Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/05/14 16:53, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have this weekend, managed to install Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce version > onto a laptop computer. > > However, the sound does not work. Ouch. But easily fixed. > > In searching, I have found that the laptop apparently has a Realtek > soundcard (

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-11 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 05/11/2014 09:53 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have this weekend, managed to install Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce version > onto a laptop computer. > > However, the sound does not work. > > In searching, I have found that the laptop apparently has a Realtek > soundcard (and, an inbuilt Intel

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-10 23:49 +0200, Jape Person wrote: > In various logs on these systems I see an indication that "touch > /forcefsck" doesn't work with systemd running the show, and that > adding > > fsck.mode=force > > to the linux boot line in Grub is now the proper way to force fsck to > run at boot t

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Артур Истомин
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:29:55AM +, Martin T wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Debian Wheezy with no desktop environment as I would like > to use lightweight dwm window manager instead. However, as a first > step, I need to install xserver. I would like to install minimal > components needed for

you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
When copying and pasting some text from a text document into emacs, it starts out as - ╭ │Remember, most breast lumps are not cancerous, but you don't know if you don't ask. ╰ but appears as - ╭ │Remember, most breast lumps are not cancerous, but you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019

Re: Default & supported service manager in Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-05-10 22:40 +0200, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby >> wrote: >>> A long time ago, when I was young ;-), services used to be managed with >>> "invoke-rc.d" & "update-rc.d" on Debian. >> >> I've

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: > When copying and pasting some text from a text document into > emacs, it starts out as - ╭ │Remember, most breast lumps are > not cancerous, but you don't know if you don't ask. ╰ > > but appears as - ╭ │Remember, most breast lumps are not > c

Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Itay
Hi Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB. I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system back to the new drive (see below). Obviously I missed something as the system does not boot. BIOS comes up alright. I'd appreciate any help in identifying what needs to be don

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-11 Thread Filip
On Sun, 11 May 2014 14:53:06 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: > > I am therefore wondering whether, somewhere, packages exist (.deb > packages, that make installation relatively easy for those of us not > skilled "in the black arts"), for the hardware drivers that may be on > the firmware ISO's

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:36:34PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts > > happening in some other programme please? > > Try enabling utf (it's the "in" thing). IOW, what is the output of the 'loc

Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
List good morning, I do regret asking such a basic question about cron, but I cannot seem to get rid of what I think is a mis-configured entry, somewhere. We have a server running Lenny (still), its role is solely to provide a network file system. Every 17 mins past the hour, root is sending

Re: Problems getting Debian DVD to work (Re: Confusion)

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 09 mai 14, 19:50:18, Steve Litt wrote: > > > I think John is asking whether Josh burned the ISO file onto the DVD > > rather than (correctly) the DVD image contained in the ISO file. > > Thanks Testosticore, > > At this point, I think we should all forget I asked that question, > because

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Brian
On Sun 11 May 2014 at 00:29:55 +, Martin T wrote: > I installed Debian Wheezy with no desktop environment as I would like > to use lightweight dwm window manager instead. However, as a first > step, I need to install xserver. I would like to install minimal > components needed for running the

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Erwan David
Le 10/05/2014 21:49, Cameron Norman a écrit : > Greetings John, > > El Sat, 10 de May 2014 a las 9:05 AM, John > escribió: >> After following the discussions of systemd (including everything on >> debian-devel), I find myself appalled at the rude and domineering >> attitudes of almost all systemd'

Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 10:37:31 schrieb Ron Leach: > List good morning, Hi Ron, > I do regret asking such a basic question about cron, but I cannot seem > to get rid of what I think is a mis-configured entry, somewhere. > > We have a server running Lenny (still), its role is solely to provide

Re: Confusion

2014-05-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 May 2014 at 18:03:35 -0700, Joshua Anthony wrote: > For those who didn't notice, I downloaded the file twice, making two > CD's from the first download and one from the second - just in case > anything was corrupted. All the CD's can be opened and their contents > displayed - and all fil

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Itay, maybe it is a problem with the UUID. Just check on the new harddrive the file /etc/fstab, if there is an UUID set for the harddrive. If so, comment it out and set just an entry with /dev/sda1 (or whatever) fpor the required. Here is an example: # /dev/sda7 / ext3

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 mai 14, 10:43:14, Brian wrote: > On Sun 11 May 2014 at 00:29:55 +, Martin T wrote: > > > I installed Debian Wheezy with no desktop environment as I would like > > to use lightweight dwm window manager instead. However, as a first > > step, I need to install xserver. I would like to i

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-11 11:43 +0200, Brian wrote: > On Sun 11 May 2014 at 00:29:55 +, Martin T wrote: > >> I installed Debian Wheezy with no desktop environment as I would like >> to use lightweight dwm window manager instead. However, as a first >> step, I need to install xserver. I would like to insta

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Itay
On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 01:03 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi Itay, > > maybe it is a problem with the UUID. Just check on the new harddrive the > file > /etc/fstab, if there is an UUID set for the harddrive. > [snip] > > Comment ALL lines beginning with UUID= and add the physical partition >

Re: Confusion

2014-05-11 Thread Paul Lewis
On 11/05/14 11:01:30, Brian wrote: > it would have allowed things to move on. Instead of which > we get a portion of your life story. :) > > We still do not know at what stage the install failed and what came > up on the screen at the time. The advice to boot from a USB stick > is also good. T

Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 mai 14, 10:37:31, Ron Leach wrote: > > I checked /etc/anacrontab in case it could be involved, it seems not to > contain any cron.hourly entries, nor entries at the relevant time: > > SHELL=/bin/sh > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > > # These replace

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Itay wrote: > > On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 01:03 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> Hi Itay, >> >> maybe it is a problem with the UUID. Just check on the new harddrive the >> file >> /etc/fstab, if there is an UUID set for the harddrive. >> > [snip] >> >> Comment ALL lin

Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Filip
On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:37:31 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: > I'm missing some aspect of cron configuration, or perhaps some other > cron file somewhere. root doesn't have a /home directory, so there > isn't a crontab in it, and the only user existing on the system > doesn't have a crontab in its hom

Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 10:48, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Look into - /etc/cron.d - crontab -l It would not make much sense, but maybe someone added a call to /etc/cron.hourly there. server4:/# crontab -l # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab

Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 11:43, Filip wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:37:31 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: I'm missing some aspect of cron configuration, or perhaps some other cron file somewhere. root doesn't have a /home directory, so there isn't a crontab in it, and the only user existing on the system doesn't

Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 mai 14, 11:53:30, Ron Leach wrote: > > server4:/# crontab -l > # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab I seriously doubt that. [...] > How very odd. > That isn't the content of /etc/crontab . Since it seems like you executed 'crontab -l' as root is seems like it is the crontab of the 'r

Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Filip
On Sun, 11 May 2014 12:07:47 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: > > Filip, the comment suggests that I shouldn't edit this file here. Do > you have any idea where, or what, its 'master' version might be? The correct way to edit the per-user crontabs it with # crontab -u -e -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 11:53:30 schrieb Ron Leach: > On 11/05/2014 10:48, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Look into > > > > - /etc/cron.d > > - crontab -l > > > > It would not make much sense, but maybe someone added a call to > > /etc/cron.hourly there. > > server4:/# crontab -l > # /etc/cront

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> When copying and pasting some text from a text document into >> emacs, it starts out as - ╭ │Remember, most breast lumps are >> not cancerous, but you don't know if you don't ask. ╰ >> >> but appears as - ╭ │Remember

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Itay Furman
On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 01:39 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Itay wrote: [snip] > > Indeed I had grub2 installed. > > Given that I repopulated the new disk manually, by a series of rsync > > commands, I suspect that I failed copying some of the critical boot > > data.

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:36:34PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> > But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts >> > happening in some other programme please? >> >> Try enabling utf (it's the "in" thing). > >

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Filip
On Sun, 11 May 2014 12:23:19 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > locale > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=en_GB:en > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_GB

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Brian
On Sun 11 May 2014 at 13:14:28 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 11 mai 14, 10:43:14, Brian wrote: > > > xserver-xorg-input-kbd > > xserver-xorg-input-mouse > > These two have been replaced by xserver-xorg-input-evdev Thanks. I did have -evdev because it is a Depends: of xserver-xorg. -kbd

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
Sharon Kimble writes: > Chris Bannister writes: > >> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:36:34PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>> > But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts >>> > happening in some other programme please? >>> >>> Try enablin

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Brian
On Sun 11 May 2014 at 12:16:33 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-05-11 11:43 +0200, Brian wrote: > > > > > If my notes are accurate ; from the last time I did it: > > > > xinit > > xserver-org > > xserver-xorg-input-kbd > > xserver-xorg-input-mouse > > Those are obsoleted by xserver-xorg-inpu

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 05/11/2014 05:46 AM, Itay wrote: > Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB. > I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system > back to the new drive (see below). > Obviously I missed something as the system does not boot. BIOS comes > up alright. > > > I guess that I o

Re: Cron 101: Cron message "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 mai 14, 12:07:47, Ron Leach wrote: > > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root indeed contains exactly the error you mention: > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.jE2KHC/crontab installed on Fri Dec 31 08:54:50 2010) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.05.2014 09:35, schrieb Sven Joachim: > Something like "journalctl -b | grep systemd-fsck". I haven't figured > out how to get "journalctl -u" to work here. That, or something like systemctl status systemd-fsck-root.service or systemctl status systemd-fsck@.service works for me as well. I

loss of I/O on some websites

2014-05-11 Thread Whit Hansell
Am getting frustrated. On the internet today there are so many sites that have taken on so much advertising that it is killing my desire to go to various sites. I mean specifically news sites. My box is a relatively new AMD quad core over 3 Gh, 16 Gb Ram and a video card w. 1 Gb memery on it

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin T wrote: > 2) Am I correct that boot loaders use their code on this area after > the primary GPT and before the first partition? No. Bootloaders store their code in a special "bios_grub" partition (type EF02) when using the CSM/BIOS boot mode or inside a EFI System partion when using EFI

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 03:47:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > This one. > > The systemd package contains other dbus services that you don't want to try > to exclude from a desktop system; and libpam-systemd provides necessary > integration with policykit on those same systems. So basically wh

Re: loss of I/O on some websites

2014-05-11 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 08:59:41AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > Am getting frustrated. On the internet today there are so many > sites that have taken on so much advertising that it is killing my > desire to go to various sites. I mean specifically news sites. > Maybe you already tried it, but

Re: loss of I/O on some websites

2014-05-11 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/11/2014 08:59 AM, Whit Hansell wrote: > Am getting frustrated. On the internet today there are so many sites > that have taken on so much advertising that it is killing my desire > to go to various sites. I mean specifically news sites. > >

Re: loss of I/O on some websites

2014-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/05/14 22:59, Whit Hansell wrote: > Am getting frustrated. On the internet today there are so many sites > that have taken on so much advertising that it is killing my desire to > go to various sites. I mean specifically news sites. > > My box is a relatively new AMD quad core over 3 Gh, 16

Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
List, We seem to have filled the available space on the '/' partition of our NFS server. Because most of the server's variable data is on separate partitions, I'm not sure what I could remove from '/' partition. df shows the problem, and the space available on the other partitions: server4

Re: Cron 101: SOLVED "/bin/sh: root: command not found"

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 13:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 11 mai 14, 12:07:47, Ron Leach wrote: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root indeed contains exactly the error you mention: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. [ ... ] Filip, the comment suggests that I shouldn't edit this file here

Re: loss of I/O on some websites

2014-05-11 Thread John Hasler
Whit Hansell writes: > Am I missing something in some an additional program I can install to > help take over or as an addon to Iceweasel browser? This is really > frustrating and I woiuld appreciate any help anyone can give. Install Privoxy. It will block ads for and and all browsers. -- John

One of those threads, old stuff: was Confusion

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 11 May 2014 15:13:21 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Joshua Anthony > wrote: [clip] > > I confess to much ignorance of technical detail - despite 45 years > > as a computer support engineer, programmer and technical writer, I > > still find a lot of stuff hard

Re: One of those threads, old stuff: was Confusion

2014-05-11 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/11/2014 10:41 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 15:13:21 +0900 Joel Rees > wrote: > >> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Joshua Anthony >> wrote: >>> I confess to much ignorance of technical detail - despite 45 >>> years as a com

Re: Problems getting Debian DVD to work (Re: Confusion)

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 11 May 2014 12:40:58 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 09 mai 14, 19:50:18, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > I think John is asking whether Josh burned the ISO file onto the > > > DVD rather than (correctly) the DVD image contained in the ISO > > > file. > > > > Thanks Testosticore, > >

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:46:25 +0300 Itay wrote: > Hi > > > > Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB. > > I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system > back to the new drive (see below). > > Obviously I missed something as the system does not boot. BIOS comes > up

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 mai 14, 15:33:38, Ron Leach wrote: > List, > > We seem to have filled the available space on the '/' partition of our NFS > server. Because most of the server's variable data is on separate > partitions, I'm not sure what I could remove from '/' partition. df shows > the problem, and t

Re: One of those threads, old stuff: was Confusion [WOOT]

2014-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/05/14 00:50, The Wanderer wrote: > On 05/11/2014 10:41 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Sun, 11 May 2014 15:13:21 +0900 Joel Rees >> wrote: > >>> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Joshua Anthony >>> wrote: > I confess to much ignorance of technical detail - despite 45 years as a c

Re: Problems getting Debian DVD to work (Re: Confusion)

2014-05-11 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/11/2014 10:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 12:40:58 +0300 Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > >> On Vi, 09 mai 14, 19:50:18, Steve Litt wrote: >>> At this point, I think we should all forget I asked that >>> question, because neither y

Re: Problems getting Debian DVD to work (Re: Confusion)

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 mai 14, 10:57:38, Steve Litt wrote: > > I'm trying to suppress laughter while I type this. Are you saying that > there was a suspicion that somebody used what, xfburn, to put a single > file on an optical disc, and that single file was the .iso intended to > put an iso9660 or UDF filesys

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 16:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 11 mai 14, 15:33:38, Ron Leach wrote: We seem to have filled the available space on the '/' partition of our NFS server. Because most of the server's variable data is on separate partitions, I'm not sure what I could remove from '/' partition.

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-11 18:02 +0200, Ron Leach wrote: > server4:/# du / -hx --max-depth=1 > 0 /var > 0 /nfs > 1.0K/boot > 1.0K/boot2 > 0 /home > 4.0K/tmp > 0 /usr > 80M /etc > 0 /media > 64M /lib > 5.0M/sbin > 0 /selinux > 4.1M/bin > 0 /d

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 17:11, Sven Joachim wrote: # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l 3 # But it took 3 or 4 seconds to count them. :) I was beginning to think, gosh, there must really be a lot of those. But it's a good point, Sven, because there still might be some issue that

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Jape Person
On 05/11/2014 03:35 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-05-10 23:49 +0200, Jape Person wrote: In various logs on these systems I see an indication that "touch /forcefsck" doesn't work with systemd running the show, and that adding fsck.mode=force to the linux boot line in Grub is now the proper w

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Jape Person
On 05/11/2014 08:29 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 11.05.2014 09:35, schrieb Sven Joachim: Something like "journalctl -b | grep systemd-fsck". I haven't figured out how to get "journalctl -u" to work here. That, or something like systemctl status systemd-fsck-root.service or systemctl status sy

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Артур Истомин
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:47:08PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 11 May 2014 at 13:14:28 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Du, 11 mai 14, 10:43:14, Brian wrote: > > > > > xserver-xorg-input-kbd > > > xserver-xorg-input-mouse > > > > These two have been replaced by xserver-xorg-input-evdev >

experimental to unstable

2014-05-11 Thread Floris
Hey, The Debian Gnome maintainers has almost packed Gnome 3.12. After the systemd + Gnome sprint last April a lot of Gnome packages have the 3.12 version. But there are some 3.12 packages only available in experimental. Is there a policy when these packages are transfered to unstable? Al

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Martin T
Thank you for replies! As I understand, "xserver-xorg" will install /usr/bin/X binary, which is a X Window Server itself and "xinit" installs the /usr/bin/xinit utility which starts the X Window Server and window manager(dwm in my case) as a X Windows Server client. As I have Intel 945GM video card

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Martin T
Sven, I see. Thanks! Are those "bios_grub" or "EFI system" partitions located inside the GPT scheme, i.e. inside the first ~16KiB of the disk and it is not seen with gdisk? In addition, if this small area after the last partition is also for alignment purposes, then where is the backup GPT stored?

Re: Debian Linux 7 and Realtek soundcards

2014-05-11 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 11/05/14 08:53, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have this weekend, managed to install Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce version onto a laptop computer. However, the sound does not work. In searching, I have found that the laptop apparently has a Realtek soundcard (and, an inbuilt Intel something soundcard t

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin T wrote: > I see. Thanks! Are those "bios_grub" or "EFI system" partitions > located inside the GPT scheme, i.e. inside the first ~16KiB of the > disk and it is not seen with gdisk? In addition, if this small area > after the last partition is also for alignment purposes, then where is > t

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
Filip writes: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 12:23:19 +0100 > Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Chris Bannister writes: >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> locale >> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 >> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en >> LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" >> LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" >> LC_TIME="en

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Martin T
Sven, for some reason, I do not see those partitions with gdisk: http://i.imgur.com/4BlDQx7.jpg On the other hand, I'm also using older version(0.8.5 vs 0.8.8) of gdisk than you.. Or is there some other reason? In addition, while your gdisk output says that you have 0B of free space, then I have 1

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin T wrote: > for some reason, I do not see those partitions with gdisk: > http://i.imgur.com/4BlDQx7.jpg On the other hand, I'm also using older > version(0.8.5 vs 0.8.8) of gdisk than you.. Or is there some other > reason? No. If gdisk does not show any special boot partition then there is

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Itay Furman
On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 02:40 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 05/11/2014 05:46 AM, Itay wrote: Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB. I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system back to the new drive (see below). Obviously I missed something as the system does

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Itay Furman
On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 06:04 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:46:25 +0300 > Itay wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > > > Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB. > > > > I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system > > back to the new drive (see belo

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Filip
On Sun, 11 May 2014 22:38:20 +0300 Itay Furman wrote: > > > I guess the output of mount above shows that there is a problem with > the file system(s) and devices. > > Nevertheless, I also believe that I have problems with the bootloader. When you boot the installation DVD, there is an option '

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Ron Leach writes: > On 11/05/2014 17:11, Sven Joachim wrote: >> # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l > > # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l > 3 > # > > But it took 3 or 4 seconds to count them. :) > I was beginning to think, gosh, there must really be a lot of those. > > But it's a good point, Sven, because

Re: experimental to unstable

2014-05-11 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Floris wrote: > > Hey, > > The Debian Gnome maintainers has almost packed Gnome 3.12. After the systemd > + Gnome sprint last April a lot of Gnome packages have the 3.12 version. But > there are some 3.12 packages only available in experimental. Is there a

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread PaulNM
On 05/11/2014 04:46 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: > > Another possibility to look into is that there might be files under your > mount points. For example, you might have saved files under /usr on > your root filesystem, but later mounted a /usr filesystem on top without > deleting the files in the o

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-11 22:46 +0200, Carl Johnson wrote: > Ron Leach writes: > >> On 11/05/2014 17:11, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l >> >> # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l >> 3 >> # >> >> But it took 3 or 4 seconds to count them. :) >> I was beginning to think, gosh, there must really

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Ron Leach
On 11/05/2014 22:07, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-05-11 22:46 +0200, Carl Johnson wrote: Another possibility to look into is that there might be files under your mount points. For example, you might have saved files under /usr on your root filesystem, but later mounted a /usr filesystem on top

Re: experimental to unstable

2014-05-11 Thread Floris
Op Sun, 11 May 2014 22:54:20 +0200 schreef Javier Barroso : Hello, On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Floris wrote: Hey, The Debian Gnome maintainers has almost packed Gnome 3.12. After the systemd + Gnome sprint last April a lot of Gnome packages have the 3.12 version. But there are s

Re: [SOLVED]loss of I/O on some websites

2014-05-11 Thread Whit Hansell
On 05/11/2014 09:30 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 08:59:41AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Am getting frustrated. On the internet today there are so many sites that have taken on so much advertising that it is killing my desire to go to various sites. I mean specifically news

Re: Problems getting Debian DVD to work (Re: Confusion)

2014-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:57:38AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > I'm trying to suppress laughter while I type this. Are you saying that > there was a suspicion that somebody used what, xfburn, to put a single > file on an optical disc, and that single file was the .iso intended to > put an iso9660 or

[SOLVED] Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Jape Person
On 05/11/2014 12:17 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 05/11/2014 03:35 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-05-10 23:49 +0200, Jape Person wrote: In various logs on these systems I see an indication that "touch /forcefsck" doesn't work with systemd running the show, and that adding fsck.mode=force to the

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 11 May 2014, Martin T wrote: > Thank you for replies! As I understand, "xserver-xorg" will install > /usr/bin/X binary, which is a X Window Server itself and "xinit" > installs the /usr/bin/xinit utility which starts the X Window Server > and window manager(dwm in my case) as a X Windows S

[OT] How long is an unused HD 'new'?

2014-05-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have a 500GB Western Digital hard drive that I bought in 2012 but it has never been unpacked and has been sitting on the shelf all this time. How long can it be considered 'new'? Is it safe to use? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: [OT] How long is an unused HD 'new'?

2014-05-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 12 May 2014 01:43:16 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I have a 500GB Western Digital hard drive that I bought in 2012 but it has never been unpacked and has been sitting on the shelf all this time. How long can it be considered 'new'? Is it safe to use? 2 Years in the original packagi

Re: Is it safe not to install intel-microcode (or amd-microcode)?

2014-05-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 09 May 2014, Артур Истомин wrote: > really working exploits, viruses or even prototypes that exploits bugs > in CPUs (but attempts were, google "Kris Kaspersky Intel Blackhat". Very > suspicious story. The presentation was withdrawn at the request of Intel). One can find the reduced prese

Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade

2014-05-11 Thread O
Dear debian-users, A first-time post for me: I've never had a problem that was so serious. I've had Wheezy installed for many months now with default kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64. Following a routine apt-get upgrade, the kernel cannot detect any of the internal drives. After many *"ata#: reset failed,

Re: Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade

2014-05-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/11/2014 8:44 PM, O wrote: > Dear debian-users, > > A first-time post for me: I've never had a problem that was so serious. > > I've had Wheezy installed for many months now with default kernel > 3.2.0-4-amd64. Following a routine apt-get upgrade, the kernel cannot > detect any of the intern

Re: Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade

2014-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/05/14 11:44, O wrote: > > Dear debian-users, > > A first-time post for me: I've never had a problem that was so serious. > > I've had Wheezy installed for many months now with default kernel > 3.2.0-4-amd64. Following a routine apt-get upgrade, the kernel cannot > detect any of the intern

Re: Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade

2014-05-11 Thread O
Hi Stan, The output from dmesg is long. From within initramfs, I cannot mount usb drives, and I cannot seem to scp or ssh. So far, I have not been able to find a way to get the output from dmesg (from within initramfs) onto another file system so that I can post it here: any ideas? Thanks, O

Re: Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade

2014-05-11 Thread O
Hi Scott, > Check your BIOS, I'd bet it doesn't see any hard drives either. Please > check. If I'm correct then check your power and data cables and restart > the box. > > As mentioned, i can boot using the old Squeeze kernel, and it sees the drives; bios sees the drives. The Wheezy kernel (3.2.0

Re: Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade

2014-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/05/14 14:27, O wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > > Check your BIOS, I'd bet it doesn't see any hard drives either. Please > check. If I'm correct then check your power and data cables and restart > the box. > > > As mentioned, i can boot using the old Squeeze kernel, and it sees the >

Re: Kernel fails to detect internal hard drives after routine apt-get upgrade

2014-05-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/11/2014 11:17 PM, O wrote: > Hi Stan, > > The output from dmesg is long. From within initramfs, I cannot mount usb > drives, and I cannot seem to scp or ssh. So far, I have not been able to > find a way to get the output from dmesg (from within initramfs) onto > another file system so that