Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-16 Thread Tim Day
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:57 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Alternatively, you can try the UUID= for mounting the > drive. Is there any reason to think the UUID version will work any better than labels ? If I have the labels method working fine with 2.6.18, why would they not work with 2.6.26

Re: radeonhd on R5xx based card + dri very slow

2009-02-16 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
On Monday 16 February 2009 05:53:00 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:14:36 +0100 > Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > [snip] > > > glxgears > > 1008 frames in 5.0 seconds = 201.471 FPS > > 1226 frames in 5.0 seconds = 245.142 FPS > > 1237 frames in 5.0 seconds = 247.393 FPS > > 1236 fr

Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:40:51 +, Tim Day (tim...@bottlenose.demon.co.uk) wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:57 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Alternatively, you can try the UUID= for mounting the > > drive. > > Is there any reason to think the UUID version will work any better than

Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 16 February 2009 08:40:51 Tim Day wrote: > Currently (2.6.18) I have a hda (the IDE drive) and an sda and sdb for > the 2 SATA drives. Is there any way to predict where the hda drive will > move to under 2.6.26 ? (ie should it appear as sda and the two existing > sd* drives will move up

Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-16 10:05 +0100, Bob Cox wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:40:51 +, Tim Day > (tim...@bottlenose.demon.co.uk) wrote: > >> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:57 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> > Alternatively, you can try the UUID= for mounting the >> > drive. >> >> Is there any reason

Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:13:52 +0100, Sven Joachim (svenj...@gmx.de) wrote: > On 2009-02-16 10:05 +0100, Bob Cox wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:40:51 +, Tim Day > > (tim...@bottlenose.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:57 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >> >

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

2009-02-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 05:00:50 +, T o n g wrote: [...] > Done as you suggested. Here are the results: > > # modprobe -r snd_via82xx gameport snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm > snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi > snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device s

Lenny upgrade Report

2009-02-16 Thread P. Lane
Successfully upgraded to Lenny from stock Etch with desktop task selection yesterday. All went well, except (like the other Lenny report) had a problem with the xserver refusing to start do to an error, and exim4 paniclog being none empty error, which caused things depending on exim4 to be left in

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:22:37PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > But neither of these help in case a stupid user receives an e-mail saying: > > Run 'sudo dpkg -i FreePornPics.deb to see 's > secret sex tape'. No, but it still wouldn't get far because, unlike all the major Windows malware t

Re: backports keyring

2009-02-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 19:07:23 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2009 18:46:42 Robert Holtzman wrote: > > Tried "apt-get install debian-backports-keyring" and got the message > > > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! > >debian-backports-keyrin

Lenny upgrade: Can't mount mdadm RAID drive under kernel 2.6.26

2009-02-16 Thread S D
Hi, Just finished "dist-upgrade" to lenny from "etch". It appears that after the upgrade the system can no longer assemble and mount mdadm RAID drives under the etch kernel 2.6.26. I still can assemle and mount my mdadm RAID drives under the kernel 2.6.18 from etch. Here's some relevant info:

Re: Lenny upgrade: Can't mount mdadm RAID drive under kernel 2.6.26

2009-02-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach S D [2009.02.16.1221 +0100]: > # cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf > ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=3 > UUID=bdf8a211:fcf6d2af:d7771298:fac716d3 >devices=/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1 > ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid5 num-devices=3 > UUID=2ed75bfb:aed804cd:7cc7e04b:e56f1452 >devic

Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-16 Thread Tim Day
> Probably the reason is that there is no PATA driver for your > controllers. AFAIK these are preferred over the old IDE drivers now. Well this is what I'm thinking based on the apparent lack of any IDE goodness in the dmesg log. If that is the case: - any way of getting them back via a custom

Re: Happy lenny, everyone!

2009-02-16 Thread Henri Salo
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 02:40:37PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > I know most Debian users think that only testing is suitable for this > "desktop use", but my family members use stable for all their needs, > so the lenny release has me very happy that I can now give them an > upgrade to t

Re: Lenny upgrade: Can't mount mdadm RAID drive under kernel 2.6.26

2009-02-16 Thread S D
--- On Mon, 2/16/09, martin f krafft wrote: > Remove those lines with "devices=" and run > update-initramfs -u as > root, then try again. Removed lines with "devices=" and ran "update-initramfs -u -t". The "-t" option was added because, for some reason, update-initramfs complained that the ori

Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-16 10:57 +0100, Tim Day wrote: >> Probably the reason is that there is no PATA driver for your >> controllers. AFAIK these are preferred over the old IDE drivers now. > > Well this is what I'm thinking based on the apparent lack of any IDE > goodness in the dmesg log. If that is the c

Re: Lenny upgrade: Can't mount mdadm RAID drive under kernel 2.6.26

2009-02-16 Thread martin f krafft
Please file a bug against mdadm and make sure to include the output of /usr/share/bug/mdadm/script as root. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp://vcs-pkg.

Re: Happy lenny, everyone!

2009-02-16 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 16 February 2009 10:21:40 Henri Salo wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 02:40:37PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > I know most Debian users think that only testing is suitable for this > > "desktop use", but my family members use stable for all their needs, > > so the lenny release has m

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-16 Thread Ink Bottle
(I cat the two mails you sended) --- On Sat, 2/14/09, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > I switched it to > /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so and tried > again -- and that also played the videos fine! Maybe even > better. > > So let's try to figure out where our systems differ. I I agree :) >

Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking them. I am on http://www.rhapsody.com/channels trying to play one of the music channels. I tried it on Win XP I'net explorer and it said popups were being blocked so I turned off the popup blocker and everyt

Re: upgrade to lenny report

2009-02-16 Thread Kent West
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-02-15 23:59 +0100, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > > >> This morning I upgraded my etch desktop to lenny. >> All went ok but with 3 small issues. >> >> 1) Exim was refusing to start up due to no zero size on the paniclog file. >> The file was reporting a configuration erro

Debian VPN IPSEC interface

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Hilpert
Hallo, ich hänge seit tagen an einen problem. Ich versuche einen VPN verbindung zwischen 2 server zu bekommen, das funktioniert soweit auch nur fehlt mir das entsprechende tunnel interface, was für unbedingt notwendig ist für Firewall und Routing. Ich setz immoment Openswan ein. Martin --

Re: Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-16 Thread tyler
Dennis Wicks writes: > Greetings; > > I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking > them. > > I tried it in Iceweasel 3.0.6-1 and it doesn't work at all, even with > the popup blocker turned off. No messages or anything. It shows the > URL when I hold the cursor on the

Re: Debian VPN IPSEC interface

2009-02-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:30:27PM +0100, Martin Hilpert wrote: Ich versuche einen VPN verbindung zwischen 2 server zu bekommen, das funktioniert soweit auch nur fehlt mir das entsprechende tunnel interface, was für unbedingt notwendig ist für Firewall und Routing. Ich setz immoment Openswan e

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-15_19:51:11, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:33:53PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > A Debian user should not be expected to install just any .deb file. > > > > > > > Ideally speaking, I'd say this holds for any OS: Users should not

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-15_17:26:23, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote: > > [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? > > > > $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittany.deb > > What's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? > sudo rm -rf The Great American Novell / M

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 07:26:38AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > And, without testing it, I'm pretty sure that > > sudo rm -rf / > > is trapped and subject to special handling. At least, it should be, > IMHO. Only one way to find out whether it is or not... Try it! *evil grin* (Well, OK, you

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread H.S.
Paul E Condon wrote: > unaware. I suspect that the security is pretty good. Early on, there > were powerful organizations that would have benefitted handsomely if > Debian had been disrupted, and it wasn't disrupted. But there is Interesting. Care to elaborate a bit? Thanks. -- Please reply

Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41

2009-02-16 Thread Alokat MacMoneysack
Hey everbody, I installed Debian Lenny two days ago. All works fine but I can't use my Wlan card. Does anyone have an idea or can give me documentation? I found a couple of installation guides, but there are for Debian 4.0 only. Thanks for help! Alokat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Debian VPN IPSEC interface

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Hilpert
first sorry for posting german in this section. i know the fact about the openswan and the 2.6 kernel, but i think that isn't useful. is it possible without touching the kernel ( kernel modules are ok) bring the ipsec interface back in game ? is there a better solution then using Openswan

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 02:29:06PM +0700, Cahaya Lilin wrote: > Hello all.. > > I want to know is there Debian linux can install by copy the entire files > in the hard disk to another hard disk ?? > > Because i already install linux in my computer and now i want to install > linux in another com

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-16_09:37:55, H.S. wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > unaware. I suspect that the security is pretty good. Early on, there > > were powerful organizations that would have benefitted handsomely if > > Debian had been disrupted, and it wasn't disrupted. But there is > > Interesting. Care to

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread H.S.
Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-02-16_09:37:55, H.S. wrote: >> Paul E Condon wrote: >>> unaware. I suspect that the security is pretty good. Early on, there >>> were powerful organizations that would have benefitted handsomely if >>> Debian had been disrupted, and it wasn't disrupted. But there is >

Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Alokat MacMoneysack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everbody, I installed Debian Lenny two days ago. All works fine but I can't use my Wlan card. Does anyone have an idea or can give me documentation? I found a couple of installation guides, but there are for Debian 4.0 only. Thanks for help!

Re: upgrade to lenny report

2009-02-16 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:39:11 -0600 Kent West wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2009-02-15 23:59 +0100, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > > > > > >> This morning I upgraded my etch desktop to lenny. > >> All went ok but with 3 small issues. > >> > >> 1) Exim was refusing to start up due to no zero siz

Notice Email User

2009-02-16 Thread Bezeqint . net
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Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

2009-02-16 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:42:51 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Maybe the grml kernel is for some reason not compatible with Debian's > ALSA setup. . . Thanks a lot for the analysis Florian. Basing it, I diverted the discussion to grml . Thanks again. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) htt

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 04:30 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:22:37PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: But neither of these help in case a stupid user receives an e-mail saying: Run 'sudo dpkg -i FreePornPics.deb to see 's secret sex tape'. No, but it still wouldn't get far becau

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 08:26 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-02-15_17:26:23, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote: [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittany.deb What's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? sudo rm -rf

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Avi Greenbury
Ron Johnson wrote: I don't believe it. Show us! In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / rm: cannot remove root directory `/' vm-linux2:/# -- -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/15/2009 11:39 PM, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:48:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Anyway, twice in the past few years, Debian servers have been compromised. One time it was thru a weak DD user password, You implication seems to be "Debian is not secure enough", "Debian" can be

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> I don't believe it. Show us! >> > > In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: > > vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / > rm: cannot remove root directory `/' > vm-linux2:/# That's rather annoying. If I want to shoot mysel

Re: Debian VPN IPSEC interface

2009-02-16 Thread Martin
2009/2/16 Martin Hilpert : > is there a better solution then using Openswan ? this answer may not be welcome here, from what I read OpenBSD is quite nice with handling IPSec... > i hardly need ipsec because of cisco router hardly? Du brauchst das kaum? I think the OP wanted to say: "I d

unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a tex

mediawiki-extension -- README?

2009-02-16 Thread sparcc
Hi, I'm trying to install extensions using the 'mediawiki-extensions' package. There does not appear to be a 'README' in the package http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/mediawiki-extensions/filelist ... and after searching the web... I could just come-up with: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-

Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Khristian
I'm trying to install lenny amd64 here, but the installer doesn't recognize my hard disk as already partitioned when I choose the manual partitioning (it simply shows an unpartitioned 250GB disk). I tried going through the graphical and text installers (both normal and expert), but nothing changed.

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Ink Bottle wrote: >> have the following >> packages installed: >> >> midori 0.1.2-1 >> mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.3-6 >> swfdec-mozilla 0.6.0-4 > > apt-cache policy midori mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla > flashplayer-mozilla > midori: > Installed: 0.1.2-1 > Candidate: 0.1.2-1 > mozilla-plu

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:28:45 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:13:15 -0800 > > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > >>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:16:49PM +, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > We are probably the o

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:42:18PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +, Avi Greenbury wrote: > > > In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: > > > > vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / > > rm: cannot remove root directory `/' > > vm-linux2:/# > > That's rather annoying. If I wan

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/16/2009 04:30 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:22:37PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >>> But neither of these help in case a stupid user receives an e-mail >>> saying: >>> >>> Run 'sudo dpkg -i FreePornPics.deb to see 's >>> secret sex tape'. >

lenny on x86

2009-02-16 Thread Attilio Cucchieri
Hi! Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines using floppy is (or will be) available? Thanks. Best Attilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

named: network unreachable errors since upgrade

2009-02-16 Thread Ross Boylan
About 45 minutes after upgrading bind9 and logcheck I started getting messages like these: Feb 14 10:28:55 corn named[24777]: too many timeouts resolving 'safebrowsing.clients.google.com/A' (in 'com'?): reducing the advertised EDNS UDP packet size to 512 octets Feb 14 10:28:55 corn named[24777]: to

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:16:40 +0100 Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey everbody, > > I installed Debian Lenny two days ago. > > All works fine but I can't use my Wlan card. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html What kind of card do y

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
> In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: > > vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / Here I hold my breath! > rm: cannot remove root directory `/' > vm-linux2:/# > Here I sigh and change my pants. And of course, the ob: http://xkcd.com/242/ -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א

Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:55, Attilio Cucchieri wrote: > > Hi! > > Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines > using floppy is (or will be) available? I don't think there is such a thing, and I doubt there will be. The manual makes no mention of floppies: http://www.debian.org/rele

Graphical Installer: swap and partition table modifications

2009-02-16 Thread Zygmunt Konrad Dabek
My first impressions of the GUInstaller are very favourable as far as I have gone (up to partitioning) but was unable to select a suitable install partition without an overview of the machine configuration in paragraph 3, below. Any chance of displaying partition labels (as in gnome partition mana

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Alokat MacMoneysack : > Hey everbody, > > I installed Debian Lenny two days ago. > > All works fine but I can't use my Wlan card. > > Does anyone have an idea or can give me documentation? > > I found a couple of installation guides, but there are for Debian 4.0 > only. > > Thanks for hel

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Alokat MacMoneysack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:16:40 +0100 > Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hey everbody, >> >> I installed Debian Lenny two days ago. >> >> All works fine but I can't use my Wlan card.

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Jimmy Johnson-- > > Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package > that would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already > installed on the system without actually installing th

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Khristian : > I'm trying to install lenny amd64 here, but the installer doesn't > recognize my hard disk as already partitioned when I choose the manual > partitioning (it simply shows an unpartitioned 250GB disk). I tried > going through the graphical and text installers (both normal and

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Chris Burkhardt-- > > Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package that > > would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already > > installed on the system without actually insta

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Celejar
[Please reply to the list and don't cc. me, as per the code of conduct.] On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:30:24 +0100 Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: ... > Hey, > > I have the: > > Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter > > here is the URL from thinkwiki.org: > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Catego

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Michael M. Moore-- > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian > > package that would test for whether all dependencies of that package > > are already installed on

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Alokat MacMoneysack : > I have the: > > Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter You need to install the firmware-ipw2x00 package from non-free. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-ipw2x00 Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machi

Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kelly Clowers: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:55, Attilio Cucchieri wrote: >> >> Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines >> using floppy is (or will be) available? > > I don't think there is such a thing, and I doubt there will be. > The manual makes no mention of floppies: > http:

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-16 Thread Ink Bottle
Thank you very much for your help :) I found exactly the same results. So now, though it's not a solution, we have a very reproducible problem. And even different cases where it behave the same or not the same. Since you English is far much better than mine maybe you could add the last few lines o

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Paul Yeatman wrote: [...] >> There is a note in the man page about putting the --no-act flag before the >> action: >> >> $ sudo dpkg --no-act -i texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb >> >> Does that make it behave as expected? > > I wish but sadly no: > > $ sudo dpkg --no-act -i texlive-base_2007.d

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
Paul Yeatman writes: > > $ sudo dpkg -i --no-act texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb (Reading > > database ... 138033 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to replace texlive-base 2007.dfsg.1-2 (using > > texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb) ... > > $ echo $? > > 0 > > > > tel

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Chris Burkhardt-- > > Paul Yeatman wrote: > [...] > >> There is a note in the man page about putting the --no-act flag before the > >> action: > >> > >> $ sudo dpkg --no-act -i texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb > >> > >> Does that make it beha

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Khristian
(re-sending the e-mail to the list as well, I always forget to hit the 'reply to all' button :/ ) Yes, I've installed linux some times before, and what I'm trying to do is wipe the current ubuntu install I have to make a clean lenny install (I have /, /home and swap partitions already made). Insid

vino and logging

2009-02-16 Thread H.S.
Hi, Does Vino (the remote desktop server) allow logging of events (something similar to SSH). I have been able to find an vino logs in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages. Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to m

Re: Lenny upgrade: Can't mount mdadm RAID drive under kernel 2.6.26

2009-02-16 Thread S D
--- On Mon, 2/16/09, martin f krafft wrote: > Please file a bug against mdadm and make sure to include the > output > of > > /usr/share/bug/mdadm/script > > as root. > A bug report was sent to sub...@bugs.debian.org. No confirmation that it was received yet, so here's a copy, just in case.

Module-assistant error when installing fglrx ATI proprietary driver. (Debian Sid).

2009-02-16 Thread Carlos Parada
Hi, I'm trying to install the last ATI proprietary driver which I've downloaded from AMD webpage. I did a "sh ati-driver-installer-9-1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/sid" and installed the resulting DEB packages with dpkg. Then, I've run "module-assistant prepare" and "module-assistant auto-inst

RE: Module-assistant error when installing fglrx ATI proprietary driver. (Debian Sid).

2009-02-16 Thread Lalit Dhiri
> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:26:09 +0100> Subject: Module-assistant error when installing fglrx ATI proprietary driver. (Debian Sid).> From: parla...@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org>> Hi, I'm trying to install the last ATI proprietary driver which I've

RE: Module-assistant error when installing fglrx ATI proprietary driver. (Debian Sid).

2009-02-16 Thread Lalit Dhiri
__> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:26:09 +0100> Subject: Module-assistant error when installing fglrx ATI proprietary driver. (Debian Sid).> From: parla...@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org>> Hi, I'm trying to install the last ATI proprietary driver which I've d

setting up vhost for external DNS?

2009-02-16 Thread Zach Uram
I wish to take over a wiki so I am setting it up on my machine however it will use the DNS hosted by someone else so they will setup a CNAME record pointing "wiki.foo.org" to my machine's ip. I have no control over foo.org. So how exactly should I set up the name based vhost in apache or should I

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 12:40 PM, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/2009 04:30 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:22:37PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: But neither of these help in case a stupid user receives an e-mail saying: Run 'sudo dpkg -i FreePornPics.deb to see 's se

Re: unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 11:31 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each lin

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Alokat MacMoneysack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > [Please reply to the list and don't cc. me, as per the code of > conduct.] > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:30:24 +0100 Alokat MacMoneysack > wrote: > > ... > >> Hey, >> >> I have the: >> >> Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter >

Re: Using automake

2009-02-16 Thread Joris Dobbelsteen
Laurent Guignard wrote, On 15-02-09 18:58: Joris Dobbelsteen a écrit : Hello, I'm trying to build a application and was trying to use automake with it. Now I've stumbled upon an issue, see below, I cannot resolve for a few days. I think it is somewhere(tm) in the manual though. Can anyone poin

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:25:50PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of >> dependencies? >> >> I had been using dillo for things like reading html documentation and >> other light-weight tasks, but then I upgraded

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Sure. The keylogger would have to add itself to the "autostart folder", > but that's no mean feat. > I am sorry, what is an auto start folder in relation to Debian or Ubuntu? I would expect it to put a line in .bashrc to start automatically when user logs in or perhaps

Re: upgrade to lenny report

2009-02-16 Thread Kent West
Pavlos Parissis wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:39:11 -0600 > Kent West wrote: > > >> Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> On 2009-02-15 23:59 +0100, Pavlos Parissis wrote: >>> >>> >>> This morning I upgraded my etch desktop to lenny. All went ok but with 3 small issues. >>>

Re: setting up vhost for external DNS?

2009-02-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zach Uram: > > I wish to take over a wiki so I am setting it up on my machine however > it will use the DNS hosted by someone else so they will setup a CNAME > record pointing "wiki.foo.org" to my machine's ip. I have no control > over foo.org. > > So how exactly should I set up the name based vho

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/13 Marc Shapiro : > Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of > dependencies? > lynx -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 03:55 PM, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Sure. The keylogger would have to add itself to the "autostart folder", but that's no mean feat. I am sorry, what is an auto start folder in relation to Debian or Ubuntu? The same people who would install NakedBrittany.deb are the sam

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Alokat MacMoneysack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Levi wrote: > 2009/2/17 Alokat MacMoneysack : >> I have the: >> >> Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter > > You need to install the firmware-ipw2x00 package from non-free. > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-ipw2x00

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 04:01 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/2/13 Marc Shapiro : Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of dependencies? lynx Much less capable than links2. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> lynx > > Much less capable than links2. > I see that I'm late to the party! I should have read the whole thread and seen what was suggested before replying. I personally have never tried links2, but I will try it soon. Thanks, Ron. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.i

Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-16 Thread S D
After dist-upgrade from etch to lenny, I'm trying to run lenny using 2.6.18 kernel that I have left over from etch, as I'm having issues assembling mdadm RAID drives under the new 2.6.28 lenny kernel (For more info see http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/b97fd9

[OT]: new to squeeze, everything OK

2009-02-16 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Well, I know, today it should be the same as lenny. BUT "No"!!! 208 updates!! All went OK. Thieery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Ink Bottle
I've found this little script around something I've heared about recently; it's a command dedicated to check dependencies. I don't know it it can be of some use. It's been hard to make it work (that's the bad part :) ). $ export LANG=C; 2>/dev/null apt-cache show $(dpkg-query -l "*"|grep "ii"|cu

unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text fil

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dave Ewart wrote the following on 02/16/2009 10:42 AM: On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +, Avi Greenbury wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I don't believe it. Show us! In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / rm: cannot remove root directory `/' vm-linux2:/# That's ra

unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread wix
Greetings; I regularly use the -a option in unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text file

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-16_10:29:02, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/16/2009 08:26 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: >> On 2009-02-15_17:26:23, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote: [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittan

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Celejar
[Once again, please reply to the list and don't cc. me, as per the list code of conduct.] On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:44:36 +0100 Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Celejar wrote: > > [Please reply to the list and don't cc. me, as per the code of > > con

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 06:11 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-02-16_10:29:02, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/2009 08:26 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-02-15_17:26:23, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote: [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this?

Re: unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
dgwicks:~# unzip -v UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which makes me think it might be something else that unzip interacts with. But I have no idea what it might be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
sudo rm -rf / is trapped and subject to special handling. At least, it should be, IMHO. >>> >>> I don't believe it. Show us! >> >> Ron, why don't you try to command and see for yourself? Its easy >> enough to do it. I just don't have the time. Cough. Cough. > > Boyd(?) asserted the

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