Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-15 Thread Tom H
> Response after the swapon -s to the mount cmd is > /dev/md0 and a bunch of the transient fs stuff.. tmpfs, proc, etc. > No /dev/md1!  Which appears to be the same as Mitchell Laks problem. https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2009-September/msg00078.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Empty password field for libuuid & Debian-exim - Why not a security risk?

2009-10-15 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 22:55 -0400, Dr. Mark A. Friedman wrote: > Upon installation, Debian includes users libuuid and Debian-exim in > /etc/shadow with an empty password field: > Which release do you use? I checked some of my systems, those accounts are locked (shadow have an exclamation mark in

Re: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-15 Thread Tim Tebbit
Israel Garcia wrote: > Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY > commands from Debian OS? > Debian Reference Ch. 10. http://tinyurl.com/yg2qa98 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

RE: Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-15 Thread Kushal Koolwal
apt-get install testdisk and then use command: photorec Kushal Koolwal I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/ _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http:

Howto recover deleted files/folders without comercial apps?

2009-10-15 Thread Israel Garcia
Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY commands from Debian OS? -- Regards; Israel Garcia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Samba Problem

2009-10-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Jeff Grossman wrote: > I just upgraded by Testing system from Samba 3.3.4-1 to 3.4.2-1 yesterday > and now I am not able to connect my Windows Vista machine to my Debian > machine.  I have tried to Google for an answer and have not been able to > find anything.  Di

Re: How to either configure or disable dhclient?

2009-10-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > I've got an install of Debian 5 (Lenny) on which I am trying to use > dns-caching when connecting to an ISP with ppp. I can install either dnsmasq > or the dnscache-run package with no problems. As long as the first nameserver > entry i

sid gnome is now incompatible with / on lvm2 media

2009-10-15 Thread Mitchell Laks
This is just to publicize the fact that many gnome packages depend upon devicekit-disks devicekit-disks is incompatible with dmsetup and therefore lvm2. If your / is on a lvm2 group you will not be able to boot. here is a debian bug reference: http://bugs.debian.org/550434 if you have gnome

Re: Empty password field for libuuid & Debian-exim - Why not a security risk?

2009-10-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:55:37PM -0400, Dr. Mark A. Friedman wrote: > Upon installation, Debian includes users libuuid and Debian-exim in > /etc/shadow with an empty password field: > > libuuid::14292:0:9:7::: > Debian-exim::14377:0:9:7::: > > Although Debian-exim specifies /bin/false a

Re: syslog entries

2009-10-15 Thread Tom H
> I noticed this today - my syslog is filling up with repeated > calls to my internet provider...even though I am obviously connected. > Is this caused by some mis-configuration ? > > This is the sort of thing I mean: > Oct 14 19:02:21 squeeze dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 >

Re: Empty password field for libuuid & Debian-exim - Why not a security risk?

2009-10-15 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Dr. Mark A. Friedman at 2009-10-16 13:25... > Upon installation, Debian includes users libuuid and Debian-exim in > /etc/shadow with an empty password field: > > libuuid::14292:0:9:7::: > Debian-exim::14377:0:9:7::: Interesting question. Can't answer it, but will recount a similar

Empty password field for libuuid & Debian-exim - Why not a security risk?

2009-10-15 Thread Dr. Mark A. Friedman
Upon installation, Debian includes users libuuid and Debian-exim in /etc/shadow with an empty password field: libuuid::14292:0:9:7::: Debian-exim::14377:0:9:7::: Although Debian-exim specifies /bin/false as a shell in /etc/passwd to eliminate login, libuuid does not: libuuid:x:100:101::/

Re: Emails to list (with apologies)

2009-10-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,12.Oct.09, 13:33:46, Paul E Condon wrote: >> I have not reported them to anyone because I had no idea who to report >> them to, and I'm always tinkering with my set-up, so I'm never surprised >> to discover a few dozen hours after a

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I have a couple of questions for you before I delve into details of my > recommendaion. > > What kind of hi-fi are we talking about? Do you have a dedicated > listening space or is this for casual listening when doing other > things, i.e., are we talking J

Re: xsession errors

2009-10-15 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 15:44 Thu 15 Oct , Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I think I had this problem many years ago. I dont remember if it was in my old redhat days or after I moved to debian in ?2003 or so. I remember I had a 50G or 100G .xsession-errors file or something like that. The solution is simple. You must

Re: sid dist-upgrade: lvm2 conflicts with devicekit-disks so systems with / on lvm2 killed

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I recently did a sid dist-upgrade, and could no longer boot using > linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmem kernel > and had to boot off an old 2.6.26 kernel. .. > > This is a problem. > I guess the real problem is, that you should be more careful when doing dist-upg

Re: initramfs-tools does not add dm-mod.ko to initrd for kernels 2.6.30-2-686 and kernels 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:42:00 -0400 Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 15:47 Thu 15 Oct , Jack Schneider wrote: > > Hi, Mitchell > > FWIW I have exactly the same problem... Whew !!! I didn't cause > > this messI hope!!! > > > > Thanks more that you know... BTW I haven't fix mine yet... But > > g

Re: initramfs-tools does not add dm-mod.ko to initrd for kernels 2.6.30-2-686 and kernels 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem

2009-10-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> How can I work around this and what to do? My old kernel 2.6.26 works >> fine How to force initrd to load the dm-mod and other >> device-mapper kernel modules? > I have added > dm_mod > dm_log > dm_snapshot > dm_mirror > to > /etc/initramfs-tools/modules > file and then > did > dpkg-reco

Re: A bug in debian, but i don't know which package [solved]

2009-10-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091015_084022, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 22:41 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > ... I prepared a new partition and used my netinstall CD to install a > > complete Xfce system there. This is not the first time I have > > installed Debian, so everything went pretty smoothly a

sid dist-upgrade: lvm2 conflicts with devicekit-disks so systems with / on lvm2 killed

2009-10-15 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I recently did a sid dist-upgrade, and could no longer boot using linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmem kernel and had to boot off an old 2.6.26 kernel. The reason is that gnome-control-center and other gnome stuff bring in devicekit-disks and 1. lvm2 requires dmsetup 2. devicekit-disks confli

Re: initramfs-tools does not add dm-mod.ko to initrd for kernels 2.6.30-2-686 and kernels 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem

2009-10-15 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 15:47 Thu 15 Oct , Jack Schneider wrote: > Hi, Mitchell > FWIW I have exactly the same problem... Whew !!! I didn't cause this > messI hope!!! > > Thanks more that you know... BTW I haven't fix mine yet... But getting > some help. > > Jack I have identified the problem. dist-upgrad

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:17:22PM -0500, Jack Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:23:59 -0500 > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:03:26 -0500 > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:31:36 +0200 > > > Tom H wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 05:26:05PM EDT, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 04:10:35PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: > >> CJ writes: > >> > What exactly is on-topic to debian-user? > >> > >> The use of Debian. > > > > And therefore discussi

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-15 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 00:34:57 Tim Clewlow wrote: >> > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:43:21 Tim Clewlow wrote: >> >> You can rearrange the order in which things are started in your >> >> .xsession file, ie you dont have to start the window manager >> last. >> > [snip] >> >> Basically, when

How to either configure or disable dhclient?

2009-10-15 Thread Paul Zimmerman
I've got an install of Debian 5 (Lenny) on which I am trying to use dns-caching when connecting to an ISP with ppp. I can install either dnsmasq or the dnscache-run package with no problems. As long as the first nameserver entry in resolv.conf is 127.0.0.1 either one works fine. The problem is g

Re: Cannot empty trash because of permission problems

2009-10-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorenzo Beretta writes: > Merciadri Luca ha scritto: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Merciadri Luca writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> On my Debian Lenny, I am unable to empty the trash because of >>> permission problems. For ex

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:23:59 -0500 Jack Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:03:26 -0500 > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:31:36 +0200 > > Tom H wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jack Schneider > > > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:19:56 +110

Re: Printing from last page to the first

2009-10-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon writes: > On 20091012_174750, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Andrew Sackville-West writes: >> >> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:43:53PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >

Re: Printing from last page to the first

2009-10-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Johnson writes: > Merciadri Luca writes: > >> Carl Johnson writes: >> >>> Merciadri Luca writes: >>> Hello, When printing a document, it is always easier for the person who needs to reassemble the printed document if it wa

Re: Printing from last page to the first

2009-10-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To Brian Marshall: Iceweasel has a "reverse" button here too. Really strange for gedit. No matter. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Pro

Re: Printing from last page to the first

2009-10-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Johnson writes: > Merciadri Luca writes: > >> Carl Johnson writes: >> >>> Merciadri Luca writes: >>> Hello, When printing a document, it is always easier for the person who needs to reassemble the printed document if it wa

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, Tim > >> >> what is the error you are getting ? > >> >> what happens when you type mount -a or swapon -a > > >> > Error: "The superblock could not be read or does not describe a > >> > correct ext2 file system..fsck died with exit status 8 > > >> > #   mount -a  gives :  wrong fs type, bad o

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 04:10:35PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: >> CJ writes: >> > What exactly is on-topic to debian-user? >> >> The use of Debian. > > And therefore discussing _debian_ mailing-lists policy. > I'm curious . . . when you mention th

Re: initramfs-tools does not add dm-mod.ko to initrd for kernels 2.6.30-2-686 and kernels 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:56:20 -0400 Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 00:05 Thu 15 Oct , Mitchell Laks wrote: > > How can I work around this and what to do? My old kernel 2.6.26 > > works fine How to force initrd to load the dm-mod and other > > device-mapper kernel modules? > > I have added > dm

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 04:10:35PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: > CJ writes: > > What exactly is on-topic to debian-user? > > The use of Debian. And therefore discussing _debian_ mailing-lists policy. How does the choice of a CD/DVD writer program have anything to do with the distribution you are run

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-15 Thread John Hasler
CJ writes: > What exactly is on-topic to debian-user? The use of Debian. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
I have a couple of questions for you before I delve into details of my recommendaion. What kind of hi-fi are we talking about? Do you have a dedicated listening space or is this for casual listening when doing other things, i.e., are we talking JVC or Pass Labs? How important is it that the softw

Re: bittorrent thru proxy

2009-10-15 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I want to use bittorrent to download, But I am behind a proxy. Is it possible to configure bittorrent,� or I need� an� open port on proxy. thanks regards bela Maybe you can use port 80 on your torrent client like a classic http. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:06:02PM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,15.Oct.09, 17:33:03, Tim Beauregard wrote: > > I would like to propose a new list: > > > > debian-digress...@lists.debian.org > > There is an -offtopic list (check my sig), but it seems people insist on > having these discuss

Re: gnome window placement (particularly iceweasel)

2009-10-15 Thread michael
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 09:59 -0700, N B Day wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 16:41 +0100, michael wrote: > > > > > > b) if iceweasel is already running in the top-left workspace and > > > Evolution in the bottom-left, then clicking on a hyperlink in an email > > > results in the iceweasel window movi

Re: bittorrent thru proxy

2009-10-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:20:47 +0100 abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to use bittorrent to download, But I am behind a proxy. > Is it possible to configure bittorrent, or I need an open port on > proxy. Check you client's documentation. rtorrent, for example, can be configured to use

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Jack Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:31:36 +0200 > Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jack Schneider >> wrote: >> > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:19:56 +1100 >> > Alex Samad wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:16:47PM -0500, Jack Schneider w

Re: Emails to list (with apologies)

2009-10-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,12.Oct.09, 13:33:46, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have not reported them to anyone because I had no idea who to report > them to, and I'm always tinkering with my set-up, so I'm never surprised > to discover a few dozen hours after a puzzling event that it was caused > by something that I did,

Removing a linux-image.

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Crawford
Message-id: <200901141342.37110@iguanasuicide.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:42:36 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote, To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: gscanbus in Lenny > IMHO, don't use deselect.  Officially, aptitude is > preferred to both deselect and apt-get, now. Thanks

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,13.Oct.09, 15:42:01, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > > As a next step we will kindly ask an administration of the List to put > it somewhere in FAQs for newcomers. One un-official FAQ is this: http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#posting-munging Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions amon

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,15.Oct.09, 17:33:03, Tim Beauregard wrote: > I would like to propose a new list: > > debian-digress...@lists.debian.org There is an -offtopic list (check my sig), but it seems people insist on having these discussions on the "main" list... Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among D

Re: Sound card noise on Lenny amd64

2009-10-15 Thread Jose Perez
> I remember having experienced something similar quite some time ago. I think > it was related by having some mic-channel open or whatever. It looks like > something is picking up the output signal and feeds it back to an input > again. > Anyway, I think I solved it by muting that channel. Can you

Re: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user

2009-10-15 Thread AG
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, I have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new account for her and transfer existing files over (excluding the KDE conf

Lenny upgrade broke dvi on Matrox G550

2009-10-15 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
I've been using Matrox G550 for years. Now I upgraded to Lenny and DVI connection stopped working. I have also vga on my monitor, but I need it for another machine (that's a bit like kvm box without the k and m). X itself doesn't seem to know it's not working. When I command startx, everything ini

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Tim Beauregard wrote: > I would like to propose a new list: > debian-digress...@lists.debian.org :))) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-15 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to propose a new list: debian-digress...@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrXTr8ACgkQsUUdIDHrdAWD1QCgyXDjnZmyJUvpP8RDiKnjaQ73 HtcAoIJUHtJT+TjwH/upSYAtGpp1S6na =gGUO -END P

Re: Sound card noise on Lenny amd64

2009-10-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Jose Perez schreef: Hi people: I have a Debian Lenny amd64 (up to date) running on a MSI K9A2 Neo2 mainboard. I have sound working without problems when suddenly some day started to sound badly: I hear a continuous noise like a 'shhh' (sorry if it seems funny but i don't know how to expl

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-15 Thread green
Mark Grieveson wrote at 2009-10-15 09:32 -0500: > Hello. Files on my usb-key (or flash drive, or whatever the correct > terminology is for these things) are locked for editing by an unknown > user (they're read only). I'm not sure what's causing this, but it > seems to have happened after I used

Re:Raid help needed !

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:03:26 -0500 Jack Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:31:36 +0200 > Tom H wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jack Schneider > > wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:19:56 +1100 > > > Alex Samad wrote: > > >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:16:47PM -0500,

Re: syslog entries

2009-10-15 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:29:12 +0800 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >>> > >>> I noticed this today - my syslog is filling up with repeated > >>> calls to my internet provider...even though I am obviously connected. > >>> Is this caused by some mis-configuratio

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-15 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 00:34:57 Tim Clewlow wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:43:21 Tim Clewlow wrote: > >> You can rearrange the order in which things are started in your > >> .xsession file, ie you dont have to start the window manager last. > > > > [snip] > > > >> Basically, when th

Sound card noise on Lenny amd64

2009-10-15 Thread Jose Perez
Hi people: I have a Debian Lenny amd64 (up to date) running on a MSI K9A2 Neo2 mainboard. I have sound working without problems when suddenly some day started to sound badly: I hear a continuous noise like a 'shhh' (sorry if it seems funny but i don't know how to explain this). This noise

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-15 Thread Jari Fredriksson
15.10.2009 17:32, Mark Grieveson kirjoitti: Hello. Files on my usb-key (or flash drive, or whatever the correct terminology is for these things) are locked for editing by an unknown user (they're read only). I'm not sure what's causing this, but it seems to have happened after I used it to gi

usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-15 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. Files on my usb-key (or flash drive, or whatever the correct terminology is for these things) are locked for editing by an unknown user (they're read only). I'm not sure what's causing this, but it seems to have happened after I used it to give a presentation at the college I go to. I had

Re: xsession errors

2009-10-15 Thread green
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote at 2009-10-15 08:44 -0500: > On my machine the file ~/.xsession-errors grows and grows without > limits. I have to remove it regularly before it takes over my > whole disk; this has been the case for years. Last time I removed > it was September 21; now it is again already

Re: Raid help needed !

2009-10-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:31:36 +0200 Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jack Schneider > wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:19:56 +1100 > > Alex Samad wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:16:47PM -0500, Jack Schneider wrote: > >>> For over two years, I have used /md0 as / and /md1 u

xsession errors

2009-10-15 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
On my machine the file ~/.xsession-errors grows and grows without limits. I have to remove it regularly before it takes over my whole disk; this has been the case for years. Last time I removed it was September 21; now it is again already 135M in size! It grows by the minute. It is mainly full of "

login manager problem

2009-10-15 Thread Mohammed Rashad
I am using Debian Lenny 5.0 when i open login manager (GDM) select properties of root account home directory for root changes from /root to /home/root

Re: Strategic approach to recreating an existing user

2009-10-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: > Due to something that got seriously borked on my wife's Lenny system, I > have decided that the best way to tackle this is to create a new account > for her and transfer existing files over (excluding the KDE config files > which is where t

Re: How to REALLY restart networking?

2009-10-15 Thread csousa . net
On Wed, October 14, 2009 13:37, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 14. 10. 2009 13:35:50 je Γιώργος Πάλλας napisal(a): >> >> Maybe the kernel module blacks out - try to find it, unload it and >> reload it using modprobe... >> [I could also very well just talk BS!] >> >> G. >> > > Curiously enough

Re: How to REALLY restart networking?

2009-10-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 02:35:50PM +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Klistvud wrote: > >Howdie, fellow Debianites! [snip] > >How does one REALLY restart wireless in Debian without rebooting? > > > >TIA > > > > Maybe the kernel module blacks out - try to find it, unload it and > reload it using modp

Re: backupninja

2009-10-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:35:32AM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Alex Samad schreef: > > Hi > > > > I was wondering how many people where using this and how they found it. > I'm using it and it works quite okay. I'm using it for backing up system > data, mysql-db's and in the end backing up ever

Happy Diwali To all the freedom fighters

2009-10-15 Thread surreal
Its diwali time back here in India Diwali is the festival where the darkness is overcome by the power of light. May this diwali usher in new power to bring in new Open Source technologies that will rapidly change the IT/Computer field Let the best Open Source Software win. Once again - Happy D

Re: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-xen-686: No such file or directory

2009-10-15 Thread vitaminx
Hi, could you please give the output of these commands: ls -l /lib/modules ls -l /boot thanks, vitaminx On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:20:20 +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following installed for working with xen > > debian-xen:~# dpkg -l |grep xen > ii libc6-xen

Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-xen-686: No such file or directory

2009-10-15 Thread Siju George
Hi, I have the following installed for working with xen debian-xen:~# dpkg -l |grep xen ii libc6-xen 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [Xen version ii libxenstore3.03.2.1-2 Xenstore communications library for Xen ii linux-headers-2.6.26-

A spectacular gift for a special Diwali

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Re: Firefox and sqlite mismatched.

2009-10-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2009/10/14 Sven Joachim : > If nothing depends on xulrunner-1.9 anymore, it can be safely removed. > I have already done so myself. Done, no problems. >>> Maybe you have an older version of sqlite somewhere, e.g. under >>> /usr/local/lib? >> >> # ls -l /usr/local/lib/ |grep sqlite >> -rw-r--r-- 1

bittorrent thru proxy

2009-10-15 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to use bittorrent to download, But I am behind a proxy. Is it possible to configure bittorrent, or I need an open port on proxy. thanks regards bela