Re: Memory

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:10:51PM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: > What happens when debian is out of memory? Does it freeze? Is there > any trace of memory glut in log files? > > Thanks in advance > Writes to a swap file on your drive. Or a swap file on your ram drive in memory if you have one.

Re: Highmem and lowmem

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:27:51PM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: > What is the difference between them and why does debian distinguish the two? > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Memory

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:10:51PM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: > What happens when debian is out of memory? Does it freeze? Is there > any trace of memory glut in log files? It depends. In general, you will either see disk thrashing as swap is constantly accessed, or the oom-killer will start t

Re: Highmem and lowmem

Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/23/2010 10:27 PM: > What is the difference between them and why does debian distinguish the two? Debian-users isn't a personal tutor, is it? Many/most of the questions you've been asking have answers easily obtained via simple Google searches or in readily available b

Highmem and lowmem

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Memory

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Re: expanding a luks volume

Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > subject says it all I have a lv, which i have used luks to encrypt and > now I would like to extend it. > > I am guessing the process is going to involve coping the files over to > another partition and then back again ? > > Alex No not at all. Treat it as any other v

Re: eth0 is up eventhough the interface is not used

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:02:24AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > # ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:ec:b1:5a:76 > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 The "UP" flag listed is just the admin status. However, it's missing the "RUNNING" flag, which will indic

Re: Why is latexmk in Debian so old?

On 2010-01-22 21:08:28 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-01-22 16:32 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Is there really someone who intends to maintain it? > > Why don't you ask the person who last ITA'ed the package? OK, now done. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% acce

Re: Failover of gateways

Hi, Randall. On Thursday, 14 January 2010 17:11:53 +0100, randall wrote: >> I'm trying to configure Debian GNU/Linux with two alternative >> gateways. That is to say, that initially the traffic is by GW1 and >> if it is down then it goes by GW2. If GW2 is again up, then it >> becomes to use GW1.

eth0 is up eventhough the interface is not used

# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:ec:b1:5a:76 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:873412038 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

Re: console resolution

>>tv.debian wrote: >> Hi, I use a slightly different way, I put: >> >> GRUB_GFXMODE="1440x900 640x480" >> >> in /etc/defaults/grub (native resolution first, fall-back one isn't >> necessary, it's the default). >> >> Then in /etc/grub.d/00_header I add gfxpayload=keep to this section >> (around line

Re: string occurrences

roberto wrote: hello is there any linux built-in utilities to count how many times a string occur in a text file ? ps: sorry for the italian post Yes. man wc Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Re: kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4

I obviously have the same problem. When I launch startkde, I've got this problem : startkde: Starting up... kdeinit4_wrapper: Warning: connect(/home/fflorent/.kde/socket-monpc/kdeinit4__0) failed: : Connection refused /usr/bin/startkde: line 410: 7259 Erreur de segmentation kwra

Re: hostname da cambiare

roberto ha scritto: ciao, volevo cambiare l'hostname del pc; se edito e modifico /etc/hostname la modifica sara' attiva a partire dal prossimo boot o posso renderla attiva subito ? e' necessario chiudere la sessione kde ? grazie necessita il riavvio. ciao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

trouble playing streaming video

I'm having trouble accessing streaming video from a local website. If I click on a video in iceweasel (up-to-date Lenny), I see that MPlayer-Plugin is called, and the browser also shows: Connecting to server 70.61.148.132[70.61.148.132]: 80... ps shows the following process: mplayer -wid 0x12

Re: string occurrences

roberto wrote at 2010-01-23 15:33 -0600: > is there any linux built-in utilities to count how many times a string > occur in a text file ? grep "string" file | wc -l will give you the number of *lines* that contain a specific string. Only counts 1 if the string exists twice in a line, or 0 if i

RE: [Xen-users] Compilation error

/usr/include/string.h and /usr/include/stdlib.h are present. I also noticed these C libraries are present in the stubdom directory which is where the error is occuring (make: *** [install-stubdom] Error 2) r...@localhost:/root/xen_source/xen_root# find / -name 'string.h' | grep st

Re: Security Support for Debian 4.0 to be terminated

Bret Busby wrote at 2010-01-23 00:03 -0600: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > 1: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/releasenotes > > In trying to follow the [...] instructions for > the [...] upgrade, [...] > I am [...] prevented from performing > the required upgrade f

Re: File system for linux and windows

Bhasker C V wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:28:26 +, Bhasker C V wrote: (...) So, the question... what FS to use which is good and reliable in both windows and also linux ? Is there any file system in linux which can work in windows also (meaning it can be read and

Re: File system for linux and windows

Alex Samad wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:30:59PM +, Bhasker C V wrote: Nick Douma wrote: [snip] Using NTFS on linux and windows is cool. I have consistently seen that when there are large number of files, undoubtably, ntfs volume goes corrupt and chkdsk simply removes file

Re: string occurrences

Quoting roberto on 2010-01-23 15:33:53: > is there any linux built-in utilities to count how many times a string > occur in a text file ? I don't know of any actual utilities to do so, but there's a handy little pipeline that I use as a generic string-counter that, so far, works for all files I've

Re: ext3 mkfs issues with a fresh file system ?

Bhasker C V wrote: Bhasker C V wrote: Hi all, This is strange. I created a file system on top of luks and does not have any data yet. The very first fsck gives an error in the freshly created file system ! $ sudo mke2fs -j /dev/mapper/cryptvol mke2fs 1.41.2 (02-Oct-2008) Filesystem label=

Re: [SOT] Preview pane settings Icedove/ Thunderbird

On 22 January 2010 21:42, Eric Gerlach wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 04:23:10PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: >> AG wrote: >> > >> > In Icedove (Thunderbird) v2.0.0.22 on Debian testing is there an option >> > to automatically jump to the bottom of an email using the preview pane >> > to read it?  

string occurrences

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occorrenze stringa

ciao a tutti c'e' qualche utility che permette di contare quante volte una parola si ripete in un file di testo ? grazie ! -- roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

expanding a luks volume

Hi subject says it all I have a lv, which i have used luks to encrypt and now I would like to extend it. I am guessing the process is going to involve coping the files over to another partition and then back again ? Alex -- "It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife R

Re: x.509 gpgsm and kmail

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:35:23PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 23 January 2010, Curt Howland was heard to say: > > Hi, Debian Users. > > > > A friend of mine asked if I could send him encrypted mail using > > X.509, rather than OpenP

Re: File system for linux and windows

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:30:59PM +, Bhasker C V wrote: > Nick Douma wrote: [snip] > >>Using NTFS on linux and windows is cool. I have consistently seen that > >>when there are large number of files, undoubtably, > >>ntfs volume goes corrupt and chkdsk simply removes files and creates > >>da

Compilation error

Hi there, I seem to have run into what I hope to be a common compliation error that I unfortunatly can not get past. The problem is with very basic C libraries. In the xen project Im compiling there is a crc32.c source file where zutil.h is included (this seems to link up). Then insi

Re: ext3 mkfs issues with a fresh file system ?

Bhasker C V wrote: Hi all, This is strange. I created a file system on top of luks and does not have any data yet. The very first fsck gives an error in the freshly created file system ! $ sudo mke2fs -j /dev/mapper/cryptvol mke2fs 1.41.2 (02-Oct-2008) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Bloc

ext3 mkfs issues with a fresh file system ?

Hi all, This is strange. I created a file system on top of luks and does not have any data yet. The very first fsck gives an error in the freshly created file system ! $ sudo mke2fs -j /dev/mapper/cryptvol mke2fs 1.41.2 (02-Oct-2008) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2)

Re: File system for linux and windows

Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:28:26 +, Bhasker C V wrote: (...) So, the question... what FS to use which is good and reliable in both windows and also linux ? Is there any file system in linux which can work in windows also (meaning it can be read and optionally written-t

Re: Octave compiled with debug symbols?

On 2010-01-23 18:08 +0100, George wrote: > I installed the lenny Octave package and this is what I get: > > octave:1> octave_config_info ("CXXFLAGS") > ans = -O2 -g > > Does this mean that Octave was built with debug symbols? Yes. > If so, why? Because it makes debugging octave bugs possible?

Re: Re: console resolution

> It's weird but it's not working for me.  Somehow update-grub (as well as > update-grub2, in case they are different) ignore all modifications to > /etc/default/grub.  I'm giving up.  Should I report a bug? Are you making all the changes that have been suggested? In short: In /etc/default/grub

Re: x.509 gpgsm and kmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 January 2010, Curt Howland was heard to say: > Hi, Debian Users. > > A friend of mine asked if I could send him encrypted mail using > X.509, rather than OpenPGP which I normally use. Ok, to continue the discussion, it turns out that (D

x.509 gpgsm and kmail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Debian Users. A friend of mine asked if I could send him encrypted mail using X.509, rather than OpenPGP which I normally use. Apparently, gpgsm is used for X.509, and shows up in kmail so I figure the capabilities are there. Google is useful,

Re: ddrescue-like tool at filesystem level

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:14:08 +0100, ludovico van wrote: >>> so, is there a tool like ddrescue, which ignores errors (and maybe >>> retries to read the bad blocks), but working at the filesystem level, >>> so i can copy only selected files? >> >> I think the problem is next step -- if such program

dormant package maintainer

Hi, What's the recommended way to deal with dormant package maintainer? The following bug has been reported for over 2 years, which is "an extremely easy fix". Patch is also available. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431297 However, the problem still remains: $ mp3rename -v -p

Debian per Packard Bell

Salve ho acquistato da qualche mese un computer Packard Bell modello DOTS.IT/010 S/N: LUB900B03193045F0D1601 (se va sul sito ed inserisceil serial number le escono tutte le specifiche) ho bisogno di formattarlo e volevo installarci una versione di Linux volevo sapere quale versione posso istallare

Re: File system for linux and windows

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:28:26 +, Bhasker C V wrote: (...) > So, the question... what FS to use which is good and reliable in both > windows and also linux ? > > Is there any file system in linux which can work in windows also > (meaning it can be read and optionally written-to in windows

Re: Re: console resolution

It's weird but it's not working for me. Somehow update-grub (as well as update-grub2, in case they are different) ignore all modifications to /etc/default/grub. I'm giving up. Should I report a bug? Hi, I use a slightly different way, I put: GRUB_GFXMODE="1440x900 640x480" in /etc/default

Octave compiled with debug symbols?

I installed the lenny Octave package and this is what I get: octave:1> octave_config_info ("CXXFLAGS") ans = -O2 -g Does this mean that Octave was built with debug symbols? If so, why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: How to configure Mutt to ask before downloading attachments

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:30:04 + (UTC), Camaleón in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:18:32 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:22:45PM EST, Camaleón wrote: > >>> > This bug is ancient but sounds like what you are reporting: >>> > >>> > http://dev.mut

Re: console resolution

On 2010-01-22 at 18:11:38 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > PIII 650MHz - 386M of RAM - ATI Rage Mobility (Mach64). That is *lightning fast* compared to my slowest machine, a PII 266 MHz with a very slow hard drive. And the saddest thing is, until about three years ago, it was my fastest machine! The

Re: File system for linux and windows

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:28:26PM +, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi, > > This may not be debian-specific question, but with the group expertise, > I think this would be a good reference for anybody. > > I think this question has been debated a lot but still there is no clear > information on what

Re: Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:50:57 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 22 January 2010 16:28:37 Camaleón wrote: >> So, do you think the package will be available in backports for stable >> release (Lenny) or just indicates the package is being tested for >> another branch (unstable/testing

Re: How to configure Mutt to ask before downloading attachments

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:18:32 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:22:45PM EST, Camaleón wrote: >> > This bug is ancient but sounds like what you are reporting: >> > >> > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/663 (...) >> I also posted the question to "mutt-users" mailing list but

Re: Strange work of eth0.

Thank You for Your time and answer, Todd: >This generally happens when ifupdown wasn't called to enable the >interface. If not through # /sbin/ifup eth0 then how? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:13:26 +0800 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > my mistake, the package is for amd64 and powerpc > http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=lenny-backports&searchon=names&keywords=iceweasel No, it's my mistake. I didn't properly check with the Debian packages page (hadn't sipped my m

Re: File system for linux and windows

Nick Douma wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23-1-2010 9:13, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi, This may not be debian-specific question, but with the group expertise, I think this would be a good reference for anybody. I think this question has been debated a lot but still there

Re: How Does One force Use of DSA Keys under Linux?

Martin McCormick wrote: > I recently needed to clear out some old entries from the > .ssh/known_hosts file on a Debian system and discovered that I > couldn't tell which system key was which because they were all > type rsa keys instead of the type DSA keys which do contain a > field with eit

Re: File system for linux and windows

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23-1-2010 9:13, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi, > > This may not be debian-specific question, but with the group expertise, > I think this would be a good reference for > anybody. > > I think this question has been debated a lot but still there is no cle

Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

2010/1/23 Graham > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:07:41 +0800 > Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar wrote: > > > i had enabled lenny-backports but "aptitude -t lenny-backports install > > iceweasel" installs Iceweasel 3.0.6 > > There isn't an iceweasel package in Backports, so you're stuck with > the one in Len

Re: cannot install iceweasel 3.5 from lenny-backports

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:07:41 +0800 Umarzuki Bin Mochlis Moktar wrote: > i had enabled lenny-backports but "aptitude -t lenny-backports install > iceweasel" installs Iceweasel 3.0.6 There isn't an iceweasel package in Backports, so you're stuck with the one in Lenny... unless you want to backport

Re: Unable to start tightvncserver

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Foss User wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Eric Gerlach wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:07:57AM +0530, Foss User wrote: foss...@squeeze:~$ ps -aef | grep 4847 fossist     4987  3680  0 00:02 pts/3    00:00:00 grep 4847 foss...@squeeze:~$ netstat -na | grep tcp |

Re: elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 03:43:42AM EST, Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:32:26PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:09:40PM EST, Freeman wrote: > > [..] > I hadn't thought much of it and scarfed libtre5 from sid. Will it not > install to lenny? Probably would, bu

File system for linux and windows

Hi, This may not be debian-specific question, but with the group expertise, I think this would be a good reference for anybody. I think this question has been debated a lot but still there is no clear information on what to do. The question is, if you want to share data between linux and w

Re: Recommended method to install Firefox 3.6 in Lenny (64 bits)

Sven Hoexter wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:39:27PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-01-22 21:02 +0100, Camaleón wrote: As Mozilla has stopped the support (no more security patches) for Firefox releases <3.5 (in August 2010, 3.5 will also be dropped), and Lenny is shipped with 3

Re: console resolution

>Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > >> set gfxpayload=keep will tell Grub2 to hand off the graphics settings >> to the kernel, which if configured properly will carry them forward. >> There are some other settings to tweak as well, insmod vbe and whatnot >> in the appropriate file, but that's about the gis

Re: elinks to be REMOVED from squeeze?

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:32:26PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:09:40PM EST, Freeman wrote: > > [..] > > > Is there really even a point to filing a bug report against something > > when the fix is upstream? > > What makes you think the bug is upstream? > Literally spe

Re: console resolution

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:15:39AM EST, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > I the above question the bizarre joke, or was this meant as a reply to a > different post? s/I the above/Is the above/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

File system for linux and windows

Hi, This may not be debian-specific question, but with the group expertise, I think this would be a good reference for anybody. I think this question has been debated a lot but still there is no clear information on what to do. The question is, if you want to share data between linux and wind