wireless interface name changes across reboots

When I reboot my laptop, my wireless card sometimes gets recognized as eth2. Other times it gets recognized as wlan0_rename. Because of this, sometimes I end up with a booted machine with no network. Using Debian Lenny (stable), $dmesg | grep -i wireless [7.493507] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wi

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I really wonder why this package is not a dependency of the > > xserver-xorg-radeon{,hd} packages. If the installation of that package > > solved > > that problem for you I will file a bug against the xserver-xorg-video-* > > packages that "depend"

Re: Question about Installing Lenny on a laptop

2009/6/18 Neal Hogan : > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Petrus Validus > wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am installing Lenny on a Toshiba Tecra A8.  During the software >> selection screen by default the options "Desktop Environment" "Laptop" >> and "Standard System" are checked. >> >> Usually I just

Re: Question about Installing Lenny on a laptop

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Petrus Validus wrote: > Hi All, > > I am installing Lenny on a Toshiba Tecra A8.  During the software > selection screen by default the options "Desktop Environment" "Laptop" > and "Standard System" are checked. > > Usually I just install the base and build from the

RE: Xorg driver from Ubuntu in Lenny

>Install the devscripts-package, change to the source directory of the psb >module and do 'debuild'. It will>tell you which -dev package are missing, >install them and repeat. If everything goes well, you should have>a debian >package which can be installed with 'dpkg -i xserver-xorg...deb'. S

Help with rsyslog

Hi I have a syslog line that looks like this Jun 18 10:35:53 Thu Jun 18 10:42:37 2009 dlink-dir-855 System Log: Stored configuration to non-volatile memory notice the double dates stamps and it seems like I should be able to rectify this with rsyslog, but I am not sure how. I have had a quick l

Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using + )?

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM, j t wrote: > I think it's time for me to have a chat with the gnome-terminal people... >From http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2009-June/msg00037.html "I think you now need to do Ctrl+Shift+u, then the Unicode number, then then the spacebar." I'm now happ

Question about Installing Lenny on a laptop

Hi All, I am installing Lenny on a Toshiba Tecra A8. During the software selection screen by default the options "Desktop Environment" "Laptop" and "Standard System" are checked. Usually I just install the base and build from there (on desktops) but since I'm on a laptop I'm wondering what tool

Re: Re: xemacs and auctex

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:10:17AM -0700, Maria McKinley wrote: > Bob Parnes wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:12:50PM -0700, Maria McKinley wrote: >>> I have the latest xemacs and auctex in lenny, but when I try C-c C-c, >>> I get C-c C-c not defined. Any ideas what I did wrong? I suspect >>

Re: exim4 query

In <20090617215741.ga6...@blitz.hooton>, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:52:18AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <3df35b760906170818re166e28x8be9006d7...@mail.gmail.com>, Yuriy >> Kuznetsov wrote: >> >Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with

Re: exim4 query

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:52:18AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <3df35b760906170818re166e28x8be9006d7...@mail.gmail.com>, Yuriy > Kuznetsov wrote: > >Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with exim4, > >please? > > Install bsd-mailx. > echo 'Body of the messa

Re: GDM login screen freezes after suspend or hibernate

On Wed, 13 May 2009 12:30:19 +0200 Klistvud wrote: > > Plz help. Anyone else on this list having the same problem? Same problem here after upgrade on Sunday. (Debian unstable, amd64) Problem: Both keyboard and mouse work neither in gdm or in kdm login screens. After a reboot, startx locks mouse

Re: 2.6.30

In <20090617211453.gq24...@penguin.codegnome.org>, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:23:27PM +0300, David Baron wrote: >> 1. Should I use extents along with the writeback data mode? >As for extents, they aren't supported in ext3 anyway. You'd need to >reformat (not upgrade an existi

SPAM on the List

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Re: 2.6.30

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:23:27PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > 1. Ext3 fs now default to writeback data mode instead of ordered-data. > I does seem quicker. Question is whether this mode is safe? Should I > tune2fs back? Should I use extents along with the writeback data mode? Ordered-data is saf

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 04:51:33PM +0200, David wrote: > 1. Is there a way for external programs to determine immediately when > a mail was just delivered into the mail files? You can monitor files for changes in timestamps or size, which is essentially what shells do to notify users of new email

Re: Reminder - Free Movie: Learn to play forehand in 48.23 seconds - Tennistips from Sweden

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:29:10 -0400 Tony Baldwin wrote: Hello Tony, > There really is an inordinate amount of spam on this list. Not helped by people quoting back to the list verbatim. > I've never seen so much on a user list. You should have seen the amount that arrived when the filters got t

Re: puzzled about cron and anacron

[skipping a lot of lines ...] Paul> I leave my computer on overnight just so I can have this job Paul> done, but there are indications in the log that seem, to my Paul> untrained eye, to be anacron restarting cron jobs every morning Paul> --- why? And how does it arrive at 7:35? The README.De

puzzled about cron and anacron

I am setting up a cron job to do a daily backup of files on disk. I have put a call to the backup program in /etc/cron.daily and it does run daily, but not at the time that I would like it to run. The puzzle is that /etc/crontab specifies that the jobs in /etc/cron.daily should be run starting a

Re: Reminder - Free Movie: Learn to play forehand in 48.23 seconds - Tennistips from Sweden

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Reminder - Free Movie: Learn to play forehand in 48.23 seconds - Tennistips from Sweden

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Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using + )?

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > On what system did you see it work - and in what application(s)¹…? > Good question. I couldn't answer it immediately, so I've just installed etch on a spare machine, and gnome-terminal does the trick. Here's screencast of 20ac and 30db, whic

Re: more than one drbd in heartbeat

On Sun, 24 May 2009 12:58:15 +0200, michal krajcirovic wrote: > Hi, Hello, > I got a little problem, but I can not find a solution. > > I have several sections DRBD - /dev/drbd0, /dev/drbd1, /dev/drbd2, etc. > on two arrays. On them I have the heartbeat. Above them is to run NFS. > > /etc/hea

PDF form data won't print

Hello, I am looking for advice with a frustrating little problem: I am able to fill in PDF forms from the US IRS with either okular or evince (I am using the "testing" distribution). However, alphanumerical form data is "invisible." It only displays the value for a particular field when I click

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

Suno Ano, Wed Jun 17 2009 19:07:31 GMT+0200 (CEST): Peter> Metadata = data stored in .svn/ ? yes, problem is, Subversion does not have one directory i.e. one .svn/ at the root of the project where is stores metadata but it scatters them all over the place which is very annoying. Git only has on

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Hi, I run lenny. I upgraded a month or so ago and switched from chroot based iceweasel to 64bit iceape+icedove. Since then my printing became sporadic from inside iceape. It would go thought motions but would not print anything. Attempting to print to ps file produces just basic header of a

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

Peter> Metadata = data stored in .svn/ ? yes, problem is, Subversion does not have one directory i.e. one .svn/ at the root of the project where is stores metadata but it scatters them all over the place which is very annoying. Git only has one .git/ at the project root at that is it http://sun

Re: Problems with play action in DopeWars game

Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:05:20AM +0100, AG wrote: What is very strange is that the problems are related to playing the game on this machine. My previous machine played it just fine, and it isn't the version either as far as I can tell, because I removed the Squee

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

Hello Wolodja! Thanks a lot! This hint helped a lot, now the graphics accelereation seems to work fine. At least I get now about 770 fps with glxgears, so the improvement is very much noticeable. (And I noticed that the radeon driver does perform even better than the radeonhd driver; this is the d

Re: compiling gnuchess

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:54:12PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > on sid i386 > > after ./configure > i ran make > > and the process stopped by > > input.c:95: error: static declaration of ‘input_thread’ follows non-static > declaration > common.h:719: error: previous declaration of ‘input_thr

Re: compiling gnuchess

In <52d26d930906170911q518ebdf6vbac24bfed3cc0...@mail.gmail.com>, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >2009/6/17 Umarzuki Mochlis >> input.c:95: error: static declaration of ‘input_thread’ follows >> non-static declaration >> common.h:719: error: previous declaration of ‘input_thread’ was here > >the bug rep

2.6.30

I compiled and an now running the 2.6.30 kernel. 1. Ext3 fs now default to writeback data mode instead of ordered-data. I does seem quicker. Question is whether this mode is safe? Should I tune2fs back? Should I use extents along with the writeback data mode? 2. Following new error: svc: failed

Re: 'mktemp' testing package dependency

On 2009-06-17 15:23 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:47:20AM +0200, Sven Joachim was > heard to say: >> On 2009-06-17 05:59 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:59:03PM +0200, Sven Joachim >> > was heard to say: >> >> On 2009-06-16 21:44 +02

Re: compiling gnuchess

2009/6/17 Umarzuki Mochlis > on sid i386 > > after ./configure > i ran make > > and the process stopped by > > input.c:95: error: static declaration of ‘input_thread’ follows non-static > declaration > common.h:719: error: previous declaration of ‘input_thread’ was here > make[2]: *** [input.o] E

Re: exim4 query

Thanks a lot to all for your input. Kind regards, yuriy

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009/6/17 David > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Since this mail is coming from a trusted server, why not have a script > > on that server first check (via ssh) if the user exists? Or, have it > > send the mail blindly. If the user doesn't exist, exim bounces it ba

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

Thanks for the replies. I think what I'm going to do next is take a closer look at Qpsmtpd, since we'll probably need to do a fair amount of non-standard things on the mail servers, and it sounds like configuring exim to do those kinds of things could get very complicated. David. -- To UNSUBSC

compiling gnuchess

on sid i386 after ./configure i ran make and the process stopped by input.c:95: error: static declaration of ‘input_thread’ follows non-static declaration common.h:719: error: previous declaration of ‘input_thread’ was here make[2]: *** [input.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gnuches

Re: external command from java

In <46688cb90906170748v5acc1dcbh2c616ef948d4b...@mail.gmail.com>, abdelkader belahcene wrote: >how to execute an external program from java. Look at the documentation for java.lang.Runtime.exec family of functions. Compare/contrast with the exec* family of SUS C functions. -- Boyd Stephen Smi

Re: exim4 query

In <3df35b760906170818re166e28x8be9006d7...@mail.gmail.com>, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: >Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with exim4, >please? Install bsd-mailx. echo 'Body of the message' | mailx -s 'Subject Line' 'to#1' 'to#2' OR printf 'dot-stuffed-Headers\n\ndot-st

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

In <18c1e6480906170751s1156138ep8d3002b2528c3...@mail.gmail.com>, David wrote: >On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Since this mail is coming from a trusted server, why not have a script >> on that server first check (via ssh) if the user exists? Or, have it >> send the ma

Re: [testing] bluez4 keypad [Resolved]

To activate bluetooth, you need a paperclip (trombone) each time you want to see it with hcitool scan. ^^ Then "hidd --connect $KeyboardBluetooth_ADRR" works (tried as root) After that, I need xmodmap and xev to configure it whith my own language. (hard with a broken arm ;) -- Alexandre Delan

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

On Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 16:51:33 +0200, David wrote: > This info is needed, because our software needs to hook into the exim > mail life cycle at various points. Mainly for things like converting > between email and non-email messaging systems. Basically, the idea is > to use exim as the core engin

Re: external command from java

abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, how to execute an external program from java. the equivalent to the system C command : system( thecommand ), where command is any unix command or program like ls, gedit or firefox thanks for help bela You'd probably be better off asking on a java-dev li

Re: exim4 query

Doug, Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with exim4, please? Thanks a lot On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10:17PM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving

external command from java

hi, how to execute an external program from java. the equivalent to the system C command : system( thecommand ), where command is any unix command or program like ls, gedit or firefox thanks for help bela

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Since this mail is coming from a trusted server, why not have a script > on that server first check (via ssh) if the user exists? Or, have it > send the mail blindly. If the user doesn't exist, exim bounces it back. > the sending script t

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

> > I do not see how this solves the metadata issue if you use a version > > control system directly without the smartness etckeeper brings to the > > table e.g. by using its .gitignore settings. > > > > svk is an attempt to inject the notion of being a decentralized scm into > > a centralized one

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

Suno Ano, Tue Jun 16 2009 12:37:28 GMT+0200 (CEST): Peter> You can use svk instead of svn I do not see how this solves the metadata issue if you use a version control system directly without the smartness etckeeper brings to the table e.g. by using its .gitignore settings. svk is an attempt to

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

On Qua, 17 Jun 2009, David wrote: Could you point me to docs where I can read more about virtual users? Most of the Google results are for Virtual Domains, or for Exim in combination with other software. Exim doesn't really make a distinction between real users and local users. It can check /

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:26:41PM +0200, David wrote: > Okay, this is kind of a weird question, but it came up at work. > > I'm a complete exim newbie (I've never configured it before, beyond > 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'), but a project came up where the > manager wants to use exim in a weir

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > I'd strongly recommend against creating system users for unknown accounts. > With the amount of spam we get today, you'd be flooded with new accounts. > > It would probably be better to create virtual users, storing the mails in > somet

Re: exim4 query

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10:17PM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving mails in > console mode. > Any recommendation for good instructions/how-tos ? I think that the only way to dirctly tell exim4 to send mail is to speak SMTP to it,

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

On Qua, 17 Jun 2009, David wrote: Okay, this is kind of a weird question, but it came up at work. I'm a complete exim newbie (I've never configured it before, beyond 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'), but a project came up where the manager wants to use exim in a weird way. Basically, this needs

Automatically creating user accounts from exim

Okay, this is kind of a weird question, but it came up at work. I'm a complete exim newbie (I've never configured it before, beyond 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'), but a project came up where the manager wants to use exim in a weird way. Basically, this needs to happen: 1) Exim receives a mail,

Re: 'mktemp' testing package dependency

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:47:20AM +0200, Sven Joachim was heard to say: > On 2009-06-17 05:59 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:59:03PM +0200, Sven Joachim > > was heard to say: > >> On 2009-06-16 21:44 +0200, Jason Filippou wrote: > >> > Downgrade the following pa

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 16:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I really wonder why this package is not a dependency of the > > xserver-xorg-radeon{,hd} packages. If the installation of that package > > solved that problem for you I will file a bug against the > > xserver-xorg-video-* packages th

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

On Wed,17.Jun.09, 14:30:41, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > (EE) RADEONHD(0): [dri] CP_INIT failed > > (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIFinishScreenInit: RHDDRIKernelInit Failed. > > I had that problem before and fixed it by installing 'firmware-linux', which > contains (among others) the firmwares for the

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:26 +0100, Martin Fluch wrote: > I'm trying to configure an ATI Technologies M52 (Mobility Radeon X1300) > graphics card with 64MB of RAM on my T60. I have problem with getting > the acceleration set up correctly (glxgears runs with about 110fps). I > notice the following

Re: exim4 query

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10:17PM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving mails in > console mode. > Any recommendation for good instructions/how-tos ? I normally use mutt . Though the simple mail will also do: echo 'message bod

Re: gcc-avr update problem

2009/6/17 J.Hwan.Kim > Hi, everyone > > I'm using gcc-avr in etch. > > If I upgrade my debian to lenny and wish to use gcc-avr etch version not > lenny version, > how can I install gcc-avr and avr other package of etch in lenny > environment? maybe apt pinnning can be of use > > > Regards, > J

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

On 17 Jun 2009, Martin Fluch wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to configure an ATI Technologies M52 (Mobility Radeon X1300) > graphics card with 64MB of RAM on my T60. I have problem with getting > the acceleration set up correctly (glxgears runs with about 110fps). I > notice the following error mes

exim4 query

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving mails in console mode. Any recommendation for good instructions/how-tos ? Kind regards

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

On Wed,17.Jun.09, 13:26:44, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I'm struggling for a while now to get vdpau working with mplayer (from > debian-multimedia and upstream svn), but it still doesn't work. XBMC is > not available and mythtv seems to be a monster. ^ in Debian Regards, Andrei --

Re: "iwlist wlan0 scan" problem with iwl4965

On Tue,16.Jun.09, 23:24:36, Suno Ano wrote: > > Frank> you need to unload and reload the module (rmmod iwl4965; > Frank> modprobe iwl4965), in order to use the new firmware. (But that > Frank> should not be needed, if you use Debian stable [Lenny]). > > This gets even easier if ones hardware i

MAKEDEV, udev and /dev/hwrng

Hello List, when I want to create the /dev/hwrng with MAKEDEV, I get the message: .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation. So I suppose that I have to play wiht udev instead: how can we create /dev/hwrng when udev is present ? Any hint is welcome. Thanks in

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

On Tue,16.Jun.09, 07:51:15, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > > > Unfortunately such hardware is not good enough for HD (not even 720p). > > I'm even struggling to get my laptop (Intel Dual Core T2330 @ 1.6 GHz > > and nvidia Quadro NVS 140M) to show 1080p. > > According to Wikipedia [1] you are suppor

XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

Hello! I'm trying to configure an ATI Technologies M52 (Mobility Radeon X1300) graphics card with 64MB of RAM on my T60. I have problem with getting the acceleration set up correctly (glxgears runs with about 110fps). I notice the following error messsage log file of the xserver: (EE) RADEONHD(0)

Re: Unsure which package to report this problem with

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 06:33:49PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jonathan Steel wrote: > > After a suspend/resume I noticed the following after running > > ifconfig. (The numbers increase the more I use the Internet). RX > > packets:1210 errors:78 dropped:155 overruns:78 fram

Re: xserver fails to start

At Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:38:47 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Go to one of the other consoles and check the status of twm (e.g. with > "ps -ef | grep twm"). Also, are there any clues in ~/.xsession-errors? When ~/.xsession contains only "exec twm", in tty2 $ ps -ef | grep twm takagi10610 10549

Bug#525958: Disable CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE on sparc - also affects Lenny!

Following a recent report of a bug in the Lenny Sparc kernel (Bug#525958: Disable CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE on sparc - also affects Lenny!) has there been any update with this bug? I am trying to install Debian 5.01 Lenny on a SUN Server E250 using the NetInst CD and have come up against the problem.

gcc-avr update problem

Hi, everyone I'm using gcc-avr in etch. If I upgrade my debian to lenny and wish to use gcc-avr etch version not lenny version, how can I install gcc-avr and avr other package of etch in lenny environment? Regards, J.H.Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: copying files on hd with bad blocks

2009/6/17 Tzafrir Cohen > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:03:52AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > I need to copy files from a ntfs formatted hd to a ntfs hd. What tool > should > > i use? > > > > Note: I only need to copy files and directories, not making disk image > > If you have a problem readin

Re: Problems with play action in DopeWars game

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:05:20AM +0100, AG wrote: > What is very strange is that the problems are related to playing the > game on this machine. My previous machine played it just fine, and it > isn't the version either as far as I can tell, because I removed the > Squeeze version and ins

Re: copying files on hd with bad blocks

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:03:52AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I need to copy files from a ntfs formatted hd to a ntfs hd. What tool should > i use? > > Note: I only need to copy files and directories, not making disk image If you have a problem reading from the disk itself, consider startin

Re: Problems with play action in DopeWars game

Eric Gerlach wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:53:50AM +0100, AG wrote: Eric Gerlach wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 05:09:33PM +0100, AG wrote: You'll probably get better luck filing a bug against the dopewars package (use reportbug). That is... assuming it has an active maintainer.