Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

On Apr 11, 2009, at 11:11 PM, Paul Scott wrote: On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: If # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't work for me, I'd try my luck with # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg I forgot for this thread to say that I'm running squeeze/sid (mostly s

smbumount would nout unmount as user

I just upgraded Debian Eth system to Lenny (and also upgraded kernel and changed from k7 version to amd64 version). Now I'm having a problem. When I mount share from Windows XP machine with smbmount, then I cannot unmount it anymore. Both mount.cifs and umount.cifs are SUID root. Samba is

Re: xorg upgrade in Sid causes jerky display

On 11 Apr 2009, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:03, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 10 Apr 2009, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 14:21, Anthony Campbell > >> wrote: > >> > After today's upgrade of a lot of xorg stuff in Sid my full-screen > >> > display of TV i

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: If # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't work for me, I'd try my luck with # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg I forgot for this thread to say that I'm running squeeze/sid (mostly sid). I've done that many times with many combinat

Re: vim

hr mahan wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to use vim as editor for my Fortran programs.  In Fedora vim > colorizes the program's text.  I would like to have this option enabled on > my Debian box as well.  What is the solution? > > Thanks. > > Hamid Do you have syntax highlighting enabled?

xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers (in sid)

'xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers' error message when starting amarik. No sound when using amarok(or any other player). But I hear the startup and shutdown jingle... Any ideas whats wrong or how to find whats wrong? Using SID. /N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:20:38PM +1000, Alex Samad (a...@samad.com.au) wrote: > i think you have just proven my point, its not a simple process Of course. As I wrote earlier: > > > > recovery of a partially lost lv is rather painful. Although if the file -> pv mapping was commonly needed, it

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

James Youngman writes: >(2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. >the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a >year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. >What are good solutions for doing (2)? (Please only recommend >software you're u

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 08:09:39AM +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 08:15:04AM +1000, Alex Samad (a...@samad.com.au) > wrote: > > > > > recovery of a partially lost lv is rather painful. > > > > somebody else suggested a process on how to fix a missing pv (using > > /dev

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 08:15:04AM +1000, Alex Samad (a...@samad.com.au) wrote: > > recovery of a partially lost lv is rather painful. > > somebody else suggested a process on how to fix a missing pv (using > /dev/zero) and then fsck'ing thus giving you a mountable partition, but > how do you te

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, James Youngman wrote: Here's my current backup arrangement: Data is stored in filesystems on LVM volumes over RAID1. While RAID1 presents some protection from disk failure, it gives no protection against data corruption due to flaky hardware or data loss caused by fire

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

If # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't work for me, I'd try my luck with # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg 2009/4/12 Kelly Clowers > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 17:19, Paul Scott wrote: > > I have a completely broken X windows which occurred at the same time as > the > > KDE upgrade. At

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 17:19, Paul Scott wrote: > I have a completely broken X windows which occurred at the same time as the > KDE upgrade.  At the moment I can't get > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to generate an xorg.conf with anything more > than a skeleton in it. > > How can one force the ge

[OT] firefox and AJAX weirdness

Hi, I noticed my iceweasel behaviors weirdly with some AJAX sites, e.g., https://www.shooter.cn/xml/list/sub/ . Sometime gmail has the same problem as well. I'm wondering if any one can browse the above url for me and see if you can notice any strange behaviors. The symptom at my part is,

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa Šušulić wrote: > The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been > used in dusty or dirty places. And this overheating only happens with Debian > (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a breeze). The

very broken X after recent upgrades

I have a completely broken X windows which occurred at the same time as the KDE upgrade. At the moment I can't get dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to generate an xorg.conf with anything more than a skeleton in it. How can one force the generation of a new xorg.conf? TIA, Paul Scott -- To

Re: apt-listbugs workaround

On 2009-04-11 22:49:52 +0300, David Baron wrote: > Upgrading has become very tortuous, tedious and nigh-impossible > because of all those "empty strings for SOAP" errors. This had been > fixed, keeps coming back. I've never seen such errors. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 10

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:51:41AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Saturday 11 April 2009, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:28:35AM +0100, Alan Chandler > (a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk) wrote:> > I am currently planning my next > upgrades - my desktop machine has > > > run ou

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:43:07PM +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:11:27AM +1000, Alex Samad (a...@samad.com.au) > wrote: > > > but the marketing brief seems to suggest that if you lose a drive you > > only lose the files that were on there. > > I would take that wi

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

> > > > Original Message >From: rac...@makeworld.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine? >Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:05:30 -0500 > >>On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:47:08 +0100 >>James Youngman wrote: >> >>> (2) It would be useful to

reduce XFS

Is there a way reducing XFS size? :)

Re: installing dosfstools removes a lot of software

Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-04-11 21:53 +0200, JoeHill wrote: > > > Just wondering why installing dosfstools would result in something like > > this: > > > > node1:/home/joehill# aptitude install dosfstools > > Did you ever use aptitude before? Probably not, because otherwise it > would ha

Re: installing dosfstools removes a lot of software

On 2009-04-11 21:53 +0200, JoeHill wrote: > Just wondering why installing dosfstools would result in something like this: > > node1:/home/joehill# aptitude install dosfstools Did you ever use aptitude before? Probably not, because otherwise it would have suggested these removals in earlier runs.

apt-listbugs workaround

Upgrading has become very tortuous, tedious and nigh-impossible because of all those "empty strings for SOAP" errors. This had been fixed, keeps coming back. I have found that if packages are installed one-at-a-time, apt-listbugs will report. Of course, many packages get grouped by their depende

Re: xserver woes (ATI Radeon) after upgrade to xorg 1.7.4

On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 13:46 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hi, > > I use two monitors with an ATI Radeon HD 4850 card on an amd64 system. > I had this configured and running since last October using the > proprietary ATI driver I downloaded myself. > > After upgrading (I run Debian/unstable) a

installing dosfstools removes a lot of software

Hi all, Just wondering why installing dosfstools would result in something like this: node1:/home/joehill# aptitude install dosfstools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package sta

Re: How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:12, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > According to /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz (and the links > mentioned there) the input devices are now configured through HAL. And > indeed, after a 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' my xorg.conf is (almost) > empty, but

Re: How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 21:12:17 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > According to /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz (and the links > mentioned there) the input devices are now configured through HAL. And > indeed, after a 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' my xorg.conf is (almost) >

Re: In sid, linux-image-686 tracks an unavailable kernel

jida...@jidanni.org wrote, on 11/04/09 08:53: In sid, linux-image-686 no longer tracks the latest kernel, but instead tracks a kernel that has already been removed from sid! http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519028 I keep stable and testing in my /etc/apt/sources.list even thou

Re: Making ATI and Broadcom work on a Lenny laptop

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:03, Klistvud wrote: > Howdie! > > Anyone tried to make an ATI 1200 and a BCM4328 work on a Lenny laptop? I am > trying to finalize my Lenny installation on a HP Compaq 6715b and have a few > questions: > Should I just leave the graphics as it is, or is it advisable to in

Re: xorg upgrade in Sid causes jerky display

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:03, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 10 Apr 2009, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 14:21, Anthony Campbell >> wrote: >> > After today's upgrade of a lot of xorg stuff in Sid my full-screen >> > display of TV is jerky, as is Googlearth. >> > >> > This is on a

xserver woes (ATI Radeon) after upgrade to xorg 1.7.4

Hi, I use two monitors with an ATI Radeon HD 4850 card on an amd64 system. I had this configured and running since last October using the proprietary ATI driver I downloaded myself. After upgrading (I run Debian/unstable) a few days ago, this broke. At first, the system came up in "screen clone"

Problems when audio capturing with headset

Hi all! I'm trying to test the operation of my headset in Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze to be able to use it with a softphone. Although the sound works with the rest of the applications with the headphone, in order to listen what I say I must put practically the microphone grazing the mouth :-S I'm us

Re: Best way to install a new session manager

On Saturday 11 April 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: > After installing from the default CD (e.g. "businesscard") I'd like to > make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde). For i386 and amd64 you can now select a different desktop environment from the isolinux boot menu (with bu

Re: Best way to install a new session manager

Rick Thomas: > > After installing from the default CD (e.g. "businesscard") I'd like to > make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde). > > What's the best way to do that so as to get all packages installed the > same way they would have been had I used the associated

Re: Best way to install a new session manager

On Sat,11.Apr.09, 14:14:12, Rick Thomas wrote: > > After installing from the default CD (e.g. "businesscard") I'd like to > make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde). > > What's the best way to do that so as to get all packages installed the > same way they would have

[solved] Re: after usermod can not su to root

>> pressing 'e' on the right GRUB entry, and adding 'single' to the end of the >> line. This boots up Debian as root. Thanks for the single user method, I did usermod -l islanddancer zhengquan in single user mode. and was able to su root again. Thank you so much, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: [Solved - sort of...] Lenny overheating, preventing installation

On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 18:54 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Based on several replies/suggestions set forth in my previous thread and on > some imagination, I finally managed to complete the Lenny setup process. What > I did: > > I found a spot in my house directly between two opposing windows and place

Best way to install a new session manager

After installing from the default CD (e.g. "businesscard") I'd like to make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde). What's the best way to do that so as to get all packages installed the same way they would have been had I used the associated install CD? Is this i

How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL

Hello, According to /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz (and the links mentioned there) the input devices are now configured through HAL. And indeed, after a 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' my xorg.conf is (almost) empty, but the relevant setting I want to change is marked as "from conf

Re: after usermod can not su to root

2009/4/11 Harry Rickards : > > > On 11 Apr 2009, at 18:58, zhang zhengquan wrote: > >> Dear debian users, >> >> I used to use islanddancer as username to login to my sid laptop. and >> islanddancer is in sudoers file. >> today I changed it to zhengquan using >> >> sudo usermod -l zhengquan islandd

Re: after usermod can not su to root

On 11 Apr 2009, at 18:58, zhang zhengquan wrote: Dear debian users, I used to use islanddancer as username to login to my sid laptop. and islanddancer is in sudoers file. today I changed it to zhengquan using sudo usermod -l zhengquan islanddancer I did nothing else. Now I can login us

after usermod can not su to root

Dear debian users, I used to use islanddancer as username to login to my sid laptop. and islanddancer is in sudoers file. today I changed it to zhengquan using sudo usermod -l zhengquan islanddancer I did nothing else. Now I can login using zhengquan but I was not able to su to root using the r

Re: [Solved - sort of...] Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Klistvud writes: > It worked. Now I have a working Debian Gnome desktop and - believe it or > not - it actually runs cool as a breeze, it even feels COOLER to touch > than my current production system (OpenSuSE 11.1 with KDE). Go figure... Sounds like whatever it is that regulates the cpu speed go

Making ATI and Broadcom work on a Lenny laptop

Howdie! Anyone tried to make an ATI 1200 and a BCM4328 work on a Lenny laptop? I am trying to finalize my Lenny installation on a HP Compaq 6715b and have a few questions: Should I just leave the graphics as it is, or is it advisable to install the proprietary ATI Catalyst drivers (and WHICH on

[Solved - sort of...] Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Based on several replies/suggestions set forth in my previous thread and on some imagination, I finally managed to complete the Lenny setup process. What I did: I found a spot in my house directly between two opposing windows and placed the computer there. Lifted the computer on two narrow (but

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Aleksa Šušulić: > > The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been > used in dusty or dirty places. That's not necessary for dust to enter the system. > And this overheating only happens with Debian > (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a bree

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:47:08 +0100 James Youngman wrote: > (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. > the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a > year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. > > What are good solutions for doing (2)? (

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

On Sat,11.Apr.09, 13:47:08, James Youngman wrote: > (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. > the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a > year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. etckeeper. Admittedly, it was created for /etc (it ho

Re: Network traffic failure after installing Lenny

Alejandro Barocio A. wrote: When I used etch every thing was fine, after installing lenny... I have a problem with my network connection: I'm able to establish DHCP configuration, and DNS resolves addresses, also I can download my mail via POP and use XMPP and Yahoo IM with Pidgin. But if i try

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

On Saturday 11 April 2009 13:26:30 Aleksa Šušulić wrote: > The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been > used in dusty or dirty places. And this overheating only happens with > Debian (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a > breeze). The only ot

Re: xorg upgrade in Sid causes jerky display

On Sat,11.Apr.09, 09:03:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Yes, radeonhd is back now but using it doesn't help. I tried various > options without improvement. I notice that DRI is enabled and I thought > that might be the problem, but for some reason it is impossible to turn > it off - Option "DRI" "fa

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

James Youngman wrote: > [...] > (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. > the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a > year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. > > What are good solutions for doing (2)? (Please only recommend > softw

Re: keyboard layout in xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1)

On 11 Apr 2009, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:30:22AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Hi, > > > I had a similar problem following the upgrade - us keyboard instead of > > gb. That has now gone away after a reboot. But I can no longer quit X > > with Ctrl-Alt-Del and there ar

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 15:58:35 je Douglas A. Tutty napisal(a): > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:46:31PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > > Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 15:22:38 je Douglas A. Tutty napisal(a): > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa ??u??uli?? wrote: > > > > I agree ... to a

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:58:35 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:46:31PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > > Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 15:22:38 je Douglas A. Tutty napisal(a): > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa ??u??uli?? wrote: > > > I agree ... to a point

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:46:31PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 15:22:38 je Douglas A. Tutty napisal(a): > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa ??u??uli?? wrote: > I agree ... to a point. Namely, I've never managed to overheat the unit by > just _using_ the

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:47:08PM +0100, James Youngman (j...@gnu.org) wrote: > (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. > the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a > year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. > What are good solutions

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 15:22:38 je Douglas A. Tutty napisal(a): > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa ??u??uli?? wrote: > > The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never > > been used in dusty or dirty places. And this overheating only happens > > with Deb

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa ??u??uli?? wrote: > The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been > used in dusty or dirty places. And this overheating only happens with Debian > (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a breeze). T

Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

Here's my current backup arrangement: Data is stored in filesystems on LVM volumes over RAID1. While RAID1 presents some protection from disk failure, it gives no protection against data corruption due to flaky hardware or data loss caused by fire or theft. Therefore I have an offsite backup arr

sysfs not updating battery status

Hi there, since a couple of weeks ago I started having problems with gnome-power-manager on my Acer TM2303Wlmi. It stopped updating the battery power level; it updated only on ac connect/disconnect. I traced the problem to the sysfs: it appears the sysfs power measurement is updated only after a re

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been used in dusty or dirty places. And this overheating only happens with Debian (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a breeze). The only other instance it does happen is when my current OpenSuSE system

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I'm currently in my third day of rebuilding a machine that had /boot and / > on an LVM volume on raided disks.  After one drive died, I ended up in a > weird mode where LVM was mounting one of the component drives, rather than > the raid vol

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Klistvud: > Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 10:47:36 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): >> >> Does that mean that the fan doesn't turn on at all? >> >> It may help to disable ACPI during installation (boot parameter >> acpi=off). > > On the contrary, the fan is at its max from the boot on. Problem is, it'

Re: keyboard layout in xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1)

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:30:22AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Hi, > with Ctrl-Alt-Del and there are other issues with xmodmap as well. Regarding the xmodmap issue it looks like some keycodes have changed. For me the left alt key moved from keycode 113 (which is now the left cursor key) to 10

Re: keyboard layout in xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1)

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:30:22AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Hi, > I had a similar problem following the upgrade - us keyboard instead of > gb. That has now gone away after a reboot. But I can no longer quit X > with Ctrl-Alt-Del and there are other issues with xmodmap as well. Should've be

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

On Saturday 11 April 2009, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:28:35AM +0100, Alan Chandler (a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk) wrote:> > I am currently planning my next upgrades - my desktop machine has > > run out of disk space, my server is getting old and has also almost > > run out

Re: keyboard layout in xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1)

On 04-11 11:44, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Try rebooting - worked for me. Thanks, a reboot fixed it. Feels dirty though :) -- ilf i...@jabber.berlin.ccc.de Über 80 Millionen Deutsche benutzen keine Konsole. Klick dich nicht weg! -- Eine

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:28:35AM +0100, Alan Chandler (a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk) wrote: > Somewhile ago after looking at all the options, I came to the conclusion > that raid1 + lvm + daily cron driven backups to another machine was my > best solution for keeping. That's what I do, too. >

Re: keyboard layout in xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1)

On 11 Apr 2009, ilf wrote: > I upgraded xserver-xorg today to sids 1:7.4+1 and my keyboard layout is > "en" instead of "de". > > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz sais > > The default keyboard layout is shared with the console and is > configured in /etc/default/console-setup. > > H

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

On Saturday 11 April 2009, Alex Samad wrote: > > availability - mainly done by looking at raid levels > manageablility - lvm / mdm > backups - only way to do this is backuping up info, raid doesn't help > with rm -fr / Not just answering your post in particular, but I thought I would jump into

keyboard layout in xserver-xorg (1:7.4+1)

I upgraded xserver-xorg today to sids 1:7.4+1 and my keyboard layout is "en" instead of "de". /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz sais The default keyboard layout is shared with the console and is configured in /etc/default/console-setup. However, my /etc/default/console-setup correct

Re: boot failure diagnostics

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 07:04:31AM +0200, Sven Joachim (svenj...@gmx.de) wrote: > Running fsck is not necessarily a bad idea, but you should only run it > on _unmounted_ filesystems. Usually fsck is also safe with read-only mounts. You can turn existing mount to read-only with mount -o remount,ro

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:11:27AM +1000, Alex Samad (a...@samad.com.au) wrote: > but the marketing brief seems to suggest that if you lose a drive you > only lose the files that were on there. I would take that with a big grain of salt. Marketing briefs suggesting things without explicitly say

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 10:32:28 je Thierry Chatelet napisal(a): > On 11 April 2009 10:21:53 you wrote: > > Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some > > 5 to 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and > > shuts down. It's a HP Compaq 6715b

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 10:32:28 je Thierry Chatelet napisal(a): > On 11 April 2009 10:21:53 you wrote: > > Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some > > 5 to 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and > > shuts down. It's a HP Compaq 6715b

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 10:47:36 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): > Klistvud: > > Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some > > 5 to 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and > > shuts down. It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 64 and an

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 10:28:15 je Adrian Levi napisal(a): > 2009/4/11 Klistvud : > > Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some > > 5 to 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and > > shuts down. It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 6

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Klistvud: > Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some 5 > to > 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and shuts down. > It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 64 and an ATI Radeon 1200. Needless > to say, I have the BIOS option "Fan alw

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

On 11 April 2009 10:21:53 you wrote: > Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some 5 > to 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and shuts > down. It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 64 and an ATI Radeon 1200. > Needless to say, I have the

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:13:57PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: [snip] >> >> As a general rule, you're better off relying on backups or RAID to >> handle such situations anyway. Or seen from another point of view: if >> it's OK with you to lose an arbitrarily chosen 1/3 or 1

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

2009/4/11 Klistvud : > Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some 5 to > 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and shuts down. > It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 64 and an ATI Radeon 1200. Needless > to say, I have the BIOS option "Fan

Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some 5 to 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and shuts down. It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 64 and an ATI Radeon 1200. Needless to say, I have the BIOS option "Fan always ON when on AC powe

Re: xorg upgrade in Sid causes jerky display

On 10 Apr 2009, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 14:21, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > After today's upgrade of a lot of xorg stuff in Sid my full-screen > > display of TV is jerky, as is Googlearth. > > > > This is on a Thinkpad Z61M. I was using the radeonhd driver previously; > > I n