Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20131104_105718, Itay wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:16:02 +0200 (IST) Itay wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: [...] Is there anything suspicious in the root mailbox? root mail box has daily messages like th

Re: can't find pae kernel after a new install

On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Jochen Spieker wrote: You do not need PAE with an AMD64 installation and your 64 Bit system will not boot using a 32 Bit kernel. If you really, really want to have a 686-PAE kernel then you need to enable multiarch. hi Jochan, thanks for your comments. I wanted to fini

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:18:42AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20131104_105718, Itay wrote: root mail box has daily messages like this starting at june 2010 (yes, I know, bad me) A lot has changed since I was skilled at Debian install, but I remem

Kernel panic - 2.6.32, tcp_keepalive_timer

Good day! I am getting kernel panic with the kernel version 2.6.32 - call trace is available here: http://i.imgur.com/kHfhRy9.jpg Is there any ideas how to deal with this? Thank you! -- Vladimir Zagaychuk (VZ485-RIPE)

Debian on thecus N2560

With energy prices here in the UK spiraling ever upwards it's time I changed my home NAS hardware to something a little less power hungry. After some random searching I came across the Thecus N2560 http://www.thecus.com/product.php?PROD_ID=96 and was wondering how hard it would be to get debian

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

Jude DaShiell wrote: The apt-cd package may help here. I don't find "apt-cd". Do you mean "apt-cdrom" which "is used to add a new CD-ROM to APT's list of available sources." I am NOT using the CDs/DVDs themselves. I have copied the contents to a hard disk partition for speed and convenience -

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

Yes, I meant apt-cdrom, actually what you're wanting to do is to make a local mirror of a repository. On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Richard Owlett wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > The apt-cd package may help here. > > I don't find "apt-cd". Do you mean "apt-cdrom" which "is used to add a new > CD-ROM to

Debian on thecus N2560

With energy prices here in the UK spiraling ever upwards it's time I changed my home NAS hardware to something a little less power hungry. After some random searching I came across the Thecus N2560 http://www.thecus.com/product.php?PROD_ID=96 and was wondering how hard it would be to get debian

Re: Kernel panic - 2.6.32, tcp_keepalive_timer

Hi On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:39:42PM +0200, Vladimir Zagaychuk wrote: > Good day! > > I am getting kernel panic with the kernel version 2.6.32 - call trace is > available here: > http://i.imgur.com/kHfhRy9.jpg > > Is there any ideas how to deal with this? > Thank you! Not really - to make sens

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On 5 November 2013 02:30, Tazman Deville wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:43:45PM -0500, Hecber Cordova wrote: >>Hi, >> >>Did you check inodes usage? (df -i) >> >>I could be inodes availability rather than block availability. [...] > I have no idea what the significance of this is,

not your regular ipv4/ipv6 dns issue

Hi all, We are seeing strange delays in dns resolving with apt-get and wget. Tried various public dns servers (for example google dns, opendns) I used tcpdump to see what actually happens, and we found out that apt-get makes two requests for security.debian.org: standard query A and standard q

Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

I tried to ask this in another thread. But I raised too many question in one post. I do not have high speed internet. Therefore I purchase complete DVD sets. I am doing multiple clean installs to determine my "optimum" solution. Shuffling DVDs became a pain. I set aside a partition for myown

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

Jude DaShiell wrote: Yes, I meant apt-cdrom, actually what you're wanting to do is to make a local mirror of a repository. Yes. Devil is in the details ;/ On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Richard Owlett wrote: Jude DaShiell wrote: The apt-cd package may help here. I don't find "apt-cd". Do you mean

Re: can't find pae kernel after a new install

Pierre Frenkiel: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > What remains unexplained is that I had the 3.10-3-686-pae kernel > on my old install, and I never enabled multiarch (At that time, I even ignored > this possibility).Is there an other explanation than Alzheimer? None that I am awa

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

Le 05.11.2013 15:32, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:10:31PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: As simple Debian users, we indeed do not mind about portability stuff. But for Debian's maintainers, using systemd as default means that they'll have to maintain other

Disable gjs-console

Hi, Some times the program gjs-console from gnome3 takes 100% of my CPU. That is quite annoying. I have no idea what gjs-console does. I have disabled the gnome tracker from the start-up applications. Does anybody have an idea of how to disable gjs-console? What is the purpose of that program/dae

Fwd: Cron [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -ignore_readdir_race -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetim

I recently did a dist-upgrede from squeezy to wheezy, and all went -apparently- well. I'm now getting the following message from cron at half-hourly intervals. No big deal, but I'd rather not. I think php5 has now abandoned suhosin in favour of its own improvements, so how do I get rid of the mes

Re: mdadm messages

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:08 PM, François Patte wrote: > Le 04/11/2013 19:01, Tom H a écrit : >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:57 AM, François Patte >> wrote: >>> Le 04/11/2013 11:28, Holger Stein a écrit : Am 04.11.2013 09:28, schrieb François Patte: > I have these messages from mdadm: >>

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Richard Owlett >> wrote: >>> >>> When using gunzip I got an unexpected result. The result of "gunzip >>> myfile.gz" was a single file named "myfile". What I expected/desired >>> was to have tw

Re: Fwd: Cron [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -ignore_readdir_race -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlif

Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I recently did a dist-upgrede from squeezy to wheezy, and all went > -apparently- well. > I'm now getting the following message from cron at half-hourly > intervals. No big deal, but I'd rather not. > I think php5 has now abandoned suhosin in favour of its own > impro

Booting netinst via PXE

Hello *, I've followed this guide [1] and now I have my PXE server up and running, however that guide doesn't tell how to configure tftp-hpa menus for Debian, let alone the netinst version. This other guide [2] tell something about Lenny, but I couldn't find the debian-installer folder in the

Re: Booting netinst via PXE [more or less SOLVED]

In data mercoledì 6 novembre 2013 16:09:42, Lucio Crusca ha scritto: > What am I doing wrong? I still don't know what, but switching to the minimal ISO (mini.iso) instead of the one with the debian installer bundled did the trick. That suggests me that the same problem would show up with Ubuntu

Re: Fwd: Cron [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -ignore_readdir_race -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlif

On 06/11/13 14:39, Sven Hartge wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > I recommend to run "aptitude purge ~c" after a dist-upgrade to get rid > of all removed but still un-purged packages. > > ~c matches all removed, but still configured packages. Purging them > removes the left-over cruft, such

Re: mdadm messages

Le 06/11/2013 15:29, Tom H a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:08 PM, François Patte > wrote: >> Le 04/11/2013 19:01, Tom H a écrit : >>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:57 AM, François Patte >>> wrote: Le 04/11/2013 11:28, Holger Stein a écrit : > Am 04.11.2013 09:28, schrieb François Patte

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 07:44:18 AM Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > This is a bit off main topic, but definitely 'on' for this list. Lets > imagine a scenario there is nothing to delete on the troublesome > partition, but there is another disk. What would be the best tool to > move data to

Re: Disable gjs-console

Hi. On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 15:16:55 +0100 Dan wrote: > Hi, > > Some times the program gjs-console from gnome3 takes 100% of my CPU. > That is quite annoying. I have no idea what gjs-console does. I have > disabled the gnome tracker from the start-up applications. This seems to be a variation of h

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On 6 November 2013 13:43, Neal Murphy wrote: > Assuming the problem is /var/log is part of the root filesystem and is crammed > with millions of files. Assume other drive is /dev/sdb. The general process is > as follows. > > 1. Reboot to single-user > 2. Add partition #1 to /dev/sdb > 3. 'mkreiser

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 11:43:09AM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > 3. 'mkreiserfs /dev/sdb1' # to avoid the whole issue of inodes Before opting for ReiserFS (version 3), users would be advised to do some reading on the current level of support it attracts in the kernel, and possibly seek out some fil

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

Neal Murphy wrote: > 3. 'mkreiserfs /dev/sdb1' # to avoid the whole issue of inodes Really? ReiserFS 3 is dead, IMHO and ReiserFS 4 was never included in any vanilla kernel. I'd suggest XFS or a properly configured ext4. Sure, ext4 has a fixed set of inodes, but properly configured and sized

Re: Disable gjs-console

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 15:16:55 +0100 > Dan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Some times the program gjs-console from gnome3 takes 100% of my CPU. >> That is quite annoying. I have no idea what gjs-console does. I have >> disabled the gnome tracker from the

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 12:11:33 PM Beco wrote: > On 6 November 2013 13:43, Neal Murphy wrote: > > Assuming the problem is /var/log is part of the root filesystem and is > > crammed with millions of files. Assume other drive is /dev/sdb. The > > general process is as follows. > > > > 1. R

Compiling kernel: problem!

Hi all I try compiling kernel 3.10 on Squeeze 6.0.7. with cpu Intel Centrino1 32bit. Unpack source in /usr/src, and: adduser user src chown -R root:src /usr/src chmod -R g+w /usr/src cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config make menuconfig, but don't change any! make deb-pkg After finishid

Re: Disable gjs-console

On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 18:41:46 +0100 Dan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Reco wrote: > Thanks a lot, > > I do not understand your command dpkg-statoverride --update --remove > /usr/bin/gjs-console This asks ask dpkg to do two things: a) Remove executable bit from /usr/bin/gjs-console f

Re: mdadm messages

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:36 PM, François Patte wrote: > Le 06/11/2013 15:29, Tom H a écrit : >> lsinitramfs /boot/initrd... | grep ... > > sbin/mdadm > conf/mdadm > etc/mdadm > etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf > scripts/local-top/mdadm I would've grepped for "rules" too since the problem might be that the

Re: Booting netinst via PXE

Lucio Crusca wrote: > I've followed this guide [1] and now I have my PXE server up and > running, however that guide doesn't tell how to configure tftp-hpa > menus for Debian, let alone the netinst version. > [1]. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PXEInstallMultiDistro Note that the guide above do

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

Ken Heard wrote: > In a new box where the Wheezy OS will be freshly installed I want to > install all the packages which I presently have in a box with Squeeze. This is a question that appears on the list every so often. People want to be able to do this. But unfortunately it isn't easy to do we

mounting my USB RAM Stick

Hi List, I got a strange behavior with my laptop. When I insert a USB stick, it mounts but belongs to root. If I plug it in my desktop, it mounts with my user. Two Jessie systems kernel 3.10 Gnome3. And my user get plugdev group. Any suggestions ? -- Jean-Marc pgpDOo646WVF4.pgp Description

How to deal with Xresources

I have been fooling around with xclock (under Icewm) but now have a question- is it possible to prevent the window manager from applying its' decorations to xclock? I had a look at editres but was unable to find anything corresponding to a resource that might prevent decorations. Thanks -- To U

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > Instead it would make more sense to install a fresh Wheezy system and > > then install the top level packages you require. I would normally do this. I would set up a new machine. Then manually put in the work to move each task over from the old t

Re: mdadm messages

François Patte wrote: > I have these messages from mdadm: > > mdadm: cannot open /dev/md/4: No such file or directory > /dev/md/4 : > mdadm: cannot open /dev/md/5: No such file or directory > /dev/md/5 : > > Of course I haven't these directories, I have /dev/md[0-5] instead. Why > does mdadm i

Re: mdadm messages

Le 06/11/2013 21:27, Tom H a écrit : > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:36 PM, François Patte > wrote: >> Le 06/11/2013 15:29, Tom H a écrit : > > >>> lsinitramfs /boot/initrd... | grep ... >> >> sbin/mdadm >> conf/mdadm >> etc/mdadm >> etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf >> scripts/local-top/mdadm > > I would've gre

Re: mdadm messages

Le 06/11/2013 22:50, Bob Proulx a écrit : > François Patte wrote: >> I have these messages from mdadm: >> >> mdadm: cannot open /dev/md/4: No such file or directory >> /dev/md/4 : >> mdadm: cannot open /dev/md/5: No such file or directory >> /dev/md/5 : >> >> Of course I haven't these directorie

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

On 11/6/2013 4:49 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Jerry Stuckle wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: Instead it would make more sense to install a fresh Wheezy system and then install the top level packages you require. I would normally do this. I would set up a new machine. Then manually put in the work to

Re: How to deal with Xresources

Frank McCormick wrote: >I have been fooling around with xclock (under Icewm) but >now have a question- is it possible to prevent the window manager from >applying its' decorations to xclock? I had a look at editres but >was unable to find anything corresponding to a resource that might >prevent

Re: Compiling kernel: problem!

On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:07:58 -0500 (EST), Antispammbox-debian wrote: > > Hi all > > I try compiling kernel 3.10 on Squeeze 6.0.7. with cpu > Intel Centrino1 32bit. > > Unpack source in /usr/src, and: > adduser user src > chown -R root:src /usr/src > chmod -R g+w /usr/src > > cp /boot/config-`

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: >> >> In a new box where the Wheezy OS will be freshly installed I want to >> install all the packages which I presently have in a box with Squeeze. > > This is a question that appears on the list every so often. People > want to

Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett wrote: > I purchase complete DVD sets. > I am doing multiple clean installs to determine my "optimum" > solution. > Shuffling DVDs became a pain. I set aside a partition for myown > repository. > I copied the /dists and /pool directories from all DVDs in the > distributi

Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 07:11:24 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I purchase complete DVD sets. > > I am doing multiple clean installs to determine my "optimum" > > solution. > > Shuffling DVDs became a pain. I set aside a partition for myown > > repository

Re: How to deal with Xresources

On 06/11/13 05:24 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I have been fooling around with xclock (under Icewm) but now have a question- is it possible to prevent the window manager from applying its' decorations to xclock? I had a look at editres but was unable to find anything corre

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:51:26 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: ... > Food for thought: your /dev/sda7 is an EXT filesystem of 26GB with 1.7M > inodes. XFS would give you ~23M inodes on a 26GB filesystem. An ext[2-4] filesystem can be created with any desired number inodes by invoking 'mkfs.ext[2-4]

Re: NVIDIA Problem?

  If you don't have an NVIDIA graphics card, then remove the nvidia packages: * glx-alternative-nvidia * nvidia-driver * libgl1-nvidia-glx and instead, install libgl1-mesa-glx. This should allow your INTEL card to do the 3D acceleration. Darac - Thanks. I checked, no Nvidia device. Did a

Re: free-software phone: neo900

green writes: > Something that might be of interest to Debian users: the neo900, at > , is intended to be a successor of the Nokia N900, > with significantly improved specifications and features, as well as > full free software support (excluding PowerVR 3D acceleration). It i

configure gnome help page

Hi All, I had MINT LMDE installed on my PC but moved back to Debian Testing. I did not do a clean reinstall but simply changed the repositories and the pinning. If I start the Help function now in a gnome terminal or nautilus - either via F1 or "Help" menu - the system still opens the MINT URL

Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

Neal Murphy wrote: > I've been following this for a while. How hard would it be to create a local > web site that mirrors the essential parts of, say, ftp.us.debian.org? Then > tell net install to load from that host. Would the net install then function > as expected (albeit somewhat quicker)?

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >>Chris Bannister wrote: > >>>Instead it would make more sense to install a fresh Wheezy system and > >>>then install the top level packages you require. > > > >I would normally do this. I would set up a new machine. Then > >manua

[SOLVED] mounting my USB RAM Stick

On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 22:32:26 +0100 Jean-Marc wrote: > Hi List, > > I got a strange behavior with my laptop. > When I insert a USB stick, it mounts but belongs to root. > If I plug it in my desktop, it mounts with my user. > > Two Jessie systems kernel 3.10 Gnome3. > > And my user get plugdev gr