apt-cacher as package rollback buffer

2010-02-15 Thread freeman
I installed apt-cacher because I wanted a way to reliably roll back one version of a package in testing. This way, if a new version is buggy, the way the recent xserver-xorg/mesa was for me, and I let it slip by apt-listbugs, I may possibly choose the old version from apt-cacher rather than nearly

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:15:43 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: (...) > What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the array from within > linux, sort of like mdadm does, so that if/when a drive goes faulty I > will be notified. I would also like to be able to use smartctl on the > individual drives so

Re: kernel update

2010-02-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:42:51 -0500 (EST), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Stephen Powell put forth on 2/14/2010 8:50 PM: >> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:53:11 -0500 (EST), Jim Pazarena wrote: >>> >>> is there a CLI command (or commands) which can update >>> the kernel, similar to apt-get ? >> >> I'm not sure wha

RE: how to find bad blocks

2010-02-15 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
pastebin.com/f5a5c595a i just started badblocks -w -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1266236447.26031.8.ca...@ubuntu

Re: kernel update

2010-02-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:14:12 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: > The > >aptitude update >aptitude full-upgrade > > sequence does not replace a binary kernel directly, no. I should clarify that point, lest someone quote me out of context. It *will* replace a binary *stock* kernel directl

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schroot and automount

2010-02-15 Thread arenevier
Hi, I'm using a 64bits debian unstable, and using schroot to be able to easily (eliminating the need to become root) chroot to a 32bits environment. I want to have /tmp, /dev, /proc, and /dev/pts shared between host system and chroot. So, I used to have lines such as /tmp/srv/chroot/ia32/tmp

Disk usage and quota inconsistency.

2010-02-15 Thread Miguel Da Silva - URI
Dear users, I'm facing a curious problem with our local homedir server and the clients (it's about exporting and importing NFS shares). The server (running kernel 2.6.18) exports a filesystem and the clients (running kernel 2.6.27) import it. So, the problem is that commands showing disk usage

Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer

2010-02-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:32:10AM -0800, freeman wrote: > I installed apt-cacher because I wanted a way to reliably roll back one > version of a package in testing. This way, if a new version is buggy, the > way the recent xserver-xorg/mesa was for me, and I let it slip by > apt-listbugs, I may p

Re: kernel update

2010-02-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Stephen Powell schreef: On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:14:12 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: The aptitude update aptitude full-upgrade sequence does not replace a binary kernel directly, no. I should clarify that point, lest someone quote me out of context. It *will* replace a binary *stock

Re: Read command field seperators in Bash

2010-02-15 Thread Tony Baldwin
-- El dom 14-feb-10, Lisi escribió: > De: Lisi > Asunto: Re: Read command field seperators in Bash > A: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Fecha: domingo, 14 febrero, 2010, 6:37 pm > On Sunday 14 February 2010 18:42:53 > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > Mmm.  But I have only gawk, and installed > neither.

Re: kernel update

2010-02-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:03:56 -0500 (EST), Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:14:12 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: >> The >> >>aptitude update >>aptitude full-upgrade >> >> sequence does not replace a binary kernel directly, no. >> >> ... >> >> I should clarify that point,

Re: Read command field seperators in Bash

2010-02-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:36:41 -0500 (EST), Tony Baldwin wrote: > I thought gawk (along with awk, sed, tr, etc.) was just part of > regular old gnu bash tools and would be installed by default. bash, mawk, and gawk are separate packages. bash and mawk are installed by default, since they are requir

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-15 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: eve...@worldwidehtml.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Air compressors vs. canned air >Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:10:22 -0800 > >>On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 07:51:06PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: >>> On 14 February 2010 14:27, Timothy Legg > wrot

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> Well, no, what i really want is a portable Debian, so i can, for >>> example, build a web app and show it everywhere without need a web >>> server and just have my own configuration and run it every where > Some "live" distributions have "USB environments" (I call them) which allow > you to

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Not that I can confirm my USB stick 'portable debian' would work on a > wide range of systems. For a number of reasons I was not able to pursue > this much further than what is described in my notes, one of them being > that I did not have access to a target machine (or machines) and > discover p

Re: debian embebed

2010-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have afonera 2.0n, with openwrt and the chip rt3052 from ralink, and > I like to install debian instead openwrt, someone know if it could be > posible and howto do? Not sure, but I can't think of any reason why not. The way I'd recommend you do it: - install Debian via deboostrap on some parti

Basic Statistical Tool

2010-02-15 Thread Ogya Chief
Dear All, I need a basic statistical tool such as the Data Analysis Add-in in MS Excel. I have installed MS Office 2007 on Debian Sid but the add-in installation fails. I know Gnumeric has similar functions to Excel's but it lacks some features for graphing that I need. For example, in Excel,

Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer

2010-02-15 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:18:51AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:32:10AM -0800, freeman wrote: > > > I've used apt-cacher, and it worked well. However, I recommend > apt-cacher-ng (which I'm using now). I have Ubuntu and Debian machines > on my LAN, and apt-cacher did not

Re: Recent Discoveries in Physics Indicate Creation of Matter

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 06:25:35AM -0500, Creative Science wrote: snip of lunatic fringe post > Yes, they have created matter. You can save an > object's destruction movement and run that data > backwards through antennas at lower impact forces > to replicate th

RE: Basic Statistical Tool

2010-02-15 Thread Ogya Chief
From: ogyach...@hotmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Basic Statistical Tool Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:00:36 +0200 Dear All, I need a basic statistical tool such as the Data Analysis Add-in in MS Excel. I have installed MS Office 2007 on Debian Sid but the add-in instal

Re: Recent Discoveries in Physics Indicate Creation of Matter

2010-02-15 Thread Lisi
On Monday 15 February 2010 18:12:20 Robert Holtzman wrote: > > Yes, they have created matter. You can save an > > object's destruction movement and run that data > > backwards through antennas at lower impact forces > > to replicate the object. > > This is hilarious. It reminds me of some of the st

Re: Imposible upgrade lenny to sid

2010-02-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 15 February 2010 12:19:55 Guan de dio wrote: > Currently I try to pass my Debian lenny to sid. During the packages > configuration I always have the same error: > >Error to process: > /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_151_1_i386.deb That's not the whole error. Please copy-and-

Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer

2010-02-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 15 February 2010 12:22:08 Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:18:51AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:32:10AM -0800, freeman wrote: > > > Is pinning really necessary or can I get by with aptitude and my > > > apt.conf file: > > > > > > APT::Default-Release "

Re: Read command field seperators in Bash

2010-02-15 Thread John Salmon
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 20:32 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2010-02-14 10:04 (-0600), John Salmon wrote: > > > Is there a way to change the field seperators in Bash's read command > > (Debian Lenny)? > > The answer has been given but here's an example script which uses > "read": > > #!/bin/b

Asus MBs

2010-02-15 Thread David Baron
Does Debian plain vanilla kernel run well on Asus MBs (P!V 2.6ghz, etc)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201002152059.06328.d_ba...@012.net.il

Re: Basic Statistical Tool

2010-02-15 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 15 February 2010 13:00:36 Ogya Chief wrote: > Dear All, > > I need a basic statistical tool such as the Data Analysis Add-in in MS > Excel. I have installed MS Office 2007 on Debian Sid but the add-in > installation fails. I know Gnumeric has similar functions to Excel's but it > lacks so

Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer

2010-02-15 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:59:33PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 15 February 2010 12:22:08 Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:18:51AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:32:10AM -0800, freeman wrote: > > > > Is pinning really necessary or can I get

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-15 Thread Dan Serban
jeremy jozwik wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote: ...and might be able to comment on the respective merits of air compressors vs. air cans..? CJ in a recent point and shoot camera surgery i regret using compressed air cans. after a certain * of r

Re: Asus MBs

2010-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:59:05 +0200, David Baron wrote: > Does Debian plain vanilla kernel run well on Asus MBs (P!V 2.6ghz, etc)? That's a very "broad" question. You can check the status of some Asus motherboards using Debian HCL (information if feeded by users): http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ASU

RE: Basic Statistical Tool

2010-02-15 Thread Ogya Chief
> > Are there any tools similar to the Excel Data Analysis tool? What happened > > to KOffice in Sid? apt-cache search koffice does not turn up anything. Any > > help will be very much appreciated. > > I'm unfamiliar with the Excel Data Analysis tool, so I may be > misunderstanding the requir

Re: Asus MBs

2010-02-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
David Baron wrote: Does Debian plain vanilla kernel run well on Asus MBs (P!V 2.6ghz, etc)? Hi David, Please be more specific so someone can help : is there a certain type of ASUS motherboard that you want to buy/use? I gather that you have a P4 CPU running at 2.6 GHz. Generally, hardwar

annoying 4gb seg fixup

2010-02-15 Thread Tomasz Pajor
Hello, I'm running debian squeeze with experimental packages. (none):~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian exper

Re: Imposible upgrade lenny to sid

2010-02-15 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." : >> /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_151_1_i386.deb > > That's not the whole error. Please copy-and-paste the whole output > of the aptitude/apt-get run if you don't know what is relevant. The "current" version of udev requires a kernel higher than some version,

Re: Asus MBs

2010-02-15 Thread Aioanei Rares
David Baron wrote: On Monday 15 February 2010 21:52:38 Aioanei Rares wrote: David Baron wrote: Does Debian plain vanilla kernel run well on Asus MBs (P!V 2.6ghz, etc)? Hi David, Please be more specific so someone can help : is there a certain type of ASUS motherboard that you w

Re: Asus MBs

2010-02-15 Thread David Baron
On Monday 15 February 2010 21:52:38 Aioanei Rares wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > Does Debian plain vanilla kernel run well on Asus MBs (P!V 2.6ghz, etc)? > > Hi David, > > Please be more specific so someone can help : is there a certain type of > ASUS motherboard that you want to buy/use? I gath

Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer

2010-02-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 15 February 2010 13:30:19 Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:59:33PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Monday 15 February 2010 12:22:08 Freeman wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:18:51AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:32:10AM -0800, free

Network-manager no longer caching passwords

2010-02-15 Thread Claude Rubinson
Hi all, Since Network Manager got upgraded on Testing to 0.7.999-2, it's no longer storing passwords for later use. I don't run GNOME proper and assume that I'm just missing some package. Anybody know what it is? I tried installing gnome-keyring and gnome-keyring-manager and that didn't seem to

name -> address resolution

2010-02-15 Thread peasthope
This is another problem which appeared after an update of Squeeze on February 7 or 8. Joule is a router. dnsmasq and resolvconf have worked for months with no problem. Now the machine doesn't recognize its local name. Other names inside and outside the LAN are still resolved. For exampl

Re: Recent Discoveries in Physics Indicate Creation of Matter

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 06:47:23PM +, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 15 February 2010 18:12:20 Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > Yes, they have created matter. You can save an > > > object's destruction movement and run that data > > > backwards through antennas at lower impact forces > > > to replicate th

correction, Re: name -> address resolution

2010-02-15 Thread peasthope
The third to last sentence should have been, /etc/hostname has the name of the machine. ... Peter E. -- Google "pathology workshop" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: Basic Statistical Tool

2010-02-15 Thread Matthew Moore
On Monday 15 February 2010 11:00:36 am Ogya Chief wrote: > I need a basic statistical tool such as the Data Analysis Add-in in MS > Excel. I have installed MS Office 2007 on Debian Sid but the add-in > installation fails. I know Gnumeric has similar functions to Excel's but > it lacks some featu

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:15:20 -0500 (EST), Florian Kulzer wrote: > I think the present problem, which I can still reproduce on my Sid system, > is not related to #348033. > > I find that VT7 often cannot be deallocated after X shuts down, which > explains why X has to use VT8 if started up again: >

Re: Basic Statistical Tool

2010-02-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:00, Ogya Chief wrote: > Dear All, > > I need a basic statistical tool such as the Data Analysis Add-in in MS > Excel. I have installed MS Office 2007 on Debian Sid but the add-in > installation fails. I know Gnumeric has similar functions to Excel's but it > lacks some f

Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer

2010-02-15 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 02:33:05PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 15 February 2010 13:30:19 Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:59:33PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > > > Mixed systems that are supported with no configuration change: > > > stable/backports

Dual Server Sympa installation using a single DB

2010-02-15 Thread NPG
I've got sympa installed on one of my debian servers, using a mysql DB, Everything works fine. I'd like to install sympa on a second server pointing to the same DB. The install keeps pitching a fit because the DB already exists. Any ideas on how to get this to work? Thanks -- Sincerely, Natha

RE: Basic Statistical Tool

2010-02-15 Thread Ogya Chief
> > I have KOffice on my install, but maybe it is from experimental? In any case, > KOffice 2 is a bit iffy at the moment (like KDE 4.0 or 4.1 was). > > There is also Gnumeric, the Gnome Office spreadsheet. It has at least some > data analysis tools, although I do not know how extensive. > > Gn

IM server gateway

2010-02-15 Thread ml
Hi, Is there any linux server software that I can install as a gateway for multiple IM networks for a few users? I would like the users to be able to communicate with other IM networks including XMPP, Facebook, MSN and ICQ without each user having to sign up with each service. The communication fr

Re: Basic Statistical Tool

2010-02-15 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Here's yet another approach using SciPy and matplotlib for plotting: http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/LinearRegression Probably doesn't meet your 'Basic' requirement, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: IM server gateway

2010-02-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 17:53, wrote: > > Hi, > Is there any linux server software that I can install as a gateway for > multiple IM networks for a few users? > I would like the users to be able to communicate with other IM networks > including XMPP, Facebook, MSN and ICQ without each user having

Re: schroot and automount

2010-02-15 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:15 AM, wrote: > > Here is my schroot.conf > > [ia32] > description=Debian testing 32bits > directory=/srv/chroot/ia32 > users=arno > root-groups=root > root-users=arno > run-exec-scripts=true > You've omitted the 'type=' setting which causes the type to default to 'plai

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:45:22AM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Not that I can confirm my USB stick 'portable debian' would work on a > > wide range of systems. For a number of reasons I was not able to pursue > > this much further than what is described in my notes, one of them being > > that I

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:36:23AM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote: [..] > - getting your BIOS find your kernel: > - some machines can't boot from USB at all. > - others can, but with some restrictions (typically Apple hardware, > so I end up having to setup my flash key with grub-efi-32, >

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Jones
All sound advice and thanks to all for your comments. Come to think of it, I should have mentioned that I only routinely use air on the laptop's keyboard, a flimsy model that vaguely tries to impersonate the real thing, with enough space between the key caps to let stuff like bread crumbs, hairs,

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-15 Thread Kent West
Chris Jones wrote: > ...at this point I'm concerned the connector might be > reaching the end of its useful life, and that means the next step would > be replacing the motherboard. Or just solder in a new connector -- Kent West <*)))>< http://kentwest.blogspot.com Praise Yah! \o/ --

Undeletable files on UDF formatted HD

2010-02-15 Thread Jason Heeris
Hi, I have an external (USB, bus powered) hard drive formatted as UDF (using "mkudffs --media-type=hd"). There is no partitioning on the device, and I zeroed the whole thing before initialising the UDF FS. I was writing data to it from Mac OS X when the machine ran out of batteries, leaving some

j2se on debian

2010-02-15 Thread briand
Hi all, If I need j2se installed on Debian, what's my best option ? Thanks, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100215222341.170df...@windy.del

Re: name -> address resolution

2010-02-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:17:50PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > This is another problem which appeared after an > update of Squeeze on February 7 or 8. > > Joule is a router. dnsmasq and resolvconf > have worked for months with no problem. > Now the machine doesn't recognize its local

Re: annoying 4gb seg fixup

2010-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:58:15 +0100, Tomasz Pajor wrote: (...) > I keep getting this messages in syslog: > > Feb 15 19:50:49 (none) kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process apache2 (pid 10345), > cs:ip 73:005ea375 (...) > Can anybody tell me what to-do to get rid of this annoying messages? Are you run