Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-10-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nuno Magalhães: > Jochen Schulz: >> The first thing I would do in your situation is to make sure my disk >> isn't dying. Run a forced fsck on all filesystems (including /) and use >> smartctl (packege: smartmontools) to check your disk for errors. > > Erhm... the drive's fairily recent, it's a "Ma

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
lee schreef: > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> >> lee schreef: >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:00:52PM -0700, David Fox wrote: More to the point, since you have an amd64 system, why bother with ia32 components? I don't recall any need for

Re: Sound - handmade how?

2009-10-08 Thread David Christensen
Hartwig Atrops wrote: I want to write a program that generates sounds - sinus waves, random sound and so on. What is the format I can send to the sound card? Which device to use? The program should work on different architectures (i386, sparc ...) I wrote an audio recorder and audio player bas

Re: Installing Debian on an Alix 2d3 using PXE

2009-10-08 Thread Urs Hunkeler
Hi, The list server refused my previous mail, so I try again. For those who misunderstood my mail, tftp and bootp (basically PXE) worked before and the kernel and the initramdisk got loaded. The problam was with the installer not being able to access the mirrors. Apparently even though the

Debian 5.0.3 Icedove attachments delete/ detach flaky

2009-10-08 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have been using Debian 5.0.3 as my primary desktop machine for ~2 weeks. I've noticed that detaching and/or deleting attachments from messages in Icedove sometimes works, sometimes fails, and sometimes fails spectacularly (locks up while it creates duplicate messages with all

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rob Owens put forth on 10/8/2009 5:28 PM: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:38:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM: >> >>> When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the >>> music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of "party mode" where I

Re: Another Firefox and sound problem

2009-10-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 20:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: This is an intermittent problem with no discernible pattern, other than that it is a problem with sound and flash. Most of the time flash works just fine. Every now and then, however, the video will continue as it shou

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-08 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:46 PM, lee wrote: > Then there would need to be only two packages: vdpau for those who > need it, and the rest (which could suggest vdpau which could tell you > which cards can use it). Doing that would probably not be possible, given the nature of this particular compon

Re: testing system updates: how often?

2009-10-08 Thread thveillon.debian
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 10/7/09, thveillon.debian wrote: >> It also makes the (careful) reading of "apt-listbugs" and >> "apt-listchanges" output easier. >> > Nice packages, worth being suggested for aptitude or synaptic. They work just fine with aptitude, that's what I'm using. I don't know

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:38:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Rob Owens put forth on 10/7/2009 8:02 PM: > > > When streaming music, if you play it on 2 different computers will the > > music be in sync? I'm thinking of a sort of "party mode" where I want > > the same thing playing in several r

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:53:21PM -0700, Mark wrote: > Rob wrote: > -- > Since you care about the sound quality, I'd recommend encoding with > flac. That's lossless, so there is no sound quality difference between > flac-encoded music and music straight from the CD.Forget about mp3. > It

Re: Re (3): Video on Demand, VoD

2009-10-08 Thread Brian Marshall
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 02:12:43PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:13:02 -0700 > Brian Marshall wrote, > > The plugin in the screenshot is totem-mozilla. > > Will install it. Thanks. > > > gecko-mediaplayer should also work. I don't know of > > any other plugins th

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-08 Thread lee
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:57:52AM -0700, David Fox wrote: > I think I meant that you didn't need ia32 for nvidia. You'll of course > need it for things that aren't available as 64-bit executables, or not > available as source. Over here, that is a pretty short list, since I'm > not into games muc

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-08 Thread lee
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > lee schreef: > >On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:00:52PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > >>More to the point, since you have an amd64 system, why bother with > >>ia32 components? I don't recall any need for ia32 for nvidia. > > > >Where do you

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-08 Thread lee
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:01:47AM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:46 PM, lee wrote: > > > > Link where? :) I have a 9800GT. > > Oops, I forgot the link. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: testing system updates: how often?

2009-10-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/7/09, thveillon.debian wrote: > It also makes the (careful) reading of "apt-listbugs" and > "apt-listchanges" output easier. > Nice packages, worth being suggested for aptitude or synaptic. Otherwise, thank you all for the input. I will probably settle for weekly system updates. Liviu -

Re (3): Video on Demand, VoD

2009-10-08 Thread peasthope
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:13:02 -0700 Brian Marshall wrote, > The plugin in the screenshot is totem-mozilla. Will install it. Thanks. > gecko-mediaplayer should also work. I don't know of > any other plugins that handle streaming media. VLC has "Open Network Stream". No way to use that?

Re: Video Problem

2009-10-08 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 07:33:22PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 09:28:26 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:58:41AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > > Given the command totem trial001.mov the one that can't responds > > [...] >

Re: "aptitude safe-upgrade" in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-08 Thread Tomek Kruszona
Rick Thomas wrote: Thanks for the suggestion... But I think there's something I don't understand... From the package descriptions, it sounds like the epiphany folks are headed in the direction of epiphany-browser and away from epiphany-webkit. Wouldn't installing epiphany-webkit be a step b

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 08 October 2009 19:16:17 Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:51:21 +0100 > > Lisi wrote: > > On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:44:15 Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 > > > Lisi wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: > > > > > chang

Re: "aptitude safe-upgrade" in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 8, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Tomek Kruszona wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: The following packages are BROKEN: epiphany-browser epiphany-extensions-more libgnokii4 python-qt4 Hello! Regarding epiphany: It seems has something in common with epiphany gecko to webkit transition. Try installing epi

Re: Network disconnection on lenny

2009-10-08 Thread Tomek Kruszona
Victor Guedes wrote: my config : - Dell R410 (intel Xeon E5504, 4Go ram) - install lenny 5.0.3 version i386 - kernel linux 2.6.30-bpo.1-686 (upgrade needed because installation of network card firmware - network card NetXtremeII BCM5716 (firmware-bnx2 - 0.17-bpo50+1) Have you tried to install

Re: "aptitude safe-upgrade" in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-08 Thread Tomek Kruszona
Rick Thomas wrote: The following packages are BROKEN: epiphany-browser epiphany-extensions-more libgnokii4 python-qt4 Hello! Regarding epiphany: It seems has something in common with epiphany gecko to webkit transition. Try installing epiphany-webkit. It should remove obsolete packages and

Re: Installing Debian on an Alix 2d3 using PXE

2009-10-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 08 October 2009, Urs Hunkeler wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure this was a problem with the installer. The installer seemed > to have set Grub up for the serial console, albeit with the wrong baud > rate. However I did not get Grub 2 to run on the Alix. I even tried to > install Grub with s

"aptitude safe-upgrade" in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-08 Thread Rick Thomas
I understand "normal sid churn", but usually a problem like this is fixed in a couple of days. These packages have been broken for well over a week.So I thought I'd bring the problem to a larger audience, in hopes that somebody who knows more than I do could give it some attention.

Re: Installing Debian on an Alix 2d3 using PXE

2009-10-08 Thread Urs Hunkeler
Hi, For those who misunderstood my mail, tftp and bootp (basically PXE) worked before and the kernel and the initramdisk got loaded. The problam was with the installer not being able to access the mirrors. Apparently even though the installer asked me to provide a name server, it did not

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Lisi wrote: > *So - how do I change my getty to rungetty?* rungetty takes a different set of command line options than getty. >From reading the man page, it looks like you only need one argument: the tty. This doesn't seem too surprising since it looks like runge

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:51:21 +0100 Lisi wrote: > Thanks, Celejar > > On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:44:15 Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 > > Lisi wrote: > > > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: > > > > change your getty to rungetty ... > > > I then se

Re: Installing Debian on an Alix 2d3 using PXE

2009-10-08 Thread Urs Hunkeler
Hi, I'm not sure this was a problem with the installer. The installer seemed to have set Grub up for the serial console, albeit with the wrong baud rate. However I did not get Grub 2 to run on the Alix. I even tried to install Grub with some modules preloaded (serial terminal and ext2). In th

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Lisi
Thanks, Celejar On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:44:15 Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 > Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: > > > change your getty to rungetty > > > > I have been trying to do this ever since. I have Googled, tried > > variou

Re: Video Problem

2009-10-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 09:28:26 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:58:41AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > > Given the command totem trial001.mov the one that can't responds [...] > > > ** (totem:8648): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for > > > org.gnom

Re: Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: > > change your getty to rungetty > > I have been trying to do this ever since. I have Googled, tried > various things but am completely stuck. I set up a trial Lenny and > IceWM system on m

Re: c++ features

2009-10-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Oct 08 2009, Gabor Urban wrote: > Hi, > > the main point of C++ and Linux, that you may have a large number of > tools to use. SOme prefer IDE tools, like KDevelop for example, but > some prefer standard language sensitive editor which support code > writing, compiling, debugging. I would

Further to fast booting for a debian system - changing getty to rungetty

2009-10-08 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: > change your getty to rungetty I have been trying to do this ever since. I have Googled, tried various things but am completely stuck. I set up a trial Lenny and IceWM system on my laptop. I then installed rungetty. I next edited initt

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-10-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2009/8/25 Nuno Magalhães : >> The first thing I would do in your situation is to make sure my disk >> isn't dying. Run a forced fsck on all filesystems (including /) and use >> smartctl (packege: smartmontools) to check your disk for errors. > > Erhm... the drive's fairily recent, it's a "Maxtor 16

Re: Setting Default Group Permissions In Folders

2009-10-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4edb5eb80910071547sace8ddfx137a975ea9805...@mail.gmail.com>, Austin Brkich wrote: >I have created a new group called www-user, this group is suppose to >allow multiple users to read/write/execute files/folders in /var/www. The first step is to make sure files get owned by the right group: fin

Re: Setting Default Group Permissions In Folders

2009-10-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <81c921f30910080124g4d20a72cg91846974ad38f...@mail.gmail.com>, Javier Barroso wrote: >On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Austin Brkich >wrote: >> I have created a new group called www-user, this group is suppose to >> allow multiple users to read/write/execute files/folders in /var/www. >> I hav

Re: 4gb seg fixup

2009-10-08 Thread Tomasz Pajor
Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Tomasz Pajor wrote: Which kernel are you using ? I remember that issue with Xen and /lib/ssl, but don't known about what could be happen in your case I'm running this machine on amazon ec2, kernel is 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen. debian is up-to-

Re: Video Problem

2009-10-08 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:58:41AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > [ Sorry for the previous empty message; I accidentally hit the send key > when I just wanted to save the draft while I checked something. ] > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 17:42:47 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I have two compute

Re: 4gb seg fixup

2009-10-08 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Tomasz Pajor wrote: > >> Which kernel are you using ? >> >> I remember that issue with Xen and /lib/ssl, but don't known about >> what could be happen in your case. >> >> >> >> > > I'm running this machine on amazon ec2, kern

Re: testing system updates: how often?

2009-10-08 Thread Christopher Judd
On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > How often do you update your testing? I noticed that leaving your > system as is for couple of weeks and about 200 packages would be > available for updates. I would like to know what would be the > "optimal" updating frequency that

Re: c++ features

2009-10-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
If you're interested in portability, read about ISO C++. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: testing system updates: how often?

2009-10-08 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Liviu Andronic wrote: > How often do you update your testing? As always in such situation: YMMV. I'm sure that you are not running testing on a production server, permanently exposed to the threats of intruders, but also your desktop needs security updates, as they become available. As far as I

Network disconnection on lenny

2009-10-08 Thread Victor Guedes
Hi, I installed debian lenny, and now i have disconnection problems (ssh, xdmcp, pgadmin,) It isn't disconnection because inactivity. my config : - Dell R410 (intel Xeon E5504, 4Go ram) - install lenny 5.0.3 version i386 - kernel linux 2.6.30-bpo.1-686 (upgrade needed because installation

Re: c++ features

2009-10-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
If you're interested in portability, read about ISO C++. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: c++ features

2009-10-08 Thread Gabor Urban
Hi, the main point of C++ and Linux, that you may have a large number of tools to use. SOme prefer IDE tools, like KDevelop for example, but some prefer standard language sensitive editor which support code writing, compiling, debugging. I would suggest to use Emacs or Vim (simple editors, but pow

Re: c++ features

2009-10-08 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
pch0317 wrote: Hello I must write article about C++ programing features under linux. Do you have any example article about this issue. Thanks I just started reading books about c++ and notice one thing; writers who use Visual C++ on Microsoft give very bad examples even for Hello World. I th

Re: testing system updates: how often?

2009-10-08 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all How often do you update your testing? I noticed that leaving your system as is for couple of weeks and about 200 packages would be available for updates. I would like to know what would be the "optimal" updating frequency that would minimise breakages. In the Gentoo

Metalurgica por control numerico - C.N.C.

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Re: Video Problem

2009-10-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Sorry for the previous empty message; I accidentally hit the send key when I just wanted to save the draft while I checked something. ] On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 17:42:47 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have two computers both with uptodate Squeeze systems. One can play > videos, the other c

Re: Sound - handmade how?

2009-10-08 Thread Alexey Salmin
You should select some engine to work with. You can work directly with ALSA (that will tie you to linux), or for example use Phonon architecture - that is portable in terms of OS but will tie you to kdelibs. Try reading this: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page http://www.alsa-proj

Re: Video Problem

2009-10-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 17:42:47 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have two computers both with uptodate Squeeze systems. One can play > videos, the other can't. Both have totem installed. > > Given the command totem trial001.mov the one that can't responds > > > Script started on Wed 07 O

Sound - handmade how?

2009-10-08 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi all. I want to write a program that generates sounds - sinus waves, random sound and so on. What is the format I can send to the sound card? Which device to use? The program should work on different architectures (i386, sparc ...) Thanks in advance, Hartwig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: 4gb seg fixup

2009-10-08 Thread Tomasz Pajor
Which kernel are you using ? I remember that issue with Xen and /lib/ssl, but don't known about what could be happen in your case. I'm running this machine on amazon ec2, kernel is 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen. debian is up-to-date squeeze Maybe: http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#A4gbse

Re: Setting Default Group Permissions In Folders

2009-10-08 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Austin Brkich wrote: > This has probably been asked a million times and I have yet to seen a > proper response when searching for the answer. > > I have created a new group called www-user, this group is suppose to > allow multiple users to read/write/execute f

Re: 4gb seg fixup

2009-10-08 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Tomasz Pajor wrote: > > How can I fix this? > > 2009-10-07T15:39:08+00:00 kernel: printk: 10521 messages suppressed. > 2009-10-07T15:39:08+00:00 kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process python2.6 (pid > 1282), cs:ip 73:00192e14 > 2009-10-07T15:39:13+00

Re: MySQL client in Squeeze

2009-10-08 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello, > > The following is aptitude output when I try to resolve the > dependencies associated with mysql-client5.1: > > Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y > The following NEW packages will be installed: >  mysql-client mysql-client-5.1{a} m

Re: 4gb seg fixup

2009-10-08 Thread Tomasz Pajor
In which machine do you have this issue? On your dom-0 or on a dom-U? I don't know what You mean by that. But it's a m1.small, in us-east-1a and the private host starts with domU. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: 4gb seg fixup

2009-10-08 Thread Benjamin MENUET
In which machine do you have this issue? On your dom-0 or on a dom-U? 2009/10/8 Tomasz Pajor > Benjamin MENUET wrote: > >> >> >> 2009/10/8 Tomasz Pajor mailto:ni...@puffy.pl>> >> >> >> >>How can I fix this? >> >>2009-10-07T15:39:08+00:00 kernel: printk:

Re: 4gb seg fixup

2009-10-08 Thread Tomasz Pajor
Benjamin MENUET wrote: 2009/10/8 Tomasz Pajor mailto:ni...@puffy.pl>> How can I fix this? 2009-10-07T15:39:08+00:00 kernel: printk: 10521 messages suppressed. 2009-10-07T15:39:08+00:00 kernel: 4gb seg fixup,

Re: 4gb seg fixup

2009-10-08 Thread Benjamin MENUET
2009/10/8 Tomasz Pajor > > How can I fix this? > > 2009-10-07T15:39:08+00:00 kernel: printk: 10521 messages suppressed. > 2009-10-07T15:39:08+00:00 kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process python2.6 (pid > 1282), cs:ip 73:00192e14 > 2009-10-07T15:39:13+00:00 kernel: printk: 7903 messag