Re: apt-get update error

2008-10-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 October 2008, L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'apt-get update error': >*deb http://live.debian.net/debian/ etch main >*to */etc/apt/sources.list. Based on what I saw that http://live.debian.net/debian , they are not using the pooled layout with distribution subdirectories

Re: how to setup a local website for storing some debian packages?

2008-10-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 25 October 2008, "Star Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'how to setup a local website for storing some debian packages?': >sometimes we have some standalone packages to install, it's not in the >offical mirrors. I'm a web developer so I hope I can make a local >website to store the

apt-get update error

2008-10-25 Thread L . V . Gandhi
For debian-live, as said in http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/05/31/create-your-own-live-linux-cd-or-usb-distribution/ I have added the following line *deb http://live.debian.net/debian/ etch main *to */etc/apt/sources.list. But when I do apt-get update, I get following error Err http://live.debia

(solved) Re: how to save alsa configuration

2008-10-25 Thread Serena Cantor
I add snd-sb16 to /etc/modules, it now can detect my card automatically. Thanks! To Nigel Henry: I found 2 lines suggested by you in /etc/modprobe.d/sound alias snd-card-0 snd-sb16 options snd-sb16 isapnp=0 So I needn't enter manually. Thanks anyway! --- On Sa

Re: downgrading a single package

2008-10-25 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:33:45 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> I was experiencing with an unstable package, now I'd like to >> downgrade this package... >> $ apt-cache policy nfs-common >> nfs-common: >> Installed: 1:1.1.3-2 >> Candidate: 1:1.1.3-2 >> Version table: >> *** 1:1.1.3-2 0

Alternatives to Google Groups?

2008-10-25 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Dear all, [Slightly OT, I know, but this list contains many technically savvy people who are able to answer well...] I run a mailing list which is currently hosted by Google Groups. We've been having ongoing problems with reliability (i.e., messages make it to the web interface but not all e-mail

Re: Encrypted partition perfomance

2008-10-25 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> I intend to use encrypted partitions in my new system, probably >> using dm-crypt with the suggested settings. I understand this will have >> an impact on performance, but how big it is? I'm talking about a Core 2 >> Duo E8400 (@ 3.0GHz

Re: how to save alsa configuration

2008-10-25 Thread Nigel Henry
Update below. On Saturday 25 October 2008 23:06, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 25 October 2008 21:53, Serena Cantor wrote: > > I enter the command "alsactl store" and reboot, it doesn't work! > > Hi Serena. I have an SB16 ISA card on the machine I'm posting from (FC2), > but it's only set up fo

Re: Grub Question

2008-10-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Thomas H. George wrote: I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst (also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from 0). The MBR is unchanged and the system still bo

how to setup a local website for storing some debian packages?

2008-10-25 Thread Star Liu
sometimes we have some standalone packages to install, it's not in the offical mirrors. I'm a web developer so I hope I can make a local website to store these packages, then I add a line "deb http://localhost/debian unstable main contrib non-free" into my source.list file, then these packages can

Re: Changes to vim, how to undo

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:21:48AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:51:38PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun,26.Oct.08, 07:34:34, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > my problem is after a recent upgrade of vim I had to add in > > > source /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/mail.vi

Re: Changes to vim, how to undo

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:51:38PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,26.Oct.08, 07:34:34, Alex Samad wrote: > > > my problem is after a recent upgrade of vim I had to add in > > source /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/mail.vim > > I didn't have to add anything, vim automatically recognizes the

Re: apcupsd and hal

2008-10-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:20:24 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:02:07PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 16:21:50 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > it seems like my apcupsd deamon get stuck when hal is probing > > > /dev/usb/hidinput0 (the

.bash_aliases

2008-10-25 Thread GI_Mike - Herman von Mandel
Please disregard my last email. As it generally is, just as a I sent the email I saw the problem. The ~/bash.aliases file is missing alias in front of each alias. I have altered this for my user and it works now. It is amazing how the simplest things can escape you sometimes... Anyway, thanks

.bash_aliases setup

2008-10-25 Thread GI_Mike - Herman von Mandel
Greetings to the list! Apparently I am missing something which is frustrating me a bit. I have a user account on a Debian Etch system which is needing some additional aliases and rather than muck around with .bashrc, I would rather the aliases be placed in ~/.bash_aliases. The user created ali

Re: how to save alsa configuration

2008-10-25 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 25 October 2008 21:53, Serena Cantor wrote: > I enter the command "alsactl store" and reboot, it doesn't work! Hi Serena. I have an SB16 ISA card on the machine I'm posting from (FC2), but it's only set up for one of the distros on the machine as a second soundcard on the Fedora Core

Re: Synchronisation Samsung player Addict (OMNIA)

2008-10-25 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Anthony wrote: > Hello > > On debian etch, > > I try to sync my new samsung OMNIA mobile on kde . > > somebody have already done this.? > > I only can view my memory if i configure the mobile to use usb connection > on internal Memory > but > if i configure it to use usb conneciton to sync dat

Re: Changes to vim, how to undo

2008-10-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,26.Oct.08, 07:34:34, Alex Samad wrote: > my problem is after a recent upgrade of vim I had to add in > source /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/mail.vim I didn't have to add anything, vim automatically recognizes the filetype=mail. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you do

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-10-25 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrew Reid wrote: > On Monday 20 October 2008 19:13, Hatta wrote: >> Yes, I have run 'update-initramfs -v -u -k 2.6.24-1-686' >> >> This had no effect. Did you do it after you have booted from the encrypted system or not. I suppose you did not get the dm_crypto module into the image. This is bec

Re: mail and web start in offline mode

2008-10-25 Thread JoeHill
Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:14:12 -0400 > JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello JoeHill, > > > When I start either my mail client, Claws, or Firefox web browser, > > they are in offline mode. > > I can't speak for FF, as I don't know it that well. When it comes to CM

Changes to vim, how to undo

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have spent a bit of time setting up mutt and vim, from some help on the mailing list. I had mutt use a user config file for vim == mutt.vim == " source everything as usual " setting filtype to mail should have all the right values ! source /etc/vim/vimrc source ~/.vimrc " set filetype=ma

Re: mail and web start in offline mode

2008-10-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:14:12 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello JoeHill, > When I start either my mail client, Claws, or Firefox web browser, > they are in offline mode. I can't speak for FF, as I don't know it that well. When it comes to CM though, it doesn't matter what state your

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-25 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 05:06:25PM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Hans Ekbrand wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:57:00PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Paul Cartwright: >> >> > >> >> > My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not >> >> > let

Re: apcupsd and hal

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:02:07PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 16:21:50 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > it seems like my apcupsd deamon get stuck when hal is probing > > /dev/usb/hidinput0 (the ups). > > > > when I kill hal apcupsd is okay, otherwise it get stuc

mail and web start in offline mode

2008-10-25 Thread JoeHill
When I start either my mail client, Claws, or Firefox web browser, they are in offline mode. I'm thinking this is not a setting in either of those apps, since I cannot get Firefox to change even by setting 'online' to 'true' in about:config, and I'm looking for where this setting might be in eith

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-25 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,22.Oct.08, 09:33:58, Aioanei Rares wrote: > >> I've read something about a year ago that adding an entry in fstab for >> usb sticks isn't >> such a good idea...can't remember the link though.YMMV. > > Hhm, ... > > $ grep mirror /etc/fstab > LABEL=mirror /media/mi

Grub Question

2008-10-25 Thread Thomas H. George
I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst (also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from 0). The MBR is unchanged and the system still boots with lilo. A problem

Re: iptables problems

2008-10-25 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Just for everyone's FYI - it looks like I'm going to have to change hosting companies. Here's the response I got from the hosting company: "Please allow me the opportunity to clear up a few things about how Virtuozzo works with various modules. Basically, the VZ kernel cannot be changed unles

Re: how to save alsa configuration

2008-10-25 Thread Serena Cantor
I enter the command "alsactl store" and reboot, it doesn't work! --- On Sat, 10/25/08, A. Ben Hmeda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: A. Ben Hmeda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: how to save alsa configuration > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 12:29 PM >

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,25.Oct.08, 09:52:36, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:58:51 +0300 > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri,24.Oct.08, 08:23:57, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > > > I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do > > > but from the GUI

Re: [Debian-User] Partitioning Scheme

2008-10-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm about to install a new Debian system. Previously what I've done > is to create 3 partitions (/, /boot, swap), but now that I have the > oporttunity, I'd like to do things differently. I was reading the > Deb

Re: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?

2008-10-25 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Serena, On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides, mencoder can encode .flv. See its usage page: > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-selecting-codec.html > > At the end of the web page above, it has an example how to convert a avi file

Re: How To Hash passwords with SHA-1 in pam?

2008-10-25 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Chris Hiestand wrote: Is there an out of the box solution to authenticate SHA-1 passwords via pam? And yes, I know SHA-1 is pretty much cryptographically broken, but I would still like to find support for it. Move the user data to LDAP: Operations (RFC 3062).

Re: how to save alsa configuration

2008-10-25 Thread Christian Koerner
Serena Cantor wrote: I have ISA SB16 sound card and etch. I can use alsaconf to setup the card. My question is how to save configuration so I needn't run alsaconf each time I boot. You can use "alsactl store" to save the current alsa settings. "man alsactl" might give you some more informati

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:58:51 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri,24.Oct.08, 08:23:57, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do > > but from the GUI (ncurses). The question I had was upgrading from > > aptitude gui,

Re: how to save alsa configuration

2008-10-25 Thread A. Ben Hmeda
Serena Cantor wrote: I have ISA SB16 sound card and etch. I can use alsaconf to setup the card. My question is how to save configuration so I needn't run alsaconf each time I boot. with alsa-utils installed do alsactl store, in terminal, as root. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Partitioning Scheme

2008-10-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Here is my laptop partition, with sizes and the amount that is free. , | FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on | /dev/mapper/spark_vg-root_lv | 4.0G 554M 3.2G 15% / | /dev/mapper/spark_vg-home_lv |24G 7.4G 16G

Re: That would be... (was Re: cannot install all updates)

2008-10-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:23:48AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:53:34 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/24/08 10:23, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > I'm running testing as well and I basically d

Re: [Debian-User] Partitioning Scheme

2008-10-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
As Eduardo suggested, LVM is a good bet since it alows you to resize partitions. This is my partition scheme for my desktop (which i intend to reinstall soon): deb64:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 23G 6.4G 16G 30% / tmpfs

how to save alsa configuration

2008-10-25 Thread Serena Cantor
I have ISA SB16 sound card and etch. I can use alsaconf to setup the card. My question is how to save configuration so I needn't run alsaconf each time I boot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file?

2008-10-25 Thread paul
info mplayer is your friend... > -Original Message- > From: Serena Cantor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:06 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: how to convert several .flv files to a real media file? > > I have etch and installed mplayer and m

Re: [Debian-User] Partitioning Scheme

2008-10-25 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > I'm about to install a new Debian system. Previously what I've done > is to create 3 partitions (/, /boot, swap), but now that I have the > oporttunity, I'd like to do things differently. I was reading the > Debian reference guide (the security part), and also open

Re: downgrading a single package

2008-10-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:10:50 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,24.Oct.08, 17:33:01, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > nevermind: > > > > Downgrading from a later release of a package to an earlier one is not > > officially supported in > > Debian. However, you may find that you have to downgrade

Re: apcupsd and hal

2008-10-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 16:21:50 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > it seems like my apcupsd deamon get stuck when hal is probing > /dev/usb/hidinput0 (the ups). > > when I kill hal apcupsd is okay, otherwise it get stuck can't kill it > with -9 :( > > how can i tell hal to not watch for the ups

How To Hash passwords with SHA-1 in pam?

2008-10-25 Thread Chris Hiestand
This seems like such an obvious request, and I have spent an inordinate amount of time searching for it, but I haven't found SHA-1 support for (Debian) PAM. pam_unix supports SHA2 (SHA256, SHA512) but not SHA-1 pam_unix2 supports Blowfish, but not SHA-1 Is there an out of the box solution t

Re: digital out with alsa

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:13:05PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I have recently purchased a new motherboard gigabyte ga-m750sli-ds4 > > it has a nvidia / intel sound chip set > NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC882 Analog [ALC882 Analog] > > 00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0

Re: [Debian-User] Partitioning Scheme

2008-10-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,24.Oct.08, 23:02:51, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Well, The following scheme is proposed (from what I read btoh from > openBsd and Debian reference guide): > > Partition Suggested Size (openBsd) > > / 150 M > /usr6 G >

Re: downgrading a single package

2008-10-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,24.Oct.08, 17:33:01, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > nevermind: > > Downgrading from a later release of a package to an earlier one is not > officially supported in > Debian. However, you may find that you have to downgrade a specific > package in order to > re-install a version of a package that w

Re: Deleting unused configuration files

2008-10-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,23.Oct.08, 13:44:53, Marco Romano wrote: > John Merchant ha scritto: >> Hello all, I have a lot of unused configuration files left in /etc from >> removed packages. Is there any way I can automatically remove them all? > > You can get the list of all removed but not purged packages with: >