Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1212

On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 06:10 +, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > Can somebody send me a full digest message, so I can see what > is tacked > onto the end of the message? Send as an attachment please so > that I can > see headers as w

Re: posting

On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 08:43 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 06:10 +, > debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Can somebody send me a full digest message, so I can see what > > is tacked > > onto the end of the message? Send as an atta

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

Hi, Ralf Mardorf wrote: $ echo test > \* $ ls * Desktop Downloads hdsp.1 Any idea how I can get rid of the file named *? # touch \* \& # ls * & # find . -type f -name "\*" -print0|xargs -0 rm # ls # touch \* \& # find . -type f -name "\&" -print0|xargs -0 rm # ls * # touch \*

Re: posting

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Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

On 25/06/11 17:15, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> $ echo test > \* >> $ ls >> * Desktop Downloads hdsp.1 >> >> Any idea how I can get rid of the file named *? > > # touch \* \& > # ls > * & > # find . -type f -name "\*" -print0|xargs -0 rm > # ls > > > # touch

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:20:21 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 19:13:27 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Nope, that's a GRUB's statement not a Debian's one :-) > > You'll have to make do with this: > > http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/GRUB2asDefault Old stuff. GRUB2 as default in the

Re: How can I select the locale for a Gnome seesion?

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:24:57 +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > When I installed Debian on my laptop I chose US English as language and > selected a couple of locales to generate. When I login using gdm3, > everything is English. But my wife prefers German. I know I can run > programs from the shell

Re: virtualbox cannot see USB anymore

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:19:03 -0400, H.S. wrote: (...) > First, I tried the virtualbox-ose from Debian repos until I realized it > does not support USB. Next, I discovered I can install Virtualbox from > Oracle to get USB support (after installing the extensions as well). > That worked quite well.

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

Scott Ferguson wrote: Bigger hammer scott@work:~/spec$ touch "*" "&" scott@work:~/spec$ ls -A * & scott@work:~/spec$ rm `ls -A` rm: cannot remove `&': No such file or directory The first part "*" removed both files AND any other file that might have been in the directory. # touch \* \

Re: Unread bug reports ?

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:27:19 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/06/11 03:36, Vecu BOSSEUR wrote: (...) >> The other one really is not really a problem cauz' there's no solution >> : FUSECOMPRESS has always been a bullsh&t ! > > Please comply with the posting rules - ^ it's not prudishness, it

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1215

On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 09:39 +, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > On 25/06/11 17:15, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> $ echo test > \* > >> $ ls > >> * Desktop Downloads hdsp.1 > >> > >> Any idea how I can get rid of the file named *? > > >

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1215

> > On 25/06/11 17:15, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >> $ echo test > \* > > >> $ ls > > >> * Desktop Downloads hdsp.1 > > >> > > >> Any idea how I can get rid of the file named *? > > > > > > # touch \* \& > > > # ls > > > * & > > > # find . -type

Re: How to make X11 server listen to TCP connections?

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:20:15 +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > I use Gnome and gdm3 for login. I want my X11 server to listen for TCP > connections on port 6000 from remote machines. But I haven't found > anything in the documentation of gdm3 and in gdm's config files. GDM3 put some variables at "/

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

On 25/06/11 19:35, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > The first part "*" removed both files AND any other file that might have > been in the directory. There, we'll have to disagree. Perhaps your shell handles ls differently. Also you are running as root, I'm not scott@work:~/s

Re: Unread bug reports ?

On 25/06/11 19:43, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:27:19 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 25/06/11 03:36, Vecu BOSSEUR wrote: > > (...) > > > (...) > > I can feel his pain :-( Which does nothing to negate the problem caused when this list is broadcast on side band where sweari

Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

Hi, I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I booted my system, X failed to start. When seeing that the Nvidia drivers in sid are the same version as those direct from Nvidia's website, I tried upgrading the nvidia driver packages on my system to the sid versions. I

Re: posting Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1198

Hi, We have at least 4 threads here now. Looks like the digest version gives enough info. to do the replies properly for each post -- one way or another. Mucking around with headers is not for everyone, and isn't possible to be done with digest automatically with all mailers either. It

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Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

Hi, I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I booted my system, X failed to start. Seeing that the version of the Nvidia drivers in sid were the same as those direct from Nvidia's website, I tried upgrading the drivers to those from sid. I restarted XDM (via sudo inv

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

> So I then tried purging (and downgrading back to squeeze any packages > that were upgraded as dependencies of) the nvidia packages and > installing nvidia-kernel-dkms (as directed by > ). Still no joy; > the same error. > > What do I need

Re: Unread bug reports ?

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:39:44 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/06/11 19:43, Camaleón wrote: >> I can feel his pain :-( > > Which does nothing to negate the problem caused when this list is > broadcast on side band where swearing is illegal, or when it offends > thin-skinned people. When you

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:46:26 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I > booted my system, X failed to start. Weird, unless the new card is not suported by the installed driver. > When seeing that the Nvidia drivers in sid are the same

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

Hi, Scott Ferguson wrote: There, we'll have to disagree. Perhaps your shell handles ls differently. Also you are running as root, I'm not Yes, well as root, I admit -- quick tests in a special and safe working directory. /bin/bash shell Whatever you do use "*" do so with extreme caution, e

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

"Hans-J. Ullrich" writes: > Hi Aidan! > Did you install the nvidia-glx package? Yes, that was pulled in by nvidia-kernel-dkms (directly or indirectly). > A good way to see, what is happening, is to move /etc/init.d/kdm out of the > way, Doing so, it will not start at boot. > > After boot, you

Re: Unread bug reports ?

Hi list, well, I think, for users it is often not easy to report bugs. When I look at myself, I am making updates almost every day, and doing so, bugs will be seen very fast, So, if I report them first, this will cause several things: 1. People are annoyed: OMG, it is Hans again! 2. People can

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

On 25/06/11 20:33, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I > booted my system, X failed to start. Seeing that the version of the > Nvidia drivers in sid were the same as those direct from Nvidia's > website, I tried upgrading the drive

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

> Yes, I had wondered myself if there aren't incompatibilities, even if > the packages are not marked as conflicting. I think it might be easier > to go the non-Debian, Nvidia way (sadly). On Debian, how can I undo > whatever the Nvidia installer does? I'd feel more comfortable running > it, kn

Re: Unread bug reports ?

On 25/06/11 21:09, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:39:44 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 25/06/11 19:43, Camaleón wrote: > > > When you are frustrated, it's normal to use such terms. Nothing illegal > per se, at least not in my country. I've read worst things in another > mai

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

On 25/06/11 21:18, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > Scott Ferguson wrote: > And to stop command history being a problem, I often use the full path > the files/directories such as: >rm /tmp/somedir/* /tmp/somedir/.* Good point. I shall run with scissor no more. > > Cheers > A. > Chee

Re: Unread bug reports ?

Hi, 2011/6/25 Scott Ferguson : > On 25/06/11 03:36, Vecu BOSSEUR wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It is ~a week~ or more now that I filed two bug reports. >> >>   - Bug #630237 related to FUSE >>     ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630237 ) >>   - Bug #630903 related to FUSECOMPRESS >>     (

Re: How do I unlock and/or remove a locked volume?

Le Saturday 25 June 2011 00:56:29 Derek Dongray, vous avez écrit : [...] > Of course, I'd still like to know if a damaged pvmove0 (pvmove, locked) > volume can be unlocked and deleted when 'pvmove --abort' does not do the > job. You can try "dmsetup remove". It also has a force option. [...] s

Advice sought on obtaining latest Amarok package

Dear all Given the recent experiences I've encountered with testing, I am somewhat gun-shy of updating my stable system. However, I preferred the testing version of Amarok in terms of its functionality, etc. So I am seeking some advice on the best (i.e. least risky) way of obtaining the tes

Testing Netinst AMD64 CD fails to create MD devices for RAID1

There seems to be a bug with software RAID1 in the 06/21/2011 version of the Testing Netinst AMD64 CD image. Separate partitions can be linked to create the md devices, but then one or the other of the two md devices fails after the initial sync is attempted. So the failure is occurring b

Re: posting (was: Threading)

On 06/25/2011 03:14 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/06/11 15:54, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Test reply from link in archive at: >> >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg01787.html >> >> I want to see if the reply ends up in the thread properly, I think it >> should as the html link

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 15:11:13 -0700, Freeman wrote: > Grub2 didn't like my setup during upgrade. > > My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select > from. Just a way of selecting between different interfaces while booting. > > So the following blocks in the automagi

debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

Hi there, I have a debian server that doesn't boot anymore since I ran upgrade-from-grub-legacy. It uses xen. I managed to upgrade to Debian 6 and got everything working. Well, a power outage caused my domUs to not boot anymore and while trying to deal with that I also figured I didn't complete the

Re: Unread bug reports ?

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:00:50 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/06/11 21:09, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:39:44 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> When you are frustrated, it's normal to use such terms. Nothing illegal >> per se, at least not in my country. I've read worst things i

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

Scott Ferguson writes: > On 25/06/11 15:56, William Hopkins wrote: >> On 06/25/11 at 03:36pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: [...] >> Any error message? Have you tried mounting with the encoding options >> as recommended elsewhere? > > I may have missed something in the threads - as I don't know how to

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

Scott Ferguson writes: > On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote: >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >>> I don't think the "no white spaces" and "no accented characters" >>> "rule" is valid in the 21st century. But if some one can put up an >>> authoritative, and recent, reason I'll reconsider. >> >> Since (un

Re: Advice sought on obtaining latest Amarok package

On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 13:16:44 +0100, AG wrote: > Any thoughts? http://backports-master.debian.org/Packages/ -- 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/20110625

Re: Unread bug reports ?

On 25/06/11 22:28, Vecu BOSSEUR wrote: > Hi, > > 2011/6/25 Scott Ferguson : >> On 25/06/11 03:36, Vecu BOSSEUR wrote: > > Okay, good remainder. Cauz' I'm French, I use the word "merde" to > convey the same idea (in French) ; but I'm used to say that this > (French) word is no a swear because t

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

On 25/06/11 23:57, lee wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > >> On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote: >>> Scott Ferguson writes: >>> > > Should I send a feature request on the kernel package? > > Not necessary - the subject has been adequately covered in many posts between the original and this one. C

Re: Unread bug reports ?

On Saturday 25 June 2011 13:28:25 Vecu BOSSEUR wrote: > Cauz' I'm French, I use the word "merde" to > convey the same idea (in French) ; but I'm used to say that this > (French) word is no a swear because the Genaral Cambronne coined > himself this word at the Battle of Waterloo. It's just a cultu

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

lee writes: > You can just rename a file with: > > # mv 1307474391 "rm -rf *" > > , > | lee@yun:~/tmp/naming$ ls -la > | insgesamt 52 > | drwxr-xr-x 2 lee lee 4096 25. Jun 15:48 . > | drwx-- 12 lee lee 32768 25. Jun 15:48 .. > | -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 116 9. Jun 16:35 -rf > | -rw-r--

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

On 06/25/2011 11:37 AM, lee wrote: > lee writes: > >> , >> | lee@yun:~/tmp/naming$ ls -la >> | insgesamt 52 >> | drwxr-xr-x 2 lee lee 4096 25. Jun 15:48 . >> | drwx-- 12 lee lee 32768 25. Jun 15:48 .. >> | -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 116 9. Jun 16:35 -rf >> | -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee94 7

specifying what characters are allowed or not allowed in file names (was: Accented chars in filenames issue)

Scott Ferguson writes: > On 25/06/11 23:57, lee wrote: >> Should I send a feature request on the kernel package? >> >> > > Not necessary - the subject has been adequately covered in many posts > between the original and this one. The feature I'd request would be that there shall be ways to spe

Re: Unread bug reports ?

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:30:12 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 25 June 2011 13:28:25 Vecu BOSSEUR wrote: >> Cauz' I'm French, I use the word "merde" to >> convey the same idea (in French) ; but I'm used to say that this >> (French) word is no a swear because the Genaral Cambronne coined >> himself

Re: Frequent weezy freezes on amd64 architecture (possibly KDE-related)?

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Marc Ronell wrote: > > >> "Jason" == Jason Filippou writes: > >    Jason> Hello all, I have just completed a fresh installation of >    Jason> debian wheezy, architecture amd64, with KDE included and >    Jason> I've been experiencing frequent freezes of the O

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

Ralf Mardorf writes: >$ echo test > \* >$ ls >* Desktop Downloads hdsp.1 >Any idea how I can get rid of the file named *? Exactly the same way you created it. With a backslash. $ rm \* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Testing Netinst AMD64 CD fails to create MD devices for RAID1

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:38:15 -0400, Marc D Ronell wrote: > There seems to be a bug with software RAID1 in the 06/21/2011 version > of the Testing Netinst AMD64 CD image. Separate partitions can be > linked to create the md devices, but then one or the other of the two > md devices fails aft

Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

Hi, I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian? I look into the documentation of rEFIT and it looks like a "hack" to emulate the BIOS. It is a pity that there is not a cleaner way to run linux on a Mac Do you h

Tagging the music using cddb

Hi, None of the cd rippers work perfectly for me for the moment, so I need to tag the converted ogg music myself *using cddb*. Anybody has done that before? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUB

Re: Advice sought on obtaining latest Amarok package

On 25/06/11 14:46, Brian wrote: On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 13:16:44 +0100, AG wrote: Any thoughts? http://backports-master.debian.org/Packages/ Brian Thanks for your reply, although when I click on the link it takes me to a package search facility. I'm not sure what you meant by

Re: Tagging the music using cddb

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:24:26 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: Hello T, > tag the converted ogg music myself *using cddb*. Anybody has done that > before? Yes, but almost invariably, I didn't like what I got from there; Spelling mistakes, wrong CD (CDIDs aren't unique), missing CD, wrong genre, you n

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

Aidan Gauland writes: > What do I need to do to use the Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze? Perhaps you're missing some packages? , | lee@yun:~/tmp/naming$ dpkg --get-selections |grep -i nvidia | libgl1-nvidia-alternatives install | libgl1-nvidia-glx

Re: Advice sought on obtaining latest Amarok package

AG writes: > However, I preferred the testing version of Amarok in terms of its > functionality, etc. So I am seeking some advice on the best > (i.e. least risky) way of obtaining the testing version of Amarok. You can download the package from packages.debian.org and install it with dpkg. If t

Re: Advice sought on obtaining latest Amarok package

On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 16:20:38 +0100, AG wrote: > Thanks for your reply, although when I click on the link it takes me to > a package search facility. I'm not sure what you meant by this ... it > is a little too cryptic for me. Does this answer my request regarding > the best way to update

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

Excerpts from Philipp's message of 2011-06-25 15:12:26 +0200: > Hi there, > I have a debian server that doesn't boot anymore since I ran > upgrade-from-grub-legacy. It uses xen. I managed to upgrade to Debian > 6 and got everything working. Well, a power outage caused my domUs to > not boot anymore

Re: Unread bug reports ?

* Camale?n [2011-06-25 11:09:40 +]: > Which is fine... but in such cases there should be the figure of an > ombudsman, the "glue" that acts when no one is in charge of a package- or > that seems to be missing- that at least lets you know what is happening > and what's the bug status. With

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:42:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> For the record, I prefer grub1's config to grub2's but grub2's been >> almost problem-free for me for a long time. Almost: one small problem >> (Karmic's grub2 couldn't recognize Fedora's ini

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Freeman wrote: > Grub2 didn't like my setup during upgrade. > > My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select > from. Just a way of selecting between different interfaces while booting. > > So the following blocks in the automagic secti

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:31 PM, consul tores wrote: > 2011/6/24 Brian : >> On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 21:35:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> Having switched to grub2 recently, I do that as well.  But I suspect >>> most people will be content with the simpler configuration options >>> offered by e

Re: Installing some packages needs not original DVD

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Daniel Skowroński wrote: > > I am using Debian 6 x86_64 on netbook (Acer AOD255 - Intel Atom N450 1.66 > GHz with HT & 2GB RAM). In Software Center there are some packages that > needs DVD to install. When I was trying to install Chromium there is alert > like that

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

El 25/06/11 19:01, Tom H escribió: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Camaleón wrote: I also find GRUB legacy more suitable to my needs. I don't remember any problem with it, I mean, nothing that could not be solved by manually editing the "menu.lst" or by launching GRUB's legacy console from

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

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Re: My CD and DVD are messed up

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:26:07 +, T o n g wrote: > On my system the /dev/cdrom is actually DVD while My CD is actually > /dev/ cdrom1. This confuse most of the media software. How can I fix it? Do you have a fixed entry for both devices in "/etc/fstab"? If yes, you could adjust it accordingly

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

Dan writes: > I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will > mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian? A while ago, I looked briefly into installing Debian on a Mac because being confronted with their MacOS feels like having traveled back in time about

Re: My CD and DVD are messed up

T o n g writes: > On my system the /dev/cdrom is actually DVD while My CD is actually /dev/ > cdrom1. This confuse most of the media software. How can I fix it? Do you have entries about these devices in /etc/fstab? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

Philipp Überbacher writes: > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then drops > into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt. > > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for some reason. A few weeks ago I found that I was suddenly unable to boot a self-compiled kernel after making a cha

Needed: a grub2 expert

I'm having a problem with my debian squeeze desktop. The problem is as follows: I have a system with a software raid-1 root partition (set up with mdadm) and a non-raid boot partition. The system uses grub2 as its bootloader. Under ordinary circumstances everything works correctly, but when I ha

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 19:34:27 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > El 25/06/11 19:01, Tom H escribió: > >> For grub2, there's also just one file to tweak, "/etc/default/grub", >> and the CLI tools are more powerful. > > Are your sure? > > test@debian:~$ ls -l /etc/grub* > total 52 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then drops > > into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt. > > > > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for some reason. > > A few weeks ago I found th

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:30:50 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 19:34:27 +0200, Camaleón wrote: (...) > With Linux you have complete control - so you can alter any file you > wish. However, it is not usual (and maybe ill-advised) to change > 00_header, 10_linux, 20_linux_xen or 30_os-pr

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

also sprach Peter Tenenbaum [2011.06.25.2028 +0200]: > Under ordinary circumstances everything works correctly, but when > I have my (non-bootable) Seagate FreeAgent USB hard drive > connected via the front-panel USB port, booting hangs. Your USB drive probably get initialised and takes one of t

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:14:06 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:30:50 +0100, Brian wrote: >>> So let's say I want to disallow GRUB2 from including my Windows >>> partition at the menu... should I tweak /etc/default/grub or should I >>> dive into /etc/grub.d/os-prober, or...? >> >> G

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

Philipp Überbacher writes: > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: >> Philipp Überbacher writes: >> >> > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then >> > drops into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt. >> > >> > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for some re

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Re: Hibernate fails

Sorry about the delay in answering. This is my personal netbook, and my job has kept me too busy to spend any time fiddling with it for several days. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > If we can't disable wifi then we need to ensure it's working before > trying to "

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 19:49:48 +, Camaleón wrote: > Ah, okay, it's on the same file. It instructs the user to run "info -f > grub -n 'Simple configuration'. > > Good to know... and already done. They are also here: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html > But there are not ma

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 19:14:06 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:30:50 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 19:34:27 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > > With Linux you have complete control - so you can alter any file you > > wish. However, it is not usual (and maybe

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

On 06/25/11 at 04:33pm, Scott Ferguson wrote: > scott@work:~$ mount | grep /disk > /dev/sdc1 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal) Looks fine.. > scott@work:~$ ls /media/disk/Music/"Various Artists/Amelie - Soundtrack" > 01 - J'Y Suis Jamias All?.mp3 08 - A Quai.mp3

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

On 06/25/11 at 07:37pm, lee wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > > > Why all the touble? > > > > $ rm 'rm -rf *' > > > > does the job. Or use a file manager. > > Because I don't trust rm or a file manager to do it right and without > unwanted side effects. You should be able to trust rm, at

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:19:39PM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Freeman wrote: > > > > Grub2 didn't like my setup during upgrade. > > > > My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select > > from. Just a way of selecting between different interfa

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:52:15PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 15:11:13 -0700, Freeman wrote: > > > Grub2 didn't like my setup during upgrade. > > > > My menu.lst of Grub 0.97 included numerous different rc levels to select > > from. Just a way of selecting between different int

Re: No more GRUB legacy at install time since wheezy?

On 06/24/11 at 09:51pm, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jun 2011 at 21:35:16 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > Having switched to grub2 recently, I do that as well. But I suspect > > most people will be content with the simpler configuration options > > offered by editing /etc/default/grub and running up

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

I suppose that is possible. However, the workstation has 2 internal hard drives (both in the RAID-1 array), 1 internal DVD-ROM player, and the external USB hard drive; total of 4. Is there something else in the system which can take a drive slot from the BIOS? If not, then 4 slots should be enou

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Hi I had a whole lot of updates and when i ran "aptitude safe-upgrade" from a terminal, after the updates where downloaded i had a samba chagelog message. I pressed enter and escape to try get rid of the message but it did not help. How do i close the message using aptitude? Cheers Mark -- T

Keyboard - Xorg - Testing

Hi All, I just installed Debian Testing on a Lenovo T420, for some strange reason the keyboard does not work in Gnome. Has anyone seen this behavior before? -- Lennart Andersen St Thomas, Ontario http://www.lennartandersen.com lennartka at rogers dot com

Re: aptitude changelog message

On 26 June 2011 09:53, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi > > I had a whole lot of updates and when i ran "aptitude safe-upgrade" > from a terminal, after the updates where downloaded i had a samba > chagelog message. I pressed enter and escape to try get rid of the > message but it did not help. > press 'q'

Re: Tagging the music using cddb

On 26/06/11 01:36, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:24:26 + (UTC) > T o n g wrote: > > Hello T, > >> tag the converted ogg music myself *using cddb*. Anybody has done that >> before? > > Yes, but almost invariably, I didn't like what I got from there; > Spelling mistakes, wrong

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

On 26/06/11 00:37, lee wrote: > lee writes: > > > Save it as "removing.c", adjust the name of the file you want to remove > and run gcc -Wall -Os -o removing removing.c. Than run ./removing to > remove the file. > > ++1 LMAO :-D Now *that* is a bigger hammer! Cheers -- You know we arme

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 22:40:59 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > >> Philipp Überbacher writes: > >> > >> > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then > >> > drops into a shell with the (i

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

William Hopkins wrote: You should be able to trust rm, at least. Just add -i if you're paranoid. And if you are more paranoid, fully path rm to ensure no alias is changing anything. # which rm /bin/rm -- Kind Regards AndrewM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

How to configure static route?

Hi, I used to use configuration like "up ip route add 0.0.0.0/0 via a.b.c.d dev eth0" in /etc/network/interfaces to do this. But today, in debian doc (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html 5.5.14), I found that there is a /etc/network/routes to do this. Well, I cannot find mo

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > > I'm having a problem with my debian squeeze desktop.  The problem is as > follows: > > I have a system with a software raid-1 root partition (set up with mdadm) > and a non-raid boot partition.  The system uses grub2 as its bootloader. >

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

Camaleón writes: > You better try with nvidia own drivers to avoid messing with > dependencies. Yes, I think I'll go that route. Bit of a problem, though: the Nvidia installer warns me that "The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly match the current compiler (gcc 4.4

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

Andrew McGlashan writes: > William Hopkins wrote: >> You should be able to trust rm, at least. Just add -i if you're paranoid. > > And if you are more paranoid, fully path rm to ensure no alias is > changing anything. There are at least three things involved: rm, the shell and the user. If the s

Re: Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze

Aidan Gauland writes: > Camaleón writes: > >> You better try with nvidia own drivers to avoid messing with >> dependencies. > > Yes, I think I'll go that route. Bit of a problem, though: the Nvidia > installer warns me that If you ask in #debian on irc.debian.org, you'll be told that the insta

Re: Needed: a grub2 expert

also sprach Peter Tenenbaum [2011.06.26.0227 +0200]: > I suppose that is possible. However, the workstation has 2 internal hard > drives (both in the RAID-1 array), 1 internal DVD-ROM player, and the > external USB hard drive; total of 4. Is there something else in the system > which can take a