Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

Daniel Dalton: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:24:31PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> The only drawback is that you probably won't have that much fun running >> stable on it, because I don't think stable supports the graphics chip > > I run squeeze Then you shouldn't run into problems. The harde

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

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:48:49PM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I guess the "better way" is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is > > available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and > > get an in-depth understanding of how it really works. > > I understand just fine h

Re: live cd/usb projects?

Thanks a lot Tzafrir & Rob for your explains. Hope that my slow respond can still get the thread going. On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:32:25 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > . . . There are many conflicting sets of instructions floating > around on wikis, etc. It took me a long time to get this stuff figured

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

> I guess the "better way" is to read (and digest) whatever udev doc is > available and run enough tests, possibly with differenty hardware, and > get an in-depth understanding of how it really works. I understand just fine how it works: when the network interface is discovered (typically at boot

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:24:31PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > My Thinkpad X200 is approaching its first birthday and I really love it. > If you can afford it, it is a really good choice and well worth the > price. Yes, all the reviews sounded positive. > > The only drawback is that you probab

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

> I've been happily using Debian on Thinkpads for just over 11 years now. Excellent:) > > > What other brands should I consider Dell and HP don't seem to be as > > powerful as these Lenovos, but maybe I'm wrong. What should I consider > > with good linux support (debian)? I'm looking at a 12.1 i

Re: CUPS Printing problems

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Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 02:34:36PM -0600, John W Foster wrote: > I dont often buy systems, I build my own, but laptops are not a DIY > project. I have been shopping for a new laptop to use in my work & what > someone told me to do was: burn a Ubuntu live disk & take it with me > when shopping. That

Re: migrate to new system disk

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 09:22 pm, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with > LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions: > > I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on > another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/

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

>> >>at the moment 'grub-pc' is broken in sid. When you have a separate /boot >> >>partition, the package generates a wrong '/boot/grub/grub.cfg'. Look at >> >>the BTS for bug #558042. There is also the workaround for the problem. >> I ran across the same problem, but I am running mdraid RAID 1, w

Re: migrate to new system disk

> If you (or anyone else) is using Grub, simply copying your  files across > your files will not work due to the presence of UUIDs in the Grub2 config > files.  I have been unable to find the proper procedure for updating those > UUIDs. # chroot / then # update-grub -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: CUPS Printing problems

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:47:35 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have just tried to move my printer from an old lenny system to my > desktop (running sid). > > I seem to have created a printer OK, but an attempt to print a test page > fails. The view error log function on the cups web page shows the

Re: messed up error messages from gcc

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > Maybe your terminal is not in Unicode mode? Good possibility, but, I thought that would only matter when non-ascii characters came into play. Oh... ok.. I just found the UTF 8 item on xterm and there actually is a minor difference: $ LANG

Re: messed up error messages from gcc

On 2009-12-02 21:35 +0100, Mike Castle wrote: > I guess this boils down to: is this a bug in gcc or a bug in my set up? Probably there is something wrong on your system, because gcc works as expected in your example here: , | % LANG=en_US.UTF-8 gcc -Wall -Werror t.c | cc1: warnings being tr

Re: messed up error messages from gcc

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Mike Castle wrote: > So, what's the proper solution to this?  Do I need to install > something?  Or rebuild a locale database somewhere? (if the latter, I > would have thought that it would have been done automatically upon > appropriate installs along the way.)  J

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

-Original Message- From: Daniel Dalton To: luv-main Cc: debian-user Subject: The purchase of a new laptop on debian Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 22:56:08 +1100 Hi All, I'm looking to buy a knew laptop. I have been recommended by a few people to look at the Lenovo thinkpad X 200 and t 400/500.

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

Hi, Sthu: On Wednesday 02 December 2009 16:38:43 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > Do I need clamav mail check on mail server No. > - if I would leave it to > end-client antiviruses. Unrelated. > In other words, will it hurt the server some way > and therefore the clamav should be on every ma

Re: Charset of the Aptitude reference manual

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:48:31 -0500 Chris Jones wrote: ... > Simple fix for the English version, in vim: > > :%s/Â/ /g > > Or use 'lynx -dump' to generate the text versions from the html files. Thanks. They don't actually bother me all that much; I just wanted to know if I had something misco

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Re: Grub 2 does not boot Squeeze, Error 15, Need help

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 20:25:14 Foss User wrote: > I am using Squeeze. I booted successfully many times using the > chainloaded grub2. So, I thought it would be safe to replace grub with > grub2. > > So, I tried running update-from-grub-legacy but this command was not > present even while l

Re: Charset of the Aptitude reference manual

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:37:14PM EST, Daniel Burrows wrote: > It should be UTF-8, but that doesn't mean it's not broken. The text > documentation is generated automatically via html2text, and that's > been buggy at various points, particularly with regards to encodings > -- unless you h

Re: Charset of the Aptitude reference manual

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:47:21AM EST, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:25:55 -0500 > Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:35:01PM EST, Celejar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > When I look at the Aptitude manual (/usr/share/aptitude/README) > > > using 'less' (in Xfce4 Termin

Grub 2 does not boot Squeeze, Error 15, Need help

I am using Squeeze. I booted successfully many times using the chainloaded grub2. So, I thought it would be safe to replace grub with grub2. So, I tried running update-from-grub-legacy but this command was not present even while logged in as root. So, I ran upgrade-from-grub-legacy and now I am u

Re: messed up error messages from gcc

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Could you please try running LC_ALL=C gcc -Wall -Werror t.c and let us > know if that solves the issue? Yup. That did it. Thanks for the quick analysis. LANG= gcc ... had the same effect. That's what I get for letting it set the darned

Re: messed up error messages from gcc

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 10:36:20AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > I typically keep my environment pretty stripped down, and so it may > turn out that I'm missing some package that causes the following > problem. But I've not yet been able to figure it out. I'm hoping the > masses out here will immed

messed up error messages from gcc

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[Solved] Ntp daemon logs (ipv6)

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:36:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > Running Lenny, I am seeing the following ntp logs under "daemon.log": > > *** > Dec 1 07:33:36 serv2 ntpd[3841]: ntpd 4.2@1.1520-o Mon May 11 > 20:13:01 UTC 2009 (1) > > Dec 1 07:33:36 serv2 ntpd[3842]: precision = 1.000 use

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:34:16 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Camaleón: >> >> In what way removing clamav you are closing a "potencial security >> >> hole"? :-? >> > >> > http://www.google.com/search?q=clamav+exploit >> >> Oh, sure. >> >> But you can then change the query by: >> >> http://www.go

Re: migrate to new system disk

On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:04:17 +, David Goodenough wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 December 2009, tv.debian wrote: > >> tune2fs -U [old_partition_UUID] /dev/[new_partition] > >> > >> will change the UUID of the new partition to the one of the original >

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

Camaleón: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:51:18 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Camaleón: > >> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:38:43 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >> > >>> PS I want to remove it because I suppose that in case clamav blesses > >>> users' life and not server's - by removing clamav I can close one > >>>

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:51:18 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Camaleón: >> On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:38:43 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: >> >>> PS I want to remove it because I suppose that in case clamav blesses >>> users' life and not server's - by removing clamav I can close one >>> potential security who

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

Camaleón: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:38:43 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >> PS I want to remove it because I suppose that in case clamav blesses >> users' life and not server's - by removing clamav I can close one >> potential security whole. > > In what way removing clamav you are closing a "potencial

XBM support in PHP5-GD Lenny

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Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:38:43 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Do I need clamav mail check on mail server - if I would leave it to > end-client antiviruses. In other words, will it hurt the server some way > and therefore the clamav should be on every mail server - as it protests > the server OR I can eas

Does email server OS needs clamav?

Good day. Do I need clamav mail check on mail server - if I would leave it to end-client antiviruses. In other words, will it hurt the server some way and therefore the clamav should be on every mail server - as it protests the server OR I can easily drop it to the end users (to be checked at t

Re: migrate to new system disk

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:04:17 +, David Goodenough wrote: > On Wednesday 02 December 2009, tv.debian wrote: >> tune2fs -U [old_partition_UUID] /dev/[new_partition] >> >> will change the UUID of the new partition to the one of the original >> one. If the partitions are inside the same machine,

Re: migrate to new system disk

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:59:21AM +, David Goodenough wrote: > On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot > > > loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb > > > installer. The last time

Re: Charset of the Aptitude reference manual

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:37:14 -0800 Daniel Burrows wrote: > It should be UTF-8, but that doesn't mean it's not broken. The text > documentation is generated automatically via html2text, and that's been > buggy at various points, particularly with regards to encodings -- > unless you have a speci

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

Daniel Dalton: > > I'm looking to buy a knew laptop. I have been recommended by a few > people to look at the Lenovo thinkpad X 200 and t 400/500. What are your > thoughts on these systems? What is positive, what is negative? My Thinkpad X200 is approaching its first birthday and I really love i

open e-chart directory

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Re: Charset of the Aptitude reference manual

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:25:55 -0500 Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:35:01PM EST, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I look at the Aptitude manual (/usr/share/aptitude/README) using > > 'less' (in Xfce4 Terminal), I get undisplayable characters, shown as > > ''. 'file' says that

Re: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on isa0060/serio0).

installing hotkey-setup seems to get me a little further... On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > If that helps I can get lshal -m to work for the following: > > 12:38:47.903: computer_logicaldev_input_2 condition ButtonPressed = > switch-videomode > 12:38:51.014: computer_p

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Daniel Dalton wrote: > I'm looking to buy a knew laptop. I have been recommended by a few > people to look at the Lenovo thinkpad X 200 and t 400/500. What are your > thoughts on these systems? What is positive, what is negative? I've been happily using Debian on Thinkpads for

CUPS Printing problems

I have just tried to move my printer from an old lenny system to my desktop (running sid). I seem to have created a printer OK, but an attempt to print a test page fails. The view error log function on the cups web page shows the following (I have tried to pickup key parts from a VERY LONG fi

Re: Default configuration file for X server?

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:45:17 +0530, Hrishikesh Murali wrote: > I am Hrishikesh Murali, a new member to this list. I have debian > installed as a virtual machine on my laptop having resolution 1280x800, > and by default without any graphics driver it uses a built-in > configuration for the X sessio

Re: Wrong Keymap used in X session

Dne, 02. 12. 2009 12:21:28 je Mathieu Malaterre napisal(a): > > Excellent that fixed it. thanks ! > > -- > Mathieu > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > > Glad to help

Re: NetBeans in contrib

On 2009-12-02 11:54 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > It's probably that a previous NetBeans-Platform version had a non-free > Dependency and the maintainer is still uploading it to the wrong queue. Or, > the might be some special process needed to transition a package from contrib > to m

Re: migrate to new system disk

On Wednesday 02 December 2009, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > >David Goodenough wrote: > >> On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote: > >>> 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot > >>> loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb > >>>

The purchase of a new laptop on debian

Hi All, I'm looking to buy a knew laptop. I have been recommended by a few people to look at the Lenovo thinkpad X 200 and t 400/500. What are your thoughts on these systems? What is positive, what is negative? What other brands should I consider Del and HP don't seem to be as powerful as these

Re: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on isa0060/serio0).

If that helps I can get lshal -m to work for the following: 12:38:47.903: computer_logicaldev_input_2 condition ButtonPressed = switch-videomode 12:38:51.014: computer_power_supply_battery_BAT0 property battery.voltage.current = 12578 (0x3122) I tried pressing Fn+F1 -> F12, but only two got recog

atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on isa0060/serio0).

Hi there, I am hitting this problem now : [ 118.586044] atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on isa0060/serio0). [ 118.586044] atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e008 ' to make it known. In the past I was able to fix it using hal-info from testing, but today this is not workin

Re: Wrong Keymap used in X session

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 02. 12. 2009 11:53:50 je Mathieu Malaterre napisal(a): > In the >> device-console keymap is British, but when I switch to the X session >> (gnome) it is set to american. > > I had the exact same symptom in a new Lenny installation a while ago.

Default configuration file for X server?

Hi, I am Hrishikesh Murali, a new member to this list. I have debian installed as a virtual machine on my laptop having resolution 1280x800, and by default without any graphics driver it uses a built-in configuration for the X session. This is a snippet from my log file : (==) --- Start of built-

Re: Wrong Keymap used in X session

Dne, 02. 12. 2009 11:53:50 je Mathieu Malaterre napisal(a): In the > device-console keymap is British, but when I switch to the X session > (gnome) it is set to american. I had the exact same symptom in a new Lenny installation a while ago. In the end, it turned out that some lines were missing i

Re: virus on linux?

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 01:33, Rob Owens wrote: > Don't forget about the *.desktop files that several desktop environments > use to launch programs from their deskop.  They can execute files > without the "x" permission set.  Although I think one of the major DE's > fixed that security hole (but I

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Re: NetBeans in contrib

In <6b1504c40912020246o3d9755b8w9058e6119aa86...@mail.gmail.com>, Nuno Magalhães wrote: >On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 08:45, Lars Tennstedt wrote: >> Can anyone tell me why >> NetBeans-IDE is placed in contrib? It depends on the NetBeans-Plattform >> from contrib and this depends on OpenJDK 6 from main

Wrong Keymap used in X session

Hi there, I just finished installing a brand new debian/stable system on a DELL Precision M6300... but I already have a problem with the keymap used on my X session (console Ctrl-Alt-F1 is ok). In the device-console keymap is British, but when I switch to the X session (gnome) it is set to ameri

Re: NetBeans in contrib

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 08:45, Lars Tennstedt wrote: > Hello, > > sorry for bothering you, but I do not get it. Can anyone tell me why > NetBeans-IDE is placed in contrib? It depends on the NetBeans-Plattform from > contrib and this depends on OpenJDK 6 from main. I think it's because it's develop

Re: migrate to new system disk

Stan Hoeppner: > > I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on > another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/etc the exact contents of the > current system disk to the new disk; make the new disk the system (boot) > disk, and remove the original disk from the machine. I've never d

Re: migrate to new system disk

>David Goodenough wrote: >> On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote: >>> 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot >>> loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb >>> installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago. >

Re: setting a preferred debian repository?

In <68b1e2610912020216p698bcb0x2f771de504dde...@mail.gmail.com>, Liviu Andronic wrote: >How can I instruct Synaptic to honour >the priorities defined in /etc/apt/preferences? I don't use synaptic. It's documentation may point you to a different file with the same or similar syntax. Even in tha

Re: setting a preferred debian repository?

Hello On 12/1/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Yes, read (man 5 apt_preferences) and review the output of (apt-cache policy) > or (apt-cache policy $package). > > For a full practical example, see . > I looked at the pages and right now it *seems* to be doing

Re: migrate to new system disk

On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote: > > 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot > > loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb > > installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago. > > How do I manually install