[SOLVED] Re: How to change the style and background of the Squeeze login screen?

2011-03-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I tried installing gdm, which (as expected) wanted to replace gdm3 (which was fine with me) but it also wanted to delete a *whole* *bunch* of other stuff as well. I have no idea if I need that other stuff -- or am I just as well off without

Key help

2011-03-23 Thread I Rattan
I can't find this key: W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA Any pointers? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Recommendations on groupware

2011-03-23 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I'm currently looking into groupware solutions on Debian mainly for sharing a calendar such as Thunderbird + Lightning. Anyone who can provide some real life experience of pros and cons? Kind regards Rico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: OT: crypto, auth, CAs, web-of-trust, and phony certs

2011-03-23 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 24 March 2011 11:18, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > Apropos some of the recent discussion we've had here of various Debian > signing keys. > > A major CA (certificate authority) has issued fake SSL certs for > Google.com, Yahoo.com, and Skype.com (and apparently 6 other sites) > after its signing key

apt-get trying to remove manually installed packages

2011-03-23 Thread James Robertson
I am running Sid. while doing a dist-upgrade apt-get wants to remove a number of packages that are manually installed. One example is rxvt-unicode which I manually installed. I have run "apt-get unmarkauto rxvt-unicode" to ensure it's set to manual but it keeps wanting to remove it during dist-u

OT: crypto, auth, CAs, web-of-trust, and phony certs

2011-03-23 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
Apropos some of the recent discussion we've had here of various Debian signing keys. A major CA (certificate authority) has issued fake SSL certs for Google.com, Yahoo.com, and Skype.com (and apparently 6 other sites) after its signing keys were compromised. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs

Phony Debian starting steps - Re: ... - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones ; gre

2011-03-23 Thread giovanni_re
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:41:16 +0100, "Michelle Konzack" said: > Hello giovanni_re, :) > Am 2011-03-21 14:16:20, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > Let's start the "Debian distro for Android capable hardware phones". > > :-D > > > My motivation: > > I got an Android capable smartphone/compute

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Brad Alexander
I don't think it would give you the already at the newest version error if it was a server load issue. It looks like it's not even going out to the site, its checking its version and leaving satisfied. I thought it might be that the version was called something like iceweasel-4 but that wasn't to

Phony EmDebian - Re: Proper name... - Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones ; gre

2011-03-23 Thread giovanni_re
Hi Michelle :) On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:54:15 +0100, "Michelle Konzack" said: > Am 2011-03-23 17:13:16, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > I'm not sure how http://www.emdebian.org/ is related to Debian because it's > > neither embedded.debian.org or debian.org/embedded... anyway... > > EmDebi

Re: Proper name, & more - Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones ; gre

2011-03-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Leonardo Ruoso, Am 2011-03-23 17:13:16, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > I'm not sure how http://www.emdebian.org/ is related to Debian because it's > neither embedded.debian.org or debian.org/embedded... anyway... EmDebian = Debian ...but packages (mainly from ARM) are heavyly stripe

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2011-03-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello giovanni_re, Am 2011-03-21 14:16:20, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Let's start the "Debian distro for Android capable hardware phones". :-D > My motivation: > I got an Android capable smartphone/computer a few months ago. - Samsung > Intercept, Virgin Mobil, $200, $25/month includes

Phony Debian - Re: Proper name... - Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones ; gre

2011-03-23 Thread giovanni_re
Hi Nate :) On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:45:26 -0500, "Nate Bargmann" said: > Phony Debian? H. . . . 't's got a nice ring to it. ;) == Join in the Global weekly meetings, via voice, about all Free SW HW & Culture http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Peter Tynan
On 23 March 2011 22:57, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:17:44 + > Peter Tynan wrote: > >> On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad Alexander wrote: >> > Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and upgraded, >> > but got >> > >> > [root@galaxy sources.list.d]# apt-g

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:17:44 + Peter Tynan wrote: > On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad Alexander wrote: > > Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and upgraded, > > but got > > > > [root@galaxy sources.list.d]# apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel > > Reading packag

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Mark
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Tom H wrote: > > [snip] > > With grub2, if you want to troubleshoot update-grub and the resulting > "/boot/grub/grub.cfg", you have to look at "/etc/default/grub", > "/etc/grub.d/*", "/usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib", and > "/usr/bin/grub-mkconfig". You might not

Re: Squeeze installer and partition alignment

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > Does anyone know if the guided partitioning in Squeeze aligns > partitions, and if so to what boundaries? A quick scan of the archives > doesn't turn up anything conclusive. Unless I'm imagining things, there was a recent thread about thi

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Mark wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Geronimo: >> > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> >> >> AFAICS, we can rule out the kernel as the cuplrit completely, as grub >> >> doesn't even get that far. >> > >> > VETO - after reboot, you might

Re: An interesting experiment

2011-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-23 14:25:02 Brad Alexander wrote: >I just found a box in my basement that I haven't touched in many years. I >checked sources.list, and it was built when woody was stable and sarge was >testing. The box was running sid. So I thought it would be an interesting >experiment to see what is i

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Re: An interesting experiment

2011-03-23 Thread Estelmann, Christian
I would have up/downgraded to sarge. Then I would have done an upgrade etch, then to lenny, and then to squeeze. That should work. I am running squeeze on a PIII 500, 512MB RAM. Is running quite well :) Am 23.03.2011 20:25, schrieb Brad Alexander: I just found a box in my basement that I haven'

Re: libevent 1.4

2011-03-23 Thread shawn wilson
cancel that. must have been statically linked or something as i recompiled it and it works (i think): swilson-mbp-vdebian:~/code/gearmand-0.18# gearmand -vvv -u root INFO [ main ] Starting up INFO [ main ] Listening on 0.0.0.0:4730 INFO [ main ] Listening on 0.0.0.0:4730 (6) INFO [ main ]

Re: Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1

2011-03-23 Thread Piter Hartmann
Hallo. Mouse disappeared after update to squeeze 6.0.1 Machine: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Mouse: after manuell changing the usb receiver of the mouse to another USB-Slot -> dmesg shows: Logitech USB Receiver[ 245.432023] usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address

An interesting experiment

2011-03-23 Thread Brad Alexander
I just found a box in my basement that I haven't touched in many years. I checked sources.list, and it was built when woody was stable and sarge was testing. The box was running sid. So I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see what is involved to get it to a modern sid, or if it is ev

libevent 1.4

2011-03-23 Thread shawn wilson
ok, i'll ask on the gearman list if it is deemed appropriate. however, i'm pretty sure this is a debian thing. any ideas? swilson-mbp-vdebian:~/code/gearmand-0.18# gearmand -vvv -u root INFO [ main ] Starting up FATAL [ main ] Multi-threaded gearmand requires libevent 1.4 or later, libevent 1.3

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Geronimo wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> At what point does booting from squeeze's grub does the boot process >> fail? And what's the error (if any)? > > Grub "fails" after writing "Grub" black on white, before showing the menue. > I don't know how much code fits into

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Steven Sciame
This is confusing.  There is 'backports.debian.org' and 'mozilla.debian.net'. Both use squeeze-backports in sources.list. apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel, on my box,  points to backports.debian.net, I haven't added the mozilla.debian.net to my sources yet as this would be two

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Geronimo wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> -  Do the grub.cfg entries for squeeze in squeeze and maverick match >> for the insmods, the grub root, and the system root? > > I attached an archive with diffs of complete grub.cfg and just the menue > entries. Thanks for the

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Geronimo wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> - Does grub-probe on squeeze and maverick return the same values? > > Can you please verify the script checkSystem.sh, that I got u right? > Especially the ubuntu / chainload part? > > Should I replace X and Y from the line: >  

Re: Wireless............

2011-03-23 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:06:31 +0100 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > The file /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz cited already by Wayne > explains also the meaning of common wpa options. In a certain environment this > configuration worked for wpa encryption: > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp >

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Mark
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Geronimo: > > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> > >> AFAICS, we can rule out the kernel as the cuplrit completely, as grub > >> doesn't even get that far. > > > > VETO - after reboot, you might be right, but what happens during > update-grub? > > u

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:01:45 am Peter Tynan wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Peter Tynan wrote: > >> On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad Alexander wrote: > >> > Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and > >> > upgraded, > >> > but got > >> > > >> > [root@galax

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> AFAICS, we can rule out the kernel as the cuplrit completely, as grub >> doesn't even get that far. > > VETO - after reboot, you might be right, but what happens during update-grub? update-grub only creates the configuration file, it doesn't write the MBR or

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Brad Alexander
It's my wife's workstation, I may just go straight to wheezy or sid. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > I did. > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Peter Tynan wrote: > >> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Peter Tynan >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Brad Alexander
I did. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Peter Tynan wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Peter Tynan > wrote: > >> > >> On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad Alexander wrote: > >> > Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and > >> > upgraded, > >> > but got > >> > > >> > [r

Re: Proper name, & more - Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones ; gre

2011-03-23 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
2011/3/22 giovanni_re > Excellent infos, Shawn!! :) (You get 2 exclamation points.) > I'm not sure how http://www.emdebian.org/ is related to Debian because it's neither embedded.debian.org or debian.org/embedded... anyway... Is it related to your thoughts about smartphones running Debian?

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Peter Tynan
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Peter Tynan wrote: >> >> On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad Alexander wrote: >> > Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and >> > upgraded, >> > but got >> > >> > [root@galaxy sources.list.d]# apt-get install -t squeeze-backports >> > iceweasel

Re: Proper name, & more - Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones ; gre

2011-03-23 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 00:45:26 Nate Bargmann wrote: > Phony Debian? > > Runs, ducks, and does the bob and weave out of this thread! :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: tightvncserver: Could not start screen

2011-03-23 Thread Susam Pal
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:38 AM, wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:11:47 +0530 > Susam Pal wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:28 PM,   wrote: >> > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:17:31 +0530 >> > Susam Pal wrote: >> > >> >> susam@nifty:~$ >> >> >> >> Could you please help me n troubleshooting this? >>

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-23 09:14:04 Geronimo wrote: >For me its a debian QA issue. > >grub may have bugs, as well as linux kernel - and of cause, each bug may >break a system or lead to fresh installation, which does not work. >That's no problem - if it happens at sid or testing. > >... but for me, its complete

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Jochen Schulz wrote: > AFAICS, we can rule out the kernel as the cuplrit completely, as grub > doesn't even get that far. VETO - after reboot, you might be right, but what happens during update-grub? I'm quite sure, that update-grub broke my system, but I don't have any idea, who takes p

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Peter Tynan
On 23 March 2011 15:04, Brad Alexander wrote: > Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and upgraded, > but got > > [root@galaxy sources.list.d]# apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state informati

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Geronimo: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> - Which disks are connected to which controller? > > As told above, the "system disks" are attached to the main board. The system > disks are the three SSDs and a WD VelociRaptor (sdb) Ok, so to sum up: You have trouble booting from disks connected to you

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-23 Thread Dan
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Dan wrote: >> I didn't know that the inodes would take so much space. >> Ext4 would be a better option? >> I chose Ext3 because it is older and it should be more stable >> therefore better for a server. More

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Brad Alexander
Very cool site. However, I just added it, and added the key, and upgraded, but got [root@galaxy sources.list.d]# apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done iceweasel is already the newest version. 0 upgrad

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Peter Tynan wrote: On 23 March 2011 13:31, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-03-23 07:01:21 Brad Alexander wrote: I had thought about grabbing the one from experimental (rc2?), but decided against that for a squeeze system. You may want to try http://mozilla.debian.net/ Neat. I didn'

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I've tried «apt-get install -t experimental iceweasel» first, but sounded better to me as «aptitude install --with-recommends -t experimental iceweasel-l10n-pt-br»! Atenciosamente, Leonardo Ruoso (CE1921JP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Geronimo
Hello, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > Geronimo wrote: > > Tom H wrote: > > > - grub wasn't updated for 6.0.1. Its last squeeze update was on 17 > > > January, pre-6.0 release (6 February IIRC). So, strictly speaking, > > > it isn't grub that's broken grub. > > > > Ok, then I apologize everything I

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On 2011-03-23 00:59:49 Geronimo wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> Now, moving between 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 shouldn't have been a problem, but I > >> suspect you actually would have had issues rebooting your 6.0.0 system > >> even without t

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Juha Tuuna
On 23.3.2011 14:01, Brad Alexander wrote: > Too soon? > > I had thought about grabbing the one from experimental (rc2?), but decided > against that for a squeeze system. > > --b I've used the original package from Mozilla and installed it in /opt. Works fine... -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Peter Tynan
On 23 March 2011 13:31, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On 2011-03-23 07:01:21 Brad Alexander wrote: >>I had thought about grabbing the one from experimental (rc2?), but decided >>against that for a squeeze system. You may want to try http://mozilla.debian.net/ Peter -- (\__/) (='.'=) This is

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-23 07:01:21 Brad Alexander wrote: >I had thought about grabbing the one from experimental (rc2?), but decided >against that for a squeeze system. Squeeze is released, which mean it will no longer receive new upstream versions. Updates will be limited to security issues and important b

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-23 00:59:49 Geronimo wrote: >Hello, > >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Now, moving between 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 shouldn't have been a problem, but I >> suspect you actually would have had issues rebooting your 6.0.0 system >> even without the 6.0.1 updates, since you didn't have your fstab i

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread briand
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:14:19 +0100 Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > Tom H wrote: > > - grub wasn't updated for 6.0.1. Its last squeeze update was on 17 > > January, pre-6.0 release (6 February IIRC). So, strictly speaking, > > it isn't grub that's broken grub. > > Ok, then I apologize everything I

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Tom H wrote: > - grub wasn't updated for 6.0.1. Its last squeeze update was on 17 > January, pre-6.0 release (6 February IIRC). So, strictly speaking, it > isn't grub that's broken grub. I attached the hex-view of mbr written by ubuntu and mbr written by debian. May be it can help finding

After upgrade to squeeze system doesn't boot, because of not finding one disk using dmraid

2011-03-23 Thread Enno Gröper
Hi, I already filed a bug about that [1] and now I hope somebody here can help me. I have some servers, where I have to use the "hardware" raid controller PDC20277 (Promise Fasttrak). Under lenny it works fine using dmraid, but after the upgrade to squeeze (to be exact: after upgrading kernel and

iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-23 Thread Brad Alexander
Too soon? I had thought about grabbing the one from experimental (rc2?), but decided against that for a squeeze system. --b

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Re: On understanding Linux I/O problems.

2011-03-23 Thread Dan Serban
On 03/23/11 03:18, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Dan Serban wrote: So, I'm asking, what do most sysadmins use to diagnose IO problems? dmesg, blktrace, perf tools (linux-tools-2.6), on top of those you already mentioned. Appreciate the pointers, perf to

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Tom H wrote: > - Does grub-probe on squeeze and maverick return the same values? Can you please verify the script checkSystem.sh, that I got u right? Especially the ubuntu / chainload part? Should I replace X and Y from the line: set root=(hdX,Y) ## using X and Y for /mnt/squeeze

Re: On understanding Linux I/O problems.

2011-03-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Dan Serban wrote: > So, I'm asking, what do most sysadmins use to diagnose IO problems? dmesg, blktrace, perf tools (linux-tools-2.6), on top of those you already mentioned. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkn

Squeeze installer and partition alignment

2011-03-23 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Does anyone know if the guided partitioning in Squeeze aligns partitions, and if so to what boundaries? A quick scan of the archives doesn't turn up anything conclusive. I'm not sure if realigning partition boundaries for an encrypted lvm would be any harder (or potentially dangerous for the data)

On understanding Linux I/O problems.

2011-03-23 Thread Dan Serban
Recently I have been running into different issues related to IO problems on different machines. Diagnosing faulty hardware, bandwidth limits and IO caused by different problems which took me quite some time to figure out and I'm still not 100% clear if I've fixed them. So, I'm asking, what d

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Tom H wrote: > At what point does booting from squeeze's grub does the boot process > fail? And what's the error (if any)? Grub "fails" after writing "Grub" black on white, before showing the menue. I don't know how much code fits into the mbr and I don't know, whether grub is stil busy o

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Tom H wrote: > - grub wasn't updated for 6.0.1. Its last squeeze update was on 17 > January, pre-6.0 release (6 February IIRC). So, strictly speaking, it > isn't grub that's broken grub. Ok, then I apologize everything I wrote about grub. > - Do the grub.cfg entries for squeeze in squee

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Geronimo wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> Too bad, now we can't investigate what was wrong. Just for the archives, >> here's an excerpt from a working grub.cfg from a fresh squeeze install: > > Ok, I attached a bunch of info files from my current grub2 setup, w

Re: How to change the style and background of the Squeeze login screen?

2011-03-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/03/11 17:25, Rick Thomas wrote: > > No offense intended to anyone involved, but I don't like the stars and > spaceships look of the new Squeeze login screen. Tastes differ, and my > taste differs from that. I like it, but I'd like to be able to change it... > > In Lenny I had a bunch of

Re: Automatically restart OpenVPN session

2011-03-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kaushal Shriyan: > > I have multiple VPN Configs. is the below setting correct ? > > iface eth0 inet dhcp >openvpn > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp >openvpn I guess that should work, but I haven't tested it and I don't find an example for this in /usr/share/doc/openvpn/README.De

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 23 mar 11, 07:30:48, Geronimo wrote: > > I have a whish to the debian istaller disk. Find attached an image of the > > current menue, where one should select a root partition in rescue mode. > > > > This menue is quite useless, if you have an external control

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Geronimo wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >> Now, moving between 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 shouldn't have been a problem, but I >> suspect you actually would have had issues rebooting your 6.0.0 system even >> without the 6.0.1 updates, since you didn't have your fs

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 23 mar 11, 07:30:48, Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Lu, 21 mar 11, 20:28:51, Geronimo wrote: > > > Ok, the latter is attached (well - just half of the disks), the former > > > does not exists any more, cause I purged grub2 > > > > Too bad, now we can't investigat

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-23 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 22 March 2011 13:06, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/03/11 23:56, Jonathan Matthews wrote: >> It looks to me (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/cwebx) that perhaps >> the only reason gcc is /on/ your machine is due to aptitude pulling it >> down when you installed cwebx. Hence it knows that, as

Re: Automatically restart OpenVPN session

2011-03-23 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Kaushal Shriyan: > > > > is there a way to automatically restart the OpenVPN session while i > switch > > to and fro from Wireless to Wired Network on Debian Squeeze ? > > Do you use network-manager? > > If not: you can add lines for OpenVP

Re: unable to install nfs-kernel-server

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 16, 2011 at 0:11 AM, Liam Cassidey wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Liam Cassidey >> wrote: >>> >>> ii portmap 6.0.0-2 RPC port >>> mapper >> >> Remembered the above when I sent m

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-23 Thread Doug
On 03/23/2011 02:44 AM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Dan wrote: I didn't know that the inodes would take so much space. Ext4 would be a better option? I chose Ext3 because it is older and it should be more stable therefore better for a server. Moreover I am going to us

Re: Automatically restart OpenVPN session

2011-03-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kaushal Shriyan: > > is there a way to automatically restart the OpenVPN session while i switch > to and fro from Wireless to Wired Network on Debian Squeeze ? Do you use network-manager? If not: you can add lines for OpenVPN to your entries for wired and wireless networks in /etc/network/interf