Re: Stretch : mount Jessie encrypted HDD via USB

2017-11-01 Thread MPhil. Emanoil Kotsev
David Wright wrote: > And one query while we're on the topic. Obviously > umount is necessary and will be noticed later if > it's not performed. However, what about vgchange -an > and locking? AFAICT failing to lock has no later > consequences for the device itself. > I don't know what you mean,

Re: Need help with Latex error; Sorry VERY LONG

2011-11-25 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hi, --- On Fri, 11/25/11, John W. Foster wrote: > From: John W. Foster > Subject: Re: Need help with Latex error; Sorry VERY LONG > To: "Emanoil Kotsev" > Cc: "debian-user" > Date: Friday, November 25, 2011, 1:58 AM > On Thu, 2011-11-24

Re: USB key requirement.

2011-01-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
--- On Tue, 1/11/11, Dan Serban wrote: > > I figured that after the root partition is mounted (nfs), I > would have > an init.d script that would work its magic.. if it's there, > allow the > continuation of the boot sequence (load gdm and other > non-essential > services).  All I would requi

Re: problems with sound

2010-12-07 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hi a friend shared last week the same issue > > > > amixer | grep -i off > > kje...@kjetil:~$ amixer | grep -i off >   Front Left: Playback 74 [100%] [0.00dB] [off] >   Front Right: Playback 74 [100%] [0.00dB] [off] >   Mono: Playback [off] > see if you have not plugged into the wrong jack or w

Re: [Opensync-users] opensync-0.22 packages for Debian squeeze, testers wanted

2010-10-07 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
As far as I see there are not that many people working on syncml, so I would focus on pushing 0.40 into sid, because it will become very soon testing. For the current testing (squeeze) I would have either 0.22 or nothing. If it is not working it will be ok to leave it without official debian in

mbrola on debian 86_x64 (amd64)

2009-12-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
hi, does somebody got it working? thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

gcc/++-3.X in lenny

2009-12-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hi, there, is there a sufficient reason why it's not in lenny. I tried to compile but neither 4.3 nor 4.2 would compile 3.3 I finally downloaded pre-compiled version from etch in debs and installed them. I then could compile my old program What's the best way to go for the future? regards -

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lee wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> >> no need of lithium at all. > > What's the alternative? Have they found another resource to make > batteries from? I wanted to say, that they have decided to go for battery productio

Re: NFS in 2.6.32

2009-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-12-11 21:10 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> (I think) I hit the same "bug" in 2.6.31 when trying to copy an iso image >> from my notebook to nfs mounted partition from the server. > > Have you even read the bug report?

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lee wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:19:56PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: > >> Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the spare/ >> replacement battery cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? Say >> you got the cheapest Clio or Fiesta for just under 10.000€, but would >>

Re: Weird sound behavior on sid

2009-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Julian De Marchi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey all! > > I have a debian sid desktop. Not sure when it occurred, but my sounds > keeps muting itself frequently. > > The log files provide me with no answers and my google-fu fails to > relive any answers. > > I

Re: NFS in 2.6.32

2009-12-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-12-09 14:59 +0100, David Baron wrote: > >> Get warning not supported in current kernel. >> I did nothing in making 2.6.32 to disable (or enable) this. >> >> Deprecated? >> Needed? >> Bug? > > Bug¹ in nfs-kernel-server, the kernel itself is almost certainly fine. > T

Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

2009-12-09 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Dotan Cohen wrote: >> That in itself shouldn't be a problem. You could just copy the files >> (using ntfs-3g), use dd or some other method. But your problem will be >> that Windows won't find itself in the expected place anymore. Off the >> top of my head, I only know of C:\boot.ini which must be

Re: Will Debian accept a SATA to IDE hdd adapter?

2009-12-07 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Mark wrote: >>On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Stefan Monnier >>wrote: Agreed, in case you have a choice, go for >>the SATA controller. OTOH, I use one of those frankenstein adapters in a >>small box (wl700ge home router) where the SATA controller is not an >>option, and it works just great for tha

Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

2009-12-07 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Dotan Cohen wrote: > A fellow student has Debian and Windows 7 on his laptop. I installed > Windows first so that the Debian installer could configure grub > properly, but after installing and setting up the system (which > required a trip to the faculty technical support to set up printing > and

Re: AMD-K6-2 processor for Lenny

2009-11-30 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
forman...@email.cz wrote: > > From: Stan Hoeppner >> Simple. In 'make menuconfig' select K6-II under Processor Type. >> >> And read this if you haven't already: >> > href="http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html";>http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.ht

Re: Grep on dictionary words

2009-11-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Dotan Cohen wrote: > > This means that only words that start with a caps are valid. I need > "can start with a caps, but caps can be nowhere else". I got that like > this: > grep "^[A-Za-z][a-z]*$" > However I think that there is a better way. > > This is a good exercise. I am bettering my regex

Re: Quick and dirty "debian live" on USB stick.

2009-11-29 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: >> I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition >> to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. >> >> Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on the >> HDD o

squeeze and kde 3.5

2009-11-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hi, do you know if and how it is possible to run squeeze with kde 3.5 I googled but couldn't find a hint. I tried installing lenny but upgrade to sqeeze leads to upgrade of kde too. Is there a repo that can be used thanks in advance regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

RE: Include a ftp client in initrd

2009-11-19 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Kushal Koolwal wrote: > > I just need a client program. > > Also I figured that just copying an ftp program would not be sufficient. I > will need to copy the shared libraries also. I was wondering what is the > best way to find out the shared libraries. Just doing: > > # ldd ftp > > should be

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Colin wrote: > Cassiano Leal wrote: > >> I have a 4312 myself. Only way I can use the card is via the hybrid wl >> driver found here: >> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php >> >> Unfortunately, it's not free. It works, though... > > That's what the broadcom-sta package worked w

Re: Include a ftp client in initrd

2009-11-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Kushal Koolwal wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian Lenny with the default 2.6.26-2-686 kernel and the > default initrd image. > > My aim is to just boot the kernel and initrd image. I don't want to mount > the "real" filesystem from the hard drive or any other storage device. > > I know how to m

Re: Where can I get the LaTeX CTAN package glossaries in Debian?

2009-11-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Felix H. Dahlke wrote: > Hi, > > I am unable to find the "glossaries" package [1] in Debian stable, > testing or unstable. > The older "glossary" package is available, but it is no longer supported > and recommends "glossaries" [2]. > > I've found a bug report on what appears to be this very iss

Re: ksuspend_usbd : what does this daemon do ?

2009-11-12 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > ksuspend_usb it's not adaemon but a kernel process (thread) look into ./drivers/usb/core/usb.c to learn more /opt/software/linux-2.6.31.6# grep -r ksuspend_usb . Двоичен файл ./drivers/usb/core/hcd.o съвпада ./drivers/usb/core/usb.c:struct workqueue_struct *ksuspe

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-02 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Running a customized (stripped) little 2.6.31.1 from kernel.org under > Lenny since Oct 3, on an old dual 550MHz i440BX board. Fairly stripped > down install running a Postfix mail firewall and Lighty. Been running > great, no issues. I've probably got everything strip

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-02 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Dave Witbrodt wrote: > My impression is that the kernel team considers 2.6.31 to have been a > bit buggier than usual, but they are feeling better about 2.6.32 and > plan to use it for Squeeze (when released). > I've just compiled and installed .31.5 (from kernel.org) and it seems my notebook li

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Mark Grieveson wrote: > (even with root user). Does anyone know what may be going on? Or, can > someone suggest something I can do to better diagnose the issue? I'm > not actually sure it has anything to do with the school presentation > (which was given on a Windows computer -- I have used thi

Re: Configure wifi access / Free.Fr / WPA (TKIP/AES)

2009-10-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:03:22 +0200 > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I am trying a very simple task: connect to my wifi using a my >> debian box. Setup: My wifi box is made by Free.Fr (French ADSL >> provider). I did setup the SSID to be foobar, no broadcast, an

Re: Someone help me in the right direction for networks <- Might be off topic

2009-10-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Dean Chester wrote: > Hi, > I've been asked to set up a network of between 6 and 10 computers, using > linux yet i don't know what to do. I've decided to allocate 2 as servers > and because we have to run our network with in another network so we are > hoping to run the 1 server as a copy of the o

Re: Clone a bootable USB key

2009-10-06 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Dieder Vervoort wrote: > Copied the MBR:  dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=446  count =1 I think the correct value for bs is 512 (google) i.e. the first usable http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sls-archives/archives-suse-linux/archives-install-boot/384843-moving-grub-mbr-record-another-hdd.html

Re: Virtual Memory and long use

2009-09-23 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Ivan Marin wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm running Sid (kernel 2.6.30) on a Core i7 with 4G of memory. Everything > runs smoothly until some programs hit the VM (like using eclipse, amarok, > iceweasel and azureus at the same time). Even if one of the memory hoggers > is killed, or all of them, if th

Re: dev/null only root access - why?

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2009-09-22 21:23 +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> >>> Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? >>> >>> ls -al /dev/null >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null >

Re: dev/null only root access - why?

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-22 21:23 +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? >> >> ls -al /dev/null >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null > > This can happen if some program, e.g. an early init

dev/null only root access - why?

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? ls -al /dev/null -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null Where do you fix this? regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
sobtwmxt wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev yahoo.com> writes: > >> >> are you using the same filesystem on both (i.e. ext3)? >> > > > It is ext3 on both. then may be the disks are different type? do on both machines as root fdisk -l /dev/ i.e. fdis

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
sobtwmxt wrote: > I have built a custom kernel, using make-kpgk, from debian source. > Using ls -l, there is difference in the size of kernel modules, .ko > files, at build place and after installation of the package. I > only looked at 2 unrelated modules, but I think there will be a > differe

Re: no sound in headphones

2009-09-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 9/21/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> > Liviu Andronic wrote: >> > front:CARD=SB,DEV=0 >> I think this is the one you should try. May be we can exchange snapshots >> of >> what alsamixer looks like. It seems you have similar audio c

Re: no sound in headphones

2009-09-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > front:CARD=SB,DEV=0 I think this is the one you should try. May be we can exchange snapshots of what alsamixer looks like. It seems you have similar audio controller to my one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: no sound in headphones

2009-09-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > # from http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Dmix did you read this? the info there could help you. I don't know exactly how to help you. here everything is working fine regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: no sound in headphones

2009-09-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > In the mixer (both alsa and xfce) I have only one  "Headphones" volume >> control. Probably irrelevant, I also have "IEC958" switches and >> "IEC958 Playback Source" options; no idea what these are for. IEC958 is optical/

Re: no sound in headphones

2009-09-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 9/20/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> nothing is wrong - you may have many input/outputs. you have to figure >> out >> which controls are for the headphones. Unfortunately it depends on your >> card. Mostprobably you have to assign

Re: recent xterm/terminal(?) change (control-C) shows ^C?

2009-09-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Wayne Topa wrote: >>> >> >> Thanks for the tip! This ^C really bothered me as I copy-paste from >> terminals very often! >> The question is, how do you make this change permanent? I manned stty >> and nothing is mentioned, I straced it and could not find where it makes >> its changes, so how do

Re: bi-directional file-synchronization tool

2009-09-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
T o n g wrote: > > Thanks for your feedback, Emanoil. Could you elaborate more? unison > "looks" promising to me, and I've just learned that there are no ocaml > runtime dependency for it on i386, amd64. So usability is the most > important issue to me now. Anyone has positive experience with uni

Re: no sound in headphones

2009-09-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 9/17/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> an issue that I also encountered in 2.6.26. Although I have sound in >> hte computer speaker, I have none in the headphones. When I plug the >> headphones (or external speakers), the computer speakers are not >> muted, and there is

Re: bi-directional file-synchronization tool

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone knows a good bi-directional file-synchronization tool that can > synchronize changes to files and directories in both directions on > different hosts, propagating the changes between them? > > This is mainly use to synchronize files and directories between my > no

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
thveillon.debian wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On Qui, 17 Set 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> I'm curious, why are you indicating use of sudo? It's not even >>> installed/configured by default in Debian... >> >> Ubuntu influence, I'd bet. >> >> > > It's offered as an install option,

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 17 Set 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> I'm curious, why are you indicating use of sudo? It's not even >> installed/configured by default in Debian... > > Ubuntu influence, I'd bet. > > no, no ubuntu influence, because I assume he/she has downloaded the file

Re: recent xterm/terminal(?) change (control-C) shows ^C?

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Distribution: Debian Testing >> >> Recently, after an apt-get dist-upgrade, when I hit control-c, I get the >> following in an xterm: >> >> $ ^C >> >> It occurs with aterm/xterm, bash and csh. > > It's not related

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Sweet, sound works. great, enjoy! regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: problem with alsa driver for Sound blaster 16 in etch (kernel 2.6)

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Long Wind wrote: > but in etch (kernel 2.6), oss driver works > I pass noisapnp kernel option during boot > but alsa does not work do you have snd-oss loaded - just post lsmod | grep snd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Charlie Dorff wrote: > Hi... > I installed debian using a netinstall and then tried to install skype but > got an error message saying "could not open > skype-debian_2.1.0.47-1_1386.deb". Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? > Thanks in advance. > > Charlie do this in the command line sudo

Re: lenny migration, part 4,862: samba

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> > /etc/samba/* >> >> Samba has some important stuff in /var/ >> /var/lib/samba >> /var/run/samba >> /var/spool/samba >> /var/

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > That is of course quite possible. But the point was if 'updating' your > system from i386 to amd64 on the fly, e.g. on the same partition, is > possible without the aid of live cds and so on. As posted before, the > answer is 'yes, but don't dare to try'. At least, that is

Re: lenny migration, part 4,862: samba

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > /etc/samba/* Samba has some important stuff in /var/ /var/lib/samba /var/run/samba /var/spool/samba /var/cache/samba /var/log/samba regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Jochen Schulz wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev: >> Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >>> Don't you read the replies to your mails? There is no way to tell apt >>> which architecture to fetch packages for. Not in sources.list nor >>> anywhere else. >> >>

Re: recent xterm/terminal(?) change (control-C) shows ^C?

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Justin Piszcz wrote: > Hello, > > Distribution: Debian Testing > > Recently, after an apt-get dist-upgrade, when I hit control-c, I get the > following in an xterm: > > $ ^C > > It occurs with aterm/xterm, bash and csh. Not usre if it helps but I read a lot about terminal settings recently -

Re: syncing sony erricson phone with linux

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible in a stable way to sync a sony erricson phone (k800i) with > linux (calendar and contacts)? > > I tried to google but all I found was seriously outdated, the main > current reference seems to be opensync which I tried at the time but it > failed miserably and

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Jochen Schulz wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev: >> >> You are right, that I'm not targeting the same approach. Migration of >> data and services involves too much manual work. However I was thinking >> that after replacing the package sources in source.list you could fo

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Two more pieces of information: > debian-liv:/home/liviu# lspci | grep -i audio > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) > 01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller > > Also, I just downgraded alsa-utils to stable 1.0.1

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > for 2.6.30: > li...@debian-liv:~$ cat /proc/asound/devices > 0: [ 0] : control > 1:: sequencer > 4: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent <--- different > 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback > 17: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback > 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio captu

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > OK, thanks for confirming, so I could cheat the installer by copying over > the passwd and group files after partitioning is done and go on with the > system install. Then apply set-selection and after this migrate the config > and data files from

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:17:26AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> >> > Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users >> > actually determined during install? My experience is that these >> > users actually p

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > I've just migrated from kernel 2.6.26 to 2.6.30, and I am unable to > configure sound. The issue seems similar to the one I had initially in > 2.6.26, but in the newest testing kernel `alasactl init' no longer > solves the issue. The switches Master and PCM are n

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> bit. What you seem to be suggesting is different -- namely a >> migration from 32 to 64 bit in place. > > exactly.  using dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections, i did a > virgin install on the new 64-bit system to duplicate the packages on > the old system, now i'm

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 13:24:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> if i read this correctly, you're suggesting that if the "server" >> packages already have entries (100-999) in the passwd/group/shadow >> files (carried over from the old system), they'll keep the same UID? >> yes

Why CPU 87% when copying to ntfs drive

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Does someone has any idea why this is happening 9126 root 20 0 4636 1072 660 S 87 0.1 5:39.53 mount.ntfs-3g I'm using custom 2.6.31 kernel and lenny in kde. Kernel is optimized for desktop PREEMPT and fast responses I'm trying to copy files from nfs mount to locally attached usb dri

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to >> move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old >> 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to advice on >> the

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
PierPaolo wrote: > maybe not utf-8 but nls=utf8, > then try -o rw,force,nls=uft8, > then hope that initial sectors of the drive (when it is flash too?) aren't > damaged... if you could, try mounting the drive from winzoz, maybe it was > unmounted from there without "safe removing" or such like tha

Re: Right-Alt not working? A possible fix

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Emanoil Kotsev > wrote: >> Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >>> Hello: >>> >>> After a recent testing upgrade (I do it daily, but this happened two >>> days ago), my right-Alt key was not wo

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2009/9/16 PierPaolo : >> try mounting with -o rw,nls=utf-8 >> > > umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount -o rw,nls=utf-8 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/ > mount: block device /dev/sdc1 is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, >

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:10:36AM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev > wrote: >> read the hole thread please, he is saying only the >> installer does not offers grub if ext3 formated. > > I have read the whole thread. If you carefully study the > quoted secti

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > [12405.685764] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on > [12405.685764] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 80 00 This is the issue, and it seems you have a write protection enabled on the stick. read the documentation about this model (or tell us what model it is) check

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > It is /dev/sdb1. I could not find any write protection button on this > usb flashdrive. How can I make this one writeable again? > If it's NTFS use fuse.ntfs to mount. fstab entry example: /dev/hda1 /mnt/c fuse.ntfs locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 IF the above is not the c

Re: Right-Alt not working? A possible fix

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello: > > After a recent testing upgrade (I do it daily, but this happened two > days ago), my right-Alt key was not working properly. Eg, in > Iceweasel, Alt-left should go to the previous page. With the right > Alt key, nothing happened; with the left Alt key, it beh

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 13 September 2009 18:58:17 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> ok, so let's move beyond anecdotes and get into conjecture -- does >> anyone know the debian installer well enough to know *what* >> circumstances will cause said installer to refuse to offer grub as a >> boo

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Jon read the hole thread please, he is saying only the installer does not offers grub if ext3 formated. I should admit that I haven't use the cd installer since I have a bootable usb stick, or live cd #> debootstrap and smile I was thinking it could be the size but i

Re: how to remove a module from initramfs

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Long Wind wrote: > I use etch > during etch installation, a bttv module is included in initramfs with > wrong options > Is it possilbe to remove it? > Thanks! 1 option is to read man mkinitramfs configure and rebuild initram 2 option is to edit by hand 3 option (not sure if it works for bttv) to

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
j...@jretrading.com wrote: > 489951 how big is your boot partition? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Kernel 31

2009-09-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Mark Allums wrote: > Anyone with experience with 2.6.31 yet? Anything we need to know? > What's the consensus? > > Mark Allums And I installed 2.6.31 on Dell Notebook (Latitude D520) and on Intel DG45FX board 4days ago. No issues for now - works just fine. The notebook is also suspending and r

dvb HVR900 unable to enumerate USB device on port

2009-09-09 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hi, I am using lenny stable on a server like machine where I have dvb hvr900 installed. Yesterday I had to reboot and the message below makes it unable to use the dvb device. I recently upgraded to lates level of updates (dbus and udev among all) The kernel it was working with was 2.6.28. I now t

Re: evolution hanging under lenny on AMD64

2009-09-08 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
michael wrote: > I am running Evolution 2.22.3.1 on my AMD64/Lenny box: > > 22:06:17 ~$ uname -a > Linux amd64 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 14 07:12:04 UTC 2009 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > but it frequently hangs when I quit Evo... here's a partial gdb attached > log... any ideas? ta, M > > [Switch

Re: megaHAL

2009-08-31 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Charles Kroeger wrote: >> why just not installing it and giving it a try - it's very simple. >> I've tried it. It's a chat/conversation engine. > > OK > >>I've written a thesis about dialogue systems, > > Is this online somewhere? not sure - besides, it's in German. It might be published nex

Re: megaHAL

2009-08-30 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Charles Kroeger wrote: > Does anyone here use this conversation simulator and if so are the > conversations interesting? I'm tired of talking to humans, listening to > their drivil. Can this package simulate a human conversation, is megaHAL > like Julie the AmTrak automated assistant? why just

RE: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-26 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Kevin Ross wrote: >> From: JoeHill [mailto:joeh...@teksavvy.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:14 PM >> > Is there something in your ~/.xinitrc, ~/.Xsessionrc, or ~/.xserverrc >> file >> > causing startup to fail? >> > >> > Have you looked for errors in the ~/.xsession-errors file? >> >> Ok

Re: Help with dict-client in Lenny?

2009-08-26 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
s. keeling wrote: > Charlie : >> On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:56 -0600 "s. keeling" >> shared this with us all: >> >> >Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no >> >"Desktop Environment" on install; I startx into fluxbox). >> > >> >On one of them, dict-client works as exp

Re: [Debian] Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Glen Lee Edwards wrote: >> >>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet >> >> you have the root already >> >> root(hd1,0) is used for setup, I think. >> >>

Re: problem compiling kernel

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Bernard wrote: >> >>You really could use the recent 2.6.30.4. There were different problems >>with 2.6.20 to 2.6.30. I find 2.6.30.4 the best I've had since 2.6.20. >> >> > I tried 2.6.30.4. Same result as with 2.6.26.2 : compiles without > errors, but crashes on boot. > so you are missing som

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 10:58 Mon 24 Aug , Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> her /home partition was full, she called me and said "it's broke." I >> logged in as root and deleted the file and it was fixed. >> -- > > thanks Jimmy, > but that couldn't explain my problem, > > 1. No partitions are full.

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Alan Greenberger wrote: > > Thank you for your suggestion. I just tried booting with init=/bin/sh > and unfortunately it got Kernel panic in the same way. > > The box was not upgraded from the Lenny install of half a year ago. It > was just shut down for two weeks. > > How would I skip initrd

Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet you have the root already root(hd1,0) is used for setup, I think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid wrote: >> On Friday 21 August 2009 18:11:27 Alan Greenberger wrote: >>> I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was >>> working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two >>> weeks, it starts to lo

Re: top, www-data and other using LDAP?

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > ¿Anyone? > I'm not using ldap right now, but I think you are missing the system users in your ldap. there was/is a setting to tell ldap from which user id it should count, or better you say pam/nss to use ldap only with ids above a give one. It's always a matter o

RE: motherboad for desktop

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
David Christensen wrote: > I'm currently considering the Intel DG45ID motherboard.  It has everything > I need, including Intel's best video chip (X4500ID): if you need this for a server - yes. I think I bought earlier this year this same mainboard I'm not very happy with intel graphic chipsets

Re: problem compiling kernel

2009-08-23 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Bernard wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >>Bernard wrote: >> >> >> >> >>Compiling md in the kernel is the right approach to boot from raided root >>without initrd. You can try this just skipping (deleteing the line in grub >>temporary) >

Re: Playing 8-bit raw Audio with mplayer

2009-08-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Martin McCormick wrote: > mplayer -quiet -rawaudio samplesize=1:channels=1:rate=8000 -demuxer > rawaudio \ /tmp/ This was interesting experiment, but I don't hear such a thing. what do you see in ratio (see below) from mplayer for me it's ratio: 8000->8000 uname -a Linux maistor 2.6.30.4eko2 #

Re: problem compiling kernel

2009-08-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Bernard wrote: > > 2.6.30.4 does compile all right, so does 2.6.26, but 2.6.20 does not. you find out why in the archives > Problem is that I still can't boot those I compiled, i.e. 2.6.26. because > the initrd.img is buggy. I did find something, still it is not enough to > get the process to w

Re: safe to purge older versions of installed software?

2009-08-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Dean Sutherland wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the command you're >> after is apt-cache rdepends packagename >> >> d...@subspace:~$ apt-cache rdepends gcc-4.1 >> gcc-4.1 >> Reverse Depends: >> linux-headers-2.6

RE: "Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory."

2009-08-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Kevin Ross wrote: >> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Emanoil Kotsev >> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:50 PM >> >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> > * followed docs to upgrade kernel alone to 2.6.18 (based on >> > etch releas

Re: "Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory."

2009-08-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > * followed docs to upgrade kernel alone to 2.6.18 (based on > etch release notes) you are writing this today - the kernel in use should be 2.6.30 whatever I posted howto boot manually - then you have to recreate initramfs that's all you have to update also few things l

Re: problem compiling kernel

2009-08-21 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Bernard wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >>Bernard wrote: >> >> >> > > >> >>why not just compile it on your notebook (or copy a compiled kernel) ?! >> >>you also can just disable the loading of the sound modules to make it more >

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