Re: Unstable, LVM and Grub2: "error: you need to load the kernel first"

2009-11-30 Thread Johannes Graumann
Thanks guys. After setting the boot disk to "hd(0,0)" (from "hd(0,1)") and removing the "/boot" suffix by editing the grub entry from the boot menu I got finally in and aptitude update then pulled in a working version of grub-pc. Joh Michael Wagner wrote: > * Johannes Graumann 30.11.2009 >

Re: virus on linux?

2009-11-30 Thread Juha Tuuna
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I am asking if there is a virus on my machine how to detect it. Try scanning with Clamav > the command ps aux gives all running processes, all really all? or it > may be a hidden process running on background. There might be a hidden process using rootkit te

Re: Aptitude Configuration

2009-11-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200912010129.54945@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In <20091201002006.ga9...@emurlahn.burrows.local>, Daniel Burrows wrote: >>On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 01:34:11PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > > was heard to say: >>> I use a mixed system, partially documented at >>> On

Re: installing experimental supertux: libopenal0a missing

2009-11-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:55:46 +, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Today I tried installing supertux, both the experimental version [1] and > the supertux .deb [2]. Strangely, both depend on a mysterious and > missing libopenal0a package. On Ubuntu Jaunty, however, this development > supertux worked pret

virus on linux?

2009-11-30 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I am asking if there is a virus on my machine how to detect it. the command ps aux gives all running processes, all really all? or it may be a hidden process running on background. Until now, I considered that a virus doen't affect a system if you work as simple user, and can't damage system

Re: Aptitude Configuration

2009-11-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20091201002006.ga9...@emurlahn.burrows.local>, Daniel Burrows wrote: >On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 01:34:11PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: >> I use a mixed system, partially documented at >> On all of them, it would be quite nice if aptitude would give me just a >> /little _bi

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:45:11AM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny > > partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. > > I have a "Live USB Debian" system that follows this idea (i.e. it's > just a plain normal Debian

Re: What can I run on Stable?

2009-11-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 08:23:56PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: [snip] > I absolutely require the following: > > Gnome desktop (yes, I've tried all the others) This works fine in Lenny. > OpenOffice.org 3.1.1.4 (fixes bugs in the Math module) It appears that Backports might help: http://tux

What can I run on Stable?

2009-11-30 Thread John Jason Jordan
Recently I tried Testing (twice), only to be bitten by bugs in Gnome 2.8.0 that caused metacity and gnome-panel to fail to load on login. I spent days trying to fix the problem, but finally gave up. Then I installed Unstable, only to have it fail to install the boot loader at the end of the instal

Re: Aptitude Configuration

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 01:34:11PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > I use a mixed system, partially documented at > On all of them, it would be quite nice if aptitude would give me just a > /little _bit_/ more information about which archive a particular package > version wa

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-30 Thread Mike Castle
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a long binary file (about 12 MB) that I need to extract the > text from via "strings". Naturally, there are a lot of junk lines such > as these: > pDuf > #k0H}g) > GoV5 > rLeY1 > TMlq,* > > Is there a way to grep the output of strings in

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:14:58AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/11/29 Andrew Sackville-West : > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:22:15AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> > will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial > >> > caps *only* then: > >> > > >> > grep "^[A-Z][a-z]*$"

Re: postfix

2009-11-30 Thread Chris
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:38:36 +0100 Nick Douma wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > First off, you should find a debian-user mailing list that is in your > language, if you don't want to speak english. > > - From what I can understand in your mail, you want to se

Re: postfix

2009-11-30 Thread Chris
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:38:36 +0100 Nick Douma wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > First off, you should find a debian-user mailing list that is in your > language, if you don't want to speak english. > > - From what I can understand in your mail, you want to se

Re: postfix

2009-11-30 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, First off, you should find a debian-user mailing list that is in your language, if you don't want to speak english. - From what I can understand in your mail, you want to setup postfix on lenny, and are asking how to do so. I recommend the ISP ma

postfix

2009-11-30 Thread cosme
Hola Qué se debe instalar con posfix en Debian Lenny apt-get install postfix clamav spamassassin??? Así Alguien pudiera recomendarme alguna guía de instalcion y configuracion para postfix en Debian Lenny.??? Cómo sería la instalacion y configuracion en caso de usar postfix como pasarela??

Re: preseed with two hard disks

2009-11-30 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:46:28PM +0100, Josep M. wrote: > Hello. > > I use lenny, I do tests in Virtualbox virtual machines, I have one HD of > 40GB in these virtual machine, now I added a second hard disk in the > virtual machine, but I can't > found how to do for create a partition on this se

Re: iceweasel xul-ext-* packages don't appear as addons in browser

2009-11-30 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:57:02 +0100 Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > Hi, > > Using iceweasel 3.5.5-1 I have installed several extensions: > > xul-ext-adblock-plus > xul-ext-firebug > xul-ext-greasemonkey > xul-ext-webdeveloper webdeveloper is working fine here (and appearing in the Add-ons / Ext

Re: AMD-K6-2 processor for Lenny

2009-11-30 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
forman...@email.cz wrote: > > From: Stan Hoeppner >> Simple. In 'make menuconfig' select K6-II under Processor Type. >> >> And read this if you haven't already: >> > href="http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html";>http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.ht

Re: what is the proper grub2 update procedure when changing disks

2009-11-30 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:10 AM, David Goodenough wrote: > In the old Grub1 days if I had a bootable disk die and I copied its contents > across to a new disk and wanted to make it bootable I followed a procedure > that ran grub, looked for /boot/grub/stage1, set root to that hd, and then > setup

Re: To run a program under another user.

2009-11-30 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:09:33 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > > I need to run a console program under another user - if I try to do so with > the help of sudo - ut tells me that I'm out of the sudoers list. If I try to > run it w/ the help of gksu (though weird it is) - it does so, but h

Re: To run a program under another user.

2009-11-30 Thread Bob McGowan
Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > > I need to run a console program under another user - if I try to do so with > the help of sudo - ut tells me that I'm out of the sudoers list. If I try to > run it w/ the help of gksu (though weird it is) - it does so, but having > started - the program soon

Re: To run a program under another user.

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Sthu, Have you tried: "su - username", or "su -c command - username"? Cheers, Tyler Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > > I need to run a console program under another user - if I try to do so with > the help of sudo - ut tells me that I'm out of the sudoers lis

Re: To run a program under another user.

2009-11-30 Thread Nicholas
Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I need to run a console program under another user - if I try to do so with the help of sudo - ut tells me that I'm out of the sudoers list. /etc/sudoers user ALL = NOPASSWD:ALL -- Sincerely, Nicholas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

To run a program under another user.

2009-11-30 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I need to run a console program under another user - if I try to do so with the help of sudo - ut tells me that I'm out of the sudoers list. If I try to run it w/ the help of gksu (though weird it is) - it does so, but having started - the program soon is finished - as if the user ha

Re: Unstable, LVM and Grub2: "error: you need to load the kernel first"

2009-11-30 Thread Tom H
Johannes Graumann wrote: >> A recent update of both my home machines running sid pulled in an update of >> grub2. Now both machines are stuck with the grub menu showing up fine, but >> no matter which kernel I choose, I always end up with this error: >> "error: you need to load the kernel first" >

Re: LC_NUMERIC vs locale ?

2009-11-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-11-30 16:25 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > My computer is setup so that default locale is en_US.utf8. In order > to do some testing with LC_NUMERIC. I decided to install more locale > (dpkg-reconfigure locales). Now I have: > > $ locale -a > C > en_US.utf8 > fr_FR.utf8 > POSIX > > How

Re: Unstable, LVM and Grub2: "error: you need to load the kernel first"

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Wagner
* Johannes Graumann 30.11.2009 > A recent update of both my home machines running sid pulled in an update of > grub2. Now both machines are stuck with the grub menu showing up fine, but > no matter which kernel I choose, I always end up with this error: > > "error: you need to load the kernel

Re: AMD-K6-2 processor for Lenny

2009-11-30 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:31:36 +0100 (CET) forman...@email.cz wrote: > > Yes - I have read it. > menuconfig on Lenny - kernel 2.6.26-2 says only 4 options (if .config in > place or not): > > ( ) Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 > ( ) Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon > ( ) Core 2/newer Xeon > ( )

LC_NUMERIC vs locale ?

2009-11-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, My computer is setup so that default locale is en_US.utf8. In order to do some testing with LC_NUMERIC. I decided to install more locale (dpkg-reconfigure locales). Now I have: $ locale -a C en_US.utf8 fr_FR.utf8 POSIX However I am still missing something to get LC_NUMERIC working. F

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-30 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Justin The Cynical < cyni...@penguinness.org> wrote: > Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > >> Hi Justin, >> >> This is the problem: system does not boot at all; it goes as far as DRAC >> check and stopped; it does not even try to load the kernel. >> It looks like the system

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-30 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > Hi Justin, >> >> This is the problem: system does not boot at all; it goes as far as DRAC >> check and stopped; it does not even try to load the kernel. >> It looks like the system can not

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition > to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. I have a "Live USB Debian" system that follows this idea (i.e. it's just a plain normal Debian install, except it works off of a USB stick). > . clone the lenny parti

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Re: Network stalls

2009-11-30 Thread Jamie Thompson
So, I've spent all weekend looking into this, and I'm still no closer to solving it. I've tried replacing the NICs, swapping the switches, removing the switches, isolating the machines, replacing the wiring, and logging the iptables traffic. That last one was quite interesting actually. I added l

Re: New notebook

2009-11-30 Thread pch0317
Brian wrote: > --- On Mon, 11/30/09, pch0317 wrote: > > >> From: pch0317 >> Subject: New notebook >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 5:33 AM >> Hi >> >> Is possible that Debian testing will run on this machine: >> Hewlett-Packard Compaq 615 VC289EA >> (AMD

Re: iptables and ports 0, 1

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Smith
Alex Samad writes: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 08:07:55PM -0500, Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a pretty basic iptables setup for my personal laptop, drop >> all input except connections from local host, and allow all outgoing >> requests. >> >> However, When I check with Shields Up! >

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-30 Thread Tyler Smith
Cameron Hutchison writes: > Cameron Hutchison writes: >>Tyler Smith writes: >>>Cameron Hutchison writes: > Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? > >>>Yes, I'm having the same problem you described (below) on testi

solicitacao

2009-11-30 Thread zezefreitas
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Re: how to renew a security certificate?

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Wagner
* Nick Douma 28.11.2009 > Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Boyd Stephen Smith, Jr.: > > > >> Who set up the dovecot installtion? Dovecot doesn't use a certificate by > >> default, so the person that generated the cert and got it signed would be > >> the > >> best source of information on the cert.

Re: AMD-K6-2 processor for Lenny

2009-11-30 Thread formanlpg
From: Stan Hoeppner > Simple. In 'make menuconfig' select K6-II under Processor Type. > > And read this if you haven't already: > href="http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html";>http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html > > -- > Stan Yes - I have read

Re: New notebook

2009-11-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM, pch0317 wrote: > Hi > > Is possible that Debian testing will run on this machine: > Hewlett-Packard Compaq 615 VC289EA > (AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core RM-76, > 2 GB DDR2, > ATI Radeon HD 3200, > Broadcom 802.11b/g with Bluetooth® 2.1, > Marvell 10/100 ethernet, > inter

Re: New notebook

2009-11-30 Thread Brian
--- On Mon, 11/30/09, pch0317 wrote: > From: pch0317 > Subject: New notebook > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 5:33 AM > Hi > > Is possible that Debian testing will run on this machine: > Hewlett-Packard Compaq 615 VC289EA > (AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core RM-76,

installing experimental supertux: libopenal0a missing

2009-11-30 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all Today I tried installing supertux, both the experimental version [1] and the supertux .deb [2]. Strangely, both depend on a mysterious and missing libopenal0a package. On Ubuntu Jaunty, however, this development supertux worked pretty fine. Any ideas on how to solve the dependency issues?

Re: VirtualBox or VMware?

2009-11-30 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Ken Heard wrote: > So it would appear from the posts that I should use VirtualBox for now. > I could also install DOS on it and see if DOS apps work better on VBox > than on dosemu. Have you tried dosbox? Might debian package does not exists but the app

Re: New notebook

2009-11-30 Thread Juha Tuuna
pch0317 wrote: > Hi > > Is possible that Debian testing will run on this machine: > Hewlett-Packard Compaq 615 VC289EA > (AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core RM-76, > 2 GB DDR2, > ATI Radeon HD 3200, > Broadcom 802.11b/g with Bluetooth® 2.1, > Marvell 10/100 ethernet, > internet camera) > > Thanks I'd say i

Re: On Access Virus Scanner Recommendation

2009-11-30 Thread Berni Elbourn
Holger Rauch wrote: Hi, On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Paul Johnson wrote: Holger Rauch wrote: I'm thinking about using NOD32 on a Debian system for on access virus scanning (i.e. scan a file when it's created or its contents are modified in some way). Why, when it's so much easier to not allow conne

New notebook

2009-11-30 Thread pch0317
Hi Is possible that Debian testing will run on this machine: Hewlett-Packard Compaq 615 VC289EA (AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core RM-76, 2 GB DDR2, ATI Radeon HD 3200, Broadcom 802.11b/g with Bluetooth® 2.1, Marvell 10/100 ethernet, internet camera) Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

what is the proper grub2 update procedure when changing disks

2009-11-30 Thread David Goodenough
In the old Grub1 days if I had a bootable disk die and I copied its contents across to a new disk and wanted to make it bootable I followed a procedure that ran grub, looked for /boot/grub/stage1, set root to that hd, and then setup that hd, and I was done. But now Grub2 seems to rely on UUIDs rat

iceweasel xul-ext-* packages don't appear as addons in browser

2009-11-30 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
Hi, Using iceweasel 3.5.5-1 I have installed several extensions: xul-ext-adblock-plus xul-ext-firebug xul-ext-greasemonkey xul-ext-webdeveloper yet none of them appear in the browser's addon list. Did I overlook something? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Cameron Hutchison writes: >Tyler Smith writes: >>Cameron Hutchison writes: >>> Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin >>> (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? >>Yes, I'm having the same problem you described (below) on testing on a >>32 bit machine. We're not a