Re: USB key accepts data only as root

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lisi writes: > On Sunday 25 April 2010 21:06:14 Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Ron Johnson writes: >> > On 04/25/2010 02:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> Not enough information. >> >> >> >> Sorry. >> >> >> >>> Automounted from

Re: Replies to the list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:04:16 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> Does anyone here have to reply to my posts in the same manner? >:-? > >> Actually, I have two choices to read your answers. Either I use my Gnu

Re: Replies to the list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Douma writes: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:04:16PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Camaleón writes: >> >> > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:56:07 +0200, Nick Douma wrote: >> > >> >> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:47:50AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Su

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM: > (Why? ext3 and 4 are exceptionally well supported by Linux and GNU. XFS > will be, too, probably.) Are you kidding? XFS already is all of the things you mention. You apparently need a history lesson. XFS went into production systems starting in 19

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

On 04/26/2010 02:14 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lisi writes: On Sunday 25 April 2010 21:06:14 Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson writes: On 04/25/2010 02:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Not enough information. Sorry. Automoun

Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch

Hello List, I am trying to install Debian Testing on IBM eServer System p5. I get a boot prompt where I enter "expert install video=ofonly" It loads kernel then ELF and then I get a b/w screen saying, done instantiating rtas at 0x07716000 done WARNING: maximum cups (1) exceeded: ignoring

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On 04/26/2010 02:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM: (Why? ext3 and 4 are exceptionally well supported by Linux and GNU. XFS will be, too, probably.) Are you kidding? XFS already is all of the things you mention. You apparently need a history lesson. XF

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Mike Castle put forth on 4/25/2010 10:29 AM: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, B. Alexander wrote: >> Does anyone have suggestions and practical experience with the pros and cons >> of the various filesystems? > > Google is switching (has switched by now?) all of it's servers over to > ext4. A

Re: VM software for personal use?

On 4/25/2010 8:34 PM, ghe wrote: On 4/25/10 7:10 PM, Richard Lawrence wrote: http://losak.sourceforge.net/ A Lisp OS!!??? Could be, I guess. I once worked at a place where they claimed to have written an accounting package in BASIC. I think I'd stick with VirtualBox... Am I detecting sarc

Re: Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch

Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] put forth on 4/26/2010 2:34 AM: > Hello List, > > I am trying to install Debian Testing on IBM eServer System p5. > > I get a boot prompt where I enter > "expert install video=ofonly" > > It loads kernel then ELF and then I get a b/w screen saying, > > > done > insta

Re: Problem with me Modem Huawei on Debian Lenny

Hi Thank you for your response. before try all this solution. Please found attach all following command shell: Script started on Sun 25 Apr 2010 23:25:36 SAST gaelle:/media/TUX-FOR-KOM# lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Fou

Re: Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] put forth on 4/26/2010 2:34 AM: >> Hello List, >> >> I am trying to install Debian Testing on IBM eServer System p5. >> >> I get a boot prompt where I enter >> "expert install video=ofonly" >> >> It loads kernel the

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM: (Why? ext3 and 4 are exceptionally well supported by Linux and GNU. XFS will be, too, probably.) Are you kidding? XFS already is all of the things you mention. You apparently need a history lesson. No

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I'd also guess that XFS seems "new" to a lot of people because it's never been the default filesystem for any major Linux distro on i386/AMD64. I wonder why. _ Older is not better. MAA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: XFS has had just as much development support in Linux as EXT3/4 have, possibly more in some areas. What does this prove? Development does not equal support. MAA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Did I forget to mention that XFS is pretty old? 17 years old. So what's your point? MAA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM: Sorry Stan, Your defense of XFS has put me into troll mode. It's a reflex. I don't buy it, but I shouldn't troll. I think you are confusing what is with what should be. MAA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 13:04 +0530, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote: > Hello List, > > I am trying to install Debian Testing on IBM eServer System p5. I can't really help you with your problem, but would like to point out that there is a mailing list for PowerPC [1], which might be worth a try.

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Ron Johnson put forth on 4/26/2010 2:37 AM: > On 04/26/2010 02:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM: >> >>> (Why? ext3 and 4 are exceptionally well supported by Linux and GNU. XFS >>> will be, too, probably.) >> >> Are you kidding? XFS already is all of the th

Re: Different ways of creating a USB-install stick

James Stuckey wrote: Hello, I'm curious as to the different ways one can create a USB install stick, for the purpose of installing Debian. It is possible to do it by a) acquiring (where?) a boot.img.gz file, and then doing "zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc". Then load a netboot iso to the disc. b

reporting bugs in a helpful way [was Re: Want it? Give]

Brent Clark wrote, on 11/04/10 12:26: Hiya I came across this blog http://ryanbigg.com/2010/04/want-it-give/ and I couldn't agree more with this person. Please mention the gist of what someone is saying rather than expect people to bring up the link in their $BROWSER. The subject you provid

Re: Problem with me Modem Huawei on Debian Lenny

Hi I have a different 3g usb modem, and I have found after .31 there is a problem loading the firmware into the device. maybe you are running into the same problem. There was a change to the qcserial - there is a regression bug again 32+ which make the firmware fail. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Replies to the list

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:11:57 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> I use Gmane (e-mail to news gateway) to send posts and read the list >> via Pan newsreader. >> >>>From time to time Gmane have had some "glitches" (messages can be >>>delayed >> or in the worst cases, they are lost) b

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Mark Allums put forth on 4/26/2010 3:10 AM: > On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> XFS has had just as much development support in Linux as EXT3/4 have, >> possibly more in some areas. > > What does this prove? Development does not equal support. I thought you were talking about deve

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

Hi, When upgrading with apt-get, I sometimes encounter == ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start == How can I solve this problem? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an i

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

On 2010-04-25, Disc Magnet wrote: ---SNIP--- > I was just experimenting to see if I can > put any startup commands which will run everytime I log into GNOME. In > both trials, GNOME crashed. Put the commands in .gnomerc (for GNOME only) or .xsessionrc (for all X sessions). If you want to start gr

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:16:31 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > To put data on my USB key, I need to be root. This does not sound > normal. How can I tweak this? Not normal. When I attach a flash drive I get: s...@stt008:~$ mount | grep media /dev/sdc1 on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhe

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

On 2010-04-25, Merciadri Luca wrote: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enigD4EBF6DE390BB397F7830763 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi, > > To put data on my USB key, I need to be root. This

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Mark Allums put forth on 4/26/2010 3:22 AM: > On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM: > > Sorry Stan, Your defense of XFS has put me into troll mode. It's a > reflex. I don't buy it, but I shouldn't troll. > > I think you are confusing what is

Re: Upgrading xorg Lenny->Testing

On 2010-04-25, Felix Natter wrote: > hello, > > I am currently running on VESA driver with Lenny's xorg (7.3), > because my Geforce 310M is only supported in xserver-xorg-video-nv >>= 2.1.17 (Squeeze). > > Now I can try to build the xorg, xorg-server and xserver-xorg-video-nv > source packages and

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On 4/26/2010 4:53 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 4/26/2010 3:22 AM: On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM: Sorry Stan, Your defense of XFS has put me into troll mode. It's a reflex. I don't buy it, but I shouldn't troll. I

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

Anand Sivaram wrote: > Just see which package it belongs to. From root, > dpkg --search /usr/lib/libwins.so > > If it belongs to some packet, try to reinstall it. > apt-get install --reinstall > Then see the problem is repeating. Unfortunately, it gives `dpkg: /usr/lib/libwins.so not found.' :-(

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:06:23 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > When upgrading with apt-get, I sometimes encounter > > == > ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong > magic bytes at the start > == > > How can I solve this problem? Not sure... maybe the file has been corru

mkfifo question

Hello, Currently I download a file (which is about 700MB) from wget and place it in my /tmp and do my task on the file. If I have to work with 10 of these fies at a single time I have to have 10 files in /tmp; I was wondering if anyone has a clever idea how I can avoid having all 10 in /tmp and h

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Mark Allums put forth on 4/26/2010 3:22 AM: >> On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM: >> >> Sorry Stan,  Your defense of XFS has put me into troll mode.  It's a >> reflex.  I don't buy it,

Re: Replies to the list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:11:57 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > >>> I use Gmane (e-mail to news gateway) to send posts and read the list >>> via Pan newsreader. >>> From time to time Gmane have had some "glitc

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

El 2010-04-26 a las 17:14 +0530, Anand Sivaram escribió: (resending to the list) > Did you try "file /usr/lib/libwins.so" to see the file type? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:53:27 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: ... Heck, I haven't even installed the non-free firmware to make wireless work in a couple of these notebooks. Firmware runs on the external hardware, not the system, so system stability

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

Paul E Condon writes: > I worked on a personal project last year in which I ran into the 32k > limit and solved the problem by imposing a simple structure on my > directory names. It's easy if you are planning ahead. This guy is stuck with an application (presumably closed-source) that already re

Re: mkfifo question

fifo is just like pipe, but there is a name/filesystem entry for that. you could assume that fifo is splitting the standard program1 | programs into two parts using the named fifo. In this case it depends how your program is doing the processing, whether it processes one file each after downloadi

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

Camaleón wrote: >> Did you try "file /usr/lib/libwins.so" to see the file type? >> It gives `/usr/lib/libwins.so: data'. P.S.: This time, your message was correctly received in my e-mail inbox. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > In English the slash is understood to mean "or". There is no limit of > 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3. > > There is a limit of 31998 directories under a directory. This is caused by > the ext3 hard link count limit bei

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

On Seg, 26 Abr 2010, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: This limit is rarely encountered in practice because it is so much more efficient to use multiple directory levels, e.g.: parent- a- able alf b- beta bravo Hmm... what happ

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

On 04/26/2010 07:58 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > >> In English the slash is understood to mean "or". There is no limit of >> 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3. >> >> There is a limit of 31998 directories under a directory. Th

Re: Suspend to Disk + blacklisted module = still trouble

Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:06:13 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > >> Felix Natter writes: >> >>> so verbosity 1 should output something, but I will try 4. >> >> Changing verbosity didn't help, I still have no hibernate.log anywhere >> in /var. hello Camaleon, > So you changed "Verb

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:56:21 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > Why Debian Installer doesn't change its default filesystem to xfs if it > is better than ext3 / ext4? I think always is better stick to defaults > if it is possible XFS (and ReiserFS) were having (still have?) problems with GRUB legacy

Re: Just testing...

Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > This a simple e-mail just for testing purposes (regarding to Debian > mailing list problems with my replies). > > Hope you can receive this O.K. :-) > No problem. Even weirder! I assure you that I sometimes did not receive your answers. I simply cannot understand th

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Javier Barroso put forth on 4/26/2010 6:56 AM: > Hello Stan, > > Why Debian Installer doesn't change its default filesystem to xfs if > it is better than ext3 / ext4? I think always is better stick to > defaults if it is possible > > Thanks for your explications ! If one disk filesystem was bet

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

John Hasler put forth on 4/26/2010 7:07 AM: > Fortunately, they did not decide to label disk drives "drawers". Heh, IBM calls their server drive trays "drawers", and calls their CPU cards "books". -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -- tortuous paths

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is amazing how asking what I thought was a simple question can lead down a variety of long, tortuous paths. Perhaps that possibility is one of the virtues (or curses?) of the Debian system. Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: Suspend to Disk + blacklisted module = still trouble

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:09:36 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> BTW, how do you call the hibernation state? You should type >> "hibernation" in a text console (gnome-terminal, xterm, konsole...). > > That was it: I used the GNOME shutdown dialog: I thought it would call > hibernate

Re: Just testing...

Hi, On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 03:20:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This a simple e-mail just for testing purposes (regarding to Debian > > mailing list problems with my replies). > > > > Hope you can receive this O.K. :-) > > > No problem. Even weirder! I

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:24:52 -0400 (EDT), martin f krafft wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: >> This is hardly a new book. In fact, it was written in the days of Woody. >> (Woody -> Sarge -> Etch -> Lenny -> Squeeze) > > It was written in the days of the sarge freeze and is entirely > focused on s

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2010 10:17 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:56 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: [snip] You might want to try Help -> Migration Assistant -> Use Original Toolbar That might be more familiar to you. I'd already done that, but decided to take another look at MA, and

Re: Just testing...

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:17:29 +0200, Nick Douma wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 03:20:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Camaleón wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > This a simple e-mail just for testing purposes (regarding to Debian >> > mailing list problems with my replies). >> > >> > Hope

Questions about RAID 6

Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, but the intention is to add more drives as storage requirements increase. My research/googling suggests ext3 supports 16TB volumes if block size is 4096 bytes, but some sites suggest the 32 bit arch means it is restricted

Re: Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 13:04 +0530, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> I am trying to install Debian Testing on IBM eServer System p5. > > I can't really help you with your problem, but would like to point out > that t

Re: VM software for personal use?

Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:39 PM, John Hasler wrote: Glenn English writes: A Lisp OS!!??? Pikers. I once worked at a place where they claimed to have written an accounting package in BASIC. I used a commercial accounting package written

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:40:30 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>> Did you try "file /usr/lib/libwins.so" to see the file type? >>> > It gives `/usr/lib/libwins.so: data'. Review your "/var/log/apt/term.*" files to find any hint about where that file comes from. I cannot find a

Re: VM software for personal use?

B. Alexander wrote: Amen to that! IMHO, vmware merely pays lip service to Linux. 12 years ago, when we were using Linux on the job, we (and many, many others) were asking for a Linux client. We are now at VSphere 4, and still only windows clients. VMware server is even worse. It runs on Linux

aptitude and held packages

I just upgraded apt and aptitude to the latest testing version. Although 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' tells me that '172 not upgraded' it no longer lists them. Is this a bug or an intentional change? -- "Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do." -- Dale Carnegie Rick

Re: VM software for personal use?

On 4/26/10 8:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Used LISP for years at IBM Research No, no, no. Lisp is a perfectly fine language. There are just others more suited for systems work. -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Just testing...

Nick Douma wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 03:20:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > I did not receive your initial mail, only the reply from Merciadri. > Normal, he did not send it to the mailing list, and I sent inadvertently my answer to the mailing list. Sorry. -- Merciadri

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

Camaleón schreef: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:40:30 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Did you try "file /usr/lib/libwins.so" to see the file type? It gives `/usr/lib/libwins.so: data'. Review your "/var/log/apt/term.*" files to find any hint about where that file comes from. I c

Re: VM software for personal use?

ghe wrote: On 4/26/10 8:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Used LISP for years at IBM Research No, no, no. Lisp is a perfectly fine language. There are just others more suited for systems work. As someone else pointed out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine There have been more than on

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Camaleón schreef: >> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:40:30 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >>> Camaleón wrote: > Did you try "file /usr/lib/libwins.so" to see the file type? > >>> It gives `/usr/lib/libwins.so: data'. >> >> Review your "/var/log/apt/term.*" files to fin

Re: USB key accept data only as root

> To put data on my USB key, I need to be root. This does not sound > normal. How can I tweak this? This sounds perfectly sane. Even better, it protects you from yourself and from people around. I suppose you are the only user of the node. Little tweaking with permissions would let you go further,

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

also sprach Stephen Powell [2010.04.26.1617 +0200]: > I think there may be some confusion here, Mr. Krafft. The comments > I made above were not in reference to anything _you_ wrote. They were > in reference to the original edition of "The Linux Cookbook", by > Michael Stutz, which was copyright

Re: Questions about RAID 6

Ok, I found the answer to my second question - it fails the entire disk. So the first question remains. Does ext3 (and relevent utilities, particularly resize2fs and e2fsck) on 32 bit i386 arch support 16TB volumes? Regards, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Questions about RAID 6

On 4/26/2010 9:29 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, but the intention is to add more drives as storage requirements increase. My research/googling suggests ext3 supports 16TB volumes if block size is 4096 bytes, but some sites sug

using umlaut works in console, not in Citrix client

Hi, i'm using Debian stable on a Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop with an azerty keyboard layout (Belgian period) and when i use the Citrix client (v11), it doesn't translate all the key combinations correctly. I cannot use an umlaut with a small caps letter, it automatically makes the small letter

Re: Questions about RAID 6

On 4/26/2010 10:28 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: Ok, I found the answer to my second question - it fails the entire disk. So the first question remains. I just figured that out---and I see you have too. The difference between what we would like it to do, and what it actually does can be frustratin

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:26:40 -0400 (EDT), martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Stephen Powell [2010.04.26.1617 +0200]: >> I think there may be some confusion here, Mr. Krafft. The comments >> I made above were not in reference to anything _you_ wrote. They were >> in reference to the original

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

On Monday 26 April 2010 16:48:01 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:26:40 -0400 (EDT), martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Stephen Powell [2010.04.26.1617 +0200]: > >> I think there may be some confusion here, Mr. Krafft. The comments > >> I made above were not in reference to anyt

Re: USB key accept data only as root

Zoran Kolic wrote: > > This sounds perfectly sane. Even better, it protects you from > yourself and from people around. > I suppose you are the only user of the node. Little tweaking > with permissions would let you go further, but I stay firm > against. Systems like openbsd or freebsd would not al

Re: Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 20:03 +0530, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Wolodja Wentland > wrote: > > Are you using the squeeze installer? If so, I would try the stable > > installer for the installation. Is there a special reason why you need > > the squeeze ins

[OT] Proof pudding (was: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?)

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 02:15:21PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > and the proof is in the pudding ;-) Actually, the etymology of that phrase is really interesting, because if you think about it, unless it's an alcoholised pudding, there's no proof. The full saying is: "The proof of the pudding i

Gendiri Peka requests anonymous contacts sharing

Hi, Last chance! Just a reminder, Gendiri would like to share approved contacts with you on Boxbe. Use this link: https://www.boxbe.com/register?tc=2507988334_2065601190 This message was sent at the request of alfin...@boxbe.com. If you want to opt-out of invitations from Boxbe members, us

Re: Questions about RAID 6

> I'm afraid that opinions of RAID vary widely on this list (no > surprise) > but you may be interested to note that we agree (a consensus) that > software-RAID 6 is an unfortunate choice. > . Is this for performance reasons or potential data loss. I can live with slow writes, reads should not be

Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of my graphic session's screen except that it reacts to nothing, there is no mouse cursor

Resources for learning Linux

Hello, I've been using linux (debian) for about a year now, and although I'm no longer scared of the command line I would like to do a little reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of the more advanced topics, or to see if I have learned a lot of the things that might be t

Re: Resources for learning Linux

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:30:27 -0400 (EDT), James Stuckey wrote: > > I've been using linux (debian) for about a year now, and although I'm no > longer scared of the command line I would like to do a little > reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of the more > advanced topic

Re: where is what kontrol did?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I don't have KDE installed (fvwm instead) but use Konsole. That has a warning funcion that shows up with a message 'KDE system notifications'. It used to have a sound associated with it and I used to use kontrol to set that up. But kontrol is gone. How do I get

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of my graphic session's screen except that it reacts to

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

On Monday April 26 2010 11:28:36 am rudu wrote: > Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get > my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). > Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of > my graphic session's screen except that

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:21:06 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Camaleón schreef: >>> Review your "/var/log/apt/term.*" files to find any hint about where >>> that file comes from. I cannot find any reference to it in any place >>> :-? > Amongst other stuff, it gives > > =

Re: Questions about RAID 6

On 4/26/2010 11:57 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: I'm afraid that opinions of RAID vary widely on this list (no surprise) but you may be interested to note that we agree (a consensus) that software-RAID 6 is an unfortunate choice. . Is this for performance reasons or potential data loss. I can live w

Re: Resources for learning Linux

James Stuckey wrote: Hello, I've been using linux (debian) for about a year now, and although I'm no longer scared of the command line I would like to do a little reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of the more advanced topics, or to see if I have learned a lot of

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Saturday 24 April 2010 12:53:25 B. Alexander wrote: > I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using reiser3. > It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without umounting the > filesystem (which has since been fixed in ext3), plus, unlike any > filesystem I have enc

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Monday 26 April 2010 13:22:19 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 24 April 2010 12:53:25 B. Alexander wrote: > > I have a question on filesystems. > > [M]y off-the-cuff recommendation > would be to start migration to btrfs. Btrfs may not be right for you. The on-disk format has stabil

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? I can't be sure but that may coincide with that kernel*-trunk thing, when I h

Re: VM software for personal use?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Except... what works very nice in VMware is the NAT and Host Only network setups: works out of the box. You share your home dir thru samba. On XP all I had to setup was a netuse * to mount a net fs. Do the others do it that easy? Yes [1]. VBox even has kernel additions

Re: Resources for learning Linux

Perhaps there are some online courses posted to youtube, or a few books that someone might like to recommend? I would be interested to know what types of things one must learn to get "linux-certification" (I presume there is such a thing). I have learned much about the Linux kernel be reading th

Re: Questions about RAID 6

On Mon April 26 2010 10:51:38 Mark Allums wrote: > RAID 6 (and 5) perform well when less than approximately 1/3 full. > After that, even reads suffer. Mark, I've been using various kinds of RAID for many many years and was not aware of that. Do you have a link to an explanation? Thanks, --Mike

Re: belocs-locales-bin broken

On Sunday 25 April 2010 07:45:28 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > I put through a pile of updates on many Lenny systems this morning and > they all errored with: > > az_AZ.UTF-8... up-to-date > be_BY.UTF-8... up-to-date > be_by.ut...@latin... up-to-date > ber_DZ.UTF-8... cannot open locale de

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? I can't be sure but that may coincide with that kernel*-trunk thi

Re: Resources for learning Linux

Can't miss the Debian Reference by Osamu Aoki (青木 修): http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference It covers a lot of topics and provides up-to-date pointers to other resources. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Cyrus 2.2 imapd in AMD64

El 22/04/10 20:50, Carlos Bergero escribió: Hi there list, got some trouble running a cyrus server, actually I have an old setup running in Etch i386 without any trouble, virtual mail server and all pgsql setup for backend and postfix for MTA, all sweat. I installed a new server, better hardwar

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] I recommend moving to ext3 (NOT ext4) [snip] Here we go again? :-) -thib -- 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/4bd

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

[Please reply to the list, and not to me, as per the CoC.] [Please don't top post.] On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:48:06 +0200 exp...@hope.cz wrote: > Celejar, > Thank you for your reply. > Not full MTA > Best regards, > lad. Hm, I had thought that at least some of the small, relaying MTAs accepted con

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