ago tucked away with network-manager that is no longer installed. Is there a way to recover that key? Keys are stored in gnome-keyring (use

Re: Question: Power Button Shutdown

2009-01-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Chris wrote: When I push the power button it does end up showing the KDE log-off dialog with the normal options though - maybe something changed in KDE. In case you are using kpowersave, you can change this behaviour quite easily: right click on the kpowersave systray icon, choose

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Hal Vaughan wrote: But I've learned, the hard way, NEVER file a bug report in a FOSS project. I have several times and have yet to find one where the developers were appreciative of the bug report. I'll go even farther: In most cases they've been outright hostile and I've had times

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, Short answer is hal is accepted now for lenny d-i On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:05:09AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:01:59PM +0800, paragasu wrote: maybethe debian installer do not permit you to use the username hal

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:01:59PM +0800, paragasu wrote: maybethe debian installer do not permit you to use the username hal. Create any user. after the installer finish.. you can login and create user 'Hal' with adduser.. ;) hal package have changed ... hal

Re: Why Hald

2008-09-23 Thread Michael Biebl
David Baron wrote: Hal got installed along with dbus although it apparently does not use it. Libhal packages were around before. Why do I need hald running? Can it be disabled without effecting other programs? I suspect that it has/causes/exasperates some problems in 2.6.26 kernels.

Re: failure of openvpn to start

2008-08-28 Thread Michael Biebl
PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, Since my update of lenny last Saturday these lines appear in the syslog. Aug 27 10:37:04 joule kernel: tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions Aug 27 10:37:04 joule ovpn-myvpn[5179]: echo up tun0 1500 1544 10.4.0.1 10.4.0.2 init Aug 27 10:37:04 joule

Re: Hibernate/suspend works without quirks, but not with Gnome

2008-07-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Magnus Therning wrote: I have a desktop system that is fully capable of hibernating and suspending. Both % pm-hibernate and % pm-suspend work beautifully. I don't need to supply any further command line options. Resuming is also no problems. Despite this gnome-power-manager refuses to

Re: prevent dpkg from (re-)starting services

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl wrote: Read the man page of invoke-rc.d : INIT SCRIPT POLICY And /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d.gz -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: prevent dpkg from (re-)starting services

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Olaf Leidinger wrote: Hello List! On a file server I installed several debian (-based) distributions into an exported directory using debootstrap. These are used as root filesystems for diskless clients. To install new packages/updates I chroot into the directories of the corresponding

Re: Gnome power manager + custom suspend script

2008-03-29 Thread Michael Biebl
David Purton wrote: Hi all, What is the proper way to use custom suspend scripts with gnome power manager? Current, I call my custom script from /usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal-system-power-suspend This works, but the changes get overwritten every time this file is upgraded... (I need a

Re: pm-hibernate doesn't resume (Thinkpad X61 tablet)

2008-02-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- I have just finished setting up my new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet PC. I am running Debian testing with a self-compiled kernel 2.6.24.2. Generally it works very nicely and I am pleased with it; however, hibernate/resume does not work correctly.

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