Re: GRUB Hard Disk Error

2010-05-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jozsi Vadkan wrote: I've got two pendrives. I want to install a Debian on them. RAID1. Ok... ... After I installed it in RAID1, it works perfectly, ok! :) When I pull out one of the pendrive [good pendrive], it still boots up, hurrah :) But: ... When I pull out the other pendrive [i plug i

Re: xorg-server failing on IBM NetVista with Intel 82815 video; was Re (6): Re^n: Grub vs. linux-image-2.6.32 conundrum

2010-05-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,22.May.10, 00:55:34, David Jardine wrote: > > > > I see. All comments. Which is about the same as not having one. Hmm. > > Or is it? I'm as baffled as anyone alse by xorg configuration, but > can't such a file, blank though it be, override some other config file? > Just a thought. It

Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:03:42AM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > Hi, Osamu: > > On Wednesday 19 May 2010 03:45:36 Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There are 2 different topics. > > > > * Which is better shape "testing" or "unstable" for security issues? > >(original question) > > Th

Re: How do I fsck and XFS file system in "Squeeze"

2010-05-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Allums put forth on 5/21/2010 7:37 PM: > 64-bit Knoppix is in the TODO list of Klaus Knopper, but for rescue > purposes, 32-bit should be able to do the job. This is incorrect _if_ the filesystem is large and thus contains 64 bit inode numbers. If there is any remote possibility that 64 bit

Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,22.May.10, 03:03:42, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > The answer is "it depends". > > As already stated, there are no security updates on Sid 'per se', but they > depend on upstream maintainers provinding a new version that hopefully will > resolve the problem *and* its ability to go into Sid.

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:48:44AM -0400, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:42:16AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. uttered: > > On Friday 21 May 2010 10:23:15 Steve Fishpaste wrote: > > > In my opinion we should keep up with the new releases at least weekly. > > > Is this on t

Quick Java Question

2010-05-22 Thread Danny
Hi guys, I have Debian 5.04 and have a little trouble with JRE. I downloaded the new JRE from Sun and installed it. But how do I tell firefox how to use the JRE ? Thanks Danny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: How do I fsck and XFS file system in "Squeeze"

2010-05-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,21.May.10, 19:19:13, Mark Allums wrote: > Does touch /forcefsck (as root) work? $ grep forcefsck /etc/init.d/* /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh: if [ -f /forcefsck ] || grep -s -w -i "forcefsck" /proc/cmdline /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh: rm -f /fastboot /forcefsck 2>/dev/null /etc/init.d/checkr

Re: How do I fsck and XFS file system in "Squeeze"

2010-05-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,22.May.10, 10:53:43, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Both scripts don't seem generic enough to me. Fscking for XFS should > work as long as you have the relevant tools installed. Aaargh! s/don't// Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.d

Re: Quick Java Question

2010-05-22 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:33:36AM +0200, Danny wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have Debian 5.04 and have a little trouble with JRE. > I downloaded the new JRE from Sun and installed it. But > how do I tell firefox how to use the JRE ? Hello, Try both: a) Check about:config (filter java) b) $ sudo upd

Re: pygrub is failing to boot centos domu on Debian lenny dom0

2010-05-22 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 09:50:19AM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:23 PM,   wrote: > >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 04:10:55PM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote: > >>> bootloader = "/usr/lib/xen-3.2-1/bin/pygryb" > >>            

how to save sound volume setting?

2010-05-22 Thread Long Wind
I use etch Everytime I boot debian and start xawtv, I have to set volume in xmixer how to save volume setting? I use snd_pcm_oss module Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Quick Java Question

2010-05-22 Thread godo
On 05/22/2010 11:33 AM, Danny wrote: Hi guys, I have Debian 5.04 and have a little trouble with JRE. I downloaded the new JRE from Sun and installed it. But how do I tell firefox how to use the JRE ? Thanks Danny Hi, there is also sun-java6-plugin in non-free repositories. -- Bye, Goran Do

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-22 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:04 PM, John L Fjellstad < john-deb...@fjellstad.org> wrote: > Javier Barroso writes: > > > What would be wrong if every app would have its own repository ? > > Nothing > > > There is the problem, isn't it ? > > No > So, if you have 1480 packages, is it fine for you hav

Re: Quick Java Question

2010-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:33 +0200, Danny wrote: > I have Debian 5.04 and have a little trouble with JRE. > I downloaded the new JRE from Sun and installed it. But > how do I tell firefox how to use the JRE ? Do you have any particular reason for downloading the JRE directly from Sun and not inst

Re: how to save sound volume setting?

2010-05-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,22.May.10, 05:42:17, Long Wind wrote: > I use etch > Everytime I boot debian and start xawtv, I have to set volume in xmixer > how to save volume setting? > I use snd_pcm_oss module > Thanks! 'alsactl store' (as root) from package alsa-utils. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among

Re: nepomuk indexer in systray

2010-05-22 Thread AG
On 21/05/10 12:37, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Hello to all! I just upgraded my debian testing, installing nepomuk search. My problem is that the indexer every now and then appears in the systray for a second or so, and then disappears, which is very distracting (or am I very sensitive? :-) )... Any

Re: Non Working Keyboard

2010-05-22 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 05. 2010 02:56:32 je David Hoff Jr napisal(a): I have an older computer which use to have Windows XP on it. It currently has Vinux 3.0 on it. I downloaded the Debian I386 installation version of 5.0.4 ISO and burned it to CD. When I try to install it, I get an opening screen with

(solved)Re: how to save sound volume setting?

2010-05-22 Thread Long Wind
Thank Andrei Popescu ! I will try your solution later on. On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,22.May.10, 05:42:17, Long Wind wrote: >> I use etch >> Everytime I boot debian and start xawtv, I have to set volume in xmixer >> how to save volume setting? >> I use snd_pcm_

Re: Quick Java Question

2010-05-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 22 May 2010 11:33:36 +0200, Danny wrote: > I have Debian 5.04 and have a little trouble with JRE. I downloaded the > new JRE from Sun and installed it. But how do I tell firefox how to use > the JRE ? You can read (and follow) the instructions provided by Oracle: http://www.java.com/en/d

Re: pygrub is failing to boot centos domu on Debian lenny dom0

2010-05-22 Thread Tapas Mishra
I have wiped out all Debian installations I am not going to use Debian in my life ever. Why should some one suffer because some thing was poorly written.I do not find this problem on some other distros. -- Tapas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [SOLVED] New 3-button serial mouse not detected by Lenny

2010-05-22 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 16. 05. 2010 15:59:19 je Chris Austin napisal(a): The three buttons now appear to be working as they are supposed to, i.e. 1 for select, 2 for context menus, and middle / 3 for paste, and even just while writing this message it has been an enormous relief to be able to paste with a prop

Re: Non Working Keyboard

2010-05-22 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:55:13PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 21. 05. 2010 02:56:32 je David Hoff Jr napisal(a): > > I have an older computer which use to have Windows XP on it. It > > currently has Vinux 3.0 on it. I downloaded the Debian I386 > > installation version of 5.0.4 ISO and bur

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 22 May 06:42 -0500, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Please understand releasing big packages such as this one so frequenly will > stress many porting efforts for no obvious gains. > > There are many other packages which we are really behind. Just a personal perception here, it seems as though Ope

Cloned Lenny OS partition: bumped into hibernate and grub2 issues

2010-05-22 Thread Klistvud
Howdy, fellow users of this magnificient OS called Debian! I've recently swapped the hard drive on my box, after cloning my Lenny (and other) partition(s) from the old drive that was becoming too small. I just did dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2 After changing the UUID of the new partition and

Re: pygrub is failing to boot centos domu on Debian lenny dom0

2010-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:32:00PM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:23 PM, wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 04:10:55PM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote: > >> bootloader = "/usr/lib/xen-3.2-1/bin/pygryb" > >                                       > >>(there was no softlink

Re: pygrub is failing to boot centos domu on Debian lenny dom0

2010-05-22 Thread Tapas Mishra
I have wiped out all Debian instances from my server. Thanks for your message I struggled for 2 months. Here is a snapshot if some one thinks I am a newbie and have not done my homework http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3356/4617619327_7f4bfcdb05_o.png this is not exact thing as my problem was but th

Re: pygrub is failing to boot centos domu on Debian lenny dom0

2010-05-22 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 06:56:01PM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Chris Bannister > wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:32:00PM +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote: > >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:23 PM,   wrote: > >> > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 04:10:55PM +0530, Tapas Mishra w

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,22.May.10, 07:04:26, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I've not checked it out closely, but is alioth.debian.org similar to > Ubuntu's Launchpad where community members can set up their own personal > archive? It seems as though someone who shows a personal interest and > (pardon the pun) aptitude w

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-22 Thread Steve Fishpaste
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:27:35PM -0400, John uttered: > On 21/05/10, Steve Fishpaste (marathon.duran...@gmail.com) wrote: > > | > | Why is the Chromium-browser in Sid so old? > > There seem to be three versions of the browser available: > 1. google-chrome-unstable, currently at 6.0.401.1-r4704

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-22 Thread Steve Fishpaste
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:38:02AM -0700, Kelly Clowers uttered: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:23, Steve Fishpaste > wrote: > > Good morning folks. > > > > Why is the Chromium-browser in Sid so old? Chromium has been on the > > 6.x branch for a couple of weeks now and Debian is still using the 5.x

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Andrei Popescu, Am 2010-05-21 18:53:34, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > but the question is why > > is it so old when Ubuntu is keeping up-to-date daily?! > Wasn't there some automatic download/recompile going on in PPA? Or maybe > the Ubuntu

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-22 Thread Steve Fishpaste
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:41:38AM -0500, John Hasler uttered: > JohnRChamplin writes: > > ...which used to be available from unstable, but which I have heard is > > now in sid. > > Unstable _is_ Sid. > > In any case, a few weeks is not old. It is on a fast moving target, and especially in the c

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Nate Bargmann, Am 2010-05-22 07:04:26, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Just a personal perception here, it seems as though OpenOffice gets > updated, mostly advancement of Debian versions, quite frequently. > Sometimes frequently enough that I get a bit annoyed at it while some > other pac

¡Ven y únete a REFERIDOS MULTINIVEL!

2010-05-22 Thread Ethy Benezry
REFERIDOS MULTINIVEL: Buscamos Tus Referidos , Te ayudamos a ganar Dinero este 2010 .. Te invito a participar en una red que te ayuda a buscar referidos, solo tienes que registrarte e invitar gente, todo gratisvamos a participar en grupo para asegurar ganancias. Exitos

No CORE DUMP.

2010-05-22 Thread Avinash H.M.
Hi All, I am using DSL [ damn small linux ] which is branched from debain. I am trying to use GCC, GDB. Able to install both of them. I am doing following - run a helloworld.c program whic has a while loop. So while running, its stuck in while. - another shell, "kill -11 PID" [ PID of

Re: No CORE DUMP.

2010-05-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 05/22/2010 08:10 PM, Avinash H.M. wrote: Hi All, I am using DSL [ damn small linux ] which is branched from debain. I am trying to use GCC, GDB. Able to install both of them. I am doing following - run a helloworld.c program whic has a while loop. So while running, its stuck in while

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-22 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: ... > If Debian isn't going to keep up with the current trunk; then there > really is no point in packaging it here. As it stands I'm not going to > go backwards a full version, so I have reverted to the PPA builds. > I'm confused about what

Partition sizes in Squeeze

2010-05-22 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Hi all, I have a recent install of Squeeze on my laptop. I have setup my partitions according to Debian Installer's defaults for separated /root, /home, /usr, etc. partitions with LVM. I have installed a small number of packages over time. Today when I installed KDevelop (actually the only KDE

Re: Is this possible ?

2010-05-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/05/10 14:45, exp...@hope.cz wrote: Let’s suppose this configuration |Server1| <- |Server2| <- |Client| A client sends a request that starts a script on Server2.The script ( running on server2) from this server 2 will download a webpage from Server1. Is it possible to record Client

Re: xorg-server failing on IBM NetVista with Intel 82815 video; was Re (6): Re^n: Grub vs. linux-image-2.6.32 conundrum

2010-05-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 22 May 2010 03:13:06 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,22.May.10, 00:55:34, David Jardine wrote: >> Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> I see. All comments. Which is about the same as not having one. Hmm. >> >> Or is it? I'm as baffled as anyone alse by xorg configuration, but >>

kvm disk read error

2010-05-22 Thread briand
trying to install windows xp pro the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get Booting from hard disk a disk read error occurred I started with virt-manager, and got the above error messages. then I found some potential fixes using the command line: Here's the command

Re: kvm disk read error

2010-05-22 Thread godo
On 05/23/2010 02:16 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: trying to install windows xp pro the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get Booting from hard disk a disk read error occurred I started with virt-manager, and got the above error messages. then I found some potent

Re: No CORE DUMP.

2010-05-22 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 23:07, Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 05/22/2010 08:10 PM, Avinash H.M. wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I am using DSL [ damn small linux ] which is branched from debain. >> I am trying to use GCC, GDB. Able to install both of them. >> >> I am doing following >> - run a hellowor

Re: How do I fsck and XFS file system in "Squeeze"

2010-05-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/22/2010 2:22 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 5/21/2010 7:37 PM: 64-bit Knoppix is in the TODO list of Klaus Knopper, but for rescue purposes, 32-bit should be able to do the job. This is incorrect _if_ the filesystem is large and thus contains 64 bit inode numbers. If

Re: Cloned Lenny OS partition: bumped into hibernate and grub2 issues

2010-05-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Klistvud wrote: > > I've recently swapped the hard drive on my box, after cloning my Lenny (and > other) partition(s) from the old drive that was becoming too small. I just > did dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2 > > After changing the UUID of the new partition and manu

Re: How do I fsck and XFS file system in "Squeeze"

2010-05-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 5/22/2010 2:22 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Mark Allums put forth on 5/21/2010 7:37 PM: >>> >>> 64-bit Knoppix is in the TODO list of Klaus Knopper, but for rescue >>> purposes, 32-bit should be able to do the job. >> >> This is incorrect _if

lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-22 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where lilo can reliably determine the payload size. This bug *can* be fixed, but not without a significant rewrite of the way that lilo's stage2 loader cod

"Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

2010-05-22 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message "Give root password for maintainance or type Control_D to continue " during reboot of the system. It would occur after the boot messages starting NFS (... etc) ... starting sessions setting console screen modes initilizing

Re: X freezes with 2.6.32-5; okay with 2.6.26-2

2010-05-22 Thread Arthur Marsh
Kent West wrote, on 13/05/10 23:12: I've got an older 600MHz PIII running Sid; if I boot into the installed 2.6.26-2-68 kernel, everything's fine, but if I boot into the installed 2.6.32-5-68 kernel, everything's fine until X is started (either manually or with a session manager or even when tryi

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-22 Thread briand
On Sat, 22 May 2010 22:39:52 -0500 William Pitcock wrote: > > As for removal, the following things need to be done: > > (1) The release notes need to be updated to reflect that lilo is no > longer a bootloader option; > (2) The debian-installer team needs to remove the lilo-installer udeb; > (3

Re: Partition sizes in Squeeze

2010-05-22 Thread Freeman
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:39:21PM +0430, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a recent install of Squeeze on my laptop. I have setup my partitions > according to Debian Installer's defaults for separated /root, /home, /usr, > etc. partitions with LVM. I have installed a small number of

Re: How do I fsck and XFS file system in "Squeeze"

2010-05-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Allums put forth on 5/22/2010 8:32 PM: > On 5/22/2010 2:22 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Mark Allums put forth on 5/21/2010 7:37 PM: >> >>> 64-bit Knoppix is in the TODO list of Klaus Knopper, but for rescue >>> purposes, 32-bit should be able to do the job. >> >> This is incorrect _if_ the file

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 5/22/2010 11:31 PM: > The last time I tried to figure out how to configure grub I removed it > and installed lilo, and I'm hardly the only one who has that reaction. +1 > *sigh*. I guess it's time to take one for the team... No, resist forced conformity. This i

Re: X freezes with 2.6.32-5; okay with 2.6.26-2

2010-05-22 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-05-13 08:42:09 -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've got an older 600MHz PIII running Sid; if I boot into the > installed 2.6.26-2-68 kernel, everything's fine, but if I boot into > the installed 2.6.32-5-68 kernel, everything's fine until X is > started (either manually or with a session manager

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-23 07:47 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > No, resist forced conformity. This is Linux. We have multiple choice with > everything else, so we should darn well have our choice of boot loader. You're welcome to work on lilo so that can cope with the increasing size of kernel images and ini

Re: How do I fsck and XFS file system in "Squeeze"

2010-05-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/23/2010 12:41 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 5/22/2010 8:32 PM: That's a very odd thing. Thanks for correcting me. I would not have guessed that file system structure would be dependent on OS word width. I mean, that seems like a catastrophic implementation/design b

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-22 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-05-23 08:05 (+0200), Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-05-23 07:47 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> No, resist forced conformity. This is Linux. We have multiple choice >> with everything else, so we should darn well have our choice of boot >> loader. > > You're welcome to work on lilo so that ca

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

2010-05-22 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi Mitchell, You might add == |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin| == in /etc/inittab. Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message > > "Give root password for maintainance > or type Control_D to continue " > > during reboot of the system. It would oc

Re: "Give root password for maintence" during every boot of system

2010-05-22 Thread Merciadri Luca
Please do not take into accounts the two `|' which were unfortunately inserted at the beginning and at the end of the line of code. Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > I run debian sid. Sometime ago my system began to give me the message > > "Give root password for maintainance > or type Control_D to con

Re: Partition sizes in Squeeze

2010-05-22 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 22 mei 2010, at 20:09, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > I have a recent install of Squeeze on my laptop. I have setup my partitions > according to Debian Installer's defaults for separated /root, /home, /usr, > etc. partitions with LVM. I have installed a small number of packages over > time. T