Ah, that webpage did the trick, thanks!
-PT
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <
peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to migrate to firefox 6.0, but I'd like to do it using the
> debian iceweasel distribution. Can anyone tell me how to go about
I would like to migrate to firefox 6.0, but I'd like to do it using the
debian iceweasel distribution. Can anyone tell me how to go about setting
that up?
Thanks in advance,
-PT
That worked, thanks!
-PT
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:00 PM, lee wrote:
> martin f krafft writes:
>
> > also sprach Peter Tenenbaum
> [2011.06.26.0227 +0200]:
> >> I suppose that is possible. However, the workstation has 2 internal
> hard
> >> drives (both
enough to allow them all to initialize properly.
-PT
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:32 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Peter Tenenbaum [2011.06.25.2028
> +0200]:
> > Under ordinary circumstances everything works correctly, but when
> > I have my (non-bootable) Seagate FreeAg
I'm having a problem with my debian squeeze desktop. The problem is as
follows:
I have a system with a software raid-1 root partition (set up with mdadm)
and a non-raid boot partition. The system uses grub2 as its bootloader.
Under ordinary circumstances everything works correctly, but when I ha
at 9:04 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <
peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there --
>
> I am running squeeze with a non-RAID boot partition and a RAID-1 main
> partition. I use GRUB2 as my bootloader. My problem is the following:
>
> When I have my Seagate FreeAgent USB hard drive
Hi there --
I am running squeeze with a non-RAID boot partition and a RAID-1 main
partition. I use GRUB2 as my bootloader. My problem is the following:
When I have my Seagate FreeAgent USB hard drive connected to the computer,
it's unable to boot, instead it hangs with the "Welcome to GRUB!" me
had no way to know this prior to purchase (and believe me, I tried to find
out). Fortunately a user posted a review to Amazon saying that it worked
for him on his linux desktop.
-PT
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <
peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently had to
I recently had to add wifi to my squeeze / gnome desktop. Based on some
reviews I bought a Netgear WG111 USB wifi adapter, and I found that when I
plugged it into a USB port on my desktop it worked instantly -- no
configuration or package installation necessary.
Is there a repository where these
Hi, everyone --
In the near future I need to change the network setup for my desktop squeeze
workstation so that it uses a wireless internet connection (it's using the
ethernet spigot right now). Can anyone suggest a wireless card or wireless
USB adaptor which has good compatibility / support in
FWIW, I'm running Squeeze, and I just installed iceape 2.0.10, which I
believe is the most recent version of SeaMonkey. I'm running on an AMD64
platform, if that matters.
-PT
PS: I think this is the first time I'm answering a Debian question, rather
than asking it...
I'm running Gnome and Squeeze on my home computer, and I have frequent
problems with the fast user switcher applet. Does anyone else have these
problems?
1. The applet will suddenly stop switching from one particular user to
another (though it switches fine for all other combinations: so f
don't have these problems on my work computer, where I use rsync, but
there I only back up my home directory. Here I'm trying to do the entire
filesystem (actually both the root and boot filesystems). So it's a much
larger world.
-PT
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Peter Tenenbaum w
Well, after having some difficulty getting rsync to do exactly what I want,
I've become convinced to try rsnapshot. I'll let you know how it goes.
-PT
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> Jochen, Paul --
>
> In thinking this over, I think that the
Hi everyone --
My squeeze home machine cannot boot when an external hard drive is connected
via USB. When the drive is disconnected, booting occurs normally; but when
it is connected, I get a "Welcome to Grub!" message and then nothing further
happens.
I've tried going into the boot menu in BIOS
Jochen, Paul --
In thinking this over, I think that the best approach is to simply have a
daily rsync --archive from my main hard drive to the backup drive. While I
understand that more sophisticated backup systems are often useful in a
large system, the system in question is a home computer with
Thanks for all the helpful ideas, all! As it turns out, the solution to my
problem was straightforward: I needed to do a dpkg-reconfigure mdadm, and
specify that all multi-drive arrays need to be started in order to access
root. Once that was completed, update-initramfs produced an initrd.img
wh
Hi again --
I've been having a problem since migrating my file system to RAID-1, which
is that when I run update-initramfs, it produces an initrd.img file which
doesn't work correctly; when I replace it with the initrd.img file which was
constructed by the OS installer, I can boot correctly in my
Paul -- thanks for the suggestions. I guess that, since I am not using a
tape drive for backup, there's no good reason to use dump rather than rsync,
and the latter will leave me with a navigable file tree on the backup
drive. This is what I use at work to back up /home/ptenenbaum (at the
suggest
I've been using dump to perform backups of my home Debian workstation (I run
squeeze, btw). I do a weekly level 0 dump and daily level 1 dumps.
For some reason the level 1 backups are almost as large as the level 0 (the
level 0 is 57.9 GB and the level 1 is 51.6 GB), even though we clearly don't
Hi again --
Does anyone have any post-thanksgiving suggestions for how to handle this
issue?
Thanks in advance,
-PT
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Peter Tenenbaum <
peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my recent experiments with moving my home Debian desktop to RAID-1
&g
In my recent experiments with moving my home Debian desktop to RAID-1
arrays, I discovered that update-initramfs is producing intrd.img-* files
which are unusable. What I mean by that is this:
When I do update-initramfs -u (or -c), it produces a new
initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64. When I attempt to b
I'm running squeeze on my desktop and recently decided to configure it for
RAID-1 as part of my recovery from a hard drive failure. I found an article
online about how to do this:
http://linuxconfig.org/Linux_Software_Raid_1_Setup . I followed the
article's recipe as best I could, but could not i
Never mind. JFGI. Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. I now appear to have a normal
session on my computer, woo hoo!
-PT
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <
peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeeze
> desk
...adding: is it possible that some permission was not set correctly when I
restored backups (the backups were made via dump command).
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <
peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in
I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeeze
desktop computer. After the usual thrashing around I have managed to (I
think) recover all my files and configuration information from backup, get
grub installed, and get all the grub configurations set properly so that
Debia
t the same when I do grub-install /dev/sda1 . Clearly, I have not done
some crucial preparatory step for installing grub from the live rescue CD to
the new hard drive's partition. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
-PT
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <
peter.g.ten
capacity than I really need. Maybe on my next system...
-PT
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Peter Tenenbaum <
peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Klistvud -- excellent, thanks, that is definitely the way to go! I can see
> that the rescue CD from live.debian.net (actually from
hew! Sorry for the huge stack of questions, any and all help,
encouragement, etc, is welcome!
Thanks in advance,
-PT
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Peter Tenenbaum <
peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone -- a few days ago the hard drive in my home Debian system
> starte
Hi everyone -- a few days ago the hard drive in my home Debian system
started making unhappy noises and refuses to boot. I discussed the
situation with knowledgeable people and they diagnosed that indeed the hard
drive had failed and needs replacement.
I have a recent backup of the hard drive whi
use the abbreviation.
-PT
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <
peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, everyone --
>
> I'm having an issue with the fast-user-switcher-applet (2.24.0) on
> squeeze. The problem is this: every so often, it stops switching!
Hi, everyone --
I'm having an issue with the fast-user-switcher-applet (2.24.0) on squeeze.
The problem is this: every so often, it stops switching! I left-click on
it on the panel, pull down to the user I want to switch to, and -- nothing
happens. It seems to be a problem with the applet itsel
Aaron --
I'll be glad to, if you will help me.
Right now I don't reply because I don't get individual messages from the
listserv, I get the digest. Thus I'm sending a new message with the "Re:
" subject every time. Also, I am using gmail (don't know if
that matters). Is there some way to confi
Camaleon --
I've set it so that the screen saver and screen sleep are disabled.
However, I note that since this problem occurs rather infrequently, it will
take more than a day to see whether this helps! Anyway, I can leave it like
this for as long as needed to convince myself that this is (or is
Camaleon --
As far as I can recall, the crashes always occur some seconds after I wake
the monitor from sleep, and usually I am downloading a web page in ice
weasel (not too surprising, since I usually wake the monitor and check
traffic reports first thing in the morning). I've never had a proble
Camaleon --
OK, I've posted a concatenation of the last 3 Xorg log files to
http://pastebin.com/eXhSQyEL . I'm pretty sure that the last one of the 3
(Xorg.20.log) was the one which was in use at the time of the problem, the
next-most-recent (Xorg.0.log.old) was the one which started at that time
Camaleon -- I've looked at several of the Xorg.#.log and Xorg.#.log.old
files, and no error is reported there. All that I can see, in fact, appears
to be startup information, not real log information (no datestamps are
present, for example). Am I looking in the wrong place?
Bob -- I followed you
Camaleon --
That certainly looks like my problem! Now for my next ignorant question:
where do I go to find the kernel command line, so I can see whether it
includes a "vga=" clause? I am using squeeze with all normal default
options, if that helps any.
-PT
Hi, everyone --
I've had 2 instances recently in which gdm unexpectedly crashed and
restarted. This morning, the log reported the following:
Aug 20 06:33:21 tibouchina kernel: [481166.096049]
[drm:i915_gem_do_execbuffer] *ERROR* Failed to pin buffer 35 of 43, total
159727616 bytes: -28
Aug 20 06
, this is how Linux newbies learn, I suppose, and I'm having fun
in the process.
-PT
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> Additional information: looking in the error log, I see that I did in fact
> get this error the last time I tried to print:
>
> E [14/
error (in cupsd.conf?), but for the life of
me I don't know how to fix it.
-PT
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I've been migrating my computer resources over from a 6 year old WXP
> computer to a brand-new Debian Linux one. Most recently I tried to m
I've been migrating my computer resources over from a 6 year old WXP
computer to a brand-new Debian Linux one. Most recently I tried to migrate
our old printer, a Brother MFC-420 CN printer / scanner / fax with USB
connection. Brother has CUPS and LPD drivers for it, and they have 2 sets
of instr
Hi, Ron --
Unfortunately I can't currently reproduce the problem: since I installed
the package using synaptic, aptitude reports that the package is installed!
I think for now we should regard this issue as closed. If it comes up again
(likely, given my absurdly low level of linux competence),
've just
worked around it.
Thanks for all the help, everyone!
-PT
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I've been trying to get Java to work correctly on iceweasel (I'm using
> squeeze and amd64). I managed to get the sun-java6-plugin downloaded and
>
I've been trying to get Java to work correctly on iceweasel (I'm using
squeeze and amd64). I managed to get the sun-java6-plugin downloaded and
installed. Currently, I see /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libjavaplugin.so,
which is a link to /etc/alternatives/iceweasel-javaplugin.so . my
~/.mozilla/pl
Jimmy -- that did the trick, thanks!
-PT
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I did try aptitude update; no luck, I'm still at 2.30.1-2.
>
> -PT
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to upgrade ev
I did try aptitude update; no luck, I'm still at 2.30.1-2.
-PT
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade evince to 2.30.1-3, which has a fix for a segfault
> bug in the version I have now (2.30.1-2). Unfortunately, when I use
> apti
I'm trying to upgrade evince to 2.30.1-3, which has a fix for a segfault bug
in the version I have now (2.30.1-2). Unfortunately, when I use aptitude,
it stubbornly insists that 2.30.1-2 is the latest version and can't find the
2.30.1-3 version. I have the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list:
Ron -- I installed mplayer, and it works! Thanks!
Interestingly, once I'd installed mplayer, totem mysteriously started
working for playing DVDs as well, so now I have a choice.
-PT
2010/6/8 Peter Tenenbaum
> I've been trying to get my new Squeeze installation to play store-
I've been trying to get my new Squeeze installation to play store-bought
DVDs using the Totem movie player and the AMD64 version of libdvdcss2. I
can see the first 12 seconds of the DVD (before the main menu comes up), but
then the player exits. Here is the output stream from running totem at the
Thanks, everyone -- I've successfully resolved both these questions!
-PT
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I just migrated my new workstation from Lenny to Squeeze (the workstation
> is all relatively new hardware, so Lenny was just a bit too old to hav
I just migrated my new workstation from Lenny to Squeeze (the workstation is
all relatively new hardware, so Lenny was just a bit too old to have correct
drivers for everything). Most things are working fine, but I have a couple
of minor questions.
1. In Nautilus, I can't figure out how to make
Wolodja -- thanks, that worked! My NIC now works, and I am in fact writing
this e-mail from my Debian workstation!
-PT
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> Wolodja -- in looking at the instructions on the backports.org website, I
> surmise that the instruction
oes option (1) sound utterly unappealing? I'm inclined to give it a shot,
knowing that I can always fall back on option (2) if I totally botch (1).
-PT
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> Wolodja -- the output from the lspci command is
>
> 00:19.0 Ethernet co
. I'll try that tonight
(right now it's 7:15 AM local time and I'm off to work).
Thanks for the suggestions,
-PT
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I just finished building a new computer around the Intel DH55TC
> motherboard. I would like to configur
I just finished building a new computer around the Intel DH55TC motherboard.
I would like to configure the computer to use DHCP via its built-in
ethernet tap, but the ethernet was not detected or configured on
installation. There is no eth0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces, no eth0
entry displaye
Camaleon -- your suggestion did the trick! I changed the appropriate BIOS
setting to AHCI, and the install was able to continue. The installer is
currently setting up the filesystem on the hard drive...
Thanks for straightening that out for me!
-PT
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Peter
I just started a new thread which supersedes this one, as I think my problem
is not actually a driver problem but the more notorious issue of SATA drives
not being detected (specifically, "No common CD-ROM drive was detected").
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Peter Tenenbaum wr
Hi, again -- I recently posted on an issue with installing Debian Lenny on a
new workstation with a Lite-On DVD writer. I had thought that the problem
was the driver, but it turns out that my problem is a more familiar one, the
"No common CD-ROM drive was detected" error with SATA optical drives.
ed to do a boot from USB drive to
make this work?
-PT
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can find a linux driver for the Lite-on iHAS324-98
> DVD writer? I'm trying to install Debian on a brand-new,
> assembled-from-parts workstation
Does anyone know where I can find a linux driver for the Lite-on iHAS324-98
DVD writer? I'm trying to install Debian on a brand-new,
assembled-from-parts workstation, and I'm getting a complaint about this.
Interestingly, the DVD reader is recognized well enough to boot from the
Debian DVD I inse
.
In any event, with those caveats, perhaps I should ask more generally for
recommendations of netbooks or smallish laptops which people recommend as
being compatible with Debian linux.
Thanks again,
-PT
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I've been thinking about ge
I've been thinking about getting a netbook and I'd like to install Debian
linux on it when / if I do. I'd also like to get one which uses an
AMD64-class processor. Does anyone have any suggestions? The Gateway LT21
looks like just what I want in terms of hardware (ie, fairly low-end but
64-bit);
Hi there --
I'm getting ready to assemble a computer, and intend to use Debian Linux as
the OS. In addition to everything else I want to have a 56k modem for the
computer -- partially as an emergency backup for the network, but mainly so
that I can run a fax and answering machine app on the compu
Mark -- thanks for the warning about the limitations of the built-in video.
I do intend to have Windows 7 on this computer as well, inside of a vmware
cage.
Based on the discussion, I will plan to press ahead with an Intel
motherboard and use onboard video as Plan A. If that proves inadequate, I
OK, you've convinced me to go with the Intel motherboard. Thanks for all
the tips!
-PT
Stan --
It sounds like, if the Realtek drivers are not present on the Debian
distribution, I have at least two options: going to the Realtek site and
downloading their linux 64 bit drivers, or compiling my own kernel from
source on kernel.org. Does that sound about right?
As far as video cards
Mark --
I'm not expecting to be too into 3-D effects, so I'll plan on using the
Debian drivers for the video.
Thanks for the tip about ASUS, I'll look at their motherboards for my
preferred CPU. The Gigabyte does indeed have a large number of USB 2 ports
(8 on the back panel, with support for up
Mark -- thanks for the information! Your explanation of IA64 vs AMD64 is
about what I thought the situation was, but it never hurts to check.
As far as hardware is concerned: I'm planning to use a Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3
motherboard, which in turn uses the Intel P55 Express chipset, the Realtek
ALC
Hello there --
I am planning to assemble a new computer for my home, and to run debian
linux on it. I'm planning to use an Intel Core i5-660 CPU in this
computer. From the documentation, it looks like the correct binary to use
is the AMD64. Is this right? Does anyone know of any problems runni
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