Re: Which package provides lvcreate

--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:37:39AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > I need the tool lvcreate to create LV. Please advise which of > > > What are their main operation? > > > > For operational help for standard stuff, I always refer to the >

Re: Which package provides lvcreate

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:37:39 +0800, Stephen Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Debian Etch > > > I need the tool lvcreate to create LV. Please advise which of > following packages I have to install; > > lvm-common > lvm2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search lvcreate lvm2: /lib/lvm-200/lvcr

Re: Which package provides lvcreate

* Lee Glidewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 14.10.2008 > By the way, you can search packages for individual files by running: > $ dpkg-query -S filename > > In the same way, you can list filenames included in a package with > $ dpkg-query -L package Hello Lee, with "apt-file" you can search for files

Re: choice of debian kernel for etch

Nobody has been in this situation? Boris Demirov wrote: Hi all, I have this situation where I want to select an already recompiled debian kernel for the following hw: 16GB ram Intel E5420 xeon (2x4 cores cpu) with the requirements to support vservers, to be 32 bit and to be able to use all

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

> > ... ran the suggested command line incantation in the bug report, > > > > update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so > > > > then ran Iceweasel again. The result was that 1.7.2 now works as good for > > me > > as 1.6.3 ever did. > > Hey, did you know that flashplugin-nonfree was rem

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:51:36PM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote: > ... ran the suggested command line incantation in the bug report, > > update-alternatives --auto flash-mozilla.so > > then ran Iceweasel again. The result was that 1.7.2 now works as good for me > as 1.6.3 ever did. Hey, did

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:51:36PM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote: > I don't know if my experience will help, but when the 'flashplugin-nonfree' > package was updated to the 1.7.* series, I started experiencing freezes for > about 30 seconds at a time just using my ISP's webmail interface. I ended

Re: Which package provides lvcreate

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:37:39AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > I need the tool lvcreate to create LV. Please advise which of > What are their main operation? > For operational help for standard stuff, I always refer to the LVM-HOWTO. Its available with all the other HOWTO's in doc-linux-htm

Re: Which package provides lvcreate

On Monday 13 October 2008 08:37:39 pm Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Debian Etch > > > I need the tool lvcreate to create LV. Please advise which of > following packages I have to install; > > lvm-common > lvm2 > > ??? > > > Or I have to install both? TIA > > > What are their main operation

Which package provides lvcreate

Hi folks, Debian Etch I need the tool lvcreate to create LV. Please advise which of following packages I have to install; lvm-common lvm2 ??? Or I have to install both? TIA What are their main operation? B.R. Stephen L Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.

Re: Running app full-screen

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:13:38PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I'd like to run a single application (tellico) full-screen in a dedicated VNC session *without* a window manager. I'm not sure how to force the application to be full-screen, though. If my xstartup contains

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:50:02AM -0400, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I can see a badly-behaved Flash plugin killing Firefox/Iceweasel. I can > even see it freezing X. How can it freeze the script running in the VT? > It's a really solid freeze--not only do ctrl-alt-f1 and

Re: understand the logs

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 06:56:54AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 10/11/08 18:24, Abel McClendon wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:09:23 -0400 > >> Daryl Styrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>Oct 11 14:08:45 debian kernel: [44140.916755] Inbound IN=w

Re: Running app full-screen

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:13:38PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'd like to run a single application (tellico) full-screen in a > dedicated VNC session *without* a window manager. I'm not sure how to > force the application to be full-screen, though. > > If my xstartup contains "exec tellico," i

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

Mumia W.. wrote: s. That allows me two advantages: I can use chain-loading for the secondary OS's, and each Linux OS has perfect boot stanzas in their respective /boot/grub/menu.lst files. Good idea. I recommend installing Grub under FC9, but install it to the superblock of /dev/sda13--NO

Running app full-screen

I'd like to run a single application (tellico) full-screen in a dedicated VNC session *without* a window manager. I'm not sure how to force the application to be full-screen, though. If my xstartup contains "exec tellico," it launches properly but only takes up a fraction of the screen. Is there a

how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

hello all, I use Iceweasel with icewm (no DTE). I've temporarily switched from my 21" monitor to a very small one and the fonts on e.g. the toolbars in iceweasel are too big. For Konqueror I found some K settings app to change those fonts. Is there a simple app to install to change them for Ice

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

Hi Carl, > It's not just that, though. Any Flash movie will solidly lock it. For > instance, Pandora loads, then the laptop stops. I don't know if my experience will help, but when the 'flashplugin-nonfree' package was updated to the 1.7.* series, I started experiencing freezes for about 30

Quote from Stephen Roberts (was: Filing bug reports in Debian)

Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -- > Chris. > == > I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god > than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other > possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. >

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

Hal Vaughan wrote: > But does it address the original issue? The original report is that > menu.lst is overwritten without notice. > A fact that is noted in that file, by the way. In the top, there are pointers to documentation on what interacts with the file: # menu.lst - See: grub(8), info

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian

Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You have raised some interesting points. I tried to delve backward to see what exactly those points were, but didn't get much success. It would be good for someone to summarise the positions; all I have at the moment is one side believes the other is

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Monday 13 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 17:44:08 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Sunday 12 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 13:56:57 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [...] > > > > > With that in mind, notice that nothing said in thos

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: > You have raised some interesting points. If you consider the BTS as a > help desk, then I think you will be sorely disappointed. > > It seems that to file a bug report the submitter first has to research > the problem, try and resolve it, and if possib

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 17:44:08 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 12 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 13:56:57 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: [...] > > > With that in mind, notice that nothing said in those posts is at > > > all helpful. [ snip: quotes from the bug

Re: Can't run aptitude

Dennis Wicks: > Jochen Schulz wrote the following on 10/12/2008 08:06 AM: >> >> To me that looks like you have a http_proxy environment variable set. I >> think Synaptic and aptitude honour that. Or you have set the >> corresponding option in apt.conf. > > Thanks for the pointer! That was the pr

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:16:25PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > It seems to me you can only try a different Lenny or distribution. > Those people that said WFM you don't know what kernel they are running. > You mentioned Knoppix: are you able to play a Flash movie on that? Like someone said in

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:35:58PM +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > Iceweasel plus swfdec on an amd64 works like a charm here > too...(testing/unstable)...youtube and all that. In my testing earlier this year, swfdec won't run multiple instances, which is a thing I like to do. -- Carl Fink

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:14:29AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: On this laptop when were you able to play Captain Disillusion last? Before reinstalling Debian last week. It's not just that, though. Any Flash movie will solidly lock it. For instance, Pandora loads, then th

Re: Can't run aptitude

Jochen Schulz wrote the following on 10/12/2008 08:06 AM: Dennis Wicks: When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get dgwicks:~# aptitude update Writing extended state information... Done Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg Could not connect to loca

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

Carl Fink wrote: This is deeply weird and should be impossible. On an HP DV6100 laptop running a freshly-updated Lenny, I use Iceweasel 3 and the Flash library from Adobe, also updated today. I reinstalled Lenny last week. Starting Friday (I didn't use the laptop over the weekend) and continui

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

H. S. wrote: > > This solved the problem: > 1. Booted in to my Debian system. > > 2. Did > #> grub-install /dev/sda13 BTW, got that solution from here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/partial-success-installing-grub-error-2-643342/ Apparently there is something new in the f

Re: kernel config q

Jochen Schulz wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom: But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the functioning of the driver. Am I correct? Generally yes. There are modules which are better compiled statically (IDE/S-ATA, filesystems) but they work either way. This in regard to trying

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:14:29AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > On this laptop when were you able to play Captain Disillusion last? Before reinstalling Debian last week. It's not just that, though. Any Flash movie will solidly lock it. For instance, Pandora loads, then the laptop stops. --

Re: kernel config q

Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the > functioning of the driver. > > Am I correct? Generally yes. There are modules which are better compiled statically (IDE/S-ATA, filesystems) but they work either way. > This in regard to trying to get smar

Java/Flash/video-codec packages in Debian Lenny AMD64

For flash, i recomend flashplugin-nonfree, works like a charm for me. -- Nuno Magalhães PS: sorry Eugene :)

Re: Java/Flash/video-codec packages in Debian Lenny AMD64

Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote: > In Lenny, have the Java/Flash/video-codec packages in AMD64 reached the same > level of functinonality as in I386? I am ready to use non-free packages. > What's wrong with Java and video codecs? For Flash, try swfdec or gnash. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Uk

Java/Flash/video-codec packages in Debian Lenny AMD64

In Lenny, have the Java/Flash/video-codec packages in AMD64 reached the same level of functinonality as in I386? I am ready to use non-free packages. -- Masatran / Deepak, R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

On the fly spell checking in firefox

Hi, My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly installed lenny. How can I get it back? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools

Re: kernel config q

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom schrieb: > Dave Ewart wrote: >> On Monday, 13.10.2008 at 09:46 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> [...] >> > > It works regarding smartctl but *not* using vga= or uvesafb, which is > a severe problem compared to using smartctl. > For m

Re: Changing NIC in existing Server results in no ETH0

Jochen Schulz escreveu: > This is a feature. ;-) Udev (the program that dynamically creates device > nodes) tries to always assign the same device name to the same physical > device. Except for hard drivers, where it tends to do exactly the opposite. :-) -- Eduardo M Kalinowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing NIC in existing Server results in no ETH0

Keith Steensma: > > I have a sever that has been running for months with a single Realtek > 8139 network card. The NIC failed and I put in a 3Com 3C905B-TX card > (that I pulled from a working test machine). When I rebooted the > server, the 3Com card was no configured and I ended up with

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

On 10/13/08 10:50, Carl Fink wrote: This is deeply weird and should be impossible. On an HP DV6100 laptop running a freshly-updated Lenny, I use Iceweasel 3 and the Flash library from Adobe, also updated today. I reinstalled Lenny last week. Starting Friday (I didn't use the laptop over the we

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

On 10/13/2008 09:38 AM, H.S. wrote: Hello, I just installed Fedora Core 9 alongside Debian. During the installation I did not update grub and chose not to install grub since I wanted to retain my Debian grub configuration. I have done this before. I just change Debian's grub to put in the releva

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

This solved the problem: 1. Booted in to my Debian system. 2. Did #> grub-install /dev/sda13 where /dev/sda13 is the other distro's partition(in my case it is Fedora Core 9) which has /boot . 3. Rebooted and selected Fedora's kernel and it worked okay. Regards On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:38 AM,

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

Carl Fink wrote: This is deeply weird and should be impossible. On an HP DV6100 laptop running a freshly-updated Lenny, I use Iceweasel 3 and the Flash library from Adobe, also updated today. I reinstalled Lenny last week. Starting Friday (I didn't use the laptop over the weekend) and continui

Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

This is deeply weird and should be impossible. On an HP DV6100 laptop running a freshly-updated Lenny, I use Iceweasel 3 and the Flash library from Adobe, also updated today. I reinstalled Lenny last week. Starting Friday (I didn't use the laptop over the weekend) and continuing today (Monday),

Re: Changing NIC in existing Server results in no ETH0

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:37:19 -0500, Keith Steensma wrote: > I have never seen this addressed in the mailing list, so I'll have to > ask for help > > I have a sever that has been running for months with a single Realtek > 8139 network card. The NIC failed and I put in a 3Com 3C905B-TX card

Re: Changing NIC in existing Server results in no ETH0

On Mon Oct 13, 2008 at 16:55:06 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > What is it that the install routine does that finds the NIC's. Is > > this a command line (something) that can (should) be run manually > ethx devices always correspond to the one NIC they were created for. > Your new NIC is work

Re: kernel config q

Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 13.10.2008 at 09:46 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am under the impression that for a kernel function, like a driver, to be present and function correctly one has to mark it either 'Y' or 'M' in the kernel .config. But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is im

Re: kernel config q

On Monday, 13.10.2008 at 09:46 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I am under the impression that for a kernel function, like a driver, > to be present and function correctly one has to mark it either 'Y' or > 'M' in the kernel .config. > > But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as

Re: Changing NIC in existing Server results in no ETH0

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:37:19 -0500 Keith Steensma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never seen this addressed in the mailing list, so I'll have to > ask for help > > I have a sever that has been running for months with a single Realtek > 8139 network card. The NIC failed and I put in a 3Com

kernel config q

Hi, I am under the impression that for a kernel function, like a driver, to be present and function correctly one has to mark it either 'Y' or 'M' in the kernel .config. But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the functioning of the driver. Am I correct? This in rega

Changing NIC in existing Server results in no ETH0

I have never seen this addressed in the mailing list, so I'll have to ask for help I have a sever that has been running for months with a single Realtek 8139 network card. The NIC failed and I put in a 3Com 3C905B-TX card (that I pulled from a working test machine). When I rebooted the serv

how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

Hello, I just installed Fedora Core 9 alongside Debian. During the installation I did not update grub and chose not to install grub since I wanted to retain my Debian grub configuration. I have done this before. I just change Debian's grub to put in the relevant stanzas for my FC kernel (was FC8 t

Re: Iceweasel+flashplugin-nonfree: 100% CPU usage with some flash/swf embedded videos or animations

Just manually install the latest Flash 9 from Adobe. The one in non-free has got a known bug. Cheers, Oliver Herold On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Nicolas BERCHER wrote: Hi, I often have 100% CPU usage when I visit "full-of-flash-web sites" (fortunately, I run on a dual core CPU!) It depends on the

Re: interpreting smartmontools output

Jochen Schulz wrote: Johan Grönqvist: I read about smartmontools on "debian package a day", and tried it out. Running "smartctl -A /dev/sda" on my recent laptop (bought it this spring) gave me 8 times pre-fail and 15 times old_age. You are misreading the output. The words "pre-fail" and "old

Re: Shutdown hooks

Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:56:00PM +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi, I was trying to find out if there are any shutdown hooks. What i mean by this is that i must be able to have some conditions met before actual shutdown starts. Eg:- Suppose there is a very important pro

Iceweasel+flashplugin-nonfree: 100% CPU usage with some flash/swf embedded videos or animations

Hi, I often have 100% CPU usage when I visit "full-of-flash-web sites" (fortunately, I run on a dual core CPU!) It depends on the site I visit: on myspace, this is horrible (yes myspace has horrible page layouts and people abuse on flash gadgets...), on other sites this is OK. So I configured

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

Shams Fantar wrote: Hi all, I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; Or are there any better solutions ? My purpose beeing that local users can't access/read any file which isn't in their own home directory. Regards, Isn't it enough to just secure the home dirs? You pr

Re: unable to play some flash videos [solved]

Finally, I've solved the problem for my distro (stable/testing/unstable mix): Upgraded Iceweasel to sid/main 3.0.3-2 and installed back flashplugin-nonfree (tested flashplayer-mozilla this morning with no success with Iceweasel 3.0.1 & 3.0.3). Does it work for you ? N. Hi, with Iceweasel 3.0.

Re: unable to play some flash videos

Hi, with Iceweasel 3.0.1 & flashplayer-mozilla, I have many problems with flash plugin on myspace, lastfm, etc. It seems that's because of the recent Iceweasel upgrade I did. How about you ? N. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

Jochen Schulz wrote: > The only idea that pops into my mind would be chroots for every user. > But I don't see a point in doing that. Maybe just one chroot with absolute minimal software available for all users or perhaps use ${YOUR_FAVOURITE_VIRTUALIZATION_SOFTWARE_HERE}? -- Juha Tuuna -- T