Re: Status of snapshot.debian.net|org ?

2009-09-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Memnon Anon wrote: > Javier Barroso writes: >> I think all is like in May [1], debian is searching a sponsor ... > > Thats the kind of answer I expected. > With the whole 'Debian Money' Thread on Project, > I hope this will change ;). > Nobody mentioned snapshot e

Re: using hotmail.com or mail.live.com (movin' OT)

2009-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-14 21:00, Neal Hogan wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] You can make Hotmail do the right thing. It's just a matter of whether or not it's worth the effort when the default is to do the wrong thing, and there's no way to change that. Are you trying

Re: How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

2009-09-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> But about the ifconfig -a command; it only reports the interfaces > configured in the /etc/X11/interfaces file, so (in my case) if I _do not_ No it doesn't. It doesn't look at /etc/*/interfaces at all. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: what happened to courier?

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 03:12:37PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Just now I ran 'lp somefile.txt' and again, the font used was something > much bigger than the 'courier 10' I've been getting forever. > > How do I get my courier back? This might not be a font problem, you could be getting bit by th

Re: How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

2009-09-14 Thread Juan Lavieri
Roberto De Oliveira escribió: But about the ifconfig -a command; it only reports the interfaces configured in the /etc/X11/interfaces file, so (in my case) if I _do not_ edit the /etc/udev/rules file as you said and I change into my /etc/X11/interfaces file my eth2 back to eth0, ifconfig wo

Re: using hotmail.com or mail.live.com (movin' OT)

2009-09-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 21:00 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > On 2009-09-13 16:33, Peter Crawford wrote: >> >> >> >> September 10, 2009 1:06:03 PM Ron wrote, >> >> "Did you forget to write so

Re: problem with partition table

2009-09-14 Thread Long Wind
Now I will reinstall etch at sda4 from cylinder 4801 to 5100 later I'll change sda4 to cylinder 5101 to 5400 to install mandrake I hope it will works -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Status of snapshot.debian.net|org ?

2009-09-14 Thread Memnon Anon
Javier Barroso writes: > I think all is like in May [1], debian is searching a sponsor ... Thats the kind of answer I expected. With the whole 'Debian Money' Thread on Project, I hope this will change ;). Nobody mentioned snapshot explicitely, yet, if I am not totally mistaken, but equipment fo

Re: How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

2009-09-14 Thread Juan Lavieri
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. escribió: In <4aaedfdd.1030...@cantv.net>, Juan Lavieri wrote: But about the ifconfig -a command; it only reports the interfaces configured in the /etc/X11/interfaces file, Nope. ifconfig -a lists all devices active in the kernel. The "-a" stands for "all" (as oppos

Re: How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

2009-09-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4aaedfdd.1030...@cantv.net>, Juan Lavieri wrote: >But about the ifconfig -a command; it only reports the interfaces >configured in the /etc/X11/interfaces file, Nope. ifconfig -a lists all devices active in the kernel. The "-a" stands for "all" (as opposed to just the configured ones, whi

Re: problem with partition table

2009-09-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <2107b77c0909141723x1a0b93eexa0d9ed238a8ed...@mail.gmail.com>, Long Wind wrote: >My /dev/sda has 6081 cylinders: >sda1: cylinder 1 thru 600 for win2k >sda2: cylinder 5401 thru 6081 for sarge >sda3: cylinder 601 thru 4800 for a extended partition >sda4: cylinder 4801 thru 5400 for etch > >etch u

Re: How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

2009-09-14 Thread Roberto De Oliveira
> > But about the ifconfig -a command;   it only reports the interfaces > configured in the /etc/X11/interfaces file, so (in my case) if I _do not_ > edit the /etc/udev/rules file as you said and I change into my > /etc/X11/interfaces file my eth2 back to eth0, ifconfig would never see eth2 > b

Re: How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

2009-09-14 Thread Juan Lavieri
Jerome BENOIT escribió: Hello Juan, actually you can name it via udev: you may have a generated rules file that you can modify. /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules hth, Jerome Juan Lavieri wrote: Hi. The past weekend I did change my motherboard. The new one has the ethernet interfa

Re: How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

2009-09-14 Thread Juan Lavieri
Kevin Ross escribió: My questio is: How can I know what name is asigned to a such a card? Is there any command? ifconfig -a I have only one and it's eth2, why? When you swapped motherboards, udev saw new Ethernet interfaces with new MAC addresses, so it assigned new names to them. The sa

problem with partition table

2009-09-14 Thread Long Wind
My /dev/sda has 6081 cylinders: sda1: cylinder 1 thru 600 for win2k sda2: cylinder 5401 thru 6081 for sarge sda3: cylinder 601 thru 4800 for a extended partition sda4: cylinder 4801 thru 5400 for etch etch use about 54% disk space so I delete sda4 and recreate it at cylinder 5201 thru 5400 then I

Re: How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

2009-09-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Juan, actually you can name it via udev: you may have a generated rules file that you can modify. /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules hth, Jerome Juan Lavieri wrote: Hi. The past weekend I did change my motherboard. The new one has the ethernet interface integrated into it (no

Re: using hotmail.com or mail.live.com (movin' OT)

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 21:00 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-09-13 16:33, Peter Crawford wrote: > >> > >> September 10, 2009 1:06:03 PM Ron wrote, > >> "Did you forget to write something?" > >> > >> > >> Well I've updated the version number

RE: How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

2009-09-14 Thread Kevin Ross
> My questio is: How can I know what name is asigned to a such a card? > Is there any command? ifconfig -a > I have only one and it's eth2, why? When you swapped motherboards, udev saw new Ethernet interfaces with new MAC addresses, so it assigned new names to them. The same thing would happ

Apt : adding etch CD's to lenny apt archive

2009-09-14 Thread C.T.F. Jansen
Greetings, I'm trying to add a debian 4.0 CD set to a debian 5.0 apt archive using apt-cdrom but the system doesn't recognise the debian 4 CD's. In the release notes for Debian 5.0 there's a section on problems with reading etch cdroms on a lenny system. The suggestions were done but t

How to know the name of an ethernet interface.

2009-09-14 Thread Juan Lavieri
Hi. The past weekend I did change my motherboard. The new one has the ethernet interface integrated into it (no other card of this type is plugged) My surprise is is because my squeeze was unable to bring uo this interface (eth0 didn't exists); Guessin I change it to eth2 and everything w

Re: pxe booting problem

2009-09-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:53:31PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I tried to install debian via PXE. > following the doc, I install netboot.tar.gz which contains pxe file. > I configured the dhcpd.conf here is relevant part : > > host 00016CB3066E{ # MAC > hardware etherne

Re: VirtualBox on Lenny 2.6.26-amd64 kernel?

2009-09-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 05:51:13PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi. > > I've got Lenny, and I'm trying out the precompiled 2.6.26-amd64 > kernel, but not the 64bit install. > I don't understand. Could you explain? > VirtualBox is the only ap

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-14 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Manoj Srivastava writes: >On Thu, Sep 10 2009, Cameron Hutchison wrote: >> Version 3 (below) is "properly" written, in a functional style. It's much >> longer, but much easier to read. The main() function is very simple, >> as is each individual function. It's written in such a way that you >> c

Re: Status of snapshot.debian.net|org ?

2009-09-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Memnon Anon wrote: > Hi! > > Has anyone some information on the progress of making snapshot an > "official" debian service? > > I always found it an incredibly usefull service. > The last official announcements[1] I found > are pretty old. Last information was "(ET

Re: No Input for Audacity

2009-09-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 15:19:14 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I checked the Audacity manual which recommended installing alsa-oss and > starting Audacity with the command line aoss audacity. There was still > no input selector on the toolbar. > > I also checked for the subject audacity in the

vdkbuilder2 wont start

2009-09-14 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Hi all, I had installed vdkbuilder2 and everything what is recommended by Synaptic on Squeeze, but vdkb2 won't start. Little turtle jumping for few seconds and nothing happens. This is shell output: $ vdkb2 (process:5084): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: /build/buildd-glib2.0_2.20.5-1-i386-mDnYKw

No Input for Audacity

2009-09-14 Thread Thomas H. George
I checked the Audacity manual which recommended installing alsa-oss and starting Audacity with the command line aoss audacity. There was still no input selector on the toolbar. I also checked for the subject audacity in the debian user archive for each month of this year. There were none. My sy

LVM logical volumes get deactivated on reboot

2009-09-14 Thread Till Wimmer
Hi, i set up a Debian system with the root filesystem located on a LVM logical volume: /dev/sda1 -> /boot (with GRUB) /dev/sda2 -> swap /dev/sda3 -> LVM physical volume -> volume group "system" The volume group "system" contains "root". The kernel line in GRUB's menu.lst looks like this: kern

/tmp/.h/update >/dev/null - what's that?

2009-09-14 Thread Till Wimmer
Hi, on one of our servers (Debian Lenny) i found this strange lines in the syslog: ... Sep 13 06:31:01 samba2 /USR/SBIN/CRON[3455]: (tmp) CMD (/tmp/.h/update >/dev/null 2>&1) Sep 13 06:32:01 samba2 /USR/SBIN/CRON[3466]: (tmp) CMD (/tmp/.h/update >/dev/null 2>&1) Sep 13 06:33:01 samba2 /US

Re: debian in 64 bit

2009-09-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Guillaume CHARDIN: > > So on intel plateform (the one i have is P4) I have to use amd64 images :) > Nice :) This is because AMD developed the 64 Bit extensions that Intel uses (as a licensee) as well. From a user's perspective, the naming is a bit unfortunate, but it is giving credit where credit

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-14 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Hendrik Boom wrote: I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last week, and used it to install testing. Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried using ctrl-alt- F1 to switch to a virual console, nothing happened. How do I go about getting such a console

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Sep 10 2009, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Version 3 (below) is "properly" written, in a functional style. It's much > longer, but much easier to read. The main() function is very simple, > as is each individual function. It's written in such a way that you > can add extra filters if you wan

Re: debian in 64 bit

2009-09-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Guillaume CHARDIN wrote: > 2009/9/14 Victor Padro : >> Which processor do you have? >> Xeon, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Pentium 4?? >> if so...here you can find the AMD64 iso images: >> http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/ > > So on intel plateform (the one i

Re: debian in 64 bit

2009-09-14 Thread Guillaume CHARDIN
2009/9/14 Victor Padro : > Which processor do you have? > Xeon, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Pentium 4?? > if so...here you can find the AMD64 iso images: > http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/ So on intel plateform (the one i have is P4) I have to use amd64 images :) Nice :) -- Guillaume -

Re: debian in 64 bit

2009-09-14 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Guillaume CHARDIN wrote: > Hi, > > Does someone can tell me which cd image i have to download to install > debian for 64 bit arch on intel platform. Does i have to download the > IA64 (but for me is for itanium processors only) or other? > > Thank you. > > -- > Gu

Re: debian in 64 bit

2009-09-14 Thread S Scharf
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Guillaume CHARDIN < guillaume.char...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Does someone can tell me which cd image i have to download to install > debian for 64 bit arch on intel platform. Does i have to download the > IA64 (but for me is for itanium processors only) or ot

Status of snapshot.debian.net|org ?

2009-09-14 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi! Has anyone some information on the progress of making snapshot an "official" debian service? I always found it an incredibly usefull service. The last official announcements[1] I found are pretty old. Last information was "(ETA: some months)". Obviously, Ganneff is still working on this[2],

debian in 64 bit

2009-09-14 Thread Guillaume CHARDIN
Hi, Does someone can tell me which cd image i have to download to install debian for 64 bit arch on intel platform. Does i have to download the IA64 (but for me is for itanium processors only) or other? Thank you. -- Guillaume -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Xen-users] Slow network speed with Xen 3.2-1

2009-09-14 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:19:57PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:46:53PM -0400, Brent Verner wrote: > > I had a similar problem and the solution was to disable checksum > > offloading in the domU. > > > > sh# ethtool -K eth0 tx off > > > > You can add this to your /et

Re: pxe booting problem

2009-09-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:53:31PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I tried to install debian via PXE. > following the doc, I install netboot.tar.gz which contains pxe file. > I configured the dhcpd.conf here is relevant part : > > host 00016CB3066E{ # MAC > hardware etherne

Вопрос по Книгам?

2009-09-14 Thread Ivan Ryavkin
Есть книги о Debian на разных языках у меня вопрос планируется или нет выход на руссском, а может уже есть? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: root fs incorrectly unmounted

2009-09-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-14 16:00 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2009-09-13 17:31 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >>> On a recent Sid upgrade upon booting I now get the message that the >>> root fs was incorrectly unmounted. >>> >>> How do I debug that t find out what is wrong? I see

Re: root fs incorrectly unmounted

2009-09-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-13 17:31 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: On a recent Sid upgrade upon booting I now get the message that the root fs was incorrectly unmounted. How do I debug that t find out what is wrong? I see no log messages about that anywhere, it just appears on the console.

Re: listing installation minimal packages in lenny

2009-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:16:44PM -0500, Israel Garcia wrote: > On 9/13/09, green wrote: > Hi, Green > > Do you know if debian brings some kind of groups pakages like redhat's > "yum groupinstall"? You use aptitude task list (or tasksel) > Another question, dpkg -l gives me the complete (whol

Re: eth0 and networkmanager

2009-09-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 05:35:02PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:27:26 -0700 > Arthur Barlow wrote: > > > I understand that NetworkManager was designed as a tool for the > > woeful state of wireless connections and linux, but I'm using a > > I don't think that the state of

Re: pxe booting problem

2009-09-14 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi, > I tried to install debian via PXE. > following the doc, I install netboot.tar.gz which contains pxe file. > I configured the dhcpd.conf here is relevant part : > > host 00016CB3066E{ # MAC > hardware ethernet 00:01:6C:B3:06:6E; > fixed-address172.19.6.224; > server-n

Re: Exim4 configuration file (non split) on Debian

2009-09-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Peter F Bradshaw schreef: Hi; Anybody know which configuration file Exim4 uses when it is configured for "non split" configuration on Debian? Yes, it is generated from /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template, /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros and /etc/exim4/update-exim4.con.conf. Especially the last na

pxe booting problem

2009-09-14 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I tried to install debian via PXE. following the doc, I install netboot.tar.gz which contains pxe file. I configured the dhcpd.conf here is relevant part : host 00016CB3066E{ # MAC hardware ethernet 00:01:6C:B3:06:6E; fixed-address172.19.6.224; server-namedebian225

Re: Exim4 configuration file (non split) on Debian

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Peter F Bradshaw wrote: Hi; Anybody know which configuration file Exim4 uses when it is configured for "non split" configuration on Debian? /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template Many people can get away with just tweaking the debconf settings with dpkg-reconfigure exim4 Those settings are in /

Re: Launching Evolution when AC power cable is plugged in

2009-09-14 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 23:28 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Are you using the correct keyboard model? Try > > dpkg-reconfigure console-setup That had no effect on how X saw the keyboard. When I installed Squeeze I had to add a keyboard section in xorg.conf to get a UK keyboard layout rather than

it tooks a long time to execute load an app

2009-09-14 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi everybody, I ve just install the new version of lenny (5.03), execution of any application tooks very long time, even a simple xterm. On the same machine other distro or debian 5.0 is very faster. The very strange thing is that the time and memory is low ps aux gives for gnome-terminal

Re: how to check root file system?

2009-09-14 Thread m.Pcy
Tim Tebbit wrote: > > Long Wind wrote: > > I use etch, which resides at /dev/sda4 > > how to check /dev/sda4 for errors? > > > fsck from liveCD > or > shutdown -rF which will fsck on its way back up. Or $ touch /forcefsck && reboot > > Are you experiencing errors? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: VirtualBox on Lenny 2.6.26-amd64 kernel?

2009-09-14 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I've got Lenny, and I'm trying out the precompiled 2.6.26-amd64 kernel, but not the 64bit install. VirtualBox is the only application I've found a problem with. When running the 2.6.26-686 kernel, everything runs fine. Wh

Re: obexftp

2009-09-14 Thread Avi Rozen
pch0317 wrote: > Hello > > I would like to know how to receive _all_ files from folder myfolder. > I use: "obexftp -b -c myfolder -g *", but this isn't working. You can only get a single file at a time with obexftp. You may want to use obexfs to mount the remote file system. Cheers, Avi. > > T

Re: how to check root file system?

2009-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-14 01:32, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-14 03:43 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Using a Live CD is the safest route... No need to fiddle with that, "shutdown -Fr now" should do the trick. But the boot continues. Probably just a personal foible, but I like to be able to do