Re: Too many emails

2013-05-08 Thread Petr Voralek
Hello! On 05/08/2013 08:50 PM, *Patrick Wiseman* wrote, and I quote (in part): > That's a bit harsh. Many open source communities use web-based support > forums where it's possible to post a message and subscribe to replies > to that message. I assume the OP was expecting similar behavior he

Re: The order of my SATA and PATA are switching all the time

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
st wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I see many people suggested UUIDs and other funny long names. What I > > use instead: LVM. This way you get to name the "disks" and > > "partitions" with meaningful names which only change when you decide > > to change them. > > One simple question, though: i

Re: The order of my SATA and PATA are switching all the time

2013-05-08 Thread st
Stefan Monnier wrote: I see many people suggested UUIDs and other funny long names. What I use instead: LVM. This way you get to name the "disks" and "partitions" with meaningful names which only change when you decide to change them. One simple question, though: if you have 2 similar HDDs an

Re: The order of my SATA and PATA are switching all the time

2013-05-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Anyone know the cure? I see many people suggested UUIDs and other funny long names. What I use instead: LVM. This way you get to name the "disks" and "partitions" with meaningful names which only change when you decide to change them. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Dom
On 08/05/13 22:33, Bob Proulx wrote: Valaki Valahol wrote: Also where can I find the older distros, eg. 6.0.7 that I can download all the DVD IDO images ? Older images are available. Now that Wheezy 7.0 has released the previous Squeeze 6.0 is now "older". These are available in archive sect

Re: Debian in the sunshine?

2013-05-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm a long-time user of Debian, and also have an e-paper ebook reader. > It occurs to me that something like a Debian laptop with an e-ink screen > would be extremely useful, for, say, sitting on a sunny back porch in the > summer and programming -- a situation where the normal luminous screens >

Re: SOLVED Re: after upgrade, cannot su or sudo

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > I replaced libpam-ldap with libpam-ldapd and now sudo and su are both > working. Not sure why, but I"ll dig into it if I get some time. Glad to hear that it is working. I am not an ldap expert so don't know either. I am going to comment on your previous anyway. > But I'll gi

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> But can they talk to folks using SKYPE? I talk to folks using Skype every day. I don't use Skype myself, I try to convince them to switch to something else, but that doesn't prevent me from talking to them. Stefan ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: The order of my SATA and PATA are switching all the time

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: > I don't like using UUID, because, just as you said: > > "Warning: reformatting a partition normally changes the uuid, unless the > existing uuid is explicitly specified as an option when formatting. Thus, > commands such as mkfs (and its derivatives) and mkswap will normally

Video and sound in Wheezy: Howto?

2013-05-08 Thread Paul Condon
I installed Wheezy on a HP computer which had been running Squeeze about a week or two ago. I've done installs of Debian many times before on other hardware, and earlier versions of Debian. This install went very smoothly, but ... I just noticed today that I can't play video clips in Iceweasel,

Re: Install from iso (no disc burn)

2013-05-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Wed 08 May 2013 at 19:59:02 +0200, Julian Rüger wrote: > >> Hi Harry, Brian and others, > > Hello Julian, > >> > It is far less convenient than booting from an isohybrid and only works >> > with a netinst ISO if the user is prepared to jump through a number of >> > small diam

Re: libgpod 0.8.2 not working with ipod nano 5th gen

2013-05-08 Thread André Nunes Batista
After trying over and over to find out why libgpod is unable to keep its promise, I started looking for alternative software which does not rely on this lib. The only tool that stood up to the task was the one I underestimated most: jakpod (http://www.jakpod.de/en). Simply mounted the ipod and sta

Re: Howto: Record playing audio only via ffmpeg/avconv

2013-05-08 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 09 May 2013 00:11:20 +0800, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: > I'd like to capture a song [1] played via http protocol using firefox. I > wish I could find the file itself in tmpfs but I just could not find it. > > Now I'd like to record the song myself using ffmpeg or avconv ( or even > VLC ), as

Re: The order of my SATA and PATA are switching all the time

2013-05-08 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 08 May 2013 08:40:57 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Can I use something like root="ID=ata-IBM-DBCA-203240_HP0HPL43952"? I >> remember nothing worked well, so I reverted to the (now troublesome) >> "safe" /dev/sdXn. > > /dev/sdXn is *not* safe. That's the whole point. If you read my mes

Re: Install from iso (no disc burn)

2013-05-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Julian Rüger writes: > Harry: If you are interested, I could give you a little step-by-step > howto. Thank you for the input and your offer: Yes I am interested, and please do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

SOLVED Re: after upgrade, cannot su or sudo

2013-05-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:18:25PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:30:25AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Rob Owens wrote: > > > Currently my system seems to be working fine except that I can't su or > > > sudo from my regular user. I can log in as root. My users are all LDAP >

Re: after upgrade, cannot su or sudo

2013-05-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:30:25AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > Currently my system seems to be working fine except that I can't su or > > sudo from my regular user. I can log in as root. My users are all LDAP > > authenticated. > > First, I don't know. But it does seem lik

Re: Howto: Record playing audio only via ffmpeg/avconv

2013-05-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 06:50:31PM +0100, pete smout wrote: > On 08/05/13 17:11, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: > >I'd like to capture a song [1] played via http protocol using firefox. I > >wish I could find the file itself in tmpfs but I just could not find it. > > > >Now I'd like to record the song mys

Re: Re: Install from iso (no disc burn)

2013-05-08 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 May 2013 at 19:59:02 +0200, Julian Rüger wrote: > Hi Harry, Brian and others, Hello Julian, > > It is far less convenient than booting from an isohybrid and only works > > with a netinst ISO if the user is prepared to jump through a number of > > small diameter hoops and coerce d-i in

Re: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/08/2013 01:09 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: After fixing a networking problem this morning, I attempted to update my Sid system. ... I am dumbfounded at the number of packages apt wants to remove, including things like gedit and rhythmbox ! I have always run a unstable syste

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 08 May 2013, Mark Allums wrote: > and my Kobo Touch eReader absolutely > > refuses to interface with Linux or even Windows XP running in > > VirtualBox. Kind of hypocritcal of Kobo since the OS that drives > > the reader is Linux. > > > > B > > > There is a .deb available unofficially

Re: Install from iso (no disc burn)

2013-05-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:40:03PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'd like to try installing debian from an iso file but not burn a > disc. Google turns up actual piles of reports and instructions for > doeing that, but as I plow thru I'm finding they all (so far) seem to > expect the user is instal

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Rob Hurle
On 9 May 2013 08:31, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I think you've got me mixed up with someone else here. Oh! You mean > my Kobo eReader. Yeah. It doesn't like Linux. Doesn't show up at > all, either as a mass storage or anything else, when connected via > USB. When first connected, the reader

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 08 May 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 07.05.2013 23:23, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't > > boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter. > > Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal h

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Valaki Valahol wrote: > Also where can I find the older distros, eg. 6.0.7 that I can download all > the DVD IDO images ? Older images are available. Now that Wheezy 7.0 has released the previous Squeeze 6.0 is now "older". These are available in archive section. Here is a reference: http://

RE: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Allums
> > This is why people should wait six months before switching to jessie, > > and why sid is only for the experienced, the hard core, and those who > > don't mind serious breakage leading to reinstalls. I was bitten by > > the bad kernel, and as a side effect, it rendered X unusable as > > well.

Re: /boot on ext2, 3 or 4?

2013-05-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:45:36PM -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: > Sorry, are you saying that it is possible to have the whole system > encrypted using lvm-luks or just lvm? Please don't top-post. I haven't set up any encrypted filesystems myself, but my understanding is that the initramfs ca

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Valaki Valahol wrote: > I am interesting that on debian.org page I have seen that the new > distro contains more then 37000 packages, but I have seen that on > the DVD image download page I can download only 3 DVD ISO > images... How can that be ? All of the DVDs images are available. It is only

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 08 May 2013 16:19:59 -0400 Doug wrote: > On 05/08/2013 03:49 PM, Valaki Valahol wrote: > > Hello Sven... > > > > I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to > > me then simply downloading it from http of ftp... > > Can I find it somewhere in these formats, not in ji

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 8 May 2013 22:49:52 +0300 Valaki Valahol wrote: > Hello Sven... > > I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to me > then simply downloading it from http of ftp... It's not as simple for sure, but jigdo is not that hard to use and a very useful software if you ne

Re: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Doug
On 05/08/2013 03:49 PM, Valaki Valahol wrote: Hello Sven... I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to me then simply downloading it from http of ftp... Can I find it somewhere in these formats, not in jigdo format ? I was faced with jigdo some years ago, and irt comple

Re: Multiarch -- In Place Upgrade to 64bit

2013-05-08 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday, 08 May, 2013 22:45:23 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > On Wed 08 May 2013 at 20:05:24 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > Is there now an in-place method to upgrade a Debian Sid box to 64 bit? > > Hey, guess what 'upgrade 32 bit debian to 64 bit' brings up in a search

Re: old vs new system uid/gid

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Ross Boylan wrote: > > > If I don't adduser then home directories won't be created, even though > > > /etc/passwd will refer to them. I figured that would lead to > > > problems. > > > > But you said you were restoring an old system and had backups of use

Re: Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-08 Thread Julian Rüger
Oh, one more thing: > The entry should look like this: > > menuentry "Debian 7.0 wheezy installer, x86_64" { > linux /debian_iso/install.amd/vmlinuz priority=low vga=788 -- > initrd /debian_iso/install.amd/initrd.gz > } This will set the installer to "expert mode", leave out priorit

Re: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Joe
On Wed, 8 May 2013 14:26:20 -0500 "Mark Allums" wrote: > Re: Strange things going on in Sid > > > > On Wed, 08 May 2013 11:30:20 -0400 > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > After fixing a networking problem this morning, I attempted to > > > update my Sid system. > > > > > > > > > > > > I am du

Re: Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-08 Thread Julian Rüger
Hello together, it seems you are all thinking way too complicated. As I suggested in the other thread, I'm just gonna post a little howto. So, here it goes: 1. Booting from USB flash, USB hard drive, or internal hd, is basically all the same. You first need to install grub2 on it. If you already

Re: Too many emails

2013-05-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 15:04 +0300, Valaki Valahol wrote: > Since I have subscribed to Your email list I am getting any kind > of emails, not only those concerning my question... > Is this normal and how can I stop receiving all emails, only > the answers to my question ? It's "normal" to get al

Re: old vs new system uid/gid

2013-05-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > I suppose it would be safer to have a script read the old files and > > > > do adduser/addgroup as appropriate, since that would assure the home > > > > directories existed (and maybe do other stu

RE: New distro

2013-05-08 Thread Valaki Valahol
Hello Sven... I have never used jigdo before and it seems much more difficult to me then simply downloading it from http of ftp... Can I find it somewhere in these formats, not in jigdo format ? Also where can I find the older distros, eg. 6.0.7 that I can download all the DVD IDO images ? Sorry

Re: /boot on ext2, 3 or 4?

2013-05-08 Thread André Nunes Batista
Sorry, are you saying that it is possible to have the whole system encrypted using lvm-luks or just lvm? -- -- André Nunes Batista --- Begin Message --- On Wednesday 08 May 2013 07:44:48 Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:20:07AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > Doing a test install

Re: are "print server" and "ssh server" needed?

2013-05-08 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Tue, 7 May 2013 12:09:58 -0500 Default User wrote: > > Any opinions? Adding to what others posted, one case when SSH might be useful is when bad bug happens to your GUI desktop that prevents you even from switching to terminal to resolve the situation. In such case (provided that you have ac

Re: Multiarch -- In Place Upgrade to 64bit

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 20:59 +0200, Brian wrote: > On Wed 08 May 2013 at 20:05:24 +0300, David Baron wrote: > >> Is there now an in-place method to upgrade a Debian Sid box to 64 bit? > > Hey, guess what 'upgrade 32 bit debian to 64 bit' brings up in a search > engine? > >http://wiki.debian.org/Migrate

RE: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Allums
Re: Strange things going on in Sid > > On Wed, 08 May 2013 11:30:20 -0400 > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > After fixing a networking problem this morning, I attempted to update > > my Sid system. > > > > > > > > I am dumbfounded at the number of packages apt wants to remove, > > including things l

Re: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Joe
On Wed, 8 May 2013 12:06:29 -0700 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Joe wrote: > > > > > I've done what I usually do in times of trouble and switched to > > Synaptic, which I find easier to use to maintain a working system > > and clear logjams. I'll go back to aptitude whe

Re: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 08 May 2013 11:30:20 -0400 > Frank McCormick wrote: > >> After fixing a networking problem this morning, I attempted to update >> my Sid system. >> >> >> >> I am dumbfounded at the number of packages apt wants to remove, >> including things li

Re: Howto: Record playing audio only via ffmpeg/avconv

2013-05-08 Thread pete smout
On 08/05/13 17:11, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: I'd like to capture a song [1] played via http protocol using firefox. I wish I could find the file itself in tmpfs but I just could not find it. Now I'd like to record the song myself using ffmpeg or avconv ( or even VLC ), as lossless as possibe. How

Re: Multiarch -- In Place Upgrade to 64bit

2013-05-08 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 May 2013 at 20:05:24 +0300, David Baron wrote: > Is there now an in-place method to upgrade a Debian Sid box to 64 bit? Hey, guess what 'upgrade 32 bit debian to 64 bit' brings up in a search engine? http://wiki.debian.org/Migrate32To64Bit A wiki page! And in its conclusion it says

RE: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Allums
and my Kobo Touch eReader absolutely > refuses to interface with Linux or even Windows XP running in > VirtualBox. Kind of hypocritcal of Kobo since the OS that drives > the reader is Linux. > > B There is a .deb available unofficially for Kobo from Kobo. They will send you a dropbox link for

Re: Too many emails

2013-05-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:56 PM, francis picabia wrote: > > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Valaki Valahol wrote: >> >> Hello ... >> >> Since I have subscribed to Your email list I am getting any kind >> of emails, not only those concerning my question... >> Is this normal and how can I stop re

Re: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Joe
On Wed, 08 May 2013 11:30:20 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: > After fixing a networking problem this morning, I attempted to update > my Sid system. > > > > I am dumbfounded at the number of packages apt wants to remove, > including things like gedit and rhythmbox ! > I have always run a unstabl

Re: Where are all the secrets kept? Re: Partially encrypted backup?

2013-05-08 Thread André Nunes Batista
I don't know where FF stores its passwords nor if they are hashed or plaintext. As a principle of security, I never thrust my passwords to any software which is not a password safe. I've been using keepass and recently I've found a FF extension that stores FF passwords on Gnome Keyring, which is en

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Dom
On 08/05/13 06:05, Patrick Bartek wrote: FWIW, when I originally thought of installing Linux on the Thinkpad 7 years ago, and noted the inherent problems, I did tried several floppy-based boot managers/utilities, but none of them worked. The external CD drive was either never recognized or was

Re: wu-ftp substitute

2013-05-08 Thread André Nunes Batista
Please, take a look: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/configs/anonymous.conf http://doxfer.com/Webmin/ProFTPDServer http://r3dux.org/2009/12/how-to-set-up-a-ftp-server-in-linux/ I've never used wu-ftp, but I've been using proftpd and I find it's setup simple enough. -- -- André Nunes Batista --- 

Re: Re: Install from iso (no disc burn)

2013-05-08 Thread Julian Rüger
Hi Harry, Brian and others, > It is far less convenient than booting from an isohybrid and only works > with a netinst ISO if the user is prepared to jump through a number of > small diameter hoops and coerce d-i into co-operating. actually, it is way easier than you make it sound ;) Also, it wor

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Brad Alexander
Not a solution, but might I also suggest installing/running apt-listbugs? It will go through the BTS during an upgrade. From the man page: apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists them. In particular, it is intended to be

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 19:38 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > Testing has already started to get propagation of new packages from >> > Sid. All of the packages blocked due to the freeze were unblocked. >> > But also all of the new packages going into Sid will be the

Re: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-08 Thread craig
On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:26, "Bob Proulx" said: > cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> I just find it frustrating that the partitioner would issue >> a warning that has so little supporting documentation. > > It might be fruitful to open a question about parted on their upstream > mailing list. > > h

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Joachim wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Testing has already started to get propagation of new packages from > > Sid. All of the packages blocked due to the freeze were unblocked. > > But also all of the new packages going into Sid will be there ten days > > and if no one finds any reason to st

Re: after upgrade, cannot su or sudo

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > Currently my system seems to be working fine except that I can't su or > sudo from my regular user. I can log in as root. My users are all LDAP > authenticated. First, I don't know. But it does seem like there might be an LDAP interaction with sudo. Are you using "sudo-lda

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 08 May 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 08.05.2013 09:48, Helmut Wollmersdorfer a écrit : > > Am 07.05.2013 um 23:23 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > >> > >> Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't > >> boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-05-08 19:20 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Testing has already started to get propagation of new packages from > Sid. All of the packages blocked due to the freeze were unblocked. > But also all of the new packages going into Sid will be there ten days > and if no one finds any reason to stop

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 08 May 2013, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > > > Am 07.05.2013 um 23:23 schrieb Patrick Bartek: > > > > Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't > > boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter. > > Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or interna

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: > Sounds like a good idea. I like running bleeding-edge software but > not if I have to spend a lot of time on the BTS :) Can I just make a > simple change in my sources list to "testing" and wait for > everything to catch up? For the next two months I would run Wheezy. It

Re: Xfce 4 + LXDM problem

2013-05-08 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Tue, 7 May 2013 13:19:29 -0700 Alan Ianson wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:55:33 -0500 > Patrick Thomas wrote: > > > I installed LXDM. I could not get it to run it as the default > > display manager (yes, I had /usr/sbin/lxdm > > in /etc/X11/default-display-manager), I had to login and run i

Re: Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: > After fixing a networking problem this morning, I attempted to update > my Sid system. > ... > I am dumbfounded at the number of packages apt wants to remove, > including things like gedit and rhythmbox ! > I have always run a unstable system but never had anything like thi

Multiarch -- In Place Upgrade to 64bit

2013-05-08 Thread David Baron
Is there now an in-place method to upgrade a Debian Sid box to 64 bit? -- 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/201305082005.24392.d_ba...@012.net.il

Re: Too many emails

2013-05-08 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Valaki Valahol wrote: > Hello ... > > Since I have subscribed to Your email list I am getting any kind > of emails, not only those concerning my question... > Is this normal and how can I stop receiving all emails, only > the answers to my question ? > > Regards >

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/08/2013 12:40 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Booted up my Sid partition this morning and found the network failed to initialize. A message during boot said something to the effect auto lo had been declared twice in /etc/network/interfaces and then that the same file was unrea

Re: Too many emails

2013-05-08 Thread Lázaro
Thread name: "Re: Too many emails" Mail number: 4 Date: Wed, May 08, 2013 In reply to: Antti Talsta > > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:04:24PM +0300, Valaki Valahol wrote: > > > Since I have subscribed to Your email list I am getting any kind > > of emails, not only those concerning my question

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank McCormick wrote: > Booted up my Sid partition this morning and found the network failed > to initialize. A message during boot said something to the effect > auto lo had been declared twice in /etc/network/interfaces and then > that the same file was unreadable. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-

Re: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > I just find it frustrating that the partitioner would issue > a warning that has so little supporting documentation. It might be fruitful to open a question about parted on their upstream mailing list. https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted http://www.gnu.o

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/08/2013 10:03 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Booted up my Sid partition this morning and found the network failed to initialize. A message during boot said something to the effect auto lo had been declared twice in /etc/network/interfaces and then that the same file was unreadable. Wel

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Richard Owlett
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 07.05.2013 23:23, Patrick Bartek a écrit : Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter. Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard drive. (I said this thing wa

Re: When is best to go on using Testing from Wheezy

2013-05-08 Thread Jean-Marc
On Wed, 8 May 2013 23:21:04 +0800 Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: Hi, > that said, I am going for it with its Super Cow Powers? > I am running testing for years on my laptop and already did 2 dist-upgrade since the relase happened. The first one broke but I worked around by installing from sid. I c

Elantech Multi-Touch Dnd Support

2013-05-08 Thread Mariusz Wojcik
I am using Debian Wheezy with my Asus Notebook X75A. There won’t work Multi-Touch Drag & Drop. Seriously, only Multi-Touch Scrolling works. I would appreciate when Drag and Drop with two fingers works. Greets, Mariusz Wojcik

openssl postfix

2013-05-08 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) After long search I've (again) some problems with postfix and TLS :-/ [...] smtpd_use_tls = yes smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/server.key smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/server.crt smtp_tls_CAfile=/etc/postfix/ssl/myca.crt Two questions: 1) Nee

Re: When is best to go on using Testing from Wheezy

2013-05-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/05/13 11:11 AM, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: Hi, I have been looking forward to the Debian Wheezy Release and, at last, we had it! I am informed that it might be safer to stay in Stable for *a while* after release, since there could be many new softwares going into the Testing branch, some

Re: When is best to go on using Testing from Wheezy

2013-05-08 Thread Pascal Obry
Le 08/05/2013 17:11, Hörmetjan Yiltiz a écrit : > I have been looking forward to the Debian Wheezy Release and, at last, > we had it! > > I am informed that it might be safer to stay in Stable for *a while* > after release, since there could be many new softwares going into the > Testing branch, s

Re: When is best to go on using Testing from Wheezy

2013-05-08 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:11:05PM +0800, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have been looking forward to the Debian Wheezy Release and, at > last, we > >had it! > > > >I am informed that it might be safer to stay in Stabl

Re: Too many emails

2013-05-08 Thread Antti Talsta
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:04:24PM +0300, Valaki Valahol wrote: > Since I have subscribed to Your email list I am getting any kind > of emails, not only those concerning my question... You can't. > Is this normal That's how mailinglists work. -- Antti Talsta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Strange things going on in Sid

2013-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
After fixing a networking problem this morning, I attempted to update my Sid system. Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following packages will be REMOVED: alacarte aptdaemon bluez gedit gedit-plugins gnome-applets gnome-bluetooth gnome-sess

Re: When is best to go on using Testing from Wheezy

2013-05-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:11:05PM +0800, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: >Hi, > >I have been looking forward to the Debian Wheezy Release and, at last, we >had it! > >I am informed that it might be safer to stay in Stable for *a while* after >release, since there could be many new so

Re: When is best to go on using Testing from Wheezy

2013-05-08 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
that said, I am going for it with its Super Cow Powers? 祝好, He who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy to receive* all else* from you (and me). The Prophet, Gibran Kahlil Gibran On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:19

Re: Bug in wheezy images, busybox enters infinite loop when mounting .iso

2013-05-08 Thread Julian Rüger
> If I understand correctly, the cause for the loop-mounting problem is > that the initrd is missing loop.ko, I'll look into that. I can confirm that by adding loop.ko to the initrd, the problem goes away. Loop mounting images is working, and you can continue normal installation without having to

When is best to go on using Testing from Wheezy

2013-05-08 Thread Hörmetjan Yiltiz
Hi, I have been looking forward to the Debian Wheezy Release and, at last, we had it! I am informed that it might be safer to stay in Stable for *a while* after release, since there could be many new softwares going into the Testing branch, some of which might have some stability or other problem

libgpod 0.8.2 not working with ipod nano 5th gen

2013-05-08 Thread André Nunes Batista
Hi there! I recently installed Debian Wheezy on someone else's computer, but I'm having a hard time syncing ipod nano 5th gen with banshee/clementine/rhythmbox. As far as I could find out, they all rely on libgpod from gtkpod project. This library states that support to ipod nano 5th gen was adde

network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
Booted up my Sid partition this morning and found the network failed to initialize. A message during boot said something to the effect auto lo had been declared twice in /etc/network/interfaces and then that the same file was unreadable. Snooping around I commented out what appeared to be the o

Re: /boot on ext2, 3 or 4?

2013-05-08 Thread Jean-Marc
On Wed, 8 May 2013 09:29:43 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: Hi Eike, > > If it is just a test go ahead without /boot partition and whatever else you > like to try. For a production system besides considering "whatever works" I > would also consider how much effort and time I would have to invest

Re: Too many emails

2013-05-08 Thread Richard Owlett
Jochen Spieker wrote: Valaki Valahol: Since I have subscribed to Your email list I am getting any kind of emails, not only those concerning my question... Is this normal and how can I stop receiving all emails, only the answers to my question ? Yes, this is normal and there is no easy way to

Re: Synaptic can't find Debian changelogs

2013-05-08 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 May 2013 at 12:55:26 +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote: > When I click on the "Get Changelog" button for a package, for > example llvm-3.2, I get > >This change is not coming from a source that supports changelogs. > >Failed to fetch the changelog for llvm-3.2 >URI was: > http:/

Re: anyone using shell-fm?

2013-05-08 Thread Peter Tynan
> Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 06:31:10 -0400 (EDT) > From: Jude DaShiell > cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: anyone using shell-fm? > Message-ID: > List-Id: > > I don't mind building from source. I've had to do it several times > already. One of these days I'll learn to build my own k

Re: Bug in wheezy images, busybox enters infinite loop when mounting .iso

2013-05-08 Thread Julian Rüger
Hi Brian! > > Boot debian-7.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso (or any other image, I also > > tested ...CD-1.iso) via grub2 installed on my USB thumb drive. This of > > course only loads the kernel and initrd, so the installer fails to > > "Detect and mount CD-ROM". This is perfectly expected, so I press Alt+

Re: /boot on ext2, 3 or 4?

2013-05-08 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday 08 May 2013 07:44:48 Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:20:07AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > Doing a test install of Wheezy. I am used to having a separate /boot > > partition at the beginning of the disk and everything else in a LVM > > partition. I noticed Wheezy want

Re: ssh login fails, access denied

2013-05-08 Thread Chris Davies
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Just did my first Wheezy install on a VMware virtual machine. I accepted > the default SSH server option. > Server is running, I can log in via the VMware console both as the root > user and as the regular user and use "su -" to switch to the root user. > When I use PuTTY t

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.05.2013 09:48, Helmut Wollmersdorfer a écrit : Am 07.05.2013 um 23:23 schrieb Patrick Bartek: Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter. Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard drive. (

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread berenger . morel
Le 07.05.2013 23:23, Patrick Bartek a écrit : Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter. Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard drive. (I said this thing was ancient. ;-) ) And except for the h

Re: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-08 Thread craig
On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 19:50, "Bob Proulx" said: > cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> cr...@gtek.biz said: >> I found a thread that mentioned the values should be multiples of >> 2048 for advanced format disks, which this ST31000524AS is, if I'm > > The ST31000524AS is not advanced format. It uses tra

Re: The order of my SATA and PATA are switching all the time

2013-05-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 07 May 2013 23:28:47 -0400 (EDT), Tong wrote: > > On Tue, 07 May 2013 07:55:24 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> This problem, and its solution, are discussed at length on my LILO web >> page, starting with the discussion of the "boot" configuration file >> record. >> >>http://users

Re: ssh login fails, access denied

2013-05-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:16:46PM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hello Jochen and Darac, > > Solved, typo on my side. > > >> When I use PuTTY to set up a ssh session to my server I get the login > >> prompt. I enter the login name root or the user. It asks me for the > >> password and once I h

RE: ssh login fails, access denied

2013-05-08 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hello Jochen and Darac, Solved, typo on my side. >> When I use PuTTY to set up a ssh session to my server I get the login >> prompt. I enter the login name root or the user. It asks me for the >> password and once I have given that I always get "access denied". > > Can you log in as a regular

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