On 16/11/12 01:21, Tom Roche wrote:
but I Could Be Wrong: is there anything else I can/should do *with APT*
to prevent /var overflow? As noted above, I know I should make my /var
partition larger, but for now, that is not feasible.
There Debian release notes have some hints for upgrade:
http
On 16. nov. 2012 03:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:51:32 -0500
Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:30:02 +0100
Chris Bannister wrote:
Please don't run Sid, if you don't understand the risk(
I like risk, why else would I run it, how could I understand it if I
didn'
Am Freitag, 16. November 2012 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom:
> Hi,
>
>
> I installed google-earth, but on starting it all I get is a black screen.
> Googling this you get 100's of hits, referring to things that I have
> installed.
> Relevant to this I have installed:
>
> nvidia-glx
> nvidia-glx-ia32
>
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Tom Roche wrote:
>
> LMDE is a directly-debian-derived, rolling-release, APT-packaged distro.
> Since I'm not getting help @ its forum, and my problem seems to involve
> APT directly, I'm hoping this is a good place to ask. If there's a
> better place to ask APT qu
Hi Tore, could you try to download any file from repository using "wget"
command? I'm recalling that once i had a problem - i could ping sites, but
couldn't download files, the problem was caused by wrong MTU settings on a
router, I'm not sure that this is your case, but just in case try to
downloa
You're quasi running Sid, this explains that you could run into trouble.
Some software does expect:
spinymouse@qrc:~$ df -hl | grep run
tmpfs 741M 944K 740M 1% /run
none5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /run/shm
none100M
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Tom Roche wrote:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg00679.html
> >> On every startup, on the initial {black screen, white text} I get
> >> errors beginning with
>
> >> > Mount point '/run' does not exist. Skipping mount.
>
> >> and ending (just bef
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg00679.html
>> On every startup, on the initial {black screen, white text} I get
>> errors beginning with
>> > Mount point '/run' does not exist. Skipping mount.
>> and ending (just before it goes to X) with many (10 > n > 100) lines
>> beginning wit
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:22:40 +1100
Igor Cicimov wrote:
> Since /run is meant to replace all temporary filesystems in RAM I
> would expect this to be other way around, ie /var/run to be symlinked
> to /run. So /run should be a tmpfs and /run/shm and /run/lock part of
> it. Also /dev/shm should ne s
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Tom Roche wrote:
>
> What must one do to make /run mount appropriately on startup if one has
> a separate /var partition? What I mean, why I ask:
>
> Awhile ago, I got a new box with win7 preinstalled. I repartitioned,
> adding separate partitions for swap, /, /bo
PS:
> > I suspect this is related to having a separate /var partition,
> > since, once the box is booted and I'm logged in, I see that
Yes, it is related. A known issue for the transition.
While I know this from Arch Linux I found a link in German regarding
to Debian:
The Germany words describe
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:47:12 -0500
Tom Roche wrote:
>
> What must one do to make /run mount appropriately on startup if one
> has a separate /var partition? What I mean, why I ask:
>
> Awhile ago, I got a new box with win7 preinstalled. I repartitioned,
> adding separate partitions for swap, /,
What must one do to make /run mount appropriately on startup if one has
a separate /var partition? What I mean, why I ask:
Awhile ago, I got a new box with win7 preinstalled. I repartitioned,
adding separate partitions for swap, /, /boot, /home, /tmp, /usr, /var
(in addition to the win7 partition
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:51:32 -0500
Charles Kroeger wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:30:02 +0100
> Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > Please don't run Sid, if you don't understand the risk(
>
> I like risk, why else would I run it, how could I understand it if I
> didn't?
Multiboot? Sid + Testing or
LMDE is a directly-debian-derived, rolling-release, APT-packaged distro.
Since I'm not getting help @ its forum, and my problem seems to involve
APT directly, I'm hoping this is a good place to ask. If there's a
better place to ask APT questions, please lemme know, and feel free to
forward.
My pr
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:30:02 +0100
Chris Bannister wrote:
> Please don't run Sid, if you don't understand the risk(
I like risk, why else would I run it, how could I understand it if I didn't?
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Hi,
I installed google-earth, but on starting it all I get is a black screen.
Googling this you get 100's of hits, referring to things that I have
installed.
Relevant to this I have installed:
nvidia-glx
nvidia-glx-ia32
libgl1-nvidia-glx
nvidia-kernel-3.2.0-4-amd64
nvidia-kernel-common
with
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2012-11-15 20:10 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:13:34 +0530
> > L V Gandhi wrote:
> >
> >> I am not finding libdb4.8dev and qt3-dev-tools in wheezy install beta
> >> 3. How to get them?
> >
> > They switched to ht
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:13:34 +0530
> L V Gandhi wrote:
>
> > I am not finding libdb4.8dev and qt3-dev-tools in wheezy install beta
> > 3. How to get them?
>
> They switched to http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/qt4-dev-tools
> and http://pack
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 16 Nov 2012 at 00:13:34 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote:
>
> > I am not finding libdb4.8dev and qt3-dev-tools in wheezy install beta 3.
> > How to get them?
>
> Did you mean libdb4.8-dev?
>
> Download and install the unstable versions? I've not trie
At Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:16:22 +0200,
Adrian Fita wrote:
> Actually I use 'conservative' over the 'ondemand' governor. It can be
> tweaked to react more quickly, close to the speed of 'ondemand', but it
> has the nice feature of providing a "cool-down" period during which if
> some task comes along a
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:30:01 +0100
> Steven Post wrote:
>
> > the non-free 3rd party packages have not been updated to work with the
> > multiarch
> > way of doing things.
>
> So...now we wait, is that about it?
Please don't ru
On 15/11/12 21:06, Francesco Mazzoli wrote:
> With `conservative' or `performance' the CPU scales up correctly (well, with
> performance it is always scaled up). With `ondemand' it doesn't.
>
> This has noticeable consequences: compiling is slow, flash videos are
> sluggish.
> So I do have a pro
At Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:40:07 -0200,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Francesco Mazzoli wrote:
> > At Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:17:18 -0200,
> > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > That said, Linux coordinates with the platform through ACPI. If the BIOS
> > > is
> > > tu
At Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:29:18 +0100,
Klistvud wrote:
> Just an idea. Have you tried explicitly running 'cpufreq-set -g ondemand' and
> then checking your currently active governor with 'cpufreq-info'?
Yes.
> AFAIK, the ondemand governor has been deprecated/abandoned/superseded/whatever
> for speci
Hi.
I'm dealing with millions and millions of small files in a directory
structure and finding something with 'find' takes ages.
So I was wandering if there is a locate-like tool which periodically
indexes the files, but instead of storing only the path names, it also
stores the files' metadata (
At Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:17:18 -0200,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> That said, Linux coordinates with the platform through ACPI. If the BIOS is
> tuned for maximum battery life, it will interfere with Linux cpufreq.
This is a good hint - there is something in the BIOS as I mentioned. So you
Dne, 15. 11. 2012 03:54:31 je Francesco Mazzoli napisal(a):
Does anybody have any idea on how to troubleshoot such a problem? I
suspect
that the problem is either in the kernel or in some other software
which is
regulating the scaling.
Just an idea. Have you tried explicitly running 'cpu
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Neal Murphy wrote:
> > At a guess, I would assume a configuration problem. Or no problem. Is
> > your machine sluggish or unresponsive? How do you know it stays at 800
> > MHz? What tool do you use to monitor it? Maybe your monitor is wrong. I
> > am not sure how to troubl
On 2012-11-15 20:10 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:13:34 +0530
> L V Gandhi wrote:
>
>> I am not finding libdb4.8dev and qt3-dev-tools in wheezy install beta
>> 3. How to get them?
>
> They switched to http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/qt4-dev-tools
> and http://packages.debi
Hi.
I am almost sorry to say yes.
Both swedish and american mirrors.
Same results as all the others.
-Tore
Fra: Roman V.Leon. [roman...@meta.ua]
Sendt: 15. november 2012 20:05
Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Emne: Re: Problems apt-get update on several
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:13:34 +0530
L V Gandhi wrote:
> I am not finding libdb4.8dev and qt3-dev-tools in wheezy install beta
> 3. How to get them?
They switched to http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/qt4-dev-tools
and http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libdb-dev.
Hth,
Ralf
Perhaps I'm mistaken, f
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:13:34 +0530
L V Gandhi wrote:
> I am not finding libdb4.8dev and qt3-dev-tools in wheezy install beta
> 3. How to get them?
They switched to http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/qt4-dev-tools
and http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libdb-dev.
Hth,
Ralf
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At Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:36:48 -0600,
Mark Allums wrote:
> Sorry, I should have said, Have you tried *another* monitor tool besides
> 'stress'?
`stress' is not a monitor tool, it just spawns processes doing `sqrt' in a loop
or something like that. I also tried with `openssl speed' and a s
Have you tried other mirror?
On 15.11.2012 20:42, Tore Lindberg Åbodsvik wrote:
Hi.
I have several server which today cannot update.
I have done thes things so far:
1
/etc/apt/source.list:
deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
Hello my friend, it is very strange that your /etc/network/interfaces is
empty, you should use the file to configure your interfaces and as far
as I know - this file is not regenerated by any service. Please see man
5 interfaces and you will find the information how to setup your
interfaces pro
On Fri 16 Nov 2012 at 00:13:34 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote:
> I am not finding libdb4.8dev and qt3-dev-tools in wheezy install beta 3.
> How to get them?
Did you mean libdb4.8-dev?
Download and install the unstable versions? I've not tried it. Doing it
with libdb4.8-dev doesn't look promising.
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On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:34:11 PM Mark Allums wrote:
> > Francesco wrote:
> I have installed Debian testing on a X1 Carbon, processor i5-3427U.
>
> My problem is the following: when the `ondemand' governor is active, the
> processor clock never scales up, it always stays at 800Mhz.
I am not finding libdb4.8dev and qt3-dev-tools in wheezy install beta 3.
How to get them?
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From: Mark Allums [mailto:m...@allums.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:34 PM
To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: RE: CPU scaling problems
> Francesco wrote:
I have installed Debian testing on a X1 Carbon, processor i5-3427U.
My problem is the f
> Francesco wrote:
I have installed Debian testing on a X1 Carbon, processor i5-3427U.
My problem is the following: when the `ondemand' governor is active, the
processor clock never scales up, it always stays at 800Mhz. The situation
changes when using the `conservative' or the `performance
Hey, everyone, just a quick question someone might be able to help me out
with.
I've been interested in trying out Geary from Yorba
(http://yorba.org/geary/) on my Debian Squeeze box. I've checked out the
build instructions and it requires Vala 0.17.4. I've checked the Debian
package list for Sq
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:02:41 +0100
Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
>
> > PS: I wonder if there is some hidden config for Claws. Each time I
> > reply to the Debian mailing list, I've to remove the one who replied
> > from the "To" field and change debian-user(at)lists.debian.org from
> > "Cc" to "To".
On 11/14/2012 05:53 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 11/14/12 12:48, Gary Roach wrote:
I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard
drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I
reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system.
What do you mean by
Richard Owlett wrote:
I've been doing a series of Debian installs over the last
several months.
YES. There are easier ways to do things. *BUT* my purpose is
_educational_ rather than "efficiency" ;)
I have a history of problems with the root password not
being recognized.
If the problem *DOES*
> PS: I wonder if there is some hidden config for Claws. Each time I
> reply to the Debian mailing list, I've to remove the one who replied
> from the "To" field and change debian-user(at)lists.debian.org from
> "Cc" to "To". Evolution does "reply to mailing list only", if wanted.
>
Using Claws -
Hi.
I have several server which today cannot update.
I have done thes things so far:
1
/etc/apt/source.list:
deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib
deb-src http://securit
I have been quite satisfied with Gnome 2 in Squeeze, but as a testing
user i tried the new shiny GNOME 3 for a month when it came out in
unstable/experimental and was quite shocked of the non-usability,
besides the fact i needed proprietary drivers to run it. Then i switched
to XFCE 4.8 and got
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 07:09:31AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Forget your issues with GNOME and switch to Xfce4.
+99
I can't recommend this highly enough.
You're not alone in finding GNOME3 less than useful given that it's
a complete trainwreck. XFCE is, in practice, the current desktop of
cho
I'm using MATE (GNOME 2 Fork: http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download) for
quite a while now. And imo it's pretty stable and you won't notice that
much difference compared to squeeze. Give it a try :-)
Am 14.11.2012 23:04, schrieb GEOFF BAGLEY:
I have been looking forward to the update of
my fav
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:33:30 +
Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > I made less good experiences when using IMAP, e.g. thousands of
> > mails once were loaded 2 times.
>
> That sounds more likely to be a problem with your MUA than with the
>
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:35:54 +0100
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:18:52 -0800
> james gray wrote:
>
> > i am just wondering.
> >
> > why would vim be slapped around thru many links just to come back to
> > its original file path origin with out write privileges to the end
> > usr
On 11/15/2012 08:18 AM, james gray wrote:
i am just wondering.
why would vim be slapped around thru many links just to come back to its
original file path origin with out write privileges to the end usr who
is not root.
path = /usr/local/bin, usr/bin, /bin, usr/local/game
which vim
/usr/bin
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:18:52AM -0800, james gray wrote:
> which vim
> /usr/bin/vim
> ls -l /usr/bin/vim
> lrwxrwxrwx -> etc/alternatives/vim
> ls -l etc/alternatives/vim
> lrwxrwxrwx -> /usr/bin/vim.basic
the name "/usr/bin/vim" is managed by the alternatives system (see
update-alternatives(8)
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:18:52 -0800
james gray wrote:
> i am just wondering.
>
> why would vim be slapped around thru many links just to come back to
> its original file path origin with out write privileges to the end
> usr who is not root.
>
>
> path = /usr/local/bin, usr/bin, /bin, usr/local
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:04:10PM +, GEOFF BAGLEY
wrote:
> I have poor eye-sight, and make much use of "CTRL shift +"
> to magnify that which I need to see, and "CTRL -" to
> reverse. This was not possible in many GNOME3 cases.
GNOME3 has an "accessibility" icon (silhouette of a human over
a
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I made less good experiences when using IMAP, e.g. thousands of mails
> once were loaded 2 times.
That sounds more likely to be a problem with your MUA than with the
imapd.
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i am just wondering.
why would vim be slapped around thru many links just to come back to its
original file path origin with out write privileges to the end usr who is
not root.
path = /usr/local/bin, usr/bin, /bin, usr/local/game
which vim
/usr/bin/vim
ls -l /usr/bin/vim
lrwxrwxrwx -> etc
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:37:20 +0100, lalberts wrote:
Hello,
it is because the squeeze is in a messi state..
it does not start the services as it should..
in the recovery mode as root and startx the networkmanager is not there,
it
does take the usb-sticks and whatelse more.
in the normal boo
by the way i reinstalled somehow the gdm3 with no results..
it is somewhere else within the starts procedures and services.. i believe.
something virt-man through out the order..
lukas
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Hello,
it is because the squeeze is in a messi state..
it does not start the services as it should..
in the recovery mode as root and startx the networkmanager is not there, it
does take the usb-sticks and whatelse more.
in the normal boot procedure i found a way to get in..
at the gdm3 screen i
On 14-11-2012 21:57, Arno Schuring wrote:
Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net on 2012-11-14 13:05 -0600):
The source of the discrepancy is whether or not a USB flash
drive is present (for whatever reason) during Debian
installation.
If there has been no USB flash drive present during install,
t
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:02:42 +0530
Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 01:43 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote:
> >> On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:09:31 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> > Shortcuts to resize the view do
> >> > work for Thunar, Xfce's file browser. Suc
On 14/11/2012 12:57, Tom Grace wrote:
On 14/11/12 11:53, Jorge wrote:
Same result in IE and FF browsers. It only works if I put the
code line and disable SSL.
Are you hitting this?
https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/06/site-identity-ui-updates/
I didn't check if IE has a similar thing.
I
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