Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

Dear All I have an Linux server that gets problemy from sudden power cut . I need to run fsck in single user mode so I issued "#init 1" on the server . At the server prompt , to serialize the fsck on the intended file system , I first tried to unmount the intended file system and then issue the fsc

Re: locale problem when setting up a chroot using debootstrap

Thanks a lot. I was trying to find something like that using dpkg -l and apt-cache search, but obviously missed it. Cheers, andy Kevin Ross wrote: -Original Message- From: andy baxter [mailto:a...@earthsong.free-online.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 2:28 PM To: debian-user@lis

RE: locale problem when setting up a chroot using debootstrap

> -Original Message- > From: andy baxter [mailto:a...@earthsong.free-online.co.uk] > Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 2:28 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: locale problem when setting up a chroot using debootstrap > > I'm setting up a chroot using debootstrap, eventually for

Error while building live cd by live-helper

I want to build a live cd based on debian with custom set of package. I get the following error: #lh_build P: Setting up cleanup function P: Begin caching bootstrap stage... P: Begin bootstrapping system... P: If the following stage fails, the most likely cause of the problem is with your mirror c

Inquiry: How to add the "netconf" utility to Linux server

Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I add the "netconf" utility to my Linux server ? Regards H.Motamedi

Re: Inquiry :Linux server Ethernet port issue

Dear Ron Thank you very much for your reply . As I am far from the site , I will check for the your comments ASAP . In the mean time , can you please do me favor and let me know how can I add the "netconf" utility to the server as it is a good facility to check/modify the Ethernet driver kernel mod

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

I don't know if this helps but by default thunderbird will just copy them not delete I have to manually delete emails from my account to sync with what I already downloaded to my machine. On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,13.Aug.09, 16:17:30, Girish Kulkarni wrote: >

Re: Happy birthday Debian

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:26:20 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 03:34:35PM +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: > > Debian has hit sweet sixteen today! :) > > > > And, yes its already 16th of August in this part of the world.. > > Still a teenager! and already with a few descendan

Re: How to force a package removal?

On 2009-08-16 18:42, Florian Kulzer wrote: [snip] /var/lib/dpkg/info/adobe-flashplugin.prerm Looking at the script you might be able to figure out what it is trying to do; then you can search for a way to change your alternatives setup to make that work or you can comment out the problematic co

Re: How to force a package removal?

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 14:50:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > A couple of years ago, when there were some "issues" with the > various Adobe Flash packages, I downloaded and installed > adobe-flashplugin from Ubuntu. It installed perfectly, and I've > been happy with it ever since. > > But

Re: Happy birthday Debian

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Alice Ferrazzi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > apt-get install debian-cake The following packages are BROKEN: debian-cake: dependency problems - debian-cake depends on debian-candles, but is not installable someone has to file a bug against li

Re: sound volume went waaaay low

I also have the same problem. Still looking for solutions.. On 8/17/09, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Had to reboot today (powerfailure) and now the sound volume is so low it > can barely be heard. I keep current with testing so I'm sure many new > updates took effect with the reboot (including the kerne

Re: /sbin/reboot: symbolic link to `halt'

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-16 22:36 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> I noticed that /sbin/reboot is a symbolic link to /sbin/halt. How does >> the system "know" the difference? > > The program notices how it is called and behaves accordingly.  Programs > wri

Re: skype, amd64, libc6-i386 and ia32-libs

Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > After returning from vacation I updated my testing, amd64 system. > After that, skype was no longer working... > I understand that this has something to do with bug > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=535645 > At the present time, I there something I can do t

Re: Happy birthday Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fox wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Chris wrote: > >> Same here... Now, where's the cake?! > > It's only an apt-get install away... ;) > >> -- > > > apt-get install debian-cake happy birthday debian!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

Dne, 16. 08. 2009 22:42:34 je Klistvud napisal(a): > Dne, 16. 08. 2009 19:02:26 je Brian Marshall napisal(a): > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 06:35:20PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > > > Dne, 16. 08. 2009 16:41:43 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): > > > > On 2009-08-16 09:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > On 2009-0

switching to proprietary ati radeon driver (was Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm)

Hello, On 8/16/09, Klistvud wrote: > P.S. I've also noticed that the laptop runs hotter when the free > graphics driver is used, as opposed to the proprietary ATI one. > I also have an HP Dual core 2.1GHz, and it gets kinda to warm during "idle" work (hovers around 65-67 C); my Debian testing i

sound volume went waaaay low

Had to reboot today (powerfailure) and now the sound volume is so low it can barely be heard. I keep current with testing so I'm sure many new updates took effect with the reboot (including the kernel, it's now 2.6.30). What would people suggest to make the sound hearable? All volume controls are

Re: Mutt [Was: Iceweasel 3.5]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:16:15 -0400 "S. Fishpaste" wrote: ... > I agree Ron, that T-Bird and to some extent Slypheed-Claws, are good > examples of GUI e-mail clients that are probably best of breed. I left And what, exactly, is wrong with plain Sylph? :/ Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - rem

locale problem when setting up a chroot using debootstrap

I'm setting up a chroot using debootstrap, eventually for use with user mode linux. I have got it mostly working ok, but when I install some packages (e.g. mc), there are a load of errors which seem to be to do with locales. Perl (I think) is saying something like check that the right locale is

Re: migrate physical machine to virtual machine

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 07:03:04AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:45:35PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > I've got to move an old Linux OS to a virtual machine. I'm using Debian > > Lenny as a host. The guest is Suse 9.2, but I'm hoping you guys might > > have some advice fo

Re: Happy birthday Debian

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 03:34:35PM +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Debian has hit sweet sixteen today! :) > > And, yes its already 16th of August in this part of the world.. Still a teenager! and already with a few descendants. :) -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just be

Re: /sbin/reboot: symbolic link to `halt'

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 05:22:22PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I noticed that /sbin/reboot is a symbolic link to /sbin/halt. How does > > the system "know" the difference? > > > > By checking the name with which the program was called. In C it's

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

On Thu,13.Aug.09, 16:17:30, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having an issue with Fetchmail and Gmail on my system (Lenny). It > will help if someone could help understand what's going on. > > While downloading archived messages (around 20 thousand of them, 800 > MB) from my Gmail account

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

Dne, 16. 08. 2009 19:02:26 je Brian Marshall napisal(a): > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 06:35:20PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > > Dne, 16. 08. 2009 16:41:43 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): > > > On 2009-08-16 09:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On 2009-08-16 03:20, Klistvud wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> > > > >>

Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

On 2009-08-16 15:36, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:53:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-10 14:20, Mike Castle wrote: [snip] air every so often. (Then again, with two cats, our laptops have more problems inside.) An electric cord, stripped wires, duct tape and short

Re: /sbin/reboot: symbolic link to `halt'

On 2009-08-16 22:36 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > I noticed that /sbin/reboot is a symbolic link to /sbin/halt. How does > the system "know" the difference? The program notices how it is called and behaves accordingly. Programs written in C can get information about their name in argv[0]. Sv

Re: /sbin/reboot: symbolic link to `halt'

Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that /sbin/reboot is a symbolic link to /sbin/halt. How does > the system "know" the difference? > By checking the name with which the program was called. In C it's available as the first element in the array of command-line arguments that the program

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

On Wed,12.Aug.09, 22:31:25, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Volatile is for software that fails to achieve its goal if it is not > > updated > > [snip] > > the contents of this post would make a good FAQ. http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#using Regards, Andre

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 05:44:47PM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: > Hello; First of all I'm not that familiar with a Linux GUI as I usually run > GNU/Linux headless via CLI. > > I've got Lenny running Xserver-Xorg and I've noticed that the default > Iceweasel aka Firefox is an older version and I pref

Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:53:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-10 14:20, Mike Castle wrote: > [snip] >> air every so often. (Then again, with two cats, our laptops have more >> problems inside.) > > An electric cord, stripped wires, duct tape and short section of broom > handle should

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:21:36PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 2009-08-09 04:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Sun,09.Aug.09, 05:32:55, Long Wind wrote: I use sarge When I reboot/halt, the speaker beeps Is there any way to config speaker not to beep? >>> >

/sbin/reboot: symbolic link to `halt'

Hi, I noticed that /sbin/reboot is a symbolic link to /sbin/halt. How does the system "know" the difference? -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand w

Re: Happy birthday Debian

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Chris wrote: > Same here... Now, where's the cake?! It's only an apt-get install away... ;) > -- -- thanks for letting me change the magnetic patterns on your hard disk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

On Wed,12.Aug.09, 19:35:21, S. Fishpaste wrote: > I used XFce back in the day, now it seems bloated and slow on this P3. I've > also heard it has a nasty memory leak; That has been fixed AFAICT. I also installed Xfce 4.4 on my mothers laptop (p...@1.2 GHz, 512 MB RAM) and it is quite ok. Regar

Re: inline JPGs

On Sun August 16 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Folder -> Preffer HTML to Plain Text > > Except that this is a crime against humanity, besides being contrary > to published debian-user netiquette. right, except the majority of people that email me use HTML/Windowz products, and send inline JPGs, us

Re: inline JPGs- SOLVED!

On Sun August 16 2009, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Did you try : > View -> Attachments -> Inline > ack, not a preference, but a VIEW menu.. no, I had it as smart. set it to inline, and now I see the images!!! thanks! > Also : > Folder -> Preffer HTML to Plain Text already had that set. -- Paul C

How to force a package removal?

Hi, A couple of years ago, when there were some "issues" with the various Adobe Flash packages, I downloaded and installed adobe-flashplugin from Ubuntu. It installed perfectly, and I've been happy with it ever since. But now I want to replace it with the up-to-date flashplayer-mozilla fro

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 01:49:00PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-16 11:35, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On 8/16/09, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> In the Section/EndSection wrapper. That's what I'd try. >>> >> Should such syntax avoid breaking anything? Inspired from here [1]. >> >> Section "InputD

Doubt about apt pinning

Hi all! At the moment I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze in my workstation and to doing tests on VoIP I'm needing to install the Twinkle package specifically in its version of the stable branch. According to what I was reading, this is possible to be done with pinning and I was reading the man pag

Re: Weird startup problem with 2.6.26-2-686 in lenny - EDD

Am Sonntag, 16. August 2009 18:00:38 schrieb Thomas Hochstein: > Dexter Filmore schrieb: > > (And what's EDD? I had to put edd=off to the lenny kernel else they > > borked one step later) > > "Enhanced Disk Drive" > > So.. sounds ancient. What abo

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

On 2009-08-16 11:35, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 8/16/09, Ron Johnson wrote: In the Section/EndSection wrapper. That's what I'd try. Should such syntax avoid breaking anything? Inspired from here [1]. Section "InputDevice" Option "SHMConfig" "true" EndSection Ca

Installing a Wireless Card

I would like some help in completing the installation with a wireless pcmia card.I just installed 502 from CDs on a Dell laptop. I did not have the Belkin wireless pcmcia card (HSM model no. F5D7011. Chipset BCM4306/BCM2050) in place during the installation.  Now I would like to get the wireless ca

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:47:56 +0100 Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello Liviu, > I'm on a fresh Debian testing, and I do not seem to find the correct > xorg.conf. The usual file is empty. That's fine. X.Org is pretty good at detecting what's needed. However, if there are things you specifically requir

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 06:35:20PM +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 16. 08. 2009 16:41:43 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): > > On 2009-08-16 09:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 2009-08-16 03:20, Klistvud wrote: > > > [snip] > > >> > > >> If it's of any help, according to Synaptic, these are the > > >> Flash

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

On 2009-08-16 11:35, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 16. 08. 2009 16:41:43 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): On 2009-08-16 09:30, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-16 03:20, Klistvud wrote: [snip] If it's of any help, according to Synaptic, these are the Flash-related packages I have installed: flashplayer-mozill

Re: Weird startup problem with 2.6.26-2-686 in lenny

Dexter Filmore schrieb: > (And what's EDD? I had to put edd=off to the lenny kernel else they borked > one > step later) "Enhanced Disk Drive" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

On 8/16/09, Ron Johnson wrote: > In the Section/EndSection wrapper. That's what I'd try. > Should such syntax avoid breaking anything? Inspired from here [1]. Section "InputDevice" Option "SHMConfig" "true" EndSection Thank you Liviu [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/sho

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

On 2009-08-16 17:59 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-16 10:47, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> Dear all, >> I'm on a fresh Debian testing, and I do not seem to find the correct >> xorg.conf. The usual file is empty. >> debian-liv:/home/liviu# ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf -l >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 200

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

Dne, 16. 08. 2009 16:41:43 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): > On 2009-08-16 09:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-08-16 03:20, Klistvud wrote: > > [snip] > >> > >> If it's of any help, according to Synaptic, these are the > >> Flash-related packages I have installed: > >> > >> flashplayer-mozilla > >> l

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

On 2009-08-16 11:18, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 8/16/09, Ron Johnson wrote: That appears to be normal in newer versions of x.org. But then, how do I add the option ` SHMConfig' 'true' '? Do I pluck it to the empty file? In the Section/EndSection wrapper. That's what I'd try. -- Scooty Puff

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

On 8/16/09, Ron Johnson wrote: > That appears to be normal in newer versions of x.org. > But then, how do I add the option ` SHMConfig' 'true' '? Do I pluck it to the empty file? Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: where's my xorg.conf?

On 2009-08-16 10:47, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all, I'm on a fresh Debian testing, and I do not seem to find the correct xorg.conf. The usual file is empty. debian-liv:/home/liviu# ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-08-02 18:33 /etc/X11/xorg.conf Please advise. Thank you T

where's my xorg.conf?

Dear all, I'm on a fresh Debian testing, and I do not seem to find the correct xorg.conf. The usual file is empty. debian-liv:/home/liviu# ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-08-02 18:33 /etc/X11/xorg.conf Please advise. Thank you Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Mozilla rebranding

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:13:32 -0500 Chris wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm unsure if this was a topic - Could someone explain or point me to > a resource that enlightens me why the Mozilla re-branding. > > For now, I have opted not to use IceW and IceOwl in lieu of the actual > Linux binaries that ar

Mozilla rebranding

Greetings, I'm unsure if this was a topic - Could someone explain or point me to a resource that enlightens me why the Mozilla re-branding. For now, I have opted not to use IceW and IceOwl in lieu of the actual Linux binaries that are (newer and) offered at Mozilla. -- Best regards, Chris ()

Re: inline JPGs

On Sunday 16 August 2009 08:22:57 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-16 05:15, Mihira Fernando wrote: > [snip] > > > Also : > > Folder -> Preffer HTML to Plain Text > > Except that this is a crime against humanity, besides being contrary > to published debian-user netiquette. In that case, inline

Re: Happy birthday Debian

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:08:27 +0930 Dale wrote: > Happy Birthday Debian :-) > > I have only been using Debian a couple of years, but it a great OS to > be using :-) > > Cheers > Dale > > 2009/8/16 Mihira Fernando : > > Debian has hit sweet sixteen today!  :) > > > > And, yes its already 16th of

Re: Inquiry :Linux server Ethernet port issue

On 2009-08-16 06:43, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Please be informed that we have an Linux server that it recenty got a problem on its Ethernet port . As its communications with the outside world is through its Ethernet port , we recently figured it out that it can no longer being PING from the

Re: inline JPGs

On 2009-08-16 05:15, Mihira Fernando wrote: [snip] Also : Folder -> Preffer HTML to Plain Text Except that this is a crime against humanity, besides being contrary to published debian-user netiquette. -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

On 2009-08-16 09:30, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-16 03:20, Klistvud wrote: [snip] If it's of any help, according to Synaptic, these are the Flash-related packages I have installed: flashplayer-mozilla libswfdec-0.6-90 swfdec-gnome swfdec-mozilla BTW, I'd either remove the swfdec packages

Weird startup problem with 2.6.26-2-686 in lenny

Just upgraded my server from etch to lenny, all fine so far. But: 2.6.26-2-686 bootet ok about 10 times, then all of a sudden the system stops after this point: http://www.vaultofsages.de/~dexterf/pub/boot.jpg Funny thing is: 2.6.26-1-686 still works fine. I even purges the -2 package and reins

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

On 2009-08-16 03:20, Klistvud wrote: [snip] If it's of any help, according to Synaptic, these are the Flash-related packages I have installed: flashplayer-mozilla libswfdec-0.6-90 swfdec-gnome swfdec-mozilla Try this: dpkg -S npviewer.bin -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To UNSUB

Re: WRT54G WAN access failure -- Solved!

On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 03:53:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-09 02:41, Joel Roth wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 2009-08-07 21:47, Joel Roth wrote: I'd like to ask for help setting up a used router for my brother. First of all, I get usual internet services

vsftpd only allow access for a group

How can I do that? I mean to only allow FTP access for a certain group? Like when doing SFTP with openssh-server with "Subsystem sftp internal-sftp" and using the "AllowGroups GROUPNAME", "Match Group GROUPNAME", etc in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config"? thank you

Re: Happy birthday Debian

Am 2009-08-16 15:34:35, schrieb Mihira Fernando: > Debian has hit sweet sixteen today! :) > > And, yes its already 16th of August in this part of the world.. And I have now 10 1/2 years Debian GNU/Linux usage: starting with Slink Being 8 years Debian GNU/Linux Consultant... Time flys! Thanks,

Inquiry :Linux server Ethernet port issue

Dear All Please be informed that we have an Linux server that it recenty got a problem on its Ethernet port . As its communications with the outside world is through its Ethernet port , we recently figured it out that it can no longer being PING from the other clients' sides . We checked on the ser

Re: Happy birthday Debian

Happy Birthday Debian :-) I have only been using Debian a couple of years, but it a great OS to be using :-) Cheers Dale 2009/8/16 Mihira Fernando : > Debian has hit sweet sixteen today!  :) > > And, yes its already 16th of August in this part of the world.. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Happy birthday Debian

* Mihira Fernando [2009 Aug 16 05:07 -0500]: > Debian has hit sweet sixteen today! :) > > And, yes its already 16th of August in this part of the world.. Happy Birthday indeed, Debian. In another month or so I'll mark ten years with Debian. I recall downloading 8 floppy images and then doing

Re: http://packages.qa.debian.org/ down?

Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-16 10:16 +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > >> Have I missed something? I'm not able to connect to >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/ ? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure- announce/2009/08/msg0.html > > Note that packages.qa.debian.org is the same

Re: inline JPGs

On Saturday 15 August 2009 03:46:24 pm Paul Cartwright wrote: > My wife & I both use kmail on our Debian Lenny system. When I get a jpg, > all I see is the filename.jpg at the bottom of the page & as attachments in > the preview window. My wife sees the photo on her screen in the preview > window.

Happy birthday Debian

Debian has hit sweet sixteen today! :) And, yes its already 16th of August in this part of the world.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Is there any security risk using p2p client ?

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:05:08PM +0300, ?? wrote: > Is that so? The torrent file you download from debian (= you trust > that), doesn't contain the checksum? If you're verifying the checksum, then you implicitly don't trust the file 100%. And you shouldn't have 100% tru

Re: http://packages.qa.debian.org/ down?

On 2009-08-16 10:16 +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > Have I missed something? I'm not able to connect to > http://packages.qa.debian.org/ ? http://lists.debian.org/debian-infrastructure-announce/2009/08/msg0.html Note that packages.qa.debian.org is the same host as master.debian.org, accordi

Re: Is there any security risk using p2p client ?

Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 02:30:11PM -0600, John Haggerty wrote: > >> Just use intelligence based on the fact that you are downloading random >> programs. >> > > E.g.: if you download Debian CDs, it might be a good idea to verify > their checksums from Debian sites. >

Re: http://packages.qa.debian.org/ down?

Magnus Pedersen, Sun Aug 16 2009 10:16:14 GMT+0200 (CEST) : > Have I missed something? I'm not able to connect to > http://packages.qa.debian.org/ ? > /Magnus > > It seems to be down. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Performance of encrypted filesystem

Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-08-12 09:38 (+0300), Teemu Likonen wrote: > > >> Do you (or anybody) have numbers or educated guesses on how much it >> slows down the disk operation or how it will affect CPU load? >> > > I found such an article and it seems to indicate that LUKS system has n

http://packages.qa.debian.org/ down?

Have I missed something? I'm not able to connect to http://packages.qa.debian.org/ ? /Magnus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

Dne, 16. 08. 2009 04:38:45 je go...@dobosevic.com napisal(a): > Klistvud wrote: > >> Especially when the nspviewer.bin > >> process > >> is running, > > > > That's npviewer.bin, of course. My apologies, but it's 2 AM here in > > Ljubljana ;) > > > Hi Ljubljana, > Zagreb here! Nice to met neighb

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

Dne, 16. 08. 2009 02:08:50 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): > On 2009-08-15 19:02, Klistvud wrote: > >> Especially when the nspviewer.bin > >> process > >> is running, > > > > That's npviewer.bin, of course. My apologies, but it's 2 AM here in > > Ljubljana ;) > > Hmmm, why don't I have npviewer.bin,

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

Sandip Sandip wrote: *From:* Neal Hogan *To:* Sandip Sandip *Cc:* debian-user@lists.debian.org *Sent:* Thursday, 13 August, 2009 7:41:02 PM *Subject:* Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18 On Thu, Aug 13, 200

RE: HP DL180 G6 with Debian Lenny

Hi, The G5 serie indeed uses the broadcom network card. The BNX2 driver I already build back in. The G6 serie usually uses the E1000 driver. The strange thing is that I see it in the list of available drivers but it's not being used. Knoppix live cd, debian testing live cd and a rescue system I

[SOLVED] gthumb, photo import error

Hi All, I have fixed the problem accessing my camera with gthumb by adding ATTRS{idVendor}=="04cb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="01c7", MODE="0664", GROUP="plugdev" to /etc/udev/rules.d/025_libgphoto2.rules and then restarting udev and plugging the camera into the laptop Regards Dale -- Forwar

Re: Is there any security risk using p2p client ?

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 02:30:11PM -0600, John Haggerty wrote: > Just use intelligence based on the fact that you are downloading random > programs. E.g.: if you download Debian CDs, it might be a good idea to verify their checksums from Debian sites. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.o

Re: migrate physical machine to virtual machine

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:45:35PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I've got to move an old Linux OS to a virtual machine. I'm using Debian > Lenny as a host. The guest is Suse 9.2, but I'm hoping you guys might > have some advice for me. It uses a 2.6 kernel. What virtual machine, exactly? > > The