Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > [12405.685764] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on > [12405.685764] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 80 00 This is the issue, and it seems you have a write protection enabled on the stick. read the documentation about this model (or tell us what model it is) check

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > It is /dev/sdb1. I could not find any write protection button on this > usb flashdrive. How can I make this one writeable again? > If it's NTFS use fuse.ntfs to mount. fstab entry example: /dev/hda1 /mnt/c fuse.ntfs locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 IF the above is not the c

Re: Right-Alt not working? A possible fix

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello: > > After a recent testing upgrade (I do it daily, but this happened two > days ago), my right-Alt key was not working properly. Eg, in > Iceweasel, Alt-left should go to the previous page. With the right > Alt key, nothing happened; with the left Alt key, it beh

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 13 September 2009 18:58:17 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> ok, so let's move beyond anecdotes and get into conjecture -- does >> anyone know the debian installer well enough to know *what* >> circumstances will cause said installer to refuse to offer grub as a >> boo

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-16 05:24 +0200, Charles wrote: > Several times lately I have come back to my computer to find it locked up so > tight I have has to do the alt-sysreq thing. > > One one or two occasions Firefox (3.5.3) was left running...other times > nothing > was running. > > I run Fluxbox on a dual

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-15 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Charles wrote: > Several times lately I have come back to my computer to find it locked up so > tight I have has to do the alt-sysreq thing. > > One one or two occasions Firefox (3.5.3) was left running...other times > nothing > was running. > > I run Fluxbox on a dual core Pentium with a gig of m

Re: checking for multicast traffic

2009-09-15 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Mag Gam wrote: > How can I check if my adapter is sending and receiving multicast traffic? > > > I'd say install wireshark, capture the traffic and examine it... smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Squeeze lockups

2009-09-15 Thread Charles
Several times lately I have come back to my computer to find it locked up so tight I have has to do the alt-sysreq thing. One one or two occasions Firefox (3.5.3) was left running...other times nothing was running. I run Fluxbox on a dual core Pentium with a gig of memory. This is part of syslog

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/9/16 Till Wimmer : > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> >> umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ >> mount: block device /dev/sdb1 is write-protected, mounting read-only >> umarz...@ctrl:~$ df -h >> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda1              11G  7.7G  2.2G  

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Till Wimmer
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ mount: block device /dev/sdb1 is write-protected, mounting read-only umarz...@ctrl:~$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 11G 7.7G 2.2G 78% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.

Right-Alt not working? A possible fix

2009-09-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: After a recent testing upgrade (I do it daily, but this happened two days ago), my right-Alt key was not working properly. Eg, in Iceweasel, Alt-left should go to the previous page. With the right Alt key, nothing happened; with the left Alt key, it behaved as expected. Googling revealed

OpenArena incredibly slow after apt-get dist-upgrade

2009-09-15 Thread david . bandel
Folks, Not sure if this is an openarena issue or an xorg issue as both were upgraded during a squeeze dist-upgrade. Openarena is now unplayable slow on a 2.83GHz core2quad system with 8Gb RAM. Two days ago (before the upgrade) it ran like a scalded cat. Anyone else see this? Both my system

cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ mount: block device /dev/sdb1 is write-protected, mounting read-only umarz...@ctrl:~$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 11G 7.7G 2.2G 78% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /lib/init/rw udev

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 13 September 2009 18:58:17 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ok, so let's move beyond anecdotes and get into conjecture -- does > anyone know the debian installer well enough to know *what* > circumstances will cause said installer to refuse to offer grub as a > bootloader, and only present li

Re: [ANN] New mailing list for offtopic stuff

2009-09-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 00:19 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> The new list is d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org[1]. At the >> moment it is open for posting by anyone[2] and you are welcome to move >> any discussions to that list whi

Re: No Input for Audacity

2009-09-15 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 07:18:27PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:54:47 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > 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 Au

clocksoure tsc and set_rtc_mmss issues

2009-09-15 Thread Clarence W. Robison
Help, Since updating my LENNY machine to Linux image 2.26.6-17lenny2, I have been experiencing random "clocksource tsc becoming unstable" followed by the kernel emitting errors that "set_rtc_mmss" can't update from # to #. This usually results in system time slowing. The hwclock shows the appro

Re: [ANN] New mailing list for offtopic stuff

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 00:19 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > The new list is d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org[1]. At the > moment it is open for posting by anyone[2] and you are welcome to move > any discussions to that list which are OT on debian-user or other Debian > lists (remembe

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:22:34PM EDT, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:04:29 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:07:04PM EDT, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last > >> week, and used it to install testing

Re: how to remove a module from initramfs

2009-09-15 Thread Till Wimmer
Long Wind wrote: I use etch during etch installation, a bttv module is included in initramfs with wrong options Is it possilbe to remove it? Thanks! On Lenny the module list in initrd is managed by /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf: MODULES=most You can replace "most" with "list", but th

checking for multicast traffic

2009-09-15 Thread Mag Gam
How can I check if my adapter is sending and receiving multicast traffic? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:27:24 -0400, Paul Gallaway wrote: >> I find myself wondering if there's some setting (about the availability >> of ctrl-alt-F1) that has a different default value, and I have to find >> it and change it. > You didn't say but did you try another TTY? ctrl+alt+F2 through F4 >

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:04:29 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:07:04PM EDT, 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 us

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Jon read the hole thread please, he is saying only the installer does not offers grub if ext3 formated. I should admit that I haven't use the cd installer since I have a bootable usb stick, or live cd #> debootstrap and smile I was thinking it could be the size but i

Re: how to remove a module from initramfs

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Long Wind wrote: > I use etch > during etch installation, a bttv module is included in initramfs with > wrong options > Is it possilbe to remove it? > Thanks! 1 option is to read man mkinitramfs configure and rebuild initram 2 option is to edit by hand 3 option (not sure if it works for bttv) to

Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?

2009-09-15 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:09:21 -0700 Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:25:49PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci > was heard to say: > > Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and > > links to the true article, and so other popular readers. AFAIK > > Straw was the only

Re: [ANN] New mailing list for offtopic stuff

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:41:47PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:51:08 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > [...] > > >> Debian lists (remember the "Sponge Bob" and "growing broccoli" > > >> threads?). > > >> > > > > [...] > > > > Ah yes

Re: [ANN] New mailing list for offtopic stuff

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Allums
Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] Debian lists (remember the "Sponge Bob" and "growing broccoli" threads?). That's "Spongebob", not "Sponge Bob". Oh, sorry. Wrong list Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: [ANN] New mailing list for offtopic stuff

2009-09-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:51:08 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > [...] > >> Debian lists (remember the "Sponge Bob" and "growing broccoli" > >> threads?). > >> > > [...] > > Ah yes... good times indeed! Yup, things have been pretty boring here lately. Are we allo

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2009 #1546

2009-09-15 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 September 2009, Rob Owens was heard to say: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 05:51:13PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > > 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

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:07:04PM EDT, 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 hap

Re: [ANN] New mailing list for offtopic stuff

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:08:54PM +0200, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] >> Debian lists (remember the "Sponge Bob" and "growing broccoli" >> threads?). >> [...] Ah yes... good times indeed! oh wait, wrong list ;-P A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2009-09-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,15.Sep.09, 08:46:17, Javier Barroso wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Memnon Anon > >> > With the whole 'Debian Money' Thread on Project, >> > I hope this will change ;). >> > Nobody mentioned snapshot explicitely, yet, if I

Re: No Input for Audacity

2009-09-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:54:47 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > 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 in

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Justin wrote: Is X running on tty1 now? That's where in runs in Fedora, for example. That would make ctrl + alt +F1 appear to do nothing... At me runs on tty7. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: No Input for Audacity

2009-09-15 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:15:15PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > 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 sele

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Justin
Is X running on tty1 now? That's where in runs in Fedora, for example. That would make ctrl + alt +F1 appear to do nothing...

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:02:00 +0200, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > > >> 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

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

2009-09-15 Thread Memnon Anon
Andrei Popescu writes: >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Memnon Anon >> > With the whole 'Debian Money' Thread on Project, >> > I hope this will change ;). [...] > Memnon probably meant > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/09/msg00038.html > and the following thread. Right: ,---[ -htt

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,14.Sep.09, 03:07:04, 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. > >

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Gallaway
> I find myself wondering if there's some setting (about the availability > of ctrl-alt-F1) that has a different default value, and I have to find it > and change it. You didn't say but did you try another TTY? ctrl+alt+F2 through F4 (maybe up to F6?). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:02:00 +0200, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > 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

Re: update manager

2009-09-15 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:18:47 +0200 claudio wrote: > update manager > > E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with > MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages, > E:La lista dei pacchetti o il file di status non possono es

Re: [ANN] New mailing list for offtopic stuff

2009-09-15 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,15.Sep.09, 12:08:54, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: Hi I subscribe yesterday but don't get any mail. Does list work? Yes, it does work, just no traffic ;) Regards, Andrei Ok, I will make some :-) -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobo

Re: [ANN] New mailing list for offtopic stuff

2009-09-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,15.Sep.09, 12:08:54, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > Hi > I subscribe yesterday but don't get any mail. Does list work? Yes, it does work, just no traffic ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description:

Re: listing installation minimal packages in lenny

2009-09-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Israel Garcia schreef: Another question, dpkg -l gives me the complete (whole) list of pkages installed on my server. I mean main packages and dependencies. How can I list only the main installed packages (without dependencies) in debian? You mean the list op packages you need to feed to aptitude

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 06:58:17PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day > wrote: > > does anyone know the debian installer well enough to know *what* > > circumstances will cause said installer to refuse to offer grub as > > a bootloader, and only present lilo? > > If

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 06:58:17PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > does anyone know the debian installer well enough to know > *what* circumstances will cause said installer to refuse > to offer grub as a bootloader, and only present lilo? If the /boot partition is underneath LVM is one. Is your

update manager

2009-09-15 Thread claudio
update manager E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:La lista dei pacchetti o il file di status non possono essere letti o aperti.' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: [ANN] New mailing list for offtopic stuff

2009-09-15 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Andrei Popescu wrote: Hello, As some of you might recall I have been pushing for quite some time for a debian-offtopic list (#425439, #427218). It seems I have managed to convince Holger Levsen, responsible for the www.debian-community.org project, that such a list would be beneficial for t

how to remove a module from initramfs

2009-09-15 Thread Long Wind
I use etch during etch installation, a bttv module is included in initramfs with wrong options Is it possilbe to remove it? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"

2009-09-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:49:37 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > FYI: > > After updating today testing, I could not reboot with the message: > > cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" > > The problem is that somehow the link to /bin/sh is missing. > Remounting / read-write and linking /bin/bash to /bin/

create a gpg signature for Release

2009-09-15 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to to use network install but from my own repository, I used businesscard. in my repository I just want to put official CD1. The problem is that CD1 contains Release but not Release.gpg, I 've read somewhere, I don't remember that Telease.gpg is require for net install. Any way I chec

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

2009-09-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,15.Sep.09, 08:46:17, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Memnon Anon > > 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 for DSA is on the li

Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"

2009-09-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > FYI: > After updating today testing, I could not reboot with the message: > cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" > The problem is that somehow the link to /bin/sh is missing. Remounting / > read-write and linking /bin/bash to /bin/sh does the job

Re: Inquiry:Where to find Debian GNU/Linux kernel 2.6.8-4-686 iso image ?

2009-09-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:47 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Thank you so much for your reply . I downloaded & installed the 3.1r1 , but > it is Debian kernel 2.4.7 . Can you please do me favor and let me know the > exact one that I need to download and install (I mean 2.6.8) ? You have to boot with li

Re: Inquiry:Where to find Debian GNU/Linux kernel 2.6.8-4-686 iso image ?

2009-09-15 Thread hadi motamedi
Thank you so much for your reply . I downloaded & installed the 3.1r1 , but it is Debian kernel 2.4.7 . Can you please do me favor and let me know the exact one that I need to download and install (I mean 2.6.8) ? Thank you in advance On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat

cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS"

2009-09-15 Thread Ivan Glushkov
FYI: After updating today testing, I could not reboot with the message: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" The problem is that somehow the link to /bin/sh is missing. Remounting / read-write and linking /bin/bash to /bin/sh does the job. Cheers, Ivan __