Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 08 April 2010 04:44:33 pm Paul E Condon wrote: > I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are > for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on > several of them and started experimenting. The results so far > are puzzling. > > I do get errors. So I deci

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote: I run Ubuntu and regularly read the Debian list, so maybe I can answer. That's my situation as well. If I need to know where is the menus Firefox is, or how to change my wallpaper, the Ubuntu list is fine. But nobody there understands _anything_ about

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:44:33 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are for sale > in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on several of them > and started experimenting. The results so far are puzzling. > > I do get errors. So I decide

Re: unable to connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-08 06:40, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: The last few days, when using reportbug, I get (from two machines, on two different networks): Querying Debian BTS for reports on linux-2.6 (source)... Unable to connect to Debian BTS; continue [y|N|?]? except some very rare cases.

Re: ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:51:27 -0400, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:43:03PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald uttered: >> After over 10 years of faithful service (essentially when I ditched >> pine), I am considering having my mutt put down. Should I move over to >> gmail, or is there som

Re: Error: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

2010-04-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
vikram wrote: Hi, I get this while trying to scp onto a local machine(on the same subnet, both machines running Lenny). Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer lost connection I am able to ping the machine fine. How can this be fixed? Thanks Vikram It starts copying and then

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Chris
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:40:12 +0200 godo wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian > > Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses > > x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. > > > > "update-alternatives

Re: ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 22:36, green wrote: [snip] I am using mutt. I had procmail set up to drop messages in different maildir boxes. Then I switched to mailfilter. And because it is such a pain when a new mailing list is added (or whatever), ?? It takes 30 seconds to pull up ~/.mailfilter i

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 23:49, Freeman wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 10:31:33PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:58:38 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-08 21:38, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head: Give a man a fish

Error: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

2010-04-08 Thread vikram
Hi, I get this while trying to scp onto a local machine(on the same subnet, both machines running Lenny). Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer lost connection I am able to ping the machine fine. How can this be fixed? Thanks Vikram

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:26:20AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Interesting.  This is the opposite of my experience, where I started friends > > out on Ubuntu as a way to break them into Linux but they found the amount of > > updates annoying, and there were some instability issues at different >

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Freeman
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 10:31:33PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:58:38 -0500 > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 2010-04-08 21:38, Stephen Powell wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head: > > > > > >Give a man a fish a

Re: ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread green
Michael Elkins wrote at 2010-04-08 20:08 -0500: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:43:03PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > After over 10 years of faithful service (essentially when I ditched pine), > > I am considering having my mutt put down. Should I move over to gmail, or is > > there some amazing s

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:58:38 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-08 21:38, Stephen Powell wrote: > [snip] > > > > For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head: > > > >Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. > >Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifet

Re: Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Apr 08 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:01:03 -0400 (EDT), Ivan Marin wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:40:46 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >>> It sounds to me like you want to get pristine kernel sources directly >>> from kernel.org and compile them and run them on a

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> There's another proverb: Teach a man to fish and he gets angry for making > him work. > Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for an evening. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be su

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head: > >   Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. >   Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. > > I'd rather learn to fish. > In this case it's: Take a rope off their necks and you save him today. (get him off W

Re: Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Apr 08 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > Thu, 8 Apr 2010 11:01:01 -0400 (EDT), Celejar wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:40:46 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >>> It sounds to me like you want to get pristine kernel sources directly >>> from kernel.org and compile them and run them on a Debia

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 21:38, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. I'd rather learn to fish. There's another proverb: Teach a man to fis

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread godo
Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alternatives --install" seems to be what I want in order to add /usr/local/firefox/fire

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:37:34 -0400 (EDT), Dotan Cohen wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> What I don't understand is why Ubuntu users *post* here, when they >> actually run Ubuntu. > > I run Ubuntu and regularly read the Debian list, so maybe I can answer. > > If I need to know where is the menus Fi

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Interesting.  This is the opposite of my experience, where I started friends > out on Ubuntu as a way to break them into Linux but they found the amount of > updates annoying, and there were some instability issues at different > times.  So I switched them to Lenny - sure it took a little more to

Re: How do I transfer file through multiple jumps ssh connections

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 20:48, Kaicheng Zhang wrote: Hi there, I have to ssh to a server A and then ssh to server B where I do my job. Therefore scp cannot work well when I want transfer files between remote and host machine. I used secureCRT in Windows, and its feature allow me to type "rz" in the

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 20:38, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Ron Johnson writes: # update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ /usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 update-alternatives: error: alternative link is not absolute as it should be: x-www-browser What am

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Tom Furie writes: >On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: >> Ron Johnson writes: >> >> ># update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ >> >/usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 >> >update-alternatives: error: alternative link i

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 20:50, Tom Furie wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Ron Johnson writes: # update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ /usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 update-alternatives: error: alternative link

How do I transfer file through multiple jumps ssh connections

2010-04-08 Thread Kaicheng Zhang
Hi there, I have to ssh to a server A and then ssh to server B where I do my job. Therefore scp cannot work well when I want transfer files between remote and host machine. I used secureCRT in Windows, and its feature allow me to type "rz" in the remote machine and select the file I would l

Re: Making make-kpkg quieter

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Mart Frauenlob writes: >You want to see the output of the build, but the clean process is too >much? The build output will be multiple times greater anyways. This is >not a problem over the slow link? Ok. It looks like you haven't run the latest make-kpkg. I just did a rebuild of an existing bu

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread godo
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-08 19:50, godo wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alternatives --install" seems to b

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Mark
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > [snip] > But the biggest reason that I run Ubuntu is to > promote it. I have done tens of installs for friends, neighbours, and > family. I need to be familiar with what they are running. Debian just > needs a bit too much work, a bit too much

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > ># update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ > >/usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 > >update-alternatives: error: alternative link is not absolute as it > >s

Re: Debian Sys Admin Training / Certification

2010-04-08 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Abraham Chaffin wrote: > What training / certification courses would you guys recommend for Sys Admin > / Security Admin training or certification for Debian? > Is the LPIC a good route? Go with Red Hat certification? Or what do you all > suggest? Certifications ar

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Ron Johnson writes: ># update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ >/usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 >update-alternatives: error: alternative link is not absolute as it >should be: x-www-browser >What am I doing wrong? The easiest way to see how th

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> What I don't understand is why Ubuntu users *post* here, when they > actually run Ubuntu. I run Ubuntu and regularly read the Debian list, so maybe I can answer. If I need to know where is the menus Firefox is, or how to change my wallpaper, the Ubuntu list is fine. But nobody there understands

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 19:44, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on several of them and started experimenting. The results so far are puzzling. I do get errors. So I decided to do scans for bad

Re: Installing Sugar in testing

2010-04-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Please see [1]. You probably want sucrose-0.86 for now; sucrose-0.88 still > has a few problems [2,3] (the fixes got delayed by the recent > ries.debian.org outage). Thanks, sucrose-0.86 indeed seems to install properly. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 19:50, godo wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alternatives --install" seems to be what I want in ord

Re: ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread Michael Elkins
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:43:03PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > After over 10 years of faithful service (essentially when I ditched pine), > I am considering having my mutt put down. Should I move over to gmail, or is > there some amazing scriptable GUI mail client that is going to knock my > so

Re: automate updates in Lenny

2010-04-08 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-07 13:52, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: >> how do you automate the updates in Lenny? [if you're using it as a >> "desktop os", and you don't want to give: apt-get update; apt-get >> upgrade -y every week..]? > > That's a foolish thing to do, sin

Re: Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread godo
Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alternatives --install" seems to be what I want in order to add /usr/local/firefox/fire

About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on several of them and started experimenting. The results so far are puzzling. I do get errors. So I decided to do scans for bad blocks. The drives I'm using are all Western

Re: ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
John Hasler wrote: > > Should I move over to gmail, or is there some amazing scriptable GUI > > mail client that is going to knock my socks off with an array of pipes > > and regexps and color-highlighting and maybe even procmail-parsing and > > custom keybinding? > Of course: Gnus. Hmm. Maybe it

Re: ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread John Hasler
Tyler writes: > Should I move over to gmail, or is there some amazing scriptable GUI > mail client that is going to knock my socks off with an array of pipes > and regexps and color-highlighting and maybe even procmail-parsing and > custom keybinding? Of course: Gnus. -- John Hasler -- To UNSU

Re: ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread Steve Fishpaste
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:43:03PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald uttered: > After over 10 years of faithful service (essentially when I ditched pine), > I am considering having my mutt put down. Should I move over to gmail, or is > there some amazing scriptable GUI mail client that is going to knock my >

ditching mutt

2010-04-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
After over 10 years of faithful service (essentially when I ditched pine), I am considering having my mutt put down. Should I move over to gmail, or is there some amazing scriptable GUI mail client that is going to knock my socks off with an array of pipes and regexps and color-highlighting and may

Re: Debian Sys Admin Training / Certification

2010-04-08 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: t...@furie.org.uk >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Debian Sys Admin Training / Certification >Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 23:49:42 +0100 > >>On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 01:34:28PM -0700, Abraham Chaffin wrote: >>> What training / certification courses w

Re: Making make-kpkg quieter

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Manoj Srivastava writes: >On Wed, Apr 07 2010, Cameron Hutchison wrote: >> Is there any way to make make-kpkg (kernel-package 12.033) quieter? When >> I run a "make-kpkg clean" it spits out lots of lines about unlinking >> files in debian/... >Please file a wishlist bug. I have usually

Re: Debian Sys Admin Training / Certification

2010-04-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
What about Ubuntu? It seems to be the deb-based commercial distro of the moment, do they have any certification? It would probably be as "heard of" as Red Hat. Or not. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Need help installing an "alternative"

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want. "update-alternatives --install" seems to be what I want in order to add /usr/local/firefox/firefox to the x-www-bro

Re: Debian Sys Admin Training / Certification

2010-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 01:34:28PM -0700, Abraham Chaffin wrote: > What training / certification courses would you guys recommend for Sys Admin > / Security Admin training or certification for Debian? > Is the LPIC a good route? Go with Red Hat certification? Or what do you all > suggest? I have t

Re: Debian Sys Admin Training / Certification

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 15:34, Abraham Chaffin wrote: What training / certification courses would you guys recommend for Sys Admin / Security Admin training or certification for Debian? Is the LPIC a good route? Go with Red Hat certification? Or what do you all suggest? Towards what end? Better emplo

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-08 Thread Gerald
On Thursday 08 April 2010 10:38:11 pm Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:10:49 -0400 (EDT), Gerald wrote: > > Stephen, How about MBRWORK. > > This little program runs from a floppy or pehaps fron a CD. > > I have found it very useful > > Gerald, you replied to me personally instead of t

Re: Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread James P. Wallen
Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:13:22 -0400 (EDT), Bob McGowan wrote: I run Ubuntu on my laptop, because I got tired of the manual Nvidia setup every time the kernel changed. I have been a regular on this forum for several months now, and I know from experience that the topic of th

Re: Keyboard gets stuck when closing PPP

2010-04-08 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 12:14:47PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > ... > > phone (motorola e815) through a usb cable. It's not 100% repeatable. > > I suspect something in the close routine is overwriting part of the > > keyboard driver, but only some times. BTW, this is on a Dell 8600, > > with th

Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:01:03 -0400 (EDT), Ivan Marin wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:40:46 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> It sounds to me like you want to get pristine kernel sources directly >> from kernel.org and compile them and run them on a Debian system. >> I've never done that, but othe

Debian Sys Admin Training / Certification

2010-04-08 Thread Abraham Chaffin
What training / certification courses would you guys recommend for Sys Admin / Security Admin training or certification for Debian? Is the LPIC a good route? Go with Red Hat certification? Or what do you all suggest? Thank you, Abraham

Re: Re: Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Ivan Marin
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:40:46 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> It sounds to me like you want to get pristine kernel sources directly >> from kernel.org and compile them and run them on a Debian system. >> I've never done that, but others tell me that they do it. Of course, >> this is not sup

Re: Xorg and cpu usage

2010-04-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Concerning Xorg, look through the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log, e.g., > the command > > $ grep -i dynamic uuhm, $ grep -i dynamic /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > should tell you if power saving ("Dynamic Clock Scaling") is enabled or not. > > Generally, the problem of energ

Re: Xorg and cpu usage

2010-04-08 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Concerning Xorg, look through the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log, e.g., the command $ grep -i dynamic should tell you if power saving ("Dynamic Clock Scaling") is enabled or not. Generally, the problem of energy consumption can be tackled with the program powertop best called as root. Maybe, it ca

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,08.Apr.10, 14:11:02, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Andrei, I already told the OP about modinfo in an earlier post; but If you look at the headers you can see that in theory I beat you by ~30 minutes, but in practice, the mail was stuck in my postfix queue until today, because wicd does not r

Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Ivan Marin
(I'm posting again because, for some reason, my emails are not getting to the mail list. Sorry about that.) Hi all, I've seen a lot of traffic lately about how to compile a fresh kernel, from debian ou vanilla, in this list. After the changes in make-kpkg and kernel-package, I'm now completely lo

Re: Hello

2010-04-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,11.Mar.10, 09:01:02, surreal wrote: > I am using a grsecurity hardened kernel downloaded from here - > http://indiaforcekernel.googlecode.com/files/linux-image-2.6.32.9-grsecindiaforce1.1_1.1_i386.deb > > It is patched to provide maximum security but it prevents segment > relocation.. > >

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:15:33 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,05.Apr.10, 07:36:03, Lubos Rendek wrote: >> thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a >> specific hardware. for example my lsmod shows that I use 'ecb' module. >> For someone like me this name does no

Re: interfaces - proper configuration

2010-04-08 Thread Axton
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Axton wrote: > I am trying to set up the /etc/network/interfaces script properly so that > all interfaces are started/stopped properly by /etc/init.d/networking. I > have this set up correctly, mostly, I think, but there is a flurry of > warning messages on start

Re: Retrieve hardware and modules info..

2010-04-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,05.Apr.10, 07:36:03, Lubos Rendek wrote: > thanks guys for this.. Now what is the best way to link modules to a > specific hardware. for example my lsmod shows that I use 'ecb' module. > For someone like me this name does not say much. Is there a way to > find which module belongs to which p

Xorg and cpu usage

2010-04-08 Thread Smokejohn
Hello there. I own a dell studio 1555 with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD4570. I have a debian testing installation and currently I have to use either radeon or the radeonhd drivers cause the proprietary (fglrx) driver doesn't support the xserver currently available in testing. Everything works just fin

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 13:13:22 -0400 (EDT), Bob McGowan wrote: > > I run Ubuntu on my laptop, because I got tired of the manual Nvidia > setup every time the kernel changed. I have been a regular on this forum for several months now, and I know from experience that the topic of the proprietary nvidi

Console font turned cyan

2010-04-08 Thread Robert Latest
Hello folks, I don't know when it happened but it must have been during some "aptitude upgrade" run lately: My console font turned from white to cyan. At first I thought that the red VGA signal had a bad contact, but X came up in full color. Console apps can control the color to a certain extent,

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Bob McGowan
On 04/08/2010 07:17 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:57:17 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:09:09 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> BTW, does anyone know why Ubuntu users seem to want to use the Debian> >>> forums? Don't they have forums of

Re: 'looking up xxxx' forever

2010-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 13:26:14 -0400 (EDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: This is a graphical representation of the problem: http://www.esnips.com/doc/84c672ef-50e8-446e-9560-4c4316ae68e9/do_sysup_201004 Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-08 Thread Bob McGowan
On 04/08/2010 05:38 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:10:49 -0400 (EDT), Gerald wrote: >> Stephen, How about MBRWORK. >> This little program runs from a floppy or pehaps fron a CD. >> I have found it very useful > > Gerald, you replied to me personally instead of the list. > Please

Tomcat5.5 with apache2 and mod_jk on Lenny: error 400

2010-04-08 Thread Jérôme Gaulin
Hello ! I cant get working tomcat5.5 on apache2 via mod_jk on debian lenny 64 up to date. When i try to reach a .jsp file i've got an 400 error. The dpkg -l ii libtomcat5.5-java 5.5.26-5 Java Servlet engine -- core libraries ii solr-tomcat5.5

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:11:35 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Nop, it seems to keep working as always used to. It's just today the >> first time I was getting that "freeze" :-? > > does it freeze and never return or just lag for a while then start >

Re: Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Stephen Powell
Thu, 8 Apr 2010 11:01:01 -0400 (EDT), Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:40:46 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> It sounds to me like you want to get pristine kernel sources directly >> from kernel.org and compile them and run them on a Debian system. >> I've never done that, but others tel

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Nop, it seems to keep working as always used to. > It's just today the first time I was getting that "freeze" :-? does it freeze and never return or just lag for a while then start working? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:45:57 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-04-08 10:11:59, Camaleón wrote: >> Confirmed: with no proxy now seems to be working again :-? >> >> Thanks all :-) > > WAG: Does the problem reappear if you clear the browser cache? Nop, it seems to keep working as always used to

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:53:55 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: (...) > i blame all those iphone slowing down googles map servers! He, he... I add the iPad® boom to that /blame/ list ;-D Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:40:46 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: ... > It sounds to me like you want to get pristine kernel sources directly > from kernel.org and compile them and run them on a Debian system. > I've never done that, but others tell me that they do it. Of course, > this is not supp

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Camaleón wrote: > I just have noted that Google Maps keeps freezing with "loading... still > loading?" text on top and nothing works (no zoom, no panning neither with > mouse nor using the icons to make the movement in the map). i get the same nonsense with google

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-04-08 10:11:59, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:04:51 +0200, Julio wrote: > > > El jue, 08-04-2010 a las 08:50 -0500, Ron Johnson escribió: > >> So, since it works perfectly for me in the US, could there be a > local > >> issue? > > > > I dont know, but it work now. > > Confirmed:

Re: Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:55:46 -0400 (EDT), Ivan Marin wrote: > > I've seen a lot of traffic lately about how to compile a fresh kernel, from > debian ou vanilla, in this list. After the changes in make-kpkg and > kernel-package, I'm now completely lost. Before the changes, I just had to > issue make

[OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:57:17 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:09:09 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> BTW, does anyone know why Ubuntu users seem to want to use the Debian> >> forums? Don't they have forums of their own? > > Yes they do, and in fact I find them

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:04:51 +0200, Julio wrote: > El jue, 08-04-2010 a las 08:50 -0500, Ron Johnson escribió: >> So, since it works perfectly for me in the US, could there be a local >> issue? > > I dont know, but it work now. Confirmed: with no proxy now seems to be working again :-? Thanks a

Correct way to (re)compile a kernel on Debian Sid

2010-04-08 Thread Ivan Marin
Hi all, I've seen a lot of traffic lately about how to compile a fresh kernel, from debian ou vanilla, in this list. After the changes in make-kpkg and kernel-package, I'm now completely lost. Before the changes, I just had to issue make-kpkg with --initrd (and others) flags, and 1) the kernel was

Re: (solved) Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread Julio
El jue, 08-04-2010 a las 14:01 +, Camaleón escribió: > Julio, can you test if this link also works for you?: Yes,it works but the problem is gone... :-? greetings JulHer signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread Julio
El jue, 08-04-2010 a las 08:50 -0500, Ron Johnson escribió: > So, since it works perfectly for me in the US, could > there be a local issue? I dont know, but it work now. greetings signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente

(solved) Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:50:04 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-08 08:42, Julio wrote: >> El jue, 08-04-2010 a las 13:27 +, Camaleón escribió: >>> Anyone experiencing this error on Lenny and Iceweasel 3.0.6? >> >> me too. >> >> > escomposlinix.org looks to be from Spain, and the name Ca

Re: recompiling the kernel with a different version name

2010-04-08 Thread briand
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:09:09 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 05:56:58 -0400 (EDT), Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > > ... > > --revision actually took effect since the > > generated .deb is now (note the 'lore01') > > > > linux-image-2.6.32.10+drm33.1-recompiled_lore01_i386.deb >

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 08:42, Julio wrote: El jue, 08-04-2010 a las 13:27 +, Camaleón escribió: Anyone experiencing this error on Lenny and Iceweasel 3.0.6? me too. escomposlinix.org looks to be from Spain, and the name Camaleón sure looks Spanish. So, since it works perfectly for me in the US

Re: Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread Julio
El jue, 08-04-2010 a las 13:27 +, Camaleón escribió: > Anyone experiencing this error on Lenny and Iceweasel 3.0.6? me too. JulHer signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente

Re: Making make-kpkg quieter

2010-04-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Apr 08 2010, Mart Frauenlob wrote: > Does v.12.033 always run a 'clean' first? Yes. > Mine with lenny v.11.015 does not. That is one major version ago. Things changed a lot witht he new major version. manoj -- mophobia, n.: Fear of being verbally abused by a

Re: OT: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

2010-04-08 Thread Mart Frauenlob
On 08.04.2010 14:58, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-08 03:01, Mart Frauenlob wrote: >> On 07.04.2010 23:12, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2010-04-07 15:45, Mart Frauenlob wrote: On 07.04.2010 22:10, Kent West wrote: >> >> [...] >> > I want a script that will read the file and look for the nam

Google Maps keeps "loading... still loading?"

2010-04-08 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I just have noted that Google Maps keeps freezing with "loading... still loading?" text on top and nothing works (no zoom, no panning neither with mouse nor using the icons to make the movement in the map). I barely remember there was a recent update for "xulrunner" but knowing Google i

Re: regexp a package with apt?

2010-04-08 Thread thib
Jozsi Vadkan wrote: Is there a regexp for the: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad package? I mean like: apt-get install gstreamer*-plugins-bad so that later, when it will get a new version number, it would still be downloadable by a "script" written e.g.: now. Sure, gstreamer.*-plugins-bad$ Just do

Re: unable to connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 06:40, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: The last few days, when using reportbug, I get (from two machines, on two different networks): Querying Debian BTS for reports on linux-2.6 (source)... Unable to connect to Debian BTS; continue [y|N|?]? except some very rare cases. Anybody else havin

Re: question concerning dmesg entry

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 01:10, Robert Cates wrote: Hi all, I've got Lenny running, quite fine actually, and I keep up with the updates, but I just noticed the following at the very end of my dmesg which I've never seen before and I'm hoping somebody can explain to me what this means and if I some kind

Re: OT: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 02:56, Mart Frauenlob wrote: [snip] 2: saving me typing (quick web search): http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.shell/2006-12/msg00934.html Interesting. -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower -- To UNSUBS

Re: OT: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 03:01, Mart Frauenlob wrote: On 07.04.2010 23:12, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-07 15:45, Mart Frauenlob wrote: On 07.04.2010 22:10, Kent West wrote: [...] I want a script that will read the file and look for the name "fred", and if it's found, leave the file alone, but if it'

Re: OT:Script idea/problem

2010-04-08 Thread Monsieur Louk
2010/4/8 John Hasler > Thierry writes: > > Yes, Ron, I told them to do it on a regular time, every other week, > > but they don't do it. So a mail telling them it' s time could > > help. Well, if it is too complicated I will have to still go around > > every now and then to upgrade their box, but

Re: OT: Script to add line to file if it doesn't exist

2010-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-08 03:03, Mart Frauenlob wrote: On 08.04.2010 00:49, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-07 16:12, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Mart's method is the shell way. The 3GL Way is: grep -w "$NAME" "$FILE" TMP=$? if [ "$TMP" = "1" ]; That should be: if [ "$TMP" = "0" ]; then echo -e "$NAM

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