Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970 [solved]

M. Lewis wrote: Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:40 PM, M. Lewis wrote: Thorny wrote: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:58:32 -0500, M. Lewis posted: I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little success. The problem I'm running into is installing grub. My .iso

Re: default kernel of 5.0 distribution

On 2009-03-21 10:02 +0100, Angelin Lalev wrote: > Hi, shouldn't the compilation date of default debian kernel be the > same on all debian installations. Only if you use the same architecture and distribution. > I have machine which says 10 Jan 2009 and I have a machine which says 13 Mar. > The b

default kernel of 5.0 distribution

Hi, shouldn't the compilation date of default debian kernel be the same on all debian installations. I have machine which says 10 Jan 2009 and I have a machine which says 13 Mar. The both machines are P4 with 686 kernels. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: default kernel of 5.0 distribution

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Angelin Lalev wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2009-03-21 10:02 +0100, Angelin Lalev wrote: >> >>> Hi, shouldn't the compilation date of default debian kernel be the >>> same on all debian installations. >> >> Only if you use t

Re: VirtualBox on lenny

On Tue,24.Feb.09, 06:12:14, Micha Feigin wrote: > I tried installing that but for some reason after running windows in a box > (which seems to be running rather nicely in initial tests) the color settings > are messed up. Opening lyx for example, it runs using 4 colors and a messed up > pallet. o

Re: Help! Grub is broken

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:09:13 +, Avi Greenbury posted: >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Virus#Threats Good grief, since when has wikipedia become the ultimate resource. Do you notice how many of the references are to anti-virus labs, who have a vested interest in selling software? Nat

Re: Help! Grub is broken

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:57:50 +0800, 明覺 posted: > you are right, it should not be a viruses, maybe it's because my harddisk > is broken, how to check my harddisk? now I have installed a new system on > it and it is working fine now, but I'm afraid it will be broken suddenly > again after a few day

Re: Technical Inquiry

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:17:28 -0700, hadi motamedi posted: > Dear All > Can you please do me favor and provide me with the answer for the > following case at hand : > "We have one HP t5725 server with Debian Linux 3.1 installed but the > operator is getting the following message on the console port

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:30:07 -0600, Robert Hodgins posted: > On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 14:13 -0600, Robert Hodgins wrote: >> Thank you to everyone who has offered suggestions. I'll keep fiddling >> around with this computer. If something works, I'll let you know. >> >> > Turns out the problem was li

Re: Technical Inquiry

On Saturday 21 March 2009 10:21:24 Thorny wrote: > If I remember correctly, Sarge security support ends at the end > of March, this year. They announced that it had ended last year. As I understand it, they took the repositories down this year and archived them. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: default kernel of 5.0 distribution

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-03-21 10:02 +0100, Angelin Lalev wrote: > >> Hi, shouldn't the compilation date of default debian kernel be the >> same on all debian installations. > > Only if you use the same architecture and distribution. > >> I have machine which

Re: VMware

Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:53 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-03-20 21:43 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: The older gcc 4.1.3 is not available in debian.snapshot.net . But it is available from the Debian mirrors in the gcc-4.1 package: , | % LANG=C gcc-4.1 --version |

Re: snd-hda-intel Codec: IDT 92HD73E1X5 support in lenny

Alex Samad wrote: >> what does it mean in human language? > > m-a is part of the package module-assist - it assist in building modules > that are connected/rely upon the kernel source/headers. > > apt-get install module-assist > m-a update prepare > m-a -t build alsa > > this will produce a als

Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

Davide Mancusi wrote: > Hi .*, > > I have an external USB hard disk that I use for automated > backups. I have written the following udev rules: > SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="574341535530323537353839", > KERNEL=="sd?", SYMLINK+="exthd", GROUP="plugdev" SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", > ATTRS{seri

Re: Music Player With Variable Speed

Mitja Podreka wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: >> Any suggestions or comments on easy of use on different playback >> programs? (Many of us have suggest Amarok make a plugin to do this, >> but they don't want to do it, even though they've been told it would >> likely be much more widely used than they

Re: kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

Antonio Diaz wrote: yes it's really odd to post in html what you write sounds like you've xinerama enabled check this regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Why is MythTV not in Debian?

Hello, Why is MythTV only in debian-multimedia? It has a GPL license. What is good way to find out why a package is not in Debian main? I already searched debian-legal. With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- http://www.vandervlis.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: default kernel of 5.0 distribution

Angelin Lalev wrote: > How do I get (easy) the version of the kernel. It seems that the > difference between both versions is not shown in > > uname -a Because they do have the same version. There are just some security fixes backported to that version. To see which _package_ version is installed

Re: Technical Inquiry

Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Jeffrey Cao wrote: > >> Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. >> Then, you can change root password. > > Says he, carefully snipping the admonition in the post he quoted about > top posting. Priceless. I don't actually think that he snipp

Re: kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

Sorry, now I configured my client not to post in html anymore. The xinerama option is off. I have also been posting to the KDE forum but I don't achieve to get it working. The point is that I haven't changed anything of my "xorg" configuration file. I just upgraded my system using the "safe-

Re: Update Applet not working

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:10 AM, JoeHill wrote: >> >> All of a sudden-like, my update applet doesn't work properly. If I give it a >> click, I am asked for the root pass as usual, but then nothing happens. >> >> Nothing. > > Open a root t

Re: Why is MythTV not in Debian?

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Hello, > > Why is MythTV only in debian-multimedia? It has a GPL license. > > What is good way to find out why a package is not in Debian main? > I already searched debian-legal. > Assuming that some piece of software is DFSG-Free, the o

Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:31:50 +0100 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Upto 2.6.26 I know there is a delay_use option for usb_storage. > It's set to 5sec by default. I didn't look for such an option in > 2.6.28, but as delay_use is doing nothing I assume it was either > removed or replaced. > > What you desc

Re: kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

According to the following post, it seems to be a bug related to the latest kwin package: http://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2009/03/msg00139.html There is something broken with xinerama. Regards, Antonio Diaz wrote: Sorry, now I configured my client not to post in html anymo

Re: Why is MythTV not in Debian?

Christofer C. Bell schreef: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Paul van der Vlis > wrote: > > Hello, > > Why is MythTV only in debian-multimedia? It has a GPL license. > > What is good way to find out why a package is not in Debian main? > I already se

different version on mirror

This seems backwards to me: apt-cache policy clive clive: Installed: 1.0.2-1 Candidate: 2.1.6-1 Version table: 2.1.6-1 0 990 ftp://debian.uchicago.edu testing/main Packages 200 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages *** 1.0.2-1 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/

MagmaLinux 9.3 has benn released

We are glad to anounce the release of MagmaLinux 9.3 Magmalinux is / provides : Prebuilt ISOs in 77 Languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Danish, Portuquese , ...) Graphical and Very Simplified Installation 4 different Editions : OFFICE , HOME (OFFICE + games)

Re: Technical Inquiry

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:57:29PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 March 2009 13:50:27 Jeffrey Cao wrote: > > On 2009-03-20, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 20 March 2009 09:01:17 Sudev Barar wrote: > > >> 2009/3/20 Jeffrey Cao : > The method suggested by Doug would still not give you

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:22:58 + Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:47:56PM -0500, Chris wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:50:50PM -0700, prad wrote: > > > > > > > > i am running the 32bit version of lenny. > > > > Interesting... If one has 32-bit installed, is there s

Re: Technical Inquiry

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:30:35 +, Lisi Reisz posted: > On Saturday 21 March 2009 10:21:24 Thorny wrote: >> If I remember correctly, Sarge security support ends at the end of >> March, this year. > > They announced that it had ended last year. As I understand it, they took > the repositories do

Re: MagmaLinux 9.3 has benn released

Cavit Cahit VURAL said: > We are glad to anounce the release of MagmaLinux 9.3 A thought: maybe a link would be of assistance... Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes "The Barsoom Project" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

new hidden files

This morning rkhunter found three new hidden files: Warning: Hidden directory found: /etc/.java Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.udev Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.initramfs Is this anything to worry about? -- "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his

Re: MagmaLinux 9.3 has benn released

Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Cavit Cahit VURAL said: We are glad to anounce the release of MagmaLinux 9.3 A thought: maybe a link would be of assistance... Cybe R. Wizard http://www.magmalinux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

[long] UML hangs

Greetings, I'm experimenting with UML on Debian 5.0. In the virtual machine I run debian 5.0 too. I managed to get it to work. Well, sort of, because after 1-2 minutes after I log on with ssh, the whole virtual machine hangs. I need help. I have appended some details below. I start the whole thin

Streaming Video from a Debian box

Do I understand that there's no pre-packaged Debian solution for streaming videos from the Debian/apache box to other clients, similar to how YouTube streams videos? I found Icecast, but the official site indicated it's an audio streamer only, although I saw a reference or two elsewhere about it p

Re: [long] UML hangs

SOLVED! I forgot to do mkswap on the prizm.swapfs. Now everything works fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

status of backports?

Is it just me, or is backports.org in trouble? -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

mysql server stopped and i cannot restart

I am running 2.6.18-5-amd64 For some reason, the mysql server stopped and I cannot restart it. I have not upgraded and the machine was running nominally otherwise for 120+ days. $cat /var/log/messages | grep mysql Mar 21 12:04:57 localhost mysqld_safe[7775]: started Mar 21 12:04:57 localhost

Re: screen multidisplay with terminals resized

green wrote at 2009-03-07 13:36 -0700: > Kelly Clowers wrote at 2009-02-28_09:19 -0700: > > As for the actual problem of resized terms (especially within screen), > > I unfortunately don't know of a good solution. You could try on the > > awesome mailing list or IRC. > > Yeah, I will have to try t

Re: any tool to produce a report of bad sectors of my harddisk?

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:23:26PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, 明覺 wrote: > > > As my machine crashed 2 times in the last 10 days, both caused by file > > system issues, so I want to get a report of my harddisk to know > > whether my harddisk is really in a very bad situation.(thoug

Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

Davide Mancusi wrote: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:31:50 +0100 > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Upto 2.6.26 I know there is a delay_use option for usb_storage. >> It's set to 5sec by default. I didn't look for such an option in >> 2.6.28, but as delay_use is doing nothing I assume it was either >> removed

Re: kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

Antonio Diaz wrote: >Sorry, now I configured my client not to post in html anymore. > >The xinerama option is off. I have also been posting to the KDE > forum but I don't achieve to get it working. The point is that I haven't > changed anything of my "xorg" configuration file. I just upg

Re: status of backports?

Ian Zimmerman wrote: Is it just me, or is backports.org in trouble? Did I miss something? Why would it be "in trouble"? Their website seems to be down (atm) but it's all still working for me. Jens. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Technical Inquiry

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:13:44AM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:57:29PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > The method suggested by Doug would still not give you write access, > > which you would need in order to change root's password. > Well, once you're root (with init=/b

Re: kde, dual monitor, maximize windows to the current monitor

On Mar 21, 1:10 pm, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Antonio Diaz wrote: > >    Sorry, now I configured my client not to post in html anymore. > > >    The xinerama option is off.  I have also been posting to the KDE > > forum but I don't achieve to get it working. The point is that I haven't > > changed a

Re: status of backports?

Jens> Did I miss something? Why would it be "in trouble"? i...@matica:~$ httping -t 5 -h 194.8.57.6 PING 194.8.57.6:80 (http://194.8.57.6:80/): timeout receiving reply from host timeout receiving reply from host timeout receiving reply from host timeout receiving reply from host timeout receivin

Re: status of backports?

Ian Zimmerman wrote: Jens> Did I miss something? Why would it be "in trouble"? i...@matica:~$ httping -t 5 -h 194.8.57.6 PING 194.8.57.6:80 (http://194.8.57.6:80/): timeout receiving reply from host timeout receiving reply from host timeout receiving reply from host timeout receiving reply from

concern about the state of Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been using Debian on my servers, desktops, and laptops for several years. This morning, there was an update for my main server (lenny amd64); I ran it and rebooted, like I have hundreds of times before, and I got to spend 3 hours finding a way aro

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:20:16 +0100 Chris wrote: > I went ahead and installed the 64 bit version. I'm actually very happy > at the performance. > ya i went to 64 last night too and we're sure that things are working faster - particularly starting applications! this discussion has been very enlight

Re: status of backports?

My apologies for the bad cut-and-paste work in my previous post. I didn't have X installed and removed the wrong parts from aptitude's output. Anyway, I can still update and install (tmw is just some random game) from backports. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: concern about the state of Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ghe wrote: > The nagios3 package won't uninstall because the prerm shell script has a > trivial syntax error (missing 'then' after an 'if') that would have been > detected instantly if it had ever been run. There've been bugs filed > against this; as

Re: concern about the state of Debian

* ghe [2009-03-21 13:35:03 -0600]: > Oops! While I was trying to get my mail server back online, the Debian > MTA was trying to send me mail saying this bug had been closed... Long day? -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: concern about the state of Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Patterson wrote: >> Oops! While I was trying to get my mail server back online, the Debian >> MTA was trying to send me mail saying this bug had been closed... > > Long day? All morning :-( - -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -BEGIN PGP

Re: MagmaLinux 9.3 has benn released

>> We are glad to anounce the release of MagmaLinux 9.3 Good for you, there's a list called debian-announce. You could even get away with debian-user and debian-news, but what's the point of spamming 10+ debian lists to announce this? Several of the lists you used are not in english, yet your mess

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

> Well, I guess that is a matter of philosophy. I did not think a bigmem > kernel was "stock". AFAIK "stock kernel" in this context means that I did not build my own. I just "aptitude install linux-image-2.6.28-1-686-bigmem" and go on with my life. > Also, we might have a discussion of the meani

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

> It's a different approach taken than the 1:3 gb split. You are paying > a performance penalty for accessing the higher part of the memory as > it requires trickery and you will probably see a gain by using a amd64 > kernel (you can keep the 32bit userspace) It has its advantages and disadvantage

unpack and pack initrd

nice day, I need to edit the initrd.img, but found that things that seem wrong initrd. I do it as follows: ~~ r...@etchrouter:~# md5sum /boot/initrd.img-2.6.25-2-amd64 17e4647d1e75160d474f10385cf63095 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.25-2-amd

Bridging with firestarter and dhcp3-server.

I'm attempting to bridge wlan0 with eth0. I've done this successfully in the past with firestarter and dhcp3-server. However I'm running into some issues trying to set this up now. What I have done in the past is set eth0 static, and enabled internet connection sharing in firestarter. Which en

Copy data from a failed LVM drive

I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Thanks, Mike -- A bad random number generator: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4.33e+67, 1, 1, 1 15:40:

Re: SOLVED Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

> Discussing this has inspired me to put another line on my hobby list, I > will eventually drag out an old P1 100MHz I have and try loading Lenny on > it. Or, maybe I shouldn't thank you for that, it's not like I don't > already have enough projects. FWIW, I find that running Lenny on a 64MB mac

Re: unpack and pack initrd

> r...@etchrouter:~# gzip -dc < /boot/initrd.img-2.6.25-2-amd64 | cpio -i [...] > r...@etchrouter:~# find . -print -depth | cpio -o -H newc > >/var/lib/tftpboot/initrd.img [...] > + Problem, the new file is that it does not work :-) > Please someone advise me how to do it correctly? I don't know

Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive

> I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the > drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? > Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on each drive?

Re: mysql server stopped and i cannot restart

Quoth harland christofferson at 2009-03-22 02:39... > For some reason, the mysql server stopped and I cannot restart it. I > have not upgraded and the machine was running nominally otherwise for > 120+ days. ... > Does anyone have suggestions? I've been reading all morning but haven't > found anyth

Re: How to install WLAN on Acer 4530

> > Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:57:55 +0800 > > From: rju...@gmail.com > > Subject: How to install WLAN on Acer 4530 > > > > Does somebody know how to install Wifi driver for my Acer 4530? On 18.03.09 13:37, João Batista Amorim de oliveira Junior wrote: > Get the package: > > http://madwifi-projec

Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive

Stefan Monnier wrote: I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on ea

Re: Technical Inquiry

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 02:13:23PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:13:44AM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:57:29PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > The method suggested by Doug would still not give you write access, > > > which you would need in o

Re: Laptop

On Fri,20.Mar.09, 22:55:45, Victor Padro wrote: > 2009/3/20 Andrei Popescu > > Unglaublich! Keiner von euch hat auf die deutschsprachige Liste > > (debian-user-german) hingewiesen. > > > isn't this list supposed to be an english only spoken? > :) > claro, cualquiera puede decir lo que quiera. So

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

Stefan Monnier wrote: Well, I guess that is a matter of philosophy. I did not think a bigmem kernel was "stock". AFAIK "stock kernel" in this context means that I did not build my own. I just "aptitude install linux-image-2.6.28-1-686-bigmem" and go on with my life. Also, we might have a dis

Re: Technical Inquiry

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 05:52:20PM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 02:13:23PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Shouldn't.. > > > > # mount > > > > .. tell you all you need to know? > > > > Or are you referring to something else? > > Well, if you look in /etc/rcS.d, yo

Re: VirtualBox on lenny

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:49:26 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,24.Feb.09, 06:12:14, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > I tried installing that but for some reason after running windows in a box > > (which seems to be running rather nicely in initial tests) the color > > settings > > are messed up. O

Re: Copy data from a failed LVM drive

>>> I had a drive failure (SMART errors) on a drive with LVM. I've replaced the >>> drive, but now need to copy the data from the old drive. How can I do this? >>> Vgscan only shows the VG of the 'current' drive. >> Are both drives connected? If so, have you created different VGs on >> each drive?

Re: How to install WLAN on Acer 4530

> What's wrong with debian packages named madwifi-source and madwifi-tools? Indeed, I'd just do: # module-assistant auto-install madwifi potentially preceded by # aptitude install module-assistant if needed, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: concern about the state of Debian

* ghe [2009-03-21 13:42:04 -0600]: > All morning :-( Was it the recent kernel upgrade, or something else, you think? -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

clamd and freshclam won't run

I'd appreciate a clue as to what's going on: since today's update (sid on two IBM laptops), neither clamd nor freshclam will start. The error message changes according to the directory from which the command /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon or /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam is given. Here's a sample: root

Re: Streaming Video from a Debian box

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:54:09 -0500 Kent West wrote: > Do I understand that there's no pre-packaged Debian solution for > streaming videos from the Debian/apache box to other clients, similar to > how YouTube streams videos? ... > So, what's the solution for setting up my own Youtube-like servic

Re: How to setup a PPPoE Server?

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 07:43:50PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Thanks Johannes, > > Hmmm, now I have searched again the Debian Packages and it seems, the > "Roaring Penguin PPPoE server software" is not in Debian... > > Do you know why? Because the description of the package pppoe is lac

Re: Help! Grub is broken

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:58:13 -0700 Thorny wrote: ... > Naturally any of this is opinion on both sides. It isn't really possible > for me to give data that shows something doesn't exist. And, you have > no reason to believe me or anyone else but will you please review this > article by Rick Moen,

Re: MagmaLinux 9.3 has benn released

2009/3/22 Nuno Magalhães > >> We are glad to anounce the release of MagmaLinux 9.3 > > Good for you, there's a list called debian-announce. You could even > get away with debian-user and debian-news, but what's the point of > spamming 10+ debian lists to announce this? Several of the lists you >

Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused

Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to download mail. An identitical .fetchmailrc works on a different laptop, both running uptodate sid. Here's a sample error message: 2 messages for JohnRChamplin at pop-server.columbus.rr.com (11760 octets). reading message johnrc

Which timezone does the cron use in Debian?

Dear my friends I've the scheduled task in cron to shutdown my debian server at 17:15. But my debian box does shutdown at 14:00. Lookslike it uses another timezone. Because if I do this way: " debby:~# date Sun Mar 22 07:36:47 CIT 2009 " and the date and time is correct. They're the same as

Re: concern about the state of Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Patterson wrote: > Was it the recent kernel upgrade, or something else, you think? Well, this morning's kernel upgrade is what triggered it, but I think the real cause was something updated earlier, and this was the first reboot. There are 2 se

user shutdown

Hello, I have had a couple of users accidentally shutdown computers, because there is a shutdown button under the log off button on the Systems dropdown menu. I had thought the default for debian was to disable user shutdown (ie. root only), but apparently this is wrong, or has changed. How c

Re: new hidden files

In <20090321141923.go1...@niof.net>, Rick Pasotto wrote: >This morning rkhunter found three new hidden files: > >Warning: Hidden directory found: /etc/.java >Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.udev >Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.initramfs > >Is this anything to worry about? The last t

BUG: ... kernel NULL pointer reference ... udevadm timeout

Any ideas where to look for when freshly-installed (Lenny) machine freezes during boot with [ 30.755158] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0170 ... udevd-event[1084]: run_program: '/bin/sh' abnormal exit (here the machine freezes for three minutes) After the udevadm

Re: user shutdown

Hello, Have you try to play with /etc/shutdown.allow (shutdown(8)) Otherwise, I expected to do what you want from System->Preferences->Main_Menu but there is not item corresponding to the `Shutdown Down...' button, a lest on my Lenny box. I am not very familiar with the Configuration Editor,