Re: Rsyslog template

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Biebl
On 27.01.2010 22:14, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html/ > > My Linux machines are all headless, and I've never bothered with trying to > symlink all the various html doc directories into lighty virtual directories > just to get access to them via a browser. That is a huge

Re: link-up link-down ethernet switch tale of woe

2010-02-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 2/2/2010 12:11 AM: > I take the linksys apart, and here's where things get kind of > interesting. Those of you who have any hardware experience with > ethernet phy's are probably aware that they typically use a 25MHz clock. > This crazy piece of dung has a 25.0006

Re: Rsyslog template

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Biebl
On 27.01.2010 06:21, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > less than a fan of rsyslog after upgrading to Lenny and finding that rsyslog > has > a virtual memory footprint of over 30MB(!) compared to only a few hundred > kilobytes for the old sysklogd. Rsyslog is a $deity d...@mn memory hog, and > there's no goo

το επίπεδο αφαίρεσης υ λισμικού βαίνει προς το τέ λος του;

2010-02-02 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
...ή στα ελληνικά: ο HAL πάει να γίνει obsolete; Έχει εδώ και μήνες κάποιο περίεργο bug που έχει αναφερθεί από πολύ κόσμο, το οποίο προκαλεί ένα segmentation fault όταν κάνεις τον hal restart, καθώς και όταν ξεκινάει η υπηρεσία, αλλά δεν λέει να διορθωθεί - κανείς δεν ασχολείται; Άκουσα δε,

Re: Rsyslog template

2010-02-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Michael Biebl put forth on 2/2/2010 2:18 AM: > On 27.01.2010 22:14, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> >> /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html/ >> >> My Linux machines are all headless, and I've never bothered with trying to >> symlink all the various html doc directories into lighty virtual directories >> just

Re: losing xmodmap settings during X startup

2010-02-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Feb 2010, Joey Morris wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote on Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at > 09:13:41AM +: > > On 31 Jan 2010, Joey Morris wrote: > > > I start my X session with startx, and lately I've noticed that some > > > (but not all) of my .Xmodmap settings are being lost once my X session > >

Re: Rsyslog template

2010-02-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Michael Biebl put forth on 2/2/2010 2:26 AM: > On 27.01.2010 06:21, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> less than a fan of rsyslog after upgrading to Lenny and finding that rsyslog >> has >> a virtual memory footprint of over 30MB(!) compared to only a few hundred >> kilobytes for the old sysklogd. Rsyslog i

Re: setting sensor limits fails

2010-02-02 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 17:22 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > I don't pretend to know anything about this, but isn't there > internal circuitry present in the machine that will automatically > shut the machine down if it gets too hot? I'm thinking of older > operating systems, such as DOS for exampl

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 17:03 -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Sorry for the absence of thread connection. This mailer doesn't > provide In-reply-to. I think it does, check the headers :-) -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Problem with Lenny

2010-02-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Roman Gelfand put forth on 2/1/2010 11:48 PM: > I use this the virtual machine as mail gateway. I run postfix, > sqlgrey, opendkim, senderid milter, dspam, grossd, policyd-weight. > > I gave this machine 2gig of memory. So far, so good. I have already > used it for couple of weeks and no issues

Re: setting sensor limits fails

2010-02-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 02. 2010 11:00:12 je Tixy napisal(a): You would think so wouldn't you? However, I believe it's all done in software via System Management Mode. Yep. In GNU/Linux, this pretty much boils down to the thermal kernel module. I believe if you have a borked thermal module, or you don't

Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All. I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to use one of the following options: - KVM; - VMWare Esxi; - VMWare Workstation. I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use something like LVM snapshots for backups. Stability is also very important, the guest

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Tomasz Suchodolski
W dniu 2 lutego 2010 12:19 użytkownik Rafał Radecki napisał: > Hi All. > > I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to use one > of the following options: > - KVM; > - VMWare Esxi; > - VMWare Workstation. > > I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use somethi

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Hardy
Florian Kulzer on 31/01/10 10:04, wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 01:16:13 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Klistvud on 30/01/10 23:48, wrote: Dne, 30. 01. 2010 14:35:12 je Adam Hardy napisal(a): Hi Folks thanks for the advice - I do know the website is running fine out there - I just can't access it

auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I found that initscripts seems to attempt to run fsck on non-existent devices that appear in /etc/fstab, and different fsck programs for different filesystem types give different error codes. What is the easiest way to set up Debian to automatically mount specific devices if they are prese

Re: Rsyslog template

2010-02-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:34:58AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Michael Biebl put forth on 2/2/2010 2:18 AM: > > On 27.01.2010 22:14, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > >> > >> /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-doc/html/ > >> > >> My Linux machines are all headless, and I've never bothered with trying to > >> symli

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Victor Padro
2010/2/2 Rafał Radecki : > Hi All. > > I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to use one > of the following options: > - KVM; > - VMWare Esxi; > - VMWare Workstation. > > I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use something like LVM > snapshots for backups.

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Michal
On 02/02/2010 11:39, Tomasz Suchodolski wrote: > W dniu 2 lutego 2010 12:19 użytkownik Rafał Radecki > napisał: >> Hi All. >> >> I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to use one >> of the following options: >> - KVM; >> - VMWare Esxi; >> - VMWare Workstation. >> >> I pl

nm-applet requests secrets for non-secured network

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Good morning- I am trying to move away from using ifup/ifdown and manually editing /etc/network/interfaces to manage the wireless network on my laptop. For reasons I can't change, the wireless network I'm connecting to is open (no security). It works fine with the entry in /etc/network/interfa

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Rafał Radecki : > I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to > use one of the following options: > - KVM; KVM. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 34 29 155 34 / +261 33

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread olafrv
Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Windows run... "You don't know where your shadow will fall", Somebody.- Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta (BB) ---

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:19:49PM +0100, Rafa? Radecki wrote: > > I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to use one > of > the following options: > - KVM; > - VMWare Esxi; > - VMWare Workstation. > > I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use something l

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Odd
ola...@gmail.com wrote: Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Windows run... Be careful though. Not all of Intel's latest stuff has hardware support for virtualization. Check this list before buying: http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Victor Padro : > but you need special hardware like the latest CPUs from AMD or > Intel It was true 2 years ago. Most CPUs are now OK, unless those on netbooks. But who would virtualize on a netbook? The requested feature is "VT" for Intel (look for it on http://processorfinder.intel.com/) an

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Odd : > The later ones with AMD-V are the ones with hardware virtualization > support. By the way, surprisingly, there is no web fronted on the AMD website in order to look for CPU specs, and the piece of software for detecting virtualization ability (on their website) is windows only. On the

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > Victor Padro : > > but you need special hardware like the latest CPUs from AMD or > > Intel > > It was true 2 years ago. > Most CPUs are now OK, unless those on netbooks. > > But who would virtualize on a netbook? > > The request

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Odd
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Odd : The later ones with AMD-V are the ones with hardware virtualization support. By the way, surprisingly, there is no web fronted on the AMD website in order to look for CPU specs, and the piece of software for detecting virtualization ability (on their websi

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Odd
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote: ola...@gmail.com wrote: Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Windows run... Be careful though. Not all of Intel's latest stuff has hardware support for virtualization. Check t

Re: [SOLVED] wicd fails to start after upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-02-01 21:41:16 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > This all means that it is possible to run into some unique breakage for your > mix of packages. Bugs should only be filed when they can be found in a pure- > oldstable (security bugs only), pure-stable (RC or security bugs only), pure-

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Michal
On 02/02/2010 13:43, Odd wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote: >> >>> ola...@gmail.com wrote: Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Windows run... >>> Be careful though. Not all of Intel's latest st

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote: > > > > > ola...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the > > > > latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Windows run... > > > Be careful though. Not all of Intel

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:19:49PM +0100, Rafał Radecki wrote: > I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use > something like LVM snapshots for backups. Just to pick up on this point, I would suggest that LVM on its own is not an adequate backup solution. Used to have a non-moving tar

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Aioanei Rares
A more practical approach : what should the average user do in order to get his/her Debian back after this GRUB bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: nm-applet requests secrets for non-secured network

2010-02-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:04:50AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Here's the kicker: changing the AP to a different ESSID and > connecting to that one works fine! I therefore think there's > something stored on the laptop that is making it "guess" that it > needs security secrets. I've wiped out ~/.

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote: > ola...@gmail.com wrote: > > Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the > > latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Windows run... > > Be careful though. Not all of Intel's latest stuff has hardware > support for virtualization. Check this list befo

Re: setting sensor limits fails

2010-02-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:27:39 +0100 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 02. 02. 2010 11:00:12 je Tixy napisal(a): > > > > You would think so wouldn't you? However, I believe it's all done in > > software via System Management Mode. > > > > Yep. In GNU/Linux, this pretty much boils down to the thermal kernel

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:28:28 +0300 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: ... > But who would virtualize on a netbook? I haven't actually done this, but I can think of an obvious use case where I'd like to: running Windows software on a Linux netbook. I understand that I won't enjoy running the latest

Re: nm-applet requests secrets for non-secured network

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Fabulous, thanks for the pointer. I ended up having to delete ~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring and now it works fine. Thanks, Andy -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Associate Profess

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Angus Hedger : > I have used Sun Virtual box for a long time both on windows and > linux, for a bit of casual windows/linux visualisation, and the only > problem I have had is that the OSE has no support for virtual usb. I tried both, but virtualbox is much slower than KVM. Performances are us

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Michal
On 02/02/2010 14:07, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:28:28 +0300 > Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > ... > >> But who would virtualize on a netbook? > > I haven't actually done this, but I can think of an obvious use case > where I'd like to: running Windows software on a Linux netbook.

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Odd
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote: ola...@gmail.com wrote: Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Windows run... Be careful though. Not all of Intel's lat

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:42:57PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: > A more practical approach : what should the average user do in order to get > his/her Debian back after this GRUB bug? One option would be to boot from a CD (installer, liveCD, whatever), chroot into Debian and revert grub to an ear

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Odd
Michal wrote: On 02/02/2010 14:07, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:28:28 +0300 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: ... But who would virtualize on a netbook? I haven't actually done this, but I can think of an obvious use case where I'd like to: running Windows software on a Linux netbook.

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:20:55 +0100 Odd wrote: ... > Another thing is the screen estate. 9-10" is just too small to do > any serious virtualization, at least with desktop OSes. Running Don't see the problem. Even on my 15" laptop, I generally run with all windows maximized, and cycle between th

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Odd
Celejar wrote: On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:20:55 +0100 Odd wrote: ... Another thing is the screen estate. 9-10" is just too small to do any serious virtualization, at least with desktop OSes. Running Don't see the problem. Even on my 15" laptop, I generally run with all windows maximized, and c

Mixed system upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread recvfrom
Hi, I'm using a mixed system so that I could support libapache-mod-security. This was all working fine for some time, but now an 'apt-get upgrade' results in: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_7.4-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/arch.1.gz',

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 07:24:58AM -0800, Brian Denheyer wrote: > Is there any good reason for a system to use grub instead of lilo ? Yes. Lilo loads kernel by its sector address on harddisk. So if you update its image while with the same file name, you need to update pointer data for lilo. Gru

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:25:12 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I found that initscripts seems to attempt to run fsck on > non-existent devices that appear in /etc/fstab, and different fsck > programs for different filesystem types give different error codes. > > What is the easiest way to set up D

Re: setting sensor limits fails

2010-02-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 02. 2010 15:03:01 je Celejar napisal(a): Has such an occurrence ever been documented? If you send me your laptop, I'll be glad to document it for you ;) Seriously, I've messed around with trip points a bit, but never went as far as to let my laptop actually take fire (for obvious r

Tablet input GONE after wacom upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- After this morning's apt-get dist-upgrade, my tablet laptop's wacom tablet is completely non-functional. Nothing else has changed to make this happen, so I'm wondering if others have had a problem with the new xserver-xorg-input-wacom package or similar. System is a lenovo X61 tablet,

Re: Mixed system upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-02 15:30 +0100, recvf...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm using a mixed system so that I could support > libapache-mod-security. This was all working fine for some time, but > now an 'apt-get upgrade' results in: > > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_7.4-2_i386.deb (--un

Re: Mplayer - can it play audio cd's.........

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:30:38 -0500 (EST), Charlie wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 22:11:04 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell > shared this with us all: >>Personally, I like cdplay. It's part of the cdtool package. >>It's also a command line tool. The thing I like most about cdplay >>is that it's extremely e

Re: setting sensor limits fails

2010-02-02 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
This issue has been addressed in bug #566184. I did not understand the cause of the problem but it seems to have been fixed and packages are waiting to enter Squeeze. Nima -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: [SOLVED] wicd fails to start after upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100202133013.gi23...@prunille.vinc17.org>, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >On 2010-02-01 21:41:16 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> This all means that it is possible to run into some unique breakage for >> your mix of packages. Bugs should only be filed when they can be found in >> a pure- ol

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Rafał Radecki wrote: >I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to use one >of the following options: >- KVM; [snip: Software that is not in Debian.] I recommend the one that is on-topic for the list. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@igua

LVM snapshots are not backups (was: Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?)

2010-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100202135559.ga5...@ra.ncl.ac.uk>, Jon Dowland wrote: >On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:19:49PM +0100, Rafał Radecki >wrote: >> I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use >> something like LVM snapshots for backups. > >Just to pick up on this point, I would suggest that LVM on >its ow

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:42:57PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: > A more practical approach : what should the average user > do in order to get his/her Debian back after this GRUB > bug? Stick to stable in future, that's what. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: setting sensor limits fails

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:27:39 -0500 (EST), Klistvud wrote: > Yep. In GNU/Linux, this pretty much boils down to the thermal kernel > module. I believe if you have a borked thermal module, or you don't > load one, or you do but you set the wrong trip points, you can easily > brick a modern laptop

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:00:41 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:25:12 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > > > Hi, I found that initscripts seems to attempt to run fsck on > > non-existent devices that appear in /etc/fstab, and different f

Re: concurrent installs of previous + current kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Of course I have - otherwise I wouldn't be asking the fine people on > this list how to go about this. Now, you're starting to give the necessary info. > So like I said in my initial email, *concurrent* installs of kernel > packages doesn't seem feasible by just installing the next kernel > han

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > One option would be to boot from a CD (installer, liveCD, whatever), > chroot into Debian and revert grub to an earlier version. As has been addressed in other recent posts, downgrading a package to a previous version once a newer version

Re: Problem with Lenny

2010-02-02 Thread Roman Gelfand
A lot of spam attempts. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Roman Gelfand put forth on 2/1/2010 11:48 PM: >> I use this the virtual machine as mail gateway.  I run postfix, >> sqlgrey, opendkim, senderid milter, dspam, grossd, policyd-weight. >> >> I gave this machine 2gig of m

Re: Tablet input GONE after wacom upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:05:23 -0500 (EST), Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings- > > After this morning's apt-get dist-upgrade, my tablet laptop's wacom tablet > is completely non-functional. Nothing else has changed to make this > happen, so I'm wondering if others have had a problem with the new > xse

Re: Tablet input GONE after wacom upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:05:23 -0500 (EST), Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- After this morning's apt-get dist-upgrade, my tablet laptop's wacom tablet is completely non-functional. Nothing else has changed to make this happen, so I'm wondering if others h

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:41:46 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:00:41 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> > What is the easiest way to set up Debian to automatically mount >> > specific devices if they are present, but not cause a boot failure >> > when they are absent? >> >> "m

serial port

2010-02-02 Thread Jesus arteche
hello, Ok this question is about another linux distro, but I think is general for all of them. How can I get this line when I make "dmesg | grep tty" : console [tty0] enabled I need to get enable the serial port...someone knows what i hav eto do...compile kernel, type some command... thanks

Re: serial port

2010-02-02 Thread Oleg
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:16:31PM +0100, Jesus arteche wrote: > hello, > > Ok this question is about another linux distro, but I think is general for > all of them. How can I get this line when I make "dmesg | grep tty" : > > console [tty0] enabled > > I need to get enable the serial port...som

abcde and flac cue sheets

2010-02-02 Thread Adam Hardy
I've got a problem with abcde. I'm trying to rip a whole CD to a flac file with embedded cue sheet, and this is what happens: flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to red

No sound, speaker not muted, volume control in alsamixer non-functional

2010-02-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: On my testing system (ThinkPad T61p, amd64) sound is suddenly broken. In alsamixer, the controls for headphone and speaker both appear, and neither is muted, but the up arrow does nothing. In /var/lib/alsa/asound.state, where the current state of the sound card is stored, there are no entr

Re: losing xmodmap settings during X startup

2010-02-02 Thread Joey Morris
Anthony Campbell wrote on Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 08:35:29AM +: > On 01 Feb 2010, Joey Morris wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote on Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at > > 09:13:41AM +: > > > On 31 Jan 2010, Joey Morris wrote: > > > > I start my X session with startx, and lately I've noticed that some > >

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:12:56 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:41:46 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:00:41 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > >> > What is the easiest way to set up Debian to automaticall

Re: Setting bootable flag on partition non-interactively.

2010-02-02 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 02:14:55PM -0600, Tim Legg wrote: > Hello all, > > Any suggestions on how to set a bootable flag non-interactively? > > > > Reason: > > I am creating a kiosk that restores itself from a saved image every time > the machine is booted. A while ago I created a kiosk works

Re: Cron does not run.

2010-02-02 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: >Actually, yes. I missed this part in the original email. If a cronjob >generates any output it will (normally) be mailed to the owner of the crontab. > >For jobs under /etc/cron.daily, this is root. Should cron not to store somewhere reports of the

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:47:17AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > > One option would be to boot from a CD (installer, liveCD, whatever), > > chroot into Debian and revert grub to an earlier version. > > As has been addressed in other rece

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:31:56 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:12:56 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> I.e., if your USB drive is listed there and you have something like: >> >> # # >> /dev/sdb1/data/backupext3 >> acl,user_xattr 1 2 ^ >> >>

Incorrect reporting of memory installed on system by "free"?

2010-02-02 Thread Tech Geek
So I know my system has 2 GB Memory. debian:~# uname -a Linux debian 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 02:23:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux debian:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2063496 kB MemFree: 30268 kB Buffers:396792 kB Cached: 744344 kB SwapCached: 29612 kB Act

Re: Cron does not run.

2010-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 11:51:35 Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: > >Actually, yes. I missed this part in the original email. If a cronjob > >generates any output it will (normally) be mailed to the owner of the > > crontab. For jobs under /etc/cron.daily, this is

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 11:59:31 Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:47:17AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > > > One option would be to boot from a CD (installer, liveCD, whatever), > > > chroot into Debian and revert grub t

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:10:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:31:56 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:12:56 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > >> I.e., if your USB drive is listed there and you have somet

Re: losing xmodmap settings during X startup

2010-02-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Feb 2010, Joey Morris wrote: > > > > Did you try running the xmodmap -e e stuff at the command line in an > > xterm? That might give you a clearer idea of what is wrong. > > Yes, I've done that. In fact, since this problem started, the first > thing I do after restarting X is to run the fol

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:34:40 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:10:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: >> Uh? Didn't you say...? :-? >> >> *** >> I found that initscripts seems to attempt to run fsck on non-existent >> devices that appear in /etc/fstab, and different fsck programs

Re: concurrent installs of previous + current kernels

2010-02-02 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hi Chris, On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > >> Unless there's some pre or post magic that goes on, these are the same >> files which are currently owned by the pre-existing (debian release >> 17) kernel package: > > This is odd. > > I keep an up-to-date ubuntu partition on the

RE: Incorrect reporting of memory installed on system by "free"?

2010-02-02 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: Tech Geek [mailto:techgeek12...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 02 February, 2010 09:18 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Incorrect reporting of memory installed on system by "free"? > > So I know my system has 2 GB Memory. > ( snip ) > debian:~#

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:59:31 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:47:17AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: >>> One option would be to boot from a CD (installer, liveCD, whatever), >>> chroot into Debian and revert grub to

Re: Incorrect reporting of memory installed on system by "free"? (SOLVED)

2010-02-02 Thread Tech Geek
James, >( 2015 / 1024 ) = 1.96GB, which is what you are expecting. > But Int( 2015 / 1024 ) = 1, which is what you are seeing. Thanks for the wonderful explanation.

Grandma uses Logitech Vid, how to chat with her with Debian?

2010-02-02 Thread jidanni
Sirs, Grandma says: "I have a 2-way camera installation on my computer, It's called Logitech Video. (It only cost $28.00 on sale, and John installed it for me) The software was down-loaded free." Apparently the software she installed was Logitech® Vid™. Alas, on http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:45:25 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:34:40 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:10:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > >> Uh? Didn't you say...? :-? > >> > >> *** > >> I found that

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 13:09:42 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:59:31 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > > In general I agree with you, but in this case it should be fairly > > trivial since very little depends on grub, and the dependencies between > > the versions haven't changed,

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Tom H
> If you can *find* it, yes. For example, if you are running "sid", and > a new upload breaks, you may be able to find an older version in > "testing" that still works. But if you are running "testing" and an > upload breaks, where are you going to find a down-level version that > you can install?

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:46:09 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > To the OP: > > The bottom line: There is no problem even if flashdrives/cameras etc are > in fstab but not present- you simply get the error logged Question is, do you really need "those" devices (flash drives and MC/SD memory card

Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Kent West
I have a Sid box with a wireless PCI card. Somehow or 'nuther I got it working last year. Last week the power supply died, and rather than scrounge up another, I just moved the hard drive and wireless card to another computer. I'm doing the work on the computer in a different location, with a diff

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-02 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:59:13 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:46:09 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > To the OP: > > > > The bottom line: There is no problem even if flashdrives/cameras > > etc are in fstab but not present-

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:56:06 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote: > In this case, I would back up sources.list, create a new, one-line > sources.list pointing at the main section of testing, purge unstable's > grub-common and grub-pc, apt-get update, install testing's grub-common > and grub-pc, delete the temp

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:09:42PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > If you can *find* it, yes. For example, if you are running "sid", and > a new upload breaks, you may be able to find an older version in > "testing" that still works. But if you are running "testing" and an > upload breaks, where

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Chance Platt
Kent West wrote: I have a Sid box with a wireless PCI card. Somehow or 'nuther I got it working last year. Last week the power supply died, and rather than scrounge up another, I just moved the hard drive and wireless card to another computer. I'm doing the work on the computer in a different lo

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Moore
On Tuesday February 2 2010 1:28:21 pm Chance Platt wrote: > Step Three - don't worry about the plumbing. Use either NetworkManager > or WICD. These take care of the plumbing, and they work. If they don't > work with your particular network, try connecting to an unsecured > network first to check

Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Tom H
>> Your regular rants against grub are entertaining. :) > I wouldn't call it a rant. I have nothing personal against grub-pc, > per se. I hope they are eventually successful in their project. > I just think it's too unstable for production use at this time. > You of course are entitled to disagree

Re: Can Anyone Explain the over-all view of Wireless Networking?

2010-02-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West wrote: > If I understood all that, I bet I could figure out how to get my > wireless network working. However, I've been googling/studying off and > on for the past year, everytime I try to put Debian (or Ubuntu, or > whatever) on a laptop th

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-02 Thread Tom H
>> In this case, I would back up sources.list, create a new, one-line >> sources.list pointing at the main section of testing, purge unstable's >> grub-common and grub-pc, apt-get update, install testing's grub-common >> and grub-pc, delete the temporary sources.list, reinstate the original >> sour

Re: Sound - none happening.......

2010-02-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:25:26 +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 21:45:05 +0100 Florian Kulzer shared this with us all: > > >It seems that you have muted all your playback channels ("[off]"), so I > >am not too surprised that you do not hear anything. You have to unmute > >at least "Mas

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