Re: The Oh, No... error when gdm is trying to start

2012-08-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:13:53 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm refusing to start, with

Re: cron job not executing

2012-05-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org wrote: I've got a little cron job, just trying to fire off a script (see http://tonyb.us/mattbot ) and it's not firing. I have other jobs on the same crontab that do. When I run the script manually, it runs. [...] Probably

Is unlimited redeal no longer possible in Aisleriot's Klondike game?

2012-05-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
It used to be one could edit klondike.scm, set redeal to -1, and so have infinite redeals. But klondike.scm no longer exists after a recent upgrade. Is there another way to get infinite redeals? Thanks Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

[SOLVED] Apache not delivering local pages locally

2012-05-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I'm slowly configuring a new laptop, and today got around to installing some of my local websites, stuff that I serve on my local machine to a browser on the same machine (like a collection of recipes, for example). Connections to localhost kept timing out, but I was able to give another

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Paul Nulandorn paul.nuland...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I would like to disable my screensaver. I have turned off the screen saver via the preferences menu, however the screen is still being blanked after the computer is idle for 10 minutes. How can I

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Paul Nulandorn paul.nuland...@optusnet.com.au wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 18:21 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 06.06.2012 17:21, Paul Nulandorn wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 10:13 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Paul

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:16:49 +1000, Paul Nulandorn wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 18:21 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: What about turn off screen after... minutes etc. ? OK to be precise: Put display to sleep when inactive

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:46:09 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) Weird... I suppose you are not hibernanting nor suspending your computer, right? You

xfwm4 failure and fix

2012-11-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: Just fyi, on a recent restart of my testing machine with xfce, my window manager appeared broken (no workspaces, no title bars, etc.). Googling revealed that xfwm4, for reasons unexplained, had not been restored when the session restarted. One suggestion was Alt-F2 which, in xfce,

Re: package for dropbox

2012-12-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:56 AM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I use xfce4, I wonder which is the best package to pick for dropbox, snip nautilus-dropbox - Dropbox integration for Nautilus I use this with great success. It plugs right into xfce4 and doesn't have a bunch of

Chrome and Flash - a problem solved

2013-02-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: Flash had recently stopped working in my Chrome browser. Googling revealed I was not alone, but it also suggested a solution, which worked. In 'chrome://plugins', I disabled 'libpepflash.so' (if memory serves), leaving Flash handling to the Adobe plugin. No need to restart Chrome;

Re: choosing a web browser

2013-03-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Update: * Google Chromium This does not appear (in an hour of usage) to have the CPU-spikes problem of iceweasel/firefox. Performance is fine on my modern laptop. Tabs work; CTRL-PgUp/Dn works. Has private browsing

GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: What an appalling piece of crap is GNOME3! (IMNSHO anyway.) So I installed xfce4 (the metapackage which installs all the basics and some extras). Xfce session then shows up as an option on the login screen. When I logged in, the new Xfce panel asked me if I wanted to migrate from an

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this ? Right-click on the

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: On 18/11/11 17:00, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 18/11/11 16:57, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Yes. With the command xflock4 - part of

Re: for those who dislike gnome3-shell

2011-12-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:22:05 +, Richard wrote: On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 12:12:16 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:21:02 +, Richard wrote: After tonights updates the login pane gives

[OT] Rosetta Stone language program on Linux?

2011-12-31 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi: I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with a Rosetta Stone language program on a Linux box, either the web-based or the DVD program. I want to (re)learn French, and most reviews suggest that Rosetta Stone is the best. TIA Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT] Rosetta Stone language program on Linux?

2011-12-31 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 07:16, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hi: I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with a Rosetta Stone language program on a Linux box, either the web-based or the DVD program.  I want to (re

Re: [OT] Rosetta Stone language program on Linux?

2011-12-31 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 31 December 2011 23:12:03 Scott Ferguson wrote: On 01/01/12 07:16, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hi: I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with a Rosetta Stone language program on a Linux box, either

Re: [OT] Rosetta Stone language program on Linux?

2011-12-31 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 11:07, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 31 December 2011 23:52:56 Scott Ferguson wrote: I would hope the first thing you would do is a quick search to see if it's supported before asking if it's worth

Re: [OT] Rosetta Stone language program on Linux?

2011-12-31 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 10:35, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12 07:16, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hi: I was wondering if anyone

Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: I see this message when running an update: Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/ntp ... insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp' overwrites defaults (empty). Should I be concerned about it? And, if so, what am I supposed to do to correct it.

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote: I see this message when running an update: Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/ntp ... insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp' overwrites defaults (empty

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:22 PM, H Xu xusu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when the google-earth starts up, it doesn't display the earth, but an empty black

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/08/11 13:22, H Xu wrote: Hello, I've installed the latest stable google earth from the google-earth's official website, and installed all of the dependencies. However, when the google-earth starts

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/08/11 01:41, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:20:03 +0800 H Xuxusu...@gmail.com  wrote: Hello H, I don't know which package could unblack googleearth, I've installed mesa-utils and using

Re: Google earth doesn't display anything on my Debian Wheezy amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: [...] NOTES: nvidia-glx-ia32 only supports GeForce 6xxx+ series NVidia cards. My Lenovo Thinkpad T61p has a Quadro FX 570M, and Google Earth works with the nvidia-glx-ia32 package installed and not

Re: googleearth

2011-08-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Install libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32. Patrick On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Christopher Judd j...@wadsworth.org wrote: Hi,        This morning I downloaded and installed google-earth- stable_current_amd64.deb from the google site.  When I run it, a blank screen appears, which is pretty

mailto links not working in Iceweasel 5

2011-08-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: Although I have mailto set to use Gmail in the Preferences, nothing happens when I click on a mailto link. Any ideas? Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: mailto links not working in Iceweasel 5

2011-08-31 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:31:41 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Although I have mailto set to use Gmail in the Preferences, nothing happens when I click on a mailto link.  Any ideas? What's your DE? GNOME? It is GNOME

System slowdown - plugin-container responsible?

2011-09-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, fellow Debianists: 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 it's actually 'container', but the column's too small for the last

Re: System slowdown - plugin-container responsible?

2011-09-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:09 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 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

Re: wheezy after update significant slow

2011-10-01 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: Hi Wolodja,     http://snapshot.debian.org/ I would also recommend to install apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges. Good luck! I already did! And I tested a little bit more. First I downgraded everything to

Re: has network-manager started behaving badly for you too?

2011-10-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: I've got Debian Wheezy (with a few components from unstable, but not many). Over the weekend, I noticed an apt update brought in network-manager                        0.9.0-2 and since then my laptop network works

Editing in HTML textareas excruciatingly slow in Iceweasel, not in Chrome

2011-10-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: I've been one of those complaining lately about a torpid testing system, with Nvidia graphics. I thought one of the symptoms was the slow editing in HTML textareas in Iceweasel (now at version 7.0.1, although it was happening in 6, too), but it turns out that that's not a problem

[OT] webhttrack fails

2012-02-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: I know this is off-topic, so apologies for that. Here's what happens in the terminal when I start webhttrack: /usr/bin/webhttrack(3980): launching /usr/bin/x-www-browser /usr/bin/webhttrack(3980): spawning regular browser.. Created new window in existing browser session.

Re: [OT] webhttrack fails

2012-02-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:19:20 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I know this is off-topic, so apologies for that.  Here's what happens in the terminal when I start webhttrack: /usr/bin/webhttrack(3980): launching /usr/bin/x-www

Re: Aptitude update - http://dl.google.com?

2012-04-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, on my Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system when I update with aptitude I see lines: Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease Get: 35 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [198 B] Get: 36 http://dl.google.com

Wicd and WPA2 password error: a bizarre fix

2012-04-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: I just installed a new testing system (Lenovo ThinkPad L512, recently Wooted for $500), using the xfce installation option. It uses wicd instead of network-manager by default, so I decided to try it. My wired connection worked immediately, but at first wireless wasn't even turned on.

FYI: nautilus-dropbox works with Xfce's file manager, Thunar

2012-04-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: I recently installed a new testing system, using the xfce installation, so as to avoid the new GNOME. I wanted to install DropBox, which comes in a package called nautilus-dropbox. I feared that I was going to have to install Nautilus, but it turns out that's not so. When I first

Re: FYI: nautilus-dropbox works with Xfce's file manager, Thunar

2012-04-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:26:18 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I recently installed a new testing system, using the xfce installation, so as to avoid the new GNOME. I wanted to install DropBox, which comes in a package called

Re: How to get rid of the 'Wastebasket' and other icons on the GNOME2 desktop?

2011-06-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi, I had no success using Google. Where are the settings to get rid of 'Computer', 'User's home' and especially the 'Wastebasket' on the GNOME /Desktop? I never use the 'Wastebasket' and I don't like other

Re: How to get rid of the 'Wastebasket' and other icons on the GNOME2 desktop?

2011-06-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:02 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:46:27 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net dijo: Where are the settings to get rid of 'Computer', 'User's home' and especially the 'Wastebasket' on the GNOME /Desktop? I never use the

Re: Not authorized to mount flash drive with normal account

2011-06-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:30 AM, John Mollman jw.moll...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am still unable to mount my flash drive on Debian wheezy with a normal user account. I have tried adding myself to the 'plugdev' group with the command 'usermod -a -G plugdev john' but that doesn't seem to work.

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Hans Vogelsberger li@schwaz.net wrote: Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old computer which is in a terrible state because I did nothing on it since I

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

2011-07-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: * Hans Vogelsberger li@schwaz.net [2011-07-02 18:44:43 +0200]: Todays testing update, safe-upgrade and full-upgrade totally killed my X which ran with NVIDIA driver. Even this posting I must send from my old

Re: USB media no longer shows up in file manager for root or normal users

2011-07-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Revert to the stable consolekit. Patrick On Jul 12, 2011 7:17 PM, Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net wrote: I'm running the latest x86 Debian Sid. The norm was that when USB media was plugged in would show up in /media where I could mount it by clicking on the appropriate icon in Thunar file

Re: USB media no longer shows up in file manager for root or normal users

2011-07-13 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 08:31:00PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Revert to the stable consolekit. Patrick On Jul 12, 2011 7:17 PM, Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net wrote: I'm running the latest x86 Debian Sid

USB drive not mounting automatically - SOLVED

2011-07-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, all: Several of us have recently had a problem with USB drives not being automatically mounted for ordinary users. The solution _used to be_ to revert to the stable version of consolekit, but that has recently failed too (at least for me). I'm not sure of all the underlying reasons for

nvidia-glx is back

2011-07-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Several folks were having difficulty with the nvidia-glx package breaking others. The problem has now been corrected in testing. I installed nvidia-glx (which brought in all the necessary dependencies), restored my xorg.conf (which I had moved out of the way when temporarily using the nv

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-22 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:51 AM, jiang lei john.jiang...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the result. I installed the nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-glx package, changed the entry from nouveau to nvidia, and run startx again. The nvidia LOGO showed and disappeared, still the black screen is what i get.

Re: Change Iceweasel identification

2011-07-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:38 AM, mark m...@neidorff.com wrote: HI, I'm running Lenny with Iceweasel 3.0.6. I understand that I can't upgrade the browser without upgrading to sid, which I'm not willing to do at this time. Problem that I am having is that when I access yahoo mail, it tells me

Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: On my up-to-date testing system (288 updates a couple of days ago, right after the new stable went live!!), an SD drive, which previously has mounted automatically on insertion, generates the error in my subject line. I Googled the error, and found that this is not the first time people

Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 10 feb 11, 13:56:07, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: On my up-to-date testing system (288 updates a couple of days ago, right after the new stable went live!!), an SD drive, which previously has mounted

Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Chris bbsh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my flash drive from nautilus. It works before. The error message is: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized But if I manually mount using sudo mount ..., it works fine.

Re: will WordPerfect8 clobber Debian Sid system?

2004-02-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
://ul451.gsu.edu/~pwiseman/WP8_and_Debian_GNU_Linux.html which might be helpful. -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: printing problem (mozilla 100% CPU)

2004-02-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Back in November, Valentine Kouznetsov wrote: In Mozilla (doesn't matter which version, I had 1.4-6 and now it's 1.5) when I select print (either to file or to printer) it just stuck at pop-up window (preparing...). Using top, I see that mozilla takes 100% of CPU and stuck. I'm having exactly

Re: printing problem (mozilla 100% CPU)

2004-02-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 at 6:35pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote: :Back in November, Valentine Kouznetsov wrote: : :In Mozilla (doesn't matter which version, I had 1.4-6 and now it's 1.5) :when I select print (either to file or to printer) it just stuck at :pop-up window (preparing...). :Using top, I see

Re: tar and excluding a directory

2004-02-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
a file, including directories) which match the pattern. I always substitute 'v' for 'c' the first time I run a tar command, to make sure it's going to do what I expect! Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google

Iceweasel not displaying favicon.ico

2007-04-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: This may be a bit OT, although it is changed Iceweasel behavior. It used to be that Iceweasel would show my websites' icon in tabs and elsewhere, but it has stopped doing so. My favicon.ico file is in my document root directory, but nowhere referenced in any of my HTML files. The icon

Re: Iceweasel not displaying favicon.ico

2007-04-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 4/14/07, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: This may be a bit OT, although it is changed Iceweasel behavior. It used to be that Iceweasel would show my websites' icon in tabs and elsewhere, but it has stopped doing so. My favicon.ico file is in my document root directory

aptitude's default caching behavior

2007-04-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: By default, aptitude keeps everything it downloads in /var/cache/apt/archive. I had 43 versions of zsh, taking up 87M! Before invoking the Clean Cache action in aptitude, df -h gave me this: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 28G 17G 9.7G

Installing alpine on a system which already has pine

2007-04-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I'm trying to install alpine, the free successor to pine, but aptitude reports: Unpacking alpine (from .../alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/rpdump.1.gz', which

Re: Installing alpine on a system which already has pine

2007-04-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 4/15/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 11:57 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: I'm trying to install alpine, the free successor to pine, but aptitude reports: Unpacking alpine (from .../alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache

Re: Installing alpine on a system which already has pine

2007-04-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 4/15/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It must be noted that you should not manually remove files that are part of a package. I really know better than to do that :) But it was just a man page, so I figured it would do no serious harm if I tried it. The dpkg --force-overwrite

Error message when opening The Gimp

2007-04-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Why do I always get this message when I open The Gimp? Unable to open a test swap file. To avoid data loss please check the location and permissions of the swap directory defined in your Preferences (currently /tmp/gimp-2.0). There's no such directory. If I create it, then restart The Gimp,

Etch installation hangs at net-drivers on Portege 3020

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: I'm trying to install Etch on an old Portege 3020 (which had Woody on it at one point). The boot and root disks work just fine, but then it just hangs when I get to the net-drivers-1 disk. It either hangs immediately (so that Alt-F4 no longer works to show me the log) or at some

Re: Etch installation hangs at net-drivers on Portege 3020

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 5/12/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:26:09AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hi, all: I'm trying to install Etch on an old Portege 3020 (which had Woody on it at one point). The boot and root disks work just fine, but then it just hangs when I

Re: No audio with flash player 9

2007-05-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 5/19/07, Andrea Giuliano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been using some flash movies with flash player 7 with no problems, but when I installed flash player 9 I completely lost audio. This happened both with forefox and epiphany, I just have these two browser. Any hint? I'm pretty

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 5/19/07, Amy Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:19:31PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: No, sorry, the problem is a concrete, objective one: * everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real

Is there a Using Debian GNU/Linux sticker?

2007-05-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi: I've recently installed Lenny on a Toshiba Portege M100, which has this irritating sticker on it: Designed for Microsoft Windows XP. I'm reluctant to remove the sticker, as lasting stickiness seems likely, but I'd love to add a counter sticker. Is there such a thing? Patrick

Re: Transient lenny upgrade problem with libc6 - SOLVED

2007-06-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 6/3/07, John O'Hagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just to share a problem - and its solution - that I'm surprised doesn't happen more often with Testing: Did a dist-upgrade yesterday using adept (frontend for aptitude), previewing the changes first to check for breakages. After the upgrade

openvpn 2.0.7-1 404 not found error

2006-10-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi:When I try to install the latest version of openvpn (in etch, anyway) aptitude returns a 404 Not Found error. Is it really not there?Patrick

Re: openvpn 2.0.7-1 404 not found error

2006-10-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 10/25/06, Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed October 25 2006 11:53, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hi: When I try to install the latest version of openvpn (in etch, anyway) aptitude returns a 404 Not Found error.Is it really not there? packages.debian.org says 2.09-1 is currently there. Maybe

Re: full boot-up messages

2006-11-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/16/06, Mertens Bram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-11-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where are the boot-up messsages logged, please? dmesg doesn't give me the Starting... done. messages -- I'd like to have exactly what is written on the screen during boot-up time. You need to

Re: How to install Google Notebook on Iceweasel?

2006-12-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 12/3/06, Jianwei Xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot see the Agree and Install Button. Actually, it appeared for only less than one second (I saw it several times) and then became the following text: ### Google Notebook is only available for Firefox and Internet Explorer at this

Re: How to install Google Notebook on Iceweasel?

2006-12-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 12/4/06, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Wiseman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On 12/3/06, Jianwei Xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Incidentally, I'm on a Debian Etch/testing system and Firefox is still Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7

Aptitude losing focus

2007-07-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I know others have reported this, but aptitude (on my testing system) keeps losing the keyboard. As someone else said, the keystrokes are going to the terminal from which it was started. One suggestion was to remove libc6-i686. Is that a safe thing to do? And will it, if so,

Re: Aptitude losing focus

2007-07-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 7/18/07, Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed July 18 2007 07:16, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: I know others have reported this, but aptitude (on my testing system) keeps losing the keyboard. As someone else said, the keystrokes are going to the terminal from which

Re: Why this crontab does not work?

2007-07-19 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 7/19/07, Magicloud Magiclouds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have a crontab like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # crontab -l # m h dom mon dow command * 0,12* * * root/root/update.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] # more /root/update.sh #!/bin/bash apt-get update

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Apologies - I meant to reply to the list with this and forgot that gmail behaves badly! Patrick On 9/21/07, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/21/2007 05:36 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:14:29 -0500, Mumia W

Small package on console after starting X

2007-10-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I have this odd phenomenon, which I suspect indicates some sort of attack. After I start X, when I return to a console (with Ctl-Alt-Fx) there's what looks like a little package sitting in the bottom, right-hand quarter of my screen. After I Alt-7 back to X, and then Ctl-Alt-Fx back to a

Re: Small package on console after starting X

2007-10-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 10/8/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 05:15:55PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I have this odd phenomenon, which I suspect indicates some sort of attack. After I start X, when I return to a console (with Ctl-Alt-Fx) there's what looks like a little

Re: Debian Lenny freezes in X

2007-11-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Nov 6, 2007 9:59 AM, Lars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm running Debian Lenny (kernel 2.6.22-2) on my laptop Asus M6Ne. After 5-10 min. in X the system freezes up (or part of it). When it happens, the keyboard and hotkeys stops responding. But the usb mouse/touchpad still works,

Re: Debian Lenny freezes in X

2007-11-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Nov 6, 2007 12:59 PM, I wrote: On a recently updated testing system, but using kernel 2.6.21 (because I can't get the Cisco VPN client to compile with 2.6.22), I've had intermittent freezes of X too. In fact, had one moment ago! I was able to Ctl-Alt-F2 to a console, where I logged in

Re: Debian Lenny freezes in X

2007-11-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I have had no X freeze on my Debian testing system since installing the xfwm4 from unstable. Patrick On Nov 7, 2007 3:39 PM, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 6, 2007 12:59 PM, I wrote: On a recently updated testing system, but using kernel 2.6.21 (because I can't get

Re: X Hangs a lot on Laptop

2007-11-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Nov 10, 2007 3:54 AM, Michael Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI All: I have Lenny/SID on my DELL D630 lap. But it seems that the X hangs a lot now and then. I had to use CTRL_BACKSPACE killing and restarting the X. I was using Xfce4 as the desktop, the kernel is 2.6.22-2-686. It's

Re: What path is iceweasel using to find Java plugin?

2007-11-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Nov 16, 2007 12:26 PM, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (It would be SO much simpler if the Firefox devs would simply put the full path to the filename in about:plugins; this sort of thing has bit me before, and a full path would have helped then, too.) In about:config, set

Re: Etch Apt list

2007-02-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 2/18/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 22:00 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I just realized tonight how few lines there are in my apt sources list. And I am wondering if I am missing some. This is my list: ## testing - Debian Etch deb

Worse then useless replies (was Re: Use 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.)

2007-03-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 3/7/07, pinniped [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. Even this will not necessarily be successful on the first pass and you may have to run it up to 3 times. Top posting is frowned on here because it tends to mangle context. But so much worse is deleting everything

Re: Worse than useless replies

2007-03-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 3/7/07, pinniped [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh? I really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've been leaving the subject blank lately because people bitch about it for no apparent reason. But if you really don't want the subject changing, why don't you ask Intnsred if he can

Re: advanced power management for non-existent /dev/hda

2008-02-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11 Feb 2008 15:52:47 GMT, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-02-11, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/11/08 08:20, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm getting some strange errors at the end of the boot-up process. This is what it looks like in dmesg: hda: drive_cmd:

string.replace not working

2008-02-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: A new repository of US caselaw[1] has recently been released, and I'm trying to make it a little more useful. At this URL (which happens to be Brown v. Bd. of Ed.), http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/347/347.US.483.html, I'm trying to convert data which looks so, 123 U.S. 456, into

Re: string.replace not working - D'OH!

2008-02-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Feb 17, 2008 11:38 AM, I wrote: At this URL (which happens to be Brown v. Bd. of Ed.), http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/347/347.US.483.html, I'm trying to convert data which looks so, 123 U.S. 456, into a link, so, lt;a href=\../123/123.US.456.html\gt; 123 U.S. 456lt;/agt. This

Re: string.replace not working - D'OH!

2008-02-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Feb 17, 2008 3:48 PM, I wrote: [earlier missive deleted] I realized that the string.replace function doesn't actually do anything to the string, so I have to assign b.replace to a variable and write that back, something like 'var c = b.replace...', then document.body.innerHTML = c. That,

Re: The Debian Way-NVIDIA

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: so as a NORMAL user you cd to the folder, then MAGIC, you are root to run a command.. I have never seen such magic. Changing to a

Replacing old kernel in testing

2008-03-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: I have just installed a new testing system on my new ThinkPad T61p. Sound doesn't work, which is apparently a known issue with kernel 2.6.22. The last stable kernel at kernel.org is 2.6.24.3, and I've read that this sound problem has been corrected. Is there any reason, as I tend to

Re: Replacing old kernel in testing

2008-03-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all: I have just installed a new testing system on my new ThinkPad T61p. Sound doesn't work, which is apparently a known issue with kernel 2.6.22. The last stable kernel at kernel.org is 2.6.24.3, and I've

WP8 on 64-bit Debian testing? You bet!

2008-03-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I just got a ThinkPad 61p, and was pretty sure I was finally going to have to let WordPerfect 8 (the UN*X-native WP) go. But I have it up and running. How I did it is described at http://pwiseman.dnsalias.com/~pwiseman/wp8install64.html. I also provide a tar.gz of the libraries and

dpkg --force-architecture to install 32-bit software on 64-bit system - bad idea?

2008-03-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
And, if so, how bad? I have installed Kompozer (the successor to Nvu), but the Debian package is a 32-bit package. I forced it to install anyway, and it seems to run just fine, although launching it caused a bunch of the following :Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-uim.so:

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