Re: allow ^C to interrupt /etc/rc.local

OK, since nobody knows, then what does recovery mode, /boot/grub/grub.cfg: menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.37-1-686 (recovery mode)' do to the terminal in order to enable interaction after one enters the root passwd? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Weird problem with experimental repo

On 02/23/2011 08:58 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Hi all, I having weird problem with experimental repository. I want try latest pulseaudio package pulseaudio-module-jack_0.9.22, but this package is available via synaptic. *Is* available, or is *not* available? I tried also apt-get install, but s

Re: Centrally locating email (was Re: SSH pauses)

On 02/23/2011 09:04 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2011 23 Feb 13:45 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/22/2011 08:44 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: [snip] an email (I log into my home box to read and send mail so it's all in one place). Install an IMAP server on your home box and then enable imaps.

Weird problem with experimental repo

Hi all, I having weird problem with experimental repository. I want try latest pulseaudio package pulseaudio-module-jack_0.9.22, but this package is available via synaptic. I tried also apt-get install, but same result. my source.list entry deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main contr

Re: Centrally locating email (was Re: SSH pauses)

* On 2011 23 Feb 13:45 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/22/2011 08:44 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > [snip] > >an email (I log into my home box to read and send mail so it's all in > >one place). > > > > Install an IMAP server on your home box and then enable imaps. I see a lot of mention of IMAP, w

Debian stable vs. testing for Swift Linux (antiX derivative)

I recently started a new Linux distro called Swift Linux (www.swiftlinux.org). Background: The pedigree is Debian Testing -> MEPIS Linux -> antiX Linux -> Swift Linux. The purpose of Swift Linux is to be lightweight and user-friendly like Puppy Linux while also offering a superior repository

ISC dhclient deconfigures all interfaces in configuration when ifdown is called

Hi. I'm using ISC dhcp client from testing and I have an interface configuration in dhclient.conf that sends special dhcp options on a matching interface. The problem is that if I have two interfaces configured using dhcp when one of them gets deconfigured using ifdown all of them get deconfigure

Re: Where is the trust?

on 12:24 Wed 23 Feb, The Suspect (policeoppress...@gmail.com) wrote: > >From where comes the trust for your archive? > > Let me explain something that I am sure you are fully aware, just to point > it out. Let me short-cut this whole discussion. Read "How PGP Works": http://www.pgpi.org/doc

Re: shopt -s checkwinsize gone?

On 02/23/2011 07:19 PM, Thilo Six wrote: Thilo Six wrote the following on 24.02.2011 01:11 Wayne Topa wrote the following on 23.02.2011 22:39 Hi Debainites I just tried, on a testing/unstable partition, the above command and it no longer works. It (shopt) is still shown in the bash 4.1-3 man

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

on 16:24 Wed 23 Feb, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (b...@iguanasuicide.net) wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:11:25 Carlos Mennens wrote: > > 3. Debian installer defaults to creating user group names which is just a > > mess. > > Actually, I prefer user group names. I'm not sure I have a really

Re: cupsd fails to start - general protection fault SOLVED!

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:36:52AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running sid on amd64. My cupsd fails to start. > >From /var/log/syslog: > > kernel: [209082.595638] cupsd[31022] general protection ip:7fc2be37f5e8 > sp:7fff3feb7058 error:0 in libc-2.11.2.so[7fc2be30+158000] apt-get

Re: shopt -s checkwinsize gone?

On 02/23/2011 07:19 PM, Thilo Six wrote: Thilo Six wrote the following on 24.02.2011 01:11 Wayne Topa wrote the following on 23.02.2011 22:39 Hi Debainites I just tried, on a testing/unstable partition, the above command and it no longer works. It (shopt) is still shown in the bash 4.1-3 man

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

On 02/23/2011 06:11 PM, Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 03:46:27PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/2011 01:50 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:34:05 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/2011 11:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: Shouldn't D-M maintainers post here about any prob

Re: shopt -s checkwinsize gone?

Thilo Six wrote the following on 24.02.2011 01:11 > Wayne Topa wrote the following on 23.02.2011 22:39 > >> Hi Debainites >> >> I just tried, on a testing/unstable partition, the above command >> and it no longer works. It (shopt) is still shown in the bash 4.1-3 >> man page so I would expect it

Regular DHCP network drop

I get a pretty regular (usually mid/late afternoon) DHCP network drop which appears to affect me but not other users (Mac/Windows) in the office. Configured interface is eth0: $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f0:de:f1:12:02:18 inet addr:172.16.0.167 Bcast:172.16

Re (3): Skype

From: David Goodenough Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:59:01 + > ... I am sure that Google can track down the solution > which I used a while back with success. Thanks; it's at the bottom of this page. http://developer.skype.com/LinuxSkype For Squeeze on an old 32 bit NetVista this allows th

Re: shopt -s checkwinsize gone?

Wayne Topa wrote the following on 23.02.2011 22:39 > Hi Debainites > > I just tried, on a testing/unstable partition, the above command > and it no longer works. It (shopt) is still shown in the bash 4.1-3 > man page so I would expect it to work. > > I have both bash and bash -completion 1:1.3-1

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 03:46:27PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/23/2011 01:50 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:34:05 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 02/23/2011 11:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Shouldn't D-M maintainers post here about any problem on the repos or widespread

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Re: shopt -s checkwinsize gone?

On 02/23/2011 04:39 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: Hi Debainites I just tried, on a testing/unstable partition, the above command and it no longer works. It (shopt) is still shown in the bash 4.1-3 man page so I would expect it to work. I have both bash and bash -completion 1:1.3-1 installed. Have I m

Re: upgrading squeeze/sid to stable

my system is or was squeeze testing, installed in sept. 2010, the last 'aptitude upgrade' was 2 months ago. I will give it a try, alex Am 2011-02-24 00:18, schrieb Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:26:12 Alex Declent wrote: is it so simple aptitude update aptitude upgra

Re: mysql replication problem, after upgrade squeeze

On Wednesday 23 February 2011 17:04:01 Dev Newsletter wrote: > the last months I used the squeeze (testing), Squeeze isn't testing anymore. Squeeze was released 2011-02-06 and is not stable. Wheezy is testing. If you have listed "testing" in your sources.list... > today I have done a aptitude

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:34:05 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/23/2011 11:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:30:04 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > >> For those concerned about oldstable at Debian Multimedia, you'll be > >> pleased to hear that it's being restored. So far, about 90%

mysql replication problem, after upgrade squeeze

the last months I used the squeeze (testing), today I have done a aptitude upgrade, on first sight it seems that anything works. but aptitude get in troubles when it try to upgrade the mysql database. my mysql database works as an replication slave, and now when aptitude try to restart the databa

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

On 02/23/2011 05:07 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 23 feb 11, 16:21:27, Ron Johnson wrote: There is a 64-bit kernel for the 32-bit distro. It would make installing the nvidia driver impossible thru the Debian package, but it *is* doable via much manual intervention. Care to elaborate on th

Re: upgrading squeeze/sid to stable

On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:26:12 Alex Declent wrote: > is it so simple > > aptitude update > aptitude upgrade > > and squeeze/sid becomes stable? I'm assuming you have a system that claims to be "Debian squeeze/sid" and you want to make it be running "Debian Squeeze (6.0)". (If that's no

unsuscribe

On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 05:07:40 pm debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2011 : Issue 379 > > Today's Topics: > Re: Debian Multi-Media. [ "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" ] > cupsd fails to start -

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

On Mi, 23 feb 11, 16:21:27, Ron Johnson wrote: > > There is a 64-bit kernel for the 32-bit distro. It would make > installing the nvidia driver impossible thru the Debian package, but > it *is* doable via much manual intervention. Care to elaborate on this? I have squeeze running fine with linu

Re: upgrading squeeze/sid to stable

On 02/23/2011 03:26 PM, Alex Declent wrote: is it so simple aptitude update aptitude upgrade and squeeze/sid becomes stable? Since squeeze *is* stable, and sid is marching forward getting newer versions and in some cases incompatible libraries, I don't understand your question. -- "The n

Re: Where is the trust?

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, The Suspect wrote: > From where comes the trust for your archive? In the end, it all amounts to thin, dirty air. That said, the archive keys are signed by several DDs, whose keys are part of the strong set of the gpg public web-of-trust. So, if you're troubled by the trust o

Re: restarting sound

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:39:03AM +, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > Rick Pasotto ask; > How can I restart sound without rebooting the whole machine? > > --- > > If your using Alsa, there is an alsa-utils file in /etc/init.d/ > > # /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart Thanks. That worked fi

Re: upgrading squeeze/sid to stable

On Mi, 23 feb 11, 22:26:12, Alex Declent wrote: > is it so simple > > aptitude update > aptitude upgrade > > and squeeze/sid becomes stable? > > are there any package repositories which must be added? You should read the Release Notes first: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes R

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

On 2011-02-23 23:14 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/23/2011 03:11 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: >> 1. Screen from console is not cleared as root or regular user once you log >> out. >> > > You're allowed to create /etc/bash.bash_logout which does: > if [ "$SHLVL" = 1 ]; then > [ -x /usr/bin/cle

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

On Wednesday 23 February 2011 15:11:25 Carlos Mennens wrote: > 1. Screen from console is not cleared as root or regular user once you log > out. Do you want /sbin/init to clear/reset the vt before respawning a process, /sbin/login to do so before it outputs anything, or do you want /etc/skel to

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

On 02/23/2011 02:27 PM, David Baron wrote: I am currently running Sid, 32-bit with recent i686 32 bit kernels. Here is my cpu: ~$ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit CPU(s):2 Thread(s) per core:2 Core(s) per socket:1 CPU socket(s):

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

On 02/23/2011 03:11 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: 1. Screen from console is not cleared as root or regular user once you log out. You're allowed to create /etc/bash.bash_logout which does: if [ "$SHLVL" = 1 ]; then [ -x /usr/bin/clear_console ] && /usr/bin/clear_console -q fi 2. Users home

Re: Where is the trust?

On Wednesday 23 February 2011 14:24:23 The Suspect wrote: > >From where comes the trust for your archive? > > Let me explain something that I am sure you are fully aware, just to point > it out. > > Your site says to download the following keyring file in order to trust > your packages: > > http

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:11:25PM -0500, Carlos Mennens wrote: > 1. Screen from console is not cleared as root or regular user once you log > out. If you use bash, add this to ~/.bash_logout: case "$(tty)" in /dev/tty[0-9][0-9]*) clear esac You could also get getty do the blanking as well i

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

On Wednesday 23 February 2011 13:50:36 Camaleón wrote: > I wasn't saying that they *should* provide _packages_ for oldstable > releases but *notify* here -in this same mailing list, where people can > then spread those changes elsewhere- for any update in D-M repositories. They have their own mail

Problem with apic (noapic?) during squeeze install

I have an i386 machine purchased about 4 years ago (Hewlett- Packard Pavillion) that ran etch (upgraded later to Lenny) and Windows XP as a dual boot. An attempt to upgrade to squeeze led me to try to install squeeze from scratch, using a netinst CD. When I try to boot, I see briefly, befor

Re: Is there anything wrong with sticking with Lenny?

On Wednesday 23 February 2011 13:56:54 Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:53:39 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > By your numbers it's about 4 years (2 years as stable and 2 years as > > oldstable), but in fact it's only about 3 years (aprox. 2 years as > > stable and 1 year as oldstable). >

Re: upgrading squeeze/sid to stable

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:26:12PM +0100, Alex Declent wrote: > is it so simple > > aptitude update > aptitude upgrade > > and squeeze/sid becomes stable? > > are there any package repositories which must be added? That's not upgrading. That's downgrading. Upgrading would be going stable -> tes

upgrading squeeze/sid to stable

is it so simple aptitude update aptitude upgrade and squeeze/sid becomes stable? are there any package repositories which must be added? alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

shopt -s checkwinsize gone?

Hi Debainites I just tried, on a testing/unstable partition, the above command and it no longer works. It (shopt) is still shown in the bash 4.1-3 man page so I would expect it to work. I have both bash and bash -completion 1:1.3-1 installed. Have I missed something obvious, again? TIA WT

Things I Don't Understand About Debian

1. Screen from console is not cleared as root or regular user once you log out. 2. Users home directories get created with 755 permissions. Anyone can access your home directory and files. 3. Debian installer defaults to creating user group names which is just a mess. Obviously these are not cri

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:27:31PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Should I go to a 64-bit kernel? Benefits vs. Risks? > Will 64bit enable kvm functionality on this box? I've made these arguements on this list here before: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/05/msg01055.html In terms of enablin

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

On Mi, 23 feb 11, 22:27:31, David Baron wrote: > I am currently running Sid, 32-bit with recent i686 32 bit kernels. Did you try the -amd64 flavour? How much RAM do you have? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Where is the trust?

On Mi, 23 feb 11, 12:24:23, The Suspect wrote: > > You might at least put up a secure SSL connection so that someone might have > some chance to blindly trust your server's files. However, if you live in > France, that might not be possible as I read somewhere that it is illegal to > use crypto th

Re: Side Question Regarding Modules (Related to Sound Server ?)

On Mi, 23 feb 11, 13:53:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > How in the world did you figure out tthat unplugging the mouse would > resolve a sound conflict? I got lucky :) I don't recall exactly what triggered it, but a while ago I realized that the sound would break only when that mouse is connecte

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

On 02/23/2011 01:50 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:34:05 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/23/2011 11:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: Shouldn't D-M maintainers post here about any problem on the repos or widespread a bit more what is going on? "Should"??? It would be *nice* and it would

To 64 or Not to 64?

I am currently running Sid, 32-bit with recent i686 32 bit kernels. Here is my cpu: ~$ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit CPU(s):2 Thread(s) per core:2 Core(s) per socket:1 CPU socket(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU

Where is the trust?

>From where comes the trust for your archive? Let me explain something that I am sure you are fully aware, just to point it out. Your site says to download the following keyring file in order to trust your packages: http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/d/debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-mu

Re: help with nvidia and BusID

Rob Owens wrote: I'm trying to run the nvidia proprietary driver for a PCI video card. I also have an onboard video card. I think xorg.conf needs to specify the BusID in the device section like this: Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia FX 5200" Driver "nvidia" BusID

cupsd fails to start - general protection fault

Hi, I'm running sid on amd64. My cupsd fails to start. >From /var/log/syslog: kernel: [209082.595638] cupsd[31022] general protection ip:7fc2be37f5e8 sp:7fff3feb7058 error:0 in libc-2.11.2.so[7fc2be30+158000] Any ideas where I should go next? If it's nothing obvious, I'll report a bug.

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

On the 23/02/2011 20:50, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:34:05 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/23/2011 11:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Shouldn't D-M maintainers post here about any problem on the repos or >>> widespread a bit more what is going on? >>> >>> >> "Should"??? >> >> It wo

Re: Is there anything wrong with sticking with Lenny?

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:33:45 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 12:53:39 Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Mi, 23 feb 11, 17:01:41, Camaleón wrote: >> > (effective >> > Debian support for releases is about 2 years). >> >> By your numbers it's about 4 years (2 years as

Re: Side Question Regarding Modules (Related to Sound Server ?)

Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mi, 23 feb 11, 05:35:15, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: I was thinking about the reply I read to the restarting sound server question suggesting removing the modules and re inserting them, forgive me author of that post, I forget who suggested it... Anyway I havin

Re: Is there anything wrong with sticking with Lenny?

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:53:39 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 23 feb 11, 17:01:41, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Lenny will drop security patches when wheezy comes out > > or one year after the release of squeeze, whichever comes first[1] Sure. I hope Wheezy is not released tomorrow :-)

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:34:05 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/23/2011 11:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Shouldn't D-M maintainers post here about any problem on the repos or >> widespread a bit more what is going on? >> >> > "Should"??? > > It would be *nice* and it would be *helpful* to do so, but

Centrally locating email (was Re: SSH pauses)

On 02/22/2011 08:44 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: [snip] an email (I log into my home box to read and send mail so it's all in one place). Install an IMAP server on your home box and then enable imaps. -- "The normal condition of mankind is tyranny and misery." Milton Friedman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > An unpatched machine [for whatever reason], behind NAT has a > fighting chance, but one which is directly addressable from the The protection offered by NAT is equivalent to a statefull firewall that only allow sessions to be initiated by the inside[

Re: Is there anything wrong with sticking with Lenny?

On Wednesday 23 February 2011 12:53:39 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 23 feb 11, 17:01:41, Camaleón wrote: > > (effective > > Debian support for releases is about 2 years). > > By your numbers it's about 4 years (2 years as stable and 2 years as > oldstable), but in fact it's only about 3 years (a

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

On 02/23/2011 11:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:30:04 +, Brad Rogers wrote: For those concerned about oldstable at Debian Multimedia, you'll be pleased to hear that it's being restored. So far, about 90% is available, according to Christian. Good. Shouldn't D-M maintainer

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

Hi there On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Brian wrote: I got carried away there. /etc/default/console-setup doesn't alter the screen resolution. It does set COLUMNS and LINES. Anyway. I solved the problem. It was a hardware and not a config problem; The motherboard has a onboard VGA and had a NVidia AG

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:16:35 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: Hello Camaleón, > Good. I knew somebody would appreciate it. :-) > Shouldn't D-M maintainers post here about any problem on the repos or > widespread a bit more what is going on? That's up to Christian, not me. I'm not a member of t

Re: Is there anything wrong with sticking with Lenny?

On Mi, 23 feb 11, 17:01:41, Camaleón wrote: > > Lenny will drop security patches when wheezy comes out or one year after the release of squeeze, whichever comes first[1] (effective > Debian support for releases is about 2 years). By you

Re: Cannot use USB floppy drive in Squeeze

On 02/23/2011 07:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I have recently install Debian Squeeze on an IBM ThinkPad X31. It has an external USB-attached floppy drive. The BIOS sees it. I can boot from it just fine, and when running Windows 95 in MS-DOS mode (no WIN.EXE running) I can access it as drive "A

Re: Debian 6.0

> > 128 MB seems low for a GUI environment, but I'm fairly certain it is > possible with Squeeze. > > Just for info, I recently did a minimal Wheezy install (no GUI) on a > machine with 32 MB RAM and 2 GB disk (337 MB of 1.8 GB used for / with the > remainder used as swap). It was a bit tricky (I h

Re: Re (2): Skype

On Wednesday 23 February 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: deloptes > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:06:27 +0100 > > > I've been using this for few years now with skype and no problems cam is > > philips SPC 1000/1030NC (pc is dell latitude d520) > > Encouraging. A Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 and

Re (2): Skype

From: deloptes Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:06:27 +0100 > I've been using this for few years now with skype and no problems cam is > philips SPC 1000/1030NC (pc is dell latitude d520) Encouraging. A Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 and a Unibrain Fire-i both work for other applications here. Skype h

Re: Debian 6.0

On 23/02/11 16:29, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 22. 02. 2011 23:54:45 je Chris Brennan napisal(a): On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Marius Pehk wrote: > What the heck version 6.0 when I can not insttall it?I hawe 8 DVDś witout > grapphical enviroment Penntium III 500E Acorp moterboard 440 chpset 128MB

Re: Debian Multi-Media.

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:30:04 +, Brad Rogers wrote: > For those concerned about oldstable at Debian Multimedia, you'll be > pleased to hear that it's being restored. So far, about 90% is > available, according to Christian. Good. Shouldn't D-M maintainers post here about any problem on the r

Re: help with nvidia and BusID

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:37:02 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm trying to run the nvidia proprietary driver for a PCI video card. I > also have an onboard video card. I think xorg.conf needs to specify the > BusID in the device section like this: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "nVidia FX

Re: Skype

James Brown wrote: > Simon Brandmair wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:20:02 +0100 Raffaele Morelli wrote: >>> I wonder if anyone of you is currently using skype on debian amd64 and >>> which app are you using. >> >> I am successfully running the Ubuntu 8.10+ 64-bit version on debian >>

Re: Is there anything wrong with sticking with Lenny?

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:35:19 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: (...) > Is there anything wrong with sticking with Debian Lenny? I hope not. I'm also with lenny and won't upgrade until wheezy :-) > Does Debian shut down support for old versions like Ubuntu does? Lenny will drop security patches when

Re (2): wodim: Input/output error.

Andrei, From: Andrei Popescu Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:37:14 +0200 > As far as I understand from the manpage the device is specified with > dev=... Oops; yes. Sorry for the distraction. I should have reviewed the man page rather than rely on memory. > Does it work if you use the full na

Re: Debian 6.0

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:35:54 -0800, Marius Pehk wrote: > What the heck version 6.0 when I can not insttall it?I hawe 8 DVDś > witout > grapphical enviroment Penntium III 500E Acorp moterboard 440 chpset > 128MB > memori, ATi 2000 pro video card LG Flatron LCD monitor And the error you get is.

Re: Debian 6.0

On 22/02/11 22:35, Marius Pehk wrote: What the heck version 6.0 when I can not insttall it?I hawe 8 DVDś witout grapphical enviroment Penntium III 500E Acorp moterboard 440 chpset 128MB memori, ATi 2000 pro video card LG Flatron LCD monitor I second Chris' assessment: I used a netinstall disk

Re: Debian 6.0

Dne, 22. 02. 2011 23:54:45 je Chris Brennan napisal(a): On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Marius Pehk wrote: > What the heck version 6.0 when I can not insttall it?I hawe 8 DVDś witout > grapphical enviroment Penntium III 500E Acorp moterboard 440 chpset 128MB > memori, ATi 2000 pro vid

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

On Wed 23 Feb 2011 at 15:23:02 +, Brian wrote: > It can and it does. Your video card and the driver it uses have some > bearing on this, as does /etc/default/console-setup. I got carried away there. /etc/default/console-setup doesn't alter the screen resolution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

On Wed 23 Feb 2011 at 14:52:56 +0100, Rob van der Putten wrote: > How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. > There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find > anything /etc/default/grub specific. ht

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

On Wed 23 Feb 2011 at 16:01:22 +0100, Rob van der Putten wrote: > As far as I can tell Grub2 tries to figure out largest resolution and > number of colours the hardware (video card) supports and then uses this > as its default. The default GRUB menu display screen is definitely 640x480. Are yo

Re: best labtop for debian

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:27:44PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:33:21PM -0500, Petrus Validus wrote: > > on them. The only trouble I have with mine is getting the SD card slot > > to work and the fingerprint reader working but since I am not Agent 007 > > I don't th

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

On 22 February 2011 00:45, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > shawn wilson put forth on 2/21/2011 6:05 PM: > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Stan Hoeppner >wrote: > > > >> Pascal Hambourg put forth on 2/21/2011 3:51 PM: > >>> Stan Hoeppner a écrit : > > You only need one > NIC in your fire

Re: Fwd: Bug#614661: exec: 58: /usr: Permission denied

On Wednesday 23 February 2011 01:23:42 Debian_bug_report wrote: > Well, I can't understand clearly what Sandro want to say, but I think that > he talks about the package has be defined like "reportbug", but I wanted to > say "other". There is no "other" in the Debian BTS. Each bug is attached to

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

On 23/02/11 13:52, Rob van der Putten wrote: Hi there How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find anything /etc/default/grub specific. Setting: GRUB_GF

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

Hi there On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Tom H wrote: Isn't 640x480 the default? As far as I can tell Grub2 tries to figure out largest resolution and number of colours the hardware (video card) supports and then uses this as its default. The "/etc/default/grub" variables that control the resoluti

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > On 02/23/2011 03:10 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis >>  wrote: >>> >>> BTW, could someone explain the difference between >>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT >>> and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/defa

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

Andrew McGlashan wrote: And from the further reading referenced in the other response [1] I see a problem with the following: At the same time, this tracking is per address. In environments where the goal is tracking back to the user, additional external information will be neces

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

Hi, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Andrew McGlashan a écrit : Well NAT does have it's advantages, one being that it can act as a reasonably good barrier as a NATural firewall. This is a common misconception. I cannot tell about other NAT's, but Netfilter NAT is not a barrier at all. It's a goo

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011/2/23 Rob van der Putten : > Hi there > > > How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. > There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find > anything /etc/default/grub specific. > > TIA > > > Regards, >

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > > How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. > There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find > anything /etc/default/grub specific. Isn't 6

Setting the screen resolution in grub2

Hi there How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=769" in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find anything /etc/default/grub specific. TIA Regards, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

Andrew McGlashan a écrit : > > Well NAT does have it's advantages, one being that it can act as a > reasonably good barrier as a NATural firewall. This is a common misconception. I cannot tell about other NAT's, but Netfilter NAT is not a barrier at all. > but if you have every device with

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

On 02/23/2011 03:10 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: BTW, could someone explain the difference between GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub? For every vmlinuz... in /boot, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT appli

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > BTW, could someone explain the difference between GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT > and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub? For every vmlinuz... in /boot, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT applies to the runlevel 2 entry and GRUB_CMDLINE_

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:42:37PM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Well NAT does have it's advantages, one being that it can act > as a reasonably good barrier as a NATural firewall. Sure, it's not > perfect, but if you have every device with IPv6 (or v4 for that > matter) being addressable

Re: Software RAID on external USB disk: boot problems after upgrade to squeeze

On 02/23/2011 02:22 PM, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Panayiotis Karabassis [2011.02.23.1029 +0100]: I had solved this in lenny by using the following /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm script: Set rootdelay=30 on the kernel command line. Your solution seem

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

Hi, Paul Fraser wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:41, Nate Bargmann > wrote: Not only that but as we move to IPv6 there is no such thing as NAT. Oh, how I wish that were true... The IPv6 spec includes NAT. Well NAT does have it's advantages, one being that it c

Re: RAID start at boot

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:22:29PM -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: > >> Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started degraded? On > >> boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is started before > >> the others are seen. (Th

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