Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:50:25, Celejar wrote: > > Quite true - and completely irrelevant to my point. I don't deny that > money can be made with FLOSS, just that it's pointless to try to sell > copies of one's software if it's freely copyable. The examples you give > are all of models other than the

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be "on topic"?)

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 iul 12, 16:46:31, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:45:15PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:58:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > How about suggesting the use of: > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic > >

Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

2012-07-20 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:31:08PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi Debianologists, > > This scanner is supposed to be fully supported by SANE. > > When I plug it in, dmesg shows: > > [460008.108261] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 26 using ehci_hcd > [460008.202148] usb 1-1.2: New USB d

Space problems with wheezy install [was: Re: WHEEZY]

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[please try to have a more descriptive subject, as I did, otherwise nobody will know if you ask about different issues] On Vi, 20 iul 12, 10:03:47, vykuntam srinivas wrote: > hi all,i have upgraded to wheezy.Its looking awesome and nice gdm.Actually > i have alloted 10GB of disk space to debian

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 iul 12, 08:25:23, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: > > Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy. What do you mean by that? Wheezy is not being released just yet, it's just been frozen (it will take a few more months). Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions am

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:20:28, Britton Kerin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep > failing. > Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages always > fail. > > I'm wondering if ftp.us.debian.org is really overloaded

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
my mistake. On 20/07/12 09:48, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 20 iul 12, 08:25:23, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy. What do you mean by that? Wheezy is not being released just yet, it's just been frozen (it will take a few more months)

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Alberto Luaces
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:20:28, Britton Kerin wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep >> failing. >> Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages always >> fail. >> >> I'm wondering if ftp.u

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/12 03:30 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:50:25, Celejar wrote: Quite true - and completely irrelevant to my point. I don't deny that money can be made with FLOSS, just that it's pointless to try to sell copies of one's software if it's freely copyable. The examples you gi

Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

2012-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/12 03:40 AM, Joel Roth wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:31:08PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Hi Debianologists, This scanner is supposed to be fully supported by SANE. When I plug it in, dmesg shows: [460008.108261] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 26 using ehci_hcd [460008.20

Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

2012-07-20 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 04:32:03AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/07/12 03:40 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:31:08PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > >>Hi Debianologists, > >> > >>This scanner is supposed to be fully supported by SANE. > >> > >>When I plug it in, dmesg shows: > >> > >

Re: Error while try to get tcp socket options with lsof

2012-07-20 Thread Meike Stone
> > > Also, from the FAQ mentioned: > > "3.14.1 Why doesn't lsof report socket options, socket states, and TCP > flags and values for my dialect? > ... > > Linux > No socket options and values, socket states, or TCP > flags and values are reported. The support for "-Tf" >

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:28:52PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ramon Hofer wrote: > > Installed sid > > $ sudo debootstrap sid /srv/chroot/sid/ http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ > > I haven't submitted a bug yet but I always have problems with sysvinit > postinst depending upon ischroot and ischroot

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 iul 12, 04:29:05, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/07/12 03:30 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:50:25, Celejar wrote: > >>Quite true - and completely irrelevant to my point. I don't deny that > >>money can be made with FLOSS, just that it's pointless to try to sell > >>copies of

Re: Suspend to RAM fails in Debian Wheezy 64 bits

2012-07-20 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le jeudi 19 juillet 2012 à 17:21 +, Camaleón a écrit : > Hi, but better if you don't hijack threads, Sorry about that. > > I can't suspend to RAM anymore in my (up to date) Debian Wheezy (64 > > bits). > > > > Everything was fine until last week: each time I recover from the > > suspending s

Re: wireless not working correctly after upgrading kernel

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 16:59:05 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > a little background and what i did to have come to this situation: > > - cannot get resolution more than 1024x768 with my integrated intel vga > - upgraded to kernel 3.0 from squeeze-backports > - my intel wireless 1000 N wireless in

Re: can't rotate logs

2012-07-20 Thread Chris Davies
DragonDon wrote: > I have setup logrotate and forgot to setup the cron job. Part of my > troubleshooting was to run it manually but I get a bunch of permission > errors http://paste.debian.net/179771/. The relevant ones are these (which it would have been more helpful to paste here) - $ sudo /u

Re: Suspend to RAM fails in Debian Wheezy 64 bits

2012-07-20 Thread Alberto Luaces
Gaël DONVAL writes: > Le jeudi 19 juillet 2012 à 17:21 +, Camaleón a écrit : > [...] > 3) DE > Typical Gnome 3.4 install. > I'm having the same problem with nvidia drivers, but KDE4. -- Alberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:29:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:57 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> aRts was ESD's counterpart in KDE, IIRC. > >> > >> Anyway, we deserve the price to pay (PA can be complex to setup) for > >> having a

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Adrian Fita: > On 18/07/12 02:57, Brad Alexander wrote: > > [...] > > > Now, I did a little research a couple of weeks ago, and found on the > > Ubuntu wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/) that they recommend > > installing several extra pulse-related pa

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:34:26PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > I have some questions about starting daemons in a chroot environment or > rather about starting schroot on bootup. > The reason I want to do this is to clean up my server. It's a Squeeze > with an AMD64 kernel from backports. Some pac

Re: wireless not working correctly after upgrading kernel

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 17:37:26 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 Non-free firmware is needed. I suppose you have installed it? http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Bad pagetable: 000d [#2] SMP. Is this a kernel problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Morning Star
Hi guys, I have some frequently problem when run some applications using Debian 6.0.5-amd64. I did the fresh install today. Install some application, started use them and get this error on `dmesg`. At this time i noticed an application named firefox got freeze, not responding. [quote] $ dmesg [10

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
Thanks for your answer, Bob! On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:28:52 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Installed sid $ sudo debootstrap sid /srv/chroot/sid/ >> http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ > > I haven't submitted a bug yet but I always have problems with sysvinit > postinst depending upon ischroot and ischroo

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:53:34PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:57:58 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > > (...) > > > >> So I tried to like pulse, tried to get along with it, but I'm having a > >> really hard time with

LVM creation methods

2012-07-20 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i was reading a document where a person has configured physical volume and didn't use fdisk he just directly created the partition by "pvcreate /dev/sda" and there are some documents which shows the utilization of fdisk and converting sda1 to "8e" type which is LVM. so the question is what is

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:42:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:34:26PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> I have some questions about starting daemons in a chroot environment or >> rather about starting schroot on bootup. >> The reason I want to do this is to clean up my server. It'

Re: LVM creation methods

2012-07-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 05:35:03PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i was reading a document where a person has configured physical volume > and didn't use fdisk > he just directly created the partition by "pvcreate /dev/sda" > > and there are some documents which shows the utilization of fd

Re: LVM creation methods

2012-07-20 Thread Meike Stone
2012/7/20 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : > i was reading a document where a person has configured physical volume > and didn't use fdisk > he just directly created the partition by "pvcreate /dev/sda" > > and there are some documents which shows the utilization of fdisk and > converting sda1 to "8e" type

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 07:41:20AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > However, here's the instruction how to build a dummy package for Debian > based distros: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html APT HOWTO (Obsolete Documentation) - Very useful helpers ^

Re: Error while try to get tcp socket options with lsof

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:44:06 +0200, Meike Stone wrote: (...) > But I cant believe, that Linux does not support that ... The tool ss (ss > -teoi) from iproute2 can get at least some informations. *** NetBSD 1.6G and above All socket options and values, socket states, and TCP flags and values des

Re: LVM creation methods

2012-07-20 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
thanks it is very clear, yes, i am using the second disk just for storage purpose. so i am not worried about the booting since it is already been handled via /dev/sdb so no issues for me. Thanks both Meike and Darac On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at

Re: (Almost done!) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:45:37 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 19 Jul 2012 at 18:01:54 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:19:10 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >> You mean that a single (unknown) process avoids the rest from stopping? > > No. > >> That would be even worst... Or maybe is that

Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:31:08 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: (...) > But scanimage --list-devices only show my notebook camera. The notebook > is a Lenovo T410. My kernel is recent 3.2 stock kernel. > > Any ideas what to try? Try running the above command as root to discard a permissions issue. Greeti

Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

2012-07-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/07/12 04:52 AM, Joel Roth wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 04:32:03AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/07/12 03:40 AM, Joel Roth wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 05:31:08PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Hi Debianologists, This scanner is supposed to be fully supported by SANE. When I plug it in, dm

Re: WHEEZY

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:16:33 +0530, vykuntam srinivas wrote: > hi all, (hi but please, no html posts, thanks) > i have recently upgraded to wheezy and when i try to take a > screen shot by pressing (print screen/ctl+print screen), a flash > appears on the monitor.I tried installing gnome utils

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be "on topic"?)

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:46:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:45:15PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:58:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> > How about suggesting the use of: >> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtop

Re: wireless not working correctly after upgrading kernel

2012-07-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2012/7/20 Brian : > On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 17:37:26 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 > > Non-free firmware is needed. I suppose you have installed it? > >http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi > yes I have. I even reinstalled it

Re: wireless not working correctly after upgrading kernel

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:59:05 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > a little background and what i did to have come to this situation: > > - cannot get resolution more than 1024x768 with my integrated intel vga > - upgraded to kernel 3.0 from squeeze-backports > - my intel wireless 1000 N wireless int

Re: wireless not working correctly after upgrading kernel

2012-07-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2012/7/20 Camaleón : > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:59:05 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> a little background and what i did to have come to this situation: >> >> - cannot get resolution more than 1024x768 with my integrated intel vga >> - upgraded to kernel 3.0 from squeeze-backports >> - my intel w

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:32:26 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: >> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:29:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:57 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> aRts was ESD's counterpart in KDE, IIRC. >> >> >> >> Anyway, we d

Re: Suspend to RAM fails in Debian Wheezy 64 bits

2012-07-20 Thread Gaël DONVAL
> > 3) DE > > Typical Gnome 3.4 install. > > > > I'm having the same problem with nvidia drivers, but KDE4. I guess Nvidia is once again the one to blame … That began to happen right after I upgraded to nvidia-glx 302.17-3, the 12th of July and that wouldn't be the 1st time. Does anyone know if

Re: Bad pagetable: 000d [#2] SMP. Is this a kernel problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:27:59 -0700, Morning Star wrote: > I have some frequently problem when run some applications using Debian > 6.0.5-amd64. I did the fresh install today. Install some application, > started use them and get this error on `dmesg`. At this time i noticed > an application named f

Need suggestions on a backup issue

2012-07-20 Thread Paul E Condon
I was bitten by a bug in my backup system recently and would like advice on how to fix the problem. I use Bash scripts and crontab to do a daily backup each morning at 6:25 AM. (Why then? Because it is the default time set up by Debian on a new install, and I've never seen a reason to change it.) T

Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue

2012-07-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:50:53AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > [cut] > What test can I code in Bash to determine that there is no disk > mounted at this mount point? I'm thinking of testing for the > presence of the file lost+found, but is there something better? Two points. 1. See if "man mou

Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:50:53 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: (...) > What test can I code in Bash to determine that there is no disk mounted > at this mount point? I'm thinking of testing for the presence of the > file lost+found, but is there something better? Check if any of these tips help: http

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 04:40:46AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Raffaele Morelli > wrote: > > > Have a try with ALSA+Jack (qjackctl gui) and use vlc phonon backend for KDE4 > > (gstreamer backend really sucks IMHO). > > Phonon is currently set up for vlc. > >

Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue

2012-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:50:53AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Debian already provides an email facility that allows cron scripts to > email me with error messages. I need a way to test in Bash whether, or > not, there actually is a disk mounted at /media/wdp8. > > What test can I code in Ba

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:48:49PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:42:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:34:26PM +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> I have some questions about starting daemons in a chroot environment or > >> rather about starting schroot o

Re: (Almost done!) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 14:26:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:45:37 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > What you are being shown is a list of processes which are still being > > run. It does not imply sendsigs was unable to kill all of them. If you > > look at the screen output you will se

[Solved] Re: Suspend to RAM fails in Debian Wheezy 64 bits

2012-07-20 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Switched to Nouveau. There are visual glitches and the fan is always on (slowest RPM though) but I can stop and recover my desktop at will. Cheers Le vendredi 20 juillet 2012 à 17:45 +0200, Gaël DONVAL a écrit : > > > 3) DE > > > Typical Gnome 3.4 install. > > > > > > > I'm having the same probl

modifying template xorg.conf file to change monitor resolution

2012-07-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I am trying to fix my monitor screen resolution. I made a template xorg.conf file by running the gdm3 stop command and then did something like crtl alt f1 and got a terminal prompt and logged in as root and did /usr/bin/Xorg -configure and a new xorg.conf file was created in /root. H

Re: Suspend to RAM fails in Debian Wheezy 64 bits

2012-07-20 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:45:15 +0200 Gaël DONVAL napísal: > > I'm having the same problem with nvidia drivers, but KDE4. > > I guess Nvidia is once again the one to blame … As i wrote early, i has similar problem some days ago. I have the nvidia too, with driver from testing repos. But afte

Re: [Solved] Re: Suspend to RAM fails in Debian Wheezy 64 bits

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:34:35 +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: > Le vendredi 20 juillet 2012 à 17:45 +0200, Gaël DONVAL a écrit : >> > > 3) DE >> > > Typical Gnome 3.4 install. >> > > >> > > >> > I'm having the same problem with nvidia drivers, but KDE4. >> >> I guess Nvidia is once again the one to blam

python-mpltoolkits.basemap issue with continental Europe shorelines

2012-07-20 Thread Anxo
Dear users, The function drawcoastlines() from basemap doesn't draw shorelines for continental Europe (Spain, France...) if urcrnlat parameter is set lower than 65 degrees. The function fillcontinents() has the same behaviour. However, drawcountries() run as it is expected and draw country bounda

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 20. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:32:26 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > >> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:29:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:57 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> >> aRts was ESD'

Re: (Solved) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:33:26 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 14:26:38 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Well, I have found a cron task that runs this thingy every 10 minutes >> (?), I wonder if that's the expected but for sure it was not me who put >> that task in place :-? > > If only for i

Re: WHEEZY

2012-07-20 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 20 July 2012 16:36, Camaleón wrote: > > i have recently upgraded to wheezy and when i try to take a > screen shot by pressing (print screen/ctl+print screen), a flash > appears on the monitor.I tried installing gnome utils but i see that > they are already up to date.Do i need to install an

Re: (Solved) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 17:07:41 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:33:26 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 14:26:38 +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Well, I have found a cron task that runs this thingy every 10 minutes > >> (?), I wonder if that's the expected but for sure

Re: WHEEZY

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:19:12 +0200, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On 20 July 2012 16:36, Camaleón wrote: (...) Hey, careful with quotes when replying ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: modifying template xorg.conf file to change monitor resolution

2012-07-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 20 iul 12, 17:41:59, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > It's quite a while since I edited an xorg.conf file.The resolution > is too low at present - I think I am running at 800 x 600 > > I ran xrandr (which is a bit magical and mystical to me at present) > > mikef@Vigor15:~$ xrandr > xrand

Re: modifying template xorg.conf file to change monitor resolution

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 17:41:59 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I have two dumb questions: > > 1. Where do I enter the 1440 x900 resolution into the xorg.conf file? By and large there should be no need for an xorg.conf file as the card should autodetected and everything configured from what i

Re: (Solved) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:19:45 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 20 Jul 2012 at 17:07:41 +, Camaleón wrote: >> > If only for its debugging technique you might want to look at >> > >> >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548863 >> > >> > Also, you could use chmod 644 on gnome-pty-h

Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue

2012-07-20 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 09:50 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I need a way to test in Bash whether, or > not, there actually is a disk mounted at /media/wdp8. A bit hacky, but what I do in my backup scripts is... if mount | grep -q " /media/wdp8 " then ... fi -- Tixy -- To UNSU

Re: WHEEZY

2012-07-20 Thread Wayne Topa
On 07/20/2012 12:33 AM, vykuntam srinivas wrote: hi all,i have upgraded to wheezy.Its looking awesome and nice gdm.Actually i have alloted 10GB of disk space to debian,when i do upgrade it's showing only 644MB free space.How much disk space wheezy takes? or do i have any backup files on my f

Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue

2012-07-20 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 07:04:35PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 09:50 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I need a way to test in Bash whether, or > > not, there actually is a disk mounted at /media/wdp8. > > A bit hacky, but what I do in my backup scripts is... > >if mount | grep

dump - restore

2012-07-20 Thread Mostafa Hashemi
hi guys thank you all for your answers to my last questions. i found how dump - restore works. but i have question : i did this : dump -0aj -f /tmp/1.bak

Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue SOLVED: mountpoint

2012-07-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120720_122714, Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:50:53AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > Debian already provides an email facility that allows cron scripts to > > email me with error messages. I need a way to test in Bash whether, or > > not, there actually is a disk mounted a

Re: cron & file permissions

2012-07-20 Thread Mike McClain
Hi Bob, On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:32:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Mike McClain wrote: > > I've a cron job run daily from /etc/crontab, > > Instead of using the BSD-style interface let me strongly encourage you > to start using the newer Vixie-cron-style interface of /etc/cron.d/ > where t

dump - restore

2012-07-20 Thread Mostafa Hashemi
sorry because of last message, coincidentally i pressed send key the complete message is : hi guys thank you all for your answers to my last questions. i found how dump - restore works. but i have question : i did this : dump -0aj -f /tmp/1.bak / in order to run a dump to back up the whole

Re: cron & file permissions

2012-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike McClain wrote: > ... and haven't seen any way to get files in /etc/cron.d/ run at > specific times. The format of the /etc/cron.d/ files is the same format as the /etc/crontab. Whatever lines you would put into /etc/crontab you would simply put into a file in /etc/cron.d instead. No differe

Re: WHEEZY

2012-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Wayne Topa wrote: > vykuntam srinivas wrote: > > hi all,i have upgraded to wheezy.Its looking awesome and nice > > gdm.Actually i have alloted 10GB of disk space to debian,when i do > > upgrade it's showing only 644MB free space.How much disk space wheezy > > takes? or do i have any backup files

Re: cron & file permissions

2012-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > # Run mylocalscript every hour. > 0 17 * * * root /usr/local/bin/mylocalscript That is what I get for constructing an example in a rush. Obviously that comment doesn't match. Oh well. You get the idea. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dump - restore

2012-07-20 Thread Dom
On 20/07/12 19:50, Mostafa Hashemi wrote: sorry because of last message, coincidentally i pressed send key the complete message is : hi guys thank you all for your answers to my last questions. i found how dump - restore works. but i have question : i did this : dump -0aj -f /tmp/1.bak /

making a curve move in Xlib

2012-07-20 Thread Mike Fontenot
I've successfully written a lot of C programs over the years using Xlib, for displaying a (static) plot of various curves I'm studying. But for the first time, I needed to make one of those curves (plotted wrt position x, say) move with time t (like a wave propagating in the direction x, wit

Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue

2012-07-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
Paul E. Condon [2012-07-20 09:50:53 -0600] wrote: > I need a way to test in Bash whether, or not, there actually is a disk > mounted at /media/wdp8. #!/bin/sh if mountpoint -q /media/wdp8; then echo Mounted else echo Not mounted fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically

2012-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
First I should say that schroot appears to have a lot more functionality than I previously realized. I had thought it was just a fancy suid chroot similar to 'dchroot' adding a security layer around chroot(2). But it looks like it can do much more including building chroots on the fly and other r

Re: cron & file permissions

2012-07-20 Thread Mike McClain
Hi Bob, OK I'll try it but have a question. On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 01:28:04PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Mike McClain wrote: > > ... and haven't seen any way to get files in /etc/cron.d/ run at > > specific times. > > The format of the /etc/cron.d/ files is the same format as the > /etc/cro

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Darren Baginski
20.07.2012, 12:11, "Alberto Luaces" : > > You can also try the http://http.debian.net/ redirector for not having > to select manually the best mirror.  See the webpage for instructions. > Don't try that misconception, use netselect or pick mirror manually. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: cron & file permissions

2012-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike McClain wrote: > man cron says: > 'In general, the admin should not use /etc/cron.d/, but use the > standard system crontab /etc/crontab.' I can only most strongly disagree with that sentiment! :-) I hadn't ever seen that message before. Considering the fact that Paul Vixie hasn't release

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:26:37 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:08:58 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Jo, 19 iul 12, 01:17:49, Doug wrote: > > > > > > > > Sorry for the bandwidth, but I think the Linux

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 21 Jul 2012 at 00:25:34 +0400, Darren Baginski wrote: > > > 20.07.2012, 12:11, "Alberto Luaces" : > > > > You can also try the http://http.debian.net/ redirector for not having > > to select manually the best mirror.  See the webpage for instructions. > > > > Don't try that misconception

Re: Re: Re: Re: Cannot connect to debian repo servers after install

2012-07-20 Thread macondo
macondo:$ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by dhcpcd from eth0 domain cpe.cableonda.net nameserver 200.75.200.3 nameserver 200.75.200.2 # /etc/resolv.conf.tail can replace this line ping: unknown host ftp.debian.org W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/ debian/dists/wheezy/InRelease Could

Re: Re: Re: Re: Cannot connect to debian repo servers after install

2012-07-20 Thread macondo
# cat /etc/resolv.conf search cpe.cableonda.net nameserver 200.75.200.2 nameserver 200.75.200.3 This is the actual resolv.conf for the debian partition, the other is from the linux partition i'm writing from, sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Re: Re: Re: Cannot connect to debian repo servers after install

2012-07-20 Thread Bob Proulx
macondo wrote: > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > search cpe.cableonda.net > nameserver 200.75.200.2 > nameserver 200.75.200.3 > ping: unknown host ftp.debian.org It really looks like something in your dns resolver system is broken. There are several pieces of it. All must work. But it is unusual for t

Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

2012-07-20 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:31:09PM +, Camale??n wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:31:08 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > (...) > > > But scanimage --list-devices only show my notebook camera. The notebook > > is a Lenovo T410. My kernel is recent 3.2 stock kernel. > > > > Any ideas what to try? >

Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-20 Thread L V Gandhi
I have already installed windows xp and squeezei386 with grub in MBR. I would like install squeeze amd64 in other partition for multi boot. If I install grub in MBR while installing squeezeamd64, then how do I boot squeezei386 as its boot info is not in its partition boot sector. How should I go a

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-20 Thread Shane Johnson
The os-prober program will find the different OS's on the separate partitions or Volumes and add them to grub.cfg when you run the update-grub command or the OS runs it. I have yet to see it not find them and add them(it usually adds ones you don't necessarily don't want like restore partitions.)

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-20 Thread Shane Johnson
Please make sure to reply-all on your responses so they hit the list. I have included it in the CC for this message. Thanks Shane On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:33 PM, vykuntam srinivas < vykuntamsrini...@gmail.com> wrote: > this may help you: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair > > On

Re: dump - restore

2012-07-20 Thread Mostafa Hashemi
Thank you what should i do ? did i do it in the right way in order to run a dump to backup the whole system

Re: Bad pagetable: 000d [#2] SMP. Is this a kernel problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Morning Star
Thanks, Camaleón. I would try to do both of them and make a comparison later. Regard, Marco On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:27:59 -0700, Morning Star wrote: > > > I have some frequently problem when run some applications using Debian > > 6.0.5-amd64.

Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

2012-07-20 Thread Dom
On 21/07/12 02:20, Joel Roth wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:31:09PM +, Camale??n wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:31:08 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: (...) But scanimage --list-devices only show my notebook camera. The notebook is a Lenovo T410. My kernel is recent 3.2 stock kernel. Any ideas

HOW do i RESTORE the default permissions of a DIRECTORY

2012-07-20 Thread vykuntam srinivas
hi all,i have set some permissions to directory as : * #chown -R user:www-data /var/www/ipplan #chmod -R 750 /var/www/ipplan i want to undo the above operation or restore back the default permissions for /var/www/ipplan. Do i have any way to do this? *