Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device" [Solved]

2009-07-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 21:52, lee wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:04:12PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:18, Raphael >> Bossek wrote: >> > My problem is "Resourse or device busy" at this moment within the initrd >> > environment afer hparm -z reloaded the partitionta

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread lee
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:04:12PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:18, Raphael > Bossek wrote: > > My problem is "Resourse or device busy" at this moment within the initrd > > environment afer hparm -z reloaded the partitiontable and udev created the > > device node. That

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 19:13, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Monday 13 July 2009 21:13:16 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 17:52, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 16:38, Andrew Reid wrote: > >> >>  The other way to investigate the initramfs, incidentally, >> >> is to just

Re: Is there a way to stop a SATA disc?

2009-07-13 Thread lee
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 07:35:27PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > If I issue the command 'sg_start --stop /dev/sdb' I hear a click from the > computer as if the drive is being switched off but can't detect any > difference in noise. That could be because the drive is ultra quiet but if > I then

Re: Vserver networking: to make a forward only.

2009-07-13 Thread lee
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:23:13PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I want to make a well closed machine running vservers - that is I want to make > such a forwarding that any communications will be off the machine (for the > security reasons) Unplugging the network connection is the best

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 13 July 2009 21:13:16 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 17:52, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 16:38, Andrew Reid wrote: > >>  The other way to investigate the initramfs, incidentally, > >> is to just unpack it somehwere -- it's a cpio archive, you > >> can

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-13 Thread lee
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:15:57PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >I doesn't matter much if other processes are running. When the RAID-1 > >is resyncing, it slows it down some, but I can compile a kernel while > >the game is running. > > It sounds like your problem is I/O, not CPU. You mi

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
>>>  The other way to investigate the initramfs, incidentally, >>> is to just unpack it somehwere -- it's a cpio archive, you >>> can google for instructions. >> >> Also good to know. > > Going to try this now, since break= does not seem to work for > some reason... and when I use zcat "" | ( whil

libccgnu2 package in etch

2009-07-13 Thread 김정환
Hi, everyone As far as I know the libccgnu2 package is included in sqeeze. But I'm using etch now and I need libccgnu2 package. Please let me know how I can use libccgnu2 package in etch. Thanks in advnace. Regards, J.Hwan Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

libccgnu2 package in etch

2009-07-13 Thread J.Hwan.Kim
Hi, everyone As far as I know the libccgnu2 package is included in sqeeze. But I'm using etch now and I need libccgnu2 package. Please let me know how I can use libccgnu2 package in etch. Thanks in advnace. Regards, J.Hwan Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 17:52, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 16:38, Andrew Reid wrote: >> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 15:26:54 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to get a shell inside the initramfs, to >>> look around? >> >>  You can boot with "break=mount" as a kernel option,

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 16:38, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Tuesday 07 July 2009 15:26:54 Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> Is there a way to get a shell inside the initramfs, to >> look around? > >  You can boot with "break=mount" as a kernel option, it > will drop you into a busybox shell just before mounting

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew Reid
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 15:26:54 Kelly Clowers wrote: > Is there a way to get a shell inside the initramfs, to > look around? You can boot with "break=mount" as a kernel option, it will drop you into a busybox shell just before mounting the root directory. The initramfs environment doesn't in

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: raq...@thericehouse.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs >Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:50:07 -0700 > >>On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:58:00 -0500 >>Neal Hogan wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:0

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:34:07PM EDT, AG wrote: >>> unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. KSCD has become hug and >>> ugly and also doesn't play the CD although can recognise the tracks. You want the cdtool package, per "apt-cache show", size = 62122 (lenny). :-) Seriously I'd be curious

Re: Qt4.5 vs. KDE4.2

2009-07-13 Thread Cassiano Leal
Really sorry... Message below should have been sent to debian-kde, not debian-user... On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Cassiano Leal wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Andreas Bourges wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> On Monday 13 July 2009 18:57:37

Re: how to create again eth0

2009-07-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:18:15AM -0400, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > on my machine (Desktop PC) I have 2 network card : wireless (rt61 802.11) > and a wired card (BCM44). When I install debian 5. > The wired card is detected and logical name eth0 is assigned, while wireless > is not assign

Re: Qt4.5 vs. KDE4.2

2009-07-13 Thread Cassiano Leal
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Andreas Bourges wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > On Monday 13 July 2009 18:57:37 David Baron wrote: >> On Tuesday 17 March 2009 15:00:09 Fathi Boudra wrote: >> > > Anyone knows if Qt4.5 that's in experimental has those new >> > >

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <537f90650907131240t37ff3fa9k2e72f498eec26...@mail.gmail.com>, Mike Castle wrote: >On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith > >Jr. wrote: >> pvcreate /dev/sdc1 >> pvcreate /dev/sdc2 >> pvcreate /dev/sdc3 >> pvcreate /dev/sdc4 >> vgextend $vg /dev/sdc1 >> vgextend $vg /dev/sdc2 >> vg

Re: Iceweasel's rendering faster than Firefox?

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Celejar wrote: > How, then, can there be a significant > performance gap? Maybe it's merely build options? static vs dynamic libraries? Maybe FF has extra debugging turned on, or some feature that you'll find out down the line that might be missed, but IW has tu

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Celejar wrote: > I'm no expert in this stuff, so I'm curious - what is gained by this > over a straight rsync? In my experience, find | cpio is faster than rsync for moving raw data around. Not sure why, but it feels that way. It's been a long time since I've

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > pvcreate /dev/sdc1 > pvcreate /dev/sdc2 > pvcreate /dev/sdc3 > pvcreate /dev/sdc4 > vgextend $vg /dev/sdc1 > vgextend $vg /dev/sdc2 > vgextend $vg /dev/sdc3 > vgextend $vg /dev/sdc4 > pvmove /dev/sda2 > pvmove /dev/sdb > vgreduce $vg

Re: HIDS recommendations?

2009-07-13 Thread Eric Gerlach
Samhain? Never tried it, but looked at it a few times. Cheers, Eric On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 08:18:38PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > > Hi all -- > > I run a small network of several hosts, mostly Debian, and > I've become frustrated with the host-based intrustion detection > system I'm us

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:59:11 -0700 Mike Castle wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: > > Is there a tool with which I can continue copying from HDD to another after > > some interrupt? > > Depending on how stable you need the destination file system, but I often do: > > fin

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a5b841e.7010...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >> In your case, you'll have to add at least 3 of the new PVs to the VG >> before pvmove will let you begin. Are you going to move swap onto LVM? >> If not, make sure your partition table for the new drive still has space >> for swap. > >So pvmove

Re: Iceweasel's rendering faster than Firefox?

2009-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:28:47 -0300 Cassiano Leal wrote: ... > That leads me to two things. First one: kudos to the Iceweasel team > for releasing a Firefox better than the actual Firefox! :D > Second one: anyone knows where this speed boost comes from? I'm confused. It's been said over and ove

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a5b8105.2020...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >On 2009-07-13 12:55, Mike Castle wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> What if I want 4 "small" partitions instead of one monster 1TB >>> partition? I've read that you need a target at least as large as the >>> source.

Re: how to create again eth0

2009-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:18:15 -0400 abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > on my machine (Desktop PC) I have 2 network card : wireless (rt61 802.11) > and a wired card (BCM44). When I install debian 5. > The wired card is detected and logical name eth0 is assigned, while wireless > is not assigned I

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:18, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a little bit happy reading this because my Debian system fails form one > day to another (after an upgrade of the linux kernel 2.6.26-2-686). I've > started a discussion about my broblem already without any solution. > It would be i

Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-13 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:06:56 +0300 Micha Feigin wrote: > There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen > brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. > Any other way to achieve the same goal? I don't know if this is helpful, but the

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-13 13:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <4a5b26b9.50...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: I have a 640GB drive that's starting to throw errors, so I'm going to replace it with a 1TB drive. The 640GB (596GiB) drive is partitioned into: sdb1 - 2GiB swap sdb2 - 594GiB lvm2 member When I

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:58:00 -0500 Neal Hogan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dirk Neumann > wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:45:31 +0700 > > Sthu Deus wrote: > > > >> Good day. > >> > >> Is there a tool with which I can continue copying from HDD to > >> another after some interrupt?

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-13 12:55, Mike Castle wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: What if I want 4 "small" partitions instead of one monster 1TB partition? I've read that you need a target at least as large as the source. (I've got this aching feeling that 1TB partitions are just no

Is there a way to stop a SATA disc?

2009-07-13 Thread Barry Samuels
I have, in the last few days, changed my 2 x 250 GB IDE drives for 2 x 1 TB SATA drives. One drive is used once a day to mirror the other. Previously I used hdparm to spin down the mirror drive after a short period of inactivity and I've tried to do the same with one of the new drives but I sus

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Neal Hogan wrote: >On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dirk Neumann wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:45:31 +0700 >> Sthu Deus wrote: >>> Is there a tool with which I can continue copying from HDD to another >>> after some interrupt? >> >> mc > >Master Card? >Midnight connection? >Multiple Copy

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a5b26b9.50...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >I have a 640GB drive that's starting to throw errors, so I'm going >to replace it with a 1TB drive. > >The 640GB (596GiB) drive is partitioned into: >sdb1 - 2GiB swap >sdb2 - 594GiB lvm2 member > >When I get the new device, I want to create 4x 250GB

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:58:00 -0500 Neal Hogan wrote: > > > >> Good day. > >> > >> Is there a tool with which I can continue copying from HDD to another after > >> some interrupt? > > > > mc > > Master Card? > Midnight connection? > Multiple Copy? $ apt-cache search mc ... mc - midnight commande

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread Raphael Bossek
Hi, I'm a little bit happy reading this because my Debian system fails form one day to another (after an upgrade of the linux kernel 2.6.26-2-686). I've started a discussion about my broblem already without any solution. It would be interesting for me to know if you partitions are deteced stering

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

2009-07-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090712204714.ga2...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:25:40AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 07:38 +, Joel Roth wrote: >> > 1. Start the program using 'nice': >> > >> >nice -20 command >> >> Sorry that's mildly spoken wrong.

Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:07:14 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,13.Jul.09, 13:06:56, Micha Feigin wrote: > > There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen > > brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent > > versions. > > Any other way to ac

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Mike Castle wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> I'm curious b/c I am mildly interested in the OP's question and I >> briefly attempted to decipher the above response. There is no man page >> for 'mc' and google tends to lean towards mi

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: > > I'm curious b/c I am mildly interested in the OP's question and I > briefly attempted to decipher the above response. There is no man page > for 'mc' and google tends to lean towards midnight connection. $ apt-cache search mc | grep -w mc xnc

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: > Is there a tool with which I can continue copying from HDD to another after > some interrupt? Depending on how stable you need the destination file system, but I often do: find . -depth | cpio -pdmv /path/to/dest Followed up by an rsync. The

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dirk Neumann wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:45:31 +0700 > Sthu Deus wrote: > >> Good day. >> >> Is there a tool with which I can continue copying from HDD to another after >> some interrupt? > > mc Master Card? Midnight connection? Multiple Copy? I'm curious b/

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > > What if I want 4 "small" partitions instead of one monster 1TB partition? > I've read that you need a target at least as large as the source. > > (I've got this aching feeling that 1TB partitions are just not a good idea, > and that granu

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-13 11:54, Mike Castle wrote: Don't try to do two things at once. If something goes wrong, you won't know which is the cause. Just put in the new drive and partition it into swap + lvm swapoff /dev/sda1 vi /etc/fstab # remove swap pvcreate vgextend pvmove -v /dev/sdb2 What if I w

Re: a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:45:31 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > Is there a tool with which I can continue copying from HDD to another after > some interrupt? mc Dirk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:26, Kelly Clowers wrote: > 2009/7/7 Nuno Magalhães : >>> Nothing has worked, any further ideas are welcome. >> >> I had this issue after upgrading from 2.6.29-1-amd64 to >> 2.6.29-2-amd64, all i did was reboot using the -1-. Upgraded again and >> now i'm using 2.6.30-1-amd

Re: Debian AMD64 and Intel CPUs

2009-07-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 20:22, David Fox wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, T o n g wrote: > > > Can someone tell me what kind of Intel CPUs have that EM64T? Any easy > > rule of thumb? E.g., can I safely assume all those Intel 64 Duecore are > > One needs to be careful with Intel nomencl

a tool that allows to continue copying between HDDs

2009-07-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Is there a tool with which I can continue copying from HDD to another after some interrupt? Thank You for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Vserver networking: to make a forward only.

2009-07-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I want to make a well closed machine running vservers - that is I want to make such a forwarding that any communications will be off the machine (for the security reasons) - but only affecting those in vserver. Thus far I have on real machine: *filter :INPUT ACCEPT :FORWARD DROP :OUTPU

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Castle
Don't try to do two things at once. If something goes wrong, you won't know which is the cause. Just put in the new drive and partition it into swap + lvm swapoff /dev/sda1 vi /etc/fstab # remove swap pvcreate vgextend pvmove -v /dev/sdb2 vgreduce /dev/sdb2 shutdown and remove the bad drive

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-13 Thread AG
Alan Greenberger wrote: unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. KSCD has become hug and ugly and also doesn't play the CD although can recognise the tracks. Try: kscd / Extras / Configure KsCD / Use direct digital playback presumably: alsa Alan T

Iceweasel's rendering faster than Firefox?

2009-07-13 Thread Cassiano Leal
Fellow Debianers, I have been using Firefox 3.5 since its earlier betas, and although javascript has been considerably faster than with 3.0, rendering of pages and especially dragging and dropping on web pages was still painfully slow in some cases. I work in the development of a web based report

X -configure goof results in /root gui desktop?

2009-07-13 Thread postid
I was running "X -configure" then redoing kde settings and got distracted and thought a prompt was wanting me to log in as root when in fact I now wonder if it was asking me to enter a new account name and password. There's now a desktop icon in /root. The X -configure command resulted in the c

Re: Reinstall packages

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Thomas Kenyon wrote: > > I am in the process of recovering from having a very damaged filesystem. > > > > Is there a method using either dpkg or apt/aptitude to get packages to > > refresh their files? > > > > The packages i

RE: Video compression

2009-07-13 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Thomas H. George [mailto:li...@tomgeorge.info] > Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 9:23 AM > Subject: Video compression > > How can I compress a short video clip - 88 M in qt format - into > to a size that can be emailed? Sorry I am late to the party, but if you don't mind adding the debian -

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, SteveM wrote: > Fellow Debians, > > I have seven systems scattered around the house. I thought a NFS and a > shared /home would solve my file sharing problems but it doesn't help > with desktop app configs. > > What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience, i.e. same kicker applets,

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-13 09:42, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: When I get the new device, I want to create 4x 250GB PVs, and then move Why? Any reason why not just less PVs? Granularity. -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To UN

Re: sudo warning

2009-07-13 Thread Scott Gifford
T o n g writes: > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:43:18 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > >> The manpage mentions that timestamp files are stored in /var/run/sudo, > > Hmm... I didn't find it... > > $ man sudoers | grep /var/run > > $ man sudo | grep /var/run > > Where did you find it? On my Debian Etch sy

Re: lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron Johnson wrote: > When I get the new device, I want to create 4x 250GB PVs, and then move Why? Any reason why not just less PVs? Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-13 Thread Cousin Stanley
> Try: > kscd / Extras / Configure KsCD / Use direct digital playback > presumably: alsa Alan Thanks for this advice regarding the KsCD configuration as I'm now happily listening to Mozart from an old CD Previously, KsCD would list the CD trac

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mihira Fernando wrote: > On Sunday 12 July 2009 10:09:50 pm AG wrote: >> Can anyone recommend any good* audio CD player please? [..] >> unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. KSCD has become hug and ugly >> and also doesn't play the CD although can recognise the tracks. > Amarok ? I like amaro

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-13 Thread Alan Greenberger
> unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. KSCD has become hug and ugly > and also doesn't play the CD although can recognise the tracks. > Try: kscd / Extras / Configure KsCD / Use direct digital playback presumably: alsa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Partition table not loaded; Boot failes for Debian testing

2009-07-13 Thread Raphael Bossek
Hi Andrei, I've checked the /dev/disk/by-uuid directory after initrd console appears. There are no entries until hdparm -z /dev/sda is called. hdparm -z /dev/sda force the kernel to reload the partition table. I'm sure that the driver is up and runing because dmesg|grep sda show that the partition

Re: Partition table not loaded; Boot failes for Debian testing

2009-07-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
[I'm putting this back on list] On Mon,13.Jul.09, 13:46:15, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > Is this also the case where hdparm -z force the kernel to reload the > partition table ? In my case the device nodes did not changen. Fdisk -l > confirm that all partitions are where they are expect

how to create again eth0

2009-07-13 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, on my machine (Desktop PC) I have 2 network card : wireless (rt61 802.11) and a wired card (BCM44). When I install debian 5. The wired card is detected and logical name eth0 is assigned, while wireless is not assigned I install firmeware* software to configure the card. It is done in some way

lvm2 - question about pvmove

2009-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I have a 640GB drive that's starting to throw errors, so I'm going to replace it with a 1TB drive. The 640GB (596GiB) drive is partitioned into: sdb1 - 2GiB swap sdb2 - 594GiB lvm2 member When I get the new device, I want to create 4x 250GB PVs, and then move the contents of sdb2 into th

Re: Reinstall packages

2009-07-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Thomas Kenyon wrote: > I am in the process of recovering from having a very damaged filesystem. > > Is there a method using either dpkg or apt/aptitude to get packages to > refresh their files? > > The packages installed are up to date so I can't upgrade

Reinstall packages

2009-07-13 Thread Thomas Kenyon
I am in the process of recovering from having a very damaged filesystem. Is there a method using either dpkg or apt/aptitude to get packages to refresh their files? The packages installed are up to date so I can't upgrade many of them. TIA for any help with this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,13.Jul.09, 13:06:56, Micha Feigin wrote: > There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen > brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. > Any other way to achieve the same goal? You need xfce4-power-manager-plugins. Regards, An

Sensors and pwmconfig

2009-07-13 Thread Barry Samuels
Debian Squeeze/Testing Kernel 2.6.26 I've installed the lm-sensors package and Gkrellm will display both temperature and fan speed. If I run 'sensors', however, I get: Can't access procfs/sysfs file Unable to find i2c bus information; For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have mounted sysfs and libsens

Rhythmbox podcasts multiple desktop machines

2009-07-13 Thread Bob
Hi, for various reasons I have multiple desktops around the house, (my main desktop and 2 HTPCs) I don't login to all the machines as the same user and I subscribe to quite a few podcasts in Rhythmbox. What I'm trying to achieve is for the subscriptions, downloaded files and preferably things

automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-13 Thread Micha Feigin
There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Partition table not loaded; Boot failes for Debian testing

2009-07-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu,13.iul.09, 10:14:20, Raphael Bossek wrote: > Hi, > > do someone have the same problem with missing partition (cat > /proc/partitions) tables with linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (2.6.26-17) while > boot ? > I've two via_sata drives with two partitions each. This setup worked over > years (since 200

Partition table not loaded; Boot failes for Debian testing

2009-07-13 Thread Raphael Bossek
Hi, do someone have the same problem with missing partition (cat /proc/partitions) tables with linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (2.6.26-17) while boot ? I've two via_sata drives with two partitions each. This setup worked over years (since 2003) with different linux versions without any problems. I try to

Re: Debian AMD64 and Intel CPUs

2009-07-13 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 20:22 -0700, David Fox wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, T o n g wrote: > > > Can someone tell me what kind of Intel CPUs have that EM64T? > > Any easy rule of thumb? E.g., can I safely assume all those Intel > > 64 Duecore are > > One needs to be careful with Intel no

Re: debian live with local repo problem

2009-07-13 Thread emanuele nespolo
Hi Rob! Thanks! I will try the apt-cacher-ng way as soon as I can and possibly not in a chroot as I was doing. I'm working just with lenny, so, at least, I shouldn't get the troubles you mention about multiple distros. Emanuele 2009/7/11 Rob Owens > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:16:15AM +0200, eman