[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.6 released

2009-12-21 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello World, I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.6. Release Highlights * Major bug fixes Please see the git log for full details. . apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager for APT based systems, i.e. mostly Debian and Debian derived distributions. apt-offline can fully upd

Does your business, product or service need graphic and website design solutions?

2009-12-21 Thread rob attfield
To whom it may concern, I am a Dunedin (New Zealand) based web and graphic designer and I am looking for potential clients to work with. I am able to boost your businesses presence by creating a website that will increase your businesses exposure, and eye catching graphics. I provide these,

Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-21 Thread sathya sai
Hi All, This is Sathya, a debian etch user who uses dhclient package to configure the IP address. Firstly, I would like to give my heartily thanks to you all for your great dedicated contribution towards this package. As I am newbie to this mailing list, I am not aware on where to post this quer

Urgent: Query on dhclient in handling IP conflict

2009-12-21 Thread sathya sai
Hi All, This is Sathya, a debian etch user who uses dhclient package to configure the IP address. Firstly, I would like to give my heartily thanks to you all for your great dedicated contribution towards this package. As I am newbie to this mailing list, I am not aware on where to post this query

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Celejar put forth on 12/21/2009 9:13 PM: > I run desktops / laptops, and I always build netfilter - I run > shorewall on all my boxes. For me, the firewall is always going to be upstream of desktops in a properly configured infrastructure. WRT laptops, I guess it couldn't hurt to run a local pac

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:50:15 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Celejar put forth on 12/21/2009 8:22 PM: > > > 1) Faster booting, since irrelevant drivers aren't loaded and won't > > spend time probing. > > Correct. And not just drivers. Prebuilt kernels usually include netfilter > support (for ip

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Celejar put forth on 12/21/2009 8:22 PM: > 1) Faster booting, since irrelevant drivers aren't loaded and won't > spend time probing. Correct. And not just drivers. Prebuilt kernels usually include netfilter support (for iptables), which increases the size of the kernel substantially, along wit

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:07:08 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon December 21 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > I do:  stick with your homegrown kernel. > > > > (From the guy who only uses custom kernels) > > what would I gain from using a custom kernel, what would it take to > make/install one,

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:07:08 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon December 21 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > I do:  stick with your homegrown kernel. > > > > (From the guy who only uses custom kernels) > > what would I gain from using a custom kernel, what would it take to > make/install one,

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon December 21 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I do:  stick with your homegrown kernel. > > (From the guy who only uses custom kernels) what would I gain from using a custom kernel, what would it take to make/install one, ( a how-to?). for a "regular" desktop user, web, email... what advantage i

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 21 December 2009 15:52:29 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 internal ATA HDD's and 2 disks in external USB enclosures. > > When you boot (this is Sid) the 2 USB disks report their presence > between the messages: > > 'Loading, please wait...' > and > 'Init 2.86 booting' > in the v

torrents for testing

2009-12-21 Thread M. Milanuk
Hello, I'm curious... are there any torrents out there for testing/squeeze? For whatever reason the d/l link for even the netinst.iso image is fairly slow (thank goodness its only a net install image!) I realize its a bit of a moving target, but maybe a weekly update or something? TIA, Mon

Re (2): xorg.conf for vesa

2009-12-21 Thread peasthope
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:50:09 + (UTC), Camaleon wrote, > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > Driver "vesa" > EndSection > > And restart X. Yields a black screen. > Review the xorg log to reassure vesa driver is the one being loaded. Xorg.0

Re: USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 12/21/2009 2:52 PM: > This isn't the first time I've asked this, but nobody seems to have an > answer. I do: stick with your homegrown kernel. (From the guy who only uses custom kernels) -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Kevin Ross put forth on 12/21/2009 2:13 PM: > Many systems don't have wired Ethernet, but may have wireless. Most systems have wired ethernet. Few have _only_ wireless. Most laptops have both. I'd venture to guess that the few that only have wireless are the tiny netbooks. Actually, just chec

Re: xorg.conf for vesa

2009-12-21 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:45:51 -0800, peasthope wrote: > The problem with X and the Intel 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller is > expanding. A mouse pointer is no longer visible. > > Can anyone offer an xorg.conf which will ensure that the vesa driver is > used rather than the current default drive

xorg.conf for vesa

2009-12-21 Thread peasthope
Folk, The problem with X and the Intel 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller is expanding. A mouse pointer is no longer visible. Can anyone offer an xorg.conf which will ensure that the vesa driver is used rather than the current default driver. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Google "pathol

Windows 7 for U!

2009-12-21 Thread Susan
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Re: can't install laser driver supplied as rpm

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:31:20 -0500, I wrote: > However, when I try to install this > apt-get -V install xerox-phaser-6280_1.0-2_all.deb > it fails as follows On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:35:16 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI replied: > To install .debs you use dpkg -i .deb, not apt-get. Thank you, that

USB disk shows up late at boot

2009-12-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have 2 internal ATA HDD's and 2 disks in external USB enclosures. When you boot (this is Sid) the 2 USB disks report their presence between the messages: 'Loading, please wait...' and 'Init 2.86 booting' in the very beginning of the boot process. Now the funny part: in my homegrown ker

RE: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Stan Hoeppner [mailto:s...@hardwarefreak.com] > Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 4:38 AM > > Your scenario is bogus, because all semi-modern PCs have wired ethernet. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?! Well, my laptop has a broken Ethernet port. I could go and spend money on a USB Ethernet device, b

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Stan Hoeppner on 2009-12-20 15:35:26: > Local media installs are for pussies, or masochists. ;) Or those lacking a decent network connection from where the machine will primarily be used. :) Blessed Solstice. -- _ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against ( )

RE: VDPAU? Sound when watching DVB-S2?

2009-12-21 Thread Kevin Ross
-Original Message- > From: lee [mailto:l...@yun.yagibdah.de] > Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 12:23 AM > > Apparently, mplayer is supposed to be able to use vdpau, and 'mplayer > -vo help' lists it. But when telling it to use it, CPU load during > playback isn't lower than with kaffeine:

Re: can't install laser driver supplied as rpm

2009-12-21 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:31:20 -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > I'm running Lenny and trying to install the manufacturer's Linux driver > for a Xerox Phaser 6280DN color laser printer. The driver is supplied > as a tar, which unpacks to a single rpm file: (...) > I am able to list the contents of the

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Tom H
> Any PC, desktop or laptop (or server), built in the last 6+ years has built-in > wired ethernet. (If yours don't have it, you went _way_ out of your way to > find > machines without it) So, in your scenario, instead of throwing your hands up > crying "I can't net install because the wireless car

Re: can't install laser driver supplied as rpm

2009-12-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Steve Kleene wrote: > I'm running Lenny and trying to install the manufacturer's Linux driver for a > Xerox Phaser 6280DN color laser printer. The driver is supplied as a tar, > which unpacks to a single rpm file: > > Xerox-Phaser-6280-1.0-1.noarch.rpm > > I ran > > alien --to-deb --scripts Xe

can't install laser driver supplied as rpm

2009-12-21 Thread Steve Kleene
I'm running Lenny and trying to install the manufacturer's Linux driver for a Xerox Phaser 6280DN color laser printer. The driver is supplied as a tar, which unpacks to a single rpm file: Xerox-Phaser-6280-1.0-1.noarch.rpm I ran alien --to-deb --scripts Xerox-Phaser-6280-1.0-1.noarch.rpm w

Re: rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25

2009-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:50:02AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: >On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM, David Christensen > wrote: >> I'm having trouble with rsync invoked on Debian 5.0.3 pulling files from >> Windows XP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25. > >If this is not a daemon connection, then it's probably the cyg

Re: rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25

2009-12-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM, David Christensen wrote: > I'm having trouble with rsync invoked on Debian 5.0.3 pulling files from > Windows XP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25. If this is not a daemon connection, then it's probably the cygwin pipe-hang bug. I have heard that a more modern cygwin (such as 1

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 16:03 +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > You can also use the fabulous facility of snapshot.debian.net to get > specific resources from a particular time in the past. It doesn't look like snapshot.debian.net has been updated for a long while. When I last got pointed there

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liviu Andronic wrote: > How would I roll back system upgrades? I am using Debian testing and Just roll back your last working backup. If you don't have a working backup you should consider implementing a backup system, NOW. It's not mainly update prob

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > With all due respect, if you aren't prepared to deal with > occaisional breakage, then you should be running testing. s/should/should not/ ;-) - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the Inter

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 21/12/09, Andrew Sackville-West (and...@farwestbilliards.com) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:43:53AM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > In other words, if you update the package info and upgrade some > > packages that come with breakages, you're doomed to start hunting for > > a fix (in my ca

Re: Tell me 'How to download and install driver'.

2009-12-21 Thread Consultores1
> > El lun, 21-12-2009 a las 09:40 +0900, Kyuichiro Nakamura escribió: > >> Sir,I am just started to install Debian Linux on DynaBook SS 3480. > >> Please tell me about the method to download and install drivers, > >> especialy about installing. > >> Is it necessary to convert ISO image? > >> I tri

Re: calling US 800 numbers from abroad via VoIP

2009-12-21 Thread jidanni
SS> So if you dial 019-1-800-whatever, asterisk will connect to SS> sip:1800whate...@proxy.ideasip.com. SS> HTH. CU Sascha Indeed it does. All I needed to do was add # diff -r /tmp/original /etc/asterisk diff -r /tmp/original/extensions.conf /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf 392a393 > exten => _0191800

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Consultores1
El lun, 21-12-2009 a las 15:29 +0100, Klistvud escribió: > Dne, 21. 12. 2009 13:38:01 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): > > > while at the same > > > time wireless is the only connectivity available at your > > > location/work/home. > > Being a non-native English speaker, I may have made myself > uns

Re: Why does "man exit" talk about "rc" and "Plan 9"?

2009-12-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Anthony Campbell: > > On this machine, "man exit" brings up a page about "rc" and "Plan 9". On > another machine it just brings up "exit". I think this may be why I am > getting error messages about "exit: too many args" from postfix on this > machine. I'd try to find out the name of the manpage o

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Consultores1
El lun, 21-12-2009 a las 12:45 +0100, Klistvud escribió: > Dne, 20. 12. 2009 22:35:26 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): > > > > > To be completely honest, I can't understand for the life of me why > > anyone would > > install any Linux distro from local media these days. > > For example, if you hav

Re: rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:43:53AM +, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > How would I roll back system upgrades? As I understnad it, generally speaking you don't. You *can* if you use dpkg directly and still have the .deb files from the previous version of a package lying around (/var/cache/ap

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 12. 2009 13:38:01 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): > while at the same > time wireless is the only connectivity available at your > location/work/home. Being a non-native English speaker, I may have made myself unsufficiently clear: my scenario is real-life, and by no means "bogus". I

Re: no dnscache-run in squeeze ?

2009-12-21 Thread Julien Vehent
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:00:05 +0100, Julien Vehent wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:17:18 +0530, Mihira Fernando > wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:42:02 +0100 >> Julien Vehent wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> Is there any similar package that can realize local DNS resolution and >>> caching ? >>> >>>

Re: no dnscache-run in squeeze ?

2009-12-21 Thread Julien Vehent
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:17:18 +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:42:02 +0100 > Julien Vehent wrote: > [snip] >> >> Is there any similar package that can realize local DNS resolution and >> caching ? >> >> >> Julien >> > dnsmasq > http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.h

Re: no dnscache-run in squeeze ?

2009-12-21 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:42:02 +0100 Julien Vehent wrote: [snip] > > Is there any similar package that can realize local DNS resolution and > caching ? > > > Julien > dnsmasq http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/dnsmasq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: no dnscache-run in squeeze ?

2009-12-21 Thread Julien Vehent
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:27:43 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Monday 21 December 2009 13:16:38 Julien Vehent wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> I tried to install the dnscache-run package on squeeze but apparently it >> hasn't been included in this version. >> >> http://packages.debian.org/en/squee

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Klistvud put forth on 12/21/2009 5:45 AM: > For example, if you have an unsupported wireless card, while at the same > time wireless is the only connectivity available at your > location/work/home. It's my situation, precisely: I have no less than > TWO unsupported wifi cards on (both) my computer

Re: no dnscache-run in squeeze ?

2009-12-21 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 21 December 2009 13:16:38 Julien Vehent wrote: > Hello there, > > I tried to install the dnscache-run package on squeeze but apparently it > hasn't been included in this version. > > http://packages.debian.org/en/squeeze/net/dnscache-run > > I don't remember reading anything about this

no dnscache-run in squeeze ?

2009-12-21 Thread Julien Vehent
Hello there, I tried to install the dnscache-run package on squeeze but apparently it hasn't been included in this version. http://packages.debian.org/en/squeeze/net/dnscache-run I don't remember reading anything about this. Is it definitive removal or some temporary bug ? (or my system being fu

Testing (squeeze) Xorg / kernel problem (i486)

2009-12-21 Thread B. Hoffmann
Hello Debianistas, I've been away from this list since the etch testing days so apologies if what's to follow has already come up and been answered. I did a clean minimal Lenny install yesterday from the Xfce/Lxde cd, with Xfce4 as the only desktop environment. This was working well until I upgra

Re: Html code for playing local flash files

2009-12-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 12. 2009 00:03:43 je T o n g napisal(a): Hi, I want to play the downloaded flash.swf files in my browser. I.e., I don't want to play them with an extra standalone player. But apparently firefox refuses to play them without a proper html file. Maybe I misunderstood your message, bu

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 12. 2009 22:35:26 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): To be completely honest, I can't understand for the life of me why anyone would install any Linux distro from local media these days. For example, if you have an unsupported wireless card, while at the same time wireless is the only

Re: calling US 800 numbers from abroad via VoIP

2009-12-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 2009-12-20 23:28:32, schrieb Chris Davies: > jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > My friend uses the Skype stuff, but all I want to do is make one or two > > calls to some 800 numbers, so don't want to subscribe to anything, pay > > any money, nor do I own a credit card. > > As far as I have

rolling-back, reverting system upgrades?

2009-12-21 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all How would I roll back system upgrades? I am using Debian testing and after I hit "Reload package info" in Synaptic, it will download the package versions that are current in the testing tree, and will completely forget the old tree (which after the update will be dubbed as "now"). If I per

Re: Tomcat is only listening with ip6 and not ip4

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Chandler
Alexey Salmin wrote: I think it's related to discussion in debian-devel: ... Thus you should report a bug against Tomcat. Also you can replace "net.ipv6.bindv6only=1" with "net.ipv6.bindv6only=0" in your /etc/sysctl.d/ as a temporary solution. Thank you for this. I had actually heard from t

Re: VDPAU? Sound when watching DVB-S2?

2009-12-21 Thread lee
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:17:52AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:40, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > does the xine stuff used by kaffeine in Debian use VDPAU? If not, how > > can I make it use VDPAU? > > First you have to have the nvidia driver 180.16 or newer, and from this