Re: Password security/Weak Password lockout

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Allums
Paul Gupta wrote: By what mechanism does debian decide whether or not a password is too weak etc. I have seen opensuse and perhaps fedora do the same thing during the installation. It'll spit out a warning saying similar to "This password is too weak, are you sure you want to use it?" I'm

Re: Password security/Weak Password lockout

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Allums
Paul Gupta wrote: By what mechanism does debian decide whether or not a password is too weak etc. I have seen opensuse and perhaps fedora do the same thing during the installation. It'll spit out a warning saying similar to "This password is too weak, are you sure you want to use it?" I'm

Password security/Weak Password lockout

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Gupta
By what mechanism does debian decide whether or not a password is too weak etc. I have seen opensuse and perhaps fedora do the same thing during the installation. It'll spit out a warning saying similar to "This password is too weak, are you sure you want to use it?" I'm assuming (which I h

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

2009-01-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Why is a "weak" password so important? My 4 year old is only able to type in a simple password. I can live with an empty password for now, but I'd prefer she gets used to typing in a password additionally from selecting her user. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: gnome-screensaver slideshow

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Allums
Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, I'd like to slideshow some pictures when gnome-screensaver is invoked. There is a "picture fold" in gnome-screen-preferences. However, there' no settings for this fold. Do you know where the "picture fold" is? I use Debian etch, gnome 2.14.3. Best regards, Yuwe

gnome-screensaver slideshow

2009-01-19 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, I'd like to slideshow some pictures when gnome-screensaver is invoked. There is a "picture fold" in gnome-screen-preferences. However, there' no settings for this fold. Do you know where the "picture fold" is? I use Debian etch, gnome 2.14.3. Best regards, Yuwen

Re: Thin clients

2009-01-19 Thread Fred Zinsli
The DHCP server on my network does have a "Network Boot Enable" option, but when I turn it on the client still doesn't receive an IP from the server. Maybe I am missing something. I will go and find out from the suppliers of the DHCP server I am using on our network. Regards Fred -Original

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:14:24PM -0800, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich > was heard to say: > > I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 > > passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the com

Re: Thin clients

2009-01-19 Thread Sudev Barar
2009/1/20 Fred Zinsli : > OK, I have attempted the setup below with issues. > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Debian_Etch_Server_And_Diskless_EMC2_Thin_Clients > > Firstly I set it all up without DHCP as I already have a DHCP server on my > network, but the diskless client fails to get

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:36:19PM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 > passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile: > > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. (more of that) Hm, it looks li

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:58:36PM -0500, "H.S." was heard to say: > > Apt(itude) should respect the following configuration setting: > > > > Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "7"; // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate [snip] > I think this will be most useful when aptitude downloads updates > automatical

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

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Gupta
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 XDM/GDM logins). I used

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

2009-01-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I believe the default settings do not allow remote GDM logins. You can > always run gdmsetup to be sure. That's indeed the case. > As for remote access via ssh, look into the DenyUsers and DenyGroups > directives for sshd_config. I guess that's an option, although I don't feel very good about

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

2009-01-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Setting the login shell of the user to /bin/true disables local and > remote logins on a terminal, but should allow logins with XDM, see > http://bugs.debian.org/5212. Not sure whether it will work with GDM, > though. That rings a bell, indeed, thanks. But reading through the thread, it's prett

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

2009-01-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> 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 XDM/GDM logins). > I used to add an extra lin

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

2009-01-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> 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. > Weak is not easy ... there is minimum number of character for password. That's OK: root (i.e. I) can easily override it. >> It would be suf

Re: Thin clients

2009-01-19 Thread Fred Zinsli
OK, I have attempted the setup below with issues. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Debian_Etch_Server_And_Diskless_EMC2_Thin_Clients Firstly I set it all up without DHCP as I already have a DHCP server on my network, but the diskless client fails to get an IP from my existing server so

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-19 Thread Robert Hancock
Dave Jones wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:30:42AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > >> There are apparently some reports of issues on NVidia chipsets as > >> well, though I don't have any details at hand. > > > > Well, Carlos' email bounces, so much for that one. Anyone h

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:37:41 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Bibek Paudel wrote: I haven't seen your error messages in detail but I have seen a couple of similar problems after the etch-lenny upgrade. please see if the proper drivers are installed. i found that t

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread postid
--- dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: From: "Douglas A. Tutty" To: pos...@basicisp.net Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: tar on flash drive Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:05:44 -0500 On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:25:01PM -0800, pos...@basicisp.net wrote: > I have a damaged system on my laptop and am t

Re: Heavy disk io spasms (2.6.28, ext4)

2009-01-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 16:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/19/2009 02:39 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> Since I got my new computer, I have occasionally experienced times >> when my HD light would come on and all apps stall for a few seconds. >> These seem to come in swarms, with 2-10 happening sep

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-19 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:07:03 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: ... > Arthur (finding 6876 kbps downstream of ADSL considerably faster than > the 3 kbps downstream of a V.34 modem). Your dialup modem only got 3 kbps downstream? Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) em

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-19 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > > I put this in /etc/apt/apt.conf file: > // Options for the downloading routines > Acquire > { > // HTTP method configuration > http > { > Dl-Limit "10";// 7Kb/sec maximum download rate > }; > > }; > > > and now aptitude download is limited to around that val

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-19 Thread H.S.
Florian Kulzer wrote: > 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

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

2009-01-19 Thread s. keeling
s. keeling : > mouss : > > > > smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic > > > > == generic: > > keel...@newmil.nucleus.com keel...@nucleus.com More clues? Again, this is Sidux on AMD64, HP Pavilion dv4. Jan 19 18:33:35 newmil postfix/qmgr[12263]: 4EDADBC06: from=, size=671, nrcpt=1 (q

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:15:55 +0800 > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > > [...] > > > > Looks like it's pointing in the right direction. Does it see you > wireless > > > when > > > you open the window (under available wireless connections) > > > > > > If so, you need to choose

Re: Homemade FTP server

2009-01-19 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:12:18 +0100 André Berger wrote: ... > > is on the Slug. Anyone have a more informed, experienced verdict on > > these Buffalo devices? > > They run HardHatLinux out-of-the-box, and come with an FTP server. > Debian ('FreeLink') can be installed with more or less effort,

Re: Heavy disk io spasms (2.6.28, ext4)

2009-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/19/2009 02:39 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: Since I got my new computer, I have occasionally experienced times when my HD light would come on and all apps stall for a few seconds. These seem to come in swarms, with 2-10 happening separated by 1-30 seconds, then nothing for hours or even days. Wa

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

2009-01-19 Thread s. keeling
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 > > thousa

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:56:42PM -0800, L Glidewell wrote: > On Monday 19 January 2009 14:48:37 Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:32:35PM -0800, L Glidewell wrote: > > > On Monday 19 January 2009 14:08:56 Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > I just got into my new dorm room, only to f

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread L Glidewell
On Monday 19 January 2009 14:48:37 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:32:35PM -0800, L Glidewell wrote: > > On Monday 19 January 2009 14:08:56 Michael Pobega wrote: > > > I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all > > > IRC clients. I find this pretty dis

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Paul Gupta wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: >> I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all >> IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on >> #debian and #debian-eeepc >> >> Is there any good way to tunnel or

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:32:35PM -0800, L Glidewell wrote: > On Monday 19 January 2009 14:08:56 Michael Pobega wrote: > > I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all > > IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on > > #debian and #debian-eeepc >

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

2009-01-19 Thread s. keeling
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. Okay. > > Jan 16 18:23:21 newmil postfix/smtp[21710]: E2196BBF7: > > to=, relay=smtp.nucleus.com[66.18.251.14]:25, > > de

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread Davide Mancusi
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:08:56 -0500 Michael Pobega wrote: > I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all > IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on > #debian and #debian-eeepc > > Is there any good way to tunnel or encrypt my data, or something

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread L Glidewell
On Monday 19 January 2009 14:08:56 Michael Pobega wrote: > I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all > IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on > #debian and #debian-eeepc > > Is there any good way to tunnel or encrypt my data, or something >

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Gupta
Michael Pobega wrote: I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on #debian and #debian-eeepc Is there any good way to tunnel or encrypt my data, or something similar? I am looking for something feasible

[Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Pobega
I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on #debian and #debian-eeepc Is there any good way to tunnel or encrypt my data, or something similar? I am looking for something feasible, considering I can't af

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Preston Boyington
Micha Feigin wrote: > > My two problems with wicd (one of them is not an issue at the moment, but it > was) > > 1. the memory overhead of the client (why python? it's very good for daemons > and such, not very memory efficient) > root 4634 0.2 0.3 89776 7776 ?S00:51 3:23 py

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

2009-01-19 Thread Eric Higgins
I've pulled the flash drive, and ran e2fsck on it, correcting the errors that it found. I also emptied out a number of corrupt .list files, as suggested earlier. This is the error I get now: # apt-get --reinstall install coreutils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 u

Re: http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu is down

2009-01-19 Thread Eric Higgins
Yup, switched to a new mirror and continued the update. Just wanted to let someone know on the list, in case the admin subscribes. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Bob Cox wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:50:50 -0800, Eric Higgins (erichigg...@gmail.com) > wrote: > >> Not sure if anyone on th

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread h...@slideomania.com
Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009 22:15, schrieb Sven Joachim: > On 2009-01-19 21:59 +0100, bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: > > My state of confusion started this morning, when I was confronted with a > > POSIX/C style date format using the German locales on lenny. As you can > > see from the table, in

Virtualised OS installed on another partition

2009-01-19 Thread Adrian Levi
I'm looking to virtualise the use of a Windows partition on my laptop. All the googling I have done suggests it is possible to convert an existing partition to run as a virtualised OS, or convert a virtualised OS to a physical partition, but nowhere have I seen the ability to run an os from a nati

Re: http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu is down

2009-01-19 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:50:50 -0800, Eric Higgins (erichigg...@gmail.com) wrote: > Not sure if anyone on this list maintains this server, but it seems to > be down at the moment, preventing apt-get update on my machine. Hardly. There are over 400 mirrors worldwide and about 40 of these are

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread bugtrac...@slideomania.com
Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009 15:47, schrieb Sven Joachim: > On 2009-01-19 15:17 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> It was important to use en_IE when we were using non-UTF-8 locales. > >> > >> Now even en_US.UTF-8 gives nice "2008-12-29 05:43" display. > > > > IIUC, OP want

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: Install the packages "automake" and "autoconf" and you should be set. Thanks for your help, Daniel Daniel: I did the above and began running the tests with mercurial. I made 5 passes without a bug until I ran into the following in the compile: r...@penin

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-19 21:59 +0100, bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: > My state of confusion started this morning, when I was confronted with a > POSIX/C style date format using the German locales on lenny. As you can see > from the table, in lenny suddenly some locales seem to have changed from ISO >

Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

2009-01-19 Thread Chris Davies
Dotan Cohen wrote: > Thanks, Mike. Actually, rather than be busy for hours, I do wish that > there were some document that explains what gets run where, clearly. I > have yet to find one. Put these lines in your .bashrc and .bash_profile and you'll see what gets run when # bashrc echo "R

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread bugtrac...@slideomania.com
Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009 14:31, schrieb Johannes Wiedersich: > > etch: »31.12.2008 12:34« to > > lenny: »13. Dez 12:34« and (IMO abdominable...!): > > lenny: »13. Dez 2006« (for older entries) > > That looks horrible, indeed. > > > Is there an easy way to get back my desired format as it has bee

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread bugtrac...@slideomania.com
Am Montag, 19. Januar 2009 11:09, schrieb bugtrac...@slideomania.com: > Hi list, Hi myself, > I recently noticed (took a while of head-scratching like "WTF? Something is > very weird here, but what is it?") that after the upgrade from etch to > lenny, the default display format for date/time whe

Heavy disk io spasms (2.6.28, ext4)

2009-01-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
Since I got my new computer, I have occasionally experienced times when my HD light would come on and all apps stall for a few seconds. These seem to come in swarms, with 2-10 happening separated by 1-30 seconds, then nothing for hours or even days. Watching iotop, it seems to bekjournald2, but is

Re: e2fsprogs compilation problem

2009-01-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Adrian Chapela wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to compile the latest version of e2fsprogs. I have the next > error during compilation: > > make[2]: se ingresa al directorio `/usr/src/e2fsprogs/build/lib/ext2fs' > CC ../../../lib/ext2fs/alloc_tables.c > ../../../lib/ext2fs/alloc_tables.c: In func

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-19 Thread Cassiano Leal
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 09:09:49 Micha Feigin wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:22:02 +0100 > > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I have to wonder how you guys are torturing your systems that they take > > > longer to boot than Vista... 2.8GHz system with 2GB of RAM, Vista take

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/19/2009 07:42 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: does this mean you are excluding backing up email? In that command. The next two statements, though, are: tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_ron.tar.bz2 home/me/Maildir tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_

Re: How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-19 Thread Arthur Marsh
Celejar wrote, on 2009-01-19 07:59: 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 a

Re: ensuring SCSI drive is mounted correctly whether or not a USB drive is plugged in at boot-up time

2009-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/19/2009 01:30 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 2009 January 19 13:15:28 Arthur Marsh wrote: I have a machine that boots from and IDE drive then finds an internal SCSI drive after any USB drives are found. The SCSI disk gets fsck'd and mounted fine if there is no USB drive in th

Re: ensuring SCSI drive is mounted correctly whether or not a USB drive is plugged in at boot-up time

2009-01-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2009 January 19 13:15:28 Arthur Marsh wrote: >I have a machine that boots from and IDE drive then finds an internal >SCSI drive after any USB drives are found. > >The SCSI disk gets fsck'd and mounted fine if there is no USB drive in >the machine, but the mount -a process at start-up moun

ensuring SCSI drive is mounted correctly whether or not a USB drive is plugged in at boot-up time

2009-01-19 Thread Arthur Marsh
I have a machine that boots from and IDE drive then finds an internal SCSI drive after any USB drives are found. The SCSI disk gets fsck'd and mounted fine if there is no USB drive in the machine, but the mount -a process at start-up mounts the USB drive in place of one of the partitions of th

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-19 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:30:42AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > >> There are apparently some reports of issues on NVidia chipsets as > >> well, though I don't have any details at hand. > > > > Well, Carlos' email bounces, so much for that one. Anyone have any other > > c

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:15:10 + Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:25:25PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > Please kindly share your favorite utility that you are using daily on > > lenny amd64/i386 so i can gain something to make my wireless > > experience better. > > I'm us

http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu is down

2009-01-19 Thread Eric Higgins
Not sure if anyone on this list maintains this server, but it seems to be down at the moment, preventing apt-get update on my machine. -Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: /dev/sndstat

2009-01-19 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson : > On 01/11/09 22:34, M. Lewis wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 01/11/09 21:55, M. Lewis wrote: > >>> I'm just adding my similar situation. It's an HP dv4 AMD Turion dual core. I've not heard a peep of sound from it yet. Linux newmil 2.6.28-0.slh.11-sidux-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: BTW, I have another report that this does happen to someone else on 0.4.11-2. So we may just be tracking down the trigger for the bug on *your* computer. I hope that this information is useful anyway, but it might end up not helping after all. :( I'm still curious what

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: Anyway, I plunged into the above steps. Everything went ok until I tried compiling aptitude. Here's that part of the script file: r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good 0.4.1

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:25:25PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > Please kindly share your favorite utility that you are using daily on > lenny amd64/i386 so i can gain something to make my wireless > experience better. I'm using wicd, and generally happy with it. I tried NetworkManager and not

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-19 Thread Aaron Greenspan
Hi, In case this is helpful to anyone, I've also been having similar issues with the Syba SD-SATA-4P PCI RAID controller, which is based on the Silicon Image 3114 chip. I've been using Western Digital 250GB hard drives of various models, however, and there are no nVidia components presents in

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:37:41 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Bibek Paudel wrote: >> I haven't seen your error messages in detail but I have seen a couple >> of similar problems after the etch-lenny upgrade. please see if the >> proper drivers are installed. i found that the xserver-xorg-video-

Re: video MOV

2009-01-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:51, Antonio Macchi wrote: > 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

e2fsprogs compilation problem

2009-01-19 Thread Adrian Chapela
Hello, I am trying to compile the latest version of e2fsprogs. I have the next error during compilation: make[2]: se ingresa al directorio `/usr/src/e2fsprogs/build/lib/ext2fs' CC ../../../lib/ext2fs/alloc_tables.c ../../../lib/ext2fs/alloc_tables.c: In function ‘ext2fs_allocate_group_table’:

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
BTW, I have another report that this does happen to someone else on 0.4.11-2. So we may just be tracking down the trigger for the bug on *your* computer. I hope that this information is useful anyway, but it might end up not helping after all. :( I'm still curious what your search turns up, b

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0500, microwaverich was heard to say: > Anyway, I plunged into the above steps. Everything went ok until I > tried compiling aptitude. Here's that part of the script file: > > r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good 0.4.11 > r...@peninsula

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-19 17:23 +0100, microwaverich wrote: > Anyway, I plunged into the above steps. Everything went ok until I > tried compiling aptitude. Here's that part of the script file: > > r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg bisect --good 0.4.11 > r...@peninsula:~/aptitudetests/aptitude$ hg

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:15:55 +0800 "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: [...] > > Looks like it's pointing in the right direction. Does it see you wireless > > when > > you open the window (under available wireless connections) > > > > If so, you need to choose your ap click that little triangle by the nam

Re: aptitude freezes after install

2009-01-19 Thread microwaverich
Daniel Burrows wrote: 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 c

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread debian azul
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Re: Homemade FTP server

2009-01-19 Thread André Berger
* Celejar (2009-01-18): > 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

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 January 2009, Micha Feigin was heard to say: > Some public access points also have a transparent proxy that > requires you to authenticate when you start browsing (my uni is > that way, you need to enter a wpa key and then enter your > u

Re: Thin clients

2009-01-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 07:47:14AM +1300, Fred Zinsli wrote: > I am wanting to know if I can run a thin client (not unlike the windowz NT > terminal services client) on Deb R4.0? Tell us about the thin client? What OS is it running? You can run software on the server but have the display appear

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
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

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2009-01-19 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
> > Thanks for help. > > I would like to try again with the private Nvidia drivers, could you > send me the link? I went to GiForce, then i found series 1-2-3-4-5-6; i > choose 6, and there, there were not anything related to my "Nvidia > Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go] (rev a2)" > > PS > nv

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2009-01-19 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
> I would like to try again with the private Nvidia drivers, could you > send me the link? I went to GiForce, then i found series 1-2-3-4-5-6; i > choose 6, and there, there were not anything related to my "Nvidia > Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go] (rev a2)" > > PS > nv driver is what i am using

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:47:24PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-01-19 15:17 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > Osamu Aoki wrote: > >> It was important to use en_IE when we were using non-UTF-8 locales. > >> > >> Now even en_US.UTF-8 gives nice "2008-12-29 05:43" display. > > > > IIU

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Bibek Paudel
> > I have checked, and most of the xserver-xorg-video-* files are installed. > Specifically, xserver-xorg-video-all, xserver-xorg-video-sis, and > xserver-xorg-video-vesa are all installed. How do I instruct xorg to use a > specific driver. A couple of years back, I remember xorg.conf having l

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

2009-01-19 Thread Eric Higgins
I'm not too worried about losing anything. It's an embedded device which runs off a flash drive, and its only purpose is to act as a file server for a mounted USB drive. I've checked the drive and it's fine, but its entirely possible the flash drive has been corrupted. # cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/wa

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
Bibek Paudel wrote: I haven't seen your error messages in detail but I have seen a couple of similar problems after the etch-lenny upgrade. please see if the proper drivers are installed. i found that the xserver-xorg-video-* packages are generally missing after the upgrade. please try instal

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Bibek Paudel
I haven't seen your error messages in detail but I have seen a couple of similar problems after the etch-lenny upgrade. please see if the proper drivers are installed. i found that the xserver-xorg-video-* packages are generally missing after the upgrade. please try installing them, esp the ones f

Re: Bad blocks and powernowd

2009-01-19 Thread Davide Mancusi
2009/1/16 Johannes Wiedersich : > Davide Mancusi wrote: >> The hard disk of my 4-year-old laptop is starting to fail. I ran >> fsck.ext3 -c on my root partition yesterday and a few blocks were >> marked as damaged. The blocks contained some XFCE4 theme files, so I >> thought that reinstalling the r

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:17:12PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > It was important to use en_IE when we were using non-UTF-8 locales. > > > > Now even en_US.UTF-8 gives nice "2008-12-29 05:43" display. > > IIUC, OP wants "29.12.2008 05:43" instead. He uses "2008-12-29

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-01-19 15:17 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: >> It was important to use en_IE when we were using non-UTF-8 locales. >> >> Now even en_US.UTF-8 gives nice "2008-12-29 05:43" display. > > IIUC, OP wants "29.12.2008 05:43" instead. He uses "2008-12-29 05:43" as > a work

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Osamu Aoki wrote: > It was important to use en_IE when we were using non-UTF-8 locales. > > Now even en_US.UTF-8 gives nice "2008-12-29 05:43" display. IIUC, OP wants "29.12.2008 05:43" instead. He uses "2008-12-29 05:43" as a workaround. Johannes

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/1/19 Micha Feigin > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:06:00 +0800 > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > > > 2009/1/18 Micha Feigin : > > > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:53:50 +0800 > > > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > > > > > >> sadly, wicd currently won't work with my wireless: broadcomm 4315 on > > >> presario CQ40-

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:31:09PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I recently noticed (took a while of head-scratching like "WTF? Something is > > very weird here, but what is it?") that after the upgrade from etch to > > lenny, > > the

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:06:00 +0800 "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > 2009/1/18 Micha Feigin : > > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:53:50 +0800 > > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > > > >> sadly, wicd currently won't work with my wireless: broadcomm 4315 on > >> presario CQ40-115AU. Perhaps i need a little tweaking o

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > does this mean you are excluding backing up email? > > In that command.  The next two statements, though, are: > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_ron.tar.bz2 home/me/Maildir > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_heather.tar.bz2 \ >      ho

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> does this mean you are excluding backing up email? > > In that command. The next two statements, though, are: > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_ron.tar.bz2 home/me/Maildir > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_he

Re: [locales] change date/time display format for german locale in lenny like it has been on etch

2009-01-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bugtrac...@slideomania.com wrote: > Hi list, > > I recently noticed (took a while of head-scratching like "WTF? Something is > very weird here, but what is it?") that after the upgrade from etch to lenny, > the default display format for date/time w

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/1/18 Micha Feigin : > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:53:50 +0800 > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > >> sadly, wicd currently won't work with my wireless: broadcomm 4315 on >> presario CQ40-115AU. Perhaps i need a little tweaking or something, >> any idea? >> > > One thing that needs to be done with wicd

code of conduct WAS Re: TEST: Can I post to debian-users? EOF

2009-01-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan Wind wrote: > 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 preference is to automate processing of such > messages as I a

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/19/2009 06:11 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: ache/ \ --exclude=heather/.evolution/mail \ --exclude=heather/.evolution/cache \ --exclude=heather/.sylpheed-2.0 \ --exclude=me/Maildir \ --exclude=heather/Mail

Re: tar on flash drive

2009-01-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > have a look at rdiff-backup For a one time solution, I'd prefer rsync instead of tar or rdiff-backup. I might be biased, though, because I prefer rsync for regular backups, too. (A small backup script creating snapshots with rsync

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