> And, how do you connect to that distant computer? SSH, I guess?
> If I had the same problem, I would check that the correct profile
> (environment variables, rights, such kind of things) related to poweroff
> is loaded, since I think ssh does not provide all environment variables to
> connected u
This conversation is unbelievable. Debian-user is supposedly a list where
voluntary people answer simple practical questions of users. Are you
really going to enforce list members to watch such ego demonstrations and
unfunny jokes?
> On 2/16/2013 3:50 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle wri
> I am trying to figure out the meaning of:
>
> /proc/$PID/fd/*
>
> files.
These are links that point to the open files of the process whose pid is
$PID. Fd stands for "file descriptors", which is an integer that
identifies any program input or output in UNIX-like systems.
> and then if I t
> Hi,
> I've just installed wheezy/KDE on a spare machine, to see what we're
> getting. All seems OK, apart from one mystery:
>
> I installed a copy of Firefox-18.0.2 in /usr/local, with a symlink
> pointing to it, as I have done in Squeeze and earlier for years.
>
> Typing "/usr/local/firefox/fire
>> did you unload the old kernel driver?
>> at least you need a `modprobe nvidia` after dkms install and then
>> restart the graphical login manager (kdm, gdm...)
>>
>>
>> -r
>>
>
> I did it (the driver was loaded. ) but I still got the error "screen not
> fount".
>
> I've tryed to manually edit th
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 04:21:47PM +, Hélder Pinheiro wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there any program to do a kind of snapshots of my debian
>> installation?
>> Something that I can restore through CLI
>> I am always playing around with my distro and sometimes things do not run
>> well, and I feed the
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <
> assir...@nonada.if.usp.br> wrote:
>
>> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 04:21:47PM +, Hélder Pinheiro wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >> Is there any program to do a kind of snapshots of my debia
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <
>> assir...@nonada.if.usp.br> wrote:
>>
>>> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 04:21:47PM +, Hélder Pinheiro wrote:
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >> Is there any program to do a kind of s
> Hi folks,
> I have been considering all day how I will ask this.
> it is very very important that I get the answer I seek, and with so many
> variations, things can shift off the mark if not careful.
> going to keep it simple only adding extra detail if necessary.
> If one already has an insta
> On 2013/2/27 6:31 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> Mark Filipak wrote:
>>> I'm not a troll, Miles.
Yes, you are. Lets see.
> I'm trying to get help, Miles.
What is the question?
> I've been lurking. This didn't start out as
> my thread. "I wish to advocate linux" is not my aim. I merely made a
>
> Hi,
> i've 4 HD's and 3 distros.
> When i load debian squeeze, the sdc hd is slected by grub, but the next
> time i load it, the sda hd is selected.
> It seems a randomize selecting.
> How can i fix this ? UID is used and settings by name don't resolve the
> problem.
> And yes, i have win7 also o
> Hello List,
>
> On 01/03/13 09:53, Lars Noodén wrote:
>> On 3/1/13 10:41 AM, Maro ilka wrote:
>>> What would be better way to do it ? Is it even possible to do such
>>> change on running system without worries to lose some data ?
>>
>> I wouldn't do it on a running system. Better to boot from
> Hello,
>
> I made a download debian-6.0.7-amd64-netinst.iso.
> I have Dell Power EDGE, when I go to install debian, it not detect a
> driver network.
> I put broadcom but fail.
Rodrigo,
we cannot help if you don't tell what is the exact model of the network
card. Type the command
lspci -vnn
i
> Thanks but these instructions are for creating an installation flash drive
> on Linux - and they're well hidden. So it's a fail from the perspective
> of the person criticizing distributions for not providing readily-available
> Windows instructions for creating one.
Wow! This trolling will neve
> Do you want to help?
> If no, stop reading now (I don't need more heckling).
Do you want help? Then don't write agressive email with sarcastic subject.
> What I did:
[...]
What you tried to do requires great Linux skill and knowledge. It is
beyond your possibilities to even understand help on
> There was once a fellow on a list I belong to whose postings
> were one tale of woe after another which is not that unusual for
> those of us who tinker and work in technology. The trouble with
> him was that it was all one big conspiracy against him and he
> was just going to get out of the hobb
> Windows-NT 3.5 was probably the finest OS ever written
Let us see who will be the first to bite the troll :)
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> Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
>>> Windows-NT 3.5 was probably the finest OS ever written
>> Let us see who will be the first to bite the troll :)
>>
>>
>
> Do you really want to start a "debate" on best OS ever? Talk about an
> ugly relig
> Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
>>> Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
>>>>> Windows-NT 3.5 was probably the finest OS ever written
>>>> Let us see who will be the first to bite the troll :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Do you really wa
> On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 08:51:03 +, Brian wrote:
>
>> The problem is in the GUI installer. To do the installation
>> successfully, use the text-based installer.
>
> I'd not see this as being the problem, Both a text and a GUI install
> should succeed (or fail) under the *same* condition
> On 28-Feb-13 16:55, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> i've 4 HD's and 3 distros.
>>> When i load debian squeeze, the sdc hd is slected by grub, but the next
>>> time i load it, the sda hd is selected.
>>> It seems a ran
> It was not a partitioning problem or some other random problem. There's a
> bug in the GUI Debian Installer packaged with LXDE desktop, ver 6.0.6. I
> succeeded simply by running the text-based Debian Installer. No one
> suggested that.
If this is the case, please accept my deepest apologies.
P
> Hello everyone,
>
> One quick question: If package A pre-depends on package B, and package
> C depends on package A, does package C pre-depend on package B?
>
> In other words, is pre-depends transitive across regular dependencies?
C ==(Depends)==> A ==(Pre-Depends)==> B
As you stated the prob
> On 02-Mar-13 14:23, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
>> So, no. C does not pre-depend on B unless it is explictly stated in its
>> Pre-depends field. Here is an example:
>>
>> bash ==(Depends)==> base-files ==(Pre-Depends)==> awk.
>>
>
> Thanks - t
> Mark Filipak wrote:
>
> I've thrown the thread away,
Oh no, please Mark! We are wayting a step by step detailed description of
the procedure that makes GUI installer fail and text installer succeed.
Please, this is vital so we can reproduce, diagnose and fix the bug. If
you do not provide such s
Brian wrote:
> Had the USB hard drive been used instead of the 8-GB USB and *exactly*
> the same install attempted it too would have failed. The nature or size
> of the device being installed to is immaterial, as is whether it is a
> text mode or GUI install. The only thing that matters is that th
Brian wrote:
> On Sun 03 Mar 2013 at 18:07:26 -0300, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
>
>> > Write a netinst image to two USB devices. Boot from one device and
>> > install to the second one. Try text and GUI modes. It's about an
>> hour's
>> > wor
> linux is stable, or is it?
Absolutely stable and crashproof? No. Anyone who says that has no idea
what he is talking about. You can compare Linux operating systems to other
operating systems if you wish, though.
> my squeeze has just crashed
> it doesn't respond to key press
> two of three ligh
> Hello,
>
> slightly OT, maybe... (specific to kernel, not Debian).
>
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:03:24 -0300
> "Joao Luis Meloni Assirati" wrote:
>> Squeeze is now more than 2 years old and in this period I
>> installed and administered dozens of debian c
> João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Since vfat filesystems don't hold UNIX permissions, it has
>> to be mounted with the umask and/or uid, gid options. If it
>> is plugged through USB and you have a mount desktop service
>> communicating with dbus, all should be automatic. However,
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to ask, whether there is some intelligent way how to
> synchronize processes over the file-system state.
>
> E.g., if one process creates|modifies|deletes some file,
> how can I learn *when* that effect hits all cores?
> (not just the one where I executed those operations)
> Dear Users,
>
> I installed 4GByte RAM in my motherboard succesfully. In BIOS I see all
> the
> 4096MByte, but after booting Squeeze it show me 3,5GByte. I know I should
> install the kernel with PAE - so I
> installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem package and restart computer.
> After it I cho
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