Nautilus not starting properly : GConf error: Failed to contact configuration server

When I start nautilus I get this error: GConf error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Ser

Re: Flash Player Pkg?

On 2009-04-05_01:36:32, Francisco Ant?nio da Silva Souza wrote: > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Paul E Condon > wrote: > Well I am having problems with gpg. The FAQ tells me to click on > a hotlink. When I do that a pop-up called Archive Manager offers > to store the download in the root directo

Re: remote log apache2

michal krajcirovic schrieb: > Hello, > I have a simple network architecture in which the need to remotely log > on apache2. On servers running the same sites for which requests are > sent via loadbalancers. And I want to periodically (eg every minute) the > logs "send" to a central log server. >

Re: Flash Player Pkg?

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: Well I am having problems with gpg. The FAQ tells me to click on a hotlink. When I do that a pop-up called Archive Manager offers to store the download in the root directory (/). Is this really what should be allowed to happen? This is a very str

Re: Flash Player Pkg?

On 2009-04-04_21:11:05, Francisco Ant?nio da Silva Souza wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Paul E Condon > wrote: > > > What is the package to install to get adobe flash player in Lenny? I > > think I read that its name is 'flashplayer-nonfree', but I find > > only flashplayer-nonfree-extr

Re: new problem - networking is strange

On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:35:48 -0400 "H.S." wrote: > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > H.S. wrote: > Is udev giving your interface a new name (ethx instead of, say > eth0)? > >>> how would I check that, and why would it just start doing that? > >>> > >>> > >> > >> You could just list the de

Re: Big Database Server General Question

"distributed database", "database replication" Thank you to all. Now that I am looking down the right path I have plenty of material to read. Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: new problem - networking is strange

**Miles Fidelman wrote: H.S. wrote: Is udev giving your interface a new name (ethx instead of, say eth0)? how would I check that, and why would it just start doing that? You could just list the devices: $> /sbin/ifconfig -a and ensure you have the corre

Re: how to trace port openning

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 04:26:34AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > how can we trace the port effectively open/close by an executable ? might not be what you want but try strace > > thanks in advance, > Jerome > > > > -- Santa's elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses. sign

Re: new problem - networking is strange

On Saturday 04 April 2009 23:45:48 Andrew Reid wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2009 19:07:53 Miles Fidelman wrote: > > H.S. wrote: > > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > > > Is udev giving your interface a new name (ethx instead of, say eth0)? > > > > how would I check that, and why would it just start

Re: new problem - networking is strange

On Saturday 04 April 2009 19:07:53 Miles Fidelman wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Is udev giving your interface a new name (ethx instead of, say eth0)? > > how would I check that, and why would it just start doing that? I ran into this a while ago. In "etch" systems, udev

Re: new problem - networking is strange

On Saturday 04 April 2009 19:07:53 Miles Fidelman wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Is udev giving your interface a new name (ethx instead of, say eth0)? > > how would I check that, and why would it just start doing that? I ran into this recently. It does that because udev m

Re: youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape

Steven Demetrius wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Since I upgraded a few weeks ago after the release of Lenny, I have >> noticed that youtube videos in Iceape browser are kind of choppy. This >> wasn't the case earlier before the upgrade. >> >> Anybody else also having this problem? >> >> Thank

Re: youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape

H.S. wrote: Hello, Since I upgraded a few weeks ago after the release of Lenny, I have noticed that youtube videos in Iceape browser are kind of choppy. This wasn't the case earlier before the upgrade. Anybody else also having this problem? Thanks. If you are using the ATI or Nvida graphics

pulseaudio blaming alsa driver [was: Re: youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape]

H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Since I upgraded a few weeks ago after the release of Lenny, I have >> noticed that youtube videos in Iceape browser are kind of choppy. This >> wasn't the case earlier before the upgrade. >> >> Anybody else also having this problem? >> >> Thanks. > > Furt

Re: youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape

H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Since I upgraded a few weeks ago after the release of Lenny, I have > noticed that youtube videos in Iceape browser are kind of choppy. This > wasn't the case earlier before the upgrade. > > Anybody else also having this problem? > > Thanks. Further problems. I am using

mod-security not triggering

I've recently upgraded a Debian box from Apache 1.3 to 2.x, which also forced me to move over to the new mod-security 2.x packages as well. I tried to port over some of my rules from 1.x, even though the new syntax took some conversion. None of my rules seem to be triggering, though, and I'm not su

rebuilding raided root partition

Hi Folks, I've been busily recovering from a bad crash (strangely enough, a single disk drive failure that brought down an entire raided environment, with spares). I've pretty much recovered and rebuilt everything, EXCEPT my root partition is raided, and is now running only on its single

Re: Big Database Server General Question

Tim McDonough wrote: > I'm asking this question to find out what keywords to search for, not > really looking for a specific answer here. When there is a huge database > involved with a lot of users and lots of data it isn't done all with one > computer and a fast connection. "distributed databas

Re: how to trace port openning

Thanks for your reply. Chris Davies wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: how can we trace the port effectively open/close by an executable ? This isn't clear. What are you trying to achieve? If it's to see which ports a program has opened, exactly you could try strace {program}. I thought abo

Re: Big Database Server General Question

On 2009-04-04 18:38, John Hasler wrote: Tim McDonough wrote: I'm asking this question to find out what keywords to search for, not really looking for a specific answer here. When there is a huge database involved with a lot of users and lots of data it isn't done all with one computer and a fas

Re: Flash Player Pkg?

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > What is the package to install to get adobe flash player in Lenny? I > think I read that its name is 'flashplayer-nonfree', but I find > only flashplayer-nonfree-extrasound, which doesn't strike me as what > I want (wrong name, etc.) > Hello

Re: how to trace port openning

I thought about it too, but I expected something more specialized. The next question is certainly how to grep it ? ngrep? Package: ngrep State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.45.ds2-2 Priority: optional Section: net Maintainer: Romain Francoise Uncompressed Size: 57.3k Dep

Re: new problem - networking is strange

Miles Fidelman wrote: > H.S. wrote: Is udev giving your interface a new name (ethx instead of, say eth0)? >>> how would I check that, and why would it just start doing that? >>> >>> >> >> You could just list the devices: >> $> /sbin/ifconfig -a >> >> and ensure you have the

Re: Big Database Server General Question

On 2009-04-04 18:11, ow...@netptc.net wrote: [snip] If you're just interested in how things work, a rather unique approach is that used by Terradata (now sold a couple of times), based on a Cal Tech PhD thesis by Phil Neches. Dedicated database machines with circuits hardwired for relational

Re: Gnome Shell

Claudius Hubig wrote: > JoeHill wrote: > > > >Hey there all, > > > >Was just doing some reading on the future of Gnome, and I thought I would try > >building it. > > > >When I run the build script, however, I'm told I need xulrunner-1.9-dev. > >When I look for that package, I can see xulrunner-1

Re: new problem - networking is strange

H.S. wrote: Is udev giving your interface a new name (ethx instead of, say eth0)? how would I check that, and why would it just start doing that? You could just list the devices: $> /sbin/ifconfig -a and ensure you have the correctly named eth device(s). And perhaps verify the

Re: how to trace port openning

Jerome BENOIT wrote: > how can we trace the port effectively open/close by an executable ? This isn't clear. What are you trying to achieve? If it's to see which ports a program has opened, you could try strace {program}. Otherwise (as root) netstat -nap. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Flash Player Pkg?

What is the package to install to get adobe flash player in Lenny? I think I read that its name is 'flashplayer-nonfree', but I find only flashplayer-nonfree-extrasound, which doesn't strike me as what I want (wrong name, etc.) TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To

Re: Big Database Server General Question

> > > > Original Message >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Big Database Server General Question >Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:13:49 -0500 > >>On 2009-04-04 15:34, Tim McDonough wrote: >>> I'm asking this question to find out what keywords to search f

Re: new problem - networking is strange

Miles Fidelman wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >>> As some of you have followed (and helped - THANKS!), I had a server >>> crash, moved all my disks to a 2nd chassis, and have been busily >>> restoring things. >>> >>> Meanwhile, I discovered that I really didn't have a hardware f

Re: new problem - networking is strange

H.S. wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: As some of you have followed (and helped - THANKS!), I had a server crash, moved all my disks to a 2nd chassis, and have been busily restoring things. Meanwhile, I discovered that I really didn't have a hardware failure on my 1st chassis - a disk drive faile

Re: hp proliant dl380 g5 intermittent network connectivity issues (debian lenny 5.0)

Hi, On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Matthew Lenz wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 08:49 -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: >> Got some serious issues with a brand new hp dl380 g5 running debian >> lenny. ... >> The messed up thing is there is NO indicator of any issues in the dmesg >> output on the server.

Re: new problem - networking is strange

Miles Fidelman wrote: > > As some of you have followed (and helped - THANKS!), I had a server > crash, moved all my disks to a 2nd chassis, and have been busily > restoring things. > > Meanwhile, I discovered that I really didn't have a hardware failure on > my 1st chassis - a disk drive failed i

new problem - networking is strange

As some of you have followed (and helped - THANKS!), I had a server crash, moved all my disks to a 2nd chassis, and have been busily restoring things. Meanwhile, I discovered that I really didn't have a hardware failure on my 1st chassis - a disk drive failed in a way that dragged things dow

Re: Big Database Server General Question

On 2009-04-04 15:34, Tim McDonough wrote: I'm asking this question to find out what keywords to search for, not really looking for a specific answer here. When there is a huge database involved with a lot of users and lots of data it isn't done all with one computer and a fast connection. Su

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system - raid recovery?

Christofer C. Bell wrote: If anybody has any suggestions on how to rebuild RAID sets (or pointers to a good HOWTO), that would be very much appreciated. I've never used Sarge so I don't know what md tools exist in that environment. To rebuild a raid using mdadm, it's as simple as

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Miles Fidelman > wrote: Allan Wind wrote: Did you replace or otherwise eliminate the failed hardware? It was not clear but that should be your first step, otherwis

youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape

Hello, Since I upgraded a few weeks ago after the release of Lenny, I have noticed that youtube videos in Iceape browser are kind of choppy. This wasn't the case earlier before the upgrade. Anybody else also having this problem? Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on it

Re: usb drive (ntfs file system) not mounted automatically in debian 5.0 lenny

Vivek Sahukar wrote: > I have debian 5.0 lenny installed on my laptop; with windows xp service > pack 2 installed in separate partitions of hard drive.my flash drive (vfat > filesystem) is automatically mounted when it's plugged into usb port. > But my external hard drive and windows partition dri

Re: Big Database Server General Question

Could you be refering to distributed systems? On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Tim McDonough wrote: > I'm asking this question to find out what keywords to search for, not > really looking for a specific answer here. > > When there is a huge database involved with a lot of users and lots of data

Gnome Shell

Hey there all, Was just doing some reading on the future of Gnome, and I thought I would try building it. When I run the build script, however, I'm told I need xulrunner-1.9-dev. When I look for that package, I can see xulrunner-1.9 and xulrunner-dev, but no xulrunner-1.9-dev. Anyone else try t

how to trace port openning

Hello List, how can we trace the port effectively open/close by an executable ? thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Big Database Server General Question

I'm asking this question to find out what keywords to search for, not really looking for a specific answer here. When there is a huge database involved with a lot of users and lots of data it isn't done all with one computer and a fast connection. I'm generally interested in how requests direc

Re: usb drive (ntfs file system) not mounted automatically in debian 5.0 lenny

Jonatán Guadamuz Espinoza wrote: El mié, 01-04-2009 a las 07:09 -0800, Vivek Sahukar escribió: I have debian 5.0 lenny installed on my laptop; with windows xp service pack 2 installed in separate partitions of hard drive. my flash drive (vfat filesystem) is automatically mounted when it's plugge

Re: apache log "rotate"

2009/4/4 michal krajcirovic : > Hello, > creating access.log from apache2. I want at the same time (namely, every > minute) without restart / reload apache start either log into another file, > or rename the existing log to another file and log to a file with the same > name. Given that the number

apache log "rotate"

Hello, creating access.log from apache2. I want at the same time (namely, every minute) without restart / reload apache start either log into another file, or rename the existing log to another file and log to a file with the same name. Given that the number of logs up to 30 lines per second,

Re: crashes without trace--module problem?

Ross Boylan wrote: I have a new system running Lenny, amd64 architecture and 8 core Xeon chips. It has been crashing regularly, often after less than 24 hours uptime. Could it be the powernow-k8 kernel module? That appears to have been the source of system-freezing problem I was having. I d

remote log apache2

Hello, I have a simple network architecture in which the need to remotely log on apache2. On servers running the same sites for which requests are sent via loadbalancers. And I want to periodically (eg every minute) the logs "send" to a central log server. +--+ | apache 1 |->>\ +

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system - update

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Miles Fidelman < mfidel...@traversetechnologies.com> wrote: > Update: > > Well, back on the air, sort of. Thanks for the pointers to tools - > systemrescuecd was very helpful. > That's great to hear! > What was really helpful was realizing that not only did I h

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Miles Fidelman < mfidel...@traversetechnologies.com> wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: > >> >> Did you replace or otherwise eliminate the failed hardware? It was not >> clear but that should be your first step, otherwise you are on shaking >> ground. >> >> > Yup - swapped

Re: /etc/init.d/networking restart does not change IP address. I have to reboot. Help.

On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:58:50 +0530, Foss User posted: > Trying to change the IP address in /etc/network/interfaces and then > /etc/init.d/networking restart does not really change my IP. I am having > to do a reboot to really change the IP. Could someone please help me in > understanding why resta

Re: HELP!!! trying to recover crashed system

On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:21:27 -0400, Miles Fidelman posted: > Here it is, Friday, and my birthday to boot, with one fire on my desk > already, when I discover that a critical server has crashed > > The server is running Sarge (I know, I was just about to upgrade, but if > it ain't broke, why f

Re: Drives can't be mounted as a normal user

[...] > I know how to use and edit the /etc/fstab file to mount the drives after > each boot. OK, I will assume you are correct with this statement. > However, that's not what I'm looking at. Perhaps it should be where you are looking. > I'm looking to be able to use my other partitions just li

Re: /etc/init.d/networking restart does not change IP address. I have to reboot. Help.

On 2009-04-04 08:16, Sven Joachim wrote: [snip] - A network device might not always be present (such as a USB WLAN adapter), and you want to bring up the interface automatically Or CardBus/PCMCIA. -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: /etc/init.d/networking restart does not change IP address. I have to reboot. Help.

On 2009-04-04 14:45 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-04-04 07:21, Foss User wrote: >> So, should I add the following line: >> >> auto eth0 >> >> before this line: >> >> allow-hotplug eth0 >> > > I think he said that you need to *change*, not *add*. This is what I meant, yes. AFAIK auto and al

Re: Avoiding install of ALL X video drivers

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 12:40:40 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greets, > > When installing X (basically apt-get install xserver-xorg or, what i > usd just now, apt-get install xfce4) in depends on ALL the input and > output drivers it can find. I only have one graphics card and the > keyboard+mou

Re: /etc/init.d/networking restart does not change IP address. I have to reboot. Help.

On 2009-04-04 07:21, Foss User wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-04-04 13:28 +0200, Foss User wrote: [snip] # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 ^ This is your problem, you probably want to change that to "auto". iface eth0 inet

live-helper and custom live cd images

Hi, I'm building my first live image. I was wondering, is there a graphical installer included by default if I build with -p gnome-desktop? If so, is it possible to modify this slightly so it launches orca when the installer is started? Is this possible? Thanks, Daniel. signature.asc Descript

Re: Iceweasel doesn't save passwd

Hello John, 2009/4/3 John W Foster Start with the obvious. as I've said, Iceweasel could save any password. All at once, it stops to save them. All configurations are ok. I have no exceptions. Somebody know how to help me? Thanks, Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza http://franciscossouza.blogspo

Re: /etc/init.d/networking restart does not change IP address. I have to reboot. Help.

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-04-04 13:28 +0200, Foss User wrote: > >> Trying to change the IP address in /etc/network/interfaces and then >> /etc/init.d/networking restart does not really change my IP. I am >> having to do a reboot to really change the IP. Could so

"best" usb sound card with debian support?

A few years ago I got an terratec phase 26 usb card. I need a second usb sound card for a second computer and hear that there are better devices available. Some of those suggested as 'better' alternatives are the M-box mini and E-MU 0202 USB. Google makes me doubt that those are supported by alsa /

Re: /etc/init.d/networking restart does not change IP address. I have to reboot. Help.

On 2009-04-04 13:28 +0200, Foss User wrote: > Trying to change the IP address in /etc/network/interfaces and then > /etc/init.d/networking restart does not really change my IP. I am > having to do a reboot to really change the IP. Could someone please > help me in understanding why restarting netw

Avoiding install of ALL X video drivers

Greets, When installing X (basically apt-get install xserver-xorg or, what i usd just now, apt-get install xfce4) in depends on ALL the input and output drivers it can find. I only have one graphics card and the keyboard+mouse are probably provided by one input driver. Are there any ways to circu

/etc/init.d/networking restart does not change IP address. I have to reboot. Help.

Trying to change the IP address in /etc/network/interfaces and then /etc/init.d/networking restart does not really change my IP. I am having to do a reboot to really change the IP. Could someone please help me in understanding why restarting networking doesn't do it? OUTPUT BEFORE CHANGING IP ADDR

Re: bank web page problem in iceweasel/iceape

On 2009-04-04 00:08, H.S. wrote: [snip] Found the problem. It is the browser identification. If I use a string which shows my browser is Firefox, the add payee search field works perfectly. Any other identification (Seamonkey or Iceape) does not work. Currently, this works in prefs.js: user_pre

Re: how to purge unused softwares on servers

2009/4/4 Andrei Popescu : > On Fri,03.Apr.09, 17:09:50, zhang zhengquan wrote: >> Dear debian users, >> I have now got several servers for different applications under >> debian, some are very old and previous admin have installed lots of >> packages on them. like Xorg... gnome... kde related. I re

Re: how to purge unused softwares on servers

On Fri,03.Apr.09, 17:09:50, zhang zhengquan wrote: > Dear debian users, > I have now got several servers for different applications under > debian, some are very old and previous admin have installed lots of > packages on them. like Xorg... gnome... kde related. I really want to > purge them and ge

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