Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-16 Thread Robert Brockway
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Bilal mk wrote: I am using xfs filesystem and also did the fsck. DMA is enabled. Also perfomed xfs defragmentation( xfs_fsr). But still an issue not only rm -rf but also cp command Until quite recently XFS was notable for being slow to delete. Others have noted that this

Re: using a bluetooth headset

2012-02-16 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Celejar wrote: Okay, perhaps IDUC ;) But I think that my understanding is actually probably correct, just that there's something wrong with the bluetooth subsystem. It seems clear now that something is rotten in the bluetooth linux kingdom: I don't see the bluetooth hea

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread Joe
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:14:50 -0600 green wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote at 2012-02-15 20:25 -0600: > > > > If your machine is supported by the stock kernel, all these > > problems are pretty much absent: you can expect to simply "aptitude > > upgrade" for the next ten years. > > This is *precise

Upgrade problem

2012-02-16 Thread Petr Osanve Vytovtov
Hello! I use Debian testing amd64 and I have next problem. When I write command "aptitude upgrade" it returns next: /Resolving dependencies... No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and *71 not upgraded*. Need to get 0 B of archive

Re: Re (3): Display on IBM ThinkPad A22m

2012-02-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 feb 12, 16:29:13, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Andrei POPESCU > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:26:42 +0200 > > I'd rather have the full Xorg.0.log :) > > http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/Xorg.0.log (II) R128(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 31.50-37.90 kHz (II) R128(0): Monito

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 16 feb 12, 08:43:20, Joe wrote: > > Hardware compatibility happens in the MS world because the boot is on > the other foot, in that manufacturers have no choice but to engineer > their products to work with Windows, and modify them if problems are > found. No such incentive exists (yet) for

Re: using a bluetooth headset

2012-02-16 Thread J. Bakshi
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:32:43 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Celejar wrote: > > > Okay, perhaps IDUC ;) But I think that my understanding is actually > > probably correct, just that there's something wrong with the bluetooth > > subsystem. >It seems clear now that s

Re: Upgrade problem

2012-02-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Pada 16 Februari 2012 5:27 PTG, Petr Osanve Vytovtov menulis: > Hello! > > I use Debian testing amd64 and I have next problem. > When I write command "aptitude upgrade" it returns next: > Resolving dependencies... > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newl

Re: Upgrade problem

2012-02-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/02/12 20:27, Petr Osanve Vytovtov wrote: > Hello! > > I use Debian testing amd64 and I have next problem. > When I write command "aptitude upgrade" it returns next: > /Resolving dependencies... > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 feb 12, 22:13:07, Harry Putnam wrote: > > The second subnet is not really expected to be used for full lan/wan > networking just yet. The ethernet address on LOCALHOST matching the > second subnet 192.168.2.0/24 is on eth1, and is really only being used > to access a pet router (TP-Link

Re: Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper

2012-02-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 feb 12, 18:17:11, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Thanks but ... What is dovecot? And which host is it to be installed? You asked for replacements to qpopper and this is what I suggested. See 'apt-cache show dovecot-pop3d' for more info. To make even more precise suggestions you need to pro

Re: Upgrade problem

2012-02-16 Thread Petr Osanve Vytovtov
On 02/16/12 13:59, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Pada 16 Februari 2012 5:27 PTG, Petr Osanve Vytovtov menulis: Hello! I use Debian testing amd64 and I have next problem. When I write command "aptitude upgrade" it returns next: Resolving dependencies... No packages will be installed, upgraded, or re

Re: Re (3): Display on IBM ThinkPad A22m

2012-02-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 16 feb 12, 11:49:35, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 15 feb 12, 16:29:13, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > From: Andrei POPESCU > > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:26:42 +0200 > > > I'd rather have the full Xorg.0.log :) > > > > http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/Xorg.0.log > > (II) R128(0

FAI Squeeze and SPARC

2012-02-16 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I try to get FAI working for my SPARC machines and build a own kernel and let the kernel create the initrd. The most problem is the size of the tftp bootimage, which does not exceed 9.5MB, otherwise it can't load anymore. The complete SPARC environment was create under the target (config +

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Wednesday 15 February 2012 2:01:22 pm green wrote: > Mark Neidorff wrote at 2012-02-14 17:45 -0600: > > When you purchased the server on which you run Lenny, did you know for sure > that the installation would go smoothly and all hardware would work > correctly? What if today you needed anothe

Pump Market Report 2012

2012-02-16 Thread MTW Research
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Re: [OT] date is wrong

2012-02-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 11 feb 12, 19:29:16, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > After reading your message, I found setting for sorting. I set it to > sort with unread/read and now this problem is solved. I took the easy way out and just corrected the date in the message and regenerated mutt's cache ;) Kind regards, A

Re: Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Davies
Paul E Condon wrote: > I have looked into qpopper replacement options. I'm sure setting up a > replacement will be easy for many, but for me it presents a > challenge. Happy to try and help you accept and overcome the challenge :-) I'm not familiar with qpopper or the alternative I'm about to s

Re: FAI Squeeze and SPARC

2012-02-16 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I'm closer to success: boot net3:dhcp root=/dev/nfs boot=live init=/init nfsroot:192.168.1.1:/srv/fai-sparc/nfsroot ip=eth3: debug the live.log shows: + mount -t aufs -o noatime,noxino,dirs=/cow=rw:/live/image/live/filesystem.dir=rr aufs /root mount: mounting aufs on /root failed:

[OT] Re: Installing debian, dual boot on 1 TB disk?

2012-02-16 Thread ACro
Quoting Andrei POPESCU : > I'd say Hanlon's Razor explains it better :p > > "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by > stupidity." > > Kind regards, > Andrei Andrei, thanks for replying; yes, you're probably right, and I'm not prone to support conspiracy theories. But

Re: Maintaining/resting gnome settings

2012-02-16 Thread Claudius Hubig
T o n g wrote: >Hi, > >My wife uses gnome, but the problem is that her gnome settings goes >berserk every now and then. It won't be long for her to find out this is >not working as expect, then that is not working as expect. I use fluxbox >instead of DM, so I don't know gnome well. So all I can

Bind errors in syslog

2012-02-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
From time to time, folloing appears in my syslog. Always in pairs, always 10 mins apart: Feb 16 13:44:41 tony-lx inetd[1870]: tftp/udp: bind: Address already in use Feb 16 13:54:41 tony-lx inetd[1870]: tftp/udp: bind: Address already in use Any suggestions as to what I can do to track down the

Re: Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper

2012-02-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120216_122003, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 15 feb 12, 18:17:11, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > Thanks but ... What is dovecot? And which host is it to be installed? > > You asked for replacements to qpopper and this is what I suggested. See > 'apt-cache show dovecot-pop3d' for more info.

Re: Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper

2012-02-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 16 feb 12, 07:54:48, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Please accept my sincere apologies. I am old, and was tired and > cranky. Over night another suggestion has arrived which I tested > before writing this response. It works to my liking. Don't worry about it and glad you found something that su

Re: Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper [SOLVED]

2012-02-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120216_113002, Chris Davies wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > I have looked into qpopper replacement options. I'm sure setting up a > > replacement will be easy for many, but for me it presents a > > challenge. > > Happy to try and help you accept and overcome the challenge :-) > > I'm not

Re: Upgrade problem

2012-02-16 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 16 February 2012 10:06:29 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 16/02/12 20:27, Petr Osanve Vytovtov wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I use Debian testing amd64 and I have next problem. > > When I write command "aptitude upgrade" it returns next: > > /Resolving dependencies... > > No packages will be ins

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread green
Joe wrote at 2012-02-16 02:43 -0600: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:14:50 -0600 green wrote: > > The question is, how can I be reasonably sure before the purchase? > > In many cases the information is unavailable or difficult to find. > > Because it mostly doesn't exist. If you were given one of these m

Re: Upgrade problem

2012-02-16 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, According to the manual page, dist-upgrade is alias for full-upgrade. Lisi wrote: >On Thursday 16 February 2012 10:06:29 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 16/02/12 20:27, Petr Osanve Vytovtov wrote: >> > Hello! >> > >> > I use Debian testing amd64

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:39, Peter Lebbing wrote: > Hello all, > > Since some time I get the message >> swapon: [...]: insecure permissions 1660, 0660 suggested. > > [1] is related to this. I'm not worried, but there are two things I wonder: > > 1) Foremost, what does the sticky bit on character

new earphone/headset arrival

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Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread green
Stefan Monnier wrote at 2012-02-15 20:19 -0600: > The same should hold for the Fit-PC3 (tho you may want to check their > forums first, since support for some particular features like the IR > interface or the watchdog may not all be supported by the current > kernel). While they don't guarantee t

Re: display to remote machine

2012-02-16 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On 12/02/2012 21:34, T o n g wrote: Hi, With the ssh/x-forwarding, I seems to have lost the ability to sent my local xdisplay to remote machine. How can I do it? I gave up with this when I discovered I could usually achieve the same thing using ssh -X hostname and then running the app o

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Rick Thomas
I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw shm d Which makes sense. What release are you running? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Okay, just a few cents from me. I don't think you can ever rely on a machine having full main line kernel support one day, still having it 3 or 4 years down the track. The drivers change, some disappear too -- there is never going to be any guarantees. The same goes for all sorts of pack

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread green
Mark Neidorff wrote at 2012-02-16 04:38 -0600: > On Wednesday 15 February 2012 2:01:22 pm green wrote: > > When you purchased the server on which you run Lenny, did you know for sure > > that the installation would go smoothly and all hardware would work > > correctly? > > Yes. I knew because, fo

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread green
Stefan Monnier wrote at 2012-02-16 08:10 -0600: > > The question is, how can I be reasonably sure before the purchase? In many > > cases the information is unavailable or difficult to find. > > Agreed, it's a serious problem. E.g. for fit-pc2 I actually forgot to > mention that the video driver

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-16 Thread keitho
> You can check which packages are uninstalled but still have their > config hanging around with "aptitude search '?config-files'". > > You can then run "apt-get purge " to get rid of the config > one particular package or "apt-get purge $(aptitude search > '?config-files' -F '%p" to get rid of al

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread green
Andrew McGlashan wrote at 2012-02-16 11:16 -0600: > I don't think you can ever rely on a machine having full main line > kernel support one day, still having it 3 or 4 years down the track. In another message, I just mentioned the desktop to be replaced, which has an Abit KR7A-133R motherboard an

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-16 Thread Bob Proulx
kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > > You can check which packages are uninstalled but still have their > > config hanging around with "aptitude search '?config-files'". > > > > You can then run "apt-get purge " to get rid of the config > > one particular package or "apt-get purge $(aptitude search > >

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 16/02/12 17:54, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw > shm d > Which makes sense. Correct, that is also what I see on Squeeze boxes. > What release are you running? This is on Wheezy (testing). This behaviour is relatively new in testing.

Re: Bind errors in syslog

2012-02-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > From time to time, folloing appears in my syslog. Always in pairs, > always 10 mins apart: > > Feb 16 13:44:41 tony-lx inetd[1870]: tftp/udp: bind: Address already in use > Feb 16 13:54:41 tony-lx inetd[1870]: tftp/udp: bind: Address already in use > > Any suggestions a

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Lebbing
Grepping the debian udev source gives: udev/udevd.c: udev/udev-rules.c: udev/udev-event.c: /* set sticky bit, so we do not remove the node on module unload */ And in line 426-429 of udev/udev-node.c, version 175-3, function int udev_node_remove(struct udev_device *dev): if (stats.st_mode & 01000

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread Joe
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:53:36 -0600 green wrote: > Your message has > come closest so far to doing that; thanks. You're welcome, I wish I could offer more hope, but as users of an operating system most people have never heard of, we get to suck it and see. Whichever way you go, I recommend kee

Re (4): Display on IBM ThinkPad A22m

2012-02-16 Thread peasthope
From: Andrei POPESCU Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:26:03 +0200 > On a second thought, maybe you should try again without an xorg.conf. After removing /etc/xorg.conf and executing startx again, this is the fresh log. http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/Xorg.0.log The lines mentioning the default m

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread Joe
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:16:09 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > I had some small ARM machines which worked very well on Lenny, but > > In history, I remember a P133 machine being "quite powerful" and it > was at the time, I had one of the first ARM computers, an Acorn Archimedes running a 4MHz

Re: [OT] Re: Installing debian, dual boot on 1 TB disk?

2012-02-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/02/12 23:37, ACro wrote: > Quoting Andrei POPESCU : > >> I'd say Hanlon's Razor explains it better :p >> >> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by >> stupidity." >> >> Kind regards, >> Andrei > > > Andrei, > > thanks for replying; yes, you're probably right, and

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrei POPESCU writes: [...] > Unless ifupdown is smart enough (don't know, you have to research this) > the "second" DHCP might override the default gateway of the "first"[1]. > Assuming you may want to connect other devices to the OpenWrt you > probably don't want to tinker with it's DHCP s

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Tom H writes: [...] Thanks for all those details ... very helpful [...] > To use "/etc/init.d/networking", you can either change > "allow-hotplug" to "auto" (or "allow-auto") or add > "auto"/"allow-auto" lines to the "allow-hotplug" ones (I've never > tried the latter but Bob Proulx suggested

Re: Upgrade problem

2012-02-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/02/12 02:41, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Hi, > > According to the manual page, dist-upgrade is alias for full-upgrade. Yes. It is a recognised synonym with aptitude - it *also* works with apt. > > Lisi wrote: > > >> Lisi > > Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for f

Re: knoppix vs grml (free software mini pi)

2012-02-16 Thread green
Joe wrote at 2012-02-16 13:50 -0600: > A lot of the time, Knoppix will run a 'difficult' bit of hardware, but > using mainstream modules that the Debian installer has not seen the > need for. It is (mostly) then a matter of tweaking the Debian > installation to match. Do you consider Knoppix hardw

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread Dom
On 16/02/12 20:16, Joe wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:16:09 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: I had some small ARM machines which worked very well on Lenny, but In history, I remember a P133 machine being "quite powerful" and it was at the time, I had one of the first ARM computers, an Acorn Ar

Re: Re (4): Display on IBM ThinkPad A22m

2012-02-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 16 feb 12, 11:58:24, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Andrei POPESCU > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:26:03 +0200 > > On a second thought, maybe you should try again without an xorg.conf. > > After removing /etc/xorg.conf and executing startx again, this is the fresh > log. > http://members.

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 16 feb 12, 15:40:32, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I'm curious when you say you are going to be using embedded openwrt on > a router to run a dns server; Do you mean an honest to god real DNS > server running bind/named (or similar). I did notice that bind > software is available for recent buil

Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks

2012-02-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 16 feb 12, 10:43:34, Bob Proulx wrote: > kei...@strucktower.com wrote: [snip] aptitude purge ~c Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signat

Since I've installed Firefox in ~, every update results in a reset

2012-02-16 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Quite everything is in the title. I'm running Debian Lenny (yes, I know, time to switch..., but haven't had time yet), and I precedently installed Firefox in ~/ for various reasons. The problem is not here. The problem is that every time an updat

Re: Since I've installed Firefox in ~, every update results in a reset

2012-02-16 Thread Claudius Hubig
Merciadri Luca wrote: >Quite everything is in the title. I'm running Debian Lenny (yes, I >know, time to switch..., but haven't had time yet), and I precedently >installed Firefox in ~/ for various reasons. > >The problem is not here. The problem is that every time an update is >done, or even quit

Re: How to configure two NIC's in Debian 6.0.4 box?

2012-02-16 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 02/15/2012 07:25 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: I wonder what is the best way to reconfigure the NIC's so the old card (now eth0) boots as eth1, and the new card (now eth1) boots as eth0? This is done using the file /etc/udev/rules.d

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 17/02/2012 4:31 AM, green wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote at 2012-02-16 11:16 -0600: I don't think you can ever rely on a machine having full main line kernel support one day, still having it 3 or 4 years down the track. In another message, I just mentioned the desktop to be replaced, which h

Re: Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-16 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Clive Standbridge wrote: >> But may provide some benefit when removing a large number (3) of >> files (at least empty ones). >> >> cbell@circe:~/test$ time find rm -type f -exec rm {} \; >> >> real              0m48.127s >> user              1m32.926s >> sys  

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 16/02/12 17:54, Rick Thomas wrote: I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw shm d Which makes sense. Correct, that is also what I see on Squeeze boxes. What release are you running? This is on Wheezy (testing