Latest kernel update fixed crashes?

The latest kernel update seems to have fixed the panics and GPFs I was experiencing. I was experiencing nearly predictable crashes whenever RAM was filled with cached disk blocks. At that point, it seemed that anything that addressed the cache would cause a crash: use a program that needed RAM

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 05:48:20 PM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 04:55:44PM -0400, John wrote: > > Could someone who has been following the giant fuss on -devel over > > init systems explain why there's such a sense of dire urgency? > > I think it's largely driven by frus

Re: Choosing default OS in multi boot system

On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:48:55 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > Don't know if I'd call Grub2 bloated, but Grub-legacy was friendlier. Maybe not bloated, but grub2 was certainly broken the last time I tried it. Specifically, (1) when I installed a system using grub2, it would install on the fi

Re: Only in America! ? (was ... Re: sudo and UNIXes (was: audacity export wma format[1 more question]))

On Thursday, October 31, 2013 02:22:40 PM Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 03:38:12PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Case 1: I find that someone in my family who lives in my house has > > rumaged through my underwear drawer. A violation of trust has > > occurred. I am unhappy and wi

Re: ANDROID (back to the OQ)

On Thursday, October 31, 2013 02:56:21 PM ken wrote: > On 10/31/2013 02:02 PM Beco wrote: > > On 31 October 2013 13:12, ken > > > > wrote: > > Alex, > > > > As you can see (from this long conversation), there are a variety of > > interpretations of wha

Re: Hosting advice

On Friday, November 01, 2013 08:49:28 AM Craig L. wrote: > Good points. The reason for going for hosting at the moment is it will > give us a quick and easy solution. The reason for the Linux requirement > is that we will be looking into a dedicated or virtual solution in the > future. If I am goin

Re: Hosting advice

On Friday, November 01, 2013 01:46:26 PM Celejar wrote: > I'm curious: how important is getting updates fast in the context of a > server? I understand that for desktops, some want the latest features, > or support for new hardware, etc. but servers? Doesn't it make more > sense to just run somethi

Re: sd card not detected

On Saturday, November 02, 2013 06:55:39 AM Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > I use xfce4 4.10, but in this case I think it has nothing to do with the > problem. > The problem is that the device is not detected by the kernel . > > it is not visible in the dmesg output and not visible in the output of > fd

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

On Saturday, November 02, 2013 08:23:45 AM Joel Rees wrote: > I'm repeating myself, but good engineers don't do that. No, they don't. They prepare new footings and pour a new foundation before moving the house to the new location. It's nice to know I haven't misperceived the situation. -- To

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

On Monday, November 04, 2013 01:20:01 PM Tony van der Hoff wrote: > No, it didn't work for me. I would have much preferred to automate this. > However, AFAICT the tools aren't available, and the time comes where you > feel you're beating your head against a wall. That's when I gave up. > > I'm not

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

On Tuesday, November 05, 2013 02:21:36 AM Richard Hector wrote: > On 05/11/13 16:51, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Second, you have a serious problem here because it is your root > > filesystem that has run out of inodes. You need to ask yourself why you > > have 1.7M files in your rootfs. That's very

(64-bit) linux 3.10 and nouveau oddity

Due to GPF problems I've been having with wheezy's linux 3.2, I decided to try testing's 3.10 kernel (only installed the newer initramfs and 3.10 pkgs). Yesterday it ran fine all day, even built my firewall system without a lick of the troubles I've been having with 3.2. (So the GPF problem migh

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: 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 a

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: SSD as Cache?

On Friday, November 08, 2013 09:12:08 AM basti wrote: > Hello, > > on my Webservers, I have 1x 128GB SSD and a Raid 1 (1TB). > > Now I plan to improve the performance of my Webapplication. > The Cache is about 10.0 GB in 200 files. > > Can this cache moved to SSD? > Months ago I read article

Re: Why Debian

On Sunday, November 10, 2013 03:54:31 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 14:27 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > linuxfromscratch.org > > IMO there's no need for a user to know all the details, however, > something FreeBSD port like, e.g. Arch Linux IMO is more pleasant than > Linux fro

Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)

On Monday, November 11, 2013 05:25:18 PM Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:03:44PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been a Debian user for I'd guess 7 or 8 years now. I would > > like to thank all of you that helped create a system that is so > > useful. Des

Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)

On Monday, November 11, 2013 09:28:26 PM Jon N wrote: > Neal, > > Well, I think you've found my weak point. I have been looking at > fairly new stuff. When shopping for processors I found there was > little difference in price between Intel's Haswell verses Ivy Bridge > (at least for Pentiums, w

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 03:06:23 PM Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2013-11-12 14:32 keltezéssel, Miles Fidelman írta: > > That's a very interesting point, but I wonder if it's true. There are > > real-world reasons to run both windows on linux on the same machine > > (personal example: running Linux

Re: (64-bit) linux 3.10 and nouveau oddity

On Friday, November 08, 2013 06:13:44 AM berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 05.11.2013 21:26, Neal Murphy a écrit : > > Is it fair to say this is a bug? In *something*? Or just an > > incompatibility > > between Wheezy and the newer kernel? > > It is indeed a b

Re: eth0 "disabled" after upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy

On Friday, November 15, 2013 02:18:26 PM Glenn English wrote: > On Nov 15, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> Re-adding the two etho lines should fix it all for you - unless a > >> reboot deletes them, somehow! > > > > it did. :-( > > Noob here. How about fixing /etc/network/interfaces, r

Re: eth0 "disabled" after upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy

On Friday, November 15, 2013 11:38:16 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > Thanks, Andrei, > > On Friday 15 November 2013 16:15:20 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 15 nov 13, 15:06:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > I have just upgraded a client's computer to Wheezy. It appeared > > > to go well and there was certain

Re: Wheezy/XFCE: remote desktop service difficulties with VNC server

On Sunday, November 17, 2013 03:53:14 PM Reco wrote: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:15:02 + > > Ron Leach wrote: > > X could not detect the attached screen because its cable is switched > > across a KVM which seems to destroy the EDID information; I'd already > > manually configured a Modeline for

Re: Automatic installs

On Sunday, November 17, 2013 04:20:25 PM Bob Proulx wrote: > P.S. Yes I know mixing awk and grep is silly since awk can do it all. > > dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l | grep ^rc | awk '{print$2}' | grep ^lib) > > I normally would have said this and done it all with awk. > > dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l |

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #1401

> help Could you be a little more specific? The dearth of data prevents us from offering meaningful, targetted assistance. This has be the least informative request ever seen in a community support forum. . . . Oh, wait. Mayhap the poster was trying to get the mailing list's command/operatio

Re: Finding pertinent inforation on WEB

On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:45:53 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > Linux-Fan wrote: > > Also, you can google "GNU Info Pages online" without quotes. I just > > found http://linux.about.com/od/lts_guide/a/gdelts69t02.htm by entering > > that query which also suggests the first page I have mentioned.

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

On Thursday, November 21, 2013 01:15:34 PM Sharon Kimble wrote: > I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - > > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > fluxbox -f;; > > This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines - > '

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

On Saturday, November 23, 2013 04:23:05 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I didn't read the full paper yet, but I'm wondering how/if the > optimization flag plays a part in this. I.e. does "O2" produce these > bugs but "OO" (default) or "Og" (debugging) does not? Or -O3... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:27:03 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 26 November 2013 16:03:54 AP wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Andrew Wood > > > > wrote: > > > After many years of using Linux on servers and my primary desktop > > > I would only recommend Debian. Its solid and

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 11:33:18 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 26 November 2013 16:25:08 AP wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Lisi Reisz > > wrote: > > > Much depends on whether you (AP) are ready to get your feet wet > > > and use the CLI (command line interface). By all mea

Re: split(): syntax error near unexpected token `(' ... [OT]

Bash does not have a split function. To split in bash, one has to do it the old-fashioned way: declare -i i declare -a myArray OIFS=$IFS IFS=":" set `egrep root /etc/passwd` IFS=$OIFS # Store the new positional parameters in indexed array myArray. i=0 while [ ! -z $1 ]; do myArray[$i]=$1 sh

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

On Friday, November 29, 2013 02:44:58 PM Bob Proulx wrote: > Now some people might claim that GNOME *is* the operating system. But > don't believe it. It is not. This is proven by the number of people > that use Debian every day but do not have GNOME on the system at all. I would say they don'

Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)

On Saturday, November 30, 2013 02:57:13 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2013-11-30 at 20:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-11-30 at 00:16 +, Joe wrote: > > > I haven't tried KDE for a while, and I'm not really interested in a big > > > beast. I do keep a Knoppix DVD handy for emer

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

On Monday, December 02, 2013 11:38:47 PM Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 14:17:20 +0100 > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 08:09 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > Sorry, don't know rocketmail. > > > > Nowadays occupied by Yahoo, POP and SMPT settings seems to be equal. > > Don't u

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 02:04:18 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Sorry for the extra broken English, I've got a cold :S and better don't > correct or try to rephrase my mails I quite understand. My fingers get stuffy. What I type seems oddly, mmm, distant, blurred. And my messages are often garbl

kernels 3.0, 3.2, 3.4 won't boot in KVM

I've encountered a problem with Debian Squeeze. Wheezy doesn't seem to have a bigmem kernel, so I can't test it there. I have a custom firewall based on Smoothwall. I've been testing it (kernel 2.6.35 with PAE and SMP) on Squeeze in KVM without trouble for a couple years. When I upgraded my fir

Re: dpkg/apt voodoo to ask "what version of is installed, if any?"

On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 04:54:27 PM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 12 sep 12, 15:44:59, Kris Deugau wrote: > > Is there a single command that can do this for both virtual and real > > packages, a la "rpm -q --whatprovides"? > > I have no idea what that command does, can you provide an exa

Re: deprecated (Re: What Version To Install On iMac?)

On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 07:44:03 PM Chris Bannister wrote: > > How do you call it when software or an administrator is being > > deprecated, i. e. the process of deprecating something/making something > > I can only think of the word "redundant" (surplus to requirements) at > the moment.

Re: Installation

On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 01:06:33 PM Ross Boylan wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 10:03 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > At its root, my objection in this subthread isn't necessarily to the > > information > > and functionality available in the current installer, but to the > > implied > > statem

Re: networking with virtual machine

On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 03:25:45 PM lee wrote: > Chris Davies writes: > > lee wrote: > >> Yes and when I replace the interface I have now (eth1) with a bridge > >> device (br1), then how do I tell shorewall that the guest is in the dmz > >> (for example)? > > > > You need "bridge" and "ro

Re: networking with virtual machine

On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 05:59:47 PM lee wrote: > Neal Murphy writes: > > So yes, if you want 'real' networking, you'll need bridges and taps. > > Thank you, I'll have to look into taps then. > > Do you think it's a good idea to just create a

Re: networking with virtual machine

On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 08:42:57 PM lee wrote: > Neal Murphy writes: > > On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 05:59:47 PM lee wrote: > >> Neal Murphy writes: > >> > So yes, if you want 'real' networking, you'll need bridges and taps. > >

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

On Thursday, September 20, 2012 03:55:48 PM Lionel Trésaugues wrote: > > And the sub-pixel order is equal too? > > The sub-pixel order is set to rgb (like I do in Ubuntu). I can > definitely see a (worse) change if I use a different mode. > Disabling the sub-pixel smoothing didn't improve anything

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Friday, September 21, 2012 04:53:21 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > It's not writing style but attitude. My attitude is that people should > be self reliant. Only when they search and can't find an answer should > they ask on a mailing list. Especially in this case, when the answer is > so damn eas

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

On Saturday, September 22, 2012 03:33:47 PM Scarletdown wrote: > On 9/22/2012 12:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 22 sep 12, 14:31:06, d d wrote: > >> I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other > >> software from a hard drive > >> leaving a completely clean hard dri

Re: ntpd crashes.

On Sunday, September 23, 2012 05:08:19 AM Rick Thomas wrote: > On Sep 22, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > Anyway, no NTP daemon should crash because of skewed time; one thing > > is > > that it refushes to sync (which can be fine, and should log this fact > > so the admin can make the proper

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 02:12:10 AM Ross Boylan wrote: > I wish you would be more civil instead of more clever about being > incivil. Never mind that Miss Manners would be utterly aghast that someone would try to claim the right to behave rudely, impolitely and/or barbarously simply becau

Re: Installation

On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 02:26:11 AM Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 04:12:31PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > Okay, I agree the user does not need to hold a MS in Computer Science as > > a previous requirement for installing an OS and managing a computer. > > But an MS in Astro

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:33:42 PM lina wrote: > $ ls -lrt > total 8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 lina lina 367 Sep 27 00:15 RET > drwx-- 2 lina lina 4096 Sep 27 00:16 auto-save-list Look closer: there's a space you are overlooking. ls -ls " RET" might work, and ls -ls *RET will definitely w

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:48:38 PM Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > That's the main reason I always use a fixed-pitch font for CLI stuff and > > email. > > So why was your post HTML? Hoist on me own petard! I thought I had all that turned off long ago. It keeps sneaking back, though. --

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

On Thursday, September 27, 2012 02:53:19 AM lee wrote: > Lionel Trésaugues writes: > > http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t405/Alkalyzer/Ubuntu_Terminal_zps831 > > 03ab7.png > > http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t405/Alkalyzer/Debian_Terminal_zps18 > > 67e859.png > > Now I see what you mean, t

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:52:26 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ date; fdisk -l; date > Thu Sep 27 22:48:21 UTC 2012 > ... > Thu Sep 27 22:48:59 UTC 2012 Failing boot sector? Some other sector it has to read is failing? Check the logs. Try (from smartmontools): smartctl -A /dev/sda | egr

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to rename > the IA64 port to "Itanium" and rename the AMD64 port to something like > "AMDINTL64". Something wrong with 'x86_64'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On Friday, September 28, 2012 08:23:59 AM Dom wrote: > >1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 082 006Pre-fail > > > > Always - 96695847 > > Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very > low. Not necessarily. At least one disk mfr (Seagate?) p

Re: command isn't working in crontab

On Friday, September 28, 2012 07:35:04 PM Tomas Hulata wrote: > Hello, below command works in command line but not as a cronjob can > someone explain me why? > > 23 58 * * * rootcd /some_path/;mkdir "CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)";mv > ./CAM1/*.* ./"CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)"/;mkdir "CAM2-$(date +%d.

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On Friday, September 28, 2012 08:58:47 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > > >1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 082 006Pre-fail > > > > > > > > Always - 96695847 > > > > > > Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very > > > low. > > > > Not nec

[NIT] Re: Debian Small CD install "netinst.iso"

On Sunday, October 07, 2012 03:18:25 PM Paul E Condon wrote: > Windows and Debian use different file systems on disk. I think Windows > is incapable of modifying data on extN formatted disks that Debian > uses. A minor NIT to pick. There is an EXT3 driver for Winders that enables it to read and

Re: OT: man in the middle attack ?

On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 03:14:23 PM Joe wrote: > > And finally, there are a few people who are just plain prickly... but > one of the most important of all freedoms is the freedom to offend. As is the freedom to choose to brush off offenses--be they real or perceived-- or to take them per

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 08:19:25 PM houkensjtu wrote: > Thanks for great reply!! > I have to apologize for sth... I forgot to say that all these experiments > were done in home on my laptop...omg So, now I solved the problem with > echo "1">/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > What is this fil

Re: arp cache incomplete entries

On Thursday, October 11, 2012 08:47:37 PM Celejar wrote: > > I'm no expert, but my impression is that any machine which is asked to > connect to some other host by IP address will issue such an ARP > request, so if I do 'ping x.x.x.x', and x.x.x.x has not been recently > in contact with my machine

Re: arp cache incomplete entries

On Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:23:31 AM Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > In a pattern that is becoming all too familiar, the problematic machine > sends an ARP request, to which the nameserver replies. But the reply is > never received by the asking machine. So says wireshark. > > Could this be

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:40:40 AM Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Debain Users, > > I'm at the final stages of Installing NOT Ubuntu but Debian 'Squeeze' > on my dual-boot system. Windows is installed on the 1st hard drive > (/dev/sda) and Debian will be installed on the 2nd hard drive > (/dev/s

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

On Monday, October 15, 2012 05:19:29 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to > learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a > terminal emulation. Or, perhaps, a simple list of ways to become root without any clutt

Re: aptitude interface help

On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:34:24 AM james gray wrote: > Question: > > where in the file system is the individual file > > for help in the aptitude interface environment. The man pages are typically in /usr/share/man. The man page for aptitude is found in section 8. So, try: zcat /usr/sha

Re: Wally Lepore

On Friday, October 19, 2012 07:00:35 PM John Hasler wrote: > > ...and requires emacs to be installed. > > So what? I used emacs back when it was written in TECO and have used a few flavors since. I'd *never* advise a new user to use emacs. They have enough to learn; they don't need to double or

Re: Wally Lepore

On Friday, October 19, 2012 08:27:25 PM Chris Bannister wrote: > ... > > I will add that, if anyone does take the emacs+gnus route they will have > a powerful and versatile system which a lot of developers/users swear by. > > On the other hand, a lot of developers/users swear by the vim+mutt route

Re: Kernel documentation

On Sunday, October 21, 2012 04:14:17 AM Lisi wrote: > > We advise studying the README files in this root directory of the kernel > source, and Documentation/Changes or the documentation index of the kernel > in Documentation/00-INDEX. > > > Presumably I have to download a kernel source to get at

Re: Screenshots

On Monday, October 22, 2012 07:23:58 PM lee wrote: > Frank McCormick writes: > > ImageMagicks import commmand seems to work better to select a portion > > of the page...but it needs a new file name for each shot..which makes > > it a little awkward. > > > > Does anyone have suggestions...perhaps

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

On Monday, October 29, 2012 03:26:20 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 15:00 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf > > > > wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > > > how can I get rid of the variable "seconds"? > > > > > > ((seconds=(done-started)-(((done-

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

On Monday, October 29, 2012 04:31:03 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > FOR YOUR EXAMPLE, IIUC IT SHOULD BE? ... > > ### Killall and Restore session > started=$(date +%s) > sleep 2 > > ### Time > month=$(date +%B) > mon=$(date +%b) > d_y_t=$(date '+/%d/%Y %T') > done=$(date +%s) > #((seconds=(don

Re: Advice on system purchase

I hate waiting for my computer to do things. Swapping and paging at all? Add more RAM. CPU-starved while running multiple processes? Add more CPUs. By and large, for most desktop purchases, the most economical and reliable system will have a Gigabyte 790 or 970 mboard (I've never had a Gigabyte

Re: Advice on system purchase

On Saturday, November 03, 2012 01:47:40 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Motorola 680x0, DEC Alpha, SGI MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Motorola/IBM PowerPC, > Sun SPARC, Cray Vector, Intel Itanium (irony here). You missed Moto's 88K which vastly outperformed the 68K. The Moto/Freescale embedded PPC (though clearly n

Re: Advice on system purchase

On Saturday, November 03, 2012 02:50:00 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I do support AMD, and I never said they're > on a collision course with bankruptcy. What I did say is competing head > to head with Intel in the x86 CPU market is a tough game, and they have > made many missteps along the way. > >

Re: [OT] debian package maintain tutorial

On Sunday, November 04, 2012 11:24:34 AM lina wrote: > Please also understand that people's mind not programmed the same. We > learned things by different ways. I really had difficulty reading > manuals even I messed up lots of things by blindly try. > I read manual, but just don't get it. Don't f

Re: Mysterious packet

On Thursday, November 08, 2012 11:58:33 AM Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:26:23PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I've started getting messages like the following: > > > > [12332.047451] IN=ppp0 OUT=ppp0 SRC=74.125.133.188 DST=25.46.128.71 > > LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=50 ID=4

Re: Mysterious packet

On Friday, November 09, 2012 06:30:37 PM Tom Furie wrote: > Not sure it helps any, but the 74.125.0.0/16 block belongs to Google and > the 25.0.0.0/8 block belongs to the UK's MoD. Looks like some sort of > attack attempt to me. Were I a paranoid type, I might think that someone was inventing a ne

Re: Awk, filtering match through external command

On Friday, November 09, 2012 11:28:29 PM T o n g wrote: > Any way to filter through external command to variable, somewhat like: > > head /etc/group | awk '{print $0 | "cut -d':' -f1" | getline result ;}' > > Any way to make it works? You'd *think* there'd be a way to do that, but I don't think

Re: Directory ownership

On Sunday, November 11, 2012 12:42:09 AM Gean Ceretta wrote: > *# chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean/* This is your trouble. You recursively changed the ownership of everything *in* /home/gean, but you did not change /home/gean itself. Try: chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean This will also change own

Re: Directory ownership

On Sunday, November 11, 2012 01:50:03 AM Gean Ceretta wrote: > Thanks Neal and Charlie, I've tried: > *# chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean* but the ownership stays the same root, > maybe its important to say that the /home is an NTFS partition, mounted by > /etc/fstab as: > > */dev/sda3 /home auto

Re: ssh issue

On Sunday, November 11, 2012 02:39:14 PM Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user > rd, not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no difference in > the accounts: I'll bet some key files in .ssh/ are readable by other th

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

On Sunday, November 11, 2012 04:08:47 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 11/11/12 12:54, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > Does Debian-kfreeBSD in fact have ext3fs support ? > > I dunno -- perhaps that's the problem. (I use Debian Squeeze i386 and > Debian Wheezy amd64.) > > > A console-only ins

Re: apt / aptitude question

On Sunday, November 11, 2012 04:59:34 PM David Guntner wrote: > Hello, > > Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some form > of *NIX since 1986. Have been a happy Mandriva user since the Mandrake > 7 days, but that new company that purchased it, resulting in them losing >

Re: Grub and Wireless Keyboard

On Monday, November 12, 2012 06:32:22 PM Dr Beco wrote: > Last week my keyboard broke, and I bought a wireless set > keyboard+mouse that comes with a usb transmitter. > > Yesterday I realize I can not chose an item from the grub menu during boot. > ... > But, still... Is there any solution? Maybe

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, headless system

Does your box have a serial port? Can it be configured to display the BIOS screen on the serial port? Can Debian be installed using a serial port? That is, connect a null-modem serial cable between the box to be installed and some other computer and use minicom (Linux) or Hyperterm (Win). Or put t

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 01:22:50 AM Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:10:55AM -0500, Tom H wrote: > > That RHEL/Fedora dont' use "/usr/src" might, on its own, not make it > > good practice, but since they're following kernel documentation > > perhaps it does! > > The kernel docum

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, headless system

On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:19:34 PM Ross Boylan wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 21:57 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > > Does your box have a serial port? > > No. USB and LAN ports. I investigated SOL, serial over LAN, and IPMI, > but can't get access to it; apparentl

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:09:31 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Shortcuts to resize the view do > work for Thunar, Xfce's file browser. Such shortcuts depend to the > applications you're using, the view shortcuts are at least common for > all web browsers I know. I've found works on a number of

Re: CPU scaling problems

On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:34:11 PM Mark Allums wrote: > > Francesco wrote: > I have installed Debian testing on a X1 Carbon, processor i5-3427U. > > My problem is the following: when the `ondemand' governor is active, the > processor clock never scales up, it always stays at 800Mhz.

Re: Thunar, USB-sticks and big files

On Sunday, November 18, 2012 07:57:09 AM Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:58:29AM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > > Hi guys! > > > > > > I have a problem copying big files to an USB-stick using thunar in > > > > ... > > > > > I do this to copy ripped DVD's

Re: Thunar, USB-sticks and big files

On Sunday, November 18, 2012 01:43:54 PM Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > Try 'sync' after the write is supposedly complete; see what happens > > when the system actually tries to write to the device. Open a shell > > and 'tail -f /var/log/messages' to see if anything is griping about > > the device du

Black Screen of Death

Last night, I got two BSODs while building my firewall (actually building its toolchain). General Protection Fault. I snapped a pic of the second one. This is on wheezy, 64-bit, updated, using the latest 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. I last saw similar problems some years back when I had hardware troubl

Re: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:54:33 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > ... My humour is less good than Chaplin's ... OK. Pointed, direct humor back at you. What was the shortest book ever published? "One Thousand Years of German Humor", which consisted of the frontispiece, the preface, and the introd

Recent net stats oddity with Wheezy KVM sessions

In the past month or two, I have consistently encountered an odd problem with Wheezy on an AMD 8350 CPU. I never had this problem with my quad Phenom-II. The problem --- When I install recent builds of 32- and 64-bit Smoothwall Express 3.1 in a KVM on 64-bit Wheezy, everything seems to w

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

On Saturday, July 05, 2014 03:09:52 PM Erwan David wrote: > I also think that the transition was far too fast : The testing fast, > see wether it breaks anything should have been done *before* setting it > the default. Not after. A variant of the old corporate 'if it compiles, throw it over the wa

Re: simple database solution without root access

On Sunday, July 06, 2014 01:21:31 AM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I have some data in text format organized as follows > > field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 > val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 > val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 > ... > val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 > > > I w

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

Other than not being fully automated, what would be wrong with: - use dd to copy the first 10MiB of the old drive to the new, - use dd to skip all but the last 10MiB of the old drive and seek to the same spot on the new drive - use dd if=/dev/zero to zero the first MiB of each partition.

Re: what was broken with sysvinit? some thoughts on initialization "systems"

On Sunday, July 06, 2014 10:19:33 PM Joel Rees wrote: > It took me several years (and playing with MSWindows's Wrong Way To Get It > Right) to see that ad-hoc nature of sysvinit was, indeed, a feature, not a > bug. SysV init was a feature of the first computer I bought for my own use decades ago;

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:49:52 PM Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > To prove my point (on a laptop with LXDE and just a few services): > > $ grep sleep /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > > 27 > > $ ls /etc/init.d/* | wc -l > > 75 > > Yup, the boot speed improvements c

Re: HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

On Tuesday, July 08, 2014 02:32:37 AM Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:07:24 -0700 > > pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Is there a software which can convert an HTML5 page to a > > pixel map? Conversion should apply on text, tables, images > > and SVGs, all allowed in HTML5. > > > > rs

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