Re: Local search broken for documentation of numpy, matplotlib

2020-02-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:23 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I suggest to check the changelogs (upstream and Debian-specific, > whichever applies to the delta between the version you had before and > the version you now installed from sid) to see if the issue is > _knowingly_ fixed - becaue if not

Local search broken for documentation of numpy, matplotlib

2020-02-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Since upgrading to Buster, the search functionality for some packages like python-numpy-doc and python-matplotlib-doc is no longer working. The search page just displays the progress indicator graphic without generating any results. This is an issue for me as my primary work computer has no

Re: Buster/lightdm - after locking screen, unlock prompt not visible

2019-06-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
> The opinion is that it is a bug. See > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/06/msg0.html Thank you for the feedback. I have filed a bug report for this issue. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929834 Please note that this issue does not occur if using the

Buster/lightdm - after locking screen, unlock prompt not visible

2019-05-31 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hi, In a fresh install of Buster with XFCE desktop, locking the screen blanks the monitor and the monitor enters a power save state. After that, neither moving the mouse nor typing on the keyboard would turn the monitor back on. Typing the password without any visual feedback (while the monitor

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-19 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
> > But, be advised that once you do this, all the menu entries in grub will > be > > inaccessible until the password is supplied. > > It would be nice to have a way of requiring a password only if it > required > > to boot a non-default entry. > > That's what > menuentry "May be run by any

Re: Password protecting grub

2016-03-18 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I have been trying to achieve something similar on my system. Password protection in grub2 appears to be quite different from that in grub-legacy. In grub2, authentication is activated by the lines (from the grub info manual, the section on security): set superusers="root" password_pbkdf2 root

page allocation failure errors

2010-10-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hello, My debian stable system has been spewing page allocation failure errors since the past few months. I have attached a sample error log. This does not occur too frequently. Sometimes, my system functions normally for several weeks before these errors crop up. When they do, my system is

Disable a program is still running dialog in gnome

2009-07-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Nowadays, when I try to shutdown my system, I sometimes get this unhelpful dialog: http://imgur.com/tRv5S.png It complains about an unknown program that is not responding and wants to give me the option of waiting for it to finish. Is there any way to disable this dialog permanently? More

Re: Disable a program is still running dialog in gnome

2009-07-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-28 10:34, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Nowadays, when I try to shutdown my system, I sometimes get this unhelpful dialog: http://imgur.com/tRv5S.png It complains about an unknown program that is not responding and wants to give me the option of waiting

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

2009-07-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Charlie wrote: Just a general off topic query. I was recently informed that my signature had a problem rendering correctly on someone's mailer - deliniter incorrect - and was told that my signature Linux Debian should read Debian GNU/Linux because: considering that the majority of it is

No sound in 2.6.30

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Today I did an `aptitude full-upgrade' on my sid machine and during the process, kernel-image-2.6.30-1-686 was installed. Now if I boot the 2.6.30 kernel, there is no sound. None of the applications give any error. The volume controls are all normal. Just the audio is missing. If I boot the

Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how?

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul E Condon wrote: I have no objection to the status of hal as a required part of a standard desktop installation, but I do have a question as to how best to deal with a peculiar situation. I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside, not solid state 'disks'). From

Re: No sound in 2.6.30

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Tom Low-Shang wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:24:37PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Today I did an `aptitude full-upgrade' on my sid machine and during the process, kernel-image-2.6.30-1-686 was installed. Now if I boot the 2.6.30 kernel, there is no sound. ... sid:~$ sid:~$ sudo lspci -vv

Re: No sound in 2.6.30

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-20 10:54, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Today I did an `aptitude full-upgrade' on my sid machine and during the process, kernel-image-2.6.30-1-686 was installed. Now if I boot the 2.6.30 kernel, there is no sound. None of the applications give any error. The volume

Re: new to debian need help with fonts rendering (?)

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
thirstyh2o wrote: Hi, folks. I'm coming from Ubuntu crowd where I spent last couple of years. Finally decided:Why 'Debian based', why not Debian itself. So to be. I've installed Debian 5.0.2 on my Dell Latitude D820 as dual boot to my Ubuntu Jaunty. The laptop has Nvidia video card on it.

Re: Upgrading to Lenny 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Tim Day wrote: I have an old dual-P3 Intel STL2 motherboard has been running Etch no problem (2.6.18 kernel) for ages. It has an IDE drive (root filesystem and swap, and it boots off it) (/dev/hda on Etch) and a CD-ROM on the single IDE connector on the motherboard, and a couple of big SATA

Re: Joining Two Videos

2009-01-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hal Vaughan wrote: I have to join two videos, in different versions, one in .mpg for DVDs and one in .mp4. What's the best program that can do this without glitches or a high learning curve on Etch? No editing, no dissolves, just stick one after the other. For the mpeg files, mencoder -oac

Re: Scrolling works in vim by default in gnome-terminal but not in mrxvt

2009-01-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Countable Infinity wrote: Experiment 1 === 1. Open gnome-terminal 2. Run vim 3. Run command :help in vim 4. Use scroll wheel of the mouse to scroll 5. Scrolling happens successfully Experiment 2 === 1. Open mrxvt 2. Run vim 3. Run command :help in vim 4. Use scroll wheel of the

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not over the network. It would be sufficient for it to be accessible only via GDM/XDM (since I don't need remote XDM/GDM logins). Stefan

Re: mounting two disks on the same mount point (not at the same time)

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the directories of interest onto whichever one is attached using rsync. I'd like to mount whichever one is attached at the same

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:08:41PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not over the network. Weak is not easy ... there is minimum number of character

Re: having DHCP use name server from PPP connection?

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Daniel B. wrote: Can dhcpd be configured to pass on (to DHCP clients on a local, private (NATted) network) the DHCP server machine's current domain name server addresses (given to the machine by PPP (etc.))? What happens when your server's current name server changes before the DHCP lease

Re: how to find trace of attacks

2008-12-31 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: Thanks, I am simpler user on laptop, with ssh server running. Ther is no important data on my laptop!!! Suddenly my Desktop froze, I changed the screen (CTRL+ALT+F1), I noticed that I was logout, so something jected me!!! I restart the gdm, after that I

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
subscriptions wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 00:39 +0100, steve wrote: fairly successful attempt at running a webserver it made /var only 2.8 gig and made /home 280 something gig. now I want /var to be say 200 gig, and /home alot smaller. for obvious reasons. If the reason is using www,

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
steve wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, attempted to do this before, but never found a way, google is no use. is there no fairly straightforward way to expand /var and decrease /home? for some reason when I installed etch quite a while ago in my fairly successful

Re: lost my desktop

2008-12-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 17:22, Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank McCormick wrote: Well not all of it -- my regular icons have been replaced by

Re: How to stop an active network connection

2008-12-02 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
T o n g wrote: Hi, How can I stop an active network connection? e.g., $ netstat Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 192.168.0.100:ssh ip-72-55-146-217.:35911 ESTABLISHED

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2008)

2008-12-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/01/08 02:36, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, Following is the results of a poll that has been running for about 2 weeks, one which questions readers of debian-user to list their favourite FLOSS - Free (Libre) or Open Source Software. There's the usual stars in the

Re: HELP - Installing Firefox 3 on Debian Etch

2008-11-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Carlos Carrero Gutierrez wrote: Hi, i would like to install Firefox 3 on my Debian Etch. Then, i need gtk 2.12 or newer. But when i try to compile gtk 2.14 i need: pango, glib, pkg-config, cairo, atk... Well, i have compiled all succesfully except atk 1.2.4, it says: checking for GLIB -

Re: apt-cache as normal user behaves weird

2008-11-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
LÉVAI Dániel wrote: Hi! Why could it be, that when I use apt-cache search as a normal user, its output is only a subset of the one when I'm running it as root? Like this: $ apt-cache search ia32 ia32-libs - ia32 shared libraries for use on amd64 and ia64 systems # apt-cache search ia32

Re: OT: Hidden service disk

2008-11-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
T o n g wrote: Hi, Major PC vendors store their system installation/rescue disks in 1st partition (and call it service disk). I'm wondering how they are able to hide the partition from Windows. Is any tools under Linux that can create such hidden partitions from Windows. If so, how? and can

Making a Video DVD with data

2008-11-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hello, I am trying to make a video DVD out of some home videos for sharing with friends. I want it to be playable on standalone DVD players as well as readable on both linux and windows. In addition to the videos, the DVD will also contain html albums of several photos created by photon.

Re: Colored less

2008-11-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Rob Gom wrote: Hi, do you know any colored less version? I often browse logs (not Linux system logs). I use less for that and it works fine. However it is single colored. I know that less has ANSI sequences support, but for that I would have to change program output (which is not possible). The

Re: A lot of help needed with the automake process

2008-11-22 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Raven wrote: Hi all. I recently coded a small GNOME applet and before sharing it with a few friends I wanted to make it noob-proof :) Basically I wanted to create the usual configure and Makefile scripts so that I can give my buddies the 3 simple commands to install the applet. After reading

Re: A lot of help needed with the automake process

2008-11-22 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Raven wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 14:42 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: How are you compiling the applet at your end? Perhaps it would be simpler to create a small build script that installs the build dependencies, compiles and installs your applet. I am now compiling the hard way via

dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2008-11-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg failed complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file. = # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to

Re: dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2008-11-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-11-21 18:12 +0100, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg failed complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file. = # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree

Re: NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-19 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Dexter Filmore wrote: I use these options to mount an NTFS partition: users,gid=fuse,umask=0002,silent,utf8,locale=de_DE.utf8 Now silent is supposed to suppress warnings on chmod/chown errors, each time a copy operation is completed I get couldn't change permissions on XY I need to copy a

Re: how to get the mac address(network card physical address) of a remote computer by its IP address?

2008-11-19 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
中和刘 wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/19/08 07:06, 中和刘 wrote: when a user visit my website, it's easy to get the ip address of the user, but i think IP address is not as stable as mac address, so I hope I can get the mac address of the user

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
lee wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC alarm enabled. It's supposed to make it easier to deal

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
lee wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:16:03 +0100 abdelkader belahcene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to change the time for my system, ( the time displayed doesn't correspond to my country which is gmt+1) I use date -s, but I have to do it at each reboot, how to do it permanently Set the

Print margins in iceweasel 3.0

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I find that I am no longer able to tweak the margins while printing in iceweasel 3. Am I alone? Also, the other print settings, such as paper size, header/footer options, etc are not persistent. I am being required to set them every time. I don't remember such behaviour from version 2. How do

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
H.S. wrote: Hello, I am in a situation where a friend of mine wants to send tons of photos to me. Internet connection being what it is regarding stability, I am aiming to a method where the photos' transfer can be resumed if the connection breaks and is recreated. Keeping security in mind, I

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Serena Cantor wrote: I have copy DVD to hard drive. It's at /mnt/dos4/1415 I want to convert it to save space. Do you know the command? The mplayer/mencoder documentation has a detailed chapter on ripping a dvd. It is really worth reading before proceeding.

Re: how to increase FAT partition size in extended partition?

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Serena Cantor wrote: Is there any free software for doing that? Yes there is. Try gparted. It lets you do all sorts of things with your disk partitions. -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. -- Albert Einstein --

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
the source video and the desired target format, how do you expect anyone to provide the command to encode it? Thanks anyway! --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi escreveu: Can it convert from latex to odt format? I have spent quite a bit of time unsuccessfully searching for something that would do it without causing a lot of grief. Please point me to it. It would be a life saver in those cases where people

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
TW wrote: Hi, I'm going to be writing a political book soon and I'm not sure what software to use to write it. I want to use something like Vim to write it, but, I want to be able to convert it to OpenOffice/MicrosoftWord, etc. format(s). The reason that I want to use something like Vim

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:04:03PM -0700, TW wrote: I'm going to be writing a political book soon and I'm not sure what software to use to write it. I want to use something like Vim to write it, but, I want to be able to convert it to OpenOffice/MicrosoftWord, etc.

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Steve Lamb wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Latex should be fine. But I have not found any tools to convert latex to odt. You may also want to look at sisu. It is in the repos and claims to be able to generate most formats one would care about. Abiword. Do you mean abiword is capable

Re: grub with sata drives? - Progress

2008-11-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:00:56PM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in

Re: cups-pdf

2008-11-02 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Chris wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: I am getting very poor results printing to pdf from Firefox, it seems to have worked better in the past. Changing the settings for image resolution does not help. Have you

Re: Grub Question

2008-10-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Thomas H. George wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:50:04AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Just install grub on all your disks, so that your system boots irrespective of the boot order in the bios. Also, it is better to use UUID for specifying the root filesystem in menu.lst as well

Re: Grub Question

2008-10-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Thomas H. George wrote: I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst (also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from 0). The MBR is unchanged and the system still

Re: Question on configuration

2008-10-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Debian Etch - base installation, running as domU (guest) on a Xen box I'm installing BIND on its tarball and encountering following problem. # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/bind checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type...

Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

2008-10-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Don Sutter wrote: Hi All, I certainly hope the following doesn't start a flame war! I would like to use Linux to scan Windows drives for viruses. Since Linux is generally slime free are any of the Linux anti-virus solutions robust enough to handle Windows? Perhaps I should consider using VM,

Re: Running app full-screen

2008-10-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:13:38PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I'd like to run a single application (tellico) full-screen in a dedicated VNC session *without* a window manager. I'm not sure how to force the application to be full-screen, though. If my xstartup contains

Re: editing menus

2008-09-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Robert Holtzman wrote: Gnome is correct, but there is no Main Menu under Desktop - Preferences. There is a Menus and Toolbars selection, however it has nothing to do with editing menu items. BTW it looks like Desktop has replaced System. Help talks about creating a

convert odt to pdf via the command line

2008-09-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I have a bunch of .odt files that I want to convert to pdf. Is there any tool that can do it? apt-cache search did not show anything helpful nor did google. Last time I needed this, I ended up adding a pdf printer and printing the documents to that printer using the -pt option of oowriter.

Re: convert odt to pdf via the command line

2008-09-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
François Cerbelle wrote: Le Mar 23 septembre 2008 14:59, Raj Kiran Grandhi a écrit : I have a bunch of .odt files that I want to convert to pdf. Is there any tool that can do it? apt-cache search did not show anything helpful nor did google. Strange, I should have a different question when

Re: convert odt to pdf via the command line

2008-09-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Roberto D'Oliveira wrote: 2008/9/24 Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a bunch of .odt files that I want to convert to pdf. Is there any tool that can do it? apt-cache search did not show anything helpful nor did google. Last time I needed this, I ended up adding a pdf printer

Re: Convert HTML document to use relative links ?

2008-09-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Owen Townend wrote: 2008/9/3 Andre Majorel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there is program to make all links relative in HTML documents saved in wget -x fashion ? (http://foo.com/a/b.html saved as ./foo.com/a/b.html.) For example, - if ./foo.com/a/b.html contains img src=/images/d.jpg and

Re: Sound volume user specific?

2008-08-31 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Is it possible to control sound volume on each user account independently? So when user A logs in and changes the sound volume (with gnome alsa mixer) to max it won't affect user's B settings. It is desktop debian (sid) machine, ALSA, Gnome. It should be

Solving sudoku with aptitude

2008-08-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Here is an interesting article where the author uses package dependencies and conflict handling mechanisms of the debian package management system to solve sudoku puzzles http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku/ Regards, Raj Kiran -- If you can't explain it

Re: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 - US - Debian mirror?

2008-07-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
lubo wrote: yep, some sorts of load balancing is involved. here is the one with IIS on it: http://35.9.37.225/debian/dists/etch/ $ dig http.us.debian.org snip ;; ANSWER SECTION: http.us.debian.org. 3494IN A 128.30.2.36 http.us.debian.org. 3494IN A

Re: Ext3 Overwritted by Ext3

2008-07-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Armin ranjbar wrote: Dear all , there is an Ext3 partition which have been mkfs.ext3 by mistake , there are very few inodes available in file system now but tools like lde shows that majority of data is still available on disk , the problem is that how its possible to take back disconnected

Re: Ext3 Overwritted by Ext3

2008-07-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Armin ranjbar wrote: Dear all , there is an Ext3 partition which have been mkfs.ext3 by mistake , there are very few inodes available in file system now but tools like lde shows that majority of data is still available on disk , the problem is that how its possible

Re: where does iceweasel store the setting for controlling site passwords

2008-07-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Mitchell Laks wrote: On 09:07 Mon 28 Jul , ss11223 wrote: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Preferences - security - Passwords Section / Exceptions button Thank you all for this suggestion, but it is actually

Re: Cannot switch to VT (console)

2008-07-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Recently I tried to switch to VT (console) and I couldn't - Ctrl+Alt+F1 didn't work (and they used to couple of weeks ago). I don't even know where to look for the problem; xev detects KeyRelease XF86_Switch_VT_1 event, /etc/inittab contain getty respawns.

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Last Wednesday, I bought two WD6400AAKS drives from NewEgg. They were manufactured in Thailand only 21 days ago. They couldn't have been sitting in NE's warehouse very long... I won't be surprised if the printed date of

Re: sudo password visible through ssh command line

2008-07-10 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Javier Barroso wrote: Hi, In sid with key passwordless auth : ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo ls password: password And password is shown you Any tip to avoid this ? Where should be reported this bug if it could be consider as such (note I don't know if there are more programs with this

Re: bandwidth tool

2008-07-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
# Copyright © 2008 Raj Kiran Grandhi # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version

Re: login problem (password corruption? pam?)

2008-07-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Joseph Neal wrote: Hello all. Logins keep going bad on me. Repeatedly. I first noticed the problem yesterday after updating sid. First sudo failed to accept my password. I logged out of KDE and was not able to log back in. Let's call my normal login that I've been using the past

Re: shutdown and reboot scripts

2008-07-02 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me what script I can edit so when my box shuts down or reboots all my mounted devices get pumounted? (I use pmount to mount everything) So, how can I pumount all devices on /media? So basically I have 2 questions: 1. What script can I place commands in

Re: ssh connection without passwd

2008-06-19 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi every one, I am using DSL on small miniPC. I tried the ssh-keygen it seemed running correctly, it generates the key (pub and priv), Use ssh-copy-id to copy your public key to the ssh server. This requires that password based connections are allowed to that

Re: reboot problems

2008-06-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Gelonia L Dent wrote: Dear Debian Users, I am working on a diskless cluster which runs Debian 2.6.17. I rebooted the machine and lost the ssh, dhcp, most shell commands and the NFS filesystem . The system boots using GRUB. I've tried

Re: Iceweasel upgrade - can I go back?

2008-06-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Alan Chandler wrote: I am running Sid, and in the past couple of days it upgraded iceweasel. Now I can't run firebird - essential for development of some facilities on my web site. Can I easily undo that upgrade? If so how Add etch or lenny to your sources.list and then install the

Re: reboot problems

2008-06-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Gelonia L Dent wrote: Dear Debian Users, I am working on a diskless cluster which runs Debian 2.6.17. I rebooted the machine and lost the ssh, dhcp, most shell commands and the NFS filesystem . The system boots using GRUB. I've tried to restart all of these daemons but with no success. Did

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: First line unindented next four lines indented next line

Re: [OT] signing a pdf document

2008-06-10 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, People I do business with want me to physically sign a contract that they send me as a small pdf (22K). I use Adobe Reader to print it, I sign the printed copy and scan the result and send the jpeg image back: 3 pages totalling 891K! That is ridiculous. Is that

Getting rid of noise in /var/log/samba

2008-06-10 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
How do I disable all these silly messages that fill up /var/log/samba and syslog? Using 'grep -v' every time I want to inspect the logs is getting tiresome. The server is running etch. Typical messages: [2008/03/31 22:14:59, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792)

Re: list of all background jobs

2008-05-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Consider the following scenario. I am on machine A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ nohup command1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ nohup command2 Now if I use the jobs command, I can display the background jobs on this shell. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB drive names

2008-05-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I bought some USB external hard disks recently. They automount beautifully on a Debian system. One is a LACIE disk, another one is a Western Digital Elements disk. They mount as /media/LaCie and /media/Elements respectively. Question: is it possible to change those

Re: DRM PDFs

2008-05-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Adam Hardy wrote: Just thought I'd ask, even though my web searches don't reveal anything but Adobe promises and work-arounds involving printing to postscript on a windows box first - but is there software for linux to read DRM pdfs? AFAIK the DRM in pdf files that prevent you from printing

Re: [OFF] Sudo

2008-05-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi People, I wonder if it is possible using the sudo leave with only the user can edit the files that are in /etc/squid. A better option would be to chmod g+w the files in /etc/squid and then add the relevant users

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Javier Vasquez wrote: You mean grub-install it? I couldn't... For some reason grub doesn't even find the stage1 file after running something similar to grub-install --root-directory /mnt/sda-boot /dev/sda. So I tried chroot to /mnt/sda-root (I also made the bind between /mnt/sda-boot and

Re: apt cdrom repository

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
John Knops wrote: Hi, I want to download various debs to my home directory to be burnt latter to a cd for use on an older computer which will not be connected to the internet. At the moment I'm downloading all debs, including dependencies manually one at a time. To speed up the process I've

Re: Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 15:55, Lee Glidewell wrote: Have a look at partimage. Specifically you might be interested in the CloneZilla live distro. It's built specifically for the purpose of porting installations between hard disks. In a

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Glenn Becker wrote: Hi all - I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings changed (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can recall) so that the screen resolution on Gnome, for example, it was defaulting to 1400x1050. It is nice to see that my older

Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

2008-05-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
michael wrote: On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 06:45 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: michael wrote: eg: The installation of VMware Player 2.0.3 build-80004 for Linux completed successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any time by invoking the following command: /usr/bin

Re: pxelinux.0 doesn't recognize my Mirrored debian??

2008-05-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
?? How did you create your local mirror. Make sure that you have also downloaded the main/debian-installer section since that is where the installer loads its components from. Also make sure that you have the correct Release.gpg files. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
directories). You should suspect something seriously wrong if your system behaves otherwise. For your present problem with locales, install localepurge and get rid of all the locales that you don't care about. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
system can be compromised remotely. Obviously, the ability to become root by tweaking the boot parameters from the grub screen does not count as a vulnerability. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert

Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

2008-05-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
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Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
some time back before I installed the noscript extension. You might want to consider it. Alternatively, you may consider adblockplus which is takes a blacklisting approach rather than the explicit whitelisting approach of noscript. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
not be necessary! I would assume that the people who wrote ext2/3 knew what they were doing when they implemented forced checks. Doug. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Blue movies - literally!

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
andy wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: andy wrote: I am attempting to play a video file, but the image is just varying shades of blue. I had this once before and logged out and back in, which cleared it temporarily. However, now it has come back again. This is despite the mediaplayer I am

Re: window manager

2008-05-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
in it, gnome-session or xfce-session. It will be executed whenever you do 'startx'. When logging in from gdm select 'User Session' or 'XClient script' (whichever is present) and choose to make it the default option if you like. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation

Re: Gnome display fonts have disappered

2008-05-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
and then reinstall all the packages that have 'font' in their name. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- Politics is for the moment. An equation is for eternity. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: replacing pxe.linux.0

2008-05-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
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