Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-10 Thread Lisi
On Friday 10 September 2010 03:45:35 John Lindsay wrote: > Still trying to find out what is available to enable the drive in Debian. Have you tried turning the icon on? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: authentication of multiple users for one mail server

2010-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:36:33 -0400, brownh wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:52:23 -0400, brownh wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> When it comes to digging into exim4's configuration files, it all goes >>> over my head. But I gather from googling that exim4's default is to >>> route t

Re: detect ethernet card?

2010-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:24:57 +0200, Atu wrote: > On Thursday 09 September 2010 09:19:30 pm Camaleón wrote: >> (...) >> >> Try "/sbin/ifconfig" to check if the card is there. > > I tried and it isn't. I see "lo" but not "eth0". Then review the "dmesg | grep eth" log, as David told you. If somet

Re: How to setup X fonts on Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze?

2010-09-10 Thread Csanyi Pal
Javier Vasquez writes: > On 9/9/10, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> I have installed following fonts: >> .. >> ttf-dejavu >> ttf-dejavu-core >> ttf-dejavu-extra >> .. >> In Xorg.0.log i can find only following fonts loaded: >> (==) FontPath set to: >> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, >> /usr/sh

Re: making the web server also a dns server

2010-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:13:26 +0530, Siju George wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> AFAIK, in your domain name settings, you can use the FQDN or the IP as >> nameserver. >> >> In your bind9 configuration file you have to point "ns1.livingwaters- >> international.org" to y

Re: How to setup X fonts on Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze?

2010-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:47:15 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > my system is Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze. > > I have installed amongs others following fonts: otf-freefont (...) > On Squeeze there doesn't any xorg.conf needed and I want not use it, so > how can I setup font paths for installed fonts? Mayb

passwd strength (cmd line)

2010-09-10 Thread Farkas, Illes
Hi, Do you happen to know of a simple command-line utility checking the strength of a password that the user enters (by typing)? There are detailed forms online, for example this one: http://www.passwordmeter.com/. But this works with plain http, not https, so why would users enter their passwords

Re: changes to cron

2010-09-10 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I updated many packages yesterday, including cron. Now I'm getting > messages like this from logcheck: > > Sep  7 15:20:03 niof /USR/SBIN/CRON[20375]: (CRON) error (grandchild #20376 > failed with exit status 1) > Sep  7 15:23:01 niof /USR/SB

Re: Package Name Confusion

2010-09-10 Thread PRAKHAR gaur
--Forwarded Message Attachment-- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:38:05 -0700 From: field.engin...@gmail.com To: prakhar_aaid...@hotmail.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Package Name Confusion >Yes Prakhar, please tell us what you're wanting to do? >My guess is you are wanting to build a

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:58:30 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Last weekend I did a bunch of updates (to testing) and rebooted after > almost six months. > > Somewhere in that process the ata drive got UUIDs assigned to the > partitions and /etc/fstab was modified. > > Now they won't mount. (...) W

copy via rsync

2010-09-10 Thread Jakub Jedelsky
Hi list! I want to copy a lot of files via rsync (about 200GB), but the process ends in D state after some time. In /var/log/kern.log I have this error: Sep 10 09:26:45 servername kernel: [31527915.475952] EXT3-fs warning (device md2): ext3_dx_add_entry: Directory index full! Any ideas? Server

Re: detect ethernet card?

2010-09-10 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Atu, On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:42:12AM +0200, Atu wrote: > 00.19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network > Connection (rev 02) Support for the 82567LM-3 (PCI ID 8086:10de) was added to the e1000e driver in linux-2.6 2.6.26-25, which is part of the recent[1] Debian

Re: passwd strength (cmd line)

2010-09-10 Thread Alberto Luaces
"Farkas, Illes" writes: > Hi, > > Do you happen to know of a simple command-line utility checking the > strength of a password that the user enters (by typing)? There are > detailed forms online, for example this one: http:// > www.passwordmeter.com/. But this works with plain http, not https, so

Re: apt and qt4-X11 bugs in testing upgrade?

2010-09-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:28:40 +0100 AG wrote: Hello AG, > That's quite possible - hadn't considered that. However, the UK must > still be on the British summer holidays because this has been several I'm in the UK too, using http://ft.uk.debian.org. > I'm selfishly relieved that it wasn't som

Re: passwd strength (cmd line)

2010-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:31:13 +0200, Farkas, Illes wrote: > Do you happen to know of a simple command-line utility checking the > strength of a password that the user enters (by typing)? There are > detailed forms online, for example this one: > http://www.passwordmeter.com/. But this works with pl

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 08:26:46PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> There are sometimes some websites (such as news ones) which make an >> extensive use of flash stuff. Amongst the animations, flash is sometimes >> also used for ads, etc., and I don't like this.

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-10 Thread Alberto Luaces
Merciadri Luca writes: > I'm running stable http://packages.debian.org/lenny/adblock-plus -- Alberto -- 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/87y6baxac5

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
Alberto Luaces wrote: > Merciadri Luca writes: > > >> I'm running stable >> > > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/adblock-plus > > Thanks. Works like a charm. I was not aware that one was able to install a naviguator's add-on by using aptitude/apt-get ! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.

Re: making the web server also a dns server

2010-09-10 Thread François TOURDE
Le 14861ième jour après Epoch, Siju George écrivait: > Hi, > > I have registered a domain "livingwaters-international.org". >  The website is currently running in google pages. ??? > I would like to know how I can change the website as well as the DNS > server to a dedicated server I have. > > I

Re: Burn DVD with CJK file names

2010-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:19:34 +, T o n g wrote: > Anyone know how to burn DVDs with Chinese/Japanese/Korean file names on > them from none-utf8 CJK file names on HD? Just out of curiosity... what happens when to try to burn them? The required font for a proper rendering of the filename may be

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-10 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:26:46 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > There are sometimes some websites (such as news ones) which make an > extensive use of flash stuff. Amongst the animations, flash is > sometimes also used for ads, etc., and I don't like this. Are there > any Iceweasel tools whic

Re: apt and qt4-X11 bugs in testing upgrade?

2010-09-10 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:21:06 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:28:40 +0100 > AG wrote: > > Hello AG, > > > That's quite possible - hadn't considered that. However, the UK > > must still be on the British summer holidays because this has been > > several > > I'm in the UK too

Re: copy via rsync

2010-09-10 Thread emmanuel segura
try to look this link http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/tunning-linux-ext3-filesystem/ 2010/9/10 Jakub Jedelsky : > Hi list! > > I want to copy a lot of files via rsync (about 200GB), but the process > ends in D state after some time. In /var/log/kern.log I have this error: > > Sep 10 09:26:45 serverna

May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-10 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, I mean from a non-Debian linux environment and an empty disk, and internet. I'd like to try out reiser4 for root. I have compiled 2.6.35.4 with reiser4 into .deb, and a disk with reiser4 filesystem. Thanks. -- 竹密岂妨流水过 山高哪阻野云飞 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 09 sep 10, 22:58:30, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Last weekend I did a bunch of updates (to testing) and rebooted after > almost six months. > > Somewhere in that process the ata drive got UUIDs assigned to the > partitions and /etc/fstab was modified. > > Now they won't mount. > > I used to mou

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-10 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 10. 09. 2010 11:00:22 je Angus Hedger napisal(a): I would also recommend using a good hosts file! This is the one I use [1], I know its targets at windows, but it still blocks all major ad networks etc. ;) [Targeted at squid users:] Iceweasel being as slow as it is (at least on my syste

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-10 Thread John Lindsay
Lisi wrote: On Friday 10 September 2010 03:45:35 John Lindsay wrote: Still trying to find out what is available to enable the drive in Debian. Have you tried turning the icon on? Lisi Hi Lisa How do you turn it on? If I plug in a memory stick it automatically recognizes it and

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-10 Thread Alberto Luaces
Merciadri Luca writes: > Alberto Luaces wrote: >> Merciadri Luca writes: >> >> >>> I'm running stable >>> >> >> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/adblock-plus >> >> > Thanks. Works like a charm. I was not aware that one was able to install > a naviguator's add-on by using aptitude/apt-ge

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 10. 09. 2010 11:00:22 je Angus Hedger napisal(a): >> >> I would also recommend using a good hosts file! This is the one I use >> [1], I know its targets at windows, but it still blocks all major ad >> networks etc. ;) >> > > [Targeted at squid users:] > > Iceweasel being as s

Re: copy via rsync

2010-09-10 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 10:01 +0200, Jakub Jedelsky wrote: > Hi list! > > I want to copy a lot of files via rsync (about 200GB), but the process > ends in D state after some time. In /var/log/kern.log I have this error: > > Sep 10 09:26:45 servername kernel: [31527915.475952] EXT3-fs warning > (dev

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-10 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 22:30 -0400, Doug wrote: > I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the > .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure > that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember > one older version of Ubuntu that took over the

Re: apt and qt4-X11 bugs in testing upgrade?

2010-09-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:03:53 +0100 Angus Hedger wrote: Hello Angus, > > I'm in the UK too, using http://ft.uk.debian.org. Typo; should be http://ftp.uk.debian.org, of course. > speed from this server is pretty low! Thanks! YW, Angus. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly

Re: new squeeze-again

2010-09-10 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote: > Trying to install. I come to the partitioner. It says there is 261 GB > available. (This is empty, unpartitioned and unformatted space, left > over after cloning drive from a smaller one.) On-screen instructions say > > [!!] Partition disks >

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:46:53 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > Lisi wrote: >> On Friday 10 September 2010 03:45:35 John Lindsay wrote: >> >>> Still trying to find out what is available to enable the drive in >>> Debian. >>> >>> >> Have you tried turning the icon on? >> > How do you turn it

How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Onur Aslan
Hi. I am using Debian CD images as a local repository. I am mounting a CD and using it with this source list: deb file:///mnt lenny main Everything working fine but the problem is when I try to install a package from this repository, apt is always warn me about untrusted repository. Is it possi

Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:22:19PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: > I am using Debian CD images as a local repository. I am mounting a CD and > using it with this source list: > > deb file:///mnt lenny main > > Everything working fine but the problem is when I try to install a package > from this repos

Re: SSH & Rsync issues

2010-09-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:01:55PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > In short: > > I have ssh set up on two systems so I can ssh from one to the other. My > id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh on my system is copied into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on > the remote system. I can ssh from local to remote with no issue a

Re: new squeeze-again

2010-09-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote: > > Trying to install. I come to the partitioner. It says there is 261 GB > > available. (This is empty, unpartitioned and unformatted space, left > > over after cloning drive f

Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:14:11PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: > > In any case, to fix the error you get, you have to identify the GPG > > key corresponding to the CD, and obtain it (preferably in a trusted > > manner), and do > > > > sudo apt-ket add - < key > > Where can I get this keys? CD images

Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Onur Aslan
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 06:58:01AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Is there a particular reason why you don't want to use apt-cdrom to > use the CD repositories? It is much easier than mounting the CD to use > it. I also tried apt-cdrom but I have same problem with apt-cdrom. I added my image with:

Re: authentication of multiple users for one mail server

2010-09-10 Thread brownh
Camaleon, Thanks for your patience, and I seem to have stumbled on my problem: emim4 configuration. Regarding the value for "system mail name", in retrospect it does makes sense, but not when I was reading the document you cited. First, if I can reconstruct my thinking correctly, I failed to asso

Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Onur Aslan
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:25:54AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Please paste the error message here. It would contain the key ID. There is no error. Debian CD images doesn't have any signature or key. Or maybe I am doing something wrong. Also I want to add, I don't have any CD-ROM drive. I am u

Re: manually preparing a Debian system

2010-09-10 Thread green
Magicloud Magiclouds wrote at 2010-09-10 04:38 -0500: > I mean from a non-Debian linux environment and an empty disk, and internet. > I'd like to try out reiser4 for root. I have compiled 2.6.35.4 with > reiser4 into .deb, and a disk with reiser4 filesystem. Check out debootstrap. http://www.d

Re: IPv6 and timing oddities

2010-09-10 Thread green
Jeffrey B. Green wrote at 2010-09-07 12:16 -0500: > I'm not sure if this issue has been covered here before since I > don't subscribe to debian-users. You might want to try debian-ipv6 list instead. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:14 -0400 (EDT), "Magic clouds" wrote: > > May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual or http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/installmanual -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'`

Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:36:03PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:25:54AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Please paste the error message here. It would contain the key ID. > > There is no error. Debian CD images doesn't have any signature or key. I see. I thought apt-get up

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:58:30 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > > Last weekend I did a bunch of updates (to testing) and rebooted after > almost six months. You really should upgrade more often than that when running testing. > Somewhere in that process the ata drive got UUIDs assigned to the >

How to get termcap package

2010-09-10 Thread J.Hwan.Kim
Hi, everyone I'm trying to compile netkit-telnet. But configure command issues error message that termcap package is not found. I searched Debian package list but not found. How can I install the termcap package? ./configure Directories: /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/man Looking for a C compiler... g

Re: authentication of multiple users for one mail server

2010-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:49:28 -0400, brownh wrote: > Camaleon, > > Thanks for your patience, and I seem to have stumbled on my problem: > emim4 configuration. > > Regarding the value for "system mail name", in retrospect it does makes > sense, but not when I was reading the document you cited. Fi

Re: Package Name Confusion

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:39:36 -0400 (EDT), Prakhar Gaur wrote: > Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> Yes Prakhar, please tell us what you're wanting to do? >> My guess is you are wanting to build a kernel? > > I am trying to use a tutorial at Linux.com to build a Kernel Module. > http://www.linux.com/learn/l

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:54:38AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:58:30 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > Last weekend I did a bunch of updates (to testing) and rebooted after > > almost six months. > > You really should upgrade more often than that when running test

icedove lenny URL click gets 'www.%u.com' in IW

2010-09-10 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi, I have a feeling that is one of those forever questions ;-) Anyway, in Icedove 2.0.0.24-0lenny1 when I click on an URL it always opens IW in an error tab pointing to 'www.%u.com' which isn't found. update-alternatives -- display x-www-browser gets: x-www-browser - status is auto. link c

Re: SSH & Rsync issues

2010-09-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 10, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:01:55PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> In short: >> >> I have ssh set up on two systems so I can ssh from one to the other. My >> id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh on my system is copied into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on >> the remote

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:53:27 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > The original line in /etc/fstab was: > > /dev/hdb1/hd0ext3defaults0 0 > > That line got commented out and this line was added: > > UUID=03c23684-dea8-458d-b04b-0ae8a056cb0d/hd0

Re: icedove lenny URL click gets 'www.%u.com' in IW

2010-09-10 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have a feeling that is one of those forever questions ;-) Anyway, in Icedove 2.0.0.24-0lenny1 when I click on an URL it always opens IW in an error tab pointing to 'www.%u.com' which isn't found. update-alternatives -- display x-www-browser gets: Oops. Found

netkit-telnetd (telnet server install problem)

2010-09-10 Thread J.Hwan.Kim
Hi, everyone I want to little modification of telnet server. So, I compiled netkit-telnetd and got telnetd executable file. I copied it to /usr/sbin/in.telnetd. But it does not operate. How can I activate the telnetd of netkit-telnet in debian? Thanks in advance Best Regards, J.Hwan Kim --

Re: icedove lenny URL click gets 'www.%u.com' in IW

2010-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:35:51 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > hugo vanwoerkom wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a feeling that is one of those forever questions ;-) >> >> Anyway, in Icedove 2.0.0.24-0lenny1 when I click on an URL it always >> opens IW in an error tab pointing to 'www.%u.com' which isn't

Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Onur Aslan
Kumar thank you for your help. But Debian is identify their CDs in a different way. I don't know how to doing this. The repository in the images are not signed. When I use CD images after burn them to a blank CD, Debian successfully identify cdroms. But when I try to use them as images after mount

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-10 Thread Lisi
On Friday 10 September 2010 10:46:53 John Lindsay wrote: > Lisi wrote: > > On Friday 10 September 2010 03:45:35 John Lindsay wrote: > > Lisi > > Hi Lisa Hi, John, As you will see, my name is Lisi not Lisa. > How do you turn it on? I have avoided saying anything so far as I don't know about Gn

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:22:47AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Hmm. I'm wondering about the mount point, /hd0. Maybe the mount > point doesn't exist. Issue the following command: > >ls -Ald /hd0 > > What is the result? Do you get something like > >st...@debian3:~$ ls -Ald /hd0

Re: netkit-telnetd (telnet server install problem)

2010-09-10 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
J.Hwan.Kim wrote: Hi, everyone I want to little modification of telnet server. So, I compiled netkit-telnetd and got telnetd executable file. I copied it to /usr/sbin/in.telnetd. But it does not operate. What does it do? How can I activate the telnetd of netkit-telnet in debian? -- To

Re: netkit-telnetd (telnet server install problem)

2010-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:41:02 +0900, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > I want to little modification of telnet server. So, I compiled > netkit-telnetd and got telnetd executable file. > > I copied it to /usr/sbin/in.telnetd. > But it does not operate. > How can I activate the telnetd of netkit-telnet in debian?

Re: How to get termcap package

2010-09-10 Thread Onur Aslan
Hi. You need to install libncurses5-dev package. On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:54:41PM +0900, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I'm trying to compile netkit-telnet. > But configure command issues error message that > termcap package is not found. > I searched Debian package list but not found. >

Static(?) and squeeze's 2.6.32 kernel

2010-09-10 Thread Kevin Anderson
I've had this problem with the 2.6.32 kernel ever since I compiled it at rc5. If I use my computer for an extended time, the computer's I/O begins to hang. If I shut down my laptop and start it again, the power LED and fan wake up for an instant, and then it shuts back down. It then tries to start

Re: Disappearing mouse

2010-09-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 00:21 -0400, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Has anyone experienced this in Debian? Is there a definitive cause and, > > more importantly, a real solution? Thanks - John > > I had this with an NVidia chipset (don't recall the ex

Iceweasel blackout??

2010-09-10 Thread John W Foster
After a recent update that seed doomed from the start in my slightly mixed Squeeze/(Sid for video card) system I noticed that Iceweasel starts OK then a second after the browser opens a page, it goes black. I can get it to show but only when I run the cursor over it with the button pushed down. Thi

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:53:29 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:22:47AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Hmm. I'm wondering about the mount point, /hd0. Maybe the mount >> point doesn't exist. Issue the following command: >> >>ls -Ald /hd0 >> >> What is the re

Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-10 Thread Elmer E. Dow
When typing on my laptop, occasionally my cursor will skip back (up) a few lines and I'll be entering text in the midst of text previously entered. Sometimes I can't reproduce it, but this morning when typing the word "we're" the cursor would jump up about three lines when I hit the apostrophe

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:18:07PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:53:29 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:22:47AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> > >> Hmm. I'm wondering about the mount point, /hd0. Maybe the mount > >> point doesn't exist.

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
One other comment that might be relevant. I have an SATA drive connected via USB that gets mounted automatically by LABEL. So, mounting by LABEL *does* work, just not with that ata drive. -- "...the capitalist system...of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, [is] an

Re: Static(?) and squeeze's 2.6.32 kernel

2010-09-10 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 10. 09. 2010 18:11:36 je Kevin Anderson napisal(a): I've had this problem with the 2.6.32 kernel ever since I compiled it at rc5. If I use my computer for an extended time, the computer's I/O begins to hang. If I shut down my laptop and start it again, the power LED and fan wake up for

Re: where did my ata drives go?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:47:33 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:18:07PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> What happens if, after the system has booted, >> you issue a manual mount command as root, using the new device >> name? >> >>mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /hd0 > > Tha

Re: SSH & Rsync issues

2010-09-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:57:56AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:01:55PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> In short: > >> > >> I have ssh set up on two systems so I can ssh from one to the other. My > >> id_rsa.pub in

Re: Static(?) and squeeze's 2.6.32 kernel

2010-09-10 Thread Matthew Moore
On Friday September 10 2010 10:11:36 am Kevin Anderson wrote: > I can "fix" this problem by > pulling out the battery and holding down the power button to release > static. This sounds something a BOFH would tell you to do. MM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 06:26:49PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: > In the early times, I was manually sign my local Release. Maybe I should > continue to do this. Since I don't have any other ideas, I'd actually not be averse to that. You could sign your repository yourself, with a key which APT is awa

Re: new squeeze-again

2010-09-10 Thread Doug
On 9/10/2010 8:22 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote: Trying to install. I come to the partitioner. It says there is 261 GB available. (This is empty, unpartitioned and unformatted space, lef

Re: SSH & Rsync issues

2010-09-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 10, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:57:56AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >> On Sep 10, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Rob Owens wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 06:01:55PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: In short: I have ssh set up on two systems so I c

Re: SSH & Rsync issues

2010-09-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:18:42PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > You should probably google "rsyncd encryption" and see what you can > > find. > > > > > > For the single-colon rsync, you don't need to specify --rsh=ssh. It is > > the default. >

Re: new squeeze-again

2010-09-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:32:40PM -0400, Doug wrote: > On 9/10/2010 8:22 AM, Rob Owens wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: >>> On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote: Trying to install. I come to the partitioner. It says there is 261 GB

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-10 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Doug  wrote: >>> >>> I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the >>> .iso onto disk.  Before I do something silly, I want to make sure >>> that this is designed to live with

SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-10 Thread brownh
Sorry for a FAQ, but I searched around without sucess. I'm runing debian a local LAN and can ssh between the hosts without a problem. However, I intend to use one host remotely (a laptop that I want to use to access my home machine). I do not have password encryption set up. My LAN is three machine

Re: Package Name Confusion

2010-09-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
PRAKHAR gaur wrote: --Forwarded Message Attachment-- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:38:05 -0700 From: field.engin...@gmail.com To: prakhar_aaid...@hotmail.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Package Name Confusion Yes Prakhar, please tell us what you're wanting to do? My guess is you ar

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-10 Thread ceduard0
2010/9/9 Doug > > I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the > .iso onto disk.  Before I do something silly, I want to make sure > that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember > one older version of Ubuntu that took over the drive, and wiped everything >

Re: new squeeze-again, solved

2010-09-10 Thread Doug
On 9/10/2010 3:01 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:32:40PM -0400, Doug wrote: On 9/10/2010 8:22 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:32:20AM +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 01:59 -0400, Doug wrote: Trying to install. I come to the partitioner

Re: detect ethernet card?

2010-09-10 Thread Atu
On Friday 10 September 2010 10:10:22 am Geoff Simmons wrote: > Support for the 82567LM-3 (PCI ID 8086:10de) was added to the e1000e > driver in linux-2.6 2.6.26-25, which is part of the recent[1] Debian > Lenny point release (5.0.6). > > upgrade your system to 5.0.6. > > An interface for this net

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
brownh wrote: >Sorry for a FAQ, but I searched around without sucess. I'm runing >debian a local LAN and can ssh between the hosts without a >problem. However, I intend to use one host remotely (a laptop that I >want to use to access my home machine). I do not have password >encryption set up. My

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
"Elmer E. Dow" wrote: >How can I diagnose this? Most important: Which text editor are you using? Does it also happen in, say, nano (a terminal program) or in a web browser when entering text in a form field? Best regards, Claudius Hubig -- This Fortune Examined By INSPECTOR NO. 2-14 http://ch

Re: SSH: remote login returns "invalid user"

2010-09-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
Claudius Hubig wrote: >Could you post the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config from the server and the >files /etc/ssh/ssh_config and ~/.config from the client? You could I’m sorry, I meant to write ~/.ssh/config. >also try running ssh with -vv which usually outputs more information. Best regards, Claudi

Re: SSH & Rsync issues

2010-09-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sep 10, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:18:42PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >> On Sep 10, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Rob Owens wrote: >>> You should probably google "rsyncd encryption" and see what you can >>> find. >>> >>> >>> For the single-colon rsync, you don't n

NetworkManager & Bridging devices

2010-09-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
Good evening, I’m using NetworkManager to automatically connect to a number of wifi networks as well as to ethernet networks at home and in university. I’m also using the dispatcher to run custom scripts depending on the network to which the computer just connected. Now it would be nice if I coul

[SOLVED] detect ethernet card?

2010-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:33:11 -0400 (EDT), atucelu...@googlemail.com wrote: > On Friday 10 September 2010 10:10:22 am Geoff Simmons wrote: >> Support for the 82567LM-3 (PCI ID 8086:10de) was added to the e1000e >> driver in linux-2.6 2.6.26-25, which is part of the recent[1] Debian >> Lenny point re

WLAN with RALINK 3070 not working

2010-09-10 Thread Bernd Kloss
Squeeze KDE 4.4.5 Hello, I tried to set up a WLAN-connection with either Sitecom WL-344 Wireless USB Adapter 300N X2 or D-Link System DWA-140 RangeBooster N Adapter. Both seem to be working, but I cannot ping: HOST UNREACHABLE I don't have any idea, why not. Thanks for helping! Bernd What I d

RE: NetworkManager & Bridging devices

2010-09-10 Thread Mike Viau
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:14:41 +0200 wrote: > > Good evening, > > I’m using NetworkManager to automatically connect to a number of wifi > networks as well as to ethernet networks at home and in university. > I’m also using the dispatcher to run custom scripts depending on the > network to which the

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

2010-09-10 Thread green
Elmer E. Dow wrote at 2010-09-10 11:19 -0500: > It's weird and frustrating. Yes, quite. > How can I diagnose this? Also, do you know if it ever happens outside of X, at a text console? I have had dbus cause some weirdness, but only outside of X. I doubt it will help, but you could try stoppi

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
Phil Requirements wrote: ... GNU/Linux has an *improved* method of inputting these special characters. In Windows, you have to memorize these four digit codes that don't mean anything. In GNU/Linux, I memorize two-letter codes that actually hint at the meaning. On the other hand, a method base

Re: What creates /etc/exim4

2010-09-10 Thread Chris Davies
Kent West wrote: > Apparently "aptitude purge exim4" does not remove /etc/exim4 or > /var/lib/exim4. "dpkg -L exim4" shows no reference to /etc/exim4 in the exim4 package. (But see below.) > I've apparently got wrong perms on /etc/exim4 [...] > What process creates these directories? Somewhat

get rid of CTS protection mode enabled disabled messages

2010-09-10 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
My dmesg is full of the following messages [155328.289189] wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:23:97:5c:5f:e0) [155337.336369] wlan0: CTS protection disabled (BSSID=00:23:97:5c:5f:e0) [155337.952081] wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:23:97:5c:5f:e0) [155355.426435] wlan0: CTS protection

Re: What creates /etc/exim4

2010-09-10 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 9/10/2010 5:33 PM, Chris Davies wrote: Kent West wrote: Apparently "aptitude purge exim4" does not remove /etc/exim4 or /var/lib/exim4. "dpkg -L exim4" shows no reference to /etc/exim4 in the exim4 package. (But see below.) I've apparently got wrong perms on /etc/exim4 [...] What proces

xine/xfmedia unable to play dvds

2010-09-10 Thread Adam Hardy
I don't know when it happened but I have done something to my system that stops it playing DVDs. xine pops up a message saying that "source seems encrypted and can't be read" I haven't done anything to the PC config recently except install updates for lenny. I de-installed and purged the conf

RE: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-10 Thread Mike Viau
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:43:35 +0200 wrote: > > Am 09/07/2010 03:16 PM, schrob B. Alexander: > > > This morning, after idling all weekend, iceweasel on my work system was > > chewing up between 70 and 100% of my cpus, and scrolling pages were > > hesitating for several seconds. > > > > So what

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