strange booting issues after hd-crash

Hi everybody, OK, that's how everything started: I re-installed GRUB, but i happend to type "/dev/hda1" instead of "/dev/hda". Very common mistake, killed the boot sector of my Win2K partition. So i tried to rescue it with my Windows-CD which ended up by screwing the whole MBR and losing the par

Re: nxclient stopped working

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 06:07:09PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi I have two machines say A, B. Previously I was able to access > machine A from machine B using nxclient. But recently it stopped Try upgrading to version 2.1.x of the nxclient server, node, and client. They've fixed a lot o

how to use lan network for one application and wifi to surf the net

hello ... i have two types of connections : Lan : 1.5mbps /512kbps Wifi : (for free) 30kps /30kbps i'd to use both of them one for for havy downloads as for bittorent and ftp(azureus , wget , ssh) and all other by wifi(FF,gaim,. how can it be done ? Debian testing

Re: D-Bus error trying to run gaim AND how do i ensure better upgrades?

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 15:50:33 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:49, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 16:19:57 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > i did an upgrade of my testing system recently and afterwards have found > > > a nubmer of problems on my system.

Re: /dev/hd* gone with udev

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:09:53PM -0800, Jason Dunsmore wrote: > I tried downgrading to udev 0.100-1, a version I know worked, but I > saw the same problem. > > Could it be my configuration? My /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules file > contains the following: > > SYSFS{model}="5VLAT80", NAME{all_par

losing mail [was Re: test2 please ignore]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:56:51AM +0200, Debeselis wrote: Please don't top post. > Hi, > > Sorry for the problems if there were any from me:( But I have problems with > this mailing list and I wanted to find what causes them. > > Problem is that when I send my initial e-mail to this list I ca

Re: centralized location for contacts

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:12:15PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > I would like to be able to store all my contacts in a specific location > in my home directory that would be accessible by Evolution, Icedove, and > mutt. Does anyone know of a good way to do this? I've tried using > slapd for a LDAP

Re: Interaction between LVM and RAID

also sprach Manfred Schuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.11.17.2340 +0100]: > In the boot sequence LVM is started before mdadm. It should not be. ls /etc/rcS.d/ [...] S25mdadm-raid@ S26lvm@ [...] > I'd like to report this as a bug, but I don't know if LVM is too early > or mdadm is too late. > > C

Re: xmms-singit, japanese lyrics

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:09:08PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > I tried to install xmms-singit, but how do you actually start it? > This vital information seems to be missing from the README file. I > could not manage it so far. I thought there would be a shortcut, but haven't found it.

Re: /dev/hd* gone with udev

Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:09:53PM -0800, Jason Dunsmore wrote: I tried downgrading to udev 0.100-1, a version I know worked, but I saw the same problem. Could it be my configuration? My /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules file contains the following: SYSFS{model}="5VLAT80",

Re: Some error messages from Cron Deamon

Douglas Tutty wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:11:40AM +0200, Yuriy Padlyak wrote: Hi All, Could you please help me with those error messages? Or I have to submit backup-manager bug? /usr/sbin/backup-manager: line 188: [: 5907376643783245169990: integer expression expected For those

Re: Creating a debian install cd/dvd

Oleg Maloglovets wrote: > * Alan Ianson wrote, On 17.11.2006 04:03: > > Hello List, > > > > My /var/cache/apt/archives directory contains a lot of files I have gotten > > from various sources, mainly the debian archives, security.debian.org, > > debian-multimedia.org and a few others. > > > > I

Re: Adding more than one IP Address

On Friday 17 November 2006 22:58, srg krn wrote: > ip default gateway is configured PER machine and NOT per interface. > So, if you configure your default gateway is "A" all your traffic > that does NOT match a more explicit route will go through "A". > > The question that you are asking for is ho

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings:SOLVED!

I managed to work around the problem. In my xorg.conf file were present the following resolutions: "1680x1050" "1600x1200" "1400x1050" and so on. I removed the "1600x1200" and now everything is displayed properly. The clue was when the xorg log file stated that my virtual screen size was 1680x1

Re: /dev/hd* gone with udev

On Saturday 18 November 2006 06:16, you wrote: > On 11/17/06, Anton Piatek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, mine works but there are loads of rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/ ... > > They should be created for you, but I wonder if your hotplug package was > > interfering? > > Thanks for the help.

Roundcube mail

Hi guys, I'm having trouble getting Roundcubemail (www.roundcube.net) working on Sarge. I have set it up to use mysql, and when I open the page, it gives me this error instead of the login box: "SERVICE CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE! Error No. 1f4)" No useful output in the logs. If I swich to sqlite

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

On Saturday 18 November 2006 01:44, Dave Bellows wrote: > Yet another update. I manually set the display size (according to the > xorg wiki multiplying the resolution by the dot pitch) which did not > help. And then I looked at the log and saw this ominous looking line: > > Virtual Screen Size de

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages

All right, I did "aptitude keep-all" and now it looks like everything is OK. But note that I have also automatic daily "apt-get update". I should have tried first "aptitude dist-upgrade" before keep-all. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependenc

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages

On 11/17/2006 01:30 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default. Use synaptic > instead of aptitude. > > RLH Au contraire... The docs are quite explicit about this: use *aptitude*. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.htm

Re: Writting on encrypted partion with Debian sarge reading with Knoppix

Hi Max, Am Dienstag, 22. August 2006 18:02 schrieb Max Vozeler: > Hi Rainer, > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 06:46:22PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > What I did: > > > > On the Sarge side: > > > > modprobe blowfish > > modprobe cryptoloop > > losetup -k 256 -e blowfish /dev/loop0 /udev/mdisk5 > > <.

Re: emacs without documentation nonsense

On 2006-11-15, Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-11-15, hendrik wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:00:37AM +, Tyler wrote: >>> I don't know that it's enough reason to go on living, but you will find >>> those docs (in)conveniently stored in the package >>> emacs21-common-non-

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 03:32:44PM +0100 or thereabouts, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > All right, I did "aptitude keep-all" and now it looks like everything is > OK. But note that I have also automatic daily "apt-get update". I should > have tried first "aptitude dist-upgrade" before keep-all. Act

Re: centralized location for contacts

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 23:51 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:12:15PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I would like to be able to store all my contacts in a specific location > > in my home directory that would be accessible by Evolution, Icedove, and > > mutt. Does anyone k

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages

There is obviously something wrong because I use many of these packages. It wants to remove whole gnome. If I use apt-get, 0 packages are to be removed. Is this some bug in aptitude? I think you can simply, under the Actions menu, choose "Cancel Pending Actions", which should set things str

Re: strange booting issues after hd-crash

I found it out myself - quite embarrassing: I made a mistake reconstructing Grub and my Debian always booted in rescue mode... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nxclient stopped working

On Saturday 18 November 2006 03:52, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 06:07:09PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Hi I have two machines say A, B. Previously I was able to access > > machine A from machine B using nxclient. But recently it stopped > > Try upgrading to version 2.1

Gmail workaround [WAS: Re: test2 please ignore]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:51:51AM +0200, Debeselis wrote: > > > That's the norm with gmail, the exact reason I forget now. I think gmail > > sees the returning mail as a dupe and drops it. But be assured we do > > read you.. :) > > Ok, thanks for the tip:) I promise not to send any additional te

Re: centralized location for contacts

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 09:36 -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 23:51 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:12:15PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > > I have set up a Dovecot IMAP server and Postfix to use ~/.Maildir; it > > > works well. Now I can access mail f

echo/sed combination inserts extra characters

I want to rename a series of photo files downloaded from a camera; the intent is to append the date to the beginning of the file name. The relevant lines are: newdir=`date +%F | sed 's/-//g'` #newdir used to make the directory and to rename the files. new=̈́`echo $i | sed -e 's/_//'` # strip t

Re: echo/sed combination inserts extra characters

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 12:39:26PM -0500, Jesus Arocho wrote: > I want to rename a series of photo files downloaded from a camera; the intent > is to append the date to the beginning of the file name. The relevant lines > are: > > newdir=`date +%F | sed 's/-//g'` #newdir used to make the direct

Re: echo/sed combination inserts extra characters

Jesus Arocho wrote: I want to rename a series of photo files downloaded from a camera; the intent is to append the date to the beginning of the file name. The relevant lines are: newdir=`date +%F | sed 's/-//g'` #newdir used to make the directory and to rename the files. new=Í„`echo $i | s

Re: echo/sed combination inserts extra characters

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/06 11:39, Jesus Arocho wrote: > I want to rename a series of photo files downloaded from a camera; the intent > is to append the date to the beginning of the file name. The relevant lines > are: > > newdir=`date +%F | sed 's/-//g'` #newdir

Re: D-Bus error trying to run gaim AND how do i ensure better upgrades?

On Saturday 18 November 2006 02:11, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 15:50:33 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:49, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 16:19:57 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > > i did an upgrade of my testing system recently a

Re: /etc/ld.so.conf for dpkg-buildpackage issue

Scott Edwards wrote: > I'm building a lib under sarge in a debootstrap chroot as a normal > user (and fakeroot). When it gets to this part, it's trying to modify > the system /etc/ld.so.conf (which is naughty afaict). What's the > proper way to prepare this? > > Thanks > > - Scott. Hi Scott,

Licensing (GFDL)

Hallo. I'm _ordinary_ user of *Free* operating system, full name of which is `x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-debian'. I hope you know, what Debian is. Just in case: What's DFSG? It's a way to apply real-life rules. It's much more that just to have a license in src direct

Re: Changelogs on packages.debian.org

> I seem to be having issues getting any sort of change logs on > packages.debian.org either via aptitude on the server or via web browser on > multiple computers & networks. This is leading me to believe something is > gone awry on the website. > > Any idea on when this functionality will be rest

Re: D-Bus error trying to run gaim AND how do i ensure better upgrades?

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 10:22:59 -0800, tom arnall wrote: [...] > > > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 16:19:57 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > > > i did an upgrade of my testing system recently and afterwards have > > > > > found a nubmer of problems on my system. the most recent is that i > > > > > can

Re: echo/sed combination inserts extra characters

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 12:39:26PM -0500, Jesus Arocho wrote: } I want to rename a series of photo files downloaded from a camera; the intent } is to append the date to the beginning of the file name. The relevant lines } are: } } newdir=`date +%F | sed 's/-//g'` #newdir used to make the direct

counting incoming mail

Hello all, I am using Sarge with Exim4. I would like to get a count of the number of emails coming into the mail server. I would like to count emails that were not delivered also. In other words, I would like to count any attempts at sending an email to my host. Ideally, I could get the counts b

Re: strange booting issues after hd-crash

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 09:49:29AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [edited] > ... how everything started: I re-installed GRUB, but i happend to type > "/dev/hda1" instead of "/dev/hda". killed the boot sector of my Win2K > partition. So i tried to rescue it with my Windows-CD which ended up > by sc

Re: how to use lan network for one application and wifi to surf the net

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 11:38:25AM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > hello ... > i have two types of connections : > Lan : 1.5mbps /512kbps > Wifi : (for free) 30kps /30kbps > > i'd to use both of them one for for havy downloads as for bittorent and > ftp(azureus , wget , ssh) and all other by wifi(FF

Remote Install

Somewhere in a basement on the other side of the planet from me sits a machine with an x86 processor, no OS, and 160GB of local drive space. I want to install Debian Sarge onto it. The only person near enough to do it has no computer experience, although I've convinced them & they're willing to do

Smoothing disk I/O

Is there a mechanism for smoothing disk I/O in a similar fashion using nice to smooth CPU usage? I often find that certain disk-intensive tasks put the system into high wait-state load averages, and system performance as a whole suffers. Nicing the process doesn't really help, as the system won't

Re: Smoothing disk I/O

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 14:00 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Is there a mechanism for smoothing disk I/O in a similar fashion using > nice to smooth CPU usage? I often find that certain disk-intensive tasks > put the system into high wait-state load averages, and system > performance as a whole suffe

Re: counting incoming mail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/06 09:08, Scott Lair wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using Sarge with Exim4. I would like to get a count > of the number of emails coming into the mail server. > I would like to count emails that were not delivered also. > In other words, I wou

Re: Mount digital camera

A quick google of 'Sony DSC-W30 linux' showed that mounting might only work since kernel 2.6.16, ie. from debian etch or a sarge kernel from backports.org Trrhaa, I installed a etch version of debian which uses 2.6.17. Now I can do a 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera' and everything works fine.

UDEV Question

Anyone here have a Microtek SCSI scanner? In the past I've used scsiadd -s which would add the new device, this still works with udev but the symbolic link/permissions/etc are never created correctly. When I run the udev scan utility, my model does not have a specific name, just "Scanner" - bu

module load order

Hello all, I am trying to change the order that my disk modules are loaded. Is this possible? Specifically, I have an adaptec aic7xxx module, a sata_via, and a sata_promise. I looked at modconf, but I don't see any way to change the order, only wether or not they get loaded. Running etch. tha

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to configure the firewall to only allow or deny connection > attempts from certain ip addresses? I set my firewall to only allow one connection pr minute pr ip address. So, if you fail the connection, the firewall will drop all connection

Re: Help with configuration of Apache 2.2 and VirtualHost

Someone? 2006/11/17, Gunnar Björkdahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello everybody I am working on a setup of both name-based and ip-based virtualHost:s in Apache2.2 on a debian server. Why I am mixing is because i will use SSL for the ip-based virtualHost:s. Is there any problems mixing? Could som

Re: localhost in /etc/hosts

On 17.11.06 08:25, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-11-14 09:19:09 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > I do and I did. However, "hostname -s", contrary to hostname's manual page, > > does not return first segment of the system hostname, but resolves the FQDN > > first and returns first segment

Re: usb drive errors with automount

> On 11/17/06, Roby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Seems like doing an umount after/during unplug would lead to data loss > >if the device had been written to recently. How do buffers get flushed? No. It's the unplugging device without unpluggins/syncing, what causes data loss. On 17.11.06 22:18,

Re: module load order

On 18.11.06 18:42, Scott Lair wrote: > I am trying to change the order that my disk modules > are loaded. Is this possible? > > Specifically, I have an adaptec aic7xxx module, a sata_via, > and a sata_promise. I think putting them into /etc/modules in required order should work. Unless they are

Re: Smoothing disk I/O

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 14:00 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > Is there a mechanism for smoothing disk I/O in a similar fashion using > > nice to smooth CPU usage? I often find that certain disk-intensive tasks > > put the system into high wait-state load

Re: module load order

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 18.11.06 18:42, Scott Lair wrote: > > I am trying to change the order that my disk modules > > are loaded. Is this possible? > > > > Specifically, I have an adaptec aic7xxx module, a sata_via, > > and a sata_promise. > > I think putting them into /etc/modules i

umount /proc/bus/usb/ && modprobe -r usbcore??

Hi I run a mostly-ubuntu system on my dell latitude d820, but pull a few packages from Sid & compile my kernels from debian sources which I patch with the suspend2 patches, because suspending to ram and to disk are both unreliable with the ubuntu kernels. In recent weeks something has happened t

Re: Remote Install

I remember reading somewhere that there is a way to set up a configuration file which Debian-Installer can read (so, essentially, you pre-select all of your answers). I have never done this myself, so I cannot tell you anything else. I think I read it on debian.org, if that helps. I am not sure t

Re: smooth upgrades

I assume that you mean that upgrades do not break your system. Testing is always better at this than Unstable. Etch is a particular example, because it will become stable soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smooth upgrades

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:47:21PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > I assume that you mean that upgrades do not break your system. Testing > is always better at this than Unstable. Etch is a particular example, > because it will become stable soon. > Upgrades in testing or unstable always risking b

Lingo VOIP and modem training probs

I set up a trial ISP at home with a 30-day trial of Lingo for VOIP, a USR 56K external modem, and the latest install of Debian. I followed the ppp configuration according to http://tvilda.stilius.net/callback_en.php My goal is to use my home setup as an ISP to permit my PDAs to dial via bluetoot

Re: echo/sed combination inserts extra characters

Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to rename a series of photo files downloaded from a camera; the intent > is to append the date to the beginning of the file name. The relevant lines > are: > > newdir=`date +%F | sed 's/-//g'` #newdir used to make the directory and to > rename

RE: NFS Setup/Configuration (WORKING)

SPIDAS ! YOU DA'MAN !!! Thank you SO much...I followed your steps and they worked PERFECTLY !!! Not to mention...you little tutorial here is better than anything I looked at on the net. You hit every piece DEAD-ON. I can not thank you enough... Thanks for everything I will be

Re: Remote Install

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:00:08PM -0800, Jason Self wrote: > Somewhere in a basement on the other side of the planet from me sits a > machine with an x86 processor, no OS, and 160GB of local drive space. > I want to install Debian Sarge onto it. The only person near enough to > do it has no comput

(Urgent, but not debian-specific): Firefox has very strange behaviour

Hi, I encountered a very strange problem in Firefox today. I use firefox 2.0, Mozilla package (not the repository one). Firefox, when loading my site (lgrinberg.org) is displaying an old version of the site. Now, when I say old version, I mean an *old* version, one that I cannot imagine to exist

Re: (Urgent, but not debian-specific): Firefox has very strange behaviour

Also, it does not appear that any other sites are affected (those I have checked seem fine), but it appears that it is an isolated incident to my site. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UDEV Question

Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone here have a Microtek SCSI scanner? > > In the past I've used scsiadd -s which would add the new device, this > still works with udev but the symbolic link/permissions/etc are never > created correctly. > > When I run the udev scan utility, my mode

Re: debian 3.1r3 netinstall cd couldn't be mounted

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 06:40:50PM -0800, deva seetharam wrote: > > hello all, > > i have a system with a gigabyte mobo (ga-965sp-s3) with intel > > Pentium-D 925 processor. i am trying to install debian stable (3.1 > > r3) using the netinstall cd. although the cd is read and i get the > > "pres

Re: (Urgent, but not debian-specific): Firefox has very strange behaviour

So, when I wrote the email I was at MIT. I am currently at my house, and it appears to be fine now. Perhaps it was something with their network... Anyways, if it happens again, I will post. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Smoothing disk I/O

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 06:24:35PM -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > FYI, it looks like ionice has been included in the sid version of > schedutils (v1.5.x). Tried it. Yes, that seems to do the trick. Thanks for the pointer. -- Unabashedly littering the information superhighway with detritus like t

Re: Remote Install

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:00:08PM -0800, Jason Self wrote: > Somewhere in a basement on the other side of the planet from me sits a > machine with an x86 processor, no OS, and 160GB of local drive space. > I want to install Debian Sarge onto it. The only person near enough to > do it has no comput

Kernel config question on Hitachi HTS541080G9SA00, Intel 945pm Express, SATA drive on Dell e1505 Inspiron

Marc D Ronell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Is it currently possible to configure a linux kernel to directly > (without an initrd image) boot from a Hitachi HTS541080G9SA00 drive > which I believe is a SATA-I serial ATA drive. I believe my machine is > using an Intel 945pm chip

HP Deskjet 648C using USB won`t work

Hi, I've an HP Deskjet 648C printer. There are both parallel and USB interfaces on the printer. I've been using it on the parallel interface using CUPS. I now want that parallel interface for a parallel only printer. The Deskjet I want to move to USB. The printer works fine in Ubuntu 5.10,

Understanding nfsd thread stats

The NFS Howto is pretty cryptic about how to read nfsd thread statistics. AFAICT, if I have the following output: $ cat /proc/net/rpc/nfsd rc 0 832888 1838270 fh 0 0 0 0 0 io 1230212044 2485604185 th 16 205835 4865.996 293.876 452.380 4.160 166.324 138.216 118.876 126.344 6.62