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From: Huang, Tao on 24 Jun 2010 04:00 On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan(a)opensourcedevel.com> wrote: > Well . . . I suppose this is not hijacking as it is about stability and > usability. Â I eagerly ran my apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, > rebooted and, voila, X refused to start. Â I finally installed the > proprietary nvidia driver AND removed nouveau and I got my X back. > > I was delighted to see that I could now define printers in KDE without > using the CUPS web interface. Â However, I still do not see a way to > change passwords as an ordinary user. Â How does an ordinary user who > does not use the command line (and thus passwd) and does not have the > root password change their password in KDE 4.4? Thanks - John System Settings -> Personal -> About Me -> Change Password Tao -- http://huangtao.me/ http://www.google.com/profiles/UniIsland > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian..org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1277350478.3411.16.camel(a)localhost > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTinQ9iy_wvvuwlGYKEVTmTlS3gVkHi6F9zFw2AaS(a)mail.gmail.com
From: Sven Joachim on 24 Jun 2010 05:10 On 2010-06-24 08:29 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: > Yesterday, a fix for a problem where you could not make ext2, ext3 or > ext4 filesystems made it into testing. This has been around for a few > weeks, and although there is a workaround using the updated version > from SID, all the installation CDs from the weekly builds have not yet > caught up. This can be worked around by using a daily snapshot of the installer: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ Worked fine for me in qemu three days ago. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wrtoera2.fsf(a)turtle.gmx.de
From: Brent Clark on 24 Jun 2010 05:20 On 24/06/2010 00:26, Amar Cosic wrote: > Hello list > > I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if > everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you > use squeeze so its probably best place to ask Hiya I think its very stable, and sure enjoying it. Give it a whirl, I dont think you will be disappointed. Regards Brent Clark P.s. Good to see more people using and enquiring about Squeeze. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C231890.10309(a)gmail.com
From: Amar Cosic on 24 Jun 2010 09:50 On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Brent Clark <brentgclarklist(a)gmail.com>wrote: > On 24/06/2010 00:26, Amar Cosic wrote: > >> Hello list >> >> I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if >> everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you >> use squeeze so its probably best place to ask >> > > > Hiya > > I think its very stable, and sure enjoying it. > > Give it a whirl, I dont think you will be disappointed. > > Regards > Brent Clark > > P.s. Good to see more people using and enquiring about Squeeze. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C231890.10309(a)gmail.com > > Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay attention on ? Regards -- Amar ÄosiÄ amar.cosic(a)gmail.com amar(a)amar.ba +38761240095 http://www.amar.ba
From: Brent Clark on 24 Jun 2010 10:00
On 24/06/2010 15:44, Amar Cosic wrote: > Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right > way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list > && apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else > I have to pay attention on ? Thats what I did. But you may wish to rather use 'aptitude safe-upgrade'. Best of luck. Regards Brent Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C2363D9.3000806(a)gmail.com |