Re: Ever make your own fstab from scratch?

2010-04-27 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 27 April 2010 02:44:20 Thomas Pomber wrote: >> You really gotta know your hardware! > > I don't find that to be true at all.  For non-removable media except / you can > simply use UUIDs everything should be fine.  For / y

Re: using umlaut works in console, not in Citrix client

2010-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:38:32 +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > 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 wi

Re: URL

2010-04-27 Thread Merciadri Luca
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Re: Where does update-initramfs get info?

2010-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 12:31:48 Steve wrote: > In upgrading from lenny to sid my new kernel fails to boot my encrypted > lvm volume. Unpacking initrd I find cryptsetup is looking for /dev/hda3. > This is correct for lenny (2.6.26) , but under sid (2.6.32) > its /dev/sda3. > > Where should I loo

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Davies
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > rsync -a /mounted/partition /directory/on/mounted/backup > backs up all I need. Read man rsync for its options. > Why not just copy the data off the mounted partition. Even more simple > and faster. That's great for you. It might not be so useful for the OP, because

Re: device names

2010-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 13:46:23 Frank McCormick wrote: > I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 on the "other" partition on my > hd ( /dev/hda3) and came across a problem no one on the > Ubuntu forums could really resolve. > Grub2 was installed at the same time as Ubuntu, and the whole > installation

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 14:07:07 Chris Davies wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > rsync -a /mounted/partition /directory/on/mounted/backup > > backs up all I need. Read man rsync for its options. > > > > Why not just copy the data off the mounted partition. Even more simple > > and faster. >

Re: asignar hora a PC

2010-04-27 Thread Monsieur Louk
2010/4/27 Stephen Powell > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:22:53 -0400 (EDT), cosme wrote: > > > > asignar hora a PC > > Hola como crear un script para poner en netlogon de samba para que las > > estaciones Windows cojan la hora del server en windows sería por jemplo > > netime.bat > > > > @echo off > > n

Re: downloaded .jnlp won't open

2010-04-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:22:37 +0100, John O Laoi wrote: Camaleón, Run "update-alternatives --display java" # update-alternatives --display java java - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java That is not the Sun's Java but let's keep th

Re: downloaded .jnlp won't open

2010-04-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
godo wrote: On 04/27/2010 06:36 PM, John O Laoi wrote: Does some of this errors sad something like "there is no network"? Yes, they always say "Unable to load resource:" cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only if output is 1 then: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only That's not bad either ;-)

Re: Where does update-initramfs get info?

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Davies
Steve wrote: > grep of /etc/initramfs-tools/... for hda, crypt or boot returns nothing > useful. Where else should I look? /usr/share/initramfs-tools Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Installer partitioner project, dif Debian Ubuntu, lvm, UUID, GPartEd, GRUB, HAL

2010-04-27 Thread giovanni_re
I'd appreciate an answer on these questions from any knowledgeable person, & especially would really like to hear from the maintainer of the partioner on the alternate installer - please tell me if that is you, thanks. :) == I'm seeing what I think are GRUB & partitioner issues in Ubuntu 10.04 (pr

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:51:57 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: ... > For "normal" file operations, taking an LVM snapshot of the mounted > filesystem > and then making your backup from that should be sufficient. This should even > work for postgreSQL database files (though, it is not opt

Re: Installer partitioner project, dif Debian Ubuntu, lvm, UUID, GPartEd, GRUB, HAL

2010-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 15:32:28 giovanni_re wrote: > I'd appreciate an answer on these questions from any knowledgeable > person, & especially would really like to hear from the maintainer of > the partioner on the alternate installer - please tell me if that is > you, thanks. :) I'm just a user

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:44:27 +0100 Chris Davies wrote: ... > LVM provides a snapshot mode for this kind of requirement. It's not > stunning but it's usually sufficient. Perhaps usually, but in my use-case (and that of others) it's badly broken (I've mentioned this elsewhere in the thread, but I

Re: tool tips remaining after window switching

2010-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:40:58 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Monday 26 April 2010 21:09:06 Celejar wrote: > > I use a > > number of applications that implement tool tips, those little boxes > > that come up explaining some on screen widget. Very often, when one > > comes up and I then

Re: tool tips remaining after window switching

2010-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:46:35 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... > I see this, but I think in Iceweasel. I use Qt apps but usually not with > tool tips. > I'll keep a watch out and report when I see it again. Thanks. See my response to Boyd. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 16:03:55 Celejar wrote: > I've had to give up lvm snapshots totally as > broken, primarily because of this (see my messages in the thread): > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549691 That is troublesome, probably to the point of actually being broken. It

Re: tool tips remaining after window switching

2010-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 16:18:01 Celejar wrote: > The main offender is oowriter. I think that I've seen a similar > problem with other applications, but I can't reproduce such right now. I'd blame oowriter, then. You can always add more information to the bug if you are able to reproduce in ot

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/26/2010 1:37 PM, Mike Bird wrote: 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 l

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:40:37 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Tuesday 27 April 2010 16:03:55 Celejar wrote: > > I've had to give up lvm snapshots totally as > > broken, primarily because of this (see my messages in the thread): > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=5

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/26/2010 2:29 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 4/26/2010 12:51 PM: Put four drives in a RAID 1, you can suffer a loss of three drives. And you'll suffer pretty abysmal write performance as well. Also keep in mind that some software RAID implementations allow more than tw

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

2010-04-27 Thread Alexander Samad
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:36 AM, James P. Wallen wrote: > > On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> [snip] >> Once you've got the hardware, you might as well use it, even if it >> requires >> non-free drivers.  The manufacturer has already got their cut of what you >> paid; you

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/26/2010 5:24 PM, Clive McBarton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: Some people are scared of shared folders as possible attack vectors, thus security risks. What exactly are those risks? (For me, personally, it's theoretical, as I only am repeatin

Re: tool tips remaining after window switching

2010-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:43:57 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Tuesday 27 April 2010 16:18:01 Celejar wrote: > > The main offender is oowriter. I think that I've seen a similar > > problem with other applications, but I can't reproduce such right now. > > I'd blame oowriter, then. You

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-04-27 Thread Chris Davies
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > For "normal" file operations, taking an LVM snapshot of the mounted > filesystem and then making your backup from that should be sufficient. Agreed. I was pointing out that rsync isn't necessarily the appropriate solution in all cases. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/26/2010 11:11 PM, Tim Clewlow wrote: I don't know what your requirements / levels of paranoia are, but RAID 5 is probably better than RAID 6 until you are up to 6 or 7 drives; the chance of a double failure in a 5 (or less) drive array is minuscule. . I currently have 3 TB of data with a

Re: Technical questions

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/27/2010 3:56 AM, Thomas Pomber wrote: I can see that some people here are boring, and lack a sense of fun. So, technical questions only from here on in. :) In case it hasn't been mentioned, there now exists an off-topic user list for Debian. MAA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Esperanto

2010-04-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Thomas Pomber wrote: Now, that's not fair, Mr. Rogers. I also asked about setting up a TV card. You have to admit, it's a good question about Esperanto. --- On Tue, 4/27/10, Brad Rogers wrote: From: Brad Rogers Subject: Re: Esperanto To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Re

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/27/2010 9:56 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 4/26/2010 1:37 PM, Mike Bird wrote: 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 a

Re: Esperanto

2010-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:35:48 -0700 (MST) Robert Holtzman wrote: ... > Isn't this list moderated? If so, why hasn't this imbecile been dumped? This list is not moderated. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access vi

Re: How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:32:25AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Tuesday 27 April 2010 08:48:48 Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Essentially, it causes held packages to be added to the root > > set (and that's the best implementation, I think: modify aptitude's > > custom root s

Re: Esperanto

2010-04-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:35:48 -0700 (MST) Robert Holtzman wrote: ... Isn't this list moderated? If so, why hasn't this imbecile been dumped? This list is not moderated. Too bad. I don't normally like list moderation but I would sure make an exception h

Re: Esperanto

2010-04-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:22 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Celejar wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:35:48 -0700 (MST) >> Robert Holtzman wrote: >> >> ... >> >>> Isn't this list moderated? If so, why hasn't this imbecile been dumped? >> >> This list is not moderated. > > To

Re: asignar hora a PC

2010-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:57:59 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:22:53 -0400 (EDT), cosme wrote: (...) >> y como quedaría dentro > > Solo en ingles, por favor, o mailto:debian-user-span...@lists.debian.org After some attemps to try to contact the user (he also writes int

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