Re: Debian in a VMware VM and LVM

2012-03-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > indeed, there is no /dev/sda6 yet. > Why is /dev/sda6 not there yet? What step am I missing? Next time run 'partprobe' to request the OS to re-read the partition table. > root@wwwgw:~# umount /var > Then first a filesystem check as that seems to be needed before resizing. N

Re: vsftp problems

2012-03-16 Thread Jon Dowland
On 16/03/12 01:50, Gary Roach wrote: 500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket Are you attempting to start it by hand as root? If so, can you try "lsof -ni:21"? It looks like something else has bound to your port 21. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-16 Thread Andriy Samsonyuk
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:17:51AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 15 mar 12, 23:35:22, Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: > > > I usually run startx as a user to get it up & running; I'm puzzled > > > by your insistence on 'xinit'. :) > > i tryed startx. I get more output: > > > > hostname: Name or

Re: Bash argument expanded inside alias

2012-03-16 Thread Chris Davies
rcb wrote: > I think I just learned a lot about functions with this thread, things > I didn't know. > At first I thought the best choice to abbreviate a command would be an > alias, and functions was to encapsulate big chunks of script code. > Never occurred to me I could use it as an alias. It's

Re: problem with apt-get upgrade

2012-03-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:40:10PM +, Richard wrote: > Hi > All downloads , but I'm getting this:- > > Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-22) ... > insserv: warning: script 'K50vmware-USBArbitrator' missing LSB tags and > overrides > insserv: warning: script 'K01vmware' missing LSB tags and over

Re: Debian in a VMware VM and LVM

2012-03-16 Thread Michael Tsang
On Tuesday 13 March 2012 22:52:01 Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > Using the 6.0.4 amd netinst CD I created a small 10GB virtual machine (VM). > I then realized I needed it to be a bit bigger so I wanted to extend the > LVM environment and add that space to the /var logical volume. Of course > as this is

Re: Boot problem : Operating System not found (was : how to make it verbose ?)

2012-03-16 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Bruno Costacurta wrote: >> >> Another thing you can test is manually booting your Debian system from >> GRUB2 boot menu by reaching the command line. This way if you're lucky >> any error you get will be printed on the screen. > > Indeed you're right. > 'Operating

Re: problem with apt-get upgrade

2012-03-16 Thread Richard
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:52:48 + Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:40:10PM +, Richard wrote: > > Hi > > All downloads , but I'm getting this:- > > > > Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-22) ... > > insserv: warning: script 'K50vmware-USBArbitrator' missing LSB tags and > > ove

Re: Debian and EFIKA MX Smartbook

2012-03-16 Thread Robert Pommrich
Hi, thank you very much for your answers. Meanwhile I have the smartbook. But before I play around, I would like to know better what will await me. Am 05.03.2012 14:36, schrieb Dominique Dumont: >> 1. The support of the armhf architecture starts with wheezy. But there >> are no install images, e

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-16 Thread Andriy Samsonyuk
Eureka! the problem was in wrongly mounted /var and /usr partitions. was not so easy to find :-( Thanx for your help! -- You're not my type. For that matter, you're not even my species!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Driver for (E)ISA Soundcard with YMF719E-S 9749 ZAGA chip

2012-03-16 Thread Martin
I got an old computer and from there I picked up EISA Soundcard with YMF719E-S 9749 ZAGA chip. I would like to use it on my working computer under Lenny. When I plug it in and restart this are messages that I see in dmesg: [3.618010] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [3.714847] 01:01: card

help needed with initial use of IrDa and LIRC

2012-03-16 Thread keitho
I have never used IR before, and I thought I'd try to use it on my old Dell laptop. I simply want to be able to invoke commands using an arbitrary remote. I'm confused as to whether I should use IrDa or LIRC, or both. The man pages and other docs I've read don't discuss the difference/relationship

Re: help needed with initial use of IrDa and LIRC

2012-03-16 Thread Tom Grace
On 16/03/12 14:59, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > I have never used IR before, and I thought I'd try to use it on my old > Dell laptop. I simply want to be able to invoke commands using an > arbitrary remote. > > I'm confused as to whether I should use IrDa or LIRC, or both. The man > pages and o

Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-16 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Baruch, please respond to the list rather than me personally. Please also don’t top-post (cf. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html ). I took the liberty to quote the relevant part of your answer in case someone else finds this thread: Baruch wrote: > # aptitude why iceweasel >

Re: help needed with initial use of IrDa and LIRC

2012-03-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 07:59:54AM -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > I have never used IR before, and I thought I'd try to use it on my old > Dell laptop. I simply want to be able to invoke commands using an > arbitrary remote. > > I'm confused as to whether I should use IrDa or LIRC, or both

mutt - no incoming mailboxes defined

2012-03-16 Thread john gennard
I've been using Debian since Slink days, but I'm now 81 and had a stroke some 30 months ago which has done severe damage to my brain. Have just built a new box and put Debian 6.04 on it. There are a number of problems with the installation and I'm working through them one at a time. I'm unable

Re: mutt - no incoming mailboxes defined

2012-03-16 Thread Lisi
On Friday 16 March 2012 15:58:51 john gennard wrote: > I've been using Debian since Slink days, but I'm now 81 and had a stroke > some 30 months ago which has done severe damage to my brain. [snip] > Sorry to ask such a simple question, but it's so frustrating to be in this > state. How awful for

Re: CC-ing & gmane (was: Re: QuickCam Orbit AF Pan/Tilt Broken in Sid)

2012-03-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:46:55 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > I don't know about that. Sure, I subscribe to the most used ones, or > that I might start using more, but if I have a one off question... > Although I wouldn't ask for a CC, I would check the archives. And I have > subscribed, asked a ques

Re: Can Pan sort threads by date of most recent post?

2012-03-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:55:25 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > When I sort threads by date in Pan, it sorts them by their oldest > posts, that is, the first post made in the thread. Is it possible to > get it to sort threads by their most recent post, so I get the currently > most active threads near

Re: mutt - no incoming mailboxes defined

2012-03-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:58:51 +, john gennard wrote: > I've been using Debian since Slink days, but I'm now 81 and had a stroke > some 30 months ago which has done severe damage to my brain. Get my sincerely congrats, sir, for still having the joy to play with computers and messing with Mutt

Re: CC-ing & gmane (was: Re: QuickCam Orbit AF Pan/Tilt Broken in Sid)

2012-03-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:32:39 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:46:55 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> I don't know about that. Sure, I subscribe to the most used ones, or >> that I might start using more, but if I have a one off question... >> Although I wouldn't ask for a CC, I wou

Re: Boot problem : Operating System not found (was : how to make it verbose ?)

2012-03-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:55:39 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > .. >> Another thing you can test is manually booting your Debian system from >> GRUB2 boot menu by reaching the command line. This way if you're lucky >> any error you get will be printed on the screen. > .. > > Indeed you're right. >

Re: vsftp problems

2012-03-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:50:38 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: >> Try running /usr/sbin/vsftpd by hand (as root) from a session on your >> server. Does it print any diagnostic output? > OK. Now I have 3 machines that are setup identically. The vsftpd.conf >

Re: Are there any current label printers that works with Linux/amd64?

2012-03-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:36:47 -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > Does anyone have a current label printer working with Linux/amd64? (...) Google returns a Slahdot post (2009) about this, maybe you find something useful inside the comments: Linux-Friendly Label Printer Recomendations? http://ask.slashd

Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-16 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:38:57 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Recently, I have been getting an error message both from an update > manager applet, and, in checking for system updates. > > The error message is: > > " > An internal error has occured and the operation has been aborted. Error > message: >

Re: mutt - no incoming mailboxes defined

2012-03-16 Thread john gennard
On 16/03/2012 17:06, Camaleón wrote: Would someone kindly explain what Mutt does when it launches, If you run Mutt with debug flag you will get more information: mutt -d2 And then: cat .muttdebug0 (don't send this log file to any public source because it can contain sensitive data, is just f

Re: Driver for (E)ISA Soundcard with YMF719E-S 9749 ZAGA chip

2012-03-16 Thread Jasper Noë
Hi, have you been here: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-opl3-sa2 hth, --Jasper. -- 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/4f63923d.50

Re: Boot problem : Operating System not found.

2012-03-16 Thread Bruno Costacurta
'Operating System not found' is displayed once boot via GRUB command line. [snip] What's the output of bootinfoscript? [snip] So I ran boot_info_script.sh. Which returns the following (snipped to mainly show /dev/sda4 on which Debian is installed) : Boot Info Script 0.60from 17 May

Re: Are there any current label printers that works with Linux/amd64?

2012-03-16 Thread Allan Wind
On 2012-03-16 18:18:42, Camaleón wrote: > Google returns a Slahdot post (2009) about this, maybe you find something > useful > inside the comments: > > Linux-Friendly Label Printer Recomendations? > http://ask.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/2317215/linux-friendly-label-printer-recomendations Yeah,

Re: Boot problem : Operating System not found.

2012-03-16 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > >  => Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector >    946507840 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this >    location and looks for  on this drive. > ... > sda1: > >    File system:       vfat >

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 16 mar 12, 13:48:20, Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: > Eureka! > the problem was in wrongly mounted /var and /usr partitions. > was not so easy to find :-( Would you care to expand a bit? Might help others in your situation. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and deve

Re: I cannot log in to my debian wheezy system!

2012-03-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 16 March 2012 12:47:06 pm Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > Hola! > > My system, debian wheezy amd-64, refuses to recognize my password. I am > sure I am typing it correctly. > > I was able to , at login time, where grub pauses to ask which kernel tyo > uise, > to choose the maintena

Can't run irrecord - WAS: help needed with initial use of IrDa and LIRC

2012-03-16 Thread keitho
> As the error message reports, you need to stop lircd first. Then run > irrecord (I think the reason is that both want direct access to your IR > port), this will produce a file that you can use as /etc/lirc/lird.conf. > Next, check /etc/lirc/hardware.conf is suitable for you, then run > "/etc/ini

zpipe.c: the zlib example

2012-03-16 Thread T o n g
Hi, I believe that zpipe.c used to be working. But it is still working now? I get it compiled OK, gcc -g -lz -o zpipe zpipe.c but wasn't able to run it: $ ./zpipe bash: ./zpipe: Permission denied I get the same result even I put an output immediately after main: /* compress or decompress

Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-16 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:21:03 From: Scott Ferguson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem with Update repository Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:22:15 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 16/03/12 13:38, Bret Busb