Re: how are you kids compiling kernels these days?

2012-05-31 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 00:37 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] but they are for kernel 2.6. This one is really frustrating. $ apt-get source linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 [...] Picking 'linux-2.6' as source package instead of 'linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64' [...] Get:1

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

2012-06-05 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 12:01 +0100, rjc wrote: Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and subdirs' subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files terminating with `~', e.g.: `myfile~', and that I want to remove all of them recursively. Is there a Unix

Re: wheezy konqueror - cannot download Adobe Flashplayer

2011-11-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 23:21 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Konqueror displays the following when I try to download Ubuntu APT version --/cfusion/downloadcenter/flashplayer/otherversions/[object HTMLAnchorElement]/ I am not quite sure why you want to install the flash plugin from Ubuntu

Re: flashplugin-nonfree or mozilla-flashplugin?

2011-11-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 10:56 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: I could be wrong :-), seems lkike the DM site upgrades versions quicker. I know nothing about Marillat's packages, but you have to update flashplugin-nonfree manually by running: update-flashplugin-nonfree --install The package itself

Re: [OT] can't see own post to the list

2011-11-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:18 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: I have noticed that my own post to the list has been detected as spam at the gmail. Any way to avoid this ? It is because gmail does not send you your own messages. That is no problem though and easily solved: 1. Create a filter for

Re: Howto upgrade perl without removing everything

2011-11-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 15:03 +, Richard wrote: Hi, Playing dangerously with Sid, and I've reached the limit of what it will upgrade to without some help. Nearly everything has a dependency on perl, the perl version has change, so how do just upgrade the perl base. I can't see the

Re: cut's counterpart: vcut ?!

2011-11-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 16:58 +, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hi all, a crazy ideia just crossed my mind ? Is there a command that allows me to glue to text files together line by line ? more or like the inverse operation of 'cut' ... a vertical Something like paste ? babilen@asasello:

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 21:12 +0800, lina wrote: I noticed when make -j 8, the 8 cores can be fully occupied. can I use some way to enable 8 cores at the same time when I run something, such as a bash script? Not sure what you really want to do, but GNU/parallel [0] might be of interest. It

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

2011-08-09 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 19:56 -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote: 1. unetbootin is still broken (unable to make *any* image work on flashdrive) Yes, unetbootin is and has been broken. Why don't you follow the method outlined in the installation guide?

Re: which is the best alterative package for kbibtex

2011-08-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 21:58 +0800, lina wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Johann Spies jsp...@sun.ac.za wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 04:02:25PM +0200, lina wrote: before I used kbibtex, but this time when I tried to install it, seems lots of KDE staff, I use gnome desktop

Re: Installing firmware not available in the kernel

2011-08-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 14:25 +1000, yudi v wrote: I plan to install nvidia's driver and I had a problem before where every time after a kernel update (this was under Ubuntu), nvidia driver would break. I don't want to be in the same situation again. Once I setup the system I don't want to

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to SID

2011-08-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:53 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: I want to upgrade my desktop Debian Squeeze to Debian SID. I'm serching for howto how can I achieve my goal on debian website but without any success. http://www.debian.org/releases/sid/ doesn't provide me with any information about

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 23:50 +1000, yudi v wrote: I am trying to understand the difference between the following two methods First method this taken from irc dpkg bot aptitude -r install linux-headers-2.6-`uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,'` nvidia-kernel-dkms mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ;

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 19:04 +1000, yudi v wrote: This is where the wiki gets confusing. It says I need to Install the NVIDIA X driver and user-space libraries - step 3. I believe I read somewhere that the nvidia-kernel-dkms also installs the driver and user space libraries. Is this

Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 18:33 +0800, lina wrote: Run mount and put here the result. /dev/sdb1 on /media/FreeAgent GoFlex Drive type ntfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,uhelper=udisks) Ok, you have a drive with at least one partition (/dev/sdb1) and a NTFS file system

Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:13:58 +0800, lina wrote: It's surprisingly cool, when I tried to mount it on another computer which is sid one, it works, I can copy and paste and also no problems create new folder. and the mount information is different: /dev/sdb1 on /media/FreeAgent GoFlex

Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 19:14 +0800, lina wrote: Could you give us the output of    # fdisk -l /dev/sda Sorry, I meant fdisk -l /dev/sdb -- Wolodja babi...@gmail.com 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 20:46 +0800, lina wrote: On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 19:14 +0800, lina wrote: Could you give us the output of    # fdisk -l /dev/sda Sorry, I meant fdisk -l /dev/sdb # fdisk -l /dev

Re: Installing Nvida DKMS way, what's the difference between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /etc/X11/xorg.conf method?

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 01:20 +1000, yudi v wrote: Thanks for clarifying that. One final question. What happens to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? It still exits. Just delete or move it somewhere else. It is not needed anymore if all other devices are configured correctly when it is missing. --

Re: How to set up the portable hard drive

2011-09-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 21:32 +0800, lina wrote: No primary partitions are marked bootable. DOS MBR cannot boot this. reboot to updateToggle bootable flag of the current partitione(8), kpartx(8) or if I just choose WRITE, it showed me above information in cfdisk interface. Don't worry

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 14:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Arnt: I have slow 3D rendering on ATI card after full upgrading to wheezy. Is there any strategy how I can investigate the bottle neck so that I might file a bug report against it? Hmm. To me

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hello Sthu, On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:16 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Is it actually slower? What is the output of: Yes. Extremely slowly. $ glxinfo | grep -e 'direct\|renderer' direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS480 That is the output I was hoping for

Re: wheezy after update significant slow

2011-10-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:23 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: 7. I reverted to xserver-xorg version before the last one, but although it was a little bit better, it was not good as expected. Reverted from to which version? Which driver (exactly) are you using? How is it installed? Please also

Re: wheezy after update significant slow

2011-10-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 20:47 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2011 schrieb Wolodja Wentland: On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 13:23 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: 7. I reverted to xserver-xorg version before the last one, but although it was a little bit better, it was not good

Re: [OT] Imperial measures

2011-10-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 15:25 -0400, Doug wrote: The US pint is 16 ounces, and the US quart and gallon are based on that. 32 oz. = 1 qt; 4 qts. = 1 gal. That's why the British gallon is 5 US quarts, or 4 British quarts. The ounce is the same size, or almost. (As wiki says, research is

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 22:47 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually serve any purpose on an out of the box basic installation? You might be interested in:

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

2012-03-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 13:04 +0800, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: I am actually looking forward to Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x. As we all know, Debian 6.0.x is still using the old Linux Kernel 2.6. When will Debian 7.0 be released? Debian with Linux Kernel 3.x release seems very

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
of the packages that were upgraded would help tremendously, but my gut feeling says udev. There were a couple of RC bugs against udev 169 (check the BTS) so it would be interesting to know which version you have installed. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi...@gmail.com : :' : `. `'` 4096R

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 16:24 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi...@gmail.com : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
. You are looking for the Gnome session, not the unity one. [0] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/ https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi...@gmail.com : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
on irc.oftc.net to discuss your needs. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/05/msg01325.html [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi...@gmail.com : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 07:00 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: To see what was delivered:- cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.list | less Much easier to just use (IMHO): dpkg -L PKG_NAME or (if installed): dlocate -L PKG_NAME -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi...@gmail.com

Re: Adobe flash sound issues

2011-06-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
apt-listchanges installed. If you don't install it and apt-listbugs with it. :) I recommend reading the bug report on RedHat's bugtracker, it is worth your time if you want to understand what is going on here. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi...@gmail.com : :' : `. `'` 4096R

Re: No input devices in wheezy

2011-06-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
them. FWIW - I recommend the first approach. If you have further question either come back here, or join #debian-next on irc.oftc.net. Good luck -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi...@gmail.com : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30

Re: Adobe flash sound issues

2011-06-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 21:25 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:50:13 +0100 Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com wrote: $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/iceweasel $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc/memcpy-preload.so /usr/bin/chromium Thanks for this! I

Re: get package name from file name

2011-07-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
-file search -x bin/foo$ which will find all files named foo that are in a bin/ directory somewhere. In particular this will not match bin/foobar. dlocate on the other hand is a bit faster than dpkg -S and has other goodies too ... have a look. have fun -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi

Re: get package name from file name

2011-07-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 13:39 +0100, kuLa wrote: On 07/07/11 13:17, Wolodja Wentland wrote: As always there are multiple to do this :) * dpkg -S /path/to/file * apt-file search /path/to/file * dlocate -S /path/to/file I prefer to use either apt-file or dlocate

Re: console screen

2011-07-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 07:06 -0400, Tom H wrote: info grub lists these variables in one of its sections (there's a way of going straight to that section but I don't know it). $ info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration' -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandbabi...@gmail.com

Re: broken dpkg status

2011-07-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
install;; Unfortunately that also means that the information about automatically/manually installed packages is lost. There are certainlt other ways, but I like this one. I will think about how you could get the manually/automatically installed information back. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland

Re: how to add debian repository to mac source.list

2011-07-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hi Lina, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 18:50 +0800, lina wrote: I tried simply added the debian repository into fink's sources.list, seems not work. ## Debian Main Repos deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main

Re: I can't

2011-08-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 04:08 -0500, Kevin Williams wrote: I can't go into single user mode. Do I need to reinstall Please try the method pointed out to you earlier. I would also kindly ask you to reply to a single thread and do not open a new one for every reply you send. It makes it

Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files

2010-12-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:34 -0800, S Mathias wrote: I just can't google for it: I'm searching for a bash one liner (awk, perl, or anything) for this: there are text files, in several directories: […] How do you define a word? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Wolodja Wentland
(why sid anyway?) we can start working on your performance problems. Best [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC

Re: transition from Ubuntu - Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

2011-01-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
/ for a short overview of stable, testing and unstable [2] http://pkg-dkms.alioth.debian.org/ [3] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609278 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R

Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
] http://live.debian.net/ [3] http://grml.org/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh

Re: Lenny or Squeeze?

2011-01-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
/releases/squeeze/releasenotes -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-01-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number

Re: editing /var/lib/dpkg/available

2011-01-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
has its own system to keep track of available packages. OR (alternatively) 1. rm /var/lib/dpkg/available 2. dselect update Hope that solves your problem. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9

Re: editing /var/lib/dpkg/available

2011-01-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
to recreate it either from backups or with the commands I told you. Be that as it may, good that you solved your problem. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC

Re: help

2011-01-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
-* packages. (ia32-libs, ia32-libs-gtk) to get skype working on amd64. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature The University

Re: help

2011-01-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 17:26 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:33:45 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: Isn't the lenny version 32bit only? IIRC you have to install the Ubuntu 64bit versions and a couple of ia32-* packages. (ia32-libs, ia32-libs-gtk) to get skype working on amd64

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-62741 http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-50278.html -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-10 Thread Wolodja Wentland
://bit.ly/eI1Smo (ibm.com) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bug in the install

2011-02-13 Thread Wolodja Wentland
/ -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
that you can follow my instructions. This is the procedure we typically recommend in #d these days. Have a nice day [0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC

Re: Re: debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread Wolodja Wentland
], but you probably would have mentioned the other symptoms that accompany that bug as well. As always: It is a good idea to have apt-listbugs installed. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23615806#10 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk

Re: Re: debian kernel panic no init found SOLVED

2011-02-28 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 16:40 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 15:17 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 15:37 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: Which version of libc-bin do you have installed (dpkg -l libc-bin). If you have 2.11.2-12 you might have run

BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

2007-06-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Thomas (Repository signing key) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sub 4096g/5484FC01 2006-11-09 pub 1024D/6070D3A1 2006-11-20 [expires: 2009-07-01] uid Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch) [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- snip --- with kind regards Wolodja Wentland signature.asc

Re: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

2007-06-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:15 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: Wolodja Wentland, 11.06.2007 12:09: as of today i get the following error when running aptitude update, which is _not_ fixed by multiple runs of aptitude update and quite irritating. Could somebody please shed some light

Re: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

2007-06-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
]:~# apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyring debian-archive-keyring: Installed: 2007.02.19-0.1 Candidate: 2007.02.19-0.1 Version table: *** 2007.02.19-0.1 0 500 http://ftp2.de.debian.org lenny/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status --- snip --- regards Wolodja Wentland

Re: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

2007-06-12 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:30 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:09:02PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: as of today i get the following error when running aptitude update, which is _not_ fixed by multiple runs of aptitude update and quite

Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany

2007-08-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 15:29 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:07:24AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: My searches on how to get this working were inconclusive. I did find something related to GNOME deskbar which does this, but I don't have GNOME and don't want to

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-11 Thread Wolodja Wentland
-doc is a good source of help and examples. As a side note on documentation. You might find packages like dwww or dhelp useful. They provide a single entry point to access all installed documentation. --- Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: pacakges installation report

2007-08-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
possible to adapt the outline script to personal preferences. --- Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Mailman problems during upgrade sarge-etch

2007-08-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Hi, i am doing an upgrade of one of our servers from sarge to etch. It ran quite smoothly, just mailman gives me a headache. It is the last package which needs to get upgraded and i am stuck with the following error right now: --- snip --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# aptitude dist-upgrade

Re: NetworkManager help, esp. after suspend

2007-08-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 18:19 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm a relatively new Debian user, running an up-to-date Etch on a ThinkPad T60. Welcome. I am running Debian on a T60 as well and am very pleased with it so far. I guess you know http://thinkwiki.org ? It is a great source for

Re: df -h listing

2007-10-08 Thread Wolodja Wentland
can achieve this by sorting the output produced by df/du like this: df -h|sort -k2 The -k2 tells sort to sort by the second column. If you want it sorted in reverse order add the -r option. Hope that answers your question --- Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description

Re: How to uzip rar files?

2008-01-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 13:33 +, Pantor wrote: somebody can give ana advice how to unzip rar files, please? Ark does not work. As others on this list already mentioned you need to install unrar to unpack .rar files. To save you some time in the future i would like to introduce you to a little

Re: local copy of wikipedia

2008-02-02 Thread Wolodja Wentland
the least disk space? What software I need to install/configure/run to have a local copy with the full search functionality? You will need to install MediaWiki and MySQL. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
really wonder why this package is not a dependency of the xserver-xorg-radeon{,hd} packages. If the installation of that package solved that problem for you I will file a bug against the xserver-xorg-video-* packages that depend on it. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland signature.asc

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
and had checked where I got 'firmware-linux' from. Thanks for spelling it out explicitly in this thread. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Security support for Squeeze delayed

2009-07-20 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 16:11 +0200, Soren Orel wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze Is it still actual? I wondered about that as well and was told on #debian-security (OFTC) yesterday that security support for squeeze is still suspended. I am not sure about the reasons for that though.

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

2009-08-07 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 21:18 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:48:12AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I like the way I can plug a USB device into a USB socket and have it mounted automatically within a few seconds. I expecially like the way a device that has a label given to

Re: Package Version Numbers

2009-08-09 Thread Wolodja Wentland
. This will keep apt* from performing unexpected upgrades whenever testing becomes stable. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: libdvdcss availability?

2009-08-12 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 13:26 +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: On 2009-08-11 12:05 (+0200), Olivier Cailloux wrote: - How can I install libdvdcss on my system? (Preferably through aptitude, although if not possible advices on how to do it differently would be appreciated.) I installed them

Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver)

2009-08-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
Sync all mounted filesystems + u Remount all mounted filesystems in read-only mode + b Immediately reboot the system. and voilà the system reboots and your data is as safe as possible. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

Re: gnome-volume-manager problem

2009-08-19 Thread Wolodja Wentland
. This is unfortunate because nautilus will not work as g-v-m before if started with --no-default-window or --no-desktop. See [1] for a longer discussion on the subject. with kind regards Wolodja Wentland [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/06/msg00744.html signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Installing postgresql on Debian Lenny

2009-09-12 Thread Wolodja Wentland
of: # aptitude search ~i~n^postgresql I also want to advertise the use of the TAB key, which completes a command or path. To see it in action try: # aptiTAB # /etc/init.d/TABTAB # /etc/init.d/postgrTAB with kind regards Wolodja Wentland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: cant update to kde4.2

2009-02-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 11:17 -0500, raman narasimhan wrote: [ ... snip ... ] whats wrong?? how can i get kde4.2?? KDE4 is available in Debian *experimental*, which is not enabled in your sources.list. If you want to install KDE4 i suggest you follow the procedure given at:

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-01-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
... EndSection --- snip --- YMMV ;-) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Downgrading xorg xserver from 1.7 to 1.6

2010-02-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
to testing three days ago \o/ This means that i can finally remove the EXA line from my xorg.conf! Forgive me my not completely up-to-date information and good luck. :-) [1] http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R

Re: -i386 to amd64

2010-03-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
already told that a reinstall is most definitely the easiest, fastest and safest procedure. But if you want to try it: http://teddyb.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/debian_arch_up/ details the procedure. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC

Re: OSSIM

2010-03-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: aptitude package filtering

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
], but I haven't used that and can't comment on its capabilities. [1] http://svn.noreply.org/svn/weaselutils/trunk/apt-listrepository -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
and the old one (i.e. *-trunk-*) is therefore obsolete. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
output of any command that gives errors. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: aptitude lists linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 under Obsolete and Locally Created Packages?

2010-03-15 Thread Wolodja Wentland
about mixing up my replies. I'm new here and have been used to working with lists which mess around with the reply to behavior. You might also want to trim your posts and interleave your answers. Welcome to the list. :) -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
where I can find the source code for that functionality, i'll try to come up with a patch and file a bug against the applicable package. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
was a particularly bad choice and I'm not sure what is the best way to solve this problem. The easiest way would be to enforce a strict naming scheme (maybe with lintian) so the aforementioned code can stay as simple as it is today. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:17 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/16/2010 8:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: The easiest way would be to enforce a strict naming scheme (maybe with lintian) so the aforementioned code can stay as simple as it is today. In the short run, an easy thing to do is remove

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
will manually verify each package that is going to be installed. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:44 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: Nobody will manually verify each package that is going to be installed. apt-listbugs list $(aptitude -F%p search '~U') Thanks for the aptitude-fu, but I don't think

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-21 Thread Wolodja Wentland
? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
on hardware compatibility. OP: It would also be great if you could include the output of lspci -nn | grep -i ether -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC

Re: IBM thinkpad X60 on debian..

2010-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
are traditionally very well supported and I've seen a couple of Debian installtions on X60 thinkpads without any problem. You might want to check: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X60 -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
want to keep it, you would have to configure grub accordingly. Which version of grub to you use? --- snip -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
instead of safe-upgrade -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Reinstalling original package maintainers conf file

2010-03-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
install packagename aptitude -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confmiss reinstall packagename You *might* have to delete/move sysklogd.conf first. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
whatever actions it takes to upgrade packages to their latest version -- .''`. Wolodja Wentlandwentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de : :' : `. `'` 4096R/CAF14EFC `- 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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