On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On 05/21/2010 09:23 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote:
> > Why is the Chromium-browser in Sid so old? Chromium has been on the
> > 6.x branch for a couple of weeks now and Debian is still using the 5.x
> > branch.
>
> You must be rather upset then, t
hadi motamedi put forth on 5/23/2010 11:21 PM:
> Dear All
> Can you please let me know where can I find minimum size Debian kernel image
> for my virtual qemu ColdFire platform? I checked Debian site but I didn't
> find Motorola-based architecture kernel image.
> Thank you in advance
This list is
> Understood. But what I meant was that an awful lot of people could
> potentially be hit by this, even if they're installing recommends,
> which they'd probably assume should take care of this.
>
> Of course. I was just suggesting that a more precise and consistent
> definition of 'recommends'
Dear All
Can you please let me know where can I find minimum size Debian kernel image
for my virtual qemu ColdFire platform? I checked Debian site but I didn't
find Motorola-based architecture kernel image.
Thank you in advance
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On Sunday 23 May 2010 18:46:29 Tom Furie wrote:
>> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:38:48AM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote:
>> > Setting the *directory* noexec seems very bad, since the exec bit
>> > on directories controls the ability to cd to it, and t
On 05/21/2010 09:23 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote:
> Why is the Chromium-browser in Sid so old? Chromium has been on the
> 6.x branch for a couple of weeks now and Debian is still using the 5.x
> branch.
You must be rather upset then, that upstream Firefox 3.6 released
January 21, 2010, yet Iceweasel
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Celejar wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:56:13 -0700
> "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote:
>
>> When one has multiple kernels installed, where is one supposed to
>> configure the option to always boot the last-selected kernel? I can't
>> make sense of all the automatic over-wr
On Sun, 23 May 2010 16:11:30 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
> "Stephen Powell" wrote:
>> (blah blah blah blah)
>
> Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become
> lilo upstream, it's going away.
>
> William
I do understand why a Debian package maintainer does not
On Sunday 23 May 2010 18:46:29 Tom Furie wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:38:48AM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote:
> > Setting the *directory* noexec seems very bad, since the exec bit
> > on directories controls the ability to cd to it, and turning that
> > off would make it largely useless.
>
> Jus
On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:56:13 -0700
"Todd A. Jacobs" wrote:
> When one has multiple kernels installed, where is one supposed to
> configure the option to always boot the last-selected kernel? I can't
> make sense of all the automatic over-writing that the grub scripts are
> doing on Debian, and th
On Mon, 24 May 2010 02:06:36 +0300
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun,23.May.10, 13:43:53, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
>
> > > Yes, install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package ;)
> > >
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > virtual
After a recent kernel update, my linux terminal is now displaying
teeny-tiny text. How do I set the default terminal back to 80x25?
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When one has multiple kernels installed, where is one supposed to
configure the option to always boot the last-selected kernel? I can't
make sense of all the automatic over-writing that the grub scripts are
doing on Debian, and the /etc/default/grub file doesn't have an example
of what the scripts
On 2010-05-23, wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2010 23:25:19 +0300
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
>> On Sun,23.May.10, 12:45:02, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
>> >
>> > WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
>> > Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the
>> > appropriate hea
On Sun,23.May.10, 13:43:53, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> > Yes, install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package ;)
> >
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> virtualbox-ose-dkms is already the newest version.
During the (first) install did
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:38:48AM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote:
> Setting the *directory* noexec seems very bad, since the exec bit
> on directories controls the ability to cd to it, and turning that
> off would make it largely useless.
Just for the sake of argument *why* is setting /tmp rw- a ba
Sven Joachim put forth on 5/23/2010 1:05 AM:
> On 2010-05-23 07:47 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
>> No, resist forced conformity. This is Linux. We have multiple choice with
>> everything else, so we should darn well have our choice of boot loader.
>
> You're welcome to work on lilo so that can
On 05/23/2010 09:45 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2010 10:46:52 +0300
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sat,22.May.10, 17:16:22, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
trying to install windows xp pro
the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get
For what purpose do you want
On Sun, 23 May 2010 21:37:28 +0100
Lisi wrote:
> On Sunday 23 May 2010 21:11:30 William Pitcock wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > - "Stephen Powell" wrote:
> > > (blah blah blah blah)
> >
> > Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to
> > become lilo upstream, it's going away.
>
On Sun, 23 May 2010 23:25:19 +0300
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun,23.May.10, 12:45:02, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> >
> > WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
> > Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the
> > appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-a
On Sun, 23 May 2010 23:20:45 +0300
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun,23.May.10, 14:53:04, Celejar wrote:
>
> > > Both are excelent examples :) But even if you disagree with the
> > > maintainer, in the end Debian is a do-ocracy. That is, the one who does
> > > the job usually gets to decide how
The solution [from the FreeBSD mailing list]:
perl -00 -e 'print map $_->[0], sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map [$_,
tr/\n//], <>' < before.txt > after.txt
Thank you!!
> or maybe in bash..
> script/"one liner" e.g.: input: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=pMZPEsMZ
>
> i want to make this output fro
On Sunday 23 May 2010 21:11:30 William Pitcock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> - "Stephen Powell" wrote:
> > (blah blah blah blah)
>
> Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become
> lilo upstream, it's going away.
Unless someone who is a capable coder feels the same. Which is q
Hi,
- "Stephen Powell" wrote:
> (blah blah blah blah)
Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become
lilo upstream, it's going away.
William
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On Sun,23.May.10, 11:32:09, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2010 10:46:52 +0300
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> > On Sat,22.May.10, 17:16:22, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> > > trying to install windows xp pro
> > >
> > > the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get
> >
On Sun,23.May.10, 12:45:02, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
>
> WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
>Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the
> appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64.
>
> after spending a lot of time with the (incorrect) wiki p
On Sun,23.May.10, 14:53:04, Celejar wrote:
> > Both are excelent examples :) But even if you disagree with the
> > maintainer, in the end Debian is a do-ocracy. That is, the one who does
> > the job usually gets to decide how it's done ;)
>
> Of course. I was just suggesting that a more prec
On Sun, 23 May 2010 10:46:52 +0300
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,22.May.10, 17:16:22, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> > trying to install windows xp pro
> >
> > the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get
>
> For what purpose do you want to run Windows? Maybe we can suggest
On Sat, 22 May 2010 03:03:42 +0200
"Jesús M. Navarro" wrote:
...
> My simple rule about Debian has always been:
> * Stable, if you just want to use Debian.
> * Testing, if you want a peek over what Debian will be on next release and
> want to help to hunt down the non-obvious bugs (probably bec
On Sat, 22 May 2010 23:39:52 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote:
>
> After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty
> much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where
> lilo can reliably determine the payload size.
>
> This bug *can* be fixed, but n
On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:12:20 +0300
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri,21.May.10, 14:43:47, Celejar wrote:
>
> > But I've long found the 'recommends' concept to be somewhat tricky and
> > perhaps to vary from maintainer to maintainer. For example, mesa-utils
> > needs GLX, which, practically speaki
On Sun, 23 May 2010 08:05:08 +0200
Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-05-23 07:47 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
> > No, resist forced conformity. This is Linux. We have multiple
> > choice with everything else, so we should darn well have our choice
> > of boot loader.
>
> You're welcome to work o
On Sun, 23 May 2010 10:46:52 +0300
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,22.May.10, 17:16:22, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> > trying to install windows xp pro
> >
> > the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get
>
> For what purpose do you want to run Windows? Maybe we can suggest
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 07:14:21PM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 23. 05. 2010 17:00:09 je Rob Owens napisal(a):
>
>> If /tmp is its own partition, you might consider using ext2 for speed.
>> You could also consider RAID 0, if you have mulitple drives.
>
> A good suggestion, thanx. What about ext4,
Hi,
I'm trying to disable Emulate3Buttons for the touchpad of my
DELL Latitude E6400 under Debian/unstable. FYI:
xvii:~> grep -i 'touchpad' /proc/bus/input/devices
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad"
After searching with Google, I've tried to modified the xorg.conf
file, the HAL policy, a
On Sun,23.May.10, 13:01:42, deloptes wrote:
> The problem is that there are still many packages that do not "see" that I'm
> in chroot and try to restart services while upgrading.
> Do you know any solution to this?
See 'man invoke-rc.d' section INIT SCRIPT POLICY and
/usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/REA
On Sun,23.May.10, 10:38:48, Andrew Reid wrote:
[big snip]
+1 (informative)
Thanks,
Andrei
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William,
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 22:39:52 -0500
From: William Pitcock
> (4) Users need to test grub2 now.
I installed it on two machines back in late January.
Ref.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/msg00290.html
(0.5) We need a Web page containing recent news on progress
with gr
Dne, 23. 05. 2010 12:28:36 je d.sastre.med...@gmail.com napisal(a):
Having /tmp mounted noexec,nosuid for security reasons, aptitude
failed to execute postinstall scripts.
The solution was to remount exec /tmp partition and rerun aptitude.
After that I had to add this to /etc/apt/apt.conf or unde
Dne, 23. 05. 2010 17:00:09 je Rob Owens napisal(a):
If /tmp is its own partition, you might consider using ext2 for speed.
You could also consider RAID 0, if you have mulitple drives.
A good suggestion, thanx. What about ext4, is it slower or faster than
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Thanx for your exhaustive answer, it's an enlightening read. The point
that appears particularly interesting to me personally is:
Permissions come
from the mounted FS, not the mount point, so make sure you set these
permissions while it's mounted.
It's always good to learn something new.
-
wow, thanks!!
and how exactly can i use this magic?
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XZ1rn2bM
sorry for the dumb question:\
Thank you!
> Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
>
> > or maybe in bash..
> > script/"one liner" e.g.: input: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=pMZPEsMZ
> >
> > i want to make this output fr
Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
or maybe in bash..
script/"one liner" e.g.: input: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=pMZPEsMZ
i want to make this output from it:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=kH8VxT0A
So from the input, i want to make an ascendant order, how many things
are under a "SOMETHING-XX"
Does anyon
or maybe in bash..
script/"one liner" e.g.: input: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=pMZPEsMZ
i want to make this output from it:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=kH8VxT0A
So from the input, i want to make an ascendant order, how many things
are under a "SOMETHING-XX"
Does anyone has any "perl magic"
On Fri, 21 May 2010 14:27:44 -0700, Evuraan wrote:
> i did install nfs-common portmap, and nfs client works:
>
> below are the options i see take effect per /proc/mounts if i say "mount
> -t nfs blah:/fs /tmp/somedir"
>
>
rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,namlen=255,hard,nointr,proto=tcp,timeo
On Sunday 23 May 2010 04:37:18 Klistvud wrote:
> Howdy, fellow Debianites!
> Given some extra hard drive space, I decided to move my /tmp dir
> (currently located under / ) to a partition of its own. I am looking
> forward to any advice, particularly of the been-there-done-that type:
> * how should
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On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:37:18AM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> Howdy, fellow Debianites!
> Given some extra hard drive space, I decided to move my /tmp dir
> (currently located under / ) to a partition of its own. I am looking
> forward to any advice, particularly of the been-there-done-that type:
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
> I believe you have misunderstood me. I mean that instead of *typing* the
> errors out by long hand copy the error using the mouse and past it into
> your email/bug report. You could instead use the "script" command. This
> eliminates the pr
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Avinash H.M. wrote:
> Thanks !!! this worked.
> I did
> ulimit -c unlimited.
>
> I tried tracking ulimit. If i do
> which ulimit, i am not getting anything. [ I expect the path of this binary
> ]
>
> Is it a built in bash command or something like that
>
Ye
Chris Bannister earthlight.co.nz> writes:
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:40:53PM +0530, Avinash H.M. wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am using DSL [ damn small linux ] which is branched from debain.
> > I am trying to use GCC, GDB. Able to install both of them.
>
> Although DSL is based on Debian
Thanks !!! this worked.
I did
ulimit -c unlimited.
I tried tracking ulimit. If i do
which ulimit, i am not getting anything. [ I expect the path of this binary ]
Is it a built in bash command or something like that
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Anand Sivaram wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, May 2
I second the vote to fix/keep lilo as a choice. Testing grub2 is not for the
faint-at-heart because if you cannot boot, you may not be able to recover so
easily using a knoppix CD or such because of newer options, LVM, etc.
The kernels getting too big is a problem indeed!
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Thanks for your help. Following is the contents are my /etc/fstab file
on the system.
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works ev
Anthony Campbell writes:
> On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>> Hi Mitchell,
>>
>> You might add
>>
>> ==
>> |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin|
>> ==
>>
>> in /etc/inittab.
>>
>>
>
> But why was the OP getting the message in the first place? A couple of
> weeks ago I was also getting it and then
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> William Pitcock (22/05/2010):
> > This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze
> > is released so that any issues can be resolved now.
>
> There should also be some folks fixing the discovered issues.
grub
It might be a security policy, for him, that changed without realizing
it. But, for you, I don't know. I would be interested in knowing why
such things happen.
Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
>> Hi Mitchell,
>>
>> You might add
>>
>> ==
>> |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulo
On 05/23/2010 07:22 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:10:19AM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 23. 05. 2010 10:45:36 je Ron Johnson napisal(a):
Why?
I frequently burn double-layer DVDs, requiring around 8GB of free
space for temporary files. Until now, I had to do that on ano
On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Hi Mitchell,
>
> You might add
>
> ==
> |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin|
> ==
>
> in /etc/inittab.
>
>
But why was the OP getting the message in the first place? A couple of
weeks ago I was also getting it and then it went away as mysteriously as
it came.
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:10:19AM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 23. 05. 2010 10:45:36 je Ron Johnson napisal(a):
> >
> >Why?
> >
>
> I frequently burn double-layer DVDs, requiring around 8GB of free
> space for temporary files. Until now, I had to do that on another
> rig. Also, I'm planning to d
(Dropping -release, which isn't a discussion list.)
William Pitcock (22/05/2010):
> Given that there is no active upstream and that the Debian lilo
> package carries many patches for bug fixes that are alleviated by
> standardizing on grub2, this seems like the best option for Debian.
Speaking o
Hi,
I've just finished one test upgrade from lenny to sid. Here is what I did:
I. upgrade to squeeze
remove all the kde3 related applications
1. copy the system to an external usb harddrive (and make it bootable)
2. mount the usb drive and
3. chroot to the mounted dir
4. modify /etc/apt/source.
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:40:53PM +0530, Avinash H.M. wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am using DSL [ damn small linux ] which is branched from debain.
> I am trying to use GCC, GDB. Able to install both of them.
Although DSL is based on Debian, it is not Debian. There are numerous
differences between th
Please don't top post!
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Chris Bannister
> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:32:00PM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:23 PM, wrote:
> >> > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 04:10:55PM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> >> >> bootloader = "/usr/lib/x
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:10:19AM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 23. 05. 2010 10:45:36 je Ron Johnson napisal(a):
> > Why?
> I frequently burn double-layer DVDs, requiring around 8GB of free space
> for temporary files. Until now, I had to do that on another rig. Also,
> I'm planning to do some
Il 23/05/2010 11:29, Jonathan Nieder ha scritto:
>> In my opinion we should keep up with the new releases at least weekly.
>> Is this on the agenda to do?
>
> No, I do not think it is in the plans any time soon:
>
> - sid is used to stage versions that could potentially be used in
>some stab
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 08:42 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> I've got an older 600MHz PIII running Sid; if I boot into the
> installed 2.6.26-2-68 kernel, everything's fine, but if I boot into
> the installed 2.6.32-5-68 kernel, everything's fine until X is
> started (either manually or with a session m
Hi Steve,
Steve Fishpaste wrote:
> In my opinion we should keep up with the new releases at least weekly.
> Is this on the agenda to do?
No, I do not think it is in the plans any time soon:
- sid is used to stage versions that could potentially be used in
some stable release. I can’t see a
Dne, 23. 05. 2010 10:45:36 je Ron Johnson napisal(a):
Why?
I frequently burn double-layer DVDs, requiring around 8GB of free space
for temporary files. Until now, I had to do that on another rig. Also,
I'm planning to do some video editing, which, I'm told, likewise
requires huge amount
AG wrote:
> On 21/05/10 12:37, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
>> Hello to all!
>> I just upgraded my debian testing, installing nepomuk search. My
>> problem is that the indexer every now and then appears in the systray
>> for a second or so, and then disappears, which is very distracting
>> (or am I very s
On 05/23/2010 03:37 AM, Klistvud wrote:
Howdy, fellow Debianites!
Given some extra hard drive space, I decided to move my /tmp dir
(currently located under / ) to a partition of its own. I am looking
Why?
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I recently installed an AMD64 box from a sid_d-i businesscard CD in
"expert" mode.
It asked me some questions that I didn't remember seeing on my PowerPC
installations.
In particular, it asked me to chose a distribution (Lenny, Squeeze,
Sid) and whether
I wanted to use non-free repositor
Howdy, fellow Debianites!
Given some extra hard drive space, I decided to move my /tmp dir
(currently located under / ) to a partition of its own. I am looking
forward to any advice, particularly of the been-there-done-that type:
* how should I configure my fstab entry? How does Debian install
Dne, 23. 05. 2010 03:40:54 je Tom H napisal(a):
Re 1. Your swap partition's UUID must be different. Check
"/etc/initramfs-tools/". There is a "resume" file (in that dir or in a
subdir) that will have your swap partition's UUID.
Thanx, Tom H. It worked.
Re 2. What do you mean by "After chang
On Sat,22.May.10, 17:16:22, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
> trying to install windows xp pro
>
> the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get
For what purpose do you want to run Windows? Maybe we can suggest better
alternatives (like VirtualBox, package virtualbox-ose).
Regard
On 5/23/2010 12:41 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 5/22/2010 8:32 PM:
That's a very odd thing. Thanks for correcting me. I would not have
guessed that file system structure would be dependent on OS word width.
I mean, that seems like a catastrophic implementation/design bug
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