Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread lee
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:24:47PM -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > 251 FATs?  WTF > > yah... im 95% that the sd needs to be re-formatted > > > What's the output from: > > $ cc -v > > # cc -v > bash: cc: command not found You don't have

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-21 01:24, jeremy jozwik wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: 251 FATs? WTF yah... im 95% that the sd needs to be re-formatted What's the output from: $ cc -v # cc -v bash: cc: command not found :) Well, there's your problem! Start with this.

Re: Font (or color) problem on current unstable x86 box

2009-07-20 Thread lee
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:04:21PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > X Error: BadName(named color or font does not exist) 15 Perhaps you need to install some package that provides color names. It looks as if a program is trying to use a color name that isn't known to X: either a "bad name" like "g

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > 251 FATs?  WTF yah... im 95% that the sd needs to be re-formatted > What's the output from: > $ cc -v # cc -v bash: cc: command not found i really appreciate the help. but i need to call it a night. if anyone has some ideas shoot them o

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-20 Thread lee
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:43:37AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? Afair it is possible by specifying several smart hosts instead of one. You need to look it up in info exim4 or in the PDF manual, but afair exim will try hosts on

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-21 01:09, jeremy jozwik wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-21 00:47, jeremy jozwik wrote: [snip] so i tired this: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2006/05/msg2.html thats where the fsck part came into play. So, did you install dosfstool

Re: Hdd stop / Acpi / Debian Lenny

2009-07-20 Thread lee
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:42:39AM +0200, Frederic wrote: > lee wrote: >> How do you know that the disk stops? Or do you mean it stops working >> and becomes unusable? > > It stops working and becomes unusable. If I reboot and log me in, i > can't do it because it stops working. That's very like

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-21 00:47, jeremy jozwik wrote: > [snip] >> >> so i tired this: >> http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2006/05/msg2.html >> >> thats where the fsck part came into play. > > So, did you install dosfstools? yes. # fsck.vfat -rv

Re: Air Traffic Control (ATC) Simulation Software

2009-07-20 Thread Zaki Akhmad
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Did you *ask them*, but they refused to answer? I have ask them directly but no response yet (for about one month). -- Zaki Akhmad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: [Semi-OT] Need advice on AMD mobo

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-21 00:52, Victor Padro wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:44 AM, lee wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:03:51PM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: Asus BIOSes can be upgraded using a usb memory since the release the first Pentium 4/Athlon XP mainboards. Then their support could have told me t

Re: gotmail oddity

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 02:31:35AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I put together a .gotmailrc file as documented in the gotmail man page > and ran gotmail. The message I got back was no action specified on form > page. What would be doing that? So far as I can tell, there is a connect > that do

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:48:56AM -0600, lee wrote: > Anyway, he's well advised to ask and to seek information since he > didn't know what to look for. You can set up your own tests only for > things you already know enough about to create such tests, and he is > aware of this problem. That's why

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-21 00:47, jeremy jozwik wrote: [snip] so i tired this: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2006/05/msg2.html thats where the fsck part came into play. So, did you install dosfstools? -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: [Semi-OT] Need advice on AMD mobo

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Padro
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:44 AM, lee wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:03:51PM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: >> Asus BIOSes can be upgraded using a usb memory since the release the >> first Pentium 4/Athlon XP mainboards. > > Then their support could have told me that, I asked them ... > > > -- > T

Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

2009-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:37:37PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > The purpose of the ls was to sort the filenames, but looking more > clostey, bash sorts them already. csh and ksh do the same, and > glob(3) sorts by default. I'm not sure if all shells do that or not, > but it seems that most do, a

Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-21 00:21, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-21 05:50 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote: /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 noatime,rw,defaults,noauto 0 2 noauto? There is no need to mount /boot unless

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread jeremy jozwik
>> because # fsck.vfat did nothing the first time. >> >> # fsck works >> >> # fsck >> fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) >> e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) >> /dev/sda1 is mounted. >> >> WARNING!!!  Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause >> SEVERE filesystem damage. >> >> Do you really want to continu

Re: Segmentation fault in dpkg and aptitude

2009-07-20 Thread Bill Wohler
Bill Wohler writes: > Daniel Burrows writes: > >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:48:37PM -0700, Bill Wohler was >> heard to say: >>> Bill Wohler writes: >>> >>> > After making the following changes to pull in sid's bluez 4.0 package in >>> > a lenny system, I'm now getting segmentation faults wh

Re: [Semi-OT] Need advice on AMD mobo

2009-07-20 Thread lee
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:03:51PM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: > Asus BIOSes can be upgraded using a usb memory since the release the > first Pentium 4/Athlon XP mainboards. Then their support could have told me that, I asked them ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Segmentation fault in dpkg and aptitude

2009-07-20 Thread Mark Allums
Bill Wohler wrote: Daniel Burrows writes: On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:48:37PM -0700, Bill Wohler was heard to say: Bill Wohler writes: After making the following changes to pull in sid's bluez 4.0 package in a lenny system, I'm now getting segmentation faults when I run dpkg and aptitude.

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-21 00:10, jeremy jozwik wrote: Following up to Felipe: *why* are you running ./fsck.vfat instead of plain old fsck.vfat? because # fsck.vfat did nothing the first time. # fsck works # fsck fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) /dev/sda1 is mounted. WARNING!!! Run

Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

2009-07-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-07-21 05:50 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> /dev/sda1/boot ext3 >> noatime,rw,defaults,noauto 0 2 > > noauto? There is no need to mount /boot unless you install new kernels or update you

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jul 21, 2009, at 12:39 AM, jeremy jozwik wrote: new to debian, trying to restore some files $ ./fsck.vfat -rv /~~~ bash: ./fsck.vfat: No such file or directory please help! You've got fsck, you don't have fsck to work on vfat file systems, which are under the MS-DOG category. Try, as

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread jeremy jozwik
> Following up to Felipe: *why* are you running ./fsck.vfat instead of plain > old fsck.vfat? > > -- > Scooty Puff, Sr > The Doom-Bringer because # fsck.vfat did nothing the first time. # fsck works # fsck fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) /dev/sda1 is mounted. WARNING!!! R

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 23:55, Felipe Rocha wrote: you're trying run it locally, I mean, from the directory you are, try remove './' from the presented command also check if exist in your system "which fsck.vfat". dosfstools On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:39 AM, jeremy jozwik wrote: new to debian, trying

Re: Air Traffic Control (ATC) Simulation Software

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 23:30, Zaki Akhmad wrote: Hello, I found this ATC simulation software developed on TU Delft[1]. The screen shot is on[2]. I am trying to find out, what they use to develop this software. Anyone here can give me a hint? A clue? Did you *ask them*, but they refused to answer? -- S

Re: no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread Felipe Rocha
you're trying run it locally, I mean, from the directory you are, try remove './' from the presented command also check if exist in your system "which fsck.vfat". regards, Felipe Rocha On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:39 AM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > new to debian, trying to restore some files > > $ ./fsck

no fsck?

2009-07-20 Thread jeremy jozwik
new to debian, trying to restore some files $ ./fsck.vfat -rv /~~~ bash: ./fsck.vfat: No such file or directory please help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Air Traffic Control (ATC) Simulation Software

2009-07-20 Thread Zaki Akhmad
Hello, I found this ATC simulation software developed on TU Delft[1]. The screen shot is on[2]. I am trying to find out, what they use to develop this software. Anyone here can give me a hint? A clue? Thanks! -- Zaki Akhmad [1]http://www.lr.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=91839a07-84e7-48db-8651-

Re: ia32-apt-get on Sid

2009-07-20 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Dave Witbrodt writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Dave Witbrodt writes: >>> I use Sid, and have been interested in the appearance of the new >>> ia32-apt-get facility. >>> >>> I see that ia32-apt-get has its own configuration files in >>> >>> /etc/ia32-apt >>> >>> After reading /usr/sha

Re: Segmentation fault in dpkg and aptitude

2009-07-20 Thread Bill Wohler
Daniel Burrows writes: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:48:37PM -0700, Bill Wohler was > heard to say: >> Bill Wohler writes: >> >> > After making the following changes to pull in sid's bluez 4.0 package in >> > a lenny system, I'm now getting segmentation faults when I run dpkg and >> > aptitude

Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, Jul 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote: [snip] Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate partitions. *Why*? IOW, what benefit do you derive in 2009 (as opposed to 1989, when dis

Solved, re: xdm login infinite loop

2009-07-20 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:35 +0200, "Javier Barroso" wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:22 PM, wrote: > > I can't login in graphically.  My password is > > accepted, the screen goes blank and flickers like > > when it is starting up a session, then just > > returns me to the login display. >

Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

2009-07-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Jul 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote: > [snip] >> >> Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate >> partitions. > > *Why*? IOW, what benefit do you derive in 2009 (as opposed to 1989, > when disks weren't always large enough

Re: new to debian need help with fonts rendering (?)

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
thirstyh2o wrote: Hi, folks. I'm coming from Ubuntu crowd where I spent last couple of years. Finally decided:"Why 'Debian based', why not Debian itself". So to be. I've installed Debian 5.0.2 on my Dell Latitude D820 as dual boot to my Ubuntu Jaunty. The laptop has Nvidia video card on it.

Re: Security support for Squeeze delayed

2009-07-20 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi: On Monday 20 July 2009 17:09:57 Soren Orel wrote: > So is Debian Squeeze not up-to-date by security fixes? wow. :S:S Why should it? It's "testing", after all: too much work for too short a benefit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: ia32-apt-get on Sid

2009-07-20 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Dave Witbrodt writes: I use Sid, and have been interested in the appearance of the new ia32-apt-get facility. I see that ia32-apt-get has its own configuration files in /etc/ia32-apt After reading /usr/share/doc/ia32-apt-get/README.Debian, I'm a bit confused o

Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how?

2009-07-20 Thread Tiago Saboga
Paulo E Condon: > I think that the device file is NOT removed. This is what I > observe. When I umount /dev/sdxn, the mount-point /media/MMMPPP is > removed, and the device file is remains. This is GOOD because the > reason for umount is so that I can run e2fsck. So, from observation, a > suppositi

Re: No sound in 2.6.30

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-20 10:54, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Today I did an `aptitude full-upgrade' on my sid machine and during the process, kernel-image-2.6.30-1-686 was installed. Now if I boot the 2.6.30 kernel, there is no sound. None of the applications give any error. The volume con

Re: No sound in 2.6.30

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Tom Low-Shang wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:24:37PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Today I did an `aptitude full-upgrade' on my sid machine and during the process, kernel-image-2.6.30-1-686 was installed. Now if I boot the 2.6.30 kernel, there is no sound. ... sid:~$ sid:~$ sudo lspci -vv|s

Re: How do I setup wireless network

2009-07-20 Thread thirstyh2o
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:35:18 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > Hi All, > I have installed Debian 5.02 on my laptop with Broadcom wireless network > card but I do not know how to get this card to work. The installation > did not detect the card. Any leads will be appreciated. Regards,Ogya My Dell has Bro

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > If you are looking for small private archive: > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_small_public_package_archive > > > > Also debi command in devscript may reduce dpkg -i. > > Thanks for that.

Re: How do I setup wireless network

2009-07-20 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Ogya Chief wrote: > > >> From: amalgam.s...@gmail.com >> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:42:26 +0800 >> Subject: Re: How do I setup wireless network >> To: ogyach...@hotmail.com >> >> lspci -nn >> and show the results >> Cheers >> swhe >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at

Re: OpenLdap manual howto available

2009-07-20 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:45:15 -0500, Lukasz Szybalski in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Just an FYI. > I'm working on openldap howto for Debian. > > http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/OpenLdap > > This manual shows how to setup openldap and gives a workaround to some > of the known bugs that prevent o

new to debian need help with fonts rendering (?)

2009-07-20 Thread thirstyh2o
Hi, folks. I'm coming from Ubuntu crowd where I spent last couple of years. Finally decided:"Why 'Debian based', why not Debian itself". So to be. I've installed Debian 5.0.2 on my Dell Latitude D820 as dual boot to my Ubuntu Jaunty. The laptop has Nvidia video card on it. The resolution and

Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how?

2009-07-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-07-20_17:13:36, Tiago Saboga wrote: > > Paul E Condon: > > > But, for hal-mounted devices, the umount also deletes the > > > mount-point. > Andrei Popescu: > > The problem seems to be with the volume manager as this does not > > happen under Xfce. Maybe the volume manager of your DE also t

Re: Will Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2 Work 4 Me? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 16:28, Gibson, Jodie MRS wrote: *UNCLASSIFIED* Hi, I am investigating a change to Linux from a windows based product that allows me to communicate with a VAX/VMS system. It will be 'talking' to VMS V5.2, via LAT protocol 4.7. Geez, that's *ancient*... Try this instead: http:

Re: startx fails

2009-07-20 Thread franck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brad Rogers a écrit : > Hello All, > > Using laptop currently.. > > I've just built a new Debian based system which, as can be guessed from > the subject line fails to go into graphical mode. > > xorg.conf is empty, and monitor complains of out

Re: startx fails

2009-07-20 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Brad Rogers wrote: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > EndSection > > So, I'm stuck. Video chipset is NVidia GeForce 8300 and monitor is LG > W2042S with specs; Have you installed the proprietary nvidia kernel drivers? You'll need the "module-assistant" packag

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM, josé Santos wrote: > Hi. > I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't > helping much. > Any suggestions? backpo udunits [1] not in lenny, but is in new queue, perhaps it could be easyly backported [1] http://ftp-master.debian.o

startx fails

2009-07-20 Thread Brad Rogers
Hello All, Using laptop currently.. I've just built a new Debian based system which, as can be guessed from the subject line fails to go into graphical mode. xorg.conf is empty, and monitor complains of out of range signals (fair enough). Running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails to ask a

Re: Will Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2 Work 4 Me? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-07-20 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Gibson, Jodie MRS wrote: > IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence > Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes > Act 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to > contact the sen

Will Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2 Work 4 Me? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-07-20 Thread Gibson, Jodie MRS
UNCLASSIFIED Hi, I am investigating a change to Linux from a windows based product that allows me to communicate with a VAX/VMS system. It will be 'talking' to VMS V5.2, via LAT protocol 4.7. Will the latest version of Debian Linux? I understand from one of our software engineers that a kernel o

Re: Chroot can't find /sbin/getty

2009-07-20 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:47 PM, John wrote: > I've run a chroot of stable, starting with sarge, currently etch, for several > years. The relevant line in /etc/inittab has been > "8:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/chroot /sarge /sbin/getty 38400 tty8" and it worked. > Until the past month or so, when t

Re: Lenny on an Asus eee pc 900A 4 GB SSD

2009-07-20 Thread Sam Leon
Mark wrote: Looking for input/feedback. I just bought a refurbished Asus eee pc 900A 4 GB SSD netbook (Linux model, not XP). Have yet to receive it, but it comes with Xandros according to the specs. I'd really like to put Debian Lenny stable on it instead, and have looked at the wiki here h

Re: startx fails

2009-07-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:21:20 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: Hello Brad, > Horiz 28 - 83 kHz > Vert 56 -75 Hz > Screen res 1680 x 150 is optimum. 1050, not 150. Cheers, Brad. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: xdm login infinite loop

2009-07-20 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:22 PM, wrote: > I can't login in graphically.  My password is > accepted, the screen goes blank and flickers like > when it is starting up a session, then just > returns me to the login display. > > I'm using xfce and xdm on a thinkpad i series > laptop. > > I know m

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-20 15:44, green wrote: >> Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600: >>> josé Santos wrote: >> I like qalculate because it >> - can be used it on the command line > > Put this in your .bashrc : > > calc() { perl -e "print ''.($*).\"\\n\""; } > > $ calc

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 15:44, green wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600: josé Santos wrote: Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you. For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Apart from

Re: output of df doesn't add up

2009-07-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:22:04 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > On Seg, 20 Jul 2009, Micha Feigin wrote: > >> Any ideas on where the missing gb are? > > > > It's the space reserved for root. > > > > http://www.andremiller.net/content/recovering-reserved-space-ext

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread green
Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600: > josé Santos wrote: > > Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, > > google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you. > > For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Apart from > converting units, it

Re: [SOLVED] Lenny on an Asus eee pc 900A 4 GB SSD

2009-07-20 Thread Mark
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, there was a bad charging circuit on the mobo that prevented the battery from charging so I had to return it (Linux showed 96% capacity available but the eee wouldn't charge past 30% or so even after 24 hours). :( Oh well, that's the risk in buying refurbished

Re: laptop double-suspends (sleeps on resume first time) if I use fn-hotkey

2009-07-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have this really weird and mildly annoying issue I cannot pin down. > When I suspend my laptop (thinkpad x40 running sid) using the Fn+F4 > hotkey (which sends an ACPI sleep event), my laptop sleeps. However, > on trying to wake it up, once wakeup is complete (I see a flash of > gnome-screensa

Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how?

2009-07-20 Thread Tiago Saboga
Paul E Condon: > > But, for hal-mounted devices, the umount also deletes the > > mount-point. Andrei Popescu: > The problem seems to be with the volume manager as this does not > happen under Xfce. Maybe the volume manager of your DE also triggers > an "eject" (or something similar)? Probably. I

Re: dd hung up by disk errors

2009-07-20 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
If your bad sectors are local to a particular area of the disk, you could read sections starting at the end, and moving towards the beginning after each section is completed. Later you would concatenate the sections that were recoverable. Give either iseek=n or skip=n to dd to skip over a portion

Re: dd hung up by disk errors

2009-07-20 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On 2009-07-20 at 09:43 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a bad drive in a laptop and am attempting to salvage what I can > with (roughly) > dd conv=noerror,sync if=/dev/sda3 of=/nfs/backup > where the of is NFS mounted from another system. > > This keeps trying when it encounters a disk read erro

Re: [SOLVED] Lenny on an Asus eee pc 900A 4 GB SSD

2009-07-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 04:24:52PM -0700, Mark wrote: > FYI, for anyone looking at this in the future, eeebuntu is a > derivative of ubuntu designed specifically for the eee pc line. I > installed via usb flash drive in 20 mins using the .iso and > unetbootin, with not one single tweak needed. ~

Re: dd hung up by disk errors

2009-07-20 Thread Tiago Saboga
i have never used any of them, but I think ddrescue, gddrescue and myrescue (apt packages) are made for what you're doing. good luck, Tiago Saboga. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Segmentation fault in dpkg and aptitude

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:48:37PM -0700, Bill Wohler was heard to say: > Bill Wohler writes: > > > After making the following changes to pull in sid's bluez 4.0 package in > > a lenny system, I'm now getting segmentation faults when I run dpkg and > > aptitude. Any thoughts on how to recover f

Re: output of df doesn't add up

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 12:12, Micha Feigin wrote: For some reason the output for my main disk as given by df doesn't add up: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 142G 123G 12G 92% / That's a whole lot, just for root. Is /home on a separate partition? If not

Re: [Semi-OT] Need advice on AMD mobo

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 13:10, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Sorry I can't be more specific, Ron. I do read some of the tech blogs and testing sites, but they are not generally specific to Debian or Linux, usually, so I can't point you to a best choice. :) phoronix is Linux-oriented, and gave 5 stars to

Re: OpenLdap manual howto available

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 11:45, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: Just an FYI. I'm working on openldap howto for Debian. http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/OpenLdap This manual shows how to setup openldap and gives a workaround to some of the known bugs that prevent openldap to be reconfigured, and migration tools from

Re: output of df doesn't add up

2009-07-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Seg, 20 Jul 2009, Micha Feigin wrote: >> Any ideas on where the missing gb are? > > It's the space reserved for root. > > http://www.andremiller.net/content/recovering-reserved-space-ext2-and-ext3-filesystems I wouldn't recommend that approach for / though. 5% of

Re: [Semi-OT] Need advice on AMD mobo

2009-07-20 Thread Mark Allums
Since I had seen a lot of Asus boards for PII-350s working just fine and Asus had (has?) a good reputation, I thought I'd try Asus instead of MSI. I should say that I have not used every consumer/enthusiast mb out there, I can only report on those I have used. I tend to use ASUS boards beca

Frequent crashes whilst using X

2009-07-20 Thread Barry Samuels
Debian Squeeze/Testing with kernel 2.6.26 and the nv driver. A few weeks ago after some packages were updated X applications started crashing and sometimes brought X down as well. I use Balsa as my mailer and often when I click on a mail folder to open it Balsa just crashes (disappears). Today

Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how?

2009-07-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,19.Jul.09, 09:15:16, Paul E Condon wrote: > > But, for hal-mounted devices, the umount also deletes the mount-point. The problem seems to be with the volume manager as this does not happen under Xfce. Maybe the volume manager of your DE also triggers an "eject" (or something similar)? R

Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how?

2009-07-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,20.Jul.09, 10:59:33, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <87skgrmp6i@sofocles.comuna.andre>, Tiago Saboga wrote: > >Andrei Popescu writes: > >> On Sun,19.Jul.09, 08:11:21, Paul E Condon wrote: > >>> I'm looking for something that retriggers the > >>> look-up of volume label and the creat

Re: output of df doesn't add up

2009-07-20 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 20 Jul 2009, Micha Feigin wrote: For some reason the output for my main disk as given by df doesn't add up: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 142G 123G 12G 92% / 142g - (123g + 12g) = 7g it seems that I have 7gb missing on the disk (its ex

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
josé Santos wrote: > Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, > google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you. For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Apart from converting units, it is a fully fledged GUI calculator that is useful for many scienti

output of df doesn't add up

2009-07-20 Thread Micha Feigin
For some reason the output for my main disk as given by df doesn't add up: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 142G 123G 12G 92% / 142g - (123g + 12g) = 7g it seems that I have 7gb missing on the disk (its ext4, just crashed, I think because it went

Re: Keyboard in X does not auto repeat cursor keys.

2009-07-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
green wrote: Sthu Deus wrote at 2009-07-15 06:42 -0600: After update of x-server packages keyboard does not auto-repeat cursor keys. How I can fix that (i believe it can be done through a config file)? Check the man pages for xset(1) and xev(1). 'xset r' enables autorepeating in general 'xev'

Re: [Semi-OT] Need advice on AMD mobo

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:13 AM, lee wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 03:12:46AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >> lee wrote: >>> At Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:22:08 -0500, >>> Mark Allums wrote: >> >> Not being able to update the BIOS is not an ASUS problem.  Actually, >> ASUS is very good about updating thei

OpenLdap manual howto available

2009-07-20 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
Just an FYI. I'm working on openldap howto for Debian. http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/OpenLdap This manual shows how to setup openldap and gives a workaround to some of the known bugs that prevent openldap to be reconfigured, and migration tools from finish migration. The setting up of openldap is

Re: boot lvm squeeze

2009-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <60f50c4a0907200701w4c5b3a2ew73e1f48fae948...@mail.gmail.com>, Soren Orel wrote: >I've downloaded a weekly snapshot about squeeze: >http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/bt-cd/ >but I just want to ask, I've heard that I could simply install squeeze, > and boot from LVM, does GRU

Re: how to increase sound volume of a mp3 file

2009-07-20 Thread Mark
Decompressing mp3 to wav and then recompressing to mp3 can lead to trouble (go to http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ and do a search for "transcoding" if you want to learn more), however if your source mp3 file is of high enough bitrate then you may get away without any noticeable decrease in sou

dd hung up by disk errors

2009-07-20 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a bad drive in a laptop and am attempting to salvage what I can with (roughly) dd conv=noerror,sync if=/dev/sda3 of=/nfs/backup where the of is NFS mounted from another system. This keeps trying when it encounters a disk read error, but there are lots of errors and it is very slow (only 200

Re: -- SPAM -- No sound in 2.6.30

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 10:54, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Today I did an `aptitude full-upgrade' on my sid machine and during the process, kernel-image-2.6.30-1-686 was installed. Now if I boot the 2.6.30 kernel, there is no sound. None of the applications give any error. The volume controls are all normal

Re: No sound in 2.6.30

2009-07-20 Thread Tom Low-Shang
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:24:37PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Today I did an `aptitude full-upgrade' on my sid machine and during > the process, kernel-image-2.6.30-1-686 was installed. Now if I boot > the 2.6.30 kernel, there is no sound. > ... > sid:~$ > sid:~$ sudo lspci -vv|sed -n '/audi

Re: boot lvm squeeze

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 09:49, Soren Orel wrote: So I can't have the boot partition in an LVM under squeeze by default, thanks I wouldn't want to. IMNSHO, "that needed to boot" should be installed using KISS. Then put /home, /data, etc on LVs. -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Segmentation fault in dpkg and aptitude

2009-07-20 Thread pobega
> pob...@fuzzydev.org writes: > >>> Bill Wohler writes: >>> >>> I found I was able to run "apt-get -f install" twice and be able to >>> use aptitude to perform package maintenance again. >>> >>> However, now I'm finding that Emacs and Firefox (Iceweasel) die with >>> segmentation faults at random

Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how?

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul E Condon wrote: I have no objection to the status of hal as a required part of a standard desktop installation, but I do have a question as to how best to deal with a peculiar situation. I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside, not solid state 'disks'). From time

Re: 64-bit *libraries* in 32-bit repositories???

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 09:19, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-20 14:52 +0200, David Fox wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: But why the opposite, like lib64bz2-1.0 in the i386 repository? Maybe just for the converse reason, running amd64 binaries on a mostly 32-bit userland setup

Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how?

2009-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <87skgrmp6i@sofocles.comuna.andre>, Tiago Saboga wrote: >Andrei Popescu writes: >> On Sun,19.Jul.09, 08:11:21, Paul E Condon wrote: >>> I'm looking for something that retriggers the >>> look-up of volume label and the creation of a mount-point in /media as >>> was there before I started muc

Re: Segmentation fault in dpkg and aptitude

2009-07-20 Thread Bill Wohler
pob...@fuzzydev.org writes: >> Bill Wohler writes: >> >> I found I was able to run "apt-get -f install" twice and be able to >> use aptitude to perform package maintenance again. >> >> However, now I'm finding that Emacs and Firefox (Iceweasel) die with >> segmentation faults at random times. Won

No sound in 2.6.30

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Today I did an `aptitude full-upgrade' on my sid machine and during the process, kernel-image-2.6.30-1-686 was installed. Now if I boot the 2.6.30 kernel, there is no sound. None of the applications give any error. The volume controls are all normal. Just the audio is missing. If I boot the old

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090720094337.ga7...@resivo.wgnet.de>, Jonas Meurer wrote: >Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? I don't know how, but it sounds like it should be possible. You might have more luck on pkg-exim4-us...@lists.alioth.d.o. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,

Re: lvm on an external enclosure?

2009-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a6380d4.5030...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >On 2009-03-20 16:04, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Friday 20 March 2009 09:02:24 Ron Johnson wrote: >>> 2. More importantly, what about when I power up the external >>> enclosure, after Linux is already running? Will lvm automagically >>> re

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:54:45AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I am sure many of us would like to use the latest version of some > applications even while we are on Debian stable. While I am aware that > backports do exist, I prefer making my own backports, especially for

Re: Maintaining personal backports

2009-07-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:11:00AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I was wondering if some of you had a workflow with a level of > > automation to achieve this task. Currently, my workflow is: update > > stable pbuilder chroot -> Download source from unstable -> pdebuild -> > > dpkg -i the debs. I was

Re: Security support for Squeeze delayed

2009-07-20 Thread Soren Orel
So is Debian Squeeze not up-to-date by security fixes? wow. :S:S On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Soren Orel wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze > Is it still actual? > thank you >

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