Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 18:55 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is quite thorough: > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ There also is a beginners guide. On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:29 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ > http://tldp.org/

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 22:27 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I presume I have a pulseaudio problem I never heard about issues with PA. It's the best sound server ever. All DEs should make it a dependency and people should stop whining about PA and stop spreading FUD. There's nothing as fantastic as P

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and using aplay to send a .wav file works. If

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 15:01 -0400, KS wrote: > Win7 Than forget my advice to copy the files instead. OTOH it's a good reason to reconsider running an illegal Windows XP with service pack 2 (3 isn't worth the hassle, but also possible to get, after installing a wga remover and manually sorting SP3

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
No network problems over here either. No firewall since I have nothing listening on my system and have no problem going out to web or ssh. On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..network problems. Fix those, and try again. >

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Neal, Neal Murphy wrote: > Aptitude also reports "W: GPG error on security.debian.org squeeze/updates > Release: the following signatures were invalid: NODATA 2" > So I give up. Next time I'm down there, I'm going to reinstall. Or maybe just > install wheezy to keep both sites the same (

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Apologize http://www.scroogle.org/sucks.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1339740319.2650.27.camel@precise

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 16:15 +, Camaleón wrote: > If Google says you are in Malaysia is that _you are_ there. http://www.affiliateprograms.com/blog/what-to-know-about-duckduckgo/ (Didn't read the duckduckgo article completely myself.) http://scroogle.org/ https://www.ixquick.com/ In the past o

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread lina
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Edit > Preferences > Content > Languages didn't change accidental? > When I remove German de, I sometimes directly get google.com. Tested > now, but it has got no impact at the moment. I only had "English" setting there. Even the first link

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 09:59 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm by no means an expert on dd_rescue but it looks like your drive > has died. You can try again after rebooting (use a different > rescue .iso image) but I suspect you'll get the same result. Rebooting can be very helpful, even if a HDD alrea

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I would copy the files (tar) instead of running some dd command. If it fails to copy a file, you could try again, just for this file. Broken drives tend to fail ;) and sometimes they need to rest some days before going on or a clap to release the heads. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Edit > Preferences > Content > Languages didn't change accidental? When I remove German de, I sometimes directly get google.com. Tested now, but it has got no impact at the moment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..network problems. Fix those, and try again. Checked. The host I'm working on shows no networking errors. The firewall shows no errors. The resets do seem to come from the remote (seen using tcpdump on the internet link). There've bee

Clobbered digest volumes

2012-06-14 Thread Gary Roach
I am pasting in a sample of what I am receiving from you. This problem has been around for about a month. I have no idea what is going on. I use Icedove on a Debian Squeeze system and a verizon.net provider. Any help will be appreciated. Gary R. Message as received: ForwardedMessage.eml de

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread KS
On 14/06/12 08:28 PM, KS wrote: > On 14/06/12 07:34 PM, KS wrote: >> On 14/06/12 03:25 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> I will second keith's suggestion to use gddrescue which has somewhat >>> improved behavior and might work better. I pretty much have switched >>> to using it whenever I need to do t

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:37:18 -0500, Christofer wrote in message : > > It's much simpler to do: > > > >  mogrify -resize '800x600<' testimage.jpg > > > > or to limit it to 800 in any dimension > > > >  mogrify -resize '800x800<' testimage.jpg > > > > (These commands preserve aspect ratio and only

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:32:56 +1000, Scott wrote in message <4fd9a1b8.9050...@gmail.com>: > On 14/06/12 04:04, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:27:22 +1000, Scott wrote in message > > <4fd7de6a.6020...@gmail.com>: > > > >> On 13/06/12 04:45, Brian wrote: > >>> On Tue 12 Jun 2012 at

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread Bob Proulx
KS wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I will second keith's suggestion to use gddrescue which has somewhat > > improved behavior and might work better. I pretty much have switched > > to using it whenever I need to do this. > > Running it now. Waiting to see if it works any better. I should have emp

Tell grub-efi-ia32 to use text/non-fb graphics only?

2012-06-14 Thread Brian Flaherty
Hello, I'm still fighting with grub-efi-ia32 on a Mac Pro. I am able to boot Debian from a supergrub CD (iso), so the install works. But when I boot from grub on the harddisk, I have video problems and the screen freezes. Can I tell grub-efi-ia32 to just use text or really simple graphics? I'v

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread KS
On 14/06/12 07:34 PM, KS wrote: > On 14/06/12 03:25 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> I will second keith's suggestion to use gddrescue which has somewhat >> improved behavior and might work better. I pretty much have switched >> to using it whenever I need to do this. >> > > Running it now. Waiting to

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread KS
On 14/06/12 03:25 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I will second keith's suggestion to use gddrescue which has somewhat > improved behavior and might work better. I pretty much have switched > to using it whenever I need to do this. > Running it now. Waiting to see if it works any better. > > Take i

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 07:22:25PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Ponyland? > > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 18:02 +0100, keith wrote: > > Midnight Commander (MC) is your friend for file management & editing. > > Are you serious? Why not? MC is awesome. > > > .mp3 > > For musicians MP3 crap? Indeed.

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 05:21:27PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't know this, but it seems to be ok, so I bookmarked it sometime > ago, when it was announced on this list http://debian-handbook.info/ . > > And I don't have the time to search for it now, but there are two > brilliant ebooks fo

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-14 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:06:37PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > Well, one out there is the Debian Administrator's Handbook publicly > available: > > http://debian-handbook.info/ > > That covers things at an intro level. I had the privilege and pleasure of working on the translation of this

Was a bacterial infection from the old house and silvia

2012-06-14 Thread Sam
She was probably secretly using my toothbrush on the toilet, causing an aversion and an infection, drugs were blamed, am treating it now with heat, pressure, and yeast. Feeling much better, but still recovering, was not permitted to see or consult with a doctor without dealing with those people aga

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:47:52AM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:45:13PM +0200, Randall wrote: > >> > >> is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA > >> scanned for pictures and have these

Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and using aplay to send a .wav file works. If I run as me - a user, alsamixer shows a "

[SOLVED] Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 13, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I will file a bug report ASAP against openssh-server. It turns out this is bug #422327, which dates all the way back to 2007, and nothing has been done about it. The bug report even suggested a patch (well, not exactly a patch with actual

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alberto Fuentes wrote: > Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote: > >After executing the command I got the following output:- > ># generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! > > I dont know if you suffer from other problems/bugs as others said, > but your main problem is that you dont have a DNS server set in yo

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread Bob Proulx
KS wrote: > keith wrote: > > I'm trying to recover data off a dying hard disk (2.5" Hitachi 320GB > > HDD). I was able to get the first two partitions without errors. The > > third (system partition) started off OK but after doing about 44GB, I > > get the following in logs: > > Maybe try gddrescue

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread KS
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012, at 09:59 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm by no means an expert on dd_rescue but it looks like your drive has > died. You can try again after rebooting (use a different rescue .iso > image) but I suspect you'll get the same result. > > Thanks. I have already done it twice wit

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-14 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/14/2012 01:34 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:07:17 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > >> On 06/14/2012 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> I ask this to have an idea on where to put the focus in either a) long >>> delay -timeout- but NIC settings are finally okay or b) lo

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-14, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>> >> >> Thank you. I don't think the OP fits into any of the use cases for >> this software. > > Correct. Nevertheless, I wanted to shake a bit the cluster idea of your post. > You shook it. That's why I said thank you (for the shake). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

[solved] Re: cryptsetup failing on boot with 3.4.x kernels

2012-06-14 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:32:28 -0400 Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:17:35 -0400 > > Tom H wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > >> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:19:13PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Han

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! On 14/06/12 19:07, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-14, Jerome BENOIT wrote: SLURM can also be run on a multi-core box: it makes sense to use SLURM on a Mac Pro (24 cores). It can also be installed on a box for developing and testing jobs. Thank you. I don't think the OP fits into any of the u

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-14 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:07:17 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 06/14/2012 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I ask this to have an idea on where to put the focus in either a) long >> delay -timeout- but NIC settings are finally okay or b) long delay - >> timeout- with NIC settings unconfigured

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-14 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/14/2012 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: ... > Not a corner case at all, it was just me who was a bit dense O:-) > > Your setup is crystal-clear now and I guess is used by many road-warrior- > alike users. > I suppose so, but most places do use DHCP. I just have some clients who are stuck with w

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-14, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > SLURM can also be run on a multi-core box: > it makes sense to use SLURM on a Mac Pro (24 cores). > It can also be installed on a box for developing and testing jobs. > Thank you. I don't think the OP fits into any of the use cases for this software. --

Re: problema amb client de sopcast

2012-06-14 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:29:02 +0200, Ernest Adrogué wrote: > Hola, Bona tarda! > Des de l'últim 'apt-get upgrade' sembla que no hi ha manera que funcioni > el client de sopcast 'sp-sc' del paquet sp-auth (non-free). (...) Em sembla que això ha de anar a la llista en català :-P Saluts! -- Ca

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: On 14/06/12 18:28, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-11, lina wrote: Hi, I am a bit confused. Today during upgrade, it showed me Not starting slurm-llnl slurm.conf was not found in /etc/slurm-llnl Please follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/slurm-llnl/README.Debian.gz Shall I configure th

problema amb client de sopcast

2012-06-14 Thread Ernest Adrogué
Hola, Des de l'últim 'apt-get upgrade' sembla que no hi ha manera que funcioni el client de sopcast 'sp-sc' del paquet sp-auth (non-free). En principi no dóna cap error, simplement als pocs segons d'arrencar es para amb aquests missatges: ... Start cache thread. hook_broker_connect:msgType=2 rea

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread keith
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 09:59 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm by no means an expert on dd_rescue but it looks like your drive has > died. You can try again after rebooting (use a different rescue .iso > image) but I suspect you'll get the same result. > > > On 14/06/12 07:42 AM, KS wrote: > > Hi al

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-11, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I am a bit confused. Today during upgrade, > > it showed me > > Not starting slurm-llnl > slurm.conf was not found in /etc/slurm-llnl > Please follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/slurm-llnl/README.Debian.gz > > Shall I configure the slurm on my personal l

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:30:52 +0800, lina wrote: > I feel something weird, since yesterday when I opened www.google.com it > showed me "Bahasa Malaysia", but I have never used the > www.google.com.my. (...) If Google says you are in Malaysia is that _you are_ there. Period. Or you think you know

Re: failures on boot.

2012-06-14 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-06-14 a las 09:01 +0200, Mauro escribió: (resending to the list) > On 13 June 2012 18:01, Camaleón wrote: (...) > >> Yes, the message is on every boot. > > > > Okay. > > > > Looking at the scripting routine (and more specifically line 22, which is > > the one that triggers the message)

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 Jun 2012 at 13:28:31 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 14/06/12 01:45, Curt wrote: > > > and once an "expert" you may choose Squeeze as the target distribution. > > after choosing the mirrors module during the load installer components > from cd option (expert mode). Won't work with a

Re: Problem with Dovecot

2012-06-14 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:22:58 +0100, Keir Snow wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> Look at the dates, those are old entries. >> >> The test message you sent yesterday was on "Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:31:19" >> so you have to look for Exim4 logs matching that date/time. > > Ok

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-14 Thread Chris Davies
Scott Ferguson wrote: > I don't know DeltaCopy It's an implementation of rsync for Windows Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/759pa9xpjj@news.

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-14 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:21:32 +1000, Paul Nulandorn wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 13:49 +, Camaleón wrote: >> > Each time I boot into my old user the output of xset -q reverts to : >> > >> > DPMS (Energy Star): >> > Standby: 600Suspend: 600Off: 600 >> > >> > I need to go back int

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Couldn't hurt. And while you're at it, mount with "inode64" in your > fstab immediately after you create the XFS. You were running with > inode32, which sticks all the inodes at the front of AG0 causing lots > of seeks. Inode64 puts fil

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:24:23 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jun 13, 2012, at 7:23 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Also, while searching for more information on this issue at Google I've >> found many posts¹, articles and blogs² pointing to a problem with X >> forwarding and ipv6 though I'm not sure this

Re: Problem with Dovecot

2012-06-14 Thread Keir Snow
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Look at the dates, those are old entries. > > The test message you sent yesterday was on "Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:31:19" so > you have to look for Exim4 logs matching that date/time. Ok this seems to be the correct entries: 2012-06-12 21:15:02 1Se92

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:44:44 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 06/13/2012 12:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Okay, I think I see now the problem (thanks for clarifying!): >> networking service timeouts -or takes too much time- because no DHCP >> server is in place and then "it does something"

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
I'm by no means an expert on dd_rescue but it looks like your drive has died. You can try again after rebooting (use a different rescue .iso image) but I suspect you'll get the same result. On 14/06/12 07:42 AM, KS wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to recover data off a dying hard disk (2.5" Hitachi

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:29:25 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/13/2012 2:22 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > This chain is so long I'm going to liberally snip lots of stuff > already covered. Hope that's ok. Sure. Your mail still blew

dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread KS
Hi all, I'm trying to recover data off a dying hard disk (2.5" Hitachi 320GB HDD). I was able to get the first two partitions without errors. The third (system partition) started off OK but after doing about 44GB, I get the following in logs: Jun 14 07:32:27 gurh kernel: [31272.821050] sd 14:0:0:

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-14, lina wrote: > > I feel something weird, since yesterday when I opened www.google.com > it showed me "Bahasa Malaysia", but I have never used the www.google.com.my. > > Strange huh? I don't know how to fix it, I can compare with other > sites to understand the meaning. > http://supp

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread lina
I changed to another cable. and also tried wireless, all the same. P.S I am not in malaysia, Thanks with best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread lina
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > >> P.S I checked my IP, it's not in Malaysia. and ever reboot, clear >> cache, still not work. > > > What's your IP? > Geolocation is not always up to date... from ipaddress it showed correct position. It used to work well, but si

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
P.S I checked my IP, it's not in Malaysia. and ever reboot, clear cache, still not work. What's your IP? Geolocation is not always up to date... -- RMA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread lina
I don't know how to check further. $ ping www.google.com PING www.l.google.com (173.194.38.144) 56(84) bytes of data. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

[OT] google.com

2012-06-14 Thread lina
Hi, I feel something weird, since yesterday when I opened www.google.com it showed me "Bahasa Malaysia", but I have never used the www.google.com.my. Strange huh? I don't know how to fix it, I can compare with other sites to understand the meaning. Any suggestions are appreciated. P.S I checked

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 14 iun 12, 04:09:29, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I think ftp.us.debian.org has been designated a primary server and if > I understand the mirrors stuff on debian.org correctly primary mirrors > are only to be used to push files to other secondary mirrors. If > that's the case, terciary downlo

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Brian
On Thu 14 Jun 2012 at 13:17:59 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 13/06/12 19:29, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 10:57:42 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >> On 13/06/12 04:35, a troll wrote: > >>> > >>> By the time the choosing a mirror stage is reached with a netinst image > >>> or the

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-14 Thread Joy Sankar Sengupta
After executing the command ( cat /etc/resolv.conf ) I got the following output:- # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! Best Regards, Joysankar Sengupta On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > Please, answer to the list. You only emailed me :) > > I dont know if you suf

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 18:27, Chris Davies wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: >> One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up >> the files on the disk in that virtual machine. > > DeltaCopy on the Windows system and rsnapshot/rsync on the (Linux) > server. Works well for me. > > Chr

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-14 Thread Chris Davies
Alan Chandler wrote: > One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up > the files on the disk in that virtual machine. DeltaCopy on the Windows system and rsnapshot/rsync on the (Linux) server. Works well for me. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 17:20, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 16:49 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> My primary concern would be whether the audio chipset is going to be >> supported > > Those old boards perhaps often use AC'97? Post 1997 - yes (funny that) AC is just Intel's "standard" (v1 -

Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

2012-06-14 Thread Alberto Fuentes
Please, answer to the list. You only emailed me :) I dont know if you suffer from other problems/bugs as others said, but your main problem is that you dont have a DNS server set in your computer as seen in your empty /etc/resolv.conf and your previous error >Err http://http.us.debian.org etc

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/13/2012 1:04 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:35:57 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> Hmm, probably I have to create a raid5 with the four empty 2 TB >>> disks attached to the LSI. Then: >>> >>> ~$ mdadm -C /dev/md0 -n1 -l linear /dev/md1 >> >> WTF? > > I also had to add --f

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 04:04, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:27:22 +1000, Scott wrote in message > <4fd7de6a.6020...@gmail.com>: > >> On 13/06/12 04:45, Brian wrote: >>> On Tue 12 Jun 2012 at 16:52:43 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:01:22 +0100, Brian wrote in messag

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/13/2012 2:22 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:43 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: This chain is so long I'm going to liberally snip lots of stuff already covered. Hope that's ok. >> Note I stated "call". You're likely to get more/better >> information/assistance speaking to

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-14 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/13/2012 05:01 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, Yes I know about the Linux Documentation project, and that there are howtos that are a part of the system itself, and on line. these are not the sort of books I mean however. I am thinking of external ones, I have a scanner, books with pages

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 17:46, Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-14, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> > > I'm snide and curmudgeonly. It could be worse. Indeed. Best try and stay sane. If you don't you'd be snide, curmudgeonly, and nuts. Which would make you some sort of a snack bar. You can see the problem right there

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 17:24, Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-14, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> >> Claim? Hey - if I made a "claim" (actually just agreed with the OPs information) what sort of specious allegation do we label the d-i and speakup developers claims? HINT: I believe it involves inciting jaywalking and w

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've been encountering these errors persistently for about the last week too. I usually do echo $? to check the error level after any aptitude operation now. I think ftp.us.debian.org has been designated a primary server and if I understand the mirrors stuff on debian.org correctly primary mi

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-14 Thread Jon Dowland
A great question. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 07:32:22PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > A possibility that occurred to me is that I could make the disk used > by the virtual machine a raw image file on an LVM logical volume, > which I use the snapshot capability of to take a frozen snapshot of > the di

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-14, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> I may be assuming wrong, > > No. But don't let that stop you from being snide. > I'm snide and curmudgeonly. It could be worse. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Shutdown Filesystem Problems?

2012-06-14 Thread David Baron
As of late, on my Debian Sid box, every bootup shows "recovering journal" on all my ext3 filesystems. There ia often a bunch of orphaned inodes on the /usr! It is as if I hit the switch instead of an orderly halt shutdown. System otherwise is OK. Bug? Which package? Workaround (tried sync in m

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-13, Brian wrote: >> >> Technical evidence that inside the Wheezy installer, in expert mode, >> prior to partitioning, but after choosing a mirror of the Debian >> archive, the installer asks which release you wish to install, at which >> point you may choose Squeeze? > > I have presen

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-14, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Claim? Well, there's that other guy trying desperately to find "technical evidence" against your "empircal data," so I employed a word I hoped would demonstrate my scientific objectivity in the matter. > curmudgeonly - says nothing of me, speaks volumes o

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 16:49 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > My primary concern would be whether the audio chipset is going to be > supported Those old boards perhaps often use AC'97? It's supported by ALSA. BIOS settings might need a check up, dunno. Google found hits regarding to issues with pulse