Re: Looking for a lazy gui

2008-09-30 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:47:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> I recall stumbling upon a program in the Debian archive which was a >> simple GUI - a customisable row of buttons and text-boxes - and which >> could be hooked up to any script, as a shortcut to actually writing a >> gui (which i can't do).

Dealing with obsolete packages

2008-09-30 Thread T o n g
Hi, I know that aptitude gui interface can show all those obsolete packages by sections. my questions are: - how can I tag all obsolete packages in a section, then remove them? - how can I get such obsolete packages list on command line? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http:/

Re: Installing Etchy on fakeraid/BIOS raid

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Teunissen
On Wed, October 1, 2008 03:39, John Merchant wrote: > Dear Debian user, > > I'm having trouble installing Etchy on a fakeraid/BIOS raid array, the > installer doesn't seem to detect the array but instead it detects the > separate SATA drives. > At the moment your best bet would be to set the fake

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Sharninder
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Dear All, >> > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk >

Maintainer change?

2008-09-30 Thread David Clymer
network-manager-openvpn seems to be maintained by ubuntu, and the contact for the debian pacckage is [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I've gotten no response to my bug-report + patch that I filed against it back in may. When I looked at the package in launchpad, it seemed that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is no lo

Re: Looking for a lazy gui

2008-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/30/08 22:20, John O'Hagan wrote: Hi Debianistas, I recall stumbling upon a program in the Debian archive which was a simple GUI - a customisable row of buttons and text-boxes - and which could be hooked up to any script, as a shortcut to actually writing a gui (which i can't do). It w

Looking for a lazy gui

2008-09-30 Thread John O'Hagan
Hi Debianistas, I recall stumbling upon a program in the Debian archive which was a simple GUI - a customisable row of buttons and text-boxes - and which could be hooked up to any script, as a shortcut to actually writing a gui (which i can't do). It would be perfect for a Python program I wan

Re: Music/Audio CDROMs, DVDs, & Etch kernel Security Update.

2008-09-30 Thread D Bray
The following is a response which I received off-list. With permission, I have pasted it below so that it gets recorded && within its rightful thread. DB > Hi DB, > > I have this very same issue as you wonderfully described on the Debian Thanks. (By necessity, the following makes assumptions ab

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 21:49 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk > > > that cont

Installing Etchy on fakeraid/BIOS raid

2008-09-30 Thread John Merchant
Dear Debian user, I'm having trouble installing Etchy on a fakeraid/BIOS raid array, the installer doesn't seem to detect the array but instead it detects the separate SATA drives. Any help will be appreciated. Cheers, John Merchant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x -> impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Van Biesen wrote: > Because you can't use a newer kernel as a xen dom0 kernel. The only working > dom0 kernel ( at the moment ) is a 2.6.18 afaik. > > Kindest regards, > > Peter. > > On Tuesday 30 September 2008 13:48:10 Rich Healey wrote: >>

Re: Trouble with USB printer

2008-09-30 Thread Kejia
Hi Chris, I think you may try to print some document into file, normally .ps file. If it processes like a real printing job, I mean the printer also can not work, please check your printer's status: localhost:631. The printer may already stop - note the second button in CUP console. What you n

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Aniruddha wrote: > -Boot livecd > -Run cfdisk > -Format partitions > -Unpack tar > -Chroot > -Adjust config files > -Run grub-install > > This takes about 30 minutes. Alternatively if one really want to do bare > metal recovery; image products from Paragon and Acronis are the best > choice. >

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 23:14 +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:49:08PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > I was wondering ho

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread elijah rutschman
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: [...] > If you can plug the hard disk of the "clean pc" into your existing > system, then I recommend dd. If you need to manually move the data > between the computers then partimaged is handier. If both computers > exists in

Re: Setting Multiple Shell Variables from One Run of awk

2008-09-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/30/2008 01:48 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: Right now, I have a shell script that does the following: hostname=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $1}'` domain=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $2}'` top0=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $3}'` top1=`echo $NEWDEV |awk

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:49:08PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk > > > th

Re: Setting Multiple Shell Variables from One Run of awk

2008-09-30 Thread Bob McGowan
Martin McCormick wrote: Right now, I have a shell script that does the following: hostname=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $1}'` domain=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $2}'` top0=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $3}'` top1=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $4

Re: automounting removable drives on multi-user systems

2008-09-30 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:37:29AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Content-Description: original message before SpamAssassin > Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:37:29 -0500 > From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: automounting removable drives on multi-user system

Re: Trouble with USB printer

2008-09-30 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 08:54 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > Hi, > > I have a USB printer, HP laserjet 1600. I'm using lenny, with cups > and the hpijs driver installed. The printer used to work, although it > would sometimes stop due to an error. Restarting the printer usually > got it w

Re: Setting Multiple Shell Variables from One Run of awk

2008-09-30 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:48:46PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Right now, I have a shell script that does the following: > > hostname=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $1}'` > domain=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $2}'` > top0=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $3}'`

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 14:18 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk > > that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact co

Re: Setting Multiple Shell Variables from One Run of awk

2008-09-30 Thread Bob McGowan
Martin McCormick wrote: Right now, I have a shell script that does the following: hostname=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $1}'` domain=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $2}'` top0=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $3}'` top1=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $4

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Larry Irwin
I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about this ? thanks

Re: KDE subpixel hinting

2008-09-30 Thread Alex Maurer
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:27:09 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 19:35:35 +0200, Alex Maurer wrote: > > I have both, etch and lenny installed. Both with KDE 3. At etch I can > > activate font-aliasing with subpixel hinting but I can't activate it > > at lenny.

Setting Multiple Shell Variables from One Run of awk

2008-09-30 Thread Martin McCormick
Right now, I have a shell script that does the following: hostname=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $1}'` domain=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $2}'` top0=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $3}'` top1=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS="."}{print $4}'` That looks in

Re: How to determine the domain on LAN?

2008-09-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 06:29:46PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > host $(wget www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp -O - -o /dev/null) or: wget www.whatismyip.org instead of that longer URL above. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: gv (gs) not producing full plots on AMD64 with nVidia

2008-09-30 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 19:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 18:27:19 +0100, michael wrote: > > I'm running Debian etch on my AMD64 box. It has an nVidia GeForce 6600 > > card and I'm using nVidia's module driver (v169.12). When I try and use > > 'gv' to display an IDL-produce

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Robert Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk > that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to > another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 10:11 -0700, Robert Robert wrote: > Dear All, > I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard > disk that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an > exact copy to another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free > software can I u

Re: Totem and audio/video codecs

2008-09-30 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:10:14 -0400 David Bernier wrote: > I usually use the Iceape/1.0.9 browser. > (...) > I'm still having problems with audio/video plugins. > When I go to the Bloomberg page: > http://www.bloomberg.com/ and click on > the radio icon, I get the message: > > "Totem could not play

Re: KDE subpixel hinting

2008-09-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 19:35:35 +0200, Alex Maurer wrote: > I have both, etch and lenny installed. Both with KDE 3. At etch I can > activate font-aliasing with subpixel hinting but I can't activate it > at lenny. The checkbox for subpixel hinting are gray and not useable. > > Any hints, why? I c

Re: how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Sharninder
> I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk > that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to > another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use > for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about this ? >

Re: gv (gs) not producing full plots on AMD64 with nVidia

2008-09-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 18:27:19 +0100, michael wrote: > I'm running Debian etch on my AMD64 box. It has an nVidia GeForce 6600 > card and I'm using nVidia's module driver (v169.12). When I try and use > 'gv' to display an IDL-produced plot it gives a partial plot, the cursor > shows that interpret

how to create an image of your debian computer hard drive for cloning

2008-09-30 Thread Robert Robert
Dear All, I was wondering how I could make a clone or image of my computer hard disk that contains debian OS. I want to do this in order to make an exact copy to another clean pc with no os at all. What complete free software can I use for this ? Is there a manual some where on the net about thi

Re: Wireless issues -- Lenovo R61 ThinkPad -- cannot enable connection on boot-up ...

2008-09-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:39:39 +0200, Ken Heard wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:35:55 +0200, Ken Heard wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> I would like however to be able to have the wireless connection enabled > >> on boot-up. I would appreciate it if someone could tel

Re: How to determine the domain on LAN?

2008-09-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 08:03:42 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install on an old Toshiba laptop the Debian GNU/Linux Etch > from a netinstall CD. > > At point 'Configure the network' I should set up the Domain name but > I forged domain name related to that LAN. > > I have access

Totem and audio/video codecs

2008-09-30 Thread David Bernier
Dear Debian user, I usually use the Iceape/1.0.9 browser. The Java plug-in 1.6.0_07 and the latest Flash plug-in both work. I'm still having problems with audio/video plugins. When I go to the Bloomberg page: http://www.bloomberg.com/ and click on the radio icon, I get the message: "Totem could

Compiling a newer module on an older kernel. Possible, limitations ?

2008-09-30 Thread Jasper
Hello list, I frequent a forum that deals with the "Acer Aspire One", a mini-laptop that is sold with "Linpus Linux" installed, a specialised distribution based on Fedora. Now there are many brand new Linux users who want their "3G" highspeed wireless usb dongles to work. In many cases that is pos

Re: automounting removable drives on multi-user systems

2008-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
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automounting removable drives on multi-user systems

2008-09-30 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi fellow debian-user(s) My problem concerns auto-mounting of removable media on multi-user systems. What I want is a tool/some scripts that: Whenever a removable media[1] is inserted the user who is owning the active display [2], should automatically get the device mounted and a filebrowser sho

debian lenny, xen 3.2 doesn't work, 3.0 works quite well

2008-09-30 Thread Martin Kraus
hi. I've installed debian lenny on an ibm series x3400 server. xen 3.0 hypervisor with etch xen dom0 images works, 3.2 and 3.3 hypervisors die with something like "cannot access memory beyond the end of bootstrap area". Those xen hypervisors boot on different hardware. the ibm hardware works quite

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x -> impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Mariusz Sielicki
2008/9/30 Peter Van Biesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 only works as a domu, not a dom0. For a dom0 > you still need a 2.6.18 kernel. > > Or are you running a 2.6.26 kernel as a dom0 ? - in which case I'm very > interested ! You have right. After I've posted my messag

Re: Grub overkill

2008-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 27, 1:30 pm, Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 27 September 2008 10:04 am, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 25. September 2008 04:30:55 schrieb Amit Uttamchandani: > > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:52:46 -0400 > > > >JohnCulleton<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Th

Trouble with USB printer

2008-09-30 Thread Christopher Judd
Hi, I have a USB printer, HP laserjet 1600. I'm using lenny, with cups and the hpijs driver installed. The printer used to work, although it would sometimes stop due to an error. Restarting the printer usually got it working again. Recently, probably after an upgrade, it stopped working

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x -> impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Van Biesen
The linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 only works as a domu, not a dom0. For a dom0 you still need a 2.6.18 kernel. Or are you running a 2.6.26 kernel as a dom0 ? - in which case I'm very interested ! All my non-xen machines are dist-upgraded. I suspect the 2.6.18 kernel to remain in the repositor

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x -> impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Mariusz Sielicki
2008/9/30 Peter Van Biesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Because you can't use a newer kernel as a xen dom0 kernel. The only working > dom0 kernel ( at the moment ) is a 2.6.18 afaik. On Lenny I've got linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686. Lenny will be stable just a moment, may by its time to dist-upgrade ? :

Setting up ad-hoc network?

2008-09-30 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Im running Gnome on a Lenny laptop. Is there a simple way to set up an ad-hoc wireless network? I want to do this so i can tether an iPhone, to get Net access via the phone. I expected that the NetworkManager "Create New Wirelss Network" option would do it, but i dont know what this does; its n

Mustafá da Abyara - Posso lhe ajudar ?

2008-09-30 Thread Mustafa - Consultor Abyara
Olá. Tudo bem? Meu nome é Mustafa, sou corretor on-line da Abyara. Você entrou em contato com a Abyara referente ao empreendimento ? Gostaria de saber se você já resolveu sua procura de imóvelHoje na Abyara eu tenho algumas opções bem interessantes em várias regiões. Por isso Pergunt

Re: [Xen-users] Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x -> impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Peter Van Biesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it really impossible to run clvm 2.x on a dom0 ? Or am i missing something > ? Has anybody used clvm with xen ? Clvm 2.02.06 is in Etch, so it surely runs on 2.6.18. -- Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: [Xen-users] Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x -> impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Van Biesen
Indeed. But the kernel module is a 1.3 : ii redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 2.6.18+1.03.00-7+etch4 Redhat Cluster infrastructure modules for Linux 2.6.18 on AMD64 ii redhat-cluster-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64 2.6.26+2.20080801-3Redhat Cluster infrastructure for Linux 2.6.26 on AMD

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x -> impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Van Biesen
Because you can't use a newer kernel as a xen dom0 kernel. The only working dom0 kernel ( at the moment ) is a 2.6.18 afaik. Kindest regards, Peter. On Tuesday 30 September 2008 13:48:10 Rich Healey wrote: > Peter Van Biesen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to setup a dom0 starting from a debi

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x -> impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Van Biesen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup a dom0 starting from a debian testing installation. I > installed testing, then installed the 2.6.18 kernel from stable and the > hypervisor from testing. After a reboot xen is now up and running

Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x -> impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Van Biesen
Hi, I'm trying to setup a dom0 starting from a debian testing installation. I installed testing, then installed the 2.6.18 kernel from stable and the hypervisor from testing. After a reboot xen is now up and running. I now want to use clvm. So I install redhat-cluster-suite and clvm. This insta

Re: Choppy video when compiz is active.

2008-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Digital Ninja a écrit : Hello List, Digital Ninja wrote: Dear List, I have a problem, where I am not sure if I am missing a module, or have an xorg.conf issue. I am using an Radeon X1400 video card in my laptop (Lenovo R60) I have compiz up and running, and seem to have no other issues. When I

Re: Choppy video when compiz is active.

2008-09-30 Thread Digital Ninja
Hello List, Digital Ninja wrote: > Dear List, > > I have a problem, where I am not sure if I am missing a module, or have > an xorg.conf issue. I am using an Radeon X1400 video card in my laptop > (Lenovo R60) I have compiz up and running, and seem to have no other > issues. When I start a video

Re: iptables LOG

2008-09-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2008 02:03 PM, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: I set iptables rule for logging. # iptables -I INPUT -m limit --limit 15/minute -j LOG --log-level 4 --log-prefix "firewall: " It's logging in warning level. And my logs goes to kern.log file. It's for now, but more over, this logs are flooded in