Re: Using Exim
c) I want that standalone server receives LAN and internet mail of LAN users. When setting up exim, it'll ask you if you what range you want to act as a smarthost for. Tell it your local network's information. Did you mean range of IP addresses to act as a smarthost? d) I want that users can receive their mail from mail server by their favourite MUA in LAN. You will also need to install some kind of POP or IMAP daemon to handle this part. What is/are the "default" POP and/or IMAP server(s) of the Debian etch? But if fetchmail receives my mail from internet and a POP/IMAP server delivers mail in LAN, what is the purpose of the Exim then :-O? Tero Mäntyvaara -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM DB2 V9.5 32 bits failed to allocate share memory
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:16:52AM +0100, Vincent Bachelier wrote: > Hi, > > I have a issue with IBM DB2 V9.5 (the express version) in 32 bits. > > I have install it on a 64 bits arch without any problem, on debian > > But in 32 bits, on a Bi-Xeon with 4g of ram, during installation they say > "Allocation memory failed : Cannot allocate share memory" Is that the *exact* error message? > It's a fresh debian etch 32 bits install, and a fresh ibm db2 v9.5 > express install ! What is the output of: uname -a > The damn is that it's for a test server in an enterprise condition. > > The only way I have found is to install the db2 server on a redhat > enterprise, and they work ! I don't understand why ??? > > I would really prefer to keep everything on debian, but I think they is > a setting that could make db2 crash ... I don't understand > > I have look in redhat config for kernel, all main think like HIMEM4G and > 64BITS RESOURCE, is sets ... > > Any idea about this ? Take careful note of any error messages -- which, hopefully, will lead you to the right config files to compare between the working redhat and the non working Debian setup. Can you explain: "all main think like HIMEM4G and 64BITS RESOURCE, is sets ..." Whats this "64BITS RESOURCE"? Is "uname -a" for redhat == "uname -a" for Debian? -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:52:58PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems busted. > The applet can find no network connections, but my eth0 connects. Well, you are running the testing distribution, which means you are one of the testers of the next stable release. :-) So, have you checked the BTS? -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:06:12AM +0100, markus wrote: > Hello, > > I safe-upgraded yesterday (22.03.2008) an have exactly the same problem: > Neither eth0 nor wlan0 are working anymore. Unfortunately, I have no > idea why. Are you running stable or testing/unstable? The statement: "Unfortunately, I have no idea why." indicates you should not be running testing. -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hylafax faxgetty faxrcvd arguments
Hi @ll, i have trouble with my hylafax configuration. I use a Debian Etch System with the standard hylafax package from debian. The faxserver is only used for incoming faxes. Each incoming fax is delivered to one mail address at the local system. Now, i try to filter incoming fax by sender but the filter does not work. All incoming faxes will be send to the standard mail address. By viewing my syslog during recieving a fax i see the following output: FaxGetty[2322]: RECV FAX (00026): recvq/fax00026.tif from +49 2441 3453264, route to FaxGetty[2305]: RECV FAX: bin/faxrcvd "recvq/fax00026.tif" "ttyS0" "00026" "" How can i add the sender variable/ number to faxrcvd so that i can filter incoming faxes through faxdispatch by sender? Can anyone help me? Greetings Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdda2wav default device customization
>> $ cdda2wav dev=/dev/hdc -t 4 >>. How can manage things so to omit the device specification? > when I do: icedax -t 4 (now (in debian) cdda2wav is a symbolic link to > icedax) > I get: > icedax: No such file or directory. Cannot open '-1'. Cannot open SCSI driver. > icedax: For possible targets try 'wodim -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. > Use the script scan_scsi.linux to find out more. The feature that allows cdda2wav to work without dev= has been introduced in Summer 2006. As the questionable fork called "icedax" is based on a cdda2wav source that is much older, it cannot support this feature. Note that is is a bad idea to use something like dev=/* as any dev=parameter that contains a slash tells cdda2wav to use the low quality OS based ioctl interface instead of the SCSI based implementation from cdda2wav. For a correctly working cdda2wav just compile and install a recent cdrtools from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: circuit semantic diagram editor with PIC support?
jeffry s wrote: i need a software to draw a circuit. in my circuit there is one micro controller PIC16F877A. any suggestion of a good software. i am using debian unstable with GNOME.. thanks.. xcircuit is another option -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh wrote: > Unfortunately, > state-of-the-art biff technology seems to elude the TB team, and > they've determined that automatically finding new messages is a > problem beyond their abilities. That's odd. I get Icedove notifications all the time, and I didn't do anything special that I know of. I'm running raw unstable (Linux elmore 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP) with Thunderbird version 2.0.0.9 (20080110), and Gnome Version: 2.22.0. Best wishes, Max Hyre -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH5k1UinmU7xweXmkRAqBGAKDC1tQzH0Fum4/uJm2JPq0CSqX/YwCcC9TN //Lao4XRbGAAVyGCvg2QPyU= =PkQ+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package
I posted the same topic on Mediawiki admins mailinglist. A Mediawiki developer[0] told that the Debian package is unsupported third-party and they receive a lot of complaints about it. So will install myself. The only downside that I need to care myself about security patches. cheers Simon [0] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2008-March/026702.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)
On 3/22/08, Sanjaya Vitharana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is not accurate. Your display's vertical refresh is 50-120 Hz, not > > 50-160. > Thanks, I found the correct one as. > http://www.viewsonic.com/support/desktopdisplays/crtmonitors/e2series/e50c/index.htm > I have tried with "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" using vertical > refresh rate as 50-120 Hz. But results are same as previous. > Find the attached new xorg.conf and logfiles. I suspect that your monitor doesn't actually have a horizontal sync of 30 to 54, it's just wrong on the web site. Why don't you run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg again, and this time instead of picking "Advanced" to specify the numbers directly, choose "Medium" and pick "A monitor that can do 1024x768 at 75 Hz". I suppose this advice has the faint possibility that it will cause your monitor to melt, but I don't think so. Sorry for any confusion, I meant to reply to the list earlier, not just Mr. Vitharana. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: circuit semantic diagram editor with PIC support?
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:20 PM, e s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jeffry s wrote: > > i need a software to draw a circuit. in my circuit there is one micro > > controller PIC16F877A. > > any suggestion of a good software. i am using debian unstable with > GNOME.. > > > > thanks.. > > xcircuit is another option > xcircuit is written in tcl/tk.. i don't really like the interface because it is not match with gnome look n feel. i did try gEDA. it does have support for PIC16F877A. still learning how to use it. thanks all... ^_^
Re: Using Exim
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 01:05:24PM +0200, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote: > > >You will also need to install some kind of POP or IMAP daemon to handle > >this part. > > > What is/are the "default" POP and/or IMAP server(s) of the Debian etch? There isn't a default POP or IMAP server, take your pick. > > But if fetchmail receives my mail from internet and a POP/IMAP server > delivers mail in LAN, what is the purpose of the Exim then :-O? Fetchmail Pop's the mail and hands it off to the local exim that then does its magic and sends it where it belongs (taking into acount /etc/aliases, ~/.forward, etc). Exim also sends all mail. Without Exim, you can't send mail either locally or to other boxes. Try reading: the mail-administration HOWTO (doc-linux-howto) the exim spec document Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM DB2 V9.5 32 bits failed to allocate share memory
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:30:28AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:16:52AM +0100, Vincent Bachelier wrote: > Can you explain: > > "all main think like HIMEM4G and 64BITS RESOURCE, is sets ..." > > Whats this "64BITS RESOURCE"? > > Is "uname -a" for redhat == "uname -a" for Debian? > Or uname -a for AIX? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems booting
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID > card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard drives are all > sata Raptors with 4 of the 5 drives in a RAID 10 array. I'm running Etch. > > The problem I'm having is an intermittent one with booting. I will > quite regularly get a message that the root file system cannot be found, > as well as files such sbin/init and /etc/fstab. Here is the most > specific error: mount: mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed. > Just before those messages it says kinit is looking at sda5 for a resume > image but cannot find it. I'm then dumped into a shell after the boot > process fails. Use either LABEL or UUID. This gets covered on this list at least every couple of weeks. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > Unfortunately, > > state-of-the-art biff technology seems to elude the TB team, and > > they've determined that automatically finding new messages is a > > problem beyond their abilities. > >That's odd. I get Icedove notifications all the time, and I > didn't do anything special that I know of. I'm running raw unstable > (Linux elmore 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP) with Thunderbird version 2.0.0.9 > (20080110), and Gnome Version: 2.22.0. For movemail accounts? If so, that's new, and I'll have to dig through my preferences. For several years the TB developers have been saying that they have no intentions of making notifications work for movemail, since they don't think anyone uses it except for a few dinosaurs who should switch to IMAP or POP mail, anyway. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com http://36pints.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>That's odd. I get Icedove notifications all the time, > For movemail accounts? If so, that's new, and I'll have to dig > through my preferences. For several years the TB developers have been > saying that they have no intentions of making notifications work for > movemail, since they don't think anyone uses it except for a few > dinosaurs who should switch to IMAP or POP mail, anyway. My bad. From the context, I thought the problem applied to all access types. I'm using IMAP. Sorry 'bout that. Best wishes, Max Hyre -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH5niVinmU7xweXmkRAi0IAKDP5ynmNTElN8f35T2bWnJrcXu6xACgy7QR 07snX1I9w96oyiAbxMvW47s= =NOYE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:52:58PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems busted. > > The applet can find no network connections, but my eth0 connects. > > Well, you are running the testing distribution, which means you are one > of the testers of the next stable release. :-) > > So, have you checked the BTS? Yes, and I have subscribed to a bug which seems relevant (upgrading libglib2 broke networking). The problem is that NetworkManager is so intertwined with so many subsystems that it's hard (for me) to know where the fault lies. FWIW, if I manually turn off my wireless connection and reboot, NM recognizes my wired connection. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thunderbird, import emails
Hi all, I used to use Thunderbird and now have copied all my email files from on PC into another. Now I would like to import my email to new PC which have Thunderbird again. I have copied my emails files from previous PC into new empty folders and all email have been retrieved successfully. But in my Inbox I have new emails and if I just copy the old file I will loose my new emails. Does anybody know how can I import my email without deleting existing emails in Thunderbird when email file already exists? Regards, Danesh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: configuration of a linux router
Douglas, dt> Now you're using shaw.ca for your home domain. Do you own that? Would you like to e.g. relay mail for all of shaw.ca? Not really. OK, I've invented the domain name petershouse; the current hosts file follows. Please let me know of any remaining errors. Isn't there a place to specify the domain, analogous to /etc/hostname? Unfortunate that these matters aren't mentioned in the hosts man page. Also, I wonder that /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, /etc/network/interfaces and perhaps a few other files haven't been amalgated into one. Excessive fragmentation increases the likelihood of confusion and error. Thanks, ... Peter E. # /etc/hosts file 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost # Private LANs at home 172.23.4.1 joule.petershouse joule 172.23.4.2 curie.petershouse curie 172.23.5.1 joule.petershouse joule 172.23.5.2 heaviside.petershouse heaviside # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.yi.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Exim
On Sunday 23 March 2008 04:05:24 am Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: > >> c) I want that standalone server receives LAN and internet mail of LAN > >> users. > > > > When setting up exim, it'll ask you if you what range you want to act as > > a smarthost for. Tell it your local network's information. > > Did you mean range of IP addresses to act as a smarthost? Netmask, actually, like 192.168.0.1/24 for example. > >> d) I want that users can receive their mail from mail server by their > >> favourite MUA in LAN. > > > > You will also need to install some kind of POP or IMAP daemon to handle > > this part. > > What is/are the "default" POP and/or IMAP server(s) of the Debian etch? I don't believe there is a default one; POP and IMAP aren't strictly necessary for email. > But if fetchmail receives my mail from internet and a POP/IMAP server > delivers mail in LAN, what is the purpose of the Exim then :-O? Fetchmail needs something that can deliver email to hand off to. It doesn't deliver mail by itself, it only fetches it. It needs a mail transport agent to do the delivery. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user
Vikki, s. keeling, Ron, Thanks for the comments. The MUA is in Oberon and I don't want to abandon it. I read the messages from the Web based archive so there is no question of replying directly to an emessage. When there is time, I can look for a way to incorporate the message id into my reply. Thanks agian, ... Peter E. Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.yi.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Chris Bannister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:52:58PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems busted. > > > The applet can find no network connections, but my eth0 connects. > > > > Well, you are running the testing distribution, which means you are one > > of the testers of the next stable release. :-) > > > > So, have you checked the BTS? > > Yes, and I have subscribed to a bug which seems relevant (upgrading > libglib2 broke networking). The problem is that NetworkManager is so > intertwined with so many subsystems that it's hard (for me) to know > where the fault lies. Incidentally, there's a bug fix mentioned on that bug page[1] which apparently solved the problem for many; it has not solved the problem for me, though. Patrick [1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471317 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed
Yesterday was a horrendous day! My goal was to upgrade my ancient sarge distribution to etch, using my three etch DVDs. It is a complicated problem because my DVD Reader/player is external, connected through USB, and my BIOS won't allow booting from it. Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall sarge, from my ancient and well-used pile of 12 sarge CDs. This took a while. I then ran apt-cdrom -d /media/dvd add. (Remark: I had of course made sure that /media/dvd had been created and that I could mount a DVD on that mount point. And I guess it is important to note that this was all kosherly entered in my /etc/fstab) After some incantations of " . . . upgrade" -- doesn't seem ever to hurt -- I followed the absolutely inspirational advice of Florian Kulzer, and made a file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/apt.conf, with the one line: Acquire::cdrom::mount "/media/dvd"; (for safety's sake, following a tidbit in the Release Documentation, I put a symlink to that in /etc/apt/ . >From then, paying careful attention to warnings, and of course being thoroughly backed up, the process of running apt-get dist-upgrade (maybe I used aptitude, already I've suppressed the details of yesterday) was fairly routine. I'm writing this a) as a Shout of Triumph(Yes, debian, if one labors hard enough, Does Work), and b) as a note of thanks and public acknowledgement to Florian Kulzer. Best wishes to all, Alan, a certified Etcher -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan "The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Impeachment proceedings should be started immediately. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird, import emails
On 2008-03-23 16:42 +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > I used to use Thunderbird and now have copied all my email files from > on PC into another. Now I would like to import my email to new PC > which have Thunderbird again. > I have copied my emails files from previous PC into new empty folders > and all email have been retrieved successfully. But in my Inbox I have > new emails and if I just copy > the old file I will loose my new emails. Does anybody know how can I > import my email without deleting existing emails in Thunderbird when > email file already exists? Surely, just append your old Inbox file to the new one rather than overwriting it. You may have duplicate messages after that, but you won't lose mails. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd
On 19/03/2008, Jörg Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also tried noauto in fstab an manually mount after boot. But with the same > result: device is busy. Does any error or warning message appear in kernel logs? Either at startup, or when you try to mount the device? Happy Easter Bernardo
Re: network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:30:58 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:06:12AM +0100, markus wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I safe-upgraded yesterday (22.03.2008) an have exactly the same problem: > > Neither eth0 nor wlan0 are working anymore. Unfortunately, I have no > > idea why. > > Are you running stable or testing/unstable? > > The statement: "Unfortunately, I have no idea why." indicates you should > not be running testing. > I'm running unstable, and most things I have a pretty good of how the system works, but the inner workings of hightech rarely working things like network manager I know little about. AFAIK it gets it's notification through dbus and I guess that the problem is in there somewhere. I can setup the network manually quite nicely with iwconfig, iwlist, wpa_supplicant and dhclient so the bookends are working ok. dmesg shows eth0 connection messages, so that is working fine also. I wanted to know that it's not the kernel and Markus verified that. That leaves network-manager to blame and I don't know that part very well. I did write variations to most of the rest myself for embedded systems so saying that I don't know enough to run testing is a bit extreme and very condescending, and by that line, since you can't give any pointers yourself I am guessing that you are running stable since you shouldn't be running testing unstable either ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:30:58 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:06:12AM +0100, markus wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I safe-upgraded yesterday (22.03.2008) an have exactly the same problem: > > Neither eth0 nor wlan0 are working anymore. Unfortunately, I have no > > idea why. > > Are you running stable or testing/unstable? > > The statement: "Unfortunately, I have no idea why." indicates you should > not be running testing. > I'm not sure if there is progress, but some more info I removed the relevant interfaces from /etc/network/interfaces as per instructions I saw on an ubuntu forum. Network-manager does bring up the relevant interfaces, but it doesn't see any wireless aps although iwlist wlan0 scan shows them. It also doesn't see the changes to the wired network (connect/disconnect) unless I restart dbus (doesn't help wireless though). Since it's a wpa2 network it's a pain to start manually. wlassistant doesn't connect either -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yesterday was a horrendous day! My goal was to upgrade my > ancient sarge distribution to etch, using my three etch > DVDs. It is a complicated problem because my DVD Reader/player > is external, connected through USB, and my BIOS won't allow > booting from it. > > Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I > had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall > sarge, from my ancient and well-used pile of 12 sarge CDs. This > took a while. Wouldn't it have been easier to download the netinstall or businesscard image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue with the DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to etch)? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: LCD screen flickering
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:10:36PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > try using the intel driver. ,[ ls -la /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so ] | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2008-02-25 20:03 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so -> intel_drv.so ` Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Toid authentication disabled
Hi all, I am trying to set up mutt using fetchmail to get mail from y POP3 server. I am getting the error Toid authentication disabled. What does Toid refer to here? I have entered the same settings with fetchmailconf as I have in Icedove.. thanks peter fetchmail: 6.3.8 fragt pop.t-online.de ab (Protokoll POP3) um So 23 Mär 2008 20:26:40 CET: Abfrage gestartet Versuche, mit 194.25.134.25/110 zu verbinden...verbunden. fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Toid authentication disabled fetchmail: Toid authentication disabled fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: 6.3.8 fragt ab pop.t-online.de (Protokoll POP3) um So 23 Mär 2008 20:26:41 CET: Abfrage beendet fetchmail: Abfragestatus=3 (AUTHFAIL) fetchmail: normale Beendigung, Status 3 Done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: configuration of a linux router
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:07:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Douglas, > > dt> Now you're using shaw.ca for your home domain. Do you own that? Would > you like to e.g. relay mail for all of shaw.ca? > > Not really. > > OK, I've invented the domain name petershouse; > the current hosts file follows. Please let me know of any > remaining errors. > > Isn't there a place to specify the domain, analogous to /etc/hostname? > Unfortunate that these matters aren't mentioned in the hosts > man page. Also, I wonder that /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, > /etc/network/interfaces and perhaps a few other files haven't > been amalgated into one. Excessive fragmentation increases > the likelihood of confusion and error. Hhmm, not really. /etc/network/interfaces is for configuring your *interfaces* and is Debian specific. /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts are traditional *nix and serve a different purpose (yes I know they are all related to the network, but still ...). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I >> had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall >> sarge, from my ancient and well-used pile of 12 sarge CDs. This >> took a while. > > Wouldn't it have been easier to download the netinstall or businesscard > image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue with the > DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to etch)? Hi, Andrei, thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately my (quite old) computer can boot _only_ from hard drive or CD, not from any other apparatus. I have done a _lot_ of checking on the BIOS, trust me! I explored the possibility of putting a netinstall and boot.img on a CD, while making the CD bootable. Although I had grabbed a netinstall.iso and a boot.img, my research led me to the conviction that burning those to a CD which was then also to be bootable was way beyond my meager capabilities. > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) Great .sig! Best wishes, Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan There are many good Impeachment sites; one of the best is: www.waifllc.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:33:49PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: > I posted the same topic on Mediawiki admins mailinglist. A Mediawiki > developer[0] told that the Debian package is unsupported third-party and > they receive a lot of complaints about it. It is usual for upstream developers not to support the debian packages. If you have troubles you should contact the maintainer/file a bug. > So will install myself. The only downside that I need to care myself > about security patches. No, the debian maintainer should take care of that too (especially for etch). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:28:40PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: > On 03/21/2008 09:20 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I don't think so. Run 'aptitude keep-all', 'aptitude update' and retry. > > Do you get the same thing? I'm guessing you tried to install some task > > and aptitude still remembers it. > > Hi Andrei > > No success. > > Need to get 257MB/262MB of archives. After unpacking 671MB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Did you try without recommends? Beware, depending on version (stable or not) the method to turn of recommends may differ. You can also try Doug's suggestion and look at each package aptitude wants to install after the first 'g'. If it's only pulled in by a "recommends" than it is safe not to install it (though you might miss some functionality). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Configuring dhcp3 to send hostname mappings to clients
Dear all, My /etc/hosts contains a handful of mappings useful on my internal subnet: 10.0.0.2 reidster.net reidster 10.0.0.4 convex.reidster.net convex 10.0.0.4 toys.reidster.nettoys.reidster 10.0.0.4 yabman.reidster.net yabman The same box is also a DHCP server, using dhcp3 for a couple of laptops which are transient on the network. I would like to pass the mappings above on to the laptops using dhcp3. Is this possible? It's OK with me if I have to retype the mappings, since there's only four of them. I run testing. Thanks for any suggestions or pointers. I'm having a hard time grokking the dhcp3 docs to figure out how to do this. Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I > >> had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall > >> sarge, from my ancient and well-used pile of 12 sarge CDs. This > >> took a while. > > > > Wouldn't it have been easier to download the netinstall or businesscard > > image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue with the > > DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to etch)? > Hi, Andrei, thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately my (quite > old) computer can boot _only_ from hard drive or CD, not from > any other apparatus. I have done a _lot_ of checking on the > BIOS, trust me! I don't doubt that, that's why I suggested the netinstall image, because it can go on a CD and is small enough not to take too long. > I explored the possibility of putting a netinstall and boot.img on > a CD, while making the CD bootable. Although I had grabbed a > netinstall.iso and a boot.img, my research led me to the conviction > that burning those to a CD which was then also to be bootable was > way beyond my meager capabilities. But how did you burn the DVDs? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user
shaw.ca> writes: > I read the messages from the Web based archive > so there is no question of replying directly > to an emessage. When there is time, I can look > for a way to incorporate the message id into > my reply. You can try gmane (which I am experimenting now) or googlegroups Regards, Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Digital Camera
http://www.nikond60.com Nikon D60 Robert Thompson wrote: > > Hello All, >I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB > to > connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with > Debian? > > Thanks > Eric > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Digital-Camera-tp2261490p16241053.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package
On 03/23/2008 08:49 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > It is usual for upstream developers not to support the debian packages. > If you have troubles you should contact the maintainer/file a bug. Generally or for web applications? Why? cheers Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 07:41:47PM +, Andrei Popescu wrote: > shaw.ca> writes: > > > I read the messages from the Web based archive > > so there is no question of replying directly > > to an emessage. When there is time, I can look > > for a way to incorporate the message id into > > my reply. > > You can try gmane (which I am experimenting now) or googlegroups > > Regards, > Andrei Well gmane doesn't seem to preserve threading either so I guess this leaves googlegroups. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:45:29PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: > On 03/23/2008 08:49 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > It is usual for upstream developers not to support the debian packages. > > If you have troubles you should contact the maintainer/file a bug. > > Generally or for web applications? Why? I don't think this is related to web applications and I can think of two reasons: - the Debian version is older then upstream (especially for stable) - the Debian version is more or less modified You don't have to worry about it. If you find a bug it is the maintainers responsibility to check if the bug is Debian specific or upstream and handle accordingly. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > Well, you are running the testing distribution, which means you are > one of the testers of the next stable release. That's exactly what maintainers think. Me not. I use testing since it came up in potatoe times. The important changes came twice or three times a week with every upgrade. I did upgrade continuously also when distribution names changed, and every now and then I installed a new kernel. Of course there were problems I felt unable to solve when they showed up. Most of them vanished after the next or the next but one upgrade. Others did not. I solved them by googling or - in the words of my dog - by following my nose. In the worst cases I found the solution by posting to this list and realizing the answers. There was some kind of learning by doing, but no intentional learning with system or persistence - not after I retired from teaching and so seventeen years ago. What Debian calls 'Testing' is simply 'Desktop' for me, and I am sure for most of its users. 'Stable' is dusty and musty months over months _before_ any new release. Curiosity and the shortness of lifetime left forbids archeologic occupation with it. For sure you can hardly believe it, but I feel totally happy with using 'Testing'. There is absolutely no bad conscience and absolutely no fear of exceeding the abilities of my 'nose', and there is not the slightest idea or intention to test any next future fossil called 'stable'. Yours Hans -- To reduce spam this address accepts only mails 'To:' subscribed lists. Zur Verminderung von Spam akzeptiert diese Adresse nur Mails 'An:' abonnierte Listen. Hans Vogelsberger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
windows partition not usable
Dear Sir or Madam, I have debian etch installed on my laptop. I have also a windows xp service pack 2 partition. But I made an installation mistake, so that at the moment I cannot use this windows partition from debian. I have tried to change the /etc/fstab, but it didn't work. What can I do to use the windows partion from debian, as I have all my music on the windows partition, which makes sense, as I can normally hear my music from linux and windows. I don't want to install again. If you can send me an answer, I would be very pleased. Yours sincerely, Hans-Gerhard Schrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: windows partition not usable
On Sunday 23 March 2008 03:15:51 pm Hans-Gerhard Schrick wrote: > I have also a windows xp service pack 2 partition. But I made an > installation mistake, so that at the moment I cannot use this windows > partition from debian. Were you able to before you made the installation mistake? What was this installation mistake you're referring to? > I have tried to change the /etc/fstab, but it > didn't work. In what way did you change /etc/fstab? > What can I do to use the windows partion from debian, as I have all my > music on the windows partition, which makes sense, as I can normally > hear my music from linux and windows. Is your Windows installation using ntfs or vfat? > I don't want to install again. This isn't Windows, so that probably won't be necessary like it is with that other OS... > If you can send me an answer, I would be very pleased. This isn't the place for magic fixes, for that, you'll probably have better results hiring a consultant. http://www.debian.org/consultants/ We're happy to help if you're willing to meet us halfway with all well-asked, interesting questions we have experience with, though. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Forgive me if this doesn't apply to your situation, but you should be prepared to follow the mailing list you're asking for help on and not ask for private replies: Other people will be searching the archives for the same answer you're looking for. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX
Hello, all: After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser plugin were broken. It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade. These two commands will fix it: rm /etc/alternatives/acroread ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread You'll also need to run acroread outside the browser once to accept the license before it will work inside the browser (assuming you have nppdf.so properly installed). Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.
Hi, On Sun Mar 23, 2008 at 22:21:50 +0100, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Chris Bannister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > Well, you are running the testing distribution, which means you are > > one of the testers of the next stable release. > > That's exactly what maintainers think. Me not. I use testing since it > came up in potatoe times. Which als means you are running an more or less unsupported development snapshot. Greetings Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian Release Team Member Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | Debian Listmaster Public key http://zobel.ftbfs.de/5d64f870.asc - KeyID: 5D64 F870 GPG Fingerprint: 5DB3 1301 375A A50F 07E7 302F 493E FB8E 5D64 F870 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Well gmane doesn't seem to preserve threading either so I guess this > leaves googlegroups. > I use gmane servers with knode. Never had a problem with threads on d-u or any other lists for that matter. Perhaps the problem is somewhere else. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue with the >> > DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to etch)? >> Hi, Andrei, thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately my (quite >> old) computer can boot _only_ from hard drive or CD, not from >> any other apparatus. I have done a _lot_ of checking on the >> BIOS, trust me! > > I don't doubt that, that's why I suggested the netinstall image, because > it can go on a CD and is small enough not to take too long. Hi, Andrei, I guess you know something I don't know(not that that's a surprise) Why would I take my netinstall file (167 Mb) and put it on a CD unless the CD was _bootable_? The CD would have to be made bootable, and would have I guess to have an initrd-img on it as well. When I burn a CD, I use mkisofs and cdrecord. I don't know any other way. Maybe you, or some other expert, should write a nice mini-HOWTO about how to do all this. >> that burning those to a CD which was then also to be bootable was >> way beyond my meager capabilities. > > But how did you burn the DVDs? I didn't. "I bought 'em at a shop". At CheapBytes, a nice on-line store for Linux and BSD ware. Best wishes, Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan There are many good Impeachment sites; one of the best is: www.waifllc.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive
On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ya, > > Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every > time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's > to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead > of all the CD's when installing new packages? What would the be the > easiest way to do this? > > Thank You, > mtp5150 > STATUS: Completed, Solved Hi Ya, First off let me thank all of you for providing input, advice, and support. I have successfully merged all of the CDs on to a hard drive partition and it is working with one minor glitch. I keep getting the following error, "warning the following packages cannot be authenticated". APT-GET INSTALL does allow me to continue, so everything is working. I just don't know how to resolve this error message, yet. For anyone wanting to do the same, here is what I did; !!--!! !! WARING: I'm am an amateur at Debian/Linux use the following at your own RISK !! !!--!! 1) Listed all the .iso files to the text file "filelist.txt" with ls *.iso > filelist.txt 2) Edited the text file "filelist.txt" and arranged them in the order I wanted (This is not a necessity but I wanted to process them in disk order) 3) Wrote this script to do the following; 3a) Mount each iso file. 3b) Copy each iso file to /mnt/maddog2/debian. 3c) Unmount each iso file. 3d) Repeat until all iso files are done. ---SNIP--- #!/bin/bash # # FILENAME: cpfiles # # Short Bash script to: # Mount each iso file. # Copy each iso file to /mnt/maddog2/debian. # Unmount each iso file. # Repeat until all iso files are done. # # If someone else is using the script be sure to change all the directories to match your # system. for file in $(cat /home/michael/filelist.txt);do mount -t iso9660 -o loop /home/michael/linux/$file /mnt/old cp -R /mnt/old/* /mnt/maddog2/debian/ umount /mnt/old done ---SNIP--- 4) apt-ftparchive packages ./ | gzip > Packages.gz This should probabley be done for; ./etch/main/ ./etch/contrib/ ./etch/non-free/ with each resulting Package.gz file moved to; ./dists/etch/main/binary-i386/ ./dists/etch/contrib/binary-i386/ ./dists/etch/non-free/binary-i386/ Although, I'm am not 100% certain, as I have not done it, Yet. 5) In /etc/sources.list create the following and delete or comment out everything else. 5a) deb file:/mnt/maddog2/debian etch contrib main non-free NOTE: Be sure to change the directory to match your system. NOTES: 1) The merged CD's required 17G of hard drive space. 2) During APT package installation I now receive an error message regarding libraries that cannot be authenticated. APT allows you to accept these libraries without verification, and so far nothing has gone wrong. 3) The CD copy process took several hours as well did the apt-ftparchive command. So be prepared to sit and wait. Took me most of the day on my P-III 1gig box. Thank You, mtp5150 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems booting
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard drives are all sata Raptors with 4 of the 5 drives in a RAID 10 array. I'm running Etch. The problem I'm having is an intermittent one with booting. I will quite regularly get a message that the root file system cannot be found, as well as files such sbin/init and /etc/fstab. Here is the most specific error: mount: mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed. Just before those messages it says kinit is looking at sda5 for a resume image but cannot find it. I'm then dumped into a shell after the boot process fails. Use either LABEL or UUID. This gets covered on this list at least every couple of weeks. Doug. Well, that was a huge help. You cut out the part of the message where I say I don't really understand the rules syntax and just give me variables. It doesn't do a whole lot for me. If I understood the syntax I'd have already written my own rules and wouldn't have asked for help here. And, btw, I have 81,000+ messages from this list on my machine going back more than a year. If my reading of them had helped me understand this well enough to write my own rules I'd have done it. Guess I'll just look for help elsewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: configuration of a linux router
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:07:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > dt> Now you're using shaw.ca for your home domain. Do you own that? Would > you like to e.g. relay mail for all of shaw.ca? > > Not really. Didn't think so :) > > OK, I've invented the domain name petershouse; > the current hosts file follows. Please let me know of any > remaining errors. It looks fine. Does it work? Do you have any firewall doing network address translation? If you want fire-and-forget just use ipmasq, if you want to really understand it use shorewall after reading shorewall-doc. What about supplying DNS services to your network? The easiest is to install dnsmasq. > > Isn't there a place to specify the domain, analogous to /etc/hostname? > Unfortunate that these matters aren't mentioned in the hosts > man page. Also, I wonder that /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, > /etc/network/interfaces and perhaps a few other files haven't > been amalgated into one. Excessive fragmentation increases > the likelihood of confusion and error. No. Each *NIX has its own way, however /etc/hosts is standard. Unix networking was developed with BSD and was then imported by the other *nix in various ways. Then different *nix made automated scripts to do the networking setup and each puts its configs somewhere different. On debian, its /etc/hostname and /etc/network/interfaces. Its all well documented and hasn't changed in a long time. Read the debian-reference. > # /etc/hosts file > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > # Private LANs at home > 172.23.4.1joule.petershouse joule > 172.23.4.2curie.petershouse curie > > 172.23.5.1joule.petershouse joule > 172.23.5.2heaviside.petershouse heaviside > > # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts > ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback > fe00::0 ip6-localnet > ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix > ff02::1 ip6-allnodes > ff02::2 ip6-allrouters > ff02::3 ip6-allhosts > > > > Desktops.OpenDoc http://carnot.yi.org/ I don't know what this line is for. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems booting
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 05:14:44PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > >>I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID > >>card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard drives are all > >>sata Raptors with 4 of the 5 drives in a RAID 10 array. I'm running Etch. > >> > >>The problem I'm having is an intermittent one with booting. I will > >>quite regularly get a message that the root file system cannot be found, > >>as well as files such sbin/init and /etc/fstab. Here is the most > >>specific error: mount: mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed. > >>Just before those messages it says kinit is looking at sda5 for a resume > >>image but cannot find it. I'm then dumped into a shell after the boot > >>process fails. > >> > > > >Use either LABEL or UUID. This gets covered on this list at least every > >couple of weeks. > > > Well, that was a huge help. You cut out the part of the message where I > say I don't really understand the rules syntax and just give me > variables. It doesn't do a whole lot for me. If I understood the > syntax I'd have already written my own rules and wouldn't have asked for > help here. > > And, btw, I have 81,000+ messages from this list on my machine going > back more than a year. If my reading of them had helped me understand > this well enough to write my own rules I'd have done it. > > Guess I'll just look for help elsewhere. Sorry to piss you off. My advice is to forget udev rules and accept that device names will change. Then, either add a label to each filesystem with the appropriate tools (e.g. tune2fs) or look in /dev/disk/by-id to get the UUID for the appropriate disk partition. Then, whenever you refer to a device name, e.g. /dev/sda1, you would use LABEL=[label] or UUID=[UUID]. I can't give you an example from my box because its using LVM over raid1 which means I'm using e.g. /dev/mapper/mirror-root Now, if you have a way of searching those 81,000 messages you can look up the "LABEL=" string. If not, use google with site=debian.org. There may even be a howto on the debian wiki. There are man fstab, man mount. Unfortunatly, it seems that man bootparam hasn't been updated. I hope this puts you both on the right track and into a better frame of mind. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems booting
On Sunday 23 March 2008 01:57, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I assume I'm running into problems with udev not naming > the devices consistently but am not quite sure of my diagnosis or how to > fix it if that is the problem. I don't think udev rules will fix it, since the udev rules are on the root filesystem that it's not finding. I recommend using volume management, so that the root filesystem ends up on /dev/mapper/vg0-root or something similar -- this all gets set up in the initramfs, and elegantly avoids device-naming issues. Alternatively, you can mount the filesystems by label or by UUID. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)
Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the "BADSIG" error from "aptitude update", which googling reveals has been experienced by quite a few people : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/08/msg00100.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/12/msg00227.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/06/msg01121.html The usual suggested causes involve Debian mirrors in an inconsistent state while updating, broken packages, or corruptions in the package lists as a result of broken network connections. With the system I'm working on (a vanilla Etch-with-KDE system), on every occasion that BADSIG occurs, simply rerunning "aptitude update" succeeds, without having changed a thing. Some responses have pointed out that multiple backend machines serving a single repository alias will be offered by DNS round-robin, so on the 'aptitude update' rerun I'm probably talking to a different server - understood, but this does NOT mean there isn't a problem needing a fix, IMHO. Here's an example : MYBOX:/etc/apt# aptitude update Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release [22.5kB] Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org etch Release.gpg [378B] Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org etch Release Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Get:4 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages [216kB] Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages Fetched 238kB in 1s (200kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1 Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems (seconds later ...) MYBOX:/etc/apt# aptitude update Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org etch Release.gpg [378B] Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org etch Release Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages Fetched 190B in 0s (522B/s) Reading package lists... Done In case it's relevant, this is on a system on my employer's network, with aptitude making connections to debian.org via our proxy firewall. The BADSIG error now occurs every single day. We have a nightly cronjob on several Debian boxes, that runs "aptitude update" and emails the sysadmins if updates are waiting - and the BADSIG situation is silly enough that I've had to add Bash code to deal with it, like this : $APTITUDE update &> $UPDATELOG RC=$? if grep "The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG" $UPDATELOG; then # About half the time, the first "aptitude update" fails with # a failure to verify the GPG signature on the package lists # - repeating seems to solve the problem - yeesh .. must bug # report this (Nick; Nov.2007) : MESSAGE=$(date +%R)" : stupid BADSIG error detected" \ "- retrying once ..." echo $MESSAGE >> $REPORTFILE sleep 5 $APTITUDE update &> $UPDATELOG RC=$? # ... and just carry on elif grep "403 Forbidden" $UPDATELOG; then # We failed because the firewall proxy credentials are incorrect : MESSAGE=$(date +%R)" : the proxy firewall username/password" \ "in /etc/apt/apt.conf is incorrect" echo $MESSAGE >> $REPORTFILE exitfail elif grep "Could not resolve" $UPDATELOG; then # We failed because no firewall proxy has been specified : MESSAGE=$(date +%R)" : it looks like the proxy firewall has" \ "not been specified in /etc/apt/apt.conf" echo $MESSAGE >> $REPORTFILE exitfail fi [despite the original code comment saying "about half the time" it now seems to be "all the time"] There must be a fixable cause for this. If a mirror can get inconsistent when half a synchronisation has been done, then the refresh should be made atomic - the lock-out would only need to be for 5 seconds, based on my experience. If the lock-out resulted in a timeout (from aptitude) well at least that would be an understandable transient-type error to find in your Inbox in the morning - but a suspect package signature is downright alarming and leads to blood-curdling fear [I exaggerate slightly :)]. I suppose, given that only /some/ users see this behaviour, the cause could be some kind of obscure timing fault caused
Window backgrounds
I am new to debian. I am running debian etch with the gnome desktop environment. I would like to know if it is possible to to have a common background in all the windows on the desktop. For example, I like to seea cork background when I open the home folder. and to have each of the windows that are opened to hav the same background. Sorry if this seems like a trivial question, but I haven,t been able to find an answer by searching GOOGLE. I would appreciate any help on this. Thanks in advance RK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX
Hello List, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello, all: After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser plugin were broken. It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade. These two commands will fix it: rm /etc/alternatives/acroread ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread I observed the same on my amd64 box. Furthermore, on amd64 box, Adobe should be in /usr/lib32 rather than /usr/lib (which is /usr/lib64 in fact). Jerome You'll also need to run acroread outside the browser once to accept the license before it will work inside the browser (assuming you have nppdf.so properly installed). Patrick -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird, import emails
just copy the file into another filename and in thunderbird move file from new directory to you inbox On 3/23/08, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-03-23 16:42 +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > > > I used to use Thunderbird and now have copied all my email files from > > on PC into another. Now I would like to import my email to new PC > > which have Thunderbird again. > > I have copied my emails files from previous PC into new empty folders > > and all email have been retrieved successfully. But in my Inbox I have > > new emails and if I just copy > > the old file I will loose my new emails. Does anybody know how can I > > import my email without deleting existing emails in Thunderbird when > > email file already exists? > > Surely, just append your old Inbox file to the new one rather than > overwriting it. You may have duplicate messages after that, but you > won't lose mails. > > Sven > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Window backgrounds
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/08 00:06, Ron Keller wrote: > I am new to debian. I am running debian etch with the gnome desktop > environment. I would like to know if it is possible to to have a common > background in all the windows on the desktop. For example, I like to > seea cork background when I open the home folder. and to have each of > the windows that are opened to hav the same background. > > Sorry if this seems like a trivial question, but I haven,t been able to > find an answer by searching GOOGLE. > > > I would appreciate any help on this. Thanks in advance I'd just copy the Sea Cork image from the Windows partition over to your home directory and then to set the desktop image: System->Preferences->"Control Center"->Appearance - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH5082S9HxQb37XmcRAg+pAKDNI2E7omVRmKzSQNcIUqrUZ3Tw8QCgr6pd HGiAaZgQqoq5yq+YfiHCGXw= =IfGy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
