Re: OpenArena incredibly slow after apt-get dist-upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
david.ban...@gmail.com schreef: Folks, Not sure if this is an openarena issue or an xorg issue as both were upgraded during a squeeze dist-upgrade. Openarena is now unplayable slow on a 2.83GHz core2quad system with 8Gb RAM. Two days ago (before the upgrade) it ran like a scalded cat. There

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:10:36AM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > read the hole thread please, he is saying only the > installer does not offers grub if ext3 formated. I have read the whole thread. If you carefully study the quoted section of my mail, you will see that I answered exactly the quest

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:07:04AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried > using ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing > happened. Do you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? If so, do you have "XkbLayout" defined in it? If so, what to?

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:10:36AM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev > wrote: > > read the hole thread please, he is saying only the installer does > > not offers grub if ext3 formated. > > I have read the whole thread. If you carefully study the quoted > section of m

re: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 while getting IP address for eth0 interface using DHCP

2009-09-16 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Hi, I'm still having trouble configuring my wired network interface on Debian Lenny running on HP Compaq Presario CQ61. I put "auto eth0; iface eth0 inet dhcp" (each statment on separate line as shown in debian wiki) into my /etc/network/interfaces file. I ran "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0". I got

re: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 while getting IP address for eth0 interface using DHCP

2009-09-16 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Hi, I'm still having trouble configuring my wired network interface on Debian Lenny running on HP Compaq Presario CQ61. I put "auto eth0; iface eth0 inet dhcp" (each statment on separate line as shown in debian wiki) into my /etc/network/interfaces file. I ran "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0". I got

Re: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 while getting IP address for eth0 interface using DHCP

2009-09-16 Thread Aioanei Rares
Why on Earth need you send the same e-mail message three times in a row? Do you think it'll get you attention? Quite the opposite. Please try to send your dmesg and also look up dhclient. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread PierPaolo
try mounting with -o rw,nls=utf-8 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:36, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > [12405.685764] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on > > [12405.685764] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 80 00 > > This is the issue, and it seems you have a write protection

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/9/16 PierPaolo : > try mounting with -o rw,nls=utf-8 > umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount -o rw,nls=utf-8 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/ mount: block device /dev/sdc1 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing codepage or helper program, or

migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to advice on the easiest and most error-free way to do that. i've already duplicated the software package

Re: Right-Alt not working? A possible fix

2009-09-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> Hello: >> >> After a recent testing upgrade (I do it daily, but this happened two >> days ago), my right-Alt key was not working properly.  Eg, in >> Iceweasel, Alt-left should go to the previous page.  With the r

what is the role of release.gpg

2009-09-16 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, What is the role of Release.gpg in the debian site like for example http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/Release.gpg If I want to create a repository from the CD1, which doesn't contains Release.gpg, is it possible to add and how. The reason for the message is that I want to create a r

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Robert P. J. Day schreef: i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to advice on the easiest and most error-free way to do that. i've already dupl

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Onur Aslan
I suggest you to use low level tools, such as dd or cpio. After copying all files, install grub to your boot device, configure it and fstab (if your device order is different) and finish installation. This can be done without any pain. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:21:52AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wro

Re: OpenArena incredibly slow after apt-get dist-upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
David A. Bandel schreef: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:14, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: david.ban...@gmail.com schreef: Folks, Not sure if this is an openarena issue or an xorg issue as both were upgraded during a squeeze dist-upgrade. Openarena is now unplayable slow on a 2.83GHz core2quad system wi

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
please don't top-post. On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Onur Aslan wrote: > I suggest you to use low level tools, such as dd or cpio. After > copying all files, install grub to your boot device, configure it > and fstab (if your device order is different) and finish > installation. This can be done withou

Can't write iso image to cd [2.6.30]

2009-09-16 Thread Rob Gom
Hi there, I can't write iso image to blank cd under Linux. Under windows xp the same works fine. I tried: a) k3b with wodim (Debian default) b) k3b with upstream cdrtools c) brasero (uses wodim by default) d) upstream cdrecord from command line I have the following dvd writer: ~# hdparm -i /dev/sr

Re: what is the role of release.gpg

2009-09-16 Thread Onur Aslan
Release.gpg is a signed signature for Release file in the repository. Apt checking this signature to own trust db. You can create a signature for Release with: gpg -bas -o Release.gpg Release which defined in the http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt page. After than you should add your public key t

Re: Can't write iso image to cd [2.6.30]

2009-09-16 Thread Aioanei Rares
Rob Gom wrote: Hi there, I can't write iso image to blank cd under Linux. Under windows xp the same works fine. I tried: a) k3b with wodim (Debian default) b) k3b with upstream cdrtools c) brasero (uses wodim by default) d) upstream cdrecord from command line I have the following dvd writer: ~#

Re: what is the role of release.gpg

2009-09-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:28:22PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > What is the role of Release.gpg in the debian site like for example > http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/Release.gpg The cryptographic signature file "Release.gpg" is created from the authentic top level "Releas

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Onur Aslan
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:58:26AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > please don't top-post. > I am not doing. This is my 3rd post to the list. > p.s. i don't want to sound a bit short, but there seems to be an > annoying pattern on this mailing list that people don't actually > *read* the qu

Google'da Üst Sıralara Çıkın!

2009-09-16 Thread Pixelim Bulten
İnternet sitenizin Google aramalarında üst sıralarda görüntülenmesini istemez misiniz? İnternet kullanıcılarının büyük bir kısmı Google'da arama yaparken ilk sayfadaki sonuçlar içerisinden ihtiyacı olan siteyi bulup, geride kalan milyonlarca internet sitesini göz ardı etmektedir. Sizde farkedi

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sjoerd Hardeman: > > Why not just copy /etc, /home, /root and /var, and make sure you do not > follw symlinks in copying. That should do. Not quite. This might lead to problems when UIDs have changed. Some packages (say, Apache) create new users and files which belong to these users. Even if you

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-16 13:46 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Robert P. J. Day schreef: >> i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to >> move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old >> 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to advice on >> the e

Re: OpenArena incredibly slow after apt-get dist-upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 13:51:00 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > David A. Bandel schreef: > >On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:14, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > >> david DOT bandel AT gmail DOT com schreef: > >>>Folks, > >>> > >>>Not sure if this is an openarena issue or an xorg issue as both were > >>>upgrade

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Jochen Schulz schreef: Sjoerd Hardeman: Why not just copy /etc, /home, /root and /var, and make sure you do not follw symlinks in copying. That should do. Not quite. This might lead to problems when UIDs have changed. Some packages (say, Apache) create new users and files which belong to thes

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sven Joachim schreef: On 2009-09-16 13:46 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Robert P. J. Day schreef: i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to adv

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sjoerd Hardeman: > Jochen Schulz schreef: >> >> Not quite. This might lead to problems when UIDs have changed. Some >> packages (say, Apache) create new users and files which belong to these >> users. Even if you install the same set of packages on a new system, you >> have no guarantee that these

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-16 Thread Charles
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:10:13 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-16 05:24 +0200, Charles wrote: > > > Several times lately I have come back to my computer to find it locked up so > > tight I have has to do the alt-sysreq thing. > Kernel version and your video adapter are more useful informat

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Charles schreef: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:10:13 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-16 05:24 +0200, Charles wrote: Several times lately I have come back to my computer to find it locked up so tight I have has to do the alt-sysreq thing. Kernel version and your video adapter are more useful

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Robert P. J. Day schreef: > > i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want > > to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an > > old 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to > > advice on the eas

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-16 13:46 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day schreef: > >> i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to > >> move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old > >> 32-bit system to a new 6

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Jochen Schulz schreef: Sjoerd Hardeman: Jochen Schulz schreef: Not quite. This might lead to problems when UIDs have changed. Some packages (say, Apache) create new users and files which belong to these users. Even if you install the same set of packages on a new system, you have no guarantee t

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-16 15:35 +0200, Charles wrote: > char...@squeeze:~$ lspci > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub > Interface (rev 02) > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated > Graphics Controller (rev 02) Intel 865 is broken w

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-16 15:49 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > a question about mysql. i want to reproduce all the mysql databases > on the new system. is it sufficient to copy all of /var/lib/mysql? > is that where the databases are physically stored? as opposed to > doing mysql dumps and restores? I

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-16 15:57 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users > actually determined during install? My experience is that these users > actually preserve their uid over installations quite well. This is only true for users with a UID < 100,

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-16 16:03 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > I'm no database exports, ^^^ Err, that should read expert, of course. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-16 15:49 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > a question about mysql. i want to reproduce all the mysql > > databases on the new system. is it sufficient to copy all of > > /var/lib/mysql? is that where the databases are physically stored?

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users > actually determined during install? My experience is that these > users actually preserve their uid over installations quite well. nope. for example, on the old system, openldap ac

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sven Joachim schreef: On 2009-09-16 15:57 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users actually determined during install? My experience is that these users actually preserve their uid over installations quite well. This is only true for user

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-16 15:57 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > > Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users > > actually determined during install? My experience is that these > > users actually preserve their uid over installations quite we

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-16 15:57 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > > Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users > > actually determined during install? My experience is that these > > users actually preserve their uid over installations quite we

Re: OpenArena incredibly slow after apt-get dist-upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread ein gedanke
Can you please try to downgrade the libdrm2 package to the one from the stable version? I've had troubles with significant performance loss with the newest version. greetings, vitaminx 2009/9/16 Florian Kulzer > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 13:51:00 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > David A. Bande

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-16 16:25 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> This is only true for users with a UID < 100, as these are defined >> and maintained by the base-passwd package. System users with a >> higher UID get their UID and GID allocated at package install

Re: Can't write iso image to cd [2.6.30]

2009-09-16 Thread Rob Gom
Those are brand CDs (TDK), not causing any problems elsewhere. Regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

snd-pcpn

2009-09-16 Thread mancyb...@gmail.com
Dear List, on a VIA EPIA Mini-ITX board (I've attached the output of the 'lspci' command with this email) I'm trying to get some audio (not just beeps) from the pc speaker, by using the snd-pcsp. I've disable the onboard ac_97 audio card from the bios and now 'aplay -l' returns me: List of

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-16 Thread Charles
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:00:24 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub > > Interface (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation > > 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) > > Intel 865 is broken with all c

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Robert P. J. Day: > > anyway, that's what i'm thinking -- one subsystem or component at a > time, so i can appreciate the distinctions between all the parts. ftp > server. mail server. web server and configuration. > > good idea? too much work? thoughts? As I already said: it clearly is

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:10:36AM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev > wrote: >> read the hole thread please, he is saying only the >> installer does not offers grub if ext3 formated. > > I have read the whole thread. If you carefully study the > quoted section of my mail, you will see t

Printing

2009-09-16 Thread pch0317
Hello I have problem with HP PSC 1310 series printer. I use debian testing, and hpijs packet. The problem is that when I print black text I receive coloured text instead. It is bug? Wher can I search for help? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2009/9/16 PierPaolo : >> try mounting with -o rw,nls=utf-8 >> > > umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount -o rw,nls=utf-8 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/ > mount: block device /dev/sdc1 is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, >

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread PierPaolo
maybe not utf-8 but nls=utf8, then try -o rw,force,nls=uft8, then hope that initial sectors of the drive (when it is flash too?) aren't damaged... if you could, try mounting the drive from winzoz, maybe it was unmounted from there without "safe removing" or such like that, once, long time ago, this

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to > move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old > 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to advice on > the easiest and most error-free w

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:14:40AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > On 2009-09-16 15:49 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > a question about mysql. i want to reproduce all the mysql > > > databases on the new system. is it sufficient to copy

Re: Right-Alt not working? A possible fix

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Emanoil Kotsev > wrote: >> Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >>> Hello: >>> >>> After a recent testing upgrade (I do it daily, but this happened two >>> days ago), my right-Alt key was not working properly.  Eg, in >>> Iceweasel, Alt-left should g

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
PierPaolo wrote: > maybe not utf-8 but nls=utf8, > then try -o rw,force,nls=uft8, > then hope that initial sectors of the drive (when it is flash too?) aren't > damaged... if you could, try mounting the drive from winzoz, maybe it was > unmounted from there without "safe removing" or such like tha

Re: No Input for Audacity

2009-09-16 Thread Thomas H. George
Update: Switched to a Squeeze box. Now using Audacity version 1.3.7 (On the Lenny box version 1.3.5-beta is installed). Initially the problem seemed the same - no signal, view meter inactive. Under Help/Audio Device Info there was a message "Stream is active ... Unable to gather information: V

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to >> move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old >> 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to advice on >> the

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to > > move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old > > 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm

X server hangs in Debian squeeze after upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread aux
Hi, yerterday i did an upgrade of my debian squeeze, some packages of KDE4 and Xorg were upgraded. Since then my X server restarts when i move a window, visit a web or sometime when i move the mouse. The log says: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x81314bb] 1: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHa

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Emanoil Kotsev: > > > Hi, this is a question I was going to ask in few weeks as I planned to learn > how I can migrate from 32 to 64 bit debian distro. > > It looks like it's not possible to just upgrade i.e. replacing the sources > in apt/source.list? You can try finding all occurences of i386

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 12:16:32 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to > >> move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old > >> 32-bit s

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:16:32PM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> > >> i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to > >> move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old >

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:16:32PM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >> > > >> i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i > > >> want to move

[OT?] "5.7.1 relay access denied, please check the message recipient and try again."

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ok, if i can impose on the list yet again (for something that doesn't appear to be something *i* did for a change), a fully-updated lenny mail server suddenly started to generate the above error when its corporate users try to send email from home through that mail server. i've been assured t

Re: [OT?] "5.7.1 relay access denied, please check the message recipient and try again."

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:43:07PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: [...] > Sep 15 23:12:38 main postfix/smtpd[20633]: warning: SASL > authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such > file or directory > Sep 15 23:12:38 main postfix/smtpd[20633]: warning: SASL > authentication fa

RE: [OT?] "5.7.1 relay access denied, please check the message recipient and try again."

2009-09-16 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:43 AM > > Sep 15 23:12:38 main postfix/smtpd[20633]: warning: SASL > authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such > file or directory > Sep 15 23:12:38 main postfix/smtpd[20633]:

nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread Christopher Judd
Hi, After some recent upgrades, I can no longer start the xserver using the nvidia driver. I get the following errors: (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No driv

install problem

2009-09-16 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
This is really an embarrassing question for an old Debian hand to ask, but how do I install Debian? I just bought a "netbook" which has no CDROM drive, but which can boot from a USB stick. I could dd an Ubuntu image to the stick and then boot from it. But I prefer just plain old Debian. I found (

Re: [OT?] "5.7.1 relay access denied, please check the message recipient and try again."

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I'm no postfix expert, but I think there have been some new sasl > related packages lately, and just because saslauthd is running > doesn't mean it's been restarted since new packages may have been > installed. I would look to restart that and tr

Re: install problem

2009-09-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 16 Set 2009, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: This is really an embarrassing question for an old Debian hand to ask, but how do I install Debian? I just bought a "netbook" which has no CDROM drive, but which can boot from a USB stick. I could dd an Ubuntu image to the stick and then boot from i

Re: install problem

2009-09-16 Thread Preston Boyington
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > This is really an embarrassing question for an old Debian hand to > ask, but how do I install Debian? > > I just bought a "netbook" which has no CDROM drive, but which can > boot from a USB stick. I could dd an Ubuntu image to the stick and > then boot from it. But I pr

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,16.Sep.09, 13:24:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > if i read this correctly, you're suggesting that if the "server" > packages already have entries (100-999) in the passwd/group/shadow > files (carried over from the old system), they'll keep the same UID? > yes, that would be convenient if

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:01:57 -0400 Christopher Judd wrote: Hello Christopher, > Any ideas what has happened? Thanks. Did this involve a kernel upgrade? Seems like classic kernel/driver mismatch to my less than expert eye. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is

Re: install problem

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Wagner
* Jan Willem Stumpel 16.09.2009 > I just bought a "netbook" which has no CDROM drive, but which can > boot from a USB stick. I could dd an Ubuntu image to the stick and > then boot from it. But I prefer just plain old Debian. > > I found (through the Debian home page) an image called > debian-5

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 13:24:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > if i read this correctly, you're suggesting that if the "server" > > packages already have entries (100-999) in the passwd/group/shadow > > files (carried over from the old system), they'll k

Re: install problem

2009-09-16 Thread Lee Winter
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > This is really an embarrassing question for an old Debian hand to > ask, but how do I install Debian? > > I just bought a "netbook" which has no CDROM drive, but which can > boot from a USB stick. I could dd an Ubuntu image to the stick

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 15:01:57 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > Hi, > > After some recent upgrades, I can no longer start the xserver using > the nvidia driver. I get the following errors: > > (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia > (II) UnloadModule: "nvi

RE: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Christopher Judd [mailto:j...@wadsworth.org] > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:02 PM > > Hi, > > After some recent upgrades, I can no longer start the xserver > using > the nvidia driver. I get the following errors: > > (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" > (WW) Warning, couldn't open

* Solved * Lenny RAID+LVM Lilo/Grub Error

2009-09-16 Thread Carlos Bergero
Like some ppl say I was intstalling RAID 10 over the 4 sata2 discs, though I've seen a sever running with one RAID 10 a no /boot external partition, I couldnt figured out how that was done, and everyone says Grub doesnt do RAID 10 without external boot. So I'm creating a small /boot parition and

RE: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread marc
Kevin Ross wrote: >> From: Christopher Judd [mailto:j...@wadsworth.org] >> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:02 PM >> >> Hi, >> >> After some recent upgrades, I can no longer start the xserver >> using >> the nvidia driver. I get the following errors: >> >> (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:08:22 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,14.Sep.09, 03:07:04, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last >> week, and used it to install testing. >> >> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using >> ct

Why CPU 87% when copying to ntfs drive

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Does someone has any idea why this is happening 9126 root 20 0 4636 1072 660 S 87 0.1 5:39.53 mount.ntfs-3g I'm using custom 2.6.31 kernel and lenny in kde. Kernel is optimized for desktop PREEMPT and fast responses I'm trying to copy files from nfs mount to locally attached usb dri

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:27:24 -0400, Paul Gallaway wrote: >> I find myself wondering if there's some setting (about the availability >> of ctrl-alt-F1) that has a different default value, and I have to find >> it and change it. > You didn't say but did you try another TTY? ctrl+alt+F2 through F4 >

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 20:30:54 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:08:22 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Mon,14.Sep.09, 03:07:04, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last > >> week, and used it to install testing. > >> >

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread Wayne Topa
marc wrote: Kevin Ross wrote: From: Christopher Judd [mailto:j...@wadsworth.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:02 PM Hi, After some recent upgrades, I can no longer start the xserver using the nvidia driver. I get the following errors: -Chris Rebuilding and reinstalling the

Re: * Solved * Lenny RAID+LVM Lilo/Grub Error

2009-09-16 Thread Martin Kraus
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:14:31PM -0300, Carlos Bergero wrote: > Like some ppl say I was intstalling RAID 10 over the 4 sata2 discs, > though I've seen a sever running with one RAID 10 a no /boot > external partition, I couldnt figured out how that was done, and > everyone says Grub doesnt do RAID

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 13:24:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> if i read this correctly, you're suggesting that if the "server" >> packages already have entries (100-999) in the passwd/group/shadow >> files (carried over from the old system), they'll keep the same UID? >> yes

what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

2009-09-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all I've just migrated from kernel 2.6.26 to 2.6.30, and I am unable to configure sound. The issue seems similar to the one I had initially in 2.6.26, but in the newest testing kernel `alasactl init' no longer solves the issue. The switches Master and PCM are not muted. What else could I try?

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> bit. What you seem to be suggesting is different -- namely a >> migration from 32 to 64 bit in place. > > exactly.  using dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections, i did a > virgin install on the new 64-bit system to duplicate the packages on > the old system, now i'm

Re: install problem

2009-09-16 Thread Till Wimmer
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: This is really an embarrassing question for an old Debian hand to ask, but how do I install Debian? I just bought a "netbook" which has no CDROM drive, but which can boot from a USB stick. I could dd an Ubuntu image to the stick and then boot from it. But I prefer just

disabling the debian gui screensaver globally

2009-09-16 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I am running Debian machines under VMware ESX. I need to permanently disable the screensaver for all users as it chews CPUbut I still want the screen to lock after 10minsand go blank... How please? regards Steven

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > I've just migrated from kernel 2.6.26 to 2.6.30, and I am unable to > configure sound. The issue seems similar to the one I had initially in > 2.6.26, but in the newest testing kernel `alasactl init' no longer > solves the issue. The switches Master and PCM are n

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:11:17PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-16 15:57 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > > Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users > > actually determined during install? My experience is that these users > > actually preserve their uid over i

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:17:26AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > > Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users > > actually determined during install? My experience is that these > > users actually preserve their uid over ins

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:17:26AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> >> > Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users >> > actually determined during install? My experience is that these >> > users actually p

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > OK, thanks for confirming, so I could cheat the installer by copying over > the passwd and group files after partitioning is done and go on with the > system install. Then apply set-selection and after this migrate the config > and data files from the old system. Correct

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

2009-09-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On 9/16/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Check if modules are in place and check /proc/asound > > cat /proc/asound/devices > cat /proc/asound/cards > I get this output in both kernels. li...@debian-liv:~$ cat /proc/asound/devices 0: [ 0] : control 1:: sequencer 16: [ 0- 0]: digit

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

2009-09-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/17/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: > I get this output in both kernels. > li...@debian-liv:~$ cat /proc/asound/devices >   0: [ 0]   : control >   1:: sequencer > 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback > 17: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback > 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture > 32: [ 1]  

Re: what if `alsactl init' doesn't configure sound?

2009-09-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
Two more pieces of information: debian-liv:/home/liviu# lspci | grep -i audio 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) 01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller Also, I just downgraded alsa-utils to stable 1.0.16-2, and alsaconf reported that no

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