Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Bret Busby Ask: Hello. I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Since that shutown, each tim

spamassassin -- cron.daily warning

2011-07-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On a server that still has lenny, I was getting a message (started on 27th June) as follows each day (from /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin script: Jul 2 15:16:26.778 [17797] warn: netset: cannot include 127.0.0.0/8 as it has already been included The /etc/spamassassin/local.cf had 127/8

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/07/11 14:20, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > >> Did you enable sudo during the install? > > I had this functionality working a while ago (I use it only > occasionally), but then it stopped working. Maybe it was a security > update that killed it or perhaps so

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-01 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Hendrik Boom on 2011-07-01 20:47: > And I can't use cntl-alt-F1 to get a text console, because all I get is a > blank black screen. Is gdm taking over the text consoles and disallowing > them? How do I get my text consoles back so I can proceed with the rest > of the upgrade? Try ctr

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 11:24:45AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I had several screen savor programs installed. That was causing > problem. I needed to remove xscreensaver. I now have only > gnome-screensaver. I do not have kscreensavor either. > > Do you have multiple screensavor programs instal

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread T Elcor
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Did you enable sudo during the install? I had this functionality working a while ago (I use it only occasionally), but then it stopped working. Maybe it was a security update that killed it or perhaps something else. Something has changed. I remember

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/01/2011 03:46 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: VGA-1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm 1024x768 60.0* 800x60060.3 56.2 848x48060.0 640x48059.9 My LCD monitor

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/07/11 05:07, T Elcor wrote: > Hi, > > Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce: > 1. Open the KDE Menu Editor > 2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to Konqueror-2) > 3. Goto the "Advanced" tab and check the "Run as a different user" checkbox > 4. T

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:17:44PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system. > > I get the error C compiler cannot create executables > > Googling on that, gets several different answers. > > apt-get install build-essentials (didn't didn

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:07:25PM -0700, T Elcor wrote: > Hi, > > Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce: > 1. Open the KDE Menu Editor > 2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to Konqueror-2) > 3. Goto the "Advanced" tab and check the "Run as a dif

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/07/11 07:20, Brian wrote: > On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 23:49:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> conv=notrunc means "do not truncate the output file" according to the >> manpage, but I have no ideea what it's good for, but doesn't sound like >> it would affect your image :p > > That's a probl

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:21:22AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > *do you have a /var/run/wpa_supplicant??* > > No. I do not know what is causing you this PM problem. I had some hybernation problems about a year ago while in squeeze/testing. Some of them were kernel problems which I needed to

Re: Squeeze: How to hide certain partitions in Nautilus

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/07/11 03:29, Hoang Le wrote: >> There can be another possibility. How does you "/etc/fstab" file look >> like? If you manually add this two volumes at "/etc/fstab" they will >> be considered as static mount points and there you can choose "noauto" >> to avoid automatic mounting at boot (I hop

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > Still though, I hit a little snap at the end of compile I haven't > figured out yet: > > [...] snipped all but last of `./configure' > > creating src/epaths.h > cd /usr/local/src/bzr/emacs/trunk && autoheader > /bin/sh: autoheader: not found > make: *** [/usr/local/

Re: migrate from cobol to postgresl

2011-07-01 Thread Leandro DUTRA
2011/6/30 abdelkader belahcene : > Is there a software or procedure to migrate DB from COBOL to SQL ( or > postgresql) Get the Cobol copies (data definition), understand them, create PostgreSQL relations (tables). Read Cobol code, translate into SQL/PSM or your language of choice. It is really i

Re: Headless Install Debian Squeeze

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/06/11 23:14, Paul Lettington wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 30/06/11 17:09, Paul Lettington wrote: >>> On 30/06/11 04:04, Martin McCormick wrote: My previous response was hasty and ill considered :-( I said that when you re-mastered your CD for serial console install that you *ha

Re: migrate from cobol to postgresl

2011-07-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:47:39 -0400 (EDT), abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > Is there a software or procedure to migrate DB from COBOL to SQL ( or > postgresql) > thanks a lot > bela I don't understand your question. COBOL is a traditional third- generation general-purpose programming language. SQ

Stranded between lenny and squeeze

2011-07-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm in the middle of the upgrade from lenny to squeeze. I have a partially working system. I've been following the instruction ins the release notes, http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ ch-upgrading.en.html and I've gotten as far as upgrading the kernel and udev. hendr

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Tom Furie writes: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 06:55:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I got past that now... apparently finally got whatever it was >> installed. But now ./configure complains about X libraries: >> >>error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries >>were

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 15:19:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > VGA-1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) > 0mm x 0mm >1024x768 60.0* >800x60060.3 56.2 >848x48060.0 >640x48059.9 > My LCD monitor's native resolution is 128

Re: console screen

2011-07-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Jul 2011 at 00:07:55 +0200, lee wrote: > Hm. Nouveau did it automatically. When I switched to the nvidia > packages, I got the normal 80x25 display. 'video-VGA-1:1280x1024' is a kernel command line parameter. A long time has passed since I used it so I've forgotton the ins and outs. I

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread lee
Paul Scott writes: > On 07/01/2011 02:25 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> Paul Scott wrote: >> xrandr >> >> output? Is your monitor correctly listed? What happens when you try > > (after stopping gdm3) I get "can't open display" You need to run xrandr in an X session. Have you tried to run nvidia

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 14:38:00 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On 07/01/2011 02:25 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> >> xrandr >> >> output? Is your monitor correctly listed? What happens when you try > > (after stopping gdm3) I get "can't open display" xrandr has to be run from within X. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread T Elcor
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, William Hopkins wrote: > Try the same command from a terminal window, and see what > errors you get. luser@testbox:~$ kdesu konqueror bash: kdesu: command not found luser@testbox:~$ whereis kdesu kdesu: /usr/share/man/man1/kdesu.1.gz luser@testbox:~$ which kdesu luser@testbox

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/01/2011 03:08 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Paul Scott wrote: (after stopping gdm3) I get "can't open display" Well, don’t stop gdm then and run these commands in a terminal (such as gnome-terminal or konsole or whatever desktop environment you are using). Also don’t use any sort of sudo or

Re: console screen

2011-07-01 Thread lee
Brian writes: > On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 17:01:42 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Tom H writes: >> >> , >> | GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1200 >> | GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1920x1200 >> ` >> >> ... makes only the grub menu show up in 1920x1200, the console comes up >> in 80x25. > >GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768 > >

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Jul 2011 at 00:01:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > If caching is all you need then > > apt-get install dnsmasq I quite like unbound's DNSSEC aspect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag, 1. Juli 2011 schrieb William Hopkins: > On 07/01/11 at 02:17pm, T Elcor wrote: > > When I do Alt+F2, then type "kdesu konqueror" (without quotes) and then > > try to press nothing happens, pressing doesn't seem to > > have any effect. Have you tried it yourself? > > Try the same comm

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/01/11 at 02:17pm, T Elcor wrote: > When I do Alt+F2, then type "kdesu konqueror" (without quotes) and then try > to press nothing happens, pressing doesn't seem to have any > effect. Have you tried it yourself? Try the same command from a terminal window, and see what errors you get. --

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/01/2011 02:25 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I'm running sid. My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago. I have an nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3). I'm researching many things from this list etc. to attempt to so

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-07-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 23:49:56 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > conv=notrunc means "do not truncate the output file" according to the > manpage, but I have no ideea what it's good for, but doesn't sound like > it would affect your image :p That's a problem which can happen with man pages. You thi

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread Lisi
On Friday 01 July 2011 22:17:57 T Elcor wrote: > > Have you tried; > > alt+F2 to get krunner (I think that it is called), > then enter: > > kdesu > > When I do Alt+F2, then type "kdesu konqueror" (without quotes) and then try > to press nothing happens, pressing doesn't seem to have any > effec

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-01 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/02/11 at 12:01am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 29 iun 11, 20:08:16, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > > > > For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) > > > > For an even better time (and to escape the monoculture) > > > >apt-get install

Re: minor issue : gnome, epiphany and iceweasel

2011-07-01 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:54:44 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > El 01/07/11 09:40, Matej Kosik escribió: > >> When listing text-files in gnome-terminal, if those files contains >> URLs, gnome-terminal enables me to follow those links by starting a >> web-browser. This is handy. >> However, I have noticed s

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread T Elcor
--- On Fri, 7/1/11, eqisow wrote: > > Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To > reproduce: > > > 1. Open the KDE Menu Editor > > > 2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste > Konqueror to Konqueror-2) > > > 3. Goto the "Advanced" tab and check the > "Run as a different user"

Re: console screen

2011-07-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 17:01:42 +0200, lee wrote: > Tom H writes: > > , > | GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1200 > | GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1920x1200 > ` > > ... makes only the grub menu show up in 1920x1200, the console comes up > in 80x25. GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768 for my GRUB menu. GRUB_CMDLINE

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Scott
On 07/01/2011 01:50 PM, Brian wrote: On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: TIA for any comments on this part of my display problem. People may welcome information on the video driver you are using. I mentioned the card from lspci. I am trying as many of the various nVidia

Re: monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Jul 2011 at 13:22:02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > TIA for any comments on this part of my display problem. People may welcome information on the video driver you are using. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: netstat performance

2011-07-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 iun 11, 20:08:16, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 12:22:26 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > > For a good time, 'apt-get install bind' :-) > > For an even better time (and to escape the monoculture) > >apt-get install unbound If caching is all you need then apt-get install

Re: minor issue : gnome, epiphany and iceweasel

2011-07-01 Thread Camaleón
El 01/07/11 09:40, Matej Kosik escribió: When listing text-files in gnome-terminal, if those files contains URLs, gnome-terminal enables me to follow those links by starting a web-browser. This is handy. However, I have noticed some confusing behavior. When I follow HTTP links, e.g.: http://ww

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-07-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 iun 11, 06:13:21, Martin McCormick wrote: > William Hopkins writes: > > $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048 conv=notrunc > > > > then burn the ISO using your tool of choice (wodim, etc.) > > This worked perfectly. Thank you. > > Interestingly, I tried the dd command

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread eqisow
On Jul 1, 2011 3:07 PM, "T Elcor" wrote: > > Hi, > > Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce: > 1. Open the KDE Menu Editor > 2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to Konqueror-2) > 3. Goto the "Advanced" tab and check the "Run as a different user" checkb

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread Lisi
On Friday 01 July 2011 20:07:25 T Elcor wrote: > Hi, > > Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce: > 1. Open the KDE Menu Editor > 2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to > Konqueror-2) 3. Goto the "Advanced" tab and check the "Run as a different > user" c

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread teddieeb
I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. I will also add, I am not sure which partition you had grub booting from. Ubuntu or Debian... But the version of grub that was installed is important. Debian Testing or "Wheezy" is using G

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread lee
Harry Putnam writes: > lee writes: >>> I got past that now... apparently finally got whatever it was >>> installed. But now ./configure complains about X libraries: >>> >>>error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries >>>were found. You should install the relevant dev

monitor detection maybe not working

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, I'm running sid. My monitor stopped going to the correct resolution some upgrades ago. I have an nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3). I'm researching many things from this list etc. to attempt to solve the problem but one concern is that I don't think my monitor

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread teddieeb
Bret Busby Ask: Hello. I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Since that shutown, each time that I reboot the computer, it takes me to the GRUB promp

Winbond W83L604G on Squeeze - I2C / SMBus

2011-07-01 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- I've got a board with a Winbond W83L604G GPIO controller and I'd like to use it with Debian 6.x (also 5.x if possible) for controlling attached LEDs. However, using i2cdetect, I'm not seeing any I2C busses on the system, nor any I2C devices. Does this controller require a specific ke

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 06:55:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I got past that now... apparently finally got whatever it was > installed. But now ./configure complains about X libraries: > >error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries >were found. You should install

Re: console screen

2011-07-01 Thread lee
Tom H writes: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:01 AM, lee wrote: >> Tom H writes: >>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: After upgrading to squeeze and Grub2 my old line: # defoptions=vga=791 in the menu.lst file is no longer relevant and I am supposed to do

Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread T Elcor
Hi, Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce: 1. Open the KDE Menu Editor 2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to Konqueror-2) 3. Goto the "Advanced" tab and check the "Run as a different user" checkbox 4. Type "root" in the username box 5. Save changes 6

GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Since that shutown, each time that I reboot the computer, it takes me to the GRUB prompt (rather tha

Re: Squeeze: How to hide certain partitions in Nautilus

2011-07-01 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:59:06 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:29:58 +0700, Hoang Le wrote: > >>> There can be another possibility. How does you "/etc/fstab" file look >>> like? If you manually add this two volumes at "/etc/fstab" they will >>> be considered as static mount points a

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-01 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:03 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 07/01/11 at 09:44am, alberto fuentes wrote: > > This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell > apart > > easily whats has been touched. > > > > Is there already something that makes this? > > comparing dpkg --get-s

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-01 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Peter Wiersig < fri...@london087.server4you.de> wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:44:41 +0200, alberto fuentes > wrote: > > > > The easier way it comes to mind is to dpkg --get-selections, debootstrap, > > chroot and install the selection and then make the diff. > > d

Re: console screen

2011-07-01 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:01 AM, lee wrote: > Tom H writes: >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> >>> After upgrading to squeeze and Grub2 my old line: >>> # defoptions=vga=791 >>> in the menu.lst file is no longer relevant and I am supposed to do something >> >> [...] >>

Re: CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec

2011-07-01 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:01:23 -0300, Pablo Sánchez wrote: (...) > I'm having " CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec" on > /var/log/messages > > I'm intrigued on that. > > How safe i am on this ? There was a bug report for that same message: [linux-image-2.6-amd64] system briefly lo

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-01 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/01/11 at 09:44am, alberto fuentes wrote: > This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell apart > easily whats has been touched. > > Is there already something that makes this? comparing dpkg --get-selections before and after is an easy way to see what new packages hav

Re: Squeeze: How to hide certain partitions in Nautilus

2011-07-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:29:58 +0700, Hoang Le wrote: >> There can be another possibility. How does you "/etc/fstab" file look >> like? If you manually add this two volumes at "/etc/fstab" they will be >> considered as static mount points and there you can choose "noauto" to >> avoid automatic mount

Re: Strange occurrence in /var/log/messages

2011-07-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Spiros Bousbouras wrote: >Jul 1 07:35:01 home kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg started. >Jul 1 07:35:01 home rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" >swVersion="3.18.6" x-pid="2103" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] >restart >Jul 1 07:35:01 home kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /

Re: Squeeze: How to hide certain partitions in Nautilus

2011-07-01 Thread Hoang Le
> There can be another possibility. How does you "/etc/fstab" file look > like? If you manually add this two volumes at "/etc/fstab" they will > be considered as static mount points and there you can choose "noauto" > to avoid automatic mounting at boot (I hope GNOME honors this setting). > > Greet

Re: Strange occurrence in /var/log/messages

2011-07-01 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:38:08 +0100, Spiros Bousbouras wrote: > [Please preserve the CC] Sorry but I can't. > At the bottom of /var/log/messages I see > > Jul 1 07:35:01 home kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg started. > Jul 1 07:35:01 home rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" sw

Re: Squeeze: How to hide certain partitions in Nautilus

2011-07-01 Thread Hoang Le
> > My mistake - I should have said - reboot instead of log out. > > Before trying special udev rules... re-enable (uncomment) those fstab > lines that refer to the sda1 and sda2. > No need to run "mount -a" afterwards. > Regrettably I can't remember which services need to be restarted - so > make

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Axel Freyn writes: >> >> Do you know which packages might be needed? >> > >> > Not yet; give me some more time and I'll try to compile emacs24 and let >> > you know what I find out ... >> >> OK, thanks for the effort. > > The easiest solution might be to run > > aptitude build-dep emacs23 > > th

Strange occurrence in /var/log/messages

2011-07-01 Thread Spiros Bousbouras
[Please preserve the CC] Apologies for the duplication , I forgot to include a subject in the previous message. At the bottom of /var/log/messages I see Jul 1 07:35:01 home kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Jul 1 07:35:01 home rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersi

[no subject]

2011-07-01 Thread Spiros Bousbouras
[Please preserve the CC] At the bottom of /var/log/messages I see Jul 1 07:35:01 home kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Jul 1 07:35:01 home rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="3.18.6" x-pid="2103" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] restart Jul 1 07:35:01 home

Re: utility for drive disturbing

2011-07-01 Thread green
Sthu Deus wrote at 2011-06-30 19:03 -0600: > writing a byte every > N seconds in order to stop it move its head to a landing zone I wounder if this would work: $ stress -d 1 --hdd-bytes 1 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Squeeze: How to hide certain partitions in Nautilus

2011-07-01 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:38:39 +0700, Hoang Le wrote: (please, avoid using html when posting ;-) ) >> Nautilus displays partitions that are mounted, either manually or by an >> automatic system (e.g., GNOME's volume manager, udisks, etc..). >> >> > I think Nautilus sidebar displays unmounted partit

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-07-01 Thread John W Foster
I want to thank all of you who replied to my question. As usual I got many different viewpoints and as such have decided to install LibreOffice & give it a go. As for those concerned about my implied failure to do my own discovery...well that is exactly why I've been a participating member of the D

Re: where is D5 ?

2011-07-01 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:45:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Where I can download from official Debian site old stable (D5)? I see D6 > available, or up to D4 in archive, but no D5. >From here? http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/5.0.8/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi Harry, > >> I got past that now... apparently finally got whatever it was > >> installed. But now ./configure complains about X libraries: > >> > >>error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries > >>were found. You should install the relevant development files for > >>

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread Harry Putnam
lee writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> lee writes: >> >>> Harry Putnam writes: >>> I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system. >>> >>> Where did you get version 24? >> >>>From the bzr server on savannah.org where emacs devel is done. > > savannah.gnu.org? Gack ..

Re: join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-01 Thread lee
Joao Ferreira Gmail writes: > Hello, > > can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? > > /dev/sda6 28G 15G 12G 56% /media/armazem > /dev/sda7 19G 8.2G 9.3G 47% /media/despensa > > they both contain data. Make a backup of all partitions on the device and repartition. You better make

Re: pre-seed was Re: Headless Install Debian Squeeze

2011-07-01 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
On 07/01/11 15:47, Martin McCormick wrote: [...] I think it can be introduced on a USB stick or possibly even a floppy although the USB stick method would work on just about any P.C. made in the last 15 years. I understand that the installer looks for drives plugged in to the USB ports and that

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread lee
Harry Putnam writes: > lee writes: > >> Harry Putnam writes: >> >>> I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system. >> >> Where did you get version 24? > >>From the bzr server on savannah.org where emacs devel is done. savannah.gnu.org? >>> I get the error C compiler cann

CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec

2011-07-01 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Hi list, i have : Linux debian1u 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 23:13:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux part of lshw gives : product: X8SIL vendor: Supermicro product: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3440 @ 2.53GHz product: 82574L Gigabit Network Connection It has 8 GB RAM, and it's a file

Re: console screen

2011-07-01 Thread lee
Tom H writes: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >> >> After upgrading to squeeze and Grub2 my old line: >> # defoptions=vga=791 >> in the menu.lst file is no longer relevant and I am supposed to do something > > [...] > > For 1280x1024: > GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024 > and > GRUB

Re: join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-01 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 00:02 +1000, CaT wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > > Hello, > > > > can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? > > > > /dev/sda6 28G 15G 12G 56% /media/armazem > > /dev/sda7 19G 8.2G 9.3G 47% /media/despensa > > >

pre-seed was Re: Headless Install Debian Squeeze

2011-07-01 Thread Martin McCormick
I just did a Google search on Debian Squeeze and pre-seed files and found a document describing what all can be placed in to such a file. What I did not see yet is a mechanical description of how to introduce the file to the installation process. I think it can be introduced on a USB stick

Re: join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-01 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello, > > can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? > > /dev/sda6 28G 15G 12G 56% /media/armazem > /dev/sda7 19G 8.2G 9.3G 47% /media/despensa > > they both contain data. It's fun danger time. :) They're sma

join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

2011-07-01 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello, can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? /dev/sda6 28G 15G 12G 56% /media/armazem /dev/sda7 19G 8.2G 9.3G 47% /media/despensa they both contain data. thx Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-01 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:44:41 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > > The easier way it comes to mind is to dpkg --get-selections, debootstrap, > chroot and install the selection and then make the diff. dpkg-repack and the debdiff command from the package devscripts? Perter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: weird - rsync get removed from system. presumably after last update?

2011-07-01 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Juan R. de Silva wrote: . . . Look here http://pastebin.com/a9x3wu4L . . . it seems that all lines from 14:31:44 to 14:31:55 correspond to a single apt-get command, so I think that the removal of rsync is connected to one of the strange dependencies invented by

Re: Copying a bootable CD

2011-07-01 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Martin McCormick > wrote: >> >> William Hopkins writes: >> > $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048 conv=notrunc >> > >> > then burn the ISO using your tool of choice (wodim, etc.) >> >>        This wo

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system. > > I get the error  C compiler cannot create executables > > Googling on that, gets several different answers. > > apt-get install build-essentials  (didn't didn't help) > >

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread Harry Putnam
lee writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system. > > Where did you get version 24? >From the bzr server on savannah.org where emacs devel is done. >> I get the error C compiler cannot create executables >> [...] >> Can anyone tell me

Re: Headless Install Debian Squeeze

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/06/11 23:14, Paul Lettington wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 30/06/11 17:09, Paul Lettington wrote: >>> On 30/06/11 04:04, Martin McCormick wrote: Can I boot the CDROM in serial console mode as before? >>> I had to do this recently to install on a serial-only virtual >>> ma

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Re: Headless Install Debian Squeeze

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/06/11 23:22, kuLa wrote: > On 30/06/11 14:00, Martin McCormick wrote: > > sic > >>> If using ssh it's probably best to use a pre-seed file. > >> Does the CD start a network session? I can certainly ssh >> in to it from another system if it does. That is even better >> than a serial co

Re: Squeeze: How to hide certain partitions in Nautilus

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/06/11 22:43, Hoang Le wrote: > Firstly did you run:- > # mount -a > after creating the new fstab?? > > Secondly did you log out and log back in?? > > > Yes, I did both My mistake - I should have said - reboot instead of log out. Before trying special udev rules... re-ena

Re: Headless Install Debian Squeeze

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/07/11 01:42, Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a DHCP server running on a Linux P.C. so I will be able to > tail the log and see what IP address the target gets when it tries > DHCP. > If there is an ssh server built in to the installation process that > can be activated blindly, so to s

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/07/11 14:21, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 02:21:30PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> Hmm - could be that hibernate is not working because of a broken bios. >> If it's an ACPI issue (hibernation failure) it should be possible to >> work around it by either using the hibernate

minor issue : gnome, epiphany and iceweasel

2011-07-01 Thread Matej Kosik
Hello, When listing text-files in gnome-terminal, if those files contains URLs, gnome-terminal enables me to follow those links by starting a web-browser. This is handy. However, I have noticed some confusing behavior. When I follow HTTP links, e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg0tVUnLOAM ic

Re: Recent OpenGL Problems

2011-07-01 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2011-06-30 12:58, David Baron skrev: Apps that worked perfectly last week no longer work at all: Flightgear and Ysflight. Flightgear complains about not be able to produce image and segfaults out. Ysflight complains about double buffering. I am using Debian's NVidia driver (270) from Sid so the

Re: sed or awk: decode base64 string in passwd-like file

2011-07-01 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Freitag, den 01.07.2011, 00:24 +0200 schrieb Javier Barroso: > perl -F: -a -ne ' $F1=`echo $F[1] | openssl base64 -d`; print join > (":",$F[0],$F1,@F[2 .. $#F])' file thanks, I try it :-) cu Denny signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: sed or awk: decode base64 string in passwd-like file

2011-07-01 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Freitag, den 01.07.2011, 00:03 +0200 schrieb Arno Schuring: > > echo e0NSWVBUfVUx= | openssl base64 -d > I certainly hope you're not expecting to recover the plaintext nope :-) They are still crypted, but readable for other Daemons, like Dovecot: If you do some like: echo e0NSWVBUfVUx=

diff original .conf files in packages with the ones installed

2011-07-01 Thread alberto fuentes
This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell apart easily whats has been touched. Is there already something that makes this? The easier way it comes to mind is to dpkg --get-selections, debootstrap, chroot and install the selection and then make the diff. although it loo

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/06/11 05:48, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/26/11 at 03:36pm, Carl Fink wrote: >> I added your wpa_supplicant.conf. Still can't hibernate. I don't have WiFi >> here to try to connect to. (I'm at work, where I have to connect this >> netbook using T-Mobile via bluetooth tethering.) > > I don'

Re: console screen

2011-07-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Graham wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:01:43 +0100 > kuLa wrote: >> On 30/06/11 10:26, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> >>> After upgrading to squeeze and Grub2 my old line: >>> # defoptions=vga=791 >>> in the menu.lst file is no longer relevant and I am supposed to do >>