Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I don't want to go too far forward, because I DO NOT want kde4 > installed, EVER. I run gnome/lxde, and my wife runs kde3.. She is > already mad because people email her with M$ powerpoint attachments, and > we hear no sound from them... isn't that what youtube is for? I cannot > understand why p

Re: (solved)Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:01:54 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > Not fully solved. > It works on a P4bmx motherboard > Notice that I have tried mapping myself earlier on a MS 6163 ( BX) > motherboard > It still doesn't work > I believe it's related to BIOS Better that you do not touch your BIOS settings b

Re: Does "I/O error" mean hardware problem?

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:44:32 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > My Debian Lenny constantly reports "disk I/O error on block xxx" > when booting, then it runs e2fschk and reports some files are missing. > I'd formated the partition but the problem still occurs. The hardware > is an Dell E6400 which has

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread François TOURDE
Le 14934ième jour après Epoch, Dotan Cohen écrivait: > If it's running in a shell, then I agree that it is no bother (doesn't > use any memory or CPU). However, if it is a GUI app who's window is > still stuck on the screen, then something ought to be done to get rid > of that window! xkill is yo

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
> > xkill is your friend. or kill -9

Re: How to install dpkg package in Cygwin OS on i686 computer

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:51:10 +0800, guojiang wu wrote: > When I installed dpkg-1.14.29 in Cygwin system on an i686 computer, the > following information was > displayed: > "checking dpkg cpu type... i386 > configure: WARNING: I686 not found in cputable checking dpkg operating > system type... cyg

SOLVED - Re: squeeze/amd64/gnome - edid error, 5 minutes to boot

2010-11-22 Thread Pablo Sánchez
grande Camaleón That worked . No edid errors, fast desktop, boots like it should again. Just edited /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf (thanks to http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModesetting), and restarted. It all took one minute. Pablo Sánchez. On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:27:31 -0200, Pablo Sánch

"need a quick hashing method"

2010-11-22 Thread Arthur Bela
HDD#1 HDD#2 I copy files between HDD#1 and HDD#2. When i finish, i need a quick "hasing method" - i just want to check, that the copy was 100% ok. md5sum, sha256sum is slow -> are there any "very fast" hash algoritms? - just for checking if the copied file is corrupt or not [i just need to know,

Re: "need a quick hashing method"

2010-11-22 Thread George
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Arthur Bela wrote: > HDD#1 > HDD#2 > > I copy files between HDD#1 and HDD#2. > > When i finish, i need a quick "hasing method" - i just want to check, > that the copy was 100% ok. > Comparing the hashes of two files is not enough to be certain that they have ident

Re: "need a quick hashing method"

2010-11-22 Thread John Hasler
Arthur writes: > I copy files between HDD#1 and HDD#2. > When i finish, i need a quick "hasing method" - i just want to check, > that the copy was 100% ok. Use rsync. It does checksums. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: "need a quick hashing method"

2010-11-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Arthur Bela: > > I copy files between HDD#1 and HDD#2. > > When i finish, i need a quick "hasing method" - i just want to check, > that the copy was 100% ok. Why do you want to hash? Hashing implies reading both trees completely, computing hashes and comparing these hashes. It might be faster to

Re: 3D acceleration on ATI

2010-11-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: > Try first with the kernel from stable. If it doesn't work you can > attach the full Xorg.0.log (maybe gzipped if the difference is > significant). Well... it did work... So, no option for me (w/ new kernel)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roman Khomasuridze wrote: xkill is your friend. or kill -9 But OP said he tried that and it did not help. -- 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/ice

Configuring RAID-1 boot partition

2010-11-22 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I'm running squeeze on my desktop and recently decided to configure it for RAID-1 as part of my recovery from a hard drive failure. I found an article online about how to do this: http://linuxconfig.org/Linux_Software_Raid_1_Setup . I followed the article's recipe as best I could, but could not i

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hugo Vanwoerkom schreef: Roman Khomasuridze wrote: xkill is your friend. or kill -9 But OP said he tried that and it did not help. Try to kill the parent process. If it doesn't have a parent process, then it is unkillable. It uses no recourses, so usually it is not a problem. Sjoerd

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom schreef: Roman Khomasuridze wrote: xkill is your friend. or kill -9 But OP said he tried that and it did not help. Try to kill the parent process. If it doesn't have a parent process, then it is unkillable. It uses no recourses, so usually it is

New default artwork for Debian "Squeeze"

2010-11-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
The new Debian Squeeze art work can be found here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/SpaceFun More Debian News, including Squeeze release update: http://debian.org/News/project/2010/16/ -- Jimmy Johnson SimplyMEPIS 11.0 Alpha-2 - KDE 4.5.3 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:03:19 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom schreef: >>> Roman Khomasuridze wrote: xkill is your friend. or kill -9 >>> >>> But OP said he tried that and it did not help. >>> >>> >> Try to kill the parent process. If it

Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports resolution 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. I specify in xorg.conf to use: resolution 1024x768 VertRefresh 85.0 then X-server uses

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:14:45 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old > one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports resolution > 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. > > I specify in xorg.conf to use: > >

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-22 Thread Mike Viau
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:38:49 +1100 wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:17:18 +1100 wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:47 +1100 wrote: > > > > > > ./mdadm -Ss > > > > > > > > > > > > mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ./mdadm -Asvvv > > > > > > > > > >

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Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, François TOURDE wrote: The zombie process don't use any resources in general. No need to reboot at this point, because nothing is wrong. Right. I can't see how the OP's process is a zombie as a zombie won't consume CPU (or any other resource). It exists solely to hand b

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 23 nov 10, 00:14:45, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old > one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports > resolution 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. How old? Since you mention a menu

Retrieve process ID from process name

2010-11-22 Thread T. Alex Chen
I am trying to retrieve the process ID from a process' name, optionally with its command parameters. I look up the man page of 'sysctl' and the use of this API seems to be discouraged. It points the /proc file system. The /proc does contains all the running processes, with their ID as the direc

Release file expired

2010-11-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
I've not seen this before, what does it mean? [attempt to hand format for easier reading] r...@mundo:/home/charles# apt-get update Get:1 http://mirror.rit.edu sid Release.gpg [835 B] Ign http://mirror.rit.edu/debian/ sid/contrib Translation-en Ign http://mirror.rit.edu/debian/ sid/contrib Trans

Evolution - Old Messages Keep Coming Back

2010-11-22 Thread Scarletdown
I'm attempting to consolidate all my assorted email accounts to be accessed via Evolution. I seem to have all working right except this one particular GMail account (the one that I have subscribed to debian-user in fact). The problem I am having is that every time I delete messages and empty tras

Re: Evolution - Old Messages Keep Coming Back

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:37:40 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > I'm attempting to consolidate all my assorted email accounts to be > accessed via Evolution. I seem to have all working right except this > one particular GMail account (the one that I have subscribed to > debian-user in fact). > > The pro

Re: Evolution - Old Messages Keep Coming Back

2010-11-22 Thread Scarletdown
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > ¿POP3 or IMAP? > > If the former, check your Gmail account settings for POP3. Maybe you have > left selected "keep a copy of received messages" or something like > that :-? > I'm using POP, since that is what I am most familiar with. I check

gnome-settings-daemon error

2010-11-22 Thread Juan Ignacio Gaudio
Hello, I'm getting an error message from the gnome-settings-daemon when I log in, and the desktop takes more time than usual to appear. Running Lenny 5.0 with Gnome 2.22.3 The error message is: "There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or back

Re: Evolution - Old Messages Keep Coming Back

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:38:06 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > >> ¿POP3 or IMAP? >> >> If the former, check your Gmail account settings for POP3. Maybe you >> have left selected "keep a copy of received messages" or something like >> that :-? >> >>

Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

2010-11-22 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Artur Frydel on 2010-11-12 06:26:08: > Any magical command to see all obsolete packets in my system? aptitude search '~o' -- _ Brian Ryans 8B2A 54C4 E275 8CFD 8A7D 5D0B 0AD0 B014 C112 13D0 . ( ) ICQ 43190205 | Mail/Jabber/Yahoo/MSN: brianlry...@gmail.com ..: X ASCII Ribbon Ca

Re: How to check which package are from multimedia.org?

2010-11-22 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Andy Jacobsen on 2010-11-12 06:59:20: > Shows only the installed one: > $ aptitude search ~Omultimedia |grep ^i Without a fork to grep: aptitude search '~Omultimedia ~i' OT: I thought that changing search terms would affect speed. I guess not. -- _ Brian Ryans 8B2A 54C4 E275 8CFD 8A7

Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-22 Thread vr
I have a lenny system. My goal is to have two interfaces, 1 NIC active and 1 NIC in standby on a second switch, so this host will have switch & port fault tolerance. I found and followed this guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/nic-bonding-on-debian-lenny and all seemed to be working correctly a

Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:15:57 -0500, vr wrote: > I have a lenny system. My goal is to have two interfaces, 1 NIC active > and 1 NIC in standby on a second switch, so this host will have switch & > port fault tolerance. (...) I followed these instructions for setting up bonding (active backup) in

Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-22 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 22. 11. 2010 23:15:57 je vr napisal(a): My question is, should I have needed to add bond0 to the auto line or is there some other proper Debian-way I should adjust elsewhere? /etc/network/interfaces is *the* right place for doing that; however, it may not be right for Squeeze, wher

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-22 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Robert Brockway writes: >On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, François TOURDE wrote: >> The zombie process don't use any resources in general. No need to reboot >> at this point, because nothing is wrong. >Right. I can't see how the OP's process is a zombie as a zombie won't >consume CPU (or any other resou

Re: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-22 Thread Neil Brown
I see the problem now. And John Robinson was nearly there. The problem is that after assembling the container /dev/md/imsm, mdadm needs to assemble the RAID1, but doesn't find the container /dev/md/imsm to assemble it from. That is because of the DEVICE partitions line. A container is not a pa

Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-22 Thread vr
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:30:28 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: > I followed these instructions for setting up bonding (active backup) in > lenny: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Bonding > > They worked like a charm :-) > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón Thanks for that URL. I see "auto bond0" in that

RE: Release file expired

2010-11-22 Thread Mike Viau
>On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:51:09 -0500 worte: > > I've not seen this before, what does it mean? > > [attempt to hand format for easier reading] > > r...@mundo:/home/charles# apt-get update > > Get:1 http://mirror.rit.edu sid Release.gpg [835 B] > > Ign http://mirror.rit.edu/debian/ sid/contrib Trans

Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
vr put forth on 11/22/2010 5:32 PM: > mii-tool is showing: > eth0: negotiated 1000baseT-HD flow-control, link ok > eth1: negotiated 1000baseT-HD flow-control, link ok > > but "mii-tool bond0" shows: > bond0 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok > > My switchport says the port is currently at 1000... How

Re: Release file expired

2010-11-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 22 November 2010 09:51:09 am Charles Kroeger wrote: > E: Release file expired, ignoring > http://mirror.rit.edu/debian/dists/sid/Release (invalid since 1d 21h > 21min 52s) I got the same type or error for mirrors.kernel.org, sent an email to debian-mirr...@lists.debian.org, got a th

Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-22 Thread vr
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:20:30 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > vr put forth on 11/22/2010 5:32 PM: > >> mii-tool is showing: >> eth0: negotiated 1000baseT-HD flow-control, link ok >> eth1: negotiated 1000baseT-HD flow-control, link ok >> >> but "mii-tool bond0" shows: >> bond0 10 Mbit, half duplex, l

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-22 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:21:23 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:13:24 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:03:44 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > >> Mozilla products are memory/CPU hogs, yes. I hope newer versions can > >> correct that. > > > > I often wonder a

Re: Does "I/O error" mean hardware problem?

2010-11-22 Thread Yuwen Dai
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/21/2010 11:44 PM: > > Dear all, > > > > My Debian Lenny constantly reports "disk I/O error on block xxx" when > > booting, then it runs e2fschk and reports some files are missing. I'd > > formated the partition b

Re: Configuring RAID-1 boot partition

2010-11-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 22 November 2010 11:06:32 Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I'm running squeeze on my desktop and recently decided to configure it for > RAID-1 as part of my recovery from a hard drive failure. I found an > article online about how to do this: > http://linuxconfig.org/Linux_Software_Raid_1_Setup

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:14:45 -0500 (EST), Sthu Deus wrote: > > I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old > one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports > resolution 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. > > I specify in xorg.conf to us

Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
vr put forth on 11/22/2010 6:59 PM: > I've configured "bond_mode active-backup" which I understand to be mode > 1. > > Physically, NIC-1 is cabled to switch-1. NIC-2 is cabled to switch-2. > > The goal is for this Linux host to survive a switch, switch-port, or > NIC failure. Have a look at thi

Re: Does "I/O error" mean hardware problem?

2010-11-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/22/2010 7:46 PM: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> The output from >> >> ~# smartctl -a /dev/sdX >> >> would be helpful. > The output of smartctl -a /dev/sda is: > Is this meaningful? Actually I was looking for something like this, which shou

Re: Configuring RAID-1 boot partition

2010-11-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 22 November 2010 11:06:32 Peter Tenenbaum wrote: [stuff, then] > menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64' { > set root=(hd0,1) > echo'Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 ...' > linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 ro root=/dev/md3 quiet > echo'Loading initial ramd

Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-22 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, The output of `ps`, is trunked by the width of the terminal, without wrapping like `ls`. I looked into the source of output, confused by the code. May I have some clue here? How does `ps` know the width of the terminal, or I was mislead, `ps` prints over the behavior of printf ()? -- 竹密岂

Re: Does "I/O error" mean hardware problem?

2010-11-22 Thread Yuwen Dai
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/22/2010 7:46 PM: > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Stan Hoeppner >wrote: > > >> The output from > >> > >> ~# smartctl -a /dev/sdX > >> > >> would be helpful. > > > The output of smartctl -a /dev/sda is: > > > >

Re: Configuring RAID-1 boot partition

2010-11-22 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > > I'm running squeeze on my desktop and recently decided to configure it for > RAID-1 as part of my recovery from a hard drive failure.  I found an article > online about how to do this: > http://linuxconfig.org/Linux_Software_Raid_1_Setup

Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:32:35 -0500, vr wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:30:28 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: >> I followed these instructions for setting up bonding (active backup) in >> lenny: >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/Bonding >> >> They worked like a charm :-) > > Thanks for that URL. I see

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:38:33 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > The output of `ps`, is trunked by the width of the terminal, without > wrapping like `ls`. (...) You can force wrapping with "-w" (or "w") modifier: ps auxw Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r