Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

All I know is for the last year on sid, linux seems to have partially lost its multitasking: when it gets into an intense job, there isn't even any cycles allocated to updating the clock icon, etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: So much for Skype.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:31, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Which the OS allows them, so I pass no blame on the Skype devs. >> > > My automobile allows me to drive w/o being buckled up.  Do you blame the > manufacturer or do you blame me for driving w/o buckling up? > Strawman. Your automobile is not ch

Re: So much for Skype.

On 05/23/2011 12:01 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:40, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Yet, *if* Skype uses the function it's because Skype's programmers programmed Skype to use the function. Which the OS allows them, so I pass no blame on the Skype devs. My automobile allo

Re: So much for Skype.

Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:29, Ron Johnson wrote: I was thinking of setuid() magic. Again an OS issue, not a Skype issue. I agree that since root must install Skype, and since root then owns Skype, the application might setuid. But this is an OS feature, not a Skype featur

Re: Serial Console Access

> In a nut-shell, this is what is how my Debian box is configured (for serial > console) > root@leviathan:~# setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0123]> /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xdc00, IRQ: 16> /dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xdc00, IRQ: 16> /dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 > /dev/t

Re: So much for Skype.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:40, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> I was thinking of setuid() magic. >> >> Again an OS issue, > > Insofar as the OS provides the feature. > Indeed, this really is a convenience-before-security feature that reminds me of a certain prolific software vendor. Give me an hour or two

Re: So much for Skype.

On 05/22/2011 11:22 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:29, Ron Johnson wrote: I was thinking of setuid() magic. Again an OS issue, Insofar as the OS provides the feature. not a Skype issue. Yet, *if* Skype uses the function it's because Skype's program

Re: So much for Skype.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > I was thinking of setuid() magic. > Again an OS issue, not a Skype issue. I agree that since root must install Skype, and since root then owns Skype, the application might setuid. But this is an OS feature, not a Skype feature. How is this not a

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 09:47:03PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. No disk > light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no > copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 > secs. althou

Re: So much for Skype.

On 05/22/2011 10:22 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:30, Ron Johnson wrote: Because it thinks it needs system privs? Just like any other app that runs as root. Do you run Skype as root? And if you do, then there is no basis to complain about Skype then using elevated privil

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

On 05/22/2011 09:47 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 secs. although it seems longer, and it h

Re: So much for Skype.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > Because it thinks it needs system privs?  Just like any other app that runs > as root. > Do you run Skype as root? And if you do, then there is no basis to complain about Skype then using elevated privileges. Just as you don't run Iceweasel as r

Why does my system stop frequently?

Greetings; My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 secs. although it seems longer, and it happens often, every couple of minutes.

Re: So much for Skype.

On 05/22/2011 11:45 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 00:06, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Poking holes in the firewall sounds to me like a firewall problem, not a Skype problem. If Skype has admin rights, it will use them stealthily. Why should Skype have admin rights? Because i

Re: backports updates

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote: > > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it > > > up! I have never dared touch my preferences file. > > > >

Medical Icons.

Hello, Free medical icons, anybody? http://www.goomedic.com/free-60-medical-icons-for-medical-apps-developers-and-designers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Goomedic+%28GooMedic.com%29 >From my Egyptian doctor friend currently caring for the rebel forces in Libya,

Re: backports updates

On Du, 22 mai 11, 15:35:50, Lisi wrote: > > For what it is worth, /ect/apt/preferences says: > > Package: * > Pin: release a=lenny-backports > Pin-Priority: 200 > > It agrees with apt-cache policy. Shouldn't it? It's just as I expected. > As I said, I have set nothing manually. Aptitude set

Serial Console Access

I've embarked on the trial and error process of setting up a serial console on my Debian 6 machine. So far, the configuration has been pretty straight forward. As a reference point I used the following two websites http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-setup-serial-console-on-debian-linux/

need help with gnome-keyring-manager

I have installed Squeeze on some different hardware for my desktop computer. On previous install attempts (on other hardware) I have had problems with gnome-keyring-manager interfering with my ability to use ssh. Those problems seem to be recurring on this newer hardware and I am looking for ways t

Re: Avoid POP3

Hi, Howard Eisenberger wrote: Also, mutt -f pop(s)://mail.example.com/ to read e-mail on a POP3 server "online". That's neat. I used the following and they both worked: mutt -f pops://localhost mutt -f imaps://localhost I was able to delete, undelete and delete a message again. Ende

How to make mkofboot just generate ofboot.b without installing it anywhere?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to make mkofboot generate an ofboot.b based on a yaboot.conf and simply leave it in my ext3 filesystem, letting me decide where I want to put it. I have read the man page, and, so far as I can tell, mkofboot is determined to put ofboot.b on

Re: Avoid POP3

On 2011-05-17, Alan Chandler wrote: > POP has an option to leave messages on the server after you have read them. > > I have a server set up which stores all my mails, and I use IMAP to read > them. I have a few old accounts from old ISPs which uses POP, and I > just collect mails from them wit

Re: Help Installing Debian

Klistvud (klist...@gmail.com on 2011-05-21 10:04 +0200): > Dne, 21. 05. 2011 09:40:02 je Camaleón napisal(a): > > [snip] > > > I have not much experience with GPT partitioning but nowadays with > > moderns distributions it should not be a problem :-? > > Don't know about LVM/RAID setups, but pla

Re: Wheezy: monitor signal lost when leaving X

Siard (shiems...@kpnplanet.nl on 2011-05-22 07:40 +0200): > Op Sat, 21 May 2011 11:07, Arno Schuring wrote: > > Siard (on 2011-05-21 02:23 +0200): > > I finally found that the problem goes away if I downgrade > xserver-xorg-video-ati and xserver-xorg-video-radeon from 6.14.1-1 to > 6.13.1-2, which

Re: usb harddrive problem

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 04:27:57PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 22 May 2011 10:35:53 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > (...) > > > Summary: I have two fully upgraded Squeeze systems one of which can > > connect the usb drive and one of which cannot although in the past both > > could make th

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

On Sun, 22 May 2011 18:56:21 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-05-22 18:37 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > Rebuilt initramfs...rebooted and everything **seems** fine. > > However in looking through syslog I saw this: > > [...] > > > > May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [5.698554] BUG: unabl

Re: How to properly proxy an OID in snmpd.conf

I managed to solve this. It was a problem with permissions, not with the proxy definition. Checking com2sec/group/view/access items did it. -- Huella de clave primaria: AD8F BDC0 5A2C FD5F A179 60E7 F79B AB04 5299 EC56 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

On 2011-05-22 18:37 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > Rebuilt initramfs...rebooted and everything **seems** fine. > However in looking through syslog I saw this: > [...] > > May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [5.698554] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL > pointer dereference at (null) Ouch. > Is

Re: So much for Skype.

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 00:06, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Poking holes in the firewall sounds to me like a firewall problem, not >> a Skype problem. > > If Skype has admin rights, it will use them stealthily. > Why should Skype have admin rights? And what is "stealthily"? Do you expect it to pop

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

On Sun, 22 May 2011 12:18:25 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:43:17 +0200 > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > On 2011-05-22 17:34 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays > > > upgrades...which are: > > > > > > > > > [UPGRA

Re: usb harddrive problem

On Sun, 22 May 2011 10:35:53 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: (...) > Summary: I have two fully upgraded Squeeze systems one of which can > connect the usb drive and one of which cannot although in the past both > could make the connection. What could have changed? > > For the record here is a sa

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

On Sun, 22 May 2011 16:51:25 +0100 Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays > > upgrades...which are: > > > [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 -> 170-1 > > [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 -> 170-1

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:43:17 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-05-22 17:34 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays > > upgrades...which are: > > > > > > [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 -> 170-1 > > [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 -> 170-1 > > [UPG

Re: Playing with "apt-listchanges"

Camaleón wrote the following on 22.05.2011 16:05 -- -- >> I guess you can configure apt-listchanges for another frontend (mail) in >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges to solve both problems. >> >> HTH > > Hum... I see what it seems to be a configuration file for this under "/ > etc/apt/listcha

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays > upgrades...which are: > [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 -> 170-1 > [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 -> 170-1 > [UPGRADE] net-tools 1.60-23 -> 1.60-24 > [UPGRADE] udev 169-1 -> 170-1 >

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

On 2011-05-22 17:34 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays > upgrades...which are: > > > [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 -> 170-1 > [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 -> 170-1 > [UPGRADE] net-tools 1.60-23 -> 1.60-24 > [UPGRADE] udev 169-1 -> 170-1 > ==

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in a bug report but I have no idea where the problem could lie. Any sugge

usb harddrive problem

Some months ago I purchase a Toshiba 640 Gb usb hard drive and successfully used it to backup an internal drive on my Debian Squeeze system. Shortly after the backup the system could no longer connect to the usb drive. A second system running Debian Lenny had no problem connecting to the usb driv

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 16:24 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today > > > (there were various libraries) has affected both ker

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

On Sun, 22 May 2011 16:24:02 +0100 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today > > > (there were various libraries) has affected both ker

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today > > (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in > > a bug report but I have no idea where the pr

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today > (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in > a bug report but I have no idea where the problem could lie. > > Any suggestions? A list o

Re: backports updates

On Monday 16 May 2011 21:18:01 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 20:43:37, Lisi wrote: > > Vanilla, and untouched by human hand. Exactly as aptitude/debian set it > > up! I have never dared touch my preferences file. > > [...] > > > 200 http://backports.debian.org lenny-backports/non-

System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

I've been using linux-image-2.6.38-2-686 for some time without preblems. After a dist-upgrade in Sid today I acquired linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae. On booting this I had no connection (wired) to my router. Also, on starting X (startx) the screen locked up and I had to do a hard reset. I reverted

Re: Playing with "apt-listchanges"

On Sun, 22 May 2011 15:25:19 +0200, David Sastre wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:13:09PM +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I would like to configure apt-listchanges in a more convenient manner >> that is currently now setup. (...) > I guess you can configure apt-listchanges for another front

Re: Playing with "apt-listchanges"

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 01:13:09PM +, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, Hi, > I would like to configure apt-listchanges in a more convenient manner > that is currently now setup. > > 1/ Is it possible to tell it to do not display the messages when > performing the update? I know those messages are

Playing with "apt-listchanges"

Hello, I would like to configure apt-listchanges in a more convenient manner that is currently now setup. 1/ Is it possible to tell it to do not display the messages when performing the update? I know those messages are important but I would prefer to read them later, when I have enough time a

Re: first mkdir takes a long time (on ext3)

On Thu, 19 May 2011, Hartmut Niemann wrote: I observe that it often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive, especially the first directory. What could the reason be? I used to have that problem. I never figured out the cause, but it disappeared when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.33

Re: network-manager-gnome cannot create vpn connection successfully.

On Sat, 21 May 2011 19:25:53 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > When adding a new connection, everything seemed fine. But when > connection to it, a immediate error occurred as "no valid secrets . From > the internet, they said this is a bug of network-manager-gnome that it > did not save the

How to properly proxy an OID in snmpd.conf

Hello, I want to monitor a JVM server using SNMP, so I have added the following opts to the JVM: JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -Dcom.sun.management.snmp.interface=164.0.0.5 -Dcom.sun.management.snmp.port=1161 -Dcom.sun.management.snmp.acl=false" And I've

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

On Sun, 22 May 2011 03:59:30 +, annathemermaid wrote: > On 21/05/2011, Camaleón wrote: >> I'd say there is no perfect method to manage this. >> >> I still miss the old-plain-intuitive method for designating block > devices >> (hda → first ide, hdb → second ide device, sda → first scsi/sata >

Re: "GTK - WARNING ++ : XID collision, trouble ahead

On Sat, 21 May 2011 14:09:26 -0500, Charles Blair wrote: > I recently installed squeeze on a laptop with an ethernet connection. > When I run iceweasel from "root terminal," it works sometimes, and seems > to refuse to connect to the outside world other times. When that happens, are you still ab

Re: Gnome menu can't update to correct language.

On Sun, 22 May 2011 16:16:29 +0800, spp mg wrote: > My locale is set to zh_TW,so gnome menu is chinese. But when I instell > package,gnome menu can't update to correct language. I need > relogin(logout and login again.Has this word??) to update . > > I record a movie(6 MB) with the debain 6.0.1a.

Re: UUID - autmatically entries? (?OT)

On Sat, 21 May 2011 13:51:27 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110521_175742, Camaleón wrote: >> I'd say there is no perfect method to manage this. > > But sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the vastly better. I simply > cannot believe that the current situation will persist through the nex

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

Am Sonntag, 22. Mai 2011 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > On Du, 22 mai 11, 00:22:49, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Hmm, I see this question was not answered yet. IIRC it is > > linux-support-. Try reinstalling it. > > Correction: it's linux-base[1] > > [1] > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/relea

Re: Gnome menu can't update to correct language.

2011/5/22 spp mg : > Hi. > My locale is set to zh_TW,so gnome menu is chinese. > But when I instell package,gnome menu can't update to correct language. > I need relogin(logout and login again.Has this word??) to update . > > I record a movie(6 MB) with the debain 6.0.1a. > Please download from thi

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

On Du, 22 mai 11, 00:22:49, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Hmm, I see this question was not answered yet. IIRC it is > linux-support-. Try reinstalling it. Correction: it's linux-base[1] [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#ide-pata-transition Regards

Gnome menu can't update to correct language.

Hi. My locale is set to zh_TW,so gnome menu is chinese. But when I instell package,gnome menu can't update to correct language. I need relogin(logout and login again.Has this word??) to update . I record a movie(6 MB) with the debain 6.0.1a. Please download from this link: http://www.megaupload.co

speech-dispatcher always falls back to espeak

Hi list, accidently I updated kttsd to the version, which is using speech-disptcher. Formerly I was using kttsd-4.3.4, which was still not using speech dispatcher, and in which I could use mbrola. As I cannot revert, I tried to configure speech-dispatcher and kttsd to my needs, but I found no

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

On 21 May 2011, Lisi wrote: [snip] > Personally, I am just grateful that some companies (e.g. HP and Samsung) _do_ > have good drivers for most of their printers. > > Lisi > Brother should be added to that list. I recently bought an HL5240L laser printer and their linux driver works perfect

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

In <20110522045227.gd11...@cmpq.lan.gnu>, Paul E Condon wrote: >On 20110522_035930, annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: >> I used devices, just like I always do when editing >> fstabs. It works fine. I don't see any reason to change it? What do >> UUIDs give me that /dev/hdx or /dev/sdx don't, aside fro

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

On May 21, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Since like many others you find UUIDs a huge jumbled pile of human meaninglessness, then by all means create labels for all your fixed devices, and modify your /etc/fstab accordingly. Many of us have done so. Wouldn't it be nice if the De