Re: Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

2009-08-04 Thread James McCloskey
Rob Owens wrote: |> You might want to keep a copy of this handy: |> http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Indeed. But I think I sorted this out (or at least I have succeeded in making the system boot at least once). In case anyone finds themselves in a similar situation, this was what worked for

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 06:50:56PM -0500, line...@halo.nu wrote: > Hi - > > I have a Debian Etch system which I recently upgraded to v5.0.2. The file > system was encrypted with LUKS at install time. > > The upgrade appeared to go well, however when I boot into the new system, it > gives the f

Re: Unable top boot newly installed machine

2009-08-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:25:25AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4a781792.8050...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 2009-08-04 02:47, Alex Samad wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:20:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> On 2009-08-03 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: [snip] > > "waiting

Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

2009-08-04 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Osamu Aoki (os...@debian.org) wrote: |> Hi, Thank you very much for this very helpful message. |> > I'm writing to this address since I'm not sure what else to do. |> |> Hmmm .. Read BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/grub-pc Yes. I wanted to file a bug (and I will) but at the time I wr

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:05 +0800, Kun Niu wrote: > Just wish me good luck then. > Or I'll have to go thousands of miles to check my system. > That'll be really awesome for me. > And a live cd will be a really good idea. > Thank you for your kind reply. > > On 2009-08-04 22:41, Kun Niu wrote: >

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-04 Thread Kun Niu
Just wish me good luck then. Or I'll have to go thousands of miles to check my system. That'll be really awesome for me. And a live cd will be a really good idea. Thank you for your kind reply. On 2009-08-04 22:41, Kun Niu wrote: [snip] > We've encountered the problem upgrading the kernel to 2.6

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-04 22:21, Kun Niu wrote: Dear all, My debian system was installed on Sep. 2005. Now, we've decided to upgrade my present system via apt-get to the latest stable debian branch. Our kenel is 2.4.21. What a *boring* system. But... boring can be good! We've encountered the problem upg

Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-04 Thread Kun Niu
Dear all, My debian system was installed on Sep. 2005. Now, we've decided to upgrade my present system via apt-get to the latest stable debian branch. Our kenel is 2.4.21. We've encountered the problem upgrading the kernel to 2.6.8. It seems that apt-get fail to execute the update-initramfs and the

Debian Day 2009 wiki page

2009-08-04 Thread Andre Felipe Machado
Hello, There is a wiki page for Debian Day 2009 events. Please, if you know about more cities where local user groups will organize Debian Day 2009 celebrations, contact and publish them at the page [0] following the instructions there. Please, spread the word about the page [0]. Regards. Andre Fel

bug report #539995 filed, re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-04 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:11 +, "Sylvain Le Gall" wrote: > Hello, > > On 02-08-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org > wrote: > > > > It also seems that things are not so rosy on the > > server itself. I ran "aptitude build-dep approx" > > to try and solve the other part of my problem > > (approx-i

Re: Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

2009-08-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:40:33AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I'm writing to this address since I'm not sure what else to do. > > > I would really appreciate hearing whatever advice might be available > and I will be happy to try to test fixes and post results and so on. > You might want

Re: Some questions about seting up wireless network between linuxand vista ;

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Parker
a dehqan wrote: > Thanks alot for your attentions ; > > 1-When fisrt ad-hoc is set in vista ,should be all these steps done in linux : > > ifconfig wlan0 down > /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager stop > iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc > iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 > iwconfig wlan0 essid allah > iwconfig

Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-04 Thread lineman
Hi - I have a Debian Etch system which I recently upgraded to v5.0.2. The file system was encrypted with LUKS at install time. The upgrade appeared to go well, however when I boot into the new system, it gives the following error: Volume group "hostname" not found cryptsetup: Source device /d

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-04 Thread Chris
On Monday 03 August 2009, Paul Richards wrote: > 2009/8/3 Chris : > > On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > >> Chris wrote: > >> > I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on Lenny > >> > guest systems to no avail. > >> > > >> > I have tried insalling the guest-ut

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 13:29 +0200, Dirk wrote: > I wonder why people who need "nanny-features" like HAL refuse to > just use windows instead. With this statement you drove me away from your proposal that I otherwise was in favor of. 'nugh said Siggy -- Please don't Cc: me when replying, I m

Re: Some questions about seting up wireless network between linuxand vista ;

2009-08-04 Thread a dehqan
Thanks alot for your attentions ; 1-When fisrt ad-hoc is set in vista ,should be all these steps done in linux : ifconfig wlan0 down /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager stop iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 iwconfig wlan0 essid allah iwconfig wlan0 key 12346 ifconfig wlan0 up

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Siggy Brentrup: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 13:59 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I really don't want to upset you even more, but allow me the question: >> where's the problem in running ancient software on even more ancient >> hardware? Is there anything you really need from squeeze on this >> ma

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-04 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:17:11AM +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 2009-08-03 09:48, Timothy Wu wrote: > > > >> > >> The same horizontal bar appears when successfully booting the Ubuntu live > >> CD, though it quickly disappeared. My guess i

Re: qemu slowness

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Ekstrand
jeremy jozwik wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:48 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: >> so i figured this would be a nice time to setup a virtual machine. so >> ive been poking around with qemu. > > also, what is the pro / con of qemu and virtualBox, which i just > noticed is listen in the mail list Virt

Re: [OT] Freedom vs. entitlement (was Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL)

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:57 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] I mostly agree with you on your discourse on HAL, please note that I din't argue against HAL per se but only against being forced to use it on every hardware I want to use current X on. > What surprises me is how long

Re: Mail transfer agent and Active Directory

2009-08-04 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:34:09PM +0200, pch0317 wrote: > Hello > I have 150 users in my network. I want to change MsExchange to open MTA. > > 1. Is there any open MTA which cooperate with Active Directory or > eDirectory? I don't want to create 150 user account. I would like to it > still work e

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090804111458.ga4...@keuner.winnegan.fake>, Siggy Brentrup wrote: >On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:13 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:28 -0500, Chris wrote: >> > To me, the freedom is still there. I now have the freedom of either >> > removing it or leaving it. The choice

Re: Unable top boot newly installed machine

2009-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a781792.8050...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >On 2009-08-04 02:47, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:20:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2009-08-03 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I have just installed a machine from a daily build deb installer, I did the who

Re: Some questions about seting up wireless network between linuxand vista ;

2009-08-04 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: m...@well-adjusted.de >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Some questions about seting up wireless network between >linuxand vista ; >Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 11:17:28 +0200 > >>a dehqan: >>> >>> In The Name Of God >> >>Which one? :) >> >>> ifconfig

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 13:59 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Siggy Brentrup: > > > > Where's my freedom, I'm stuck with ancient X if I don't want to > > run otherwise unused SW? > > I really don't want to upset you even more, but allow me the question: > where's the problem in running ancient soft

Re: [OT] Freedom vs. entitlement (was Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL)

2009-08-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-08-04_16:05:49, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 07:12 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-08-04 06:14, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > >On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:13 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > >>On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:28 -0500, Chris wrote: > > > > > >>I am concerned a

Re: [OT] Freedom vs. entitlement (was Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL)

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 07:12 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-04 06:14, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:13 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > >>On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:28 -0500, Chris wrote: > > > >>I am concerned about X's dependency on HAL. Years ago I was using my > >>

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,04.Aug.09, 09:24:41, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:49:01PM -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > > > > $ grep thinkpad /etc/default/console-setup > > Where does that file comes from? I have searched for it using dlocate > and 'dpkg -S' and could not find it in the packages.

Re: qemu slowness

2009-08-04 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 04 Ago 2009, jeremy jozwik wrote: hello list. the wife wants to watch netflix "watch instantly" videos. it requires a program to be installed in order to watch the videos. said program is only supported under the w and mac os. so i figured this would be a nice time to setup a virtual mac

Re: Unable to upgrade my kernel

2009-08-04 Thread Juha Tuuna
Scarletdown wrote: > ... > Also, is there any way to do a dist-upgrade without being forced into > KDE 4? I don't really care for 4 and would prefer to stay with 3.5. > However, it looks like apt-get dist-upgrade is going to force 4 on me. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.e

[OT] Freedom vs. entitlement (was Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL)

2009-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-04 06:14, Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:13 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:28 -0500, Chris wrote: I am concerned about X's dependency on HAL. Years ago I was using my SGI Indy with a superb SGI Monitor and US keyboard (brackets and braces

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Siggy Brentrup: > > Where's my freedom, I'm stuck with ancient X if I don't want to > run otherwise unused SW? I really don't want to upset you even more, but allow me the question: where's the problem in running ancient software on even more ancient hardware? Is there anything you really need fr

Problems with HP PSC 1210 all-in-one printer on lenny

2009-08-04 Thread Eric Meijer
Hello, I recently did a fresh install of a lenny distribution on a P4 system for a family member (I don't have direct access right now). During the installation I connected a HP PSC 1210 all-in-one printer through USB and I was able to print with it (CUPS printer installed via Gnome desktop

Re: qemu slowness

2009-08-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:48:50PM -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > hello list. the wife wants to watch netflix "watch instantly" videos. > it requires a program to be installed in order to watch the videos. > said program is only supported under the w and mac os. > > so i figured this would be a nic

Re: qemu slowness

2009-08-04 Thread Tom Ashley
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 22:48 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > hello list. the wife wants to watch netflix "watch instantly" videos. > it requires a program to be installed in order to watch the videos. > said program is only supported under the w and mac os. > > so i figured this would be a nice time

Re: Unable to upgrade my kernel

2009-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-04 04:03, Scarletdown wrote: I'm attempting to upgrade the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.30-1-amd64 (so I can use the Memory Stick Pro feature of the built-in card reader with the tifm_ms driver). However, the install fails epically. Here is the output from the attempt. scarletd...@ara

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:13 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:28 -0500, Chris wrote: > I am concerned about X's dependency on HAL. Years ago I was using my > SGI Indy with a superb SGI Monitor and US keyboard (brackets and > braces at the right places) to have up to 6 xt

Re: Unable top boot newly installed machine

2009-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-04 02:47, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:20:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-03 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I have just installed a machine from a daily build deb installer, I did the whole disk encryption chioce and now when it is finished and tries to reboot

Thinkpad T60P: bricked by grub transition

2009-08-04 Thread Jim McCloskey
I'm writing to this address since I'm not sure what else to do. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T60P which until this evening happily ran Debian testing, with two kernels available at the boot-menu: a version of 2.6.29 with the rt patches applied, compiled with the Debian kernel tools, and one stock Deb

Re: detect ramtype

2009-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-04 01:05, T o n g wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:25:09 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: 2009/7/31 michal krajcirovic Hi, I need to determine the type of RAM in the server, I could add more. Is it a program that know what memory is currently in the server, without it I had to disassemble?

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 22:17, Timothy Wu wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Maybe your BIOS is configured to look at the wrong HDD. That's a very easy mistake to make, especially if all your drives are the same make/model. Do you mean in the boot sequence? All three

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 22:21, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:22:28PM EDT, Jack Schneider wrote: Chris, I've found Compiz-fusion useful to keep multiple things going.. ctrl-alt--> giving a new desktop quickly... YMMV. Jack Jack, I'm sure it does.. and trust me, I also can spend tim

Re: Unable to upgrade my kernel

2009-08-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Scarletdown wrote: > Also, is there any way to do a dist-upgrade without being forced into KDE > 4? I don't really care for 4 and would prefer to stay with 3.5. However, > it looks like apt-get dist-upgrade is going to force 4 on me. Why not stay with lenny, then? And upgrade to kde 4, when more

Re: Some questions about seting up wireless network between linux and vista ;

2009-08-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
a dehqan: > > In The Name Of God Which one? :) > ifconfig wlan0 down > /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager stop > iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc > iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 > iwconfig wlan0 essid allah > iwconfig wlan0 key 12346 The latter enables WEP encryption. WEP is better than nothing, but offe

Re: mutt: compose message in new window [was: Re: Musings on debian-user list]

2009-08-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 04:39:10AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,29.Jul.09, 18:47:55, Chris Jones wrote: > > > The only thing I find "frustrating" about mutt is that it is impossible > > to view more than one message at a time - you actually have to fire up a > > second instance of mutt to

Unable to upgrade my kernel

2009-08-04 Thread Scarletdown
I'm attempting to upgrade the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.30-1-amd64 (so I can use the Memory Stick Pro feature of the built-in card reader with the tifm_ms driver). However, the install fails epically. Here is the output from the attempt. scarletd...@arabel:~$ sudo dpkg --configure linux-image-2

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:49:01PM -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > > $ grep thinkpad /etc/default/console-setup Where does that file comes from? I have searched for it using dlocate and 'dpkg -S' and could not find it in the packages. > > XKBMODEL="thinkpad60" I could find no reference to X

Some questions about seting up wireless network between linux and vista ;

2009-08-04 Thread a dehqan
In The Name Of God I'll be thankfull if you guide ; Some questions about seting up wireless network between linux(debian base) and vista ; 1-These steps have been done in linux: ifconfig wlan0 down /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager stop iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 iwcon

Re: Unable top boot newly installed machine

2009-08-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:20:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have just installed a machine from a daily build deb installer, I did >> the whole disk encryption chioce and now when it is finished and tries >> to reboot I can't find the root fs :