Full-upgrade (apt vs cupt)

2009-09-22 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi list, I wanted to test cupt [1], and then I tried a full-upgrade. aptitude is not capable to resolve dependencies, but cupt yes. Like cupt is very new, I would like to ask about why do you think this diff is here: # LANG=C aptitude full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependenc

Re: Where to store servers data info?

2009-09-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,22.Sep.09, 19:06:54, Israel Garcia wrote: > Don't know if it's off-topic, but I want to ask the list if Debian > brings with some APP or something that help me to store information of > servers. I'm, not specifically looking for a hardware or software > inventory, I just want to keep my ser

Re: Mini 10v

2009-09-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > So now compare the overhead of those applets (CPU, memory, anything > else?) to the applets you have running. This is a flawed analogy. Each one of those applets are ones that serve some purpose to me at the moment. I use the menu dozens of times a night, the workspace

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 22 2009, sobtwmxt wrote: > Manoj Srivastava ieee.org> writes: > >> >> As mentioned in another post in this thread, the installed >> modules are stripped of debugging information. make-kpkg can now >> create a linux-debug-** package that has detached debug information, to >

how to i build a .deb fro .tar.gz

2009-09-22 Thread shampavman
Hi all, I want to cross port a pkg build for solaris which is in a .tar.gz format.. That pkg is also available to be installed on linux machine... I have little idea on it .. could anyone help me on this? -- Regards, Shampavman c.g http://shampavman.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread sobtwmxt
Manoj Srivastava ieee.org> writes: > > As mentioned in another post in this thread, the installed > modules are stripped of debugging information. make-kpkg can now > create a linux-debug-** package that has detached debug information, to > be used for debugging, as needed. > >

Where to store servers data info?

2009-09-22 Thread Israel Garcia
Don't know if it's off-topic, but I want to ask the list if Debian brings with some APP or something that help me to store information of servers. I'm, not specifically looking for a hardware or software inventory, I just want to keep my server's info somewhere like Ips, firewall stuf (open ports

Re: dev/null only root access - why?

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2009-09-22 21:23 +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> >>> Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? >>> >>> ls -al /dev/null >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null >> >> This can happen if some program, e.g. an early init scr

Re: how to migrate smb accounts to new lenny system?

2009-09-22 Thread Tom H
wrote: > >  having finally made the switch from an old server running lenny to a > new one (running at the same IP address), most functions seem to be > working, but samba shares are failing -- people who used to be able to > access shares from their windows systems now can't, and the log file > r

Re: only one workspace when using compiz

2009-09-22 Thread JoeHill
Leonardo Canducci wrote: > When I turn on compiz I only have one virtual desktop. Desktop > switcher shows two available desktops but I can't change to the second > clicking on it. > I've tried to change "number of desktops" option in > compiz-config-settings-manager (ccsm) but this particular op

Re: gpm buffer: CLI vs. X

2009-09-22 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:17:40AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > One other way would be to use screen with -x Thanks Andre, I've used openvt since my first introduction to Linux which was DosLinux on a 386 and never saw a reason to try screen 'til now. I'll look into it. Mike -- Satisfied use

Re: dev/null only root access - why?

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-22 21:23 +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? >> >> ls -al /dev/null >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null > > This can happen if some program, e.g. an early init script, writes to > /dev/null before t

only one workspace when using compiz

2009-09-22 Thread Leonardo Canducci
When I turn on compiz I only have one virtual desktop. Desktop switcher shows two available desktops but I can't change to the second clicking on it. I've tried to change "number of desktops" option in compiz-config-settings-manager (ccsm) but this particular option is grayed out. Am I missing some

3d hardware acceleration no longer works after upgrade to squeeze.

2009-09-22 Thread Chris Dams
Dear all, After I upgraded from lenny to squeeze this week, it seems that 3d hardware acceleration no longer works for me. This is because games like tuxracer and armagetronad no longer work properly. They are very slow and bitmaps are missing when running armagetronad. The program glxinfo reports

Re: EIP: [] do_exit+0x40c/

2009-09-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue September 22 2009, Florian Kriener wrote: > By doing that you can find out if it is a kernel bug or a bug in the > nvidia driver and if it is a kernel bug you can report it to the lkml. > If not you can report it to nvidia. well, I changed the driver to nv, rebooted and... lost my internet.

Re: netstat output

2009-09-22 Thread Tom H
Israel Garcia > wrote: >> server:~# netstat -tulp >> Active Internet connections (only servers) >> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State >> PID/Program name >> tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN >> 14399/mysqld >> tcp 0 0 s

Re: dev/null only root access - why?

2009-09-22 Thread Chris Jackson
Chris Jackson wrote: Or udev isn't running for some reason. I correct myself, /dev/null exists, at least on my system (lenny), on the "underlying" /dev with the minimal set of devices on there. So it should never not exist as far as I can see. Did you do anything that might have dele

Re: Tools for users to easily switch between several defined network configs.

2009-09-22 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Ryan Braun [090922 16:50 +] > Hey guys, I'm looking for a tool that could easily allow users to switch > between several static network configs and even a ppp connection. Basically > a laptop travelling to several different sites that we don't want to setup > with dhcp. I would rather have

Re: dev/null only root access - why?

2009-09-22 Thread Chris Jackson
Nelson Castillo wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? ls -al /dev/null -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null Mmm. Weird major and minor numbers. It doesn't look like a char device. It's a regular file o

Re: dev/null only root access - why?

2009-09-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-22 21:23 +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? > > ls -al /dev/null > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null This can happen if some program, e.g. an early init script, writes to /dev/null before the device node for it is created.

Re: dev/null only root access - why?

2009-09-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? > > ls -al /dev/null > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null Mmm. Weird major and minor numbers. It doesn't look like a char device. crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2009-09-21 14:24

dev/null only root access - why?

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? ls -al /dev/null -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null Where do you fix this? regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Tools for users to easily switch between several defined network configs.

2009-09-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:50:58 + Ryan Braun wrote: > Hey guys, I'm looking for a tool that could easily allow users to > switch between several static network configs and even a ppp > connection. Basically a laptop travelling to several different sites > that we don't want to setup with dhcp.

Re: Mini 10v (was: Lightweight alternative MTA?)

2009-09-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:32:05PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> What desktop are you running there? > > I bounce between Dell's 8.04 GNome and UNR 9.04 GNome. I'm not too > keen on GNome but haven't had the bug to move to XFCE or KDE. I many > bounce between the two be

Re: Tools for users to easily switch between several defined network configs.

2009-09-22 Thread Noah Dain
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Noah Dain wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Ryan Braun wrote: > > [...] > >> There is wicd.  It can do what you want, except for the dialup support >> (not implemented yet, but keep reading)

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-09-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
> first, otherwise you may have todo: > #m-a -t clean,a-i nvidia-kernel-source > again! ;) I don't know about now but recently if you didn't do apt-get update and dist-upgrade after the compile you wouldn't get the glx updated drivers, maybe that step has been eliminated. Debian uncertain, my fa

Re: Tools for users to easily switch between several defined network configs.

2009-09-22 Thread Noah Dain
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Ryan Braun wrote: > Hey guys,  I'm looking for a tool that could easily allow users to switch > between several static network configs and even a ppp connection.  Basically > a laptop travelling to several different sites that we don't want to setup > with dhcp. 

test

2009-09-22 Thread giglio robbo' d'acciaio
test -- Daniele Giglio Dona i tuoi cicli di clock alla ricerca! http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Tools for users to easily switch between several defined network configs.

2009-09-22 Thread Michael Wagner
* Ryan Braun 22.09.2009 >Hey guys,� I'm looking for a tool that could easily allow users to switch >between several static network configs and even a ppp connection.� >Basically a laptop travelling to several different sites that we don't >want to setup with dhcp.� I would rather h

Re: Gmail again

2009-09-22 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 22 Set 2009, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: As far as my initial email being sent three times in a row. I do apologise for the incident. I didn't do it on purpose though. I was under the impression that I would receive a copy of that email straight after sending it

Re: what software would have been looking after a maxtor one-touch?

2009-09-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:47:06PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > never mind, my mistake, the old backups were done via cron, not by > actual button pushing, although i can see that the kernel these days > does in fact contain support for the 1-touch maxtors. Interesting. I guess it works lik

Re: what software would have been looking after a maxtor one-touch?

2009-09-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:22:16PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > tidying up some issues from my upgrade/migration, and there was a > 1-touch maxtor external HD on the old (sarge) system that, apparently, > did a backup when you did that one-touch thing. the question is: > what softwar

Re: Gmail again (was: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 while getting IP address for eth0 interface using DHCP])

2009-09-22 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 22 Set 2009, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: As far as my initial email being sent three times in a row. I do apologise for the incident. I didn't do it on purpose though. I was under the impression that I would receive a copy of that email straight after sending it off. I thought that's wha

Tools for users to easily switch between several defined network configs.

2009-09-22 Thread Ryan Braun
Hey guys, I'm looking for a tool that could easily allow users to switch between several static network configs and even a ppp connection. Basically a laptop travelling to several different sites that we don't want to setup with dhcp. I would rather have the user select the site specifically. W

Re: what software would have been looking after a maxtor one-touch?

2009-09-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > tidying up some issues from my upgrade/migration, and there was a > 1-touch maxtor external HD on the old (sarge) system that, > apparently, did a backup when you did that one-touch thing. the > question is: what software would have been sitting th

what software would have been looking after a maxtor one-touch?

2009-09-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
tidying up some issues from my upgrade/migration, and there was a 1-touch maxtor external HD on the old (sarge) system that, apparently, did a backup when you did that one-touch thing. the question is: what software would have been sitting there in the background, handling that? i see no off

Re: No low-disk-space notification in Gnome?

2009-09-22 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 09. 2009 15:36:03 je Liviu Andronic napisal(a): > On 9/21/09, Klistvud wrote: > > I'm running dangerously low on disk space in my /home partition, > but > > Gnome has not once alerted me disk space was low. Is this a known > Gnome > > > I don't know about Gnome, but Xfce has a xfce4-fsg

Re: Gnome-volume-manager not automounting fixed partitions?

2009-09-22 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 09. 2009 13:20:43 je Klistvud napisal(a): > Howdy, fellow debianites! > > On my system (Lenny), gnome-volume-manager won't mount additional > partitions > that are present on my disk. I'm talking about clicking on the drive > icons in Nautilus: gnome-volume-manager obviously detects th

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Sep 21 2009, sobtwmxt wrote: > I have built a custom kernel, using make-kpgk, from debian source. > Using ls -l, there is difference in the size of kernel modules, .ko > files, at build place and after installation of the package. I > only looked at 2 unrelated modules, but I think th

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hi, Does the install software strip extra symbols from the driver? $ ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.2M 2009-09-13 03:59 /lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko $ strip nvidia.ko $ ls -l nvidia.ko -rw-r--r-- 1 war users 7.9M 2009-0

Re: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 while getting IP address for eth0 interface using DHCP]

2009-09-22 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Sorry I took a while to reply to all those who had got back to me about my query. My network is up and running now. As it turned out, it was a simple matter of getting my laptop ping the DSL modem before trying to connect to the outside world. No manual configuration was required. I am fairly

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
sobtwmxt wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev yahoo.com> writes: > >> >> are you using the same filesystem on both (i.e. ext3)? >> > > > It is ext3 on both. then may be the disks are different type? do on both machines as root fdisk -l /dev/ i.e. fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 8002636185

Re: Virtual Memory and long use

2009-09-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:28:47 -0300 Ivan Marin wrote: ... > was not in the swap or is closed and opened again. I think that maybe > this is related to the "swapiness" of the system, but also don't know > how to configure that, and disabling the swap doesn't seems a very https://help.ubuntu.com/c

Re: Virtual Memory and long use

2009-09-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
Ivan Marin wrote: Hello all, I'm running Sid (kernel 2.6.30) on a Core i7 with 4G of memory. Everything runs smoothly until some programs hit the VM (like using eclipse, amarok, iceweasel and azureus at the same time). Even if one of the memory hoggers is killed, or all of them, if the VM was

Virtual Memory and long use

2009-09-22 Thread Ivan Marin
Hello all, I'm running Sid (kernel 2.6.30) on a Core i7 with 4G of memory. Everything runs smoothly until some programs hit the VM (like using eclipse, amarok, iceweasel and azureus at the same time). Even if one of the memory hoggers is killed, or all of them, if the VM was hit and some swap was

Re: Can't compile 2.4.18 at Debian Lenny amd64

2009-09-22 Thread Frank Bonnet
Sorry for the noise ... Everything goes well after installing the libssl-dev package ... Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm in trouble compiling 2.4.18 version on a Debian lenny 64 bits after running configure and make depend I get the following error I had no problem to compile 2.3.43 on the s

Re: tail broken (?!) and devices not activating

2009-09-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:22:29 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: ... > $ ls -l ~/bin/less > lrwxrwxrwx 1 amp amp 40 2009-03-13 08:58 /home/amp/bin/less > -> /usr/share/vim/vimcurrent/macros/less.sh > > then 'less /var/log/messages' and press F. Enjoy the pretty colors ;) Thanks for the tip - that defi

Re: tail broken (?!) and devices not activating

2009-09-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:59:46 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-22 04:17 +0200, Celejar wrote: > > > I'm seeing some really weird problems on my system. I don't know if > > they're at all related, but I'll report them both in the same > > email, in case they are. > > > > 1) tail -f stops wo

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread sobtwmxt
Emanoil Kotsev yahoo.com> writes: > > are you using the same filesystem on both (i.e. ext3)? > It is ext3 on both. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sharing ppp connection with wlan interface

2009-09-22 Thread Celejar
[back on list] On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:38:06 -0300 Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Celejar wrote: ... > > This page claims that iwlwifi (iwl3945) can't do AP: > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers > > How pity. > Is that a driver or a hardware limitatio

Re: Sharing ppp connection with wlan interface

2009-09-22 Thread Vinicius Massuchetto
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Celejar wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:18:50 -0300 >> Vinícius Massuchetto wrote: >>> Celejar escreveu: [...] >> $ lspci | grep Wireless >> 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation >> PRO/Wi

Re: help in resolving error,building a .deb pkg ;newbie!!

2009-09-22 Thread shampavman
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:15:07PM +0530, shampavman wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: also all the manaual pages of devscripts such as dch etc. Did you read all so quickly? Not so quickly :-) I have been googling for this from 3-4 days and have read it ever since.

Can't compile 2.4.18 at Debian Lenny amd64

2009-09-22 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm in trouble compiling 2.4.18 version on a Debian lenny 64 bits after running configure and make depend I get the following error I had no problem to compile 2.3.43 on the same machine. Thanks for any help make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/openldap-2.4.18/libraries/liblutil' rm

Re: EIP: [] do_exit+0x40c/

2009-09-22 Thread Florian Kriener
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 10:57:50 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue September 22 2009, Florian Kriener wrote: > > That's a kernel bug and it is already reported in the debian bts as > > bug #542115 [1]. Can you reproduce it without the nvidia driver > > loaded? > > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/

Re: Packaging gcc

2009-09-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:47:28PM +0530, shampavman wrote: > Hi, > > So Im done with my test package and want to change a few things in gcc.. > But I have a slight problem .. playing with gcc is not some novice thing I can answer. > dpkg -l |grep gcc > r...@wrapster:~/packaging/gcc/gcc-defa

Re: help in resolving error,building a .deb pkg ;newbie!!

2009-09-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:15:07PM +0530, shampavman wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: >> also all the manaual pages of devscripts such as dch etc. Did you read all so quickly? > Guys, > Eventhough I've changed the names to my name and my id in the changelog > and the control files.. I still get the e

Re: EIP: [] do_exit+0x40c/

2009-09-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue September 22 2009, Florian Kriener wrote: > That's a kernel bug and it is already reported in the debian bts as bug > #542115 [1]. Can you reproduce it without the nvidia driver loaded? > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542115 I never boot without nvidia driver.. you

Re: Packaging gcc

2009-09-22 Thread shampavman
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: 09/22/2009 10:17 AM, shampavman: So i cannot remove it nor can i install the new ones.. How do i go about making my changes now? - get the source package - make your modifications - rebuild it, incrementing the build number - upgrade by just installing with "dpkg

Re: EIP: [] do_exit+0x40c/

2009-09-22 Thread Florian Kriener
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 01:34:27 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon September 21 2009, Florian Kriener wrote: > > Sounds like a kernel bug. Can you reproduce the bug? Please send > > the output of dmesg. > [165347.859562] [ cut here ] > [165347.859562] kernel BUG at kerne

Re: Size of a kernel module is different at build place and after installation

2009-09-22 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
sobtwmxt wrote: > I have built a custom kernel, using make-kpgk, from debian source. > Using ls -l, there is difference in the size of kernel modules, .ko > files, at build place and after installation of the package. I > only looked at 2 unrelated modules, but I think there will be a > differe

Re: Packaging gcc

2009-09-22 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/22/2009 10:17 AM, shampavman: So i cannot remove it nor can i install the new ones.. How do i go about making my changes now? - get the source package - make your modifications - rebuild it, incrementing the build number - upgrade by just installing with "dpkg -i package_name.deb" --

Packaging gcc

2009-09-22 Thread shampavman
Hi, So Im done with my test package and want to change a few things in gcc.. But I have a slight problem .. dpkg -l |grep gcc r...@wrapster:~/packaging/gcc/gcc-defaults-1.78ubuntu1/debian# dpkg -l |grep gcc ri gcc 4:4.3.3-1ubuntu1