Re:[Solved] New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2009-05-21 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 22 May 2009 05:14:00 gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:31:53PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Hi list, > > Made a new unstable install from daily build, using business card image > > from 2 days ago. Everything went OK during the process, but the reboot > > was more troubl

Re: Access internet

2009-05-21 Thread Juan Lavieri
jerin escribió: I have a dsl modem and used to connect internet via ethernet in windows. but i couldnt configure it for debian. please give me the detailed steps to access internet. i am using a intel system. i think ethernet is configured. but i dont know how to connect to net using it. curre

Re: chrony discarding servers

2009-05-21 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:20:56AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Just to go through the obvious, since you haven't told us how you're > connecting to the internet: *are* you connecting through ppp? If so, > can you provide the relevant syslog from the pe

Access internet

2009-05-21 Thread jerin
I have a dsl modem and used to connect internet via ethernet in windows. but i couldnt configure it for debian. please give me the detailed steps to access internet. i am using a intel system. i think ethernet is configured. but i dont know how to connect to net using it. currently i am using i...@

Re: chrony discarding servers

2009-05-21 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 22 May 2009 00:45:45 -0400 Daryl Styrk wrote: ... > Because numeric IP addresses have been used, the first problem is > overcome. The offline keyword indicates that the servers start in an > offline state, and that they should not be contacted until chronyd > receives notification that t

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Kent West
Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On May 21, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > >> 2009/5/20 Hal Vaughan : >>> Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't >>> tend to >>> have to log on to very often. I checked the bad directory and get >>> this: >>> >>> [...@scarecrow:threshNet]

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-21 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I have at my home a small network: > firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD > server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD > desktop : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 2

Re: chrony discarding servers

2009-05-21 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:19:15AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > [please reply to the list and not to me] > > Your chrony.conf has two sources, both set to 'offline'. What do you > mean that it's set to always be online? > Sorry for the off-list reply..

Recommendations for Mini PCIe 802.11b/g card?

2009-05-21 Thread Mark Shroyer
My laptop's Intel 3945BG card won't connect to half of the APs that I want it to--and even when it does work, I can only squeeze about 9 Mbps out of it in 802.11g mode. So I'd like to replace it with something that works better with Debian Lenny. Can anyone recommend a really rock-solid 802.11b/g

Re: chrony discarding servers

2009-05-21 Thread Celejar
[please reply to the list and not to me] On Fri, 22 May 2009 00:07:57 -0400 Daryl Styrk wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:55:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > Dumb question, but when you aren't restarting chrony, are you telling > > it to bring the sources online? > > > > Can you post the o

Re: chrony discarding servers

2009-05-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 20 May 2009 16:55:05 -0400 Daryl Styrk wrote: > I seem to keep having a problem with chrony dropping back to 127.127.1.1.. > > I saw in chrony.conf > # Note that if Chrony tries to go "online" and dns lookup of the servers > # fails they will be discarded. Thus under some circumstances

Re: LVM + multipath

2009-05-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:38:33PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a curiosity question about using LVM w/ multipath devices. I've > got some SAN disk on which I made a volume group, and a couple of > logical volumes. Each volume has an ext3 filesystem. I've added the > filesy

Re: New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2009-05-21 Thread gcrimp
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:31:53PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi list, > Made a new unstable install from daily build, using business card image from > 2 > days ago. Everything went OK during the process, but the reboot was more > trouble: > No way to enter the system as a user, login fail

Re: I am dying here!

2009-05-21 Thread gcrimp
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:03:19AM -0400, Ronnie McMaster wrote: > I just loaded Debian on my PC and everything seems fine other than not being > able to set the resolution other than 800X600. I am used to having it at > 1240X940 (or something close to that) but I only get the options for 800x600 >

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On May 21, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: 2009/5/20 Hal Vaughan : Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend to have to log on to very often. I checked the bad directory and get this: [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX total 0 ?- ? ? ? ?

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2009/5/20 Hal Vaughan : > Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend to > have to log on to very often.  I checked the bad directory and get this: > > [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX > total 0 > ?- ? ? ? ?                ? reportX/2009-r...@? > [...@s

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-21 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <20090521174259.ga7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >>> I refuse to run a >>> mysql-server just to get KDE installed. It's already bloated more than >>> enough. I'm not using the applications that would require the >>> mysql-server anywa

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2009/5/21 Hilco Wijbenga : > 2009/5/20 Hal Vaughan : >> Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend to >> have to log on to very often.  I checked the bad directory and get this: >> >> [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX >> total 0 >> ?- ? ? ? ?              

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2009/5/20 Hal Vaughan : > Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend to > have to log on to very often.  I checked the bad directory and get this: > > [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX > total 0 > ?- ? ? ? ?                ? reportX/2009-r...@? > > Is the

GTK theme looks different between accounts

2009-05-21 Thread T o n g
Hi, I just found out that the GTK themes look different in my account than in my wife's. Why is that? I thought it is because of my daunting GTK related config files, So I did cd rm -rf .gconf .gconfd .gnome/ .gnome2/ .gnome2_private/ .gstreamer-0.10/ To clean them up. But still, every sin

Re: I am dying here!

2009-05-21 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/22 Ronnie > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> >> >> 2009/5/21 Ronnie McMaster > ronnie.mcmas...@gmail.com>> >> >>Thanx, I will give it a try as soon as I boot back into it. >> >> >> don't forget to run it as root with gksu >> $ gksu nvidia-settings >> >> >> >>On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:

Re: install proprietary nvidia driver without xorg.conf?

2009-05-21 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 19:19 -0600, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Sunday May 17 2009 3:56:23 pm Michael M. Moore wrote: > > It says for Lenny you have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to load "glx" > > module and remove "dri" or "GLCore" modules, under the > "Module" section; > > and that you need to change

Re: Can you recommend any screen capture utility for etch - an apology for hitting the reply key too fast :-9

2009-05-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 21 May 2009 22:44:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 20 May 2009 11:08:52 Long Wind wrote: > > I have try gimp for sarge > > It seems to have problem with capturing window > > I have tried scrot for etch > > It does not capture title bar when capturing window > > Thanks! > > Ksnapshot

Re: Can you recommend any screen capture utility for etch

2009-05-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 11:08:52 Long Wind wrote: > I have try gimp for sarge > It seems to have problem with capturing window > I have tried scrot for etch > It does not capture title bar when capturing window > Thanks! Ksnapshot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Questions regarding bash and sh.

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Scott
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,20.May.09, 21:09:02, Muzer wrote: Damn, I did it again, sending it to one person rather than everyone! I really need to get used to this mailing list lark. There's a reply-to-list extension for Thunderbird. Not counting that the current version of

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-21 Thread John Hasler
lee writes: > PIM, konqueror and some others ... I don't see that konqueror depends on mysql-server. It depends on libqt4-sql-mysql, but that's just a driver library. kdepim does depend on it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Audio/Video on amd64 Lenny

2009-05-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 16:04:24 -0400, Larry Irwin wrote: [...] > # lsusb > Bus 005 Device 004: ID 046d:08b1 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Notebook Pro > Bus 005 Device 003: ID 3538:0050 Power Quotient International Co., Ltd > Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 >

Re: SAS Card Suggestions

2009-05-21 Thread Glyn Astill
I've heard good things about areca and 3ware cards. Personally using Adaptec 5808's here and quite happy with them. Stay away from anything dell branded! Had used lots of cercs and percs, dell basically take Adaptec and LSI cards and braindamage the firmware. Specifically seen this on SATA cer

Re: Accidental shutdown

2009-05-21 Thread Scott Gifford
Bhasker C V writes: > Is there a method to prevent accidental powerdown of a linux box ? >or atleast alert ? If you get in the habit of running "shutdown -r +1" instead of "reboot", it will warn users for 1 minute before shutting down the server. That should give you enough time to run "s

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:42:59PM -0500, lee wrote: > Well, KDE is now broken after I updated today. I refuse to run a > mysql-server just to get KDE installed. It's already bloated more than > enough. I'm not using the applications that would require the > mysql-server anyway. I've had problems

Re: Accidental shutdown

2009-05-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:31:47AM +0100, Bhasker C V wrote: > I can rename and shell wrap the binaries poweroff/shutdown/reboot but > that would not be a clean method and I am sure there should be much > better way than that. Nope. You could disable the reboot command in your sudoers file, bu

Re: Questions regarding bash and sh.

2009-05-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:53:08AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I have noticed that for some users in /etc/passwd the shell > environment is set as bash and for some as sh. This has led me to the > following questions: > . Why is it so, meaning what is the meaning of it? System accounts and system s

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-21 Thread lee
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 03:00:12PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <20090521174259.ga7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > >> I refuse to run a > >> mysql-server just to get KDE installed. It's already bloated more than > >> enough. I'm not using the applications

Re: Audio/Video on amd64 Lenny

2009-05-21 Thread Larry Irwin
I did get the microphone to work after the ia32 libs were installed. (not quite sure why...) But, the sound quality from the mic is pretty bad... Concerning the webcam... On Tue, May 19, 2009 12:39 Florian Kulzer wrote: A Logitech QuickCam is plugged into a USB port. We need the vendor and dev

Re: cd to folder with spaces - in a script

2009-05-21 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Michael Casey wrote: >> yeah, SOLVED: :)) >> >> clear; find . -type d | while read FOLDERNAME; do $(cd "$FOLDERNAME"); done > > I'm not sure what it is exactly that you try to do, but: > >  $(cd "$FOL

Re: SAS Card Suggestions

2009-05-21 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: 2. PCI-X PCI-X, or PCI-E? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Dual-head on Lenovo T60?

2009-05-21 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I'm trying to get a dual-head setup working on my Lenovo T60, without any success, despite having looked at number of pieces of documentation, in particular the comprehensive-seeming wiki entry at http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12, so I'd be grateful if someone could give me a push

LVM + multipath

2009-05-21 Thread Ron Peterson
Hi folks, I have a curiosity question about using LVM w/ multipath devices. I've got some SAN disk on which I made a volume group, and a couple of logical volumes. Each volume has an ext3 filesystem. I've added the filesystems to my fstab using their UUID's. UUID=f9b573fd-9457-4150-9007-fedbe7

Re: Which 64-bit version to use

2009-05-21 Thread Mark Allums
Bret Busby wrote: On a laptop that has 4GB of RAM, and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor(which I assume to be a 64 bit CPU), I understand that a 64-bit OS is best for accessing the full GB of RAM. For 64-bit version, Ubuntu has only the AMD64 version. On the Debian web page at http://www.debian

What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-21 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I have at my home a small network: firewall/gateway: Pentium II Class PC box with 64 MB RAM, 5,1 GB HDD server : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 60 GB HDD desktop : Pentium IV Class PC box with 2 GB RAM, 2 * 320 GB HDD On all these PC boxes run Debian GNU/Linux: fire

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,21.May.09, 15:00:12, H.S. wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <20090521174259.ga7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > >> I refuse to run a > >> mysql-server just to get KDE installed. It's already bloated more than > >> enough. I'm not using the applications that would re

Debian based laptop: Yeeloong

2009-05-21 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hi, Debian based laptop with MIPS processor, 100% open source, no firmware blobs, open source bios: http://www.lemote.com/english/yeeloong.html http://www.osnews.com/story/21530/The_Loongson-2_MIPS_Lemote_Yeeloong_Netbook http://lemote.kd85.com/ (Belgium) With regards, Paul van der Vlis. --

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-21 Thread H.S.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090521174259.ga7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >> I refuse to run a >> mysql-server just to get KDE installed. It's already bloated more than >> enough. I'm not using the applications that would require the >> mysql-server anyway. > > Then don't

Re: cd to folder with spaces - in a script

2009-05-21 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Michael Casey wrote: > yeah, SOLVED: :)) > > clear; find . -type d | while read FOLDERNAME; do $(cd "$FOLDERNAME"); done If you want set variables and using it later, I recommend you another method: while read FOLDERNAME; do $(cd "$FOLDERNAME"); done < <(find . -ty

Re: cd to folder with spaces - in a script

2009-05-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Michael Casey wrote: > yeah, SOLVED: :)) > > clear; find . -type d | while read FOLDERNAME; do $(cd "$FOLDERNAME"); done I'm not sure what it is exactly that you try to do, but: $(cd "$FOLDERNAME") chdir-s into that directory in a subshell and then re

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-21 Thread lee
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:06:03PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090521174259.ga7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > >I refuse to run a > >mysql-server just to get KDE installed. It's already bloated more than > >enough. I'm not using the applications that would require th

Re: cd to folder with spaces - in a script

2009-05-21 Thread Michael Casey
yeah, SOLVED: :)) clear; find . -type d | while read FOLDERNAME; do $(cd "$FOLDERNAME"); done Thank you!!

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090521174259.ga7...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >I refuse to run a >mysql-server just to get KDE installed. It's already bloated more than >enough. I'm not using the applications that would require the >mysql-server anyway. Then don't install those applications. Problem solved.

Re: Which 64-bit version to use

2009-05-21 Thread David Fox
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > For 64-bit version, Ubuntu has only the AMD64 version. Which is all you need. > > On the Debian web page at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ , the > architectures supported, include AMD64 and Intel IA-64. Debian supports IA-64, Ubuntu

Re: cd to folder with spaces - in a script

2009-05-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qui, 21 Mai 2009, Michael Casey wrote: How can I cd into a dir, when it contains spaces, and I need to use it in a script? the directory: /home/user/this is a folder/something normally I would use: cd /home/user/this\ is\ a\ folder/something/ but in a script I cant just add the "\" like: f

Re: Which 64-bit version to use

2009-05-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:19:15AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > So, is the AMD64 ISO image, the appropriate one for a laptop with an > Intel Core 2 Duo processor, or is the Intel IA-64 the appropriate image > (and, if so, does it work?) ? Yes, and yes. amd64 is used because AMD processors were t

Re: Which 64-bit version to use

2009-05-21 Thread Victor Padro
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > On a laptop that has 4GB of RAM, and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor(which I > assume to be a 64 bit CPU), I understand that a 64-bit OS is best for > accessing the full GB of RAM. > > For 64-bit version, Ubuntu has only the AMD64 version. > >

KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-21 Thread lee
Hi! Well, KDE is now broken after I updated today. I refuse to run a mysql-server just to get KDE installed. It's already bloated more than enough. I'm not using the applications that would require the mysql-server anyway. Will that be fixed? When kdm starts, it says there's no greeting widget a

cd to folder with spaces - in a script

2009-05-21 Thread Michael Casey
How can I cd into a dir, when it contains spaces, and I need to use it in a script? the directory: /home/user/this is a folder/something normally I would use: cd /home/user/this\ is\ a\ folder/something/ but in a script I cant just add the "\" like: find . -type d | while read FOLDER; do cd $FO

Matrox Mila G200 Setup

2009-05-21 Thread David Baron
Until I can get something else on the level of an nvidia, I am stuck with this old clunker. I have installed the required firmware-linux and mga-vid which is recommended for video viewing with this card. Problem: Any attempt at DRI freezes system. This may be a bug in the firmware after being t

Re: Skype in Squeeze

2009-05-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Peter Crawford wrote: > Tom, > >> might be a problem specific to the webcam driver, because here Skype >> works all right on Squeeze (amd64) with an uvcvideo webcam. > > The system here has no camera. Skype crashes as it > tries to open the video coming from the other Skype. > In a developer list

Which 64-bit version to use

2009-05-21 Thread Bret Busby
On a laptop that has 4GB of RAM, and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor(which I assume to be a 64 bit CPU), I understand that a 64-bit OS is best for accessing the full GB of RAM. For 64-bit version, Ubuntu has only the AMD64 version. On the Debian web page at http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:39, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend to > have to log on to very often.  I checked the bad directory and get this: > > [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX > total 0 > ?- ? ? ? ?                ? repo

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX > total 0 > ?- ? ? ? ?? reportX/2009-r...@? I remember seeing a similar thing (also in the context of rsync, by the way), and I remember it took me a while to figure out how to fix it, and I also remember that I fixed it without fs

Re: Removable media not found on KDE

2009-05-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:14:08 +0100, AG wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 23:07:16 +0100, AG wrote: >>> >>> In KDE3.5.5, running on Etch whenever I load a USB data stick, it >>> triggers OpenOffice.org's splash screen and then reports that >>> media:/sda1 does not e

Re: Re: kde4: restore deleted desktop containment

2009-05-21 Thread Jeff Chimene
On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Jeff Chimene wrote: On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,20.May.09, 12:34:01, Jeff Chimene wrote: Hi, While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing

SAS Card Suggestions

2009-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
They don't seem to make 15K SATA drives, so I was thinking of getting a SAS controller. Please suggest a brand/model with the following requirements: 1. 2 or 4 SAS ports. 2. PCI-X 3. Bootable from PC BIOS. 4. Supported in Debian main (preferably Lenny) 5. SMART access to individual drives. -

Re: Accidental shutdown

2009-05-21 Thread Bhasker C V
Thanks all I was looking for an utility exactly like molly-guard. Got it ! thanks again. On Thu, 21 May 2009, Daniel Husand wrote: On 21.05.2009 01:31, Bhasker C V wrote: Is there a method to prevent accidental powerdown of a linux box ? or atleast alert ? leda:~# reboot W: molly-guard: SS

SATA Card Suggestions

2009-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Please suggest a good brand/model with the following features: 1. At least 11 SATA ports. 2. PCI-X. 3. On-board cache (preferably upgradable, but that's not required.) 4. Battery backup for the cache available. 5. Supported in Debian main (preferably Lenny). 6. SMART access to individual driv

Re: Running Console-setup Earlier

2009-05-21 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 21 May 2009 00:33:23 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > The new console-setup from Sid providing uniform console properties to > > Xorg and elsewhere places init scripts: > > > > ~$ locate console | grep rcS > > /etc/rcS.d/S48console-screen.sh > > /etc/rcS.d/S49cons

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <880dece00905210835w451e87e1t4307a8727d654...@mail.gmail.com>, Dotan Cohen wrote: >I would assume that handling user input / >output is the role of the terminal (not the shell), and therefore >copy/paste falls into it's role. Oh, yes. I agree. Physical terminals (even the Linux VCs) are gene

RE: Skype in Squeeze

2009-05-21 Thread Peter Crawford
Tom, > might be a problem specific to the webcam driver, because here Skype > works all right on Squeeze (amd64) with an uvcvideo webcam. The system here has no camera. Skype crashes as it tries to open the video coming from the other Skype. In a developer list there was discussion about rearran

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
>>just figured that this would be common enough to be a part of the >>shell itself, > > Probably mostly for historical reasons, the shell doesn't handle terminal > manipulations.  In particular, the shell doesn't know that the input you > want is 5 rows up and 12 columns over or have any (special)

Re: Skype in Squeeze

2009-05-21 Thread thveillon.debian
Peter Crawford wrote: > After updating Squeeze on 2009-05-19 Skype > crashed when it tried to open the video viewer. > Disabling the video option allows use of audio. > > With any luck this will be resolved or Ekiga will > work again soon. > > Regards, ... p. crawford > Hi, m

Skype in Squeeze

2009-05-21 Thread Peter Crawford
After updating Squeeze on 2009-05-19 Skype crashed when it tried to open the video viewer. Disabling the video option allows use of audio. With any luck this will be resolved or Ekiga will work again soon. Regards, ... p. crawford

Re: debian on xserve?

2009-05-21 Thread D G Teed
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras < ghostba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mark Quitoriano wrote: > > anyone tried to install debian on xserve? what architecture do i need to > > use? x86_64? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Mark Quitoriano > > http://asterisk.org.ph > > > > Fan the

Xorg: radeon vs fglrx

2009-05-21 Thread tom
Hi, I have a radeon HD4670 and while I would like to stick to free software as much as possible, I might soon permanently switch to fglrx drivers because of the difference it makes on PC noise level. When using fglrx, my PC gets very silent when xdm starts. When using the radeon xorg driver, the

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On May 21, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:39:38AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend to have to log on to very often. I checked the bad directory and get this: [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l

Re: Questions regarding bash and sh.

2009-05-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:19:24PM -0700, Ken Teague wrote: > Sthu Deus wrote: >> Good day. >> >> I have noticed that for some users in /etc/passwd the shell environment >> is set as bash and for some as sh. This has led me to the following >> questions: >> >> . Why is it so, meaning what is the me

Re: Running Console-setup Earlier

2009-05-21 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 21 May 2009 00:33:23 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > The new console-setup from Sid providing uniform console properties to > > Xorg and elsewhere places init scripts: > > > > ~$ locate console | grep rcS > > /etc/rcS.d/S48console-screen.sh > > /etc/rcS.d/S49cons

Re: How to remove permanently mouse driver

2009-05-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:37:16AM +0200, User Debian wrote: >>> I would like to delete on the permanent basis the mouse driver from >>> Debian. Any help will be more than welcome ! :) > Roger Leigh wrote: >> echo 'blacklist psmouse' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local >> >> for a PS/2 mouse.

Problem with DVD playback on Lenny

2009-05-21 Thread Pål Dahle
Greetings! Problem : I have 4 DVDs that I would like to run on my Debian box. This is currently how I am doing: DVD RegionCode Playback 1 2 Fine with all players 2 1-6Fine with all players 3

Re: if no NFS server clients are waiting..

2009-05-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 13.05.09 23:23, Michael Casey wrote: > What can I do, If the NFS server is rebooting/offline? > I mean the clients just wait and wait and wait... mount with options "soft" and "intr". Be aware of rpoblems it may create. > I tried to set > > timeo=5,retrans=2 > > mount options when mounting n

Re: Aptitude fails with broken package

2009-05-21 Thread David
> Removing wx2.8-headers ... > Traceback (most recent call last): >  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2096, in >    main() >  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 2090, in main >    rv = action.run(global_options) >  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1550, in run >    pkg.read_version_info() >  File "/usr

Aptitude fails with broken package

2009-05-21 Thread Raven
Hi all. Some time ago aptitude decided I needed the package "wx2.8-headers". Unfortunately, it failed while trying to install it. For a couple days I could still perform a safe-upgrade without too much trouble (the updated packages were installing and the broken one was the last). So I tried to rem

Re: Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
V13 wrote: Άλλο περίεργο: κάτι έχουν κάνει οι δικοί μας εδώ στο email και έχω προβληματάκι στην αποστολή email και στη linux-greek-users, και τώρα στην debian-user-greek. Moυ έρχονται πρώτα ένα-δυο "Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours" όπου μέσα λέει: - Transcript of session

Re: what happened to spampoison.com?

2009-05-21 Thread Nuno Magalhães
>> What happened to >> >> http://www.spampoison.com/ It's in its 6th year? Don't you think any decent spambot would avoid that domain or its IPs by now? -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Accidental shutdown

2009-05-21 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Husand wrote: > On 21.05.2009 01:31, Bhasker C V wrote: >> >> Is there a method to prevent accidental powerdown of a linux box ? >> or atleast alert ? A shellscript that pauses, outputs machine/system info of the box that your "rebooting," and asks if this

New install: root account is locked, starting shell

2009-05-21 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi list, Made a new unstable install from daily build, using business card image from 2 days ago. Everything went OK during the process, but the reboot was more trouble: No way to enter the system as a user, login failed; no way to enter as root, login failed. So I tried to boot safe mode, and I

krb5-1.7 does not work properly

2009-05-21 Thread Malte Schröder
Hello, I cannot find a similar report, so maybe I am doing something wrong, so I kindly ask if someone could give me a hint. I am not subscribed to the list, so please at least CC me in reply. Since the update to krb5-1.7 in sid I cannot authenticate to services anymore. KDCs I tried are the ones

Re: [OT] Wireless Router WGR614v9 issues

2009-05-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:51:30AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > And after having to reboot constantly for weeks, I purchashed > > a PC Engines Wrap board, loaded up some M0n0wall firewall software and > > never looked back. > > If

Re: Out of memory crashes ssh

2009-05-21 Thread André Berger
* Maicon Faria (2009-05-20): [...] > When I run a program, as user, that uses more then the memory > avaliable the OOM(OUT-OF-MEMORY) kill this job. Disarm the OOM killer: # /etc/sysctl.conf vm.overcommit_memory=2 -André -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: How to run an application in X under another user?

2009-05-21 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Florian: > Install the package "sux" and use > > sux - another_user > > This should automatically transfer your X credentials to the new user > and make sure his $DISPLAY is set correctly. It did the trick! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:39:38AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend > to have to log on to very often. I checked the bad directory and get > this: > > [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX > total 0 > ?- ? ? ? ?

Re: Removable media not found on KDE

2009-05-21 Thread AG
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 23:07:16 +0100, AG wrote: Hi List In KDE3.5.5, running on Etch whenever I load a USB data stick, it triggers OpenOffice.org's splash screen and then reports that media:/sda1 does not exist. The same USB stick loads fine and is accessible in