Re: PulseAudio sound issues

2012-10-11 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 11/10/2012 18:12, Alejandro Santos wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:48 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, on Wheezy/Sid here I use Pulseaudio without problem. VLC is configured to output to pulse (vlc-plugin-pulse installed), works fine here, vlc and flash

Re: PulseAudio sound issues

2012-10-11 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 11/10/2012 18:07, Alejandro Santos wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Briana...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 11 Oct 2012 at 10:21:54 -0300, Alejandro Santos wrote: [snip] 2. I can't purge the package with aptitude purge pulseaudio since the package pulseaudio is a dependency on

Re: PulseAudio sound issues

2012-10-11 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
[received personally, forwarding to list] On 11/10/2012 19:20, Yaro Kasear wrote: On 10/11/2012 12:10 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 11/10/2012 18:07, Alejandro Santos wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Briana...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 11 Oct 2012 at 10:21:54 -0300

Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

2012-10-13 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 13/10/2012 08:19, Gary Roach wrote: On 10/12/2012 09:34 AM, Joe wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:03:04 + (UTC) Curtcu...@free.fr wrote: On 2012-10-11, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/11/2012 11:32 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-10-10, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote:

Re: Installing Debian on Windows 7 machine?

2012-10-20 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 20/10/2012 22:53, John Hasler wrote: Hugo writes: I wouldn't bother buying a complete system. I built my own. I build my own systems too, when I don't recycle $10 yard-sale boxes. However, he may need (or even want!) Windows, in which case a complete system may be significantly cheaper.

Re: Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

2012-05-11 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 11/05/2012 10:20, T Elcor wrote: --- On Thu, 5/10/12, Indulekhaindule...@theunworthy.com wrote: I just use vlc, mplayer, and w32codecs. With those three it seems I can play anything. In fact, vlc alone is probably enough. VLC alone didn't work for me, I don't remember if I tried ogv but

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 05/06/2012 20:59, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Roger, Roger Leighrle...@codelibre.net wrote: [snip] However, I welcome the fact that attacks on Windows will be made more difficult, since that also means smaller botnets, fewer vulnerable computers etc. It will have zero effect. Not

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 05/06/2012 22:07, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Apologies for the mangled nested quotes in the previous message, hope this one fairs better. On 05/06/2012 20:59, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Roger, Roger Leighrle...@codelibre.net wrote: [snip] However, I welcome the fact that attacks

Re: cryptsetup failing on boot with 3.4.x kernels

2012-06-12 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 11/06/2012 04:19, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:25:02 +0100 Jon Dowlandj...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 08:28:10AM -0400, Celejar wrote: Hi, I have my rootfs on lvm on top of a luks (cryptsetup) encrypted volume. System has been working fine since installation with

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 01/11/2012 22:36, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install logcheck on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates using Icedove. I guess I need a POP or IMAP server running, so my question is, which server should I install to

Re: package#dpkg-reconfigure

2012-11-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 02/11/2012 14:05, james gray wrote: The package: #dpkg-reconfigure Question: does it actually exist. [cut] Could some one please allow me to know , what . Thank you. Hi, $ dpkg -S dpkg-reconfigure debconf-i18n: /usr/share/man/de/man8/dpkg-reconfigure.8.gz debconf-i18n:

Re: Can grub2 1.99-23 support /boot inside LVM ?

2012-11-06 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 06/11/2012 08:47, Gour wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 10:55:40 +0530 J. Bbaksh...@gmail.com wrote: Can I go for completely encrypted disk now, i.e. /boot inside the LVM ? Has any one checked ? Please share your findings. Don't know about encryption, but I use wheezy (installed few days ago)

Re: Configure GRUB 2

2012-11-08 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 08/11/2012 09:01, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 08 November 2012 05:02:23 Tom H wrote: On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Lisi Reiszlisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand the GRUB manual, if I want to change the config file, then i have to edit /etc/default/grub. I want to change the

Re: Configure GRUB 2

2012-11-08 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 08/11/2012 09:23, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 08/11/2012 09:01, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 08 November 2012 05:02:23 Tom H wrote: On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Lisi Reiszlisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand the GRUB manual, if I want to change the config file, then i

Re: Configure GRUB 2

2012-11-08 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 08/11/2012 09:39, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 08 November 2012 08:23:59 tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 08/11/2012 09:01, Lisi Reisz wrote: [cut] And yes, the two kernels where GRUB is installed. I simply can't see any menu there, so how do I alter the menu order? I'll put the /etc

Re: Configure GRUB 2

2012-11-08 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 08/11/2012 11:25, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 08 November 2012 08:58:03 tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Thank you! I hadn't found references to /etc/grub/40. I already corrected that, but for the sake of future references the correct path is: /etc/grub.d/ Yes, sorry. I now (I hope

Re: Configure GRUB 2

2012-11-08 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 08/11/2012 13:50, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 12:47:28PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 01:40:37PM +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: [cut] If you don't want to boot the previous kernel, but a specific one (known to work), cat the /boot/grub

Re: Can grub2 1.99-23 support /boot inside LVM ?

2012-11-08 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 06/11/2012 14:22, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 06/11/2012 08:47, Gour wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 10:55:40 +0530 J. Bbaksh...@gmail.com wrote: Can I go for completely encrypted disk now, i.e. /boot inside the LVM ? Has any one checked ? Please share your findings. Don't know about

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

2012-11-22 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 22/11/2012 09:56, J. B wrote: Dear All, I am interested to know about folder encryption technology available in Linux for remote backup purpose. Let me clarify. I do my daily backup through ssh+rsync to a remote server. It is quite fast because of rsync. On the remote box all the backups

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-28 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 27/12/2012 22:17, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Ok, first, sorry to ask two questions at a time: dead drives and deleted partitions are different things, I know that. Let me explain my (they are, in fact, friend's problems) two problems (from different peoples). === 0) the common

Re: [1/2OT] htop for 128 processors

2013-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 18/01/2013 09:13, lina wrote: On Friday 18,January,2013 03:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 1/18/2013 1:29 AM, lina wrote: Anyone has some idea about how to set 4 columns like this? http://htop.sourceforge.net/htop-64.png $ man htop F2, S Setup screen. There you can

Re: [1/2OT] htop for 128 processors

2013-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 19/01/2013 11:13, lina wrote: On Saturday 19,January,2013 05:16 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 18/01/2013 09:13, lina wrote: On Friday 18,January,2013 03:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 1/18/2013 1:29 AM, lina wrote: Anyone has some idea about how to set 4 columns like this? http

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 19/01/2013 14:31, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Lina, Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb lina: Where is that directory located? In your home directory? Yes, in my home directory. The path is /home/lina/try -? ? ? ? ?? XX.tar I imagine it could also be a subtile

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 19/01/2013 17:33, lina wrote: On Sunday 20,January,2013 12:28 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 19/01/2013 14:31, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Lina, Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb lina: Where is that directory located? In your home directory? Yes, in my home directory

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
## Transferring back to the list since i received this personally, and ## I am not the OP On 19/01/2013 19:12, pavicic wrote: Hi, -? ? ? ? ?? XX.tar I wonder how can I delete it? I've just come accross this. Didn't read the history. Thought the following might

Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 02/02/2013 00:48, Rick Thomas wrote: I was googling for an inexpensive laptop for a friend and came across the chromebook C710 from Acer: http://www.staples.com/Acer-C710-2847-116-Chromebook/product_125265 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215914 • Intel Celeron

Re: flashplugin-nonfree or mozilla-flashplugin?

2011-11-07 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
07/11/2011 15:43, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:10:13 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: 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

Re: Best VM for video games? or WINE? x64 system/os's

2011-11-08 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
08/11/2011 14:56, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 04 oct 11, 11:13:49, Camaleón wrote: I would perform a bare install on a small partition (not VM), video games need high doses of performance and they won't run as smoothly as over a non-virtualized environment. Depends what your definition

Re: help with LUKS header backup

2012-01-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
09/01/2012 05:03, yudi v wrote: I am trying to back up the LUKS header and LUKS FAQ recommend using the cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup command. [cut] I only have one partition that uses LUKS, sda4. It's a GPT disk and the partitions are as follows sda1 = ESP sda2 = EF02 sda3 = /boot sda4 = luks

Re: grub-pc mdadm root

2012-01-10 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
10/01/2012 00:13, Marc Auslander wrote: Is it possible to boot a raid root file system. I'm having trouble finding up to date documentation. Some searchs talk about a separate /boot partition - I don't understand why that is needed or relevant. I'm assuming I'd make a mdadm v 1.2 raid 1

Re: grub-pc mdadm root

2012-01-10 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
10/01/2012 00:13, Marc Auslander: Is it possible to boot a raid root file system. I'm having trouble finding up to date documentation. Some searchs talk about a separate /boot partition - I don't understand why that is needed or relevant. I'm assuming I'd make a mdadm v 1.2 raid 1 partition

Re: help with LUKS header backup

2012-01-11 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
10/01/2012 23:55, yudi v wrote: Yes, I am using this regularly. Backing up the headers to encrypted media (two preferably) is good practice, even if one can foresee a bit off a circle here ;-) . Header backups are easier to break than original LUKS container. there is only one LUKS header

Re: installing electricsheep in sid

2012-01-11 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
11/01/2012 22:17, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 12/01/12 05:29, Brad Alexander wrote: Hi, I just rebuilt my workstation and wanted to install the electrichseep screensaver. When I try, it fails: The following packages have unmet dependencies: �electricsheep : Depends: libavcodec52 (= 4:0.6-1~) but

Re: installing electricsheep in sid

2012-01-12 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
11/01/2012 22:40, Bob Proulx wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: I'm puzzled - why not just:- # apt-get install electricsheep It is just that apt-get. But in Sid there is a transition happening from ffmpeg to libav and Sid's electricsheep is broken concerning this and needs to be updated. The

Fwd: Re: installing electricsheep in sid

2012-01-12 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: As an ugly workaround you could pull Ubuntu version from http://packages.ubuntu.com/ , libav* dependencies seems to be updated there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.__debian.org mailto:debian-user-requ

Re: boot from raid1 mdadm version 1.2 partition

2012-01-13 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
12/01/2012 22:26, Marc Auslander wrote: Earlier posts seem to say this should/might work. I made an mdadm v 1.2 partions, and put a copy of my root file system on it. update-grub doesn't see it at all. if I try to boot by hand, I can get grub to boot the kernel but then I get mysterious error

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/01/2012 11:06, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hi, On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I am alarmed. One of the packages was grub2 which was at version 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis Karabassispan...@gmail.com wrote: On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I am alarmed. One of the packages was grub2 which was

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/01/2012 15:21, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Thanks to all. On 01/14/2012 03:06 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 14/01/2012 13:18, Tom H: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Panayiotis Karabassispan...@gmail.com wrote: On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some

Re: grub-pc mdadm root (Resolved?)

2012-01-14 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
14/01/2012 21:42, Marc Auslander wrote: Marc Auslandermarca...@gmail.com writes: As I reported - all the code and mdadm.conf are in it. In the initrd shell, if I assemble my root raid disk and exit, the boot completes normally. I stumbled on the initramfs scripts, held my breath and

Re: grub-pc mdadm root (really Resolved)

2012-01-15 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
15/01/2012 00:16, Marc Auslander wrote: From /etc/defaults/mdadm # INITRDSTART: # list of arrays (or 'all') to start automatically when the initial ramdisk # loads. This list *must* include the array holding your root filesystem. Use # 'none' to prevent any array from being started from

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

2012-01-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/01/2012 17:23, Joey L wrote: I have a raid 1 mdadm setup. I have devices sda and sdb with 2 partitions on each - sda1 and sda2 on the other drive i have sdb1 and sdb2. Partition sda1 is the root partition and sda2 is the swap partition. My sda failed yesterday and now i am running in

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

2012-01-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/01/2012 18:03, Joey L wrote: The issue I am having is that if I put into the system both drives, the system always chooses the faulty drive. I do not even get linux system - i get a weird text prompt - i think it is initrdfs - even if i change it in the bios. On installing grub - can you

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

2012-01-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/01/2012 19:38, Joey L wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:49 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 18/01/2012 18:03, Joey L wrote: The issue I am having is that if I put into the system both drives, the system always chooses the faulty drive. I do not even get

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

2012-01-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/01/2012 22:22, Joey L wrote: okay..thanks for the clarification. I think it was initrd - busybox. my debian version is: root@rider:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 (squeeze) Release:6.0.3 Codename:

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

2012-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
19/01/2012 00:03, Joey L wrote: Sorry - just a couple of last things: 1. do i run the command - grub-install --recheck --no-floppy /dev/sdc1 and grub-install --recheck --no-floppy /dev/sdd1 ??? or do I run it on the whole drive meaning - grub-install --recheck --no-floppy /dev/sdc and

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

2012-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
19/01/2012 01:43, Joey L wrote: Also - is there a way in debian to realize which drive is mapped to which linux device ?? When I go into the bios - i see disk labels or names as DSK04, DSK02 and also long string of numbers - i guess it is the serial number of drive. For partition UUID: ls

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

2012-01-24 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
24/01/2012 18:34, Joey L wrote: In related questions - i hope you can answer - are : 1. why do i get an error when trying to make swap partition - i get this error below after running fdisk, creating a primary partition /dev/sdd2 and then changing the type - with t - As in below --- 2.

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

2012-01-24 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
24/01/2012 19:10, Joey L wrote: Sorry to load up on related issues in this mail, but have a big issue: After having synced my mirrored drives in software raid - I get the following error: error: superfluous RAID member (2 found). There is a good chance that the error reported is more cosmetic

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

2012-01-25 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
25/01/2012 19:16, Joey L wrote: In-line reply ; Okay..I am telling all in this email -:) My configuration is as such: /dev/md0 = /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1 /dev/md1 = /dev/sda1 and /dev/sb1 My swap partitions are not part of the array or mirror at all - they are just regular

Re: issue with mdadm and mirroring drives

2012-01-27 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
26/01/2012 23:07, Joey L wrote: When I boot the system with all drives in, I get the superflous error. So the only way to boot is only to put in /dev/sdc alone and boot. when i get to a linux prompt, I insert the second drive into the system /dev/sdd To sync them, /dev/sdd has already

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-02-01 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
31/01/2012 21:52, Seb wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:36:09 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil.deb...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Seb On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 02:31:21PM -0600, Seb wrote: I upgraded my sid system on my desktop and laptop this morning and restarted only to find out I get straight into a

Re: UUID updates for dmcrypt/luks

2011-08-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 19/08/2011 11:24, Christian Jaeger a écrit : Hi I've used the Debian installer (Sarge) for installing a system onto an SSD, using this layout: /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda5 luks, - sda5_crypt with / /dev/sda6 /usr After the installation finished, I realized that I should have

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

2011-08-31 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
31/08/2011 02:37, Todd Pytel wrote: After doing a rather lengthy sid upgrade (it's been a few months, at least), my Sun java plugin is no longer working in Iceweasel. Alternatives is set correctly and Iceweasel sees the plugin, but it's marked INVALID in pluginreg.dat and never loads. I

Re: Encoder for linux

2011-09-15 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
15/09/2011 13:21, Rob Owens: On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:47:24AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 06:08:30PM +, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:06:56 -0400, cosme wrote: Hi I'm looking for something similar to Windows Media Encoder Series 9 ES in Linux.

Re: broadcast the signal over a network [was: Encoder for linux]

2011-09-15 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
15/09/2011 16:14, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu: Hi again I will be more precise, what I want is a program that allows me from a radio or tv card sent to a server to broadcast the signal over a network. O sea, es lo que hace el Codificador de Windows Media. vlc seems like the perfect tool

Re: mdadm and fsck

2011-09-17 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
17/09/2011 17:18, Joey L wrote: I have a broken raid1 drive set - i was able to fix 1 but the other raid still has issues. i have gone through the tutorials online to bring it back online but still unable to bring it back. Do i have to run fsck on the individual member drives ??? Short

Re: mdadm and fsck

2011-09-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/09/2011 05:04, Joey L wrote: Thanks for the info and quick reply. My /dev/md0 has rebuilt itself and is okay. My /dev/md1 is gone after a reboot - and is no longer showing - I get nothing when i run: root@rider:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md1 mdadm: cannot open /dev/md1: No such file or

Re: Gimp problem

2011-09-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/09/2011 14:50, Frank McCormick wrote: I posted this question on the GIMP list but no one seems to know the answer. When I open an image in the latest GIMP 2.6 on Debian Sid the file extension choice window is too small and can't be resized or moved. This is an example of what happens. It

Re: childsplay not starting

2011-09-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 18/09/2011 19:18, Joao Ferreira Gmail a écrit : Hello, I've installed childsplay for my kids but it is not starting jmf@wheejy:~$ childsplay 2011-09-18 18:15:48,960 - schoolsplay.SPDataManager - ERROR - No sqlalchemy package found

Re: mdadm and fsck

2011-09-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
19/09/2011 15:59, Joey L wrote: Hi Andrew - Thanks for the reply - I tried to mount the individual drives that make up my /dev/md1 and this is what i get : root@rider:~# mount -o ro -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing

Re: LUKS partition?

2011-09-21 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
21/09/2011 06:15, Perry Thompson wrote: Hi there. This may or may not be the best place to ask this, but I can't seem to find help anywhere else, so I thought I would ask. I have begun backing up my /home to a LUKS encrypted external hard drive using rsync. I just got a second one external

Re: Gimp problem

2011-09-21 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/09/2011 18:01, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 18/09/2011 14:50, Frank McCormick wrote: I posted this question on the GIMP list but no one seems to know the answer. When I open an image in the latest GIMP 2.6 on Debian Sid the file extension choice window is too small and can't be resized

Re: System slowdown - plugin-container responsible?

2011-09-29 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
29/09/2011 17:57, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:45:03 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: As of yesterday, my testing (current) system has slowed down a whole lot. I thought it was just the 'net, but that doesn't seem to be the case. top shows something called plugin-containe (I assume

Re: xserver-xorg-core and fglrx-driver

2011-09-30 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
30/09/2011 05:33, lina wrote: Hi, When I update this morning (wheezy one but with sid fglrx-driver), the xserver-xorg-core was updated. my fglrx-driver was removed, when I tried to install, it's reported: fglrx-driver depends on xorg-video-abi-10 or -8 or -6. which are not avaiable.

Re: Gimp problem [SOLVED]

2011-10-06 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 21/09/2011 18:07, tv.deb...@googlemail.com a écrit : 18/09/2011 18:01, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 18/09/2011 14:50, Frank McCormick wrote: I posted this question on the GIMP list but no one seems to know the answer. When I open an image in the latest GIMP 2.6 on Debian Sid the file

Re: wanted wheezy snapshot iso

2011-10-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
09/10/2011 20:44, richard2 wrote: Hi, the update to wheezy from squeeze didi not go well :) I ended up with a desktop, on LXDE, that as soon as to clickrd on anything it disappeared, no functionality at all. Dropped back to console attemped login as root , on hitting CR a blank screen. I had

Re: wheezy snapshot boot failure

2011-10-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
09/10/2011 23:10, richard2 wrote: hi It sat at the end of its install wirh a flashind screen with a debiam logo on it, went to a cosole and scrolling seg fault meesage. No keyboard entry possible. rebooted got a grub error error hd0,msdos5 read error entering rescue mode anything I can

Re: OT: harddrive addition for RAID [Warn: long message]

2011-10-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/10/2011 01:11, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 10/17/2011 5:09 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:12:00PM BST, Camaleón wrote: 1. does the HD need to be exactly the same as the one its being paired with ? Not necessarily, but you will lose the remainder difference space between

Re: OT:info needed virtualbox networking

2012-02-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
02/02/2012 22:16, richard wrote: Greetings, Hi my cups server is on my debian machine, but thats all thats Debian with this. Does anyone know which ports winxp uses for for printing raw to a samba server, also on my debian machine. winrubbish in its own partition prints OK to the samba

Re: samba woes

2012-02-03 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
03/02/2012 20:10, richard wrote: Greetings, Naming devices like printers, which file name must match with winxp. is it the name of the printer as given in the driver list in win thing matching the name in smb,conf or the name in cups, or the name given in the cups descriptor ? Basically what

Re: OT:info needed virtualbox networking

2012-02-03 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
03/02/2012 23:22, richard wrote: Hi Pretty sure I've found the problem after lot of googling. It appears there is a registry patch to allow network printing. Ive only got winXP sp2 , so to take this further I'd need a later edition. This is more a personal battle to prove it works. Strangely

Re: Any good all-in-one GUI tool for net analysis ?

2012-02-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
09/02/2012 10:48, Alberto Fuentes wrote: On 09/02/12 10:02, J. Bakshi wrote: Hello list, There are already good tools in linux for network analysis like digg, nslookup, host, mtr, traceroute, prads, nmap, netdiscover etc.. etc... Is there any GUI client available which is based on all

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-26 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
26/02/2012 21:54, Hendrik Boom wrote: I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. Whenever testing installs a new kernel as a result of the routing update, my grub/menu.list file gets rewritten. WHen it does this, it matches the kernels I have in one Debian

Re: VLC froze twice: so reboot

2012-03-01 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
01/03/2012 18:01, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Hello All! I started to watch a DVD last night with VLC when the screen froze. Nothing would work, neither the mouse nor the keyboard. I did a H/W reset and rebooted the OS and VLC. I set the film to close to where it froze and went on watching. A

Re: MD device not found on boot

2012-03-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
02/03/2012 10:37, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! Currently I have a host with Debian GNU/Linux Lenny on which I've compiled a 2.6.32 kernel (using the Backports source code) to add support of Layer7 and IMQ. The package with the Backports kernel binary works well, but when I boot my

Re: MD device not found on boot

2012-03-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
02/03/2012 16:51, Daniel Bareiro wrote: On Friday, 02 March 2012 10:52:37 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Currently I have a host with Debian GNU/Linux Lenny on which I've compiled a 2.6.32 kernel (using the Backports source code) to add support of Layer7 and IMQ. The package

Re: encrypted root - change keyboard layout

2012-03-03 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
03/03/2012 01:30, Matthias Weiler wrote: Hello everyone! As the subject suggests: I've encrypted my root partition with a super secret passphrase. The problem is that there is one character that I don't know how to enter with the english keyboard layout. I get to the (initramfs) prompt.

Re: MD device not found on boot

2012-03-03 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
02/03/2012 20:36, Daniel Bareiro wrote: On Friday, 02 March 2012 18:21:17 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: [cut] Are you using kernel-package make-kpkg or the make deb-pkg target to build your kernel packages ? The former requires a bit of manual configuration to work properly

Re: MD device not found on boot

2012-03-04 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
04/03/2012 02:27, Daniel Bareiro wrote: On Saturday, 03 March 2012 10:43:52 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Are you using kernel-package make-kpkg or the make deb-pkg target to build your kernel packages ? The former requires a bit of manual configuration to work properly. I'm

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
09/03/2012 19:33, Barthel Christian wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:56:53AM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: I'm sure virt-manager is very nice. But there are no GUIs where I'm going: no X11, no vnc, no kde or gnome. Only plain old command line (POCL). Sorry, this message is not related to

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
09/03/2012 22:31, 0xAAA wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:59:35PM +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:56:53AM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: I'm sure virt-manager is very nice. But there are no GUIs where I'm going: no X11, no vnc, no kde or gnome. Only plain old

Re: After update/upgrade can't get X to start

2012-03-20 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
20/03/2012 07:05, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, on my Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid with kernel 3.2.0-2-amd64 I can't get X Window to start. My Xorg.0.log can be seen here: http://paste.debian.net/160383/ How can I solve this problem? Any advices will be appreciated! Hi, when did the

Re: After update/upgrade can't get X to start

2012-03-20 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
20/03/2012 10:40, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Intel IOMMU visualization technology ^^^ It's virtualization technology off course, damn auto-correct ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: can't get sound to work with webcam Logitech C910

2012-03-25 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 24/03/2012 22:37, Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone ! I just bought the above mentioned web camera, and, if I record a video using Cheese, the sound is not there when I try displaying the record using 'vlc'. I get this: main subpicture error : blending YUVA to I444 failed this line repeated a

Re: Sudoers

2012-03-27 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Antispammbox-debianantispammbox-deb...@yahoo.it wrote: I use some utility like TrueCrypt and gmountiso that using sudo. I've added myself to the group sudo: sudo adduser myself This does not achieve what you want: usermod -a -G sudo $user newgrp sudo $user change $user for your user name.

Re: Grub-install problems was Re: terminal prompts

2012-04-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 08/04/2012 17:42, Frank McCormick wrote: That worked...but I caused another problem. I still didn't like Mepis, so I booted into Debian Sid and forgetting Grub had been last installed by Mepis, formatted the partition. Well you know what happened. Next time I booted I ended up at the Grub

Re: any tiny webcam viewer ?

2012-04-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:42 AM, J. Bakshibaksh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list, I have tested my webcam with guvcviwe and the cam is running fine. Now I like to place a tiny viewer on my desktop which simply sits at the corner of my desktop and whenever I like I can record the views. Is there

Re: Is there a system sync tool?

2012-04-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 19/04/2012 18:10, Indulekha wrote: Magicloud Magicloudsmagicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a PC at work, and a PC at home. And I am really tired to build the same environment at home every time I changed something at work. So just wonder if you guys have some idea to

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-21 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 21/04/2012 18:36, Sian Mountbatten wrote: I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of packages installed). Anybody out there tried a 2TB USB hard drive? What did you use as filing system. I am intending

[going OT]Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-24 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 24/04/2012 04:02, Philipp Schneider wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:50:02 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I use seagate's ST2000DL003-9VT1 (it's some kind of eco drive, but still fast) for that purpose, in raid1. No complains. I have had disastrous experiences with WD 2TB drives

Re: About Me Changes Don't Stick and Additional Drivers No Show in Main Menu

2011-05-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
17/05/2011 23:47, Peter Allen wrote: Hi I just installed Mint 10 Debian and my additional drivers option isn't available in the main menu. My Graphics are horrible and I need to see if additional drivers are available. When I update my personal info in about me and close it the

Re: rolling vanilla kernel on Squeeze

2011-05-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/05/2011 04:09, Stan Hoeppner wrote: System: Squeeze Current Kernel: 2.6.34.1 vanilla built under Lenny long before upgrading to Squeeze Issue: Seeing two extra .debs being built by make I grabbed 2.6.38.6 from kernel.org yesterday and rolled a kernel

Re: SWF (Adobe Flash) support

2011-05-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/05/2011 09:59, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: Hi! Is it possible to play Adobe Flash files from, for example, YouTube.com without non-free software? This is what I have: $ dpkg-query --list | grep -i -E 'flash|gnash|swf' ii gnash0.8.4-3~lenny1

Re: Mp3 Encoding (and Virtual Machine Software for Wheezy?)

2011-05-18 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
18/05/2011 21:25, Tin Kidneys wrote: On 05/18/2011 03:16 AM, Chen Wei wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:35:01AM -0400, Tin Kidneys wrote: I just purchased a Sony E-Series Walkman, don't have any album artwork showing on mp3's i just encoded using my Debian Wheezy system (my lame libraries

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-20 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
19/05/2011 18:17, Dick Bayerl wrote: I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes to various files. Not the owner. I am just now installing DEBIAN on a second machine and keeping careful notes about

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-20 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
20/05/2011 11:49, Erwan David wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:04:26AM CEST, tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com said: 19/05/2011 18:17, Dick Bayerl wrote: I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with the same problem. I never can login to root so I

Re: Console Messed Up for Nvidia Drivers

2011-05-20 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
20/05/2011 13:22, David Baron wrote: This is a very long-standing problem for both the proprietary and Debian Nvidia drivers, legacy and current: When switching out of X (i.e. control/alt/F1), the console font is quite large and the lower half of each line appears doubled under the line. (In

Re: LUKS-partition-failed-to-mount

2011-06-03 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
03/06/2011 17:07, Mervyn Zhang wrote: Hi all, Hi, I'm a debian newbie who are previously using archlinux. I've a disk with the following layout: sda1 pri - Windows partition; sda3 pri - archlinux /boot sda4 pri - archlinux LUKS partition (with lvm in it, the rest partitions /, /var, swap

Re: Problems installing grub/lilo with RAID1 on /

2011-06-06 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Hi, 06/06/2011 20:16, Felix Natter wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: hello Tom, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Felix Natter felix.nat...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote: I am trying to install squeeze (from live DVD[1]) with a RAID1 root filesystem (/dev/md0). There is an error

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