Re: Squeeze. What is current hibernation mechanism ==> pm-utils

On 2010-09-24 03:32 +0200, T o n g wrote: > So, the Debian-recommended way is (still) "pm-utils". I saw that pm-utils > depends on HAL, and thinking that the HAL will soon be the thing in the > past, Huh? AFAIK, pm-utils never depended on HAL; it used to recommend it, but it does not do this a

Re: iceweasel seg faults when closing tabs

On 24/09/10 15:39, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20100923212652.3496e...@windy.deldotd.com>, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:45:37 -0700 >> wrote: >>> Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead >> >> doh! strong evidence that it's the flash plugin. damn, I really >> s

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

In <4c9c2ca9.3020...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 9/23/2010 11:25 PM: >>> No, that's normal. What had you changed on the system immediately >>> prior to this boot problem occurring? >> >> apt-get dist-upgrade, natch. > >WTF is "natch"? Shortening of "

Re: iceweasel seg faults when closing tabs

In <20100923212652.3496e...@windy.deldotd.com>, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:45:37 -0700 > wrote: >> Gdk-WARNING **: XID collision, trouble ahead > >doh! strong evidence that it's the flash plugin. damn, I really >should take my own advice. > >oh, how I hate flash. U

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 9/23/2010 11:25 PM: >> No, that's normal. What had you changed on the system immediately >> prior to this boot problem occurring? > > apt-get dist-upgrade, natch. WTF is "natch"? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:25:56 -0700 wrote: > aaargh. I've never had so much trouble in my entire > linux/debian/life. I have had a smooth boot or bootloader upgrade on > this computer since I fired it up. other one works good, though. but > really, 1/2 _is_ bad. I have NOT had a smooth, etc..

Re: iceweasel seg faults when closing tabs

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:45:37 -0700 wrote: > Hi, > > I reported this a while back, and no one seemed to be experiencing > it. > > I wasn't exactly sure it was a segfault, but I figured it out tonight, > and it definitely is seg-faulting. It doesn't take too long, just > keep opening tabs, close

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:20:45 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 9/23/2010 10:50 PM: > > > Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 > > Device 0x0802: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30515 cylinders, > >63 sectors. Partition offset: 120583890 sectors. > > Usi

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 9/23/2010 10:50 PM: > Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 > Device 0x0802: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 30515 cylinders, >63 sectors. Partition offset: 120583890 sectors. > Using Volume ID 5879D4A8 on bios 80 > Setup length is 27 sectors. > Mappe

iceweasel seg faults when closing tabs

Hi, I reported this a while back, and no one seemed to be experiencing it. I wasn't exactly sure it was a segfault, but I figured it out tonight, and it definitely is seg-faulting. It doesn't take too long, just keep opening tabs, close them, and eventually it dies. It's been doing this for a w

lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

On boot lilo does not find the root device. I can use root=/dev/sda2 at the lilo boot prompt and it will boot correctly. So clearly it's pointing at the incorrect root device. I've double checked the lilo.conf file and it says: boot=/dev/sda root=/dev/sda2 which is correct. the lilo command

Re: What is blocking my sound?

On 23/09/10 21:11, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am running Lenny, with alsa and udev. Frequently then sound on my > system just stops working. When it does, I run the following command to > check if the sound device is in use, or there is some other cause: > > 'aoss play ~/public_html/footpain/me

Squeeze. What is current hibernation mechanism ==> pm-utils

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:11:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > I would recommend reading [ . . . ] So, the Debian-recommended way is (still) "pm-utils". I saw that pm-utils depends on HAL, and thinking that the HAL will soon be the thing in the past, so I went for the other route: hibernate with kernel

What is blocking my sound?

I am running Lenny, with alsa and udev. Frequently then sound on my system just stops working. When it does, I run the following command to check if the sound device is in use, or there is some other cause: 'aoss play ~/public_html/footpain/media/montoya.wav Usually, as the following

[Conclusion] tar and --sparse

Hi, Thanks you all for the comments, which make it obligatory for me to explain more. First, why I asked: $ man tar | grep -i sparse -S, --sparse handle sparse files efficiently --sparse-version=MAJOR[.MINOR] set version of the sparse format to use (implies --sp

Re: directly install RH packages using rpm instead of alien

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:16:55 +, T o n g wrote: > - There is a complicated installation script (think of being more > complicated than VMWare), and rpm installation is just one of its single > line. > - The only dependencies of the sw is actually JRE, so I'm hope I would > avoid the infamous RH

Re: Debian not running in Windoof 7 Virtual PC (in VirtualBox)

On 9/23/2010 9:51 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:49:42 -0400 (EDT), Scott Ferguson wrote: On 23/09/10 06:14, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:29:59 -0400 (EDT), Mark Allums wrote: I am probably way late on this one, but that maneuver is a nonstarter. Nested Virtu

Re: Squeeze. What is current hibernation mechanism?

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:11, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:21:15 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Hibernation and suspension are sharing the same requirements than >>> always: >>> >>> 1. ACPI compilant machine / devices >>> 2. A

Re: (OT) Re: Unidentified subject!

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:33:11 -0500 "Cybe R. Wizard" wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:01:44 +0100 > Angus Hedger wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:28:35 + (UTC) > > Camaleón wrote: > > > The Matrix, coming for us :-) > > > > Quick, check for dead pixels! > > Oh, wow. Deja Vu! > > Cyb

Re: (OT) Re: Unidentified subject!

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:01:44 +0100 Angus Hedger wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:28:35 + (UTC) > Camaleón wrote: > > The Matrix, coming for us :-) > > Quick, check for dead pixels! Oh, wow. Deja Vu! Cybe R. Wizard -- It's curtains for Windows around my house. me -- To UNSUBSC

Re: (OT) Re: Unidentified subject!

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:28:35 + (UTC) > Camaleón wrote: >> The Matrix, coming for us :-) >> >> Greetings, >> > > Quick, check for dead pixels! > > -- . I checked, and all the red pixies have disappeared -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: (OT) Re: Unidentified subject!

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:28:35 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > The Matrix, coming for us :-) > > Greetings, > Quick, check for dead pixels! -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

(OT) Re: Unidentified subject!

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:23:09 -0400, Anticept . wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:37 PM, wrote: >> > What was this? The Matrix, coming for us :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Unidentified subject!

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:37 PM, wrote: > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100923164127.ga5...@deeebian > > What was this? -Anticept --

Re: Exim4 setup for LAMP web site.

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:35:03 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Well, you were correct about the authentication being a problem. I fixed > it but still no joy. I ran the swaks testing program with: swaks --auth > --to *...@verizon.net --server outgoing.verizon.net. This asked for the > usual login and ret

Re: Re: Exim4 setup for LAMP web site.

Well, you were correct about the authentication being a problem. I fixed it but still no joy. I ran the swaks testing program with: swaks --auth --to *...@verizon.net --server outgoing.verizon.net. This asked for the usual login and returned a long list of things. The last lines were: <- 235

mschap-v2 de Linux a Windows

mschap-v2 de Linux a Windows Tengo un PC con Debian Lenny y necesito conectarme por modem a mi ISP que usa Windows 2003 Server. Windows 2003 Server usa protocolo de autenticacion mschap-v2. en /etc/ppp/peers/provider se debe poner algo como esto??? # This optionfile was generated by pppconf

Re: how to display duplicates between 2 repos

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:10:21 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > I got 2 repos locally. One is a copy of Squeeze and another is one > managed by repoupdate (and has stuff not available in Debian official > repos, but also has stuff from Sid). Are there ready-made tools that > would generate a lis

Aptitude: does not update.

Good day. I can not understand, would You explain me - why aptitude does not update my clamav package when I have 0.96.1+dfsg-1~volatile1 version installed, in apt's sources file I have: # Volatile: deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main #deb-src http://volatile.debian

Re: Squeeze. What is current hibernation mechanism?

On 09/23/2010 11:01 AM, Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 09/22/2010 04:00 PM, Mark Goldshtein wrote: Hello, list! If somebody please to explain current hibernation mechanism in Squeeze? If there are links to web docs about all this stuff? 1. Do I

Unidentified subject!

-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100923164127.ga5...@deeebian

Re: Squeeze. What is current hibernation mechanism?

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:21:15 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Hibernation and suspension are sharing the same requirements than >>> always: >>> >>> 1. ACPI compilant machine / devices >>> 2.

Re: Squeeze. What is current hibernation mechanism?

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:21:15 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> Hibernation and suspension are sharing the same requirements than >> always: >> >> 1. ACPI compilant machine / devices >> 2. An OS capable to handle them (for hibernation you need a sw

Re: Problems Installing Pacemaker and Heartbeat in Lenny

Thanks for the tip, but didn't work. I've already done the upgrade before try to install. These are the results of your sugestion: #aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing packag

Re: Debian not running in Windoof 7 Virtual PC (in VirtualBox)

On 24/09/10 00:51, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:49:42 -0400 (EDT), Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 23/09/10 06:14, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:29:59 -0400 (EDT), Mark Allums wrote: I am probably way late on this one, but that maneuver is a nonstarter. >

Re: Squeeze. What is current hibernation mechanism?

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:41:18 +, T o n g wrote: > >> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:40 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> >>> If somebody please to explain current hibernation mechanism in Squeeze? >>> If there are links to web docs about all this stu

Re: Squeeze. What is current hibernation mechanism?

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 09/22/2010 04:00 PM, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> >> Hello, list! >> >> If somebody please to explain current hibernation mechanism in >> Squeeze? If there are links to web docs about all this stuff? >> >> 1. Do I need a separate unformatted pa

Re: Debian not running in Windoof 7 Virtual PC (in VirtualBox)

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:49:42 -0400 (EDT), Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 23/09/10 06:14, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:29:59 -0400 (EDT), Mark Allums wrote: >>> >>> I am probably way late on this one, but that maneuver is a nonstarter. >>> Nested Virtualization is very difficult and

Re: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wants to become the next person after U.S. Senator Ernie Chambers to sue God

Ernie Chambers is not and has never been a US Senator. He is a former Nebraska State Senator who filed suit against God in a Nebraska court to make a point about frivolous lawsuits. See . And Mr. Teo En Ming cannot file suit in

Re: Problems Installing Pacemaker and Heartbeat in Lenny

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 14:30, Chen Stormstout wrote: > Hi, > > There is any problem with cluster stack in debian lenny? > I'm trying to install but receive the errors above. I've posted this issue in > pacemaker list too, but with no answers. > > This is my entire sources.list: > > #deb cdrom:[D

Re: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I couldn't figure out why the network wouldn't come up, untill I saw this: h...@debian:~$ dmesg | grep -i eth [1.181349] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004) [1.229553] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 [1.231041] eth0: RealTek RTL8139

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

On 9/22/2010 11:48 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jerry, You keep saying things like: I appreciate the comments, but people just don't understand. Another virtual machine is NOT an option here. I either get it to work under Virtual PC or have to toss Debian all together. There are no other choices.

Squeeze AMD64 Sound/Libs Issue

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there list members, Last week my Squeeze box, upgraded from Lenny, suffer a disc crash and had to be reinstalled, though installation was smooth and easy, I cant make sound works, I dont even have a clue of why is not working, Kernel modules

Problems Installing Pacemaker and Heartbeat in Lenny

Hi, There is any problem with cluster stack in debian lenny? I'm trying to install but receive the errors above. I've posted this issue in pacemaker list too, but with no answers. This is my entire sources.list: #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.5 _Lenny_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20100626-1

how to display duplicates between 2 repos

Hi, I got 2 repos locally. One is a copy of Squeeze and another is one managed by repoupdate (and has stuff not available in Debian official repos, but also has stuff from Sid). Are there ready-made tools that would generate a list of duplicate packages between the two? I plan to use this list to

Re: Debian not running in Windoof 7 Virtual PC (in VirtualBox)

On 9/22/2010 9:56 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: This is the exception that proves the rule. I still think that doing it under an AMD64 or Intel x86_64 is probably futile under the current state-of -the-art. Nested virtualization is *not* the point or objective of the exercise - enabling installa

Re: Squeeze. What is current hibernation mechanism?

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:41:18 +, T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:40 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > >> If somebody please to explain current hibernation mechanism in Squeeze? >> If there are links to web docs about all this stuff? > > +1, I want to know that too. What is not worki

Re: Where to find sarge (3.1) packages?

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:53:06 +0200, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Any idea where I could still find packages for debian sarge for manual > download? Using the Snapshot server? :-? > I have a quite old and very broken sarge installation running on a > Pentium-90 machine. > I would like to install dhc

Re: Where to find sarge (3.1) packages?

On 2010-09-23 11:53 +0200, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Any idea where I could still find packages for debian sarge for manual > download? http://archive.debian.net/ > I have a quite old and very broken sarge installation running on a > Pentium-90 machine. > I would like to install dhcp3-server by

Re: Exim4 setup for LAMP web site.

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:27:57 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I hope this is not a duplicate. > > I'm not sure whether this is a Drupal web editor problem or a Debian > Exim problem but when automatic messages are sent by my new web site (in > early development) they go nowhere. The pertinent Exim4 log

Where to find sarge (3.1) packages?

Hi, Any idea where I could still find packages for debian sarge for manual download? I have a quite old and very broken sarge installation running on a Pentium-90 machine. I would like to install dhcp3-server by hand, because apt-get's database destroyed itself some years ago ;) The machine simpl

Re: gdm3 exclude certain usernames

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:52:56 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 23/09/10 16:17, Camaleón wrote: >>> Which remembers me - When I was doing a bit of a search last night I >>> came across comments to the effect that gdm-setup(?) functionality >>> "will" become part of the new Gnome shell. > > Acces

Re: converting pcm raw output to wav or mp3 file

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > Wave is nothing but raw PCM in littile endian (intel) format with generally > 44 bytes of header which contains sample rate, number of channels, total > number of samples etc. > Since it is raw PCM data, while creating either wave or mp3, y

Re: tar and --sparse

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:40:13 +, T o n g wrote: > I created a Linux system tar ball without using the --sparse switch. The > .tar.bzip2 tar ball is only of 1.5G in size. However, restoring such tar > ball into a 10G partition would fail: > > Cannot write: No space left on device (...) Maybe

Re: gdm3 exclude certain usernames

On 23/09/10 16:17, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:33:41 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 22/09/10 17:04, Camaleón wrote: > >>> That remebembers me... there used to be a GUI app to handle that (in >>> gdm 2.x) that one could launch with "gksu /usr/sbin/gdmsetup" but the >>> same app

Re: tar and --sparse

What is the actual size of the original file/directory before tarring? On the source side, try du -ms to find out the actual size on disk. That should be less than 10GB. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:29, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-22 22:40 +0200, T o n g wrote: > > > I created a Linux syste