Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

2009-07-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Miles Bader wrote: > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: >>>As a side note, it took quite a few steps to setup LVM + a larger /. >>>By default / is only ~6G, who in the world can live with that when my >>>/home is 650G ? Anyway system seems to be fine now. >> >> My des

[SOLVED] Re: RKWard on Squeeze requests backend

2009-07-09 Thread AG
AG wrote: Hello On Squeeze, am wanting to use front end to R (RKWard). Error msg is: "R backend requests information" with a text box titled "Selection". I don't know what it is looking fo and attempt to provide paths (e.g. /usr/lib/R, and so on) but nothing takes. Then click cancel and th

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread Serge van Ginderachter
2009/7/9 Alex Samad : >> Creating a swap partition on a software RAID device isn't ideal. It is >> better to create a swap partition on each of the physical devices and >> give them the same priority (in /etc/fstab). That's only one example, >> you could also use a disk that isn't part of the RAID

Re: How about NUMA?

2009-07-09 Thread Masood
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:49 PM, lee wrote: > Hi, > > under what circumstances are you supposed to turn on NUMA support in > the kernel settings? I've googled about that and learned what NUMA is > about while trying to answer the question wheather I should enable it > in my kernel or not. But I co

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread linuksos
Hi, here are some LVM basics to get you started.. http://www.linuxconfig.org/Linux_lvm_-_Logical_Volume_Manager lubos On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Serge van Ginderachter wrote: > 2009/7/9 Alex Samad : > >>> Creating a swap partition on a software RAID device isn't ideal. It is >>> better to

Making And Ignore

2009-07-09 Thread David Baron
The renicing daemon and will reset POSITIVE or 0 nice levels to processes after certain running times (or can send kill signals for negative numbers). Is there any way to have is ignore/exclude specific processes? Alternative renicers that work as well or better? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread lee
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:33:01PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > Creating a swap partition on a software RAID device isn't ideal. > > what happens if there is something important swapped out and that drive > dies ? I could understand not wanting to put it on lvm and then raid1. When the swap par

Re: Gwibber: call for testing

2009-07-09 Thread Filip Chabik
Dnia 2009-07-08, śro o godzinie 20:47 +0700, Rustam pisze: > I'm now using 1.2.0 (as you asked), but I couldn't "build-dep" gwibber > since there are missing dependecies I guess. So, I tried the "old way" > by extracting the gwibber_1.2.0+bzr346.orig.tar.gz, but first I must > download the python-m

Re: movies in a beamer (latex) presentation and linux (movie15)

2009-07-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:48:55 +0530 (IST) Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I tried to use the package movie15 to include a movie in a beamer > > presentation (latex via lyx) which worked great under windows but > > doesn't work under linux. > > Maybe this is an

Re: How about NUMA?

2009-07-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:49:00 -0600 lee wrote: > Hi, > > under what circumstances are you supposed to turn on NUMA support in > the kernel settings? I've googled about that and learned what NUMA is > about while trying to answer the question wheather I should enable it > in my kernel or not. But I

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach lee [2009.07.09.0707 +0200]: > Why do you need LVM? LVM offers features that RAID does not. If you want those features, you need LVM. > The RAID array must be partitionable, which is an option you > eventually need to specify when creating it. I don't know what the [...] > To clarify

Re: movies in a beamer (latex) presentation and linux (movie15)

2009-07-09 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Micha Feigin schreef: On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:48:55 +0530 (IST) Girish Kulkarni wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Micha Feigin wrote: I tried to use the package movie15 to include a movie in a beamer presentation (latex via lyx) which worked great under windows but doesn't work under linux. Maybe thi

NFS4 crash system - Sent bug report to which package

2009-07-09 Thread Jochen Kohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, I try to mount directories exported with nfs4 on the same server. Sometimes the mount process wait (hold), then a kernel message occur (see above) and the system crash. I don't know to which package this error is related to create a Bug-Report.

Blog farming with pyblosxom and apache2?

2009-07-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm having some trouble figuring out how to get multiple pyblosxom instances working on the same server. I thought I could do it like so: ServerName foo.example.com ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ DocumentRoot /var/www/foo RewriteEngine

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:19:44AM -0600, lee wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:33:01PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > Creating a swap partition on a software RAID device isn't ideal. > > > > what happens if there is something important swapped out and that drive > > dies ? I could understan

Re: ext4 - 52.2% non-contiguous

2009-07-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 06:49:09PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote: > After initially building the filesystem I ran fsck which showed > something like 0.7% if I remember correctly. I then copied about 60GB > from an ext3 via rsync after which the fragmentation showed up. by default, rsync copies a fi

apt configuration takes too long on installation

2009-07-09 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I always have in the installation debian, this pb : The apt- configuration takes a long time, giving the nice message : please wait In fact the installator tries to get packages from internet ( when I switch CTRL+ALT+F2, I find the process http ), in the /target/etc/apt/sources.lst t

no xorg.conf on debian5.02

2009-07-09 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I was suprised by the xorg on debian 5.02 (the latest release). There is no file xorg.conf in /etc/X11. I want to change the resolution for the screen to 1280x1024 , 1024x768 and the default Keyboard , where to do ii. In another word from where the xorg takes the parameter for the X ( keybo

Re: no xorg.conf on debian5.02

2009-07-09 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:54 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I was suprised by the xorg on debian 5.02 (the latest release). There is no > file xorg.conf in /etc/X11. > I want to change the resolution for the screen to 1280x1024 , 1024x768   and > the default Keyboard ,  where to do ii. > In

Re: apt configuration takes too long on installation

2009-07-09 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:39 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I always have  in the installation debian, this pb : The apt- configuration > takes a long time,  giving the nice  message : please wait > In fact the installator tries to get packages from internet ( > when I switch CTRL+ALT+F

Re: Gwibber: call for testing

2009-07-09 Thread Rustam
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 10:22 +0200, Filip Chabik wrote: > Dnia 2009-07-08, śro o godzinie 20:47 +0700, Rustam pisze: > > I'm now using 1.2.0 (as you asked), but I couldn't "build-dep" gwibber > > since there are missing dependecies I guess. So, I tried the "old way" > > by extracting the gwibber_1.2

Surgery and Aftermath

2009-07-09 Thread David Baron
I compiled 2.6.30-2 off Sid, built and booted up just fine. Firmware-linux for matrox cards is incorrect. So I tried some surgery. I tool mga-warp.c and mga-ucode.h from 2.6.28, which had working firmware, and placed in the 2.6.30 sources (after having saved the orignal mga-warp.c and the worki

Re: [BUG] CD image

2009-07-09 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Luis Maia schreef: First sorry for using the mailing list and not bug-report but i didn't find it would fit as the debian-cd package bug. I'd just wanted you to take a glance at [http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13431] and hope next image would get this fixed. I had to boot without

Re: When you needed newer software than Sid/Backports provide...

2009-07-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I appreciate Boyd's enthusiasm but I hope he will be a bit careful checking facts and learn best practices. On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:45:56PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090708155214.ga5...@osamu.debian.net>, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:41:44AM -0500, Boy

yahoo connection failing in Kopete and pidgin

2009-07-09 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have noticed that since past some weeks I am not able to connect to Yahoo on Kopete and pidgin. The status says "connecting" in both applications. Anyone else having this problem? I have kopete 4:4.2.2-1 pidgin 2.5.6-1 Thanks, ->HS -- Please reply to this list only. I read this l

Re: yahoo connection failing in Kopete and pidgin

2009-07-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,09.Jul.09, 12:38:34, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed that since past some weeks I am not able to connect to > Yahoo on Kopete and pidgin. The status says "connecting" in both > applications. Anyone else having this problem? > > I have > kopete 4:4.2.2-1 > pidgin 2.5.6-1 This is

Re: yahoo connection failing in Kopete and pidgin

2009-07-09 Thread Rustam
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 12:38 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed that since past some weeks I am not able to connect to > Yahoo on Kopete and pidgin. The status says "connecting" in both > applications. Anyone else having this problem? > > I have > kopete 4:4.2.2-1 > pidgin 2.5.6-1 >

[libpam-opie] pam_opie.so does not lock user

2009-07-09 Thread Peter Jordan
Hello, on a debian lenny system with installed and configured libpam-opie you can have more then one session at a time to attempt to authenticate a user. Meaning /etc/opielocks/ is not used. So race attacks on OTP are possible. Is that a bug in the old package or a misconfiguration on my part? t

Re: Re: no xorg.conf on debian5.02

2009-07-09 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks for reply, But I have to do it during the installation, the content of the file /etc/apt/sources is already read and used. thanks bela

PSI hangs when I try typing.

2009-07-09 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. PSI of both versions - that are in stable and testing as well hangs when I try typing. W/ top I see is loads whole CPU. Does not send any more pockets. I use KDE 3.5.10.dfsg.1-2 for instance. W/ Gajim - it is pretty well. But I want to move KDE-based jabber. How I can fix it? Please an

RE: Module.symvers is missing; modprobe error

2009-07-09 Thread Kushal Koolwal
> Normally you can ignore that warning. Not sure about this. If I ignore the warning than the kernel modules that get build do not load properly. The give an: insmod: Invalid module format -1 error message. Also they don't get loaded using modprobe. I have to use the dumb insmod command. > Any

Re: apt configuration takes too long on installation

2009-07-09 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Please, I said : I used full CD1 lenny 5.02. Ok, thanks, Pratically I want to stop all processes using the access to internet like for example: rdate which tries to adjust the time from remote servers dhclient ( Ok for this we can disable the parameter at the boot)

Re: apt configuration takes too long on installation

2009-07-09 Thread Neal Hogan
((bela, I suspect you meant to reply on this thread. So, I cp'd it below)) On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:39 AM, abdelkader > belahcene wrote: >> Hi, >> I always have  in the installation debian, this pb : The apt- configuration >> takes a long time, 

Re:MTA

2009-07-09 Thread pch0317
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Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:34:13AM +0700, Vilasith Phonepadith wrote: > > I am trying with LVM+RAID, and I did some tests. I need your help for the > installation of Lenny. > > Problem: I have to install Debian with the requirements as follow:partition: > use the system of LVM for partitionning

Re: No audio after recent upgrade

2009-07-09 Thread Kent West
lee wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:03:45AM -0500, Russ Cook wrote: > > >> I have since found that I have no audio. >> > > Did you turn up the volume settings (for various things like "Master" > and "PCM" and whatever is needed) with alsamixer or alsamixergui? > > > I haven't paid mu

Re: Nokia bluetooth set won't pair anymore

2009-07-09 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:31:59 +0200 Klistvud wrote: > Plz hlp! http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread lee
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 08:43:13PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:19:44AM -0600, lee wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:33:01PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > Creating a swap partition on a software RAID device isn't ideal. > > > > > > what happens if there is some

Re: apt configuration takes too long on installation

2009-07-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:13:22PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Please, > I said : I used full CD1 lenny 5.02. > Ok, thanks, > Pratically I want to stop all processes using the access to internet like > for example: > rdate which tries to adjust the time from remote servers >

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread lee
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:42:16AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach lee [2009.07.09.0707 +0200]: > > Why do you need LVM? > > LVM offers features that RAID does not. If you want those features, > you need LVM. Yeah, but that wasn't what I was asking. I tried to find out what features

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread lee
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:47:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >In the partitioner, set /dev/sda1 as /boot. /boot needs to be >separate from the RAID+LVM setup in order to be accessible by the >bootloader, though it's possible grub2 will fix this at some point. >Keeping it separate

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread thveillon.debian
lee wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:47:36PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > >>In the partitioner, set /dev/sda1 as /boot. /boot needs to be >>separate from the RAID+LVM setup in order to be accessible by the >>bootloader, though it's possible grub2 will fix this at some point. >>K

sorbs

2009-07-09 Thread pch0317
Hi List I have problem with mail system. I can't send e-mail to internet. I have been listed on dnsbl.sorbs.net. What I can do to delisted from sorbs? Should I only use this link http://www.au.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/support and everything will be ok? Anyone have this problem? Why I have been listed on

Re: sorbs

2009-07-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a565205.3070...@gmail.com>, pch0317 wrote: >I have problem with mail system. I can't send e-mail to internet. >I have been listed on dnsbl.sorbs.net. >What I can do to delisted from sorbs? Ask SORBS; Debian has nothing to do with SORBS. >Should I only use this link >http://www.au.sorbs.net/c

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach lee [2009.07.09.2204 +0200]: >-a, --auto{=no,yes,md,mdp,part,p}{NN} > Instruct mdadm to create the device file if needed, > possibly allocating an unused minor number. "md" causes > a non-partitionable array to be used. "mdp", "part"

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach thveillon.debian [2009.07.09.2215 +0200]: > It is possible to boot from mdadm software raid1 with grub2, in Lenny > and Squeeze. But I would worry about the lvm, I don't think this is as > straightforward, maybe not even possible at this point (to be > double-checked anyway). grub2 c

Re: When you needed newer software than Sid/Backports provide...

2009-07-09 Thread Akira Kitada
Hi, I understand Aoki-san's concern. There's no easy way to find out whether a package can be trusted or not. I'd use stow for the moment. It would work for my purpose in most cases. Someday I might like them to be packaged to deploy them in easy way. Even in that case, I'd still keep those thing

Re: No audio after recent upgrade

2009-07-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,09.Jul.09, 14:31:13, Kent West wrote: > > It's a third machine of mine, so I haven't worried about it; I've got > other things to worry about. But thought I'd mention it, just for the > record. This might be a different issue. Make sure you have phonon-backend-xine installed and phonon-ba

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread Alex Samad
[snip] > > > > what happens if there is something important swapped out and that drive > > > > dies ? I could understand not wanting to put it on lvm and then raid1. > > > > > > When the swap partition quits working, the system might stop > > > working. So the question is what's more important,

Re: Sound pause

2009-07-09 Thread Chris
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:37:30 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,26.Jun.09, 20:48:08, Chris wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Allow me to apologize upfront for the generic question. > > When 5 came out I moved from Ubu with antici ... pation (Sorry, > > couldn't help it. Was listening to the Rocky

Re: sorbs

2009-07-09 Thread kj
pch0317 wrote: What I can do to delisted from sorbs? Should I only use this link http://www.au.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/support and everything will be ok? You could do whatever they ask and then pray they actually de-list you. It's not a guarantee though. Which sites are blocking you based on SORBS

Re: Making And Ignore

2009-07-09 Thread green
David Baron wrote at 2009-07-09 02:31 -0500: > Alternative renicers that work as well or better? I have not used any renicers, but I have noticed the 'and' package; you may want to try it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

DebConf9 Schedule Page Timezone

2009-07-09 Thread Steve
Hello, I'm looking forward to this year's DebConf in Caceres and I apologize in advance if this question is answered somewhere on the debconf web site (I haven't found it in an obvious location). What timezone is the schedule on the web page? For example, DebConf Day 1's schedule [1] shows "U

Re: RAID1 file corruption(?)

2009-07-09 Thread Steve
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:38:06PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:28:16AM -0500, Steve wrote: > > > When transferring large files (100 to 1500mb) to the mount point > > using scp the transfer almost always results in a corrupt file, by > > which I mean that the md5sum of the file d

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:45:08PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach thveillon.debian > [2009.07.09.2215 +0200]: > > It is possible to boot from mdadm software raid1 with grub2, in Lenny > > and Squeeze. But I would worry about the lvm, I don't think this is as > > straightforward, mayb

s2disk no longer working

2009-07-09 Thread Celejar
Hi, Suspend to disk has stopped working for me with bleeding edge kernels: ~$ uname -a Linux lizzie 2.6.31-rc2-wl-lizzie-27873-ga483c23-dirty #4 Thu Jul 9 19:13:30 EDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux This is a self-compiled kernel from the wireless-testing git repo. I think that the configuration is prett

Is there a way to preseed UCF questions?

2009-07-09 Thread Chris Hiestand
I am upgrading several systems from etch to lenny, and ideally I should be able to preseed every question. The main problem I'm having is with UCF questions (ie should this configuration file be overwritten by the package maintainer's version?). There are some ucf questions in /var/cache/de

Can VMware ever talk to USB scanners?

2009-07-09 Thread Steve Kleene
I just installed VMware Server 2.0.1 on a Linux host (fresh Lenny install). The client is Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. I am unable to connect from the XP client to my USB scanner, an Epson Perfection 2400. I did install a USB Controller on the VM. The USB dropdown at the top of t

Re: apt pinning to blacklist a package

2009-07-09 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:51:54AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [You wrote to me directly instead of the list. I'm putting it back, > untrimmed, because others could help] > That was unintentional. Thanks for forwarding it to the list. > On Wed,08.Jul.09, 20:20:14, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Wed

Re: s2disk no longer working

2009-07-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
I've not had any success with resume from s2disk for so long that I've given up on it. I just get a kernel panic on restart. Hibernate to RAM works flawlessly. >From a recent thread on the Linux-Thinkpad mailing list, it seems s2disk has been broken for several kernel releases. - Nate >> --

To build debian packages from source

2009-07-09 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, what is the best tool to build debian packages from source that one have downloaded with apt-get source package-name and changed the downloaded source? -- Regards, Paul Chany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: yahoo connection failing in Kopete and pidgin

2009-07-09 Thread H.S.
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,09.Jul.09, 12:38:34, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have noticed that since past some weeks I am not able to connect to >> Yahoo on Kopete and pidgin. The status says "connecting" in both >> applications. Anyone else having this problem? > > This is a known problem, d

Re: ext4 - 52.2% non-contiguous

2009-07-09 Thread Miles Bader
"Todd A. Jacobs" writes: > by default, rsync copies a file in small chunks, so copying an entire > filesystem to a drive that is actively in use could certainly cause > fragmentation. Actually shouldn't ext4 do _better_ (than ext3 etc) in such a case, since it does allocate-on-write, allowing it

Re: s2disk no longer working

2009-07-09 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:22:43 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > I've not had any success with resume from s2disk for so long that I've > given up on it. I just get a kernel panic on restart. Hibernate to > RAM works flawlessly. s2disk has always worked fine here, and even now, it's the suspend that's

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

2009-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Roger Leigh [2009.07.10.0131 +0200]: > > grub2 can boot LVM just as well as it can boot RAID1 or RAID5. > > Is this stable for production use, or still in the experimental > stage? It's non-default in lenny still, but it works. That's all I can tell you, sorry. -- .''`. martin f

Re: To build debian packages from source

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin Ross
dpkg-buildpackage will compile the code and create a .deb package that you can then install.

Surgery and Aftermath (SOLVED?)

2009-07-09 Thread David Baron
> compiled 2.6.30-2 off Sid, built and booted up just fine. >Firmware-linux for matrox cards is incorrect. So I tried some surgery. I tool >mga-warp.c and mga-ucode.h from 2.6.28, which had working firmware, and >placed in the 2.6.30 sources (after having saved the orignal mga-warp.c and >the w

Re: apt pinning to blacklist a package

2009-07-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,09.Jul.09, 21:50:43, Rob Owens wrote: > > > That doesn't work either. libmono0 is still installable. > > apt-cache policy libmono0 > > libmono0: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 1.9.1+dfsg-6 > Package pin: (not found) > Version table: > 2.0.1-6 -1 > 500 http://ftp.us