Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-14 Thread Aidan Gauland
Michael Biebl writes: > On 14.12.2012 05:06, Aidan Gauland wrote: >> How can I fix this? Given that HAL is deprecated, I suspect there is >> some other tool that serves the same purpose as pmount-hal that I should >> be using instead. > > yeah, hal is dead. > You might try "udisks --mount" instea

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 13 dec 12, 20:25:05, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > My sources list entry is: > deb http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates main contrib non-free > > As you see, no slash. Aptitude put the slash in. > > But this is no

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 13 dec 12, 22:59:30, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 12/13/2012 01:51 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Mi, 12 dec 12, 23:03:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >>Citrix is the holdback requiring me to have ia32-libs installed. > >Take the i386 package instead ;) > > > Wont that need the 32-bit libraries as we

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-14 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello all, just a rather minor nitpick amidst fine explanations: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:21:56AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [...] > Compare 'apt-cache depends ia32-libs-i386' with the dependencies of the > i386 package. > > The new ia32-libs (transition package) indirectly (via ia32-libs

Re: SOLVED was: Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Lisi Reisz [121214 09:16]: > On Wednesday 12 December 2012 21:43:38 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > For about the last half hour, I have been getting the following errors when > > trying first to install, then to repair, amarok-trinity: ... > It says: > org/ squeeze > where it should say > org/squeeze >

Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread phi debian
Hi All, The all thing that make me stay away from suse, ubuntu, mint, name it... is gnome3. I am an happy camper since linge with debian way of gnome2. My needs are very basic, i.e remove everything, keep only 1 panel that I want vertical on and the right, and have the gnome click tools (gparted,

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 12/14/2012 11:35 AM, phi debian wrote: > Hi All, > > The all thing that make me stay away from suse, ubuntu, mint, name it... > is gnome3. I am an happy camper since linge with debian way of gnome2. > > My needs are very basic, i.e remove everything, keep only 1 panel that I > want vertical on

Re: Problem With exim4 smtp authenication

2012-12-14 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George wrote: > I have edited passwd and entered server:user:password exactly as > described in exim4_passwd_client and run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. > When I try to send mail using exim4 and then tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog > I find authenication has failed. > 2012-12-03 11:09

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 13 dec 12, 07:29:12, Richard Owlett wrote: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt [among several other examples] in part gives # Keyboard selection. #d-i console-tools/archs select at d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us d-i keyboard-configur

Re: SOLVED was: Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 14 December 2012 09:56:29 Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Lisi Reisz [121214 09:16]: > > On Wednesday 12 December 2012 21:43:38 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > For about the last half hour, I have been getting the following errors > > > when trying first to install, then to repair, amarok-trinity:

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote: On Thu 13 Dec 2012 at 07:29:12 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: When I use it in my preseed.cfg I get an error message. ERROR MESSAGE TITLE --- Configuring keyboard-configuration ERROR MESSAGE TEXT --- Please select the layout matching the keyboard for this machine. I

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 14 December 2012 09:06:54 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 13 dec 12, 20:25:05, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > My sources list entry is: > > deb http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates main contrib non-free > > deb-src http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates main contrib non-free > > > > As yo

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 dec 12, 05:39:56, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I think I see a common thread in the preseed related problems I've > been having. > Who proofreads the Debian documentation? I suspect it tends to be > the author {as should happen} and other Debian *EXPERTS* {which is a > too narrow classifica

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2012 09:06:54 Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Jo, 13 dec 12, 20:25:05, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> >>> My sources list entry is: >>> deb http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates main contrib non-free >>> deb-src http://security.deb

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 14 December 2012 00:40:32 Glenn English wrote: > On Dec 13, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 13 December 2012 22:26:32 Tom H wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> On Thursday 13 December 2012 16:59:57 Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 dec 12, 11:47:10, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2012 09:06:54 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 13 dec 12, 20:25:05, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > My sources list entry is: > > > deb http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates main contrib non-free > > > deb-src http://security.debian

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 11:35 +0100, phi debian wrote: > Hi All, > > The all thing that make me stay away from suse, ubuntu, mint, name > it... is gnome3. I am an happy camper since linge with debian way of > gnome2. > > My needs are very basic, i.e remove everything, keep only 1 panel that > I wan

Re: 404 errors with Squeeze security

2012-12-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 14 December 2012 11:52:46 Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 14 December 2012 09:06:54 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Jo, 13 dec 12, 20:25:05, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> My sources list entry is: > >>> deb http://security.debian.org/squeeze/update

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Hi Richard On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:39:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm following the example preseed.cfg given at http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/example-preseed.txt . It gives no detailed information on correct usage of d-i pkgsel/include string ...

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 11:57 +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > Hi, > > just search in the list, I've seen a couple of discussions already. > > to cut the long story short: > > Yes, Gnome3 will be in Wheezy instead of Gnome2. > > close alternatives: > Xfce - worth a try, > Mate - the fork of gno

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:35:59AM +0100, phi debian wrote: > So my question, does next release of debian will be poluted with gnome3, > are will we have a choice? Even a dangled gnome2 would be good for me. GNOME2 will be gone, GNOME3 will be present, and the fallback mode has been renamed "GNOME

Re: USB 3 card

2012-12-14 Thread Shane Johnson
One thing I have noticed with all the cards I have used, if the HD's I attach have the same id in lsusb then only one at a time will work and I have to move the other to another controller. Shane On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Tyler D wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Nelson Green >

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:40:03PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:35:59AM +0100, phi debian wrote: > > So my question, does next release of debian will be poluted with gnome3, > > are will we have a choice? Even a dangled gnome2 would be good for me. > > GNOME2 will be gone

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Bob Proulx wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us In Wheezy they changed these to different strings. It caught me too. See Bug#693493. In Wheezy instead of "console-keymaps-at/keymap" use "keymap select us". d-

Proofreading of Debian documentation - was [Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue]

2012-12-14 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 dec 12, 05:39:56, Richard Owlett wrote: I think I see a common thread in the preseed related problems I've been having. Who proofreads the Debian documentation? I suspect it tends to be the author {as should happen} and other Debian *EXPERTS* {which is a too narr

HS bookmarks iceweasel_firefox dans db mysql

2012-12-14 Thread maderios
Bonjour C'est un rêve ancien, un peu désespéré mais tant pis... Je cherche un moyen de remplacer sqlite par mysql pour stocker et utiliser les signets de firefox. Pourquoi donc ? Parce que sqlite rame quand il y a beaucoup de données/signets, c'est mon cas Parce que mysql est plus rapide que sql

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/13/2012 11:42 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:59:30 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: Hello Marc, Wont that need the 32-bit libraries as well? What would be the advantage. ia32 installs *all* the i386 libs, whether you need them or not, multiarch means you only have to install t

Re: HS bookmarks iceweasel_firefox dans db mysql

2012-12-14 Thread maderios
On 12/14/2012 04:04 PM, Thore wrote: Am 14.12.2012 16:02, schrieb maderios: Bonjour C'est un rêve ancien, un peu désespéré mais tant pis... Je cherche un moyen de remplacer sqlite par mysql pour stocker et utiliser les signets de firefox. Pourquoi donc ? Parce que sqlite rame quand il y a beauco

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
phi debian wrote: Hi All, The all thing that make me stay away from suse, ubuntu, mint, name it... is gnome3. I am an happy camper since linge with debian way of gnome2. My needs are very basic, i.e remove everything, keep only 1 panel that I want vertical on and the right, and have the gnom

Is plugin-containe the problem?

2012-12-14 Thread Thomas H. George
When I run top -i and kill the pid of plugin-containe this temporarily restores the normal operation of iceape, that is paging and scrolling response is immediate again rather than delayed by as much as 30 seconds. This is obviously not the right way to fix the problem. Is there a permanet soluti

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.12.2012 10:00, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Michael Biebl writes: >> On 14.12.2012 05:06, Aidan Gauland wrote: >>> How can I fix this? Given that HAL is deprecated, I suspect there is >>> some other tool that serves the same purpose as pmount-hal that I should >>> be using instead. >> >> yeah, ha

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 14.12.2012 17:12, Michael Biebl wrote: > Try "gvfs-mount -d /dev/foo". This should prompt you for the passphrase, > unlock and mount the file system under /media/FS_LABEL Just in case: If you run that command from a session which has no running dbus session bus, change that command to: "dbus-l

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:18:18 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: Hello Marc, >Right! I'm still running Squeeze, however. Mutiarch is just for >Wheezy and up IIRC. When Wheezy goes Stable, I will enable mutiarch Correct: Wheezy and up. >and do it that way. That certainly seems like the way to go. Si

Re: pmount-hal not using labels on encrypted filesystems

2012-12-14 Thread Aidan Gauland
Michael Biebl writes: > udisks-daemon does handle luks/cryptsetup encrypted partitions but it > seems the udisks command line tool is too limited. > > Try "gvfs-mount -d /dev/foo". This should prompt you for the passphrase, > unlock and mount the file system under /media/FS_LABEL > > Can be unmoun

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread phi debian
Thanx all for your pointers, I will start to investigate, but that move is painfull,I worked for so long withtout any trouble. I'd liked to be able to install guests debian real quik and still have a practicable few click setup. May be I can adapt to g3, be what I got so far on ubuntu/mint/opens

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 06:42:50PM +0100, phi debian wrote: > The thing about gnome (I coulfd have a minimal wm otherwise) is that I > depend (depended?) on having a lot of click click prog, because I am a > newbee, I can resize some disc partition with gparted, I can't with parted, > well I can bu

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Dec 2012 at 05:40:25 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > >You fail to say which distribution you are using and which preseeding > >method is employed. > > See first line of my post. I saw it the first time. All it tells us is that you have read some Squeeze documentation.

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Dec 2012 at 22:15:44 +, Brian wrote: > The configuring the keyboard question is not shown when I use > >auto=true priority=critical file=/mnt/preseed.cfg I regretted writing this response almost immediately after sending it. Not that it is incorrect but is it almost as content

Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue

2012-12-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Owlett wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Richard Owlett wrote: > >>d-i console-keymaps-at/keymap select us > >>d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us > > > >In Wheezy they changed these to different strings. It caught me too. > >See Bug#693493. In Wheezy instead of "console-keymaps-a

Re: Slow network performance with KVM

2012-12-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Katynski, Bogdan wrote: > I noticed a rather poor network guest-guest performance. Have you loaded the vhost-net kernel module? It is a huge lever for network performance. What is the output: $ lsmod | grep vhost_net Here are a couple of references: http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/how-m

Re: Need detialed info on preseeding

2012-12-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Owlett wrote: > Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > >Does this helps? > > No :( > Those only tell me the commands exist. > I need to know what constraints exist for using them. On the topic of pkgsel/include: Here is an example from my preseed configuration: d-i pkgsel/include string dnsuti

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Roger Leigh wrote: > This is an area which could use quite a bit of work. Unfortunately, > as you point out there isn't a single place to fix things--it > touches a whole host of packages, from the initramfs to the > initscripts, to udev and networking. It does touch many things. The configurati

Idle TCP connections freeze

2012-12-14 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hi, I'm having trouble with an internet connection that seems to randomly "freeze" arbitrary tcp connections when they have not been used for a while. The connections stay established, but no data is coming through. When this happens, netstat still shows the connection status as `ESTABLISHED` on

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/14/2012 05:30 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:40:03PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:35:59AM +0100, phi debian wrote: So my question, does next release of debian will be poluted with gnome3, are will we have a choice? Even a dangled gnome2 would be go

Re: How recover from aborted dist-upgrade Stable to Testing (due to apt-listbug bug 585448)

2012-12-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 03:12:25PM -0600, nv wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:49:53 +0200 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Hope this helps, > > Andrei > > tl;dr: Is it recommended that I use apt-pinning to upgrade some packages to Weird, considering yours was the long post and not Andrei's http:

Re: Proofreading of Debian documentation - was [Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue]

2012-12-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 07:50:29AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I see a bug report as treating an individual symptom rather than > solving the underlying problem. So just leave it for someone else to suffer through as well? You could treat "the underlying problem." as a different bug, and of