Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

2013-11-07 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 11/7/2013 11:50 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: It's pretty obvious you're not familiar with production servers for small/medium business. Not a criticism, but an observation. Maintaining one of these is not at all like maintaining your desktop or personal server. Requirements ar

tv watching apps

2013-11-07 Thread Brad Alexander
I have a hauppague (bt878) card in my wife's machine. It is connected to cable, and she uses tvtime to watch tv in a window on her computer while she works. Unfortunately, every now and again, she will lose audio on it, and I have the damnedest time getting it to work again. I don't know if it is t

Re: Connectivity issues on wheezy

2013-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Roman Gelfand wrote: > For couple of months, now, I have this postfix smtp gateway on debian > wheezy during which I had no problems with connectivity. Now, after > couple of minutes I get disconnected from putty ssh session. The > issue is not only there. Apache web server self updating cgi sit

RE: book reference

2013-11-07 Thread LOwens
From: james gray [mailto:kmz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:22 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: book reference Question: if a scale of 1 to 10 were available what would the number attributed this book be in reference to Debian and the GNU Linux OS be. What would

Re: Replacing failed drive in software RAID

2013-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Veljko wrote: > Thanks for all your help, Bob. I don't usually need this step by > step approach but in this case I needed to be sure I won't loose my > data. Your patience and answers are much appreciated. You are very welcome for the help. Don't worry about it at all. It's no trouble. Just ke

nspluginwrapper for wheezy amd64 deb package

2013-11-07 Thread deloptes
Hi, I was confronted recently with getting citrix client/viewer on my wheezy debian system. How does the community do this when nspluginwrapper is not available for wheezy? I used the debian rules written by Rob Andrews for nspluginwrapper-1.3.0 to debianize nspluginwrapper-1.4.4 Now I was thinkin

Connectivity issues on wheezy

2013-11-07 Thread Roman Gelfand
For couple of months, now, I have this postfix smtp gateway on debian wheezy during which I had no problems with connectivity. Now, after couple of minutes I get disconnected from putty ssh session. The issue is not only there. Apache web server self updating cgi site dies after a while. How ca

Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

2013-11-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/8/13, Richard Owlett wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I purchase complete DVD sets. .. >>> Shuffling DVDs became a pain. I set aside a partition for myown >>> repository. .. >> OK, here's a test I just ran, which seems to work, as I'll show below. ..

Re: libxml warnings while upgrading squeeze -> wheezy

2013-11-07 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:52:23PM +0200, Itay wrote: > Hi, > > During the upgrade I got many times the following warning: > > program compiled against libxml 208 using older 207 > > Shooting in the dark I did: > > # aptitude show libxml2 > Package: libxml2 > State: installed > Automatica

book reference

2013-11-07 Thread james gray
Question: if a scale of 1 to 10 were available what would the number attributed this book be in reference to Debian and the GNU Linux OS be. What would be a good book reference to the C object model architecture be for Debian GNU Linux OS. Please send me some feedback. Thank you Google Books

Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

2013-11-07 Thread Richard Owlett
Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett wrote: I purchase complete DVD sets. I am doing multiple clean installs to determine my "optimum" solution. Shuffling DVDs became a pain. I set aside a partition for myown repository. I copied the /dists and /pool directories from all DVDs in th

Re: free-software phone: neo900

2013-11-07 Thread Brad Alexander
I agree. I hope they succeed As a long time N900 owner, I would love to upgrade my existing unit with a new motherboard and new, more powerful processor. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Pete Ley wrote: > green writes: > > > Something that might be of interest to Debian users: the neo900, at >

Re: Bash Scripting Question

2013-11-07 Thread Chris Davies
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:58:58PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: >> Maybe you'll need something like expect to handle this. > I'd second expect, it's probably the best tool for the job in all > non-trivial cases. The "empty-expect" package, perhaps? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Different weird update by apt-get and aptitude

2013-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Joachim wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > So then to preserve the upstart configuration would you recommend > > marking it as 'hold' so that apt-get won't consider the action in the > > future? I think this is needed. > > > > apt-mark hold upstart > > > > I tested that in a VM and it seemed to

Re: Different weird update by apt-get and aptitude

2013-11-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-11-07 18:33 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> Here the difference is that "apt-get dist-upgrade" insists on pulling in >> any removed essential packages, while "aptitude full-upgrade" leaves >> those alone. Both approaches have their disadvantages, although I >> consid

Re: Different weird update by apt-get and aptitude

2013-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Joachim wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Florian Lindner wrote: > >> root@xxx:~# aptitude full-upgrade > >> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > >> but apt-get > >> root@xxx:~# apt-get dist-upgrade > >> The following packages will be REMOVED: > >> upstart > >> The following N

Re: Different weird update by apt-get and aptitude

2013-11-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-11-07 17:38 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > Florian Lindner wrote: >> root@xxx:~# aptitude full-upgrade >> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. >> but apt-get >> root@xxx:~# apt-get dist-upgrade >> The following packages will be REMOVED: >> upstart >> The following NEW package

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

2013-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Jerry Stuckle wrote: > It's pretty obvious you're not familiar with production servers for > small/medium business. Not a criticism, but an observation. > Maintaining one of these is not at all like maintaining your desktop > or personal server. Requirements are much different. Oh sigh. By the

Re: Different weird update by apt-get and aptitude

2013-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Florian Lindner wrote: > I have a virtual server with a minimal debian wheezy image provided by the > hoster. Wheezy. Gotcha. > Right after setup of the image: > > root@xxx:~# aptitude full-upgrade > ... > root@xxx:~# apt-get dist-upgrade > ... You don't show it. Did you update first? Pleas

Different weird update by apt-get and aptitude

2013-11-07 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello, I have a virtual server with a minimal debian wheezy image provided by the hoster. Right after setup of the image: root@xxx:~# aptitude full-upgrade No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0

How to get benefit from the aluminum market

2013-11-07 Thread Tom Tang
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premature munin-update termination due to read timeout from node?

2013-11-07 Thread Thomas Keusch
Hello, I'm running a current Debian 7.2 with munin 2.0.6-4+deb7u1. There are a couple of plugins which take some time to finish due to the nature of what they do, which is around 17-19 seconds average. There is about half a dozen of these plugins. Unfortunaely munin-update terminates almost all

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

2013-11-07 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 21:45:28 -0800 un...@physics.ubc.ca (unruh) wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:51:26 -0600 > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Food for thought: your /dev/sda7 is an EXT filesystem of 26GB with 1.7M > >> inodes. XFS would give you ~

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

2013-11-07 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 11/7/2013 2:04 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: Instead it would make more sense to install a fresh Wheezy system and then install the top level packages you require. I would normally do this. I would set up a new m

Re: not your regular ipv4/ipv6 dns issue

2013-11-07 Thread mourik jan heupink
Hi Henrique, Darac, list, I am currently talking with support from our firewall solution (astaro), because it seems that astaro drops the initial second query. (the A query goes through, and the query is dropped by astaro, without a log entry or other notification) So it looks like a bu

Re: Compiling kernel: problem!

2013-11-07 Thread antispammbox-deb...@yahoo.it
The same problem, with kernel 3.10, was present with Wheezy 486 on same computer. Thanks 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.org/1383829602.35782

Re: Compiling kernel: problem!

2013-11-07 Thread antispammbox-deb...@yahoo.it
The same problem, with kernel 3.10, was present with Wheezy 486 on same computer. Thanks 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.org/1383828867.2

Re: not your regular ipv4/ipv6 dns issue

2013-11-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 07 Nov 2013, Darac Marjal wrote: > Perhaps the last test is the most telling. If you don't specify how to > look up the domain, it takes a while, but if you say you want an IPv4 or > IPv6 address, it's quick. > > In that case, I'd look at /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf and > /etc/nsswitc

Re: not your regular ipv4/ipv6 dns issue

2013-11-07 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:11:11PM +0100, mourik jan heupink wrote: > Hi all, > > We are seeing strange delays in dns resolving with apt-get and wget. > Tried various public dns servers (for example google dns, opendns) > I used tcpdump to see what actually happens, and we found out that > apt-get

bug?: gpg warnings during apt set (while upgrading squeeze -> wheezy)

2013-11-07 Thread Itay
Hi During the upgrade I got the following warnings: Setting up apt (0.9.7.9) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove ... Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/apt ... gpg: key B98321F9: "Squeeze Stable Release Key " not changed gpg: key 473041F

libxml warnings while upgrading squeeze -> wheezy

2013-11-07 Thread Itay
Hi, During the upgrade I got many times the following warning: program compiled against libxml 208 using older 207 Shooting in the dark I did: # aptitude show libxml2 Package: libxml2 State: installed Automatically installed: no Multi-Arch: same Version: 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2 ... I have

Re: Replacing failed drive in software RAID

2013-11-07 Thread Veljko
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:12:02AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > I'm offered to reassemble RAID. Is it safe to use auto reconfigure > > > option or should I assemble all three manually? > > As long as all of the disks are to be assembled then automatic mode > should be okay. Don't use automatic

Re: Replacing failed drive in software RAID

2013-11-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Veljko wrote: > Veljko wrote: > > I replaced sdd drive and that went without problem, but after > > replacing sda, the drive with boot partition and MBR, system > > stalled at "veryfying dmi pool data". So I inserted debian CD and > > went with rescue mode. I haven't used it so I have some question

Re: [SOLVED] mounting my USB RAM Stick

2013-11-07 Thread Joe
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 08:05:59 +0100 Jean-Marc wrote: > On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 22:32:26 +0100 > Jean-Marc wrote: > > > Hi List, > > > > I got a strange behavior with my laptop. > > When I insert a USB stick, it mounts but belongs to root. > > If I plug it in my desktop, it mounts with my user. > > >

Re: Replacing failed drive in software RAID

2013-11-07 Thread Veljko
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:15:07PM +0100, Veljko wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 02:41:01PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > But if you are concerned about writes to sdb > > then I would simply plan to boot from the debian-installer image in > > rescue mode, assemble the raid, sync, then replace sdb,

Re: can't find pae kernel after a new install

2013-11-07 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:00:34 +0100 (CET), Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >What remains unexplained is that I had the 3.10-3-686-pae kernel >on my old install, and I never enabled multiarch (At that time, I even > ignored >this possibility).Is there an other explanation than Alzheimer? >