Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:25:01PM -0800, pos...@basicisp.net wrote: > I have a damaged system on my laptop and am trying to salvage data, then will > likely install a new system (etch or lenny, was sarge). I'd like to save the > home folder and a few useful files gleaned from the etc folder, kee

tar on flash drive

2009-01-18 Thread postid
I have a damaged system on my laptop and am trying to salvage data, then will likely install a new system (etch or lenny, was sarge). I'd like to save the home folder and a few useful files gleaned from the etc folder, keeping permissions. I'll use a live cd to do the salvage work (lenny live, k

Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:37:29PM -0800, Eric Higgins was heard to say: > Ah ha, now we are getting somewhere: > > It looks like the coreutils.list file has a script instead of a > filelist. How do I go about fixing this for my system? It looks like it got replaced by the postinst for wameri

(resolved) Re: blkid gets it info from where?

2009-01-18 Thread whollygoat
For the sake of anyone who may have been looking for an answer to this besides myself, I'd like to report two things 1) removing and recreating /etc/blkid.tab and /etc/blkid.tab.old seems to have fixed things. The boot process is not interrupted by fsck errors; 2) while researching somethi

Re: VFS panic in 2.6.28

2009-01-18 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:30:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >Cannot open root UUID=blah-blah-fa6507 or unknown-block(0,0) > The big difference between Now and Then is that I also moved from > booting off of /dev/hda using lilo to /dev/sda using grub2. > In my home-rolled kernel, I don't use

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I decided that it was time to upgrade to Lenny so that I could use Firefox 3 since I have heard that might eliminate some of the lockups that I have been having. My box has a PC Chips K8 motherboard with SiS 760GX/964 Chipset and an Athlon XP 800+ CPU.

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation

2009-01-18 Thread whollygoat
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:44:11 +1100, "Alex Samad" said: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:45:24PM -0800, whollyg...@letterboxes.org > wrote: > > > > I wonder if that would have helped with the larger drives. Too late:) > > The smaller drives shouldn't have been bad. All I did to them was fail > >

Re: package version numbers

2009-01-18 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:56:30PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Anyway, I see that xmms is replaced by xmms2 and that qiv will upgrade > with libglib1.2ldbl. My only remaining problem is multi-gnome-terminal, > which is not in lenny. If you really want to use old packages on modern debian distribu

Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?

2009-01-18 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Eric Higgins wrote: > files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list seems to be corrupted. Check it (and possibly also the filesystem) In case of dubt, you could try mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/core

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2009-01-18 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 17:07:51 -0800, consultores1 (consultor...@gmail.com) wrote: > El lun, 19-01-2009 a las 01:27 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev escribió: > > consultores1 wrote: > > > > > After 1 year working on it, i went to Nvidia web page, but i found the > > > same weird situation; "incongruent

Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

2009-01-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2009-01-18T17:33:04, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Are test messages really so common and burdensome that you can't > > ignore them? > > I find it inconsiderate of the sender to use a mailing list, with > thousands(?) of subscribers, for presumably

Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?

2009-01-18 Thread Eric Higgins
Ah ha, now we are getting somewhere: It looks like the coreutils.list file has a script instead of a filelist. How do I go about fixing this for my system? # cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list #!/bin/sh set -e # Automatically added by installdeb-wordlist case "$1" in abort-install|remove)

Re: read only nfs root and var

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 18 January 2009 21:21, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2009 17:30, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I'm trying to setup a server that export root over a read only nfs file > > system. I managed to enable local settings for each machine by mounting > > it's own disk and then linking some

Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

2009-01-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/18/2009 07:22 PM, Allan Wind wrote: On 2009-01-18T17:33:04, Ron Johnson wrote: Are test messages really so common and burdensome that you can't ignore them? I find it inconsiderate of the sender to use a mailing list, with thousands(?) of subscribers, for presumably testing his personal

VFS panic in 2.6.28

2009-01-18 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, (Note that I've been rolling my own kernels since 2.6.0, and was even able to make 2.6.27 work.) The boot error is: Cannot open root UUID=blah-blah-fa6507 or unknown-block(0,0) The big difference between Now and Then is that I also moved from booting off of /dev/hda using lilo to /dev

Re: read only nfs root and var

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 18 January 2009 17:30, Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm trying to setup a server that export root over a read only nfs file > system. I managed to enable local settings for each machine by mounting > it's own disk and then linking some files from etc. > > The only problem I'm running into is var

Re: Aptitude help

2009-01-18 Thread M. Lewis
Daniel Burrows wrote: I don't know what the timeline is on that; AFAIK there aren't any 2.6.28 packages anywhere in the archive. In fact, moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64 linux-headers-2.6.28-1-all-amd64 doesn't seem to exist at all in Debian. Maybe y

Re: Aptitude help

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:35:56PM -0600, "M. Lewis" was heard to say: > > How can I resolve this dependency? > > Aptitude has given up resolving the dependencies. It appears that > linux-kbuild-2-6-28 is not available yet: > > moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# apt-cache search linux-kbuild > linux-kbuild-2.

Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Eric Higgins was heard to say: > Still no luck on this. I can't even seem to force dpkg to upgrade: > > # apt-get -fm install dpkg > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Suggested packages: > lzma > The following packages

Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

2009-01-18 Thread Allan Wind
On 2009-01-18T17:33:04, Ron Johnson wrote: > Are test messages really so common and burdensome that you can't > ignore them? I find it inconsiderate of the sender to use a mailing list, with thousands(?) of subscribers, for presumably testing his personal mail configuration. As such my prefere

Re: Aptitude help

2009-01-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 16:35, M. Lewis wrote: > > How can I resolve this dependency? > > Aptitude has given up resolving the dependencies. It appears that > linux-kbuild-2-6-28 is not available yet: > > moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# apt-cache search linux-kbuild > linux-kbuild-2.6.26 - Kbuild infrastructur

Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

2009-01-18 Thread dan
On Sunday 18 January 2009 22:44:32 Allan Wind wrote: > Is there a way to configure the mailing list software such that test > messages are automatically treated as unsubscribe requests? If not > does anyone have a canned maildrop rule to do so? If you are using mutt, just use mailfiler and delete

Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

2009-01-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:07:11PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: > I used to have an option for 'automatically start X when computer boots', > which > I would disable. What is the 'Debian Way' for this? ;) Unless you want it for other users, simplest is probably to remove gdm and install xinit (if not al

Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

2009-01-18 Thread JoeHill
Mike Castle wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:33 AM, JoeHill wrote: > > The funny thing is, I already have this in my .bash_profile: > > > > # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists > > if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then > >PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}" > > fi > > I don't think .bash_profil

Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

2009-01-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:33:04PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/18/2009 04:44 PM, Allan Wind wrote: > >Is there a way to configure the mailing list software such that test > >messages are automatically treated as unsubscribe requests? If not does > >anyone have a canned maildrop rule to do so

Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

2009-01-18 Thread JoeHill
Mike Castle wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:33 AM, JoeHill wrote: > > The funny thing is, I already have this in my .bash_profile: > > > > # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists > > if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then > >PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}" > > fi > > I don't think .bash_profil

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2009-01-18 Thread consultores1
El lun, 19-01-2009 a las 01:27 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev escribió: > consultores1 wrote: > > > After 1 year working on it, i went to Nvidia web page, but i found the > > same weird situation; "incongruent information". I can not install the > > GeForce 6150 v2 driver, because i could not identify and

Video tag (was Re: some questions about debian-installer)

2009-01-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/18/2009 06:18 PM, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:45:47 +0100 schoappied wrote: Hi, I want to make a custom live-cd and have some questions about the debian installer: 1) is it possible to enable a windows installer, which makes users able to install Debian when in Windows? (L

Re: apt-get upgrade error: package `coreutils' contains empty filename ?

2009-01-18 Thread Eric Higgins
Still no luck on this. I can't even seem to force dpkg to upgrade: # apt-get -fm install dpkg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Suggested packages: lzma The following packages will be upgraded: dpkg 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded. Ne

Re: How to loop spdif through to speakers

2009-01-18 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andreas Theofilu wrote: > Hello, > > I have the problem, that my sound card doesn't offer the ability to pass > the input from the spdif directly to the speakers. This is what I have: use sox or combination (pipe) arecord | aplay input the spdif output the soundcard regards -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Aptitude help

2009-01-18 Thread M. Lewis
How can I resolve this dependency? Aptitude has given up resolving the dependencies. It appears that linux-kbuild-2-6-28 is not available yet: moe:/tmp/kde-cajun# apt-cache search linux-kbuild linux-kbuild-2.6.26 - Kbuild infrastructure for Linux 2.6.26 So how am I to resolve the dependencie

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2009-01-18 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
consultores1 wrote: > After 1 year working on it, i went to Nvidia web page, but i found the > same weird situation; "incongruent information". I can not install the > GeForce 6150 v2 driver, because i could not identify and download it. It > looks for me as if it was really better when "KISS" was

Re: some questions about debian-installer

2009-01-18 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:45:47 +0100 schoappied wrote: > Hi, > > I want to make a custom live-cd and have some questions about the debian > installer: > > 1) is it possible to enable a windows installer, which makes users able > to install Debian when in Windows? (Like Ubuntu has) See http://

Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

2009-01-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:44:32PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > Is there a way to configure the mailing list software such that test > messages are automatically treated as unsubscribe requests? Yes, as the list is run using procmail filters (smartlist). Refer to the archives for the many reasons

Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

2009-01-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/18/2009 04:44 PM, Allan Wind wrote: Is there a way to configure the mailing list software such that test messages are automatically treated as unsubscribe requests? If not does anyone have a canned maildrop rule to do so? Are test messages really so common and burdensome that you can't

some questions about debian-installer

2009-01-18 Thread schoappied
Hi, I want to make a custom live-cd and have some questions about the debian installer: 1) is it possible to enable a windows installer, which makes users able to install Debian when in Windows? (Like Ubuntu has) 2) It is possible to let the installer set UUID in the /etc/fstab? (I probabl

Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

2009-01-18 Thread Allan Wind
Is there a way to configure the mailing list software such that test messages are automatically treated as unsubscribe requests? If not does anyone have a canned maildrop rule to do so? /Allan -- Allan Wind Life Integrity, LLC http://lifeintegrity.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

2009-01-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 18 January 2009 18:37:38 Joerg Schilling wrote: > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > >> "Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and Jörg Schilling > > >> released parts of recent versions of cdrtools under this license." > > >> > > >> True. > > > > > >Given the fact that attacking

Re: package version numbers

2009-01-18 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:56:30 -0500 Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:46:32PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:42:26AM -0500, Rick Pasotto was > > heard to say: > > > There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude > > > tells me th

Re: sound card not detected

2009-01-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 15:59:12 -0500, Tamas Hegedus wrote: >> I think this card needs the snd-intel8x0 module, not snd-hda-intel. > Hmmm. It seems you are right. > >> That would have been the right moment to ask for help here. > First I always try to solve myself. And I could do it on my other

mutual mounting of network filesystems via init scripts

2009-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm setting up a computational cluster in my uni lab. It is being set up to support batch execution (torque/maui) for mpi programs. The problem is that the batch system runs different processes on different machines so they thus need a shared file system for accessing the required files for the ru

read only nfs root and var

2009-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to setup a server that export root over a read only nfs file system. I managed to enable local settings for each machine by mounting it's own disk and then linking some files from etc. The only problem I'm running into is var which should be partially from the head node (looks like most

Re: Homemade FTP server

2009-01-18 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:35:55 -0600 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:05:16PM -0800, talikarng.use...@gmail.com wrote: > > Does anyone have any experience building their own ftp server for use > > on a hoem network? I would like to build a small headless server > > (remote login) f

profilling help

2009-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I am playing with some optimization options for c++. I just change all loops in the program to float and added some extra tests on the loop limits to reduce the work and while the Intel compiler drops the runtime to a third (with full optimization) gcc actually gets me triple the runtime for some r

Re: package version numbers

2009-01-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:46:32PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:42:26AM -0500, Rick Pasotto was > heard to say: > > There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude > > tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other > > pa

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:23:32AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > Then I repeated the install of aptitude, and here's what it told me: > > dpkg -i '///home/rich/downloads/aptitude_0.4.10-1_i386.deb' ;echo RESULT=$? > (Reading database ... 112547 files and directories currently installed

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-18 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:05:21 -0600 Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network > down so much that I can't do much of anything else that > wants to get to the internet, either on the machine running > aptitude or any other machine on the lan

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-18 04:08 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. > To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not > over the network. > It would be sufficient for it to be accessible only via GDM/XDM (since > I don't need remote X

Re: APT Help

2009-01-18 Thread Dean Chester
Thanks Daniel that did the trick Dean On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:45:55PM +, Dean Chester < > dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com> was heard to say: > > GHC6 is already installed on my system apparently. > > Ah, sorry. I somehow misread /

Re: problem with USB cdc-acm

2009-01-18 Thread Wim de Vries
Hi, Some additional information: when unplug the power supply, I can get it working for a few minutes (ttyACM0). Then the same errors appears. Unplugging and plugging it in again results in a change to ttyACM1. regards, wim. Wim de Vries wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to connect a (serial) USB device

Re: sound card not detected

2009-01-18 Thread Tamas Hegedus
I think this card needs the snd-intel8x0 module, not snd-hda-intel. Hmmm. It seems you are right. That would have been the right moment to ask for help here. First I always try to solve myself. And I could do it on my other computer 2 months ago... You seem to have a broken mix of the Debia

Re: package version numbers

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:42:26AM -0500, Rick Pasotto was heard to say: > There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude > tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other > packages aptitude says: > > Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is

TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

2009-01-18 Thread Paul Gupta
-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Motherboard drivers?

2009-01-18 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:26:13 +0200 "Dotan Cohen" wrote: > 2009/1/18 Frank Lanitz : > > In most cases not, but this is depending on your board. If there is > > a S-ATA/RAID controller onboard which doesn't have any suitable > > driver inside Linux kernel, you might need a driver CD. > > > > I see

Re: APT Help

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:45:55PM +, Dean Chester was heard to say: > GHC6 is already installed on my system apparently. Ah, sorry. I somehow misread / hallucinated that you got the message "ghc-pkg: command not found". If you had, my fix would have worked great. :-) According to htt

Re: Motherboard drivers?

2009-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/18 Frank Lanitz : > In most cases not, but this is depending on your board. If there is a > S-ATA/RAID controller onboard which doesn't have any suitable driver > inside Linux kernel, you might need a driver CD. > I see, thanks. So it is a matter of works | not works as opposed to works | w

Re: how to download Java Applet

2009-01-18 Thread subscriptions
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 19:17 +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I saw on remote server an applet running I want to download it, I > saved > the file, I checked the files are downloaded comprising the applet (at > least with that name), when I ran it locally, it didn.t work !!! > Here for exa

Re: sound card not detected

2009-01-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:36:35 -0500, Tamas Hegedus wrote: > Hi, > > I am running debian/lenny. > I have an integrated sound card: > 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation > 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) I think this card needs the snd-intel8

Re: Loopmount install other OS in Debian Lenny

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Last time I tried using Lubi inside Debian Lenny amd64 with Ubuntu 8.10 iso, it won't work. I got a few errors and it won't find the boot partition. Sorry, can't help you with Lubi (looks cool, though). However, there are lots of other ways to create a bootable image

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

2009-01-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > >> "Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and Jörg Schilling > >> released parts of recent versions of cdrtools under this license." > >> > >> True. > >Given the fact that attacking Sun (the largest donator of OpenSOurce > > software) is definitely FUD, w

how to download Java Applet

2009-01-18 Thread Abdelkader Belahcene
Hi, I saw on remote server an applet running I want to download it, I saved the file, I checked the files are downloaded comprising the applet (at least with that name), when I ran it locally, it didn.t work !!! Here for example an animation for trees http://people.ksp.sk/~kuko/bak/ thanks for hel

Re: Setting up TAP interface at boot?

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: Where's the right place to set up a TAP interface at boot time? When my system's up, I usually run "tunctl -t tap0" as root, but I'd like this to be created automatically. I do have an entry in /etc/network/interfaces to configure this: auto tap0 iface tap0 inet static

Re: mounting two disks on the same mount point (not at the same time)

2009-01-18 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:10:05 +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:38:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only >> one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the >> directories of in

sound card not detected

2009-01-18 Thread Tamas Hegedus
Hi, I am running debian/lenny. I have an integrated sound card: 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) It was recognized by the system but did not work. So I installed the alsa-driver, lib, utils as described at

Re: Motherboard drivers?

2009-01-18 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:49:23 +0200 "Dotan Cohen" wrote: > Most new motherboards come with a driver disk for Windows XP. Is there > a need for drivers in Debian as well? In XP, the system will run > without installing the drivers, but it runs better with. Is there a > similar issue in Debian? In

Re: package version numbers

2009-01-18 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:42:26 -0500 Rick Pasotto wrote: > There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude > tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other > packages aptitude says: > > Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is not installable >

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-18 Thread Guillermo Garron
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network down so much that > I can't do much of anything else that wants to get to the internet, either > on the machine running aptitude or any other machine on the lan. Is the

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:05:21 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network down so much > that I can't do much of anything else that wants to get to the internet, > either on the machine running aptitude or any other machine on the lan.

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: I don't know if I'm "up to" it, but I'd love to give it a go. Cool. Thanks! Part of the problem is, it doesn't happen on my computer. :-( If I understand you correctly, I should try installin

How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-18 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network down so much that I can't do much of anything else that wants to get to the internet, either on the machine running aptitude or any other machine on the lan. Is there anyway that I can slow aptitude down so it doesn't monop

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

2009-01-18 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: winfr...@tilanus.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X >Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:28:50 +0100 > >>On 01/18/2009 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >>Hi, >> >>> Can anyone that cares (or, perha

Re: APT Help

2009-01-18 Thread Dean Chester
GHC6 is already installed on my system apparently. Dean On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:09:10AM -0800, Djingo Cacadril < > cacad...@yahoo.com> was heard to say: > > From: Dean Chester > > > When ever i try to update my SID box i keep getting t

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 18 January 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': > The problem is, the earliest version of aptitude which is known to be >free of the bug is so old that it no longer builds with the current >toolchain in Debian. And if you run "hg bisect", giving that

Re: APT Help

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:09:10AM -0800, Djingo Cacadril was heard to say: > From: Dean Chester > > When ever i try to update my SID box i keep getting these errors and it > > doesn't update does anyone know how i can fix it? > > Here is the out put in the console: > [snip] > > Removing libg

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:56:27AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Saturday 17 January 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote > about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': > >On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0500, microwaverich > was heard to say: > >> If I understand you correc

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

2009-01-18 Thread Winfried Tilanus
On 01/18/2009 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Hi, > Can anyone that cares (or, perhaps, is > schooled in formal logic and needs some exercise) back me up on that > assertion? Maybe it is time to stop discussing and look at this discussion from a distance. Jörg didn't produce solid evidence for

package version numbers

2009-01-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
There are several packages that, when I try to upgrade them, aptitude tells me that doing so would break many other packages. For these other packages aptitude says: Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is not installable However, 'apt-cache policy libglib1.2' shows: libglib1.2: Insta

Re: video MOV

2009-01-18 Thread Antonio Macchi
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: just install w32codecs package after you enabled multimedia repo http://debian-multimedia.org/ installed w32codecs but it does not works for me... anyhow, if you can see it, it's a real good news for me... I'll find. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: video MOV

2009-01-18 Thread Antonio Macchi
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: just install w32codecs package after you enabled multimedia repo http://debian-multimedia.org/ NO NO NO WELL WELL WELL WORKS thanks a lot bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: APT Help

2009-01-18 Thread Djingo Cacadril
From: Dean Chester > When ever i try to update my SID box i keep getting these errors and it > doesn't update does anyone know how i can fix it? > Here is the out put in the console: [snip] > Removing libghc6-highlighting-kate-dev ... > ghc-pkg: cannot find package highlighting-kate-0.2.1 Sid

Re: video MOV

2009-01-18 Thread Antonio Macchi
What player were you trying to use to view it? standard mplayer from etch... maybe lenny has a new version of it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

2009-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 18 January 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote about 'Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X': >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: >> On Saturday 17 January 2009, Joerg Schilling >> wrote about 'Re: k3b & brasero >> don't >> work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X': >> >Chris Banni

Re: Logging passwords of SSH attacks

2009-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/18 Florian Mickler : >> > people >> > often confuse which password they have to enter where, and thus >> > valid passwords would wander into the logs for malicous people to >> > collect and use at other sites. >> >> auth.log is only readable to sysadmins. >> > oh what a wonderful world > >

APT Help

2009-01-18 Thread Dean Chester
Hi When ever i try to update my SID box i keep getting these errors and it doesn't update does anyone know how i can fix it? Here is the out put in the console: Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 267846 files and directories currently install

Re: [OT] Sidux. SMTP wizards, help a Postfix noob?

2009-01-18 Thread mouss
s. keeling a écrit : > Hi. I'd rather it ran from inetd. don't. if you don't have a lot of mail, reduce the number of processes in postfix master.cf. > These are single user systems, > intended to be fed via pop3/fetchmail/procmail/mutt, flowing back via > my ISP's smarthost. I've fought with

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:08:41PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. > To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not > over the network. > It would be sufficient for it to be accessible only via GDM/XDM (since > I don't

Re: k3b & brasero don't work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X

2009-01-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Saturday 17 January 2009, Joerg Schilling > wrote about 'Re: k3b & brasero don't > work, nerolinux does- works ar 2X': > >Chris Bannister wrote: > >> http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/ > > > >Everything starting with the word "Unfortunately" in this article i

Re: Setting up TAP interface at boot?

2009-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 18 January 2009, Jesse Sheidlower wrote about 'Setting up TAP interface at boot?': >Where's the right place to set up a TAP interface at boot >time? When my system's up, I usually run "tunctl -t tap0" as >root, but I'd like this to be created automatically. I do >have an entry in /etc/n

Re: Exim4 --> Postfix. /etc/exim4/passwd.client --> ?

2009-01-18 Thread mouss
s. keeling a écrit : > My ISP insists I use my login passwd to talk to its smtp server. > Where do I do that in Postfix? > > Thanks. > > http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html In particular: http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#client_sasl in short, - postfix must be built with cyrus-sasl

Re: video MOV

2009-01-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Antonio Macchi wrote, on 2009-01-18 19:19: Hi my camera creates MOV videos in a manner that my liunx machine can't read properly. I have upload a very little example (1.3MB): www.webalice.it/antonio_macchi/test2.MOV can someone tell me if can view this video? file reports: /tmp/test2.MOV:

Setting up TAP interface at boot?

2009-01-18 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
Where's the right place to set up a TAP interface at boot time? When my system's up, I usually run "tunctl -t tap0" as root, but I'd like this to be created automatically. I do have an entry in /etc/network/interfaces to configure this: auto tap0 iface tap0 inet static address 192.168.5.1

Re: video MOV

2009-01-18 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
just install w32codecs package after you enabled multimedia repo http://debian-multimedia.org/ 2009/1/18 Antonio Macchi : > Hi > my camera creates MOV videos in a manner that my liunx machine can't read > properly. > > > I have upload a very little example (1.3MB): > www.webalice.it/antonio_macchi

video MOV

2009-01-18 Thread Antonio Macchi
Hi my camera creates MOV videos in a manner that my liunx machine can't read properly. I have upload a very little example (1.3MB): www.webalice.it/antonio_macchi/test2.MOV can someone tell me if can view this video? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: gtkam not recognizing camera any more

2009-01-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-18 15:26: I'm having more problems since my upgrade to Lenny. My digital camera, a Kodak Easyshare C813, is no longer recognized by gtkam. It worked before, on Etch. I had to add the VendorID and ProductNumber to (I believe) /etc/udev/libgphoto2.rules to get it

UN Foundation Grant.

2009-01-18 Thread United Nations Foundation
United Nations Foundation Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20036 Dear Sir/Madam, UN Foundation Grant. This is to notify you that you have been chosen by the board of Trustees of the above International (Charity & Human Developmental Organization) as one of the final recip

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 17 January 2009, microwaverich wrote about 'Re: aptitude freezes after install': >3. run: >aptitude update >aptitude install apt >aptitude install dpkg >aptitude install aptitude >aptitude dist-upgrade I could be completely wrong here (and I would love a correction) but I thought t