Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Why don't you just post what you've got? You will most probably find > someone who can explain not only where the problem is but how to read > it, too. > In the general sense my intention was to learn and not lazy-web the list. But you are right, attached is /var/log/messages. -- Dotan Cohen

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 05:25:34AM +, T o n g wrote: > hi, > > Long story, I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now > I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- > legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with > version 2 o

Re: Re: Manage window: change positions, etc.

2010-03-29 Thread Olivier Cailloux
Jochen Schulz a écrit : Olivier Cailloux: I posted this message one week ago but did not receive advices. Does anybody know an other place where I could ask the question? You'd have to ask the metacity people. But I doubt they will be able to help you (short of impleme

Re: Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-29 Thread alex
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Mike Viau wrote: Could there be an issue with MTU size? don't thing so [snip] My findings. # dig @10.254.2.254 google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P2 <<>> @10.254.2.254 google.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options:  printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opc

Re: Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-29 Thread Clive Standbridge
> > - Load kernel modules: > > sudo modprobe usb-storage > > sudo modprobe sd_mod > >(and add them to /etc/modules) > > Do you still need to add them to /etc/modules if you are using udev? I'm not certain, but I believe usbmount has always needed udev, and at some point it seems to have be

Re: Wireless on BCM4315 with 2.6.32

2010-03-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Mar 2010, godo wrote: > Did you maybe try this: http://wiki.debian.org/wl > For me it works in the way that wifi card is live but how i said I > cannot connect to anything that have any encryption. > Thanks very much - yes, it worked! (I had to manually do "ifdown eth1 ; ifup eth1", which i

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Why don't you just post what you've got? You will most probably find >> someone who can explain not only where the problem is but how to read >> it, too. >> > > In the general sense my intention was to learn and not lazy-web the > list. But yo

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Why don't you just post what you've got? You will most probably find >> someone who can explain not only where the problem is but how to read >> it, too. >> > > In the general sense my intention was to learn and not lazy-web the > list. But yo

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:06:46 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Why don't you just post what you've got? You will most probably find >> someone who can explain not only where the problem is but how to read >> it, too. >> >> > In the general sense my intention was to learn and not lazy-web the > list. Bu

Re: nic issue on Debian Lenny

2010-03-29 Thread Roman Gelfand
Thanks you. That has worked great for me. On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:16:59 -0400 (EDT), Roman Gelfand wrote: >> >> My server has two onboard nics.  I am using etho.  For the longest >> time it was working no problem.  Then it just lost networ

Re: bash scripting question

2010-03-29 Thread Josep M.
Hello. I found these somewhere time ago. check if is what You need: function timer() { if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then echo $(date '+%s') else local stime=$1 etime=$(date '+%s') if [[ -z "$stime" ]]; then stime=$etime; fi dt=$((etime - stime)

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread ceduardo
2010/3/28 Dotan Cohen : > Is there a good resource for learning to read log files such as the > kernel log, messages, dmesg, and such? I have been googling but found > nothing really comprehensive yet understandable for a newbie. Where > should I start? > > Thanks! > You can use "tail" console-comm

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:50 AM, ceduardo wrote: > 2010/3/28 Dotan Cohen : >> Is there a good resource for learning to read log files such as the >> kernel log, messages, dmesg, and such? I have been googling but found >> nothing really comprehensive yet understandable for a newbie. Where >> shoul

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 28.3.2010 19:11, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there a good resource for learning to read log files such as the > kernel log, messages, dmesg, and such? I have been googling but found > nothing really comprehensive yet understandable for a newbie. Where > should I start? > As has been said, Google i

Re: ad blocking squid

2010-03-29 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 29.3.2010 8:17, Glenn English wrote: > > On Mar 28, 2010, at 7:42 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >> Jozsef Vadkan wrote: >>> Can anyone post a link to a good howto, how to set up a transparent >>> squid proxy, that can filter ads? >> >> I suggest that you try Privoxy. No need for a HOWTO: just inst

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:54:40 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > We are still supporting this guy, even though it appears he is not > running Debian? I support the person and his question, he seems to be an active (and productive) Debian user. Anyway, Debian and Ubuntu share almost the same source

Re: ad blocking squid

2010-03-29 Thread Glenn English
On Mar 29, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > Privoxy (I think) can not play as a transparent proxy, but Squid can, > and it can be chained with Privoxy. > Why not? If privoxy's running on a host acting as a gateway, with a redirect in the packet filter, what could possibly go wrong?

[SOLVED] nic issue on Debian Lenny

2010-03-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:17:53 -0400 (EDT), Roman Gelfand wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:16:59 -0400 (EDT), Roman Gelfand wrote: >>> >>> My server has two onboard nics.  I am using etho.  For the longest >>> time it was working no problem.  

Re: ad blocking squid

2010-03-29 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 29.3.2010 17:52, Glenn English wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> Privoxy (I think) can not play as a transparent proxy, but Squid can, >> and it can be chained with Privoxy. > >> > > Why not? If privoxy's running on a host acting as a gateway, with a redir

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:54:40 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >> We are still supporting this guy, even though it appears he is not >> running Debian? > > I support the person and his question, he seems to be an active (and > productive) Debian u

Re: ad blocking squid

2010-03-29 Thread Glenn English
On Mar 29, 2010, at 9:05 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > Well, I Googled, and it seems that Privoxy CAN do that. Thanks, Jari. I'm getting ready to build a DIY firewall, and I've been planning to do exactly that. -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:10:34 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> I support the person and his question, he seems to be an active (and >> productive) Debian user. >> >> Anyway, Debian and Ubuntu share almost the same source. >> >> >> > You don't th

Open Source E-mail, shared calendar, public folders etc....

2010-03-29 Thread Gav
I am looking to setup some form of groupware as a bit of an experiment at home. What I would like to do is get close to the features of M$ Exchange using open source software. I am aware of a few packages such as Scalix, Zimbra, Citadel & some others which would do this and would be free for the

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:38:14 +0200 Javier Barroso wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Why don't you just post what you've got? You will most probably find > >> someone who can explain not only where the problem is but how to read > >> it, too. > >> > > > > In the ge

[OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:10:34 -0400 (EDT), Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:54:40 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >>> >>> We are still supporting this guy, even though it appears he is not >>> running Debian? >> >> I support the pe

Re: [OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:47:30 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:10:34 -0400 (EDT), Jordan Metzmeier wrote: (...) >> Do we support all of them here on debian-users list? > > That's not even an exhaustive list. According to DistroWatch.com, there > are, at the time of this wri

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Lisi
On Monday 29 March 2010 16:18:12 Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:10:34 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> I support the person and his question, he seems to be an active (and > >> productive) Debian user. > >> > >> Anyway, Debian and U

Conclusion: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:57:04 -0700, Freeman wrote: >> I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now >> I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- >> legacy. But the grub-common package has been upgraded for use with >> version 2 only. >> > I posted this

Re: [OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:08:52 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:47:30 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> If Camaleón wants to help him, we can't stop him; ... > Thanks for your understanding. BTW, I'm "her" :-) Oops! Sorry. With non-English names, I can't always tell. (Actually,

Re: [OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> I have certainly benefitted from the question and its answers.  And Debian is > my distro of choice. > > I would take semantic exception to the questions about "we" supporting him; > since Jordan is most certainly not supporting Dotan, and the first person is > therefore inaccurate and inappropri

Re: [OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Lisi
On Monday 29 March 2010 17:29:26 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > While I agree that this particular issue is very general > to Linux itself, That is really the point that I was making. > people still need to learn to seek help from the > appropriate communities. I actually agree in general. Asking

No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread S Scharf
Anyone know why there hasn't been any testing updates since March 25th? Stuart

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 13:05 -0400, S Scharf wrote: > Anyone know why there hasn't been any testing updates since March 25th? See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00010.html and follow-ups on debian-devel. -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `. `'` 4

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,29.Mar.10, 13:05:18, S Scharf wrote: > Anyone know why there hasn't been any testing updates since March 25th? See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00010.html and the follow-ups on debian-devel. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and develo

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Aioanei Rares
S Scharf wrote: Anyone know why there hasn't been any testing updates since March 25th? Stuart http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00010.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Aioanei Rares
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,29.Mar.10, 13:05:18, S Scharf wrote: Anyone know why there hasn't been any testing updates since March 25th? See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00010.html and the follow-ups on debian-devel. Regards, Andrei debian-user rocks

Re: [OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:51:08 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > As for KKL, I needed a translation. This is *really* off-topic, but perhaps this is it: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=KKL It showed up in an internet search, but I can't access the site right now because my employer has tha

Re: Conclusion: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:12:58PM +, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:57:04 -0700, Freeman wrote: > > >> I don't want Grub2/Grub-PC, etc, but get upgraded to it. Now > >> I can't go back, because grub-common is listed as a dependency of grub- > >> legacy. But the grub-common package ha

Installing Debian into an existing encrypted volume with lvm

2010-03-29 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi! Is it possible to install Debian (lenny or squeeze) into an existing encrypted volume (partition or raid with lukscrypt) which contains a lvm with an existing installation of debian which shouldn't be deleted? The testing-installer in expert-mode has only two options to configure encrypte

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:17:48 +0200 Wolodja Wentland wrote: Hello Wolodja, > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00010.html > and follow-ups on debian-devel. Just throwing this out as an idea; Wouldn't it make sense to cc such announcements to the users list? Shutting down

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:58:29 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:17:48 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00010.html >> and follow-ups on debian-devel. > > Just throwing this out as an idea; > > Wouldn't it make sense to

Re: [WOT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 01:44:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:51:08 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > > As for KKL, I needed a translation. > > This is *really* off-topic, but perhaps this is it: > > http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=KKL > Eew. -- Kind Regards

Re: Wireless on BCM4315 with 2.6.32

2010-03-29 Thread godo
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Mar 2010, godo wrote: Did you maybe try this: http://wiki.debian.org/wl For me it works in the way that wifi card is live but how i said I cannot connect to anything that have any encryption. Thanks very much - yes, it worked! (I had to manually do "ifdown eth1 ;

GUI for IPv6

2010-03-29 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I recently (finally!) got an IPv6-functional router, and now IPv6 is native. Two systems are utilizing IPv6 through configuration of /etc/network/interfaces, but on others WICD does not support IPv6. Yet. Anyway, WICD is the only networking G

Re: GUI for IPv6

2010-03-29 Thread Aioanei Rares
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I recently (finally!) got an IPv6-functional router, and now IPv6 is native. Two systems are utilizing IPv6 through configuration of /etc/network/interfaces, but on others WICD does not support IPv6. Yet. Anyway, WICD

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:07:25 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, > The repositories have not been shut down. All the Debian mirrors Sorry, poor wording on my part. However, I reckon notification here would be a Good Thing{tm}. It's not just the developers that are affected by su

Re: How to read log files

2010-03-29 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:38:14 +0200 > Javier Barroso wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> Why don't you just post what you've got? You will most probably find >> >> someone who can explain not only where the proble

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Joey Hess
Stephen Powell wrote: >Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? > > s/Dial/lilo/ Given that I have in the past spent up to 2 days remotely walking family members through fixing machines that booted to "LI" or "LIL" .. no. I only wish lilo on enemies -- but still prefer ene

Re: ad blocking squid

2010-03-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:41:32 -0400, Andrew Winnenberg wrote: > I haven't used it myself, but the adzapper package appears to be an > ad-blocker for squid. adzapper isn't bad, but it's not terribly high performance, either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: [OT] teenage slang. was: Re: [OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Lisi
On Monday 29 March 2010 18:44:29 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:51:08 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: > > As for KKL, I needed a translation. > > This is *really* off-topic, but perhaps this is it: > > http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=KKL > > It showed up in an internet searc

Re: ad blocking squid

2010-03-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:17:43 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > On Mar 28, 2010, at 7:42 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >> Jozsef Vadkan wrote: >>> Can anyone post a link to a good howto, how to set up a transparent >>> squid proxy, that can filter ads? >> >> I suggest that you try Privoxy. No need for a

Re: [OT] teenage slang. was: Re: [OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2010 18:44:29 Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:51:08 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: >> > As for KKL, I needed a translation. >> >> This is *really* off-topic, but perhaps this is it: >> >> http://www.urbandictionary.com/def

Re: [OT] teenage slang. was: Re: [OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Lisi
On Monday 29 March 2010 21:12:59 Neal Hogan wrote: > > But, as you say, this is way OT. > > Certainly, more OT than any ubuntu/debian question ;-) Quite :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

PPP MTU on an Ethernet link.

2010-03-29 Thread peasthope
Observed Phenomenon The interface from a Squeeze Linux router to an ISP cable modem, configured with this line in /etc/network/interfaces, has MTU = 1500. iface eth0 inet dhcp Good; just as expected. For Lenny, the same /etc/network/interfaces yields MTU = 576. Very odd. This value shoul

Re: problem installing grub-legacy

2010-03-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:46:28 -0400 (EDT), Joey Hess wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >>Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? >> >> s/Dial/lilo/ > > Given that I have in the past spent up to 2 days remotely walking family > members through fixing machines that booted to "L

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread John Hasler
Brad writes: > However, I reckon notification here would be a Good Thing{tm}. > It's not just the developers that are affected by such problems as > ftpmaster.debian.org being partially incapacitated, albeit > temporarily. The "announce" lists are not just for developers. -- John Hasler -- To

Re: PPP MTU on an Ethernet link.

2010-03-29 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:32 -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Observed Phenomenon > The interface from a Squeeze Linux router to > an ISP cable modem, configured with this line > in /etc/network/interfaces, has MTU = 1500. > iface eth0 inet dhcp > Good; just as expected. > > For Lenny, the s

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,29.Mar.10, 19:46:21, Brad Rogers wrote: > However, I reckon notification here would be a Good Thing{tm}. > > It's not just the developers that are affected by such problems as > ftpmaster.debian.org being partially incapacitated, albeit temporarily. IMHO: this does not affect stable users

Re: Conclusion: Looking for good dark background GTK themes

2010-03-29 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:29:57 +, T o n g wrote: > I like a generally dark theme, > with no high contract, just mild tones, yet everything shows vividly. Detailed conclusion is available at http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/good-dark-background-gtk2-theme/ -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to

Re: bash scripting question

2010-03-29 Thread Mike McClain
Hi Josep, On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:28:20PM +0200, Josep M. wrote: > > I found these somewhere time ago. check if is what You need: > Thanks a lot. Though my error was pointed out as a typo and corrected a while back your solution using " date '+%s' " is much more elegant than what I had don

Re: bash scripting question

2010-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-29 16:35, Mike McClain wrote: [snip] Thanks a lot. Though my error was pointed out as a typo and corrected a while back your solution using " date '+%s' " is much more elegant than what I had done. If you want more (possibly too much) precision: $ date +'%s.%N' -- "History does not

Bill Merriam seems to have a misconfigured smtp server

2010-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/misconfigured.smtp.txt Obviously I'd email him directly, but that's not working... -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

2010-03-29 Thread green
jeremy jozwik wrote at 2010-03-28 22:05 -0500: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:57 PM, green wrote: > > Sjoerd mentioned using chroot; are you? Hmm, maybe you need to bind mount > > proc, sys, and dev also... > > i did try a chroot into the external drive per someone else instructions. > > > "Check

Re: bash scripting question

2010-03-29 Thread Karl Vogel
Here's something I modified as part of a benchmark script called "fdtree". -- Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company Dijkstra probably hates me. --Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c #!/bin/bash # How to use xdate/xtime/persec: # # START=$(date "+%s")

makedbm man page incorrect

2010-03-29 Thread Zachary Vida
The man page for makedbm has an error in it: *" makedbm* takes the inputfile and converts it to a ypserv database file. In the moment, GDBM is used as database. Each line of the input file is converted to a single record. All characters up to the first TAB or SPACE are the key, and the rest of

why does linux image try to use grub ?

2010-03-29 Thread briand
I don't have grub installed, but I _do_ have lilo installed. Should this be a bug report ? you should know that I haven't done a full upgrade in a while, that may be part of the problem. used to be Debian unstable wasn't. It is now :-( Thanks, Brian Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 (2

nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread briand
Hi all, gotta have 3d accel, so gotta use nvidia proprietary drivers. the debian package works well for me, however... I'm trying to install some, uh, "stuff" :-), under wine and it's complaining about opengl not being available. some searching leads me to believe that I'm missing opengl 32-bit

OT: Debian Mentors Access

2010-03-29 Thread Chris
Greetings, Is anyone else getting a Peer's Certificate has been revoked. messages when accessing https://mentors.debian.net/ ? Thanks. -- Regards, Chris "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." -- Thomas Jef

Re: nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-29 21:59, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hi all, gotta have 3d accel, so gotta use nvidia proprietary drivers. the debian package works well for me, however... I'm trying to install some, uh, "stuff" :-), under wine and it's complaining about opengl not being available. What exactly?

Re: nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100329195956.71782...@windy.deldotd.com>, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >gotta have 3d accel, so gotta use nvidia proprietary drivers. > >some searching leads me to believe that I'm missing opengl 32-bit libs. > >some searching through the lib directories tends to confirm this. > >do I need to bu

Re: nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-29 22:33, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <20100329195956.71782...@windy.deldotd.com>, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: gotta have 3d accel, so gotta use nvidia proprietary drivers. some searching leads me to believe that I'm missing opengl 32-bit libs. some searching through the lib dire

Re: nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread briand
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:15:48 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-29 21:59, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > gotta have 3d accel, so gotta use nvidia proprietary drivers. > > > > the debian package works well for me, however... > > > > I'm trying to install some, uh, "stuff" :-),

Re: nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-29 22:45, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:15:48 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-29 21:59, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Hi all, gotta have 3d accel, so gotta use nvidia proprietary drivers. the debian package works well for me, however... I'm trying to install s

Re: nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread briand
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:33:48 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > b...@monster:~% aptitude search nvidia > [...] > i nvidia-glx-ia32 - NVIDIA binary driver 32bit libs > [...] > b...@monster:~% apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-ia32 > nvidia-glx-ia32: > Installed: 190.53-2 > Ca

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

2010-03-29 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:31 AM, green wrote: > Are you saying that you booted from a drive that was connected externally via > a > USB/PATA or USB/SATA adapter? no, but the option does exist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread briand
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:52:51 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Oh, wait. The *Windows* app needs OpenGL? > yes. it comes up saying that opengl32.dll is missing, or something similar. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-29 23:21, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:52:51 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: Oh, wait. The *Windows* app needs OpenGL? yes. it comes up saying that opengl32.dll is missing, or something similar. Ah. Is *this* what you're looking for? $ apt-file search opengl3

Linux bridge TCP routing problem

2010-03-29 Thread lare
Hello folks I have following setup: DMZ public IP 4 DMZ public IP 3 | Internet---br0, public IP 1 (eth0 is internet side and eth1 is DMZ side) br0:0, public IP 2---nat (eth2)---private IP Problem is that sometimes (a 2-4 times in a day) DMZ publ

Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-29 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 09:58:31PM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > That seems like a pretty good system. > > I'm unclear what the order of execution is. Does udev create the event > which invokes automount ? > > and if automount is executed first, how is it getting invoked ? Autofs starts u

Re: nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread briand
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:31:43 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-29 23:21, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:52:51 -0500 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> > >> Oh, wait. The *Windows* app needs OpenGL? > >> > > > > yes. it comes up saying that opengl32.dll is missing, or s

Re: OT: Debian Mentors Access

2010-03-29 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
I get this too. On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:59:38 -0500 Chris wrote: > Greetings, > > Is anyone else getting a Peer's Certificate has been revoked. > messages when accessing https://mentors.debian.net/ ? > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > > Chris > > "When the people fear their government, there i

Re: nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-29 23:48, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:31:43 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-29 23:21, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:52:51 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: Oh, wait. The *Windows* app needs OpenGL? yes. it comes up saying that opengl32.dll

Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-29 Thread briand
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:16:59 -0600 Dave Thayer wrote: > Autofs starts up the automount daemons at bootup. One is configured to > use the map file /etc/auto.removable. This is done by adding the > following line to /etc/auto.master: > > /media/auto /etc/auto.removable --timeout=2 --ghost > >

Re: X: display refreshing just stops

2010-03-29 Thread Perttu Muurimäki
Ron Johnson writes: > On 2010-03-27 12:57, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> Problem: Screen freezes until I touch any key or move the mouse. > > When does the freeze *start*? Sometimes when I'm not typing or moving the mouse. Once per 5 minutes perhaps. Usually when something else is g

Re: X: display refreshing just stops

2010-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-30 00:21, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: Ron Johnson writes: On 2010-03-27 12:57, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: Hi again, Problem: Screen freezes until I touch any key or move the mouse. When does the freeze *start*? Sometimes when I'm not typing or moving the mouse. Once per 5 minutes perh

Re: nvidia 32-bit opengl libs

2010-03-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100329210712.2956c...@windy.deldotd.com>, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: >On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:33:48 -0600 > >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: >> i nvidia-glx-ia32 - NVIDIA binary driver 32bit libs >> >> Maybe? Make sure you get the version that matches your Xorg driver >> ver

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-03-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:32:32 -0500 John Hasler wrote: Hello John, > The "announce" lists are not just for developers. Understood, but not everyone wants to subscribe to YANL (Yet ANother List), even one as low-traffic as dev-announce. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvi