Re: system heavy load

* Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-11 21:34:53 -0400]: > I would start simpler than that. Make sure that DMA is enabled on your > hard drive(s). > It is: # hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma

Re: How to create autorunning CD?

Indraveni wrote: Hi, I want to know how to create an autorunning CD in Linux especially debian Linux. As soon as I insert the CD it opens up in a browser in my system but along with this i also want a script to run automatically or some html page should open.. Like in windows we create this usi

Re: 2.6 kernel image for AMD-K6-2

#include * Joop [Wed, Jul 12 2006, 03:47:18AM]: > Maybe I got it wrong since I am a bit new to the scene. > But this is what I did. You got it wrong. That's about the linux-image-... kernel packages which have only few profiles, not including -k5, -k6 and many others. Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Why?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Mattern wrote: [snip] > Good Lord...I can see how the spiral was chosen. Was the contest > fixed? The only other one that wasn't godawful butt-ugly was the > DG logo, and that looks like something for Amalgamated > Consolidated, Inc. Ah, you j

Re: No sound on flash movies

Iván Alemán wrote: Yes, you're right in order to use "aoss" you need to be using alsa, follow the intructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75237 I did that and now my sound is back! Thanks, Iván! And everyone else who answered! Well it was... I have a slow dial-up so flas

Re: xfce panel missing on startup

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 22:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:51:27PM +0200, Chris wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i have xfce4 installed as below. With some users on my system it works > > as expected, with another user it seems to start, but there are no panels > > and no mo

Re: No sound on flash movies

Jochen Schulz wrote: Wulfy: Jochen Schulz wrote: Iván Alemán: While a flash movie loads very well on firefox, I can't get any sound, I solved this problem a few days ago by editing /etc/firefox/firefoxrc. Since I am not using a sound daemon (I don't use Gnome or KDE

Re: No sound on flash movies

Yes, you're right in order to use "aoss" you need to be using alsa, follow the intructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75237 On 7/12/06, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wulfy: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Iván Alemán: >> >>> While a flash movie loads very well on fir

Re: disappearing text in gtk apps in upgraded Sid

I just tried turning ON anti-aliasing in the Gnome font preferences dialogue, and the problem went away. But... err... I hate using anti-aliased fonts in my UI... ! Where should I look to try to get non-anti-aliased fonts to work again? El mié, 12-07-2006 a las 00:00 -0500, Andrew Green escrib

Re: hostname for sqwebmail

Found this old post and wondered if there is an answer to setting the hostname on outgoing posts for sqwebmail. My outgoing smtp mail uses the local box hostname instead of the fully qualified domain name of the server. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: No sound on flash movies

Wulfy: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Iván Alemán: >> >>> While a flash movie loads very well on firefox, I can't get any sound, >> >> I solved this problem a few days ago by editing /etc/firefox/firefoxrc. >> Since I am not using a sound daemon (I don't use Gnome or KDE), I put >> "aoss" in there.

disappearing text in gtk apps in upgraded Sid

Help! I just upgraded my Sid box, and all of a sudden all of my gtk-based apps, including the Nautilus-run desktop, are behaving all wonky. Basically in menus and widgets of all kinds, including text areas, most text is invisible after the first space of any line. Then when the control is highl

How to create autorunning CD?

Hi, I want to know how to create an autorunning CD in Linux especially debian Linux. As soon as I insert the CD it opens up in a browser in my system but along with this i also want a script to run automatically or some html page should open.. Like in windows we create this using autorun.inf file i

Keyboard no working after Debian kernel upgrade from 2.4.27-2 to 2.6.8-3

Hi Guys Excuse me. I am a new user to Debian so forgive any errors. I have recently installed Debian 3.1R2 onto a Fujitsu Siemens S6010 lifebook. This installed kernel 2.4.27-2. Everything worked perfectly except for the sound. I read somewhere that upgrading the kernel would solve this problem.

Re: dell poweredge 830

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: its got, more or less: intel p4, 2GB, 2x 187GB scsi drives, integrated XGI XG20 VGA controller, unknown integrated gigabit NIC. I'm mostly concerned about hardware support and mystery devices that don't "just work" on this machine. Better get a NIC that is known

dell poweredge 830

okay gang, help me out here. I've got a buddy coming over tomorrow with a dell poweredge 830. So, he calls and asks if i have any windows server software for his sweet new server for hishouse. I laugh and say (as i do every time I talk to him), why don't you put linux on it... well, he's finally ta

Re: Why?

* Chris Mattern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jul 11 20:26 -0500]: > >Some of the other logos considered can be seen at: > >http://www.debian.org/vote/1999/vote_0004 > > Good Lord...I can see how the spiral was chosen. Was > the contest fixed? The only other one that wasn't > godawful butt-ugly was

Re: Why?

* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jul 11 13:51 -0500]: > Nate Bargmann writes: > > The Debian Project, itself a part of the GNU project, or at least tightly > > affiliated with it... > > Debian was briefly affiliated with the FSF at the beginning but the > association was dissolved before 1.

extracting files from old DAT tape

On a sarge machine, I have a WangDAT 3100 tape drive from the late 1990s. The tape from which I would like to recover certain files was made back in 1998 with bru. I loaded the module for it: # insmod st $ lsmod | grep st st 29112 0 (unused) scsi_mod95108 4 (autoclean

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

Dave Ewart wrote: On Tuesday, 11.07.2006 at 02:02 -0700, michael bailey wrote: I am interested in obtaining a new motherboard and CPU. The current CPU is a Pentium III and runs Debian Sarge (kernel 2.4.27-3-686). I am thinking of getting an Athlon 64 as the new CPU. Does anyone please

Re: 2.6 kernel image for AMD-K6-2

Maybe I got it wrong since I am a bit new to the scene. But this is what I did. Download the latest 2.6.17 kernel source from kernel.org. unpack in your sources directory. make menuconfig goto processor type and features select processor familly and ypu are in business. running happely kernel 2.6

Re: system heavy load

Dave Patterson wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-11 18:01:24 -0400]: > > > >>Top is quite reliable. The load average represents how many processes >>are ready to run. If everything is trying to access the disk, your CPU >>utilization will be low (at least less than 10

Re: Why?

> > Where did you get that logo? When it came up on the > gnome desktop it immediatlely reminded me of > something being flushed down the drain. I hope it > doesn't mean that! Actually, the logo is a logarithmic spiral, which has the interesting property that it employs what the Greeks call

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

On 2006-07-11 23:49:23 -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note: you shouldn't use the ncurses that come with Mac OS X. They are > > buggy. > > hmm - to the best of my knowledge, the "ncurses that come with Mac OS X" > are some version of ncurses, just like

Re: system heavy load

* Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-11 18:01:24 -0400]: > Top is quite reliable. The load average represents how many processes > are ready to run. If everything is trying to access the disk, your CPU > utilization will be low (at least less than 100%) and yet you will have > a h

Re: Horrible performance: hdparm

Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:10:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Rich Johnson wrote: > > > Judging from the lackadaisical disk LED activity, I doubt it's the disk. > > > > Disk issues can lead to apparently low disk activity in some situations, > > and it's the first thi

Re: Why?

* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-11 13:29:35 -0500]: > The reason is that there is no reason to change. One or the other has to > be the default: should we toss a coin? Maybe battlebots to the death... -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Howto fix grub after converting to reiserfs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 July 2006 17:03, marc wrote: > Hi, > > I have a little problem :-o > > Machine has Windows on sda2 vfat, which is the MBR. (sda1 is not used), > Linux on sda3, sda4 contains sda5 swap, sda6 ext Linux, sda7 is vfat > shared space. > > Here

Re: No sound on flash movies

I remember I had no sound in flash videos once,turns out I had jackd running.On 7/11/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Iván Alemán wrote:>> I have the same problem. I use KDE.  What should I put in there?  I >> tried "aoss", "artsd" and "alsa" but they don't work...>> Try restarting firefox, I e

[KDE] Save the whole session

Hello, From day to day I open konqueror and firefox and happens that konqueror saves all the tabs / pages you have visited when you close the session and/or the computer in normally halted and then those konquerors load again automatically when you turn-on/restart the computer, the same happens

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should set TERM to 'macosx'. If things don't work, just fix them > in the terminfo data and rerun tic. that's more/less what I was advising. > Note: you shouldn't use the ncurses that come with Mac OS X. They are > buggy. hmm - to the best of my

Re: No sound on flash movies

Iván Alemán wrote: I have the same problem. I use KDE. What should I put in there? I tried "aoss", "artsd" and "alsa" but they don't work... Try restarting firefox, I edited /etc/firefox/firefoxrc and changed to "aoss" and it didn't work until I restarted the computer (in my case and by accid

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Ian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, meant for this to go to the list (why no Reply-To?)... tin doesn't post to email (I often followup with the same information) > Thomas Dickey wrote: > First off thank you for such a helpful response! >>> "pretty garbled" could be more than one thin

Re: Can't mount cdrom after cdrecord installation

Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I've just installed cdrecord in my Debian Sarge r2, > and then changed in menu.lst the line: > > kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro > > into: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro > hdb=ide-scsi ro hdc=ide

Re: No sound on flash movies

I have the same problem. I use KDE. What should I put in there? I tried "aoss", "artsd" and "alsa" but they don't work... Try restarting firefox, I edited /etc/firefox/firefoxrc and changed to "aoss" and it didn't work until I restarted the computer (in my case and by accident) but just restar

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

On 2006-07-11 12:09:45 -0700, Ian Brandt wrote: [...] > >> Backing up a little, I'd edit that line to show > >> > >> macosx|generic color xterm, > >> > >> and remove the $HOME/.terminfo/x/xterm-color and > >> $HOME/.terminfo/n/nxterm, > >> rerun tic. Then > >> > >>infocmp macosx xterm-color >

Re: CPU temperature question

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 15:02, gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello > > I have a temperature question. When I'm working, normally I see in a > file '/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature' something between 51 C > to 55 C. It is not to much ?? If it is a problem, what can I do about ? Your CPU manua

Re: Horrible performance: hdparm

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 00:11, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 19:01, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > What you *can* do that would be helpful (and really, this would be > > best fixed in the kernel as well) is to set -u 1 by default, but > > don't change -d (dma). > > Please fil

Re: Horrible performance: hdparm

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 19:01, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > What you *can* do that would be helpful (and really, this would be best > fixed in the kernel as well) is to set -u 1 by default, but don't > change -d (dma). Please file a wishlist bugreport against debian-installer if you really

Re: changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

Liam O'Toole wrote: You have two choices: 1. Keep your copy of ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (which looks like it was written by the theme switcher) and put further customisations in ~/.gtkrc.mine 2. Replace the contents of ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with the following: gtk-theme-name="Clearlooks_Cairo-Breathe"

CPU temperature question

Hello I have a temperature question. When I'm working, normally I see in a file '/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature' something between 51 C to 55 C. It is not to much ?? If it is a problem, what can I do about ? Another question, if I run the 'xsensors' application I see for example M

Re: system heavy load

pol wrote: > Sometimes my laptop appear to be heavily loaded, ('top' reports an average > around 25; moreover i can hear the fan running, sendmail is 'rejecting > connections') although the cpu activity is well below 100 % (according > to 'top') and no swapping on disk is occurring (as i can infer

Re: Testing and honesty

Dave Ewart wrote: > > OK, that's a reason to avoid PHP, *not* specificially a reason to avoid > Squirrelmail. Just because PHP may lead to insecure apps does not mean > that any particular PHP application is badly written, from a security > point of view. > I agree. Based on the idea that squir

Re: python2.4 gtk2 broken

Kai Schroeder wrote: Hi, i've recenctly installed debian sid and i can't run any python2.4 apps that use gtk. if i run democracyplayer e.g. i get: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/democracyplayer", line 8, in ? import pygtk ImportError: No module named pygtk /usr/lib/pyt

Re: /etc/hosts.deny how to use it?

Why not uncomment line 19 in /etc/hosts.deny? Then use /etc/hosts.allow specifically to allow certain ips. The /etc/hosts.allow is checked first and anything not found in it that's covered by /etc/hosts.deny is supposed to be blocked. Even so, I'd be looking at the system with last and lastb

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

Another factor needing consideration is the quality of the manuals and associated documentation themselves. If an adverse review has no problem proving documentation short-comings that ranks higher over here. That having been said, systems like dapper drake based on intended audience do not a

Howto fix grub after converting to reiserfs

Hi, I have a little problem :-o Machine has Windows on sda2 vfat, which is the MBR. (sda1 is not used), Linux on sda3, sda4 contains sda5 swap, sda6 ext Linux, sda7 is vfat shared space. Here's the story, so far - moved Linux (on sda3) to a safe place while booted on another partition (sda6)

Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:58, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 7/11/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:18, Michael Marsh wrote: > > > Does it respond to kill -HUP? > > > > Nope, or to 3, 6, or 11. So, yeah, I'm down to trying random things. :) > > Can you atta

Re: Mapping between *.wav files and cdrecord -audio tracks?

Adam Funk wrote: I made digital copies of an old record by connecting my hi-fi line output to my sound input and using Audacity to record the tracks (and edit them slightly) and save them as "RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz" files, Have you tried g

Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

On 7/11/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:18, Michael Marsh wrote: > Does it respond to kill -HUP? Nope, or to 3, 6, or 11. So, yeah, I'm down to trying random things. :) Can you attach to it with gdb ("gdb proftpd 889")? It might start responding to k

Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:26:57PM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:18, Michael Marsh wrote: > > On 7/11/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Win32? Huh? This is a Debian system. Proftpd is locked (won't accept > > > connections, even though it shows l

Re: xfce panel missing on startup

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:51:27PM +0200, Chris wrote: > Hello, > > i have xfce4 installed as below. With some users on my system it works as > expected, with another user > it seems to start, but there are no panels and no mouse buttons result in any > menus. I am using kdm. > > I tried remo

Editing run level S (was encrypted filesystem that can be mounted remotely?)

Leading on from the earlier posters question about configuring an encrypted filesystem that does not interrupt the boot process with a password prompt... Can anyone tell me what the 'Debian way' is to remove something (in this case 'cryptdisks') from runlevel 'S'? The relevent links are: /etc/r

Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

2006/7/11, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Win32? Huh? This is a Debian system. Proftpd is locked (won't accept connections, even though it shows listening on *:ftp. yes...^^...also this is a debian system is not exempt by trojan and virus...^_^ This is what top shows: 899 ft

Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:18, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 7/11/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Win32? Huh? This is a Debian system. Proftpd is locked (won't accept > > connections, even though it shows listening on *:ftp. > > Does it respond to kill -HUP? Nope, or to 3, 6, or

Re: How to diagnose kernel panic?

Thank you for your suggestions how to chase down this intermittant panic. This did occur from beginning with this machine (Supermicro P4SCi MB, Ablecom 420w power, Seagate Barracuda SATA HD's, Crucial RAM, Debian testing with 2.6.15 kernel, software RAID1). All HD tests from manufacturer passed (

Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

On 7/11/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Win32? Huh? This is a Debian system. Proftpd is locked (won't accept connections, even though it shows listening on *:ftp. Does it respond to kill -HUP? -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com

Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:56, heba wrote: > 2006/7/11, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > OK, so I understand you can't kill a process in a 'D' state. That makes > > sense. > > > > But, why can't you kill a process in state 'R'? > > > > This is what ps aux shows: > > > > ftp899 64.

Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

2006/7/11, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: OK, so I understand you can't kill a process in a 'D' state. That makes sense. But, why can't you kill a process in state 'R'? This is what ps aux shows: ftp899 64.9 0.2 4164 2216 ?RNs Jun12 27137:59 proftpd: (accepting conne

Re: No sound on flash movies

Jochen Schulz wrote: Iván Alemán: While a flash movie loads very well on firefox, I can't get any sound, I solved this problem a few days ago by editing /etc/firefox/firefoxrc. Since I am not using a sound daemon (I don't use Gnome or KDE), I put "aoss" in there. I have the same proble

xfce panel missing on startup

Hello, i have xfce4 installed as below. With some users on my system it works as expected, with another user it seems to start, but there are no panels and no mouse buttons result in any menus. I am using kdm. I tried removeing .config and .cache but something still seems to be wrong. Does a

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TISR Issue # 12

Dear readers, colleagues, and partners from various institutions, This is to inform you that the 12th issue of The International Scope Review has been published on Saturday 06-10-2006, 23:43 GMT. We as a Review have 8 years of existence now. The new editorial, "Referring Governments to th

Re: Force kill a process?

2006/7/11, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Think of the 'D' state as saying "The operating system will be damaged if the process is allowed to exit now". DigbyT thanks, I'm understanding...^__^ regards and good night at all. -- heba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Another thread about a non-killable process

OK, so I understand you can't kill a process in a 'D' state. That makes sense. But, why can't you kill a process in state 'R'? This is what ps aux shows: ftp899 64.9 0.2 4164 2216 ?RNs Jun12 27137:59 proftpd: (accepting connections) BTW, top shows that process taking 100%

Re: ~/.xsession crashes xserver

Haines Brown: > > I find it difficult to interpret ~/user/.xsession-errors, but it does > contain the line: "g_object_ref: assertion 'object->refcount > 0' > failed". I needed the .xsession file to hold the lines: > > xset s off > xset -dpms I had difficulties with xset a few weeks

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Sorry, meant for this to go to the list (why no Reply-To?)... Thomas Dickey wrote: First off thank you for such a helpful response! >> "pretty garbled" could be more than one thing... Here are some screen shots: >> Back

Re: Force kill a process?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 08:19:42PM +0200, heba wrote: > 2006/7/11, helices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >man ps > > > >Read this section: > > > >PROCESS STATE CODES > > > > > thanks very much. But I've a question. Is it possible change the D > state in other state that it is possible to kil

Can't mount cdrom after cdrecord installation (was: dvd burning)

I've just installed cdrecord in my Debian Sarge r2, and then changed in menu.lst the line: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro into: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 root=/dev/hda6 ro hdb=ide-scsi ro hdc=ide-scsi ro hdd=ide-scsi , but then when I try to mou

Re: Why?

Nate Bargmann writes: > The Debian Project, itself a part of the GNU project, or at least tightly > affiliated with it... Debian was briefly affiliated with the FSF at the beginning but the association was dissolved before 1.1 came out. > A few years later, TrollTech changed the license on Qt to

Re: Problem Stopping mplayer

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 10:00 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I start mplayer from mozilla and listen to a radio station not available > locally - works perfectly. > > There is a hitch though. If mozilla is stopped there is no longer a > window for mplayer. I stop it from a console by getting i

Re: quotaon fails - "Quota format not supported in kernel"

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 07:56 -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > I'm attempting to enable quotas on a Sarge system running a custom > 2.6.17.3 kernel. > > # grep -i quota /boot/config-`uname -r` > CONFIG_QUOTA=y > CONFIG_QUOTACTL=y > > # quotaon -uv / > quotaon: using //aquota.user on /dev/hda3 [/]:

Re: Force kill a process?

2006/7/11, helices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: man ps Read this section: PROCESS STATE CODES thanks very much. But I've a question. Is it possible change the D state in other state that it is possible to kill the process? thanks again -- M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: encrypted filesystem that can be mounted remotely?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:00:56PM -, Anonymous wrote: > I'd like to keep some of the data on my computer's hard drive > encrypted, but not necessarily all of it. But I also need to be able > to reboot the computer remotely and log into by SSH without the > encrypted FS mounted, then mount the

~/.xsession crashes xserver

I placed into ~/user a file .xsession that even without any content causes the xserver to crash for user (root has no problem running xserver). I find it difficult to interpret ~/user/.xsession-errors, but it does contain the line: "g_object_ref: assertion 'object->refcount > 0' failed". I neede

Re: Force kill a process?

* heba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:11:19:55:24+0200] scribed: > 2006/7/11, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >You cannot kill processes that are in the D state. They are in > >uninterruptable sleep in the kernel. > >-- > >John Hasler > > excuse me for my ignorance, but what is the D state, plea

Re: Force kill a process?

2006/7/11, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: You cannot kill processes that are in the D state. They are in uninterruptable sleep in the kernel. -- John Hasler excuse me for my ignorance, but what is the D state, please? Thanks and regards. -- heba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: encrypted filesystem that can be mounted remotely?

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 17:00 +, Anonymous wrote: > I'd like to keep some of the data on my computer's hard drive > encrypted, but not necessarily all of it. But I also need to be able > to reboot the computer remotely and log into by SSH without the > encrypted FS mounted, then mount the encrypt

Re: No sound on flash movies

Yup, it works right now, the link I posted supposed to send you to the same solution you're proposing. So what you just suggested works, firefox only needed to be restarted. Thanks a lot. On 7/11/06, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Iván Alemán: > > While a flash movie loads very well

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: encrypted filesystem that can be mounted remotely?

Anonymous on 2006-07-11 17:00:56 -: > I'd like to keep some of the data on my computer's hard drive > encrypted, but not necessarily all of it. But I also need to be able > to reboot the computer remotely and log into by SSH without the > encrypted FS mounted, then mount the encrypted partitio

Re: Why?

* S Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jul 10 22:12 -0500]: > I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things puzzle me. > > Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and kde seems > to me to be easier to use. There must be something I am missing. Back in th

encrypted filesystem that can be mounted remotely?

I'd like to keep some of the data on my computer's hard drive encrypted, but not necessarily all of it. But I also need to be able to reboot the computer remotely and log into by SSH without the encrypted FS mounted, then mount the encrypted partition in the SSH session (from a trusted machine, of

system heavy load

Sometimes my laptop appear to be heavily loaded, ('top' reports an average around 25; moreover i can hear the fan running, sendmail is 'rejecting connections') although the cpu activity is well below 100 % (according to 'top') and no swapping on disk is occurring (as i can infer from the hard disk

Re: Horrible performance: hdparm

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Osamu Aoki wrote: > What does people feel to make hdparm with DMA enabled to be default for > etch? Leave the DMA default for the kernel (hint: it is already on for disks, and unless we are compiling our kernels with the "DMA only for disks" option, also for ATAPI devices when

Re: Weird cups problems

George Borisov wrote: > > If so, you can get around it by entering URL by hand and ... and changing the hostname in the URL to "localhost". -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Weird cups problems

David A. Parker wrote: > > 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.) > I do

Re: Horrible performance: hdparm

Osamu Aoki wrote: > What does people feel to make hdparm with DMA enabled to be default for > etch? Is is not the kernel that needs to be tuned to enable/disable this by default? It also seems more reliable than simply brute-forcing this on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Horrible performance: hdparm

Hi, On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:10:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Rich Johnson wrote: > > Judging from the lackadaisical disk LED activity, I doubt it's the disk. > > Disk issues can lead to apparently low disk activity in some situations, > and it's the first thing I'd check: Make sure that DMA i

LDAP, Kerberos trouble

Hello, I'm setting up a central user directory with LDAP, password are in a kerberos database. It looks like everything works. However, it just doesn't work. If I remove LDAP and just get passwords from kerberos I can login just fine. Things go weird (in my opinion, no doubt I'm doing somethi

Re: apt-get and Proxy configuration

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:09:59 -0400 "Hansel A. Ortiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi... people.. > > Now im having problems with a apt-get because it requires > authorization be the ISA server, but the configuration i made to see > if i can fix the problem was this.. > > i have an user in the is

Re: Wiki for Java Developers Using Debian

Redefined Horizons wrote: > Other developers that are working with Debian are welcome to > contribute to the wiki page. Hopefully it will mature into a helpful > knowledge base for Java development on Debian. Why not integrate it into official Debian wiki? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Wiki for Java Developers Using Debian

Redefined Horizons on 2006-07-11 08:22:28 -0700: > I have created a little wiki to assist newbies to Debian with Java > development on the operating system. It would be great if that were integrated into the Debian wiki, wiki.debian.org. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Wiki for Java Developers Using Debian

I have created a little wiki to assist newbies to Debian with Java development on the operating system. I'm still new to Linux myself, although I have been programming with Java for a little while. I hope others will find the wiki useful and I am open to suggestions for its improvement. There isn

Wacom Mouse Problem

If gdm is started with the mouse on the wacom tablet, the mouse wont work. If gdm is started with the mouse off the tablet and the mouse is placed on the tablet after the sign in screen is displayed it will work. This is with a debian testing box and a 2.6.15 kernel. I discovered this about

apt-get and Proxy configuration

hi... people..Now im having problems with a apt-get because it requires authorization be the ISA server, but the configuration i made to see if i can fix the problem was this.. i have an user in the isa server with all access to the internet... but i never configured debian with it... so now is ask

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: Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version

Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dell Poweredge 1850 SCSI RAID Running Sarge 2.4 Backports version of MySQL Routine running of apt-get update ... upgrade produced this:- Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-2-686-smp (2.6.14-6bpo1) ... Running

Re: Force kill a process?

You cannot kill processes that are in the D state. They are in uninterruptable sleep in the kernel. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Force kill a process?

2006/7/11, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 09:28 -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: > Can you 'invoke-rc.d proftpd stop'? It runs without any error, but the processes are stillthere. > will ask the process to exit. kill -9 will tell it to quit, now. Doesn't do anything :-(

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