Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/03/12 17:38, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> > > Hello. > > The sources.list file is listed below. > > " > :~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list > # > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 CD > Binary-1 20111008-14:36]/ squeeze main >

Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-17 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 17 March 2012 07:46:47 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 17/03/12 17:38, Bret Busby wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > > Hello. > > > > The sources.list file is listed below. > > > > " > > > > :~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list > > > > # > > > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/L

Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-17 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 17/03/12 08:21, Lisi wrote: The sources.list used by Bret has one of the CD entries not commented out. This you have not included in the sources.list as used by you. Might this have caused a problem? I confess to not seeing how, but it is an anomaly in the sources.list. Lisi I see where y

Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-17 Thread Keith McKenzie
Why I made my suggestion. :) In the past, have installed from live media & not been able to access external repositories because of the cdrom line in sources.list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Installation Instructions for Xen 4.1.3-rc1-pre and Linux Kernel 3.3.0-rc7 on Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-17 Thread Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear All, I have written a set of installation instructions for building and installing Xen 4.1.3-rc1-pre hypervisor and Linux kernel 3.3.0-rc7 / 3.2.11 on Ubuntu and Debian Linux in PDF format. The mediafire.com download link for the PDF document I have written is Download link: http://www.

Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/03/12 19:21, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2012 07:46:47 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 17/03/12 17:38, Bret Busby wrote: >>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> > > Hello, Scott, > > The sources.list used by Bret has one of the CD entries not commented out. > This you have

Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/03/12 21:08, Keith McKenzie wrote: > Why I made my suggestion. :) > > In the past, have installed from live media & not been able to access > external repositories because of the cdrom line in sources.list. > > I'm unable to duplicate your experience with Squeeze - all I get (if I ask for

Re: zpipe.c: the zlib example

2012-03-17 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 16 March 2012 11:02:15 pm T o n g wrote: > 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 > Are the permissi

Re: mutt - no incoming mailboxes defined

2012-03-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 03:58:51PM +, 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. > > Have just built a new box and put Debian 6.04 on it. There are a > number of problems with the

Re: zpipe.c: the zlib example

2012-03-17 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 17/03/2012 04:10, T o n g ha scritto: 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 immediate

Re: Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > I have compiled the *latest* linux kernels 3.x.x series for Ubuntu and > Debian Linux for you to install. You may download the *latest* linux > kernels 3.x.x series for Ubuntu and Debian from the following download > links: Beware. Installi

Re: Boot problem : Operating System not found.

2012-03-17 Thread Bruno Costacurta
It would've been helpful not to have snipped the "drive partition info" section! :) You have a gpt-labelled disk but sda1 isn't OK. As "File system", it should have "BIOS Boot partition". "Boot sector type" and "Boot sector info" cannot be right but I don't know what they should be. The two

libflash (64 bit) problem on kongregate.com

2012-03-17 Thread Loïc Grenié
Hi all, I have a 64bit Debian (sid) system. I have a problem with libflash. I've installed flashplugin-nonfree and the plugin is reasonably recent (11.1.102.62). However on some (most, all ?) kongregate games, I cannot get to the effective game. For instance: http://www.kongregate.co

Re: Boot problem : Operating System not found

2012-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:52:37 +, luizlmarins hotmail.com wrote: (please, no html... thanks) > See here: > > http://linuxmeu.wordpress.com/grub-nao-aparece/ But GRUB does appear in this case. What happens is that it hangs when booting Debian. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-17 Thread Brad Alexander
Concur with Henrique. If you really want the latest Debian offers, the proper way to do it would be to add the experimental repository to your sources.list. The OP offers, among others, 3.3.0rc7. Debian experimental has 3.3.0rc6 in the repo. That one minor version bump is not worth the risk. That

Re: Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-17 Thread Brad Alexander
Perhaps instead of distributing the kernel, the OP should distribute the .config files for the various kernels he is offering and interested individuals could compile it locally... On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > Concur with Henrique. If you really want the latest Debian

Re: libflash (64 bit) problem on kongregate.com

2012-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:13:07 +0100, Loïc Grenié wrote: > >I have a 64bit Debian (sid) system. I have a problem with libflash. > I've installed flashplugin-nonfree and the plugin is reasonably recent > (11.1.102.62). Latest is "11.1.102.63" :-P > However on some (most, all ?) kongregate

Re: Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Mar 2012 at 13:01:19 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > Perhaps instead of distributing the kernel, the OP should distribute > the .config files for the various kernels he is offering and > interested individuals could compile it locally... If this is the same person he could do without any

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Greg Madden wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2012 7:26:53 pm Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have had to replace the hard drive in my laptop computer, which is an HP/Compaq NX5000, as the previous hard drive appeared to have failed. snip With this policy change by the Debian peop

Re: libflash (64 bit) problem on kongregate.com

2012-03-17 Thread Loïc Grenié
2012/3/17 Camaleón : > On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:13:07 +0100, Loïc Grenié wrote: > >> >>    I have a 64bit Debian (sid) system. I have a problem with libflash. >>   I've installed flashplugin-nonfree and the plugin is reasonably recent >>   (11.1.102.62). > > Latest is "11.1.102.63" :-P > >> However o

Re: Boot problem : Operating System not found.

2012-03-17 Thread Bruno Costacurta
[snip] I'll also try the SuperGrub2Disk ASAP. [snip] Yes, it works when booting using a SuperGrub2Disk CD. From SuperGrub2Disk boot menu : Detect any OS -> Debian correctly found on /dev/sda4 -> boot is OK. So I suppose the GRUB on the hard disk is incorrectly setup. As the boot-info script r

Re: libflash (64 bit) problem on kongregate.com

2012-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:45:37 +0100, Loïc Grenié wrote: > 2012/3/17 Camaleón : (...) >> Is something about connecting the bots? > > Yeah. (It works with firefox-32bits+veryoldflash-32bits). Ensure that your browser is loading the abobe flash plugin instead gnash or any other one (right cli

Re: Boot problem : Operating System not found.

2012-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:30:51 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Bruno, you MUA is somehow deleting both "References:" and "In-Reply-To:" header fields and thus your posts are kept unthreaded. > [snip] >> I'll also try the SuperGrub2Disk ASAP. > [snip] > > Yes, it works when booting using a SuperGru

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Mar 2012 at 01:37:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > I do not know whether the firmware is faulty (the IPW firmware) or the > mirror settings within the downloaded netinst ISO, are bad. > > But, it does not work. If not a single mirror works for you it looks like a network problem. Could y

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Brian wrote: On Sun 18 Mar 2012 at 01:37:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: I do not know whether the firmware is faulty (the IPW firmware) or the mirror settings within the downloaded netinst ISO, are bad. But, it does not work. If not a single mirror works for you it looks

Re: USB-keyboard language settings

2012-03-17 Thread Christian Frey
> > Hey together, > > I have installed Debian Wheezy without larger problems, except that I have > used an old PS2 Keyboard Swiss German for installation instead of the USB > Swiss German one as this did not work - also not in the text mode. After > first start of Debian, my PS2 Swiss German keyboa

Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Fri 16 Mar 2012 at 16:45:13 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Baruch wrote: > > # aptitude why iceweasel > > i   sun-java6-plugin Depends firefox | firefox-2 | iceweasel | > > mozilla-firefox | > >   iceape-browser | mozilla-browser | > > epiphany-gecko > >

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-17 Thread Andriy Samsonyuk
> Would you care to expand a bit? Might help others in your situation. i will try ;-) Since i debootstrapt my system and have different partitions for /, swap, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home directories i had to set the mount options in /etc/fstab manually. The easiest way was to take an existing, wo

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Sun 18 Mar 2012 at 03:13:39 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > The IPW thing is the firmware required for the network adaptor. I think > it is IPW200 or something similar. You should know, but I'll not press it. > > That is why I had to use the firmware instal, and the only way > availabl;e, is us

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 17 March 2012 19:56:03 Brian wrote: > So you fill in all the fields pertaining to setting up a static address > and certify it is correct when asked. I almost always set up a static IP. It is very simple. When the installer asks you, reject the DHCP offer. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Mar 2012 at 20:21:13 +, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2012 19:56:03 Brian wrote: > > So you fill in all the fields pertaining to setting up a static address > > and certify it is correct when asked. > > I almost always set up a static IP. It is very simple. When the installer

Re: Re: vsftp problems

2012-03-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: 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. Good suggestion, On

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 17 March 2012 20:58:44 Brian wrote: > On Sat 17 Mar 2012 at 20:21:13 +, Lisi wrote: > > On Saturday 17 March 2012 19:56:03 Brian wrote: > > > So you fill in all the fields pertaining to setting up a static address > > > and certify it is correct when asked. > > > > I almost always s

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 17 Mar 2012 at 22:01:00 +, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2012 20:58:44 Brian wrote: > > > > I do too. But Brett needs to find out whether it works for him. > > Of course. But I thought that he may not know to reject the DHCP offer. It > isn't immediately obvious that doing so w

Re: Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-17 Thread Steven Post
On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 12:53 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > Concur with Henrique. If you really want the latest Debian offers, the > proper way to do it would be to add the experimental repository to > your sources.list. The OP offers, among others, 3.3.0rc7. Debian > experimental has 3.3.0rc6 in t

filesystem mounted as noexec

2012-03-17 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:43:41 +0100, Lorenzo Beretta wrote: > Most likely your filesystem is mounted with noexec, Bingo! Thanks! Hmm..., but why? I didn't specify noexec for any of my mounted filesystems except /proc: $ grep noexec /etc/fstab proc/proc procdefaults,n

Re: Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-17 Thread istimsak abdulbasir
Thanks for letting me know. On Mar 17, 2012 7:34 PM, "Steven Post" wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 12:53 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > > Concur with Henrique. If you really want the latest Debian offers, the > > proper way to do it would be to add the experimental repository to > > your sources.l

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-03-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Hendrik Boom wrote: > Let me see if I understand grub's interpretation of menu.lst correctly. > I have a boot stanza in my menu.lst: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 3.0.0-1-686-pae testing > (squeeze-grub) OK > root(hd0,5) > kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-686-pae root=/

provisioning and configuration tools

2012-03-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, Just wondering what folks are using in the way of various provisioning and configuration tools. I'm currently doing things manually, and using various shell scripts accumulated over the years - but starting to think about some scalability issues, and what it takes to manage more th

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-17 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Lisi wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 04:21:13 From: Lisi To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:21:33 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Saturday 17 March 2012 19:56:03 Brian w

Re: Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/17/2012 9:13 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > If you want the latest development kernel (which you should NOT use EVER > unless you really know what you're doing or you will end up in a data loss > situation or broken system sooner or later), use "git" do download and > compile it you

Issues with nfs v4 and security

2012-03-17 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I am having some issue with nfs-kernel. I have 2 servers both have NFS exports. when i mount 1 from server B to server A, the users come up as nobody and nogroup. when i mount from A to B I get the proper uid/gids // this is on server B nfs:/home/alex/home/alex

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

2012-03-17 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
Hola! I- m starting to get desperate! I found lots of instructions on the web about how to solve this, but none of them works. Example, I founmd this In grub press e ton edit options add to init options init=/bin/sh RET press b to boot Then mount -o remount,rw / passwd kjetil (repeating new pas

Re: Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux

2012-03-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/17/2012 12:26 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 17 Mar 2012 at 13:01:19 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > >> Perhaps instead of distributing the kernel, the OP should distribute >> the .config files for the various kernels he is offering and >> interested individuals could compile it locally... > > If

Re: libflash (64 bit) problem on kongregate.com

2012-03-17 Thread Loïc Grenié
2012/3/17 Camaleón : > On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:45:37 +0100, Loïc Grenié wrote: > >> 2012/3/17 Camaleón : > > (...) > >>> Is something about connecting the bots? >> >>     Yeah. (It works with firefox-32bits+veryoldflash-32bits). > > Ensure that your browser is loading the abobe flash plugin instead

Re: Re: vsftp problems

2012-03-17 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 02:21:35PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi, > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > inetd 1946 root8u IPv4 130958 0t0 TCP *:ftp (LISTEN) > > The good machine shows that vsftpd is attached to the port. > > I'm not sure how to correct this but