X Authentication Problem

Hello, I have a MythTV box running Debian Sarge. Last night I had to reboot it, which has never caused a problem before, but now the "mythtv" user cannot authenticate with X and get access to display :0.0. I am using kdm and it usually logs the mythtv user in automatically when the X server

Re: X Authentication Problem

Kent West wrote: I don't believe this will be the problem, but I'd look at /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config, which probably should look like: allowed_users=console nice_value=-10 I would also try disabling kdm temporarily (sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop) and logging in as mythtv via "startx". Thanks

Re: X Authentication Problem

Kent West wrote: David A. Parker wrote: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console I have

Re: X Authentication Problem

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:40:28PM -0500, David A. Parker wrote: Kent West wrote: David A. Parker wrote: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such

Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860

Greg Madden wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:23:15 +0100 Ben Humpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started with 31r0a and c

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

Ben Humpert wrote: > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 06:00:17 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860] > > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860 >

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

Ben Humpert wrote: > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:08:25 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ben Humpert wrote: > > my dell PE 860 has a Intel DualCore Xeon with hyper-threading, my Dell > > PE 850 only has a Intel P4 with HT. On both i only see two processors > > (for sure, the dualcore has two

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

Damien Ferrand wrote: On 09/03/07 14:02 -0500, David A. Parker wrote: Anyway, as you probably know, hyper threading is not the same as having a second core. To the best of my knowledge, a dual-core CPU will always show 2 cores regardless of whether it supports hyper threading. I don&#

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

Ben Humpert wrote: Here it comes ;) dr02g:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU3060 @ 2.40GHz stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 2400.240 cache size : 4096 KB

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Damien Ferrand wrote: On 09/03/07 20:39 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: The Intel website shows wrong informations, on some sites you can see a 3,73GHz Extreme Edition in 0,90nm on some sites you only see a 3,4GHz EE in 0,90nm but there is ONLY a 3,73GHz EE in 0,90nm. I never use the Intel website,

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David A. Parker wrote: Damien Ferrand wrote: On 09/03/07 20:39 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: The Intel website shows wrong informations, on some sites you can see a 3,73GHz Extreme Edition in 0,90nm on some sites you only see a 3,4GHz EE in 0,90nm but there is ONLY a 3,73GHz EE in 0,90nm. I

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: Ben Humpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: kinda curious, uname -a said "Linux dr02g 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 21 16:06:54 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux". This is not a SMP kernel, not a real one or something different?! ~$ grep SMP /boot/confi

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

Tarek Soliman wrote: Tarek Soliman wrote: "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on a server?" OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct answer "none" ? I was gonna say "Tell that to Redhat and ORACLE UNBREAKABLE LINUX" but I real

Re: Moving MySQL database from one machine to another and remotely accessing dbs?

Martin Waller wrote: Hi, I'm using MySQL 4.1 on Etch and have a database (that I created) on another machine (still Sarge) that I want to transfer to the other before upgrading to etch on that machine also. Where should I look to find out how to do this? Is it just a matter of locating the d

Re: Can't execute PHP script

Randy Patterson wrote: Hey, I installed apache like; aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 As returned by apache2ctl, I am running; Apache/2.2.4 (Debian) PHP/5.2.3-1+b1 I point my browser to; http://localhost/apache2-default/test.php The file test.php contains this code; PHP

Re: Can't execute PHP script

Randy Patterson wrote: I ran 'chmod 755 test.php' on the file in question. Loaded this file with browser and got the very same results. Checked /var/log/apache2/error.log and no error. Checked /var/log/apache2/access.log and I had accessed the file. I have been to debian-administration.org

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Andrew Sackville wrote: personally, I think network-manager is more trouble than >its worth, but that's jsut me. Im starting to feel that your right--when it works its nice but when it doesnt i never know what to do. please provide the exact output of the follo

Re: New Server

Ed Curtis wrote: I'm getting ready to build a new server. Has anyone on the list had any problems or used Silicon Mechanics before. I'm checking out some quotes from there. They use Nvida MCP55 Pro dual nics in their system. I thought I had heard about problems with Nvida nics in the past on th

Intel Graphics Drivers

Hello, I am attempting to compile the graphics drivers from www.intellinuxgraphics.com on Debian Etch but I am having some problems. I downloaded the necessary source trees from their git repository using the links provided in the downloads section of that page. I have been trying to compil

Re: Intel Graphics Drivers

Alok G. Singh wrote: On 29 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to compile the graphics drivers from www.intellinuxgraphics.com on Debian Etch but I am having some problems. You do know that they are already packaged for Debian, right ? xserver-xorg-video-intel is the package.

Xorg and Intel 945G problem

Hello, I have a Dell GX620 with an integrated Intel 945G graphics chipset, and I am attempting to run Debian sid amd64 on it. I used 'X -configure' to create an xorg.conf file, in which it creates the following "Device" section: Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:-

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

Digby Tarvin wrote: Just curious, Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? I was receiving all messages from lists.debian.org on a substantial delay a few days ago. Most messages seem to be coming in fine

Weird cups problems

Hello, I am running Debian Etch, and I have recently upgraded cups on my system. Aside from all of the other problems which have already been reported with the new version of cups, I have one I can't seem to find much information on. Whenever I start cups, it puts several random network pri

Re: Weird cups problems

Thanks for your reply, George. Whenever I start cups, it puts several random network printers located in other people's offices into my /etc/printcap file and they show up when I go to localhost:631. There is an option in the config file to stop this happening (can't remember which one.) Re

Re: UNIX Logins by Proxy Over the Web

The way I imagine it, when a client clicks a link, he/she triggers the server to ssh to an account on the UNIX system where they begin running my application by default, in other words, that's all you can do there. When finished, the connection drops. Could you have a web form which col

Re: Making an image of my HDD

dd if=${device} conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | ssh -l ${user} ${host} "dd of=file.bin bs=64K" I have used dd to back up and restore hard drives before, but I've saved the image on a NFS directory instead of using ssh. - Dave -- Dave Parker Utica College Department of Integrated Informatio

Re: Off subject question.

We have a client that needs to get registration information when their client installs software. They had been using FTP to do this but this has many security issues. Email of course cannot be used. What do people use to get this type information back when someone registers software. I need to

Compiling flops.c

Hello, I am trying to compile flops.c on my Debian (etch) system. I have used gcc 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1 with the same result. This is the output I receive: $ gcc-4.1 -o flops flops.c flops.c: In function 'main': flops.c:174: warning: return type of 'main' is not 'int' /tmp/cce46kOB.o: In functio

Re: Compiling flops.c

David A. Parker wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile flops.c on my Debian (etch) system. I have used gcc 3.4, 4.0, and 4.1 with the same result. This is the output I receive: $ gcc-4.1 -o flops flops.c flops.c: In function 'main': flops.c:174: warning: return type of 'main

Re: obscenely OT Re: apt-get joke

Cantilevered elastics work wonders. As does a firm dis-belief in gravity. One view of National Geographic will disabuse you of that notion... that's the whole point of firm dis-belief! National Geographic is just clearly mistaken. Plus few of those were likely to be of the proportions under d

Re: why linux?

George N. White III wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007, S C wrote: For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my digital camera.

Re: why linux?

Eric A. Bonney wrote: You know...I have been giving this thread alot of thought. I think the issue is that we the end user expect to much from Linux in general and I don't think that the average person thinks of certain things. Like, how long have you been using Windows? I know I have been u

Re: printer setuo

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to linux and have etch installed with gnome and things seem to be ok but I can't get my printer installed. I've gone to desktop, admin., printing, new printer and etch recognized the hp printer and I selected finish. I then right clicked on the printer, selected

Re: printer setuo

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The response I got from your quiry was bash: /var/cupe...: permission denied You probably need to be root to read those files. Try: su -c "more /var/log/cups/error_log" And enter your root password when it asks for one. -- Dave Parker Utica College Department of

Re: printer setuo

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was in root the first time and when I did su-c... I got command not found -- Original message -- From: "David A. Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The response I got from

Re: printer setuo

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to root terminal and entered my root pw and entered su -c "more /var... and got no such file or directory. I should have clarified, you do not need to do the whole "su -c ..." thing if you are already root. That simply runs a command as root from your normal

Re: ldapsearch -- troubles connecting to LDAP server (SASL config?)

w...@serensoft.com wrote: Hello Debianistas! We're a bit new to the LDAP world and are having trouble configuring a connection to the LDAP server. Using "ldapsearch" as a diagnostic tool, here's what we are getting: # ldapsearch -h 10.3.1.37 SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started ldap_sasl_inter

gcc 3.3 in Lenny

I'm trying to build something in Debian Lenny (x86 32-bit) from old source code that needs gcc 3.3 but the oldest version I see in the repository is 3.4. Is there any way to get packages for gcc versions older than 3.4 under Lenny? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Parker Utica College Integrate

Re: AMD64 in vmware

Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of T o n g Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:49 AM Subject: AMD64 in vmware Hi, Quick question, is it possible to test AMD64 ios under vmware which is hosted under i386? IIRC, launching AMD64 apps under chroot in i386 won't

Re: Delete 4 million files

kj wrote: Hi guys, This might seem like a stupid question, but I'm hoping there's a better way. I discovered a Maildir on my server with 4+ million mails in. The result of a cronjob that runs every minute - this has been fixed. Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \

Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/4/21 T o n g : Hi, Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux? Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. http://www.partimage.org/Partimage- FAQ#C

Re: trouble with custom kernel

Bernd Prager wrote: Hi, I have been building custom kernels for my system a while now. Recently I run into trouble that I haven't experienced before: I build my kernel with: $ make menuconfig $ make-kpkg clean $ fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel_image kernel_header

Re: error in script

L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:00 AM, David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: - Original Message - From: "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008 9:50 pm Subject: error in script

Re: OT: BIOS Problem

Thomas H. George wrote: If your slave drive has failed completely, it's possible that your master drive needs to be jumpered as "single" instead of "master" (if it is one of those drives which make that distinction). Sometimes the BIOS will get hung up for a while trying to find a second d

Re: ssh

Is any 'send file' command to make so that two machines (an amd64 multisocket and a simple i386, both lenny) talk scp with one another through a router (attached to adsl) fully without asking the password? With 'fully' I mean that command: ssh target_machine_name date gives the date without ask

Re: ssh

Christopher Browne wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David A. Parker wrote: Is any 'send file' command to make so that two machines (an amd64 multisocket and a simple i386, both lenny) talk scp with one another through a router (attached to adsl) fully without asking the passw

Re: ssh

Francesco Pietra wrote: That's odd. I am able to get commands to work over SSH without a password. I copied the contents of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub on my work computer into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on my home computer. Now I can SSH from my work computer to my home computer like this: ssh m...@myhome

LDAP Authentication

Hello, I have a box running Lenny which I am trying to configure to use LDAP (as opposed to local) user authentication. Both nss_ldap and pam_ldap are installed from the current packages. The server it is authenticating against is a Sun LDAP server which stores passwords as SHA2 hashes by d

Network connection drops in Squeeze

Hello, I have an HP 6005 workstation with a fresh install of Debian Squeeze, and I am seeing some very strange networking behavior. The network connection seems to drop periodically, but it comes back if you hit a key on the keyboard plugged into the machine. Here's the general way it happe

Re: Network connection drops in Squeeze

On 03/09/2011 04:30 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:11:41 -0500 "David A. Parker" wrote: Hello, I have an HP 6005 workstation with a fresh install of Debian Squeeze, and I am seeing some very strange networking behavior. The network connection seems to drop periodical

Re: Network connection drops in Squeeze

On 03/09/2011 05:32 PM, David A. Parker wrote: So far, this has never happened randomly during an SSH session. It always seems to be triggered by some sort of network activity. What's especially frustrating is that absolutely nothing gets logged in the system logs when this happen

Re: Network connection drops in Squeeze

On 03/09/2011 06:04 PM, David A. Parker wrote: On 03/09/2011 05:32 PM, David A. Parker wrote: So far, this has never happened randomly during an SSH session. It always seems to be triggered by some sort of network activity. What's especially frustrating is that absolutely nothing gets logg

Re: samba query

Daniel Dalton wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:50:10PM -0500, David Parker wrote: This works fine for me. You might simply be missing a line in your config file or something. In your smb.conf: Thanks:) I'll give that a shot and see how it goes. On a home network with wpa encryption

Re: Squeeze (or higher) on HP DL180 G6

On 05/23/2011 09:33 AM, Jacek Politowski wrote: I'm going to buy a low-end server with 12 SATA HDDs. I've received an offer for HP DL180 G6 with interesting price. Now I'm trying to find out whether this proliant works correctly with Debian (either squeeze or testing (or even unstable)). Serve

Re: Squeeze (or higher) on HP DL180 G6

One quick note, you will need the firmware for the network hardware in these machines. Download this file: ttp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-bnx2_0.28_all.deb ...or use the squeeze + non-free installer: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-inst

Generate OpenSSL CSR in Squeeze

Hello, We have an RSA key with no encryption password, and we need to generate a CSR using this key. However, when I try to generate a CSR, I get an error: # openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr Enter pass phrase for server.key: 32208:error:28069065:lib(40):UI_set_result:result t

Re: Generate OpenSSL CSR in Squeeze

On 07/27/2011 11:55 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: David A Parker writes: > We have an RSA key with no encryption password, and we need to generate > a CSR using this key. However, when I try to generate a CSR, I get an > error: > # openssl req -new -key server.key -ou

Stop dhclient from adding a default gateway

Hello, I have a Debian Lenny box with two NICs, eth0 and eth1. eht1 is a trunking interface and can be put onto any VLAN. Whenever eth1 is put onto a VLAN, I want it to get an address from DHCP but I do *not* want it to set a default gateway. I set up a definition for each interface in dhcl

Re: Stop dhclient from adding a default gateway

On 09/03/2010 02:09 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: David A. Parker wrote: I have a Debian Lenny box with two NICs, eth0 and eth1. eht1 is a trunking interface and can be put onto any VLAN. Whenever eth1 is put onto a VLAN, I want it to get an address from DHCP but I do *not* want it to set a default

Re: To KVM or not to KVM

I think that the virtualization support in some CPUs is not compatible with KVM. I have an HP server with two dual-core Xeon model 5160 CPUs in it. According to Intel's website, this CPU has the VT-x extension for virtualization support, and I enabled virtualization support in the BIOS. Howe

Promise Ultra133 TX2

Hello, Has anyone ever gotten the Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE controller card to work well in sarge? I tried, but I/O with the drive attached to it was unstable at best, and eventually it just didn't work at all. I ended up with all sorts of CRC errors in my logs, and the drive would only mount

Re: Promise card

Thanks for your reply. It's probably not worth having you switch out your cards right now, but the offer is appreciated. What kind of drives do you have connected to your Ultra 100 cards? I should have mentioned before that this was a Western Digital 120 GB drive w/ 8 MB buffer, connected to

Mailing list question

Hello, When I post to this list, I do not currently get a copy of that message back from the list, but I would like to. Other mailing lists I am on do this, and it is handy because I know the message actually got posted, plus I can sort messages by thread and mine are included in there. Does

Re: Promise card

(sarge also) I am using a 100 GB WD drive. The Promise cards are great! gere David A. Parker wrote: Thanks for your reply. It's probably not worth having you switch out your cards right now, but the offer is appreciated. What kind of drives do you have connected to your Ultr

Permanently swapping a key

Hello, I have an old laptop which I installed Debian on, but then discovered that the control key (CTRL) does not work at all. I can solve this by swapping control with the unused Windows key and using that key instead. I was able to reassign CTRL to the Windows key in X using xmodmap as fo

Re: Permanently swapping a key

I have an old laptop which I installed Debian on, but then discovered that the control key (CTRL) does not work at all. I can solve this by swapping control with the unused Windows key and using that key instead. I was able to reassign CTRL to the Windows key in X using xmodmap as follows ("S

Re: Permanently swapping a key

I was able to get it to remap these keys on boot, both in X and in the console. In case anyone else is interested, this is what I did (I'll indent commands and file contents for readability): First, to remap the control key to the Windows key in X every time the X server is started, I added a

Debian for AMD64

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone has used the AMD64 testing version of Debian on a 64-bit Pentium D processor, and if there was any word on how stable it is? I may be getting a new PC here at work with a Pentium D in it, but if I don't run 64-bit Debian on it, I might as well stick with

Re: Debian for AMD64

Been running Sarge for a year on a genuine AMD Opteron. Have Debian unstable on several Opterons, a dual Xeon and Pentium D. The Pentium D "feels" faster but may have a faster clock speed / dynamically faster memory / peripherals. Not been running these for very long at all - but no obvious pro

Re: Debian for AMD64

Have most packages been ported to the amd64 architecture, or is there a limited selection? Check out http://buildd.debian.org/stats/ Yes, most packages have been ported. I found the amd64 "testing" version here: http://amd64.debian.net/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/beta2/images/