Fw: Berita Gembira

2010-03-17 Thread Nadya Revalina
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Re: unable to install mysql server

2010-03-17 Thread chantal
Quoting vishnu vardhan : OS : Debian Lenny 5.0.4 mysql server and client versions : packages from stable. I have previously installed mysql-server and mysql-client. I have tried to delete the files left in the system except of /var/ folder. I have deleted the /etc/mysql/ folder using the comman

unable to install mysql server

2010-03-17 Thread vishnu vardhan
OS : Debian Lenny 5.0.4 mysql server and client versions : packages from stable. I have previously installed mysql-server and mysql-client. I have tried to delete the files left in the system except of /var/ folder. I have deleted the /etc/mysql/ folder using the command rm -r /etc/mysql/. After a

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,17.Mar.10, 10:31:30, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Tue,16.Mar.10, 22:55:47, Celejar wrote: >> > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:09:05 -0400 >> > Wayne wrote: >> > >> > > After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the >> >

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-17 Thread Tom H
>> You could make a note of the UUID before the re-install then re-apply >> it to the partition with >> tune2fs -U /dev/sdaX > However you *must* take a note. This is not something you can remember. > As opposed to a partitioning scheme, that you can remember. True but it should be common practi

Re: Change In Restarting Services

2010-03-17 Thread Tom H
>> I haven't been active in Debian for two years back when Lenny was >> still in 'testing' and noticed that for some reason it is no longer >> protocol to restart network services using the 'init.d' scripts. I >> also noticed the same for Ubuntu (which I don't use or could care >> about) and am try

Re: How to recover from corrupted memory

2010-03-17 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:25:27 +1100, hce wrote: .. > dr-s-w---T 24576 2594201913 1635839568 1637221952 ***1970-01-01*** 10:00 .. I scored a similar entry when my HD had an unreadable sector. In my case, the offending file could be *moved*. So I created a dummy directory, moved the unrea

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash

2010-03-17 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:33:08 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > Silly man, it's the opposite of a *false* Linux user :P > Someone using XP with an Ubuntu theme ? :P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 21:43, John Hasler wrote: Neal writes: to use Adobe software without paying for it is stealing . . . money . .. . no? No. It may be copyright infringement if you do so without Adobe's permission, but copyright infringement is not theft according to the US Federal Courts. But s

Re: Change In Restarting Services

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 19:27, Carlos Mennens wrote: I haven't been active in Debian for two years back when Lenny was still in 'testing' and noticed that for some reason it is no longer protocol to restart network services using the 'init.d' scripts. I also noticed the same for Ubuntu (which I don't use o

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-17 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:03:39 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: ... > I'm not at all convinced the problem is packaging (there doesn't seem to > be any conflict there). Last time I had a system with both Gnash and > adobe's flash, the problem was that Firefox just seemed to insist on > using Gnash eve

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash

2010-03-17 Thread John Hasler
Neal writes: > to use Adobe software without paying for it is stealing . . . money . > .. . no? No. It may be copyright infringement if you do so without Adobe's permission, but copyright infringement is not theft according to the US Federal Courts. > Is it the case that the flash support offere

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 21:03, Neal Hogan wrote: [snip] Most (if not all) software has some sort of license, like "use as you'd like but make sure you tell the next person the same" (BSD . . .as I understand it). However, Flash is not just a set of words . . . to use Adobe software without paying for it i

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Enough DDs are sufficiently practical for there to be a non-free tree, and >> Christian Marillat does yeoman's work with >> http://www.debian-multimedia.org/. >> > > "non-free?" I know

Re: git

2010-03-17 Thread Larry Holish
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:23:18AM +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > due to a discussion of git I would like to know which of the > numerous git-packages I have to > install on lenny when I want to use git in my local environment. This package was a nice intro to git for me: Package: easygit Pr

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Tom H
>> GRUB_DEFAULT=saved > That's the one. Thanks for the reminder. You're welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6d4219cc1003171940u1b4d4b28qef440a1

Re:(OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:35:25 -0400 (EDT), Neal Hogan wrote: > I highly suspect a flame-war here, but isn't against the > "Stallmanian-principle" for a linux machines to play with those > proprietary kids AT ALL. That is, debian (or any other linux) should > not even consider talking with that kind

Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

2010-03-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Replying to my own post, again... Just after I sent the last post I realized that I had not done an 'ifup wlan0' after loading the ath5k module. Once I got home I booted up, loaded the module and did 'ifup wlan0'. Unfortunately, it still does not work. I get an error saying the the device wl

Interrupting a hibernate

2010-03-17 Thread Alok G. Singh
When I was using uswsusp, hitting Backspace would interrupt the suspend. Now I just use pm-utils and there appears to be no way of cancelling a suspend once initiated. Is there a way ? -- Alok And Bruce is effectively building BruceIX -- Alan Cox -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Enough DDs are sufficiently practical for there to be a non-free tree, and > Christian Marillat does yeoman's work with > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/. > "non-free?" I know that's what it's called, but I wonder how descriptive it is. B

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> ? No one's calling for a 'Depends'; Indeed. > what is requested is merely that Gnash be packaged in such a way that > it not interfere with a certain non-free package. Is that really > a problem? I'm not at all convinced the problem is packaging (there doesn't seem to be any conflict there).

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Wednesday 17 March 2010 20:15:51 Neal Hogan wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > Enough DDs are sufficiently practical for there to be a non-free tree, >> > and Christian Marillat does yeoman's work with >> >

Re: Apache2 chroot /dev/null permission denied

2010-03-17 Thread Knowledge Seeker
That is the problem. The permission is set to 666 and the group is root. But it still don't work. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Wayne wrote: > Knowledge Seeker wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have an old Debian Etch box, running Apache2 on chroot jail. Yesterday, >> (it sounds like joke) I turned off

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 20:15:51 Neal Hogan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Enough DDs are sufficiently practical for there to be a non-free tree, > > and Christian Marillat does yeoman's work with > > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/. > > > > Ok . . . that's

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I highly suspect a flame-war here, but isn't against the > "Stallmanian-principle" for a linux machines to play with those > proprietary kids AT ALL. That is, debian (or any other linux) should > not even consider talking with that kind of software. I'm just curious > how many linux users/devs/et

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Neal Hogan
> The rub is that Debian doesn't officially know that Flash exists. Even if it did, too many DDs are morally opposed to closed-source to want to Depend on it. >>> >>> I highly suspect a flame-war here, but isn't against the >>> "Stallmanian-principle" for a linux machin

Re: Resume broke after upgrading Squeeze in my T61

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Perttu Muurimäki wrote: [snip] > I'm really not certain that this would have worked without today's > dist-upgrade (which updated devicekit-power, libdevkit-power-gobject1, > libupower-glib1, upower, acpi-support-base and acpi-support) :| I think > I tried doing 'p

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed March 17 2010 17:34:50 Mike Bird wrote: > (1) You don't have an inode shortage. You have 99%/89%/99% inodes free. > (2) You can confirm this with "df -i". > (3) Hardlinks do not consume any inodes, only directory space. > (4) You're short of blocks (not inodes) on your 6GB root drive. > (5)

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed March 17 2010 03:38:27 Siju George wrote: > I got this warning from nagios about one of my debian systems > > DISK WARNING - free space: /var 426 GB (54% inode=99%): / 6 GB (1% > inode=89%): /boot 173 GB (99% inode=99%): > > I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlin

Change In Restarting Services

2010-03-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
I haven't been active in Debian for two years back when Lenny was still in 'testing' and noticed that for some reason it is no longer protocol to restart network services using the 'init.d' scripts. I also noticed the same for Ubuntu (which I don't use or could care about) and am trying to understa

IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-17 Thread Charles Kroeger
I was looking over a dmesg output and I noticed a message that said I would save 64MB of RAM if I enabled the IOMMU option in the bios. I'm using an ASUS M4A79XTD EVO board with 8GB of RAM so maybe freeing up 64MB of RAM isn't that big of a deal; however, I had a look in the bios setup and saw not

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-17 16:35, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ron Johnson >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2010-03-17 10:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Installing Gnash screws up Flash. That is the core of the problem that

Re: Apache2 chroot /dev/null permission denied

2010-03-17 Thread Wayne
Knowledge Seeker wrote: Hi, I have an old Debian Etch box, running Apache2 on chroot jail. Yesterday, (it sounds like joke) I turned off the machine and when I started it again the web server did not come to life again. The problem was a Permission Denied on the /dev/null. I created my device wi

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100317_222432, Siju George wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stefan Monnier > wrote: > >> I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks > >> that are consuming the inodes. > > > > hardlinks do not use inodes (they only use up space in the directory in > > which

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:15:51 +1100 Alexander Samad wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman > wrote: > > Micha schreef: > >> On 17/03/2010 16:57, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > >>> Micha Feigin schreef: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 > Micha Feigin wrote: > [snip] >

Apache2 chroot /dev/null permission denied

2010-03-17 Thread Knowledge Seeker
Hi, I have an old Debian Etch box, running Apache2 on chroot jail. Yesterday, (it sounds like joke) I turned off the machine and when I started it again the web server did not come to life again. The problem was a Permission Denied on the /dev/null. I created my device with the command: mknod -m

Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:15:52 +0100, Ervin Hegedüs wrote: > A user disconnect all disks, but udev didn't remove all symlinks...: > > ls -la /dev/disk/by-id/ | grep sdb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2010-03-12 21:40 > usb-SAMSUNG_HD642JJ_31AF4D71B000 -> ../../sdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 > 2010-03

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Alexander Samad schreef: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman > wrote: >> Micha schreef: >>> On 17/03/2010 16:57, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Micha Feigin schreef: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 > Micha Feigin wrote: > [snip] > >> Thanks >> >> > Ok, if

Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Well, the ath5k module was not being loaded. Unfortunately, even after I run: modprobe ath5k I still have no wireless. The module shows as being loaded by lsmod, but no wireless networks show in wicd. Is there something else that I need to do after loading the module in order to find my

Re: Resume broke after upgrading Squeeze in my T61

2010-03-17 Thread Perttu Muurimäki
Andrew Malcolmson writes: > Did you ever figure this out? My T61 has between 2 and 4 weeks ago > stopped restoring from hibernation but instead does a normal reboot. > Well, I got it working but I don't know yet why :) It appears that pm-suspend "loses" one of the required quirks even though t

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 16:35, Neal Hogan wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-17 10:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: Installing Gnash screws up Flash. That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so

Re: Nouveau

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 11:56, David Baron wrote: The time has come for the open source nvidia drivers to get full Debian support. Nvidia is still publishing purported upgraded "legacy" drivers that will only work on "legacy" Xorg with no warning. Do you not know what Release Notes are?

Re:(OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-17 10:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> >>> Installing Gnash screws up Flash. >> >> That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. >> There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so >> that each user on the

Re: gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:19:35 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-17 10:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> >> That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. >> There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so >> that each user on the machine can choose which flash pl

Re: gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:19:35 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-17 10:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Installing Gnash screws up Flash. > > > > That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. > > There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so > > that each user on

gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-17 10:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: Installing Gnash screws up Flash. That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so that each user on the machine can choose which flash player she wants to use. The rub is t

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Alexander Samad
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Micha schreef: >> On 17/03/2010 16:57, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >>> Micha Feigin schreef: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: [snip] > > Thanks > > Ok, if I get things correctly, I need

Re: Power on/off PCMCIA und Wifi card at runtime

2010-03-17 Thread post2mj
yes. i know how to use the shell : ) pccardctl is exactly what i need. thanks, man! shutting down the network interfaces doesnt power off the hardware. but probably there is a tool for it...

Re: How to save output when working in runlevel 3 (Lenny)

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:03:16 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > I think what you're asking is "How do I save a copy of my terminal output > when I'm not logged on via xterm (or some equivalent program)?" Is that > what you are asking? If that is what you want to do, the "script" command > wo

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:19:40 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> You're welcome, but I am disappointed too. I'm curious to know what >> the failure symptom was. Did it complain that the chipset override was >> invalid? Or did it accept the chipset override but fail to init

Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Ervin Hegedüs
Hello, >> But I don't know how will it works, 'cause now all disks have one >> partition, but partitions are encrypted - can I create a label on >> existing crypted partition? > > I've never tested before, but I'd say yes. > >> And can system (or udev) identify that label? > > I see not good reaso

Re: More Xorg

2010-03-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:01:10 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, > You're welcome, but I am disappointed too. I'm curious to know what So, it's not just me then? :-) > the failure symptom was. Did it complain that the chipset override was The error message was unsupported de

Re: Power on/off PCMCIA und Wifi card at runtime

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:43:13 -0400 (EDT), martin wrote: > I want to reduce power and to enable and disable my hardware at run time. > that meens not only to de/active the drivers but to completly shut down the > hardware. > in win xp the hardwaremanager does this very well. > does anyone know how t

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) > settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. > > How do I enable tapping and circular scrolling permanently (i.e each boot) on > the touchpad again with

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Castle
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > Gnash is a noble effort.  Gnash sucks.  I want choice, and my choice is > Adobe Flash.  Installing Gnash screws up Flash.  Right now, I can refuse to > update GNOME on Squeeze any further, but the time will come when that will > not be a viable

Re: :Loading LinuxEBDA is big" lilo error - PERMANENT fix?

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:10:14 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > If you want to make *sure* that it always gets run, you can create a > hook script. An example of this can be found in "Step 10: > Customize the Kernel Installation Process" on the following > web page: http://www.wowway.com/~zlinux

Power on/off PCMCIA und Wifi card at runtime

2010-03-17 Thread post2mj
Hi ! I want to reduce power and to enable and disable my hardware at run time. that meens not only to de/active the drivers but to completly shut down the hardware. in win xp the hardwaremanager does this very well. does anyone know how to get this running in linux? thx martin

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:40:01AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Stephen Powell put forth on 3/17/2010 8:20 AM: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , > >> as reported by df : > >> > >> /

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Micha schreef: > On 17/03/2010 16:57, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Micha Feigin schreef: >>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 >>> Micha Feigin wrote: >>> Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. >

Re: make Xorg driver fails - missing Xf86Resources.h

2010-03-17 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:29:16PM -0300, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: > $ make install > > Making install in > src > make[1]: Entrando no diretório > `/home/rogerio/xf86-video-sis-imedia/src' > /bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. > -I..-fvisibility=hidden -I/us

Re: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:02:02 -0400 (EDT), Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> First of all, "useradd" should not be invoked directly.  I suggest the >> "adduser" frontend to useradd.  Second, /etc/profile, the system-wide >> bash profile, contains a se

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 11:27:19, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > OK, doing > > modprobe -r radeon > modprobe radeon modeset=1 > > using 2.6.32-3-amd64 results in a working machine which actually > performance workplace and application switching at acceptable speed. Are you sure the mod

Re: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Carlos Mennens wrote: > I have never heard this before in years or using Linux. I am not > saying you're wrong but I would just like to know why I should not use > 'useradd' rather than 'adduser'. I assumed that it was just personal > preference for which you preferred to use but I could be wrong

Re: make Xorg driver fails - missing Xf86Resources.h

2010-03-17 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:27:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Yet I demonstrated that it's in xserver-xorg-dev. However, I'm > running Sid and you're Squeeze. > > Maybe you need to upgrade. Yup, that file is not available in any package for squeeze. Cheers, Oli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 10:31:30, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,16.Mar.10, 22:55:47, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:09:05 -0400 > > Wayne wrote: > > > > > After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the > > > past month. I would like to propose a new feature for aptit

Re: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > First of all, "useradd" should not be invoked directly.  I suggest the > "adduser" frontend to useradd.  Second, /etc/profile, the system-wide > bash profile, contains a setting for the default umask.  Perhaps this > is what you want to chan

RE: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: Carlos Mennens [mailto:carlosw...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 17 March, 2010 09:50 > To: Debian > Subject: Re: Change Useradd Behavior > > If I change the DIR_MODE=0700 in /etc/adduser.conf, will that also be > honored when using 'useradd'? > No. Sorry, w

Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee

2010-03-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Mar.10, 06:57:29, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Thanks, Andrei. That did it. I had seen that message and should have > thought of that, myself. I now have a fully updated (to Squeeze) > eeePC. In case you're wondering, this is bug #571255. If I understand correctly where the problem is,

Re: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:35:39 -0400 (EDT), Carlos Mennens wrote: > > I would like to know if it's possible when creating a new user with > the '/usr/sbin/useradd' script to set the users home directory > permissions to 700 rather than the Debian default of 755? I don't > understand why Debian does

Re: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
If I change the DIR_MODE=0700 in /etc/adduser.conf, will that also be honored when using 'useradd'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/d80f793f1003171049

Re: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Carlos, If you set the default umask in /etc/login.defs , "useradd" will obey this when creating home directories. Try setting "UMASK 077" in /etc/login.defs . Alternately, you can user the higher level "adduser" tool, which has it's own configuration setting for world-readable home directories (

RE: Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: Carlos Mennens [mailto:carlosw...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 17 March, 2010 09:36 > To: Debian > Subject: Change Useradd Behavior > > I would like to know if it's possible when creating a new user with > the '/usr/sbin/useradd' script to set the users hom

Change Useradd Behavior

2010-03-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
I would like to know if it's possible when creating a new user with the '/usr/sbin/useradd' script to set the users home directory permissions to 700 rather than the Debian default of 755? I don't understand why Debian does this not do I really care to debate it but I don't like users being able to

Nouveau

2010-03-17 Thread David Baron
The time has come for the open source nvidia drivers to get full Debian support. Nvidia is still publishing purported upgraded "legacy" drivers that will only work on "legacy" Xorg with no warning. Their installation should kick, the site should warn before download. This is an old story, royal

Re: :Loading LinuxEBDA is big" lilo error - PERMANENT fix?

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:28:36 -0400 (EDT), Brett Charbeneau wrote: > Google searches indicate that booting from a rescue CD and rerunning > lilo takes care of the problem, which is does, until the next kernel upgrade. I use lilo too. If rerunning lilo fixes the problem, then the problem is that

Re: How to save output when working in runlevel 3 (Lenny)

2010-03-17 Thread Alex Bennee
On 17 March 2010 16:36, Mart Frauenlob wrote: > On 17.03.2010 16:27, Nigel Henry wrote: >> Is there a way to save the output when working in runlevel 3? > i'd do: > > your_command 2>&1 | tee your_logfile > > man tee - for details Yet another option is running your upgrade within a GNU Screen sess

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks >> that are consuming the inodes. > > hardlinks do not use inodes (they only use up space in the directory in > which they appear).  But every symlink and every directory

:Loading LinuxEBDA is big" lilo error - PERMANENT fix?

2010-03-17 Thread Brett Charbeneau
Does anyone have a definitive solution to the "Loading LinuxEBDA is big; kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage" error/bug in lilo? My 30 production boxes are hanging at reboot every time there's a kernel upgrade - "large-memory" in lilo.conf doesn't seem to make a difference.

Re: How to save output when working in runlevel 3 (Lenny)

2010-03-17 Thread Mart Frauenlob
On 17.03.2010 16:27, Nigel Henry wrote: > Hi Folks. > > I've got a whole bunch of updates for Lenny, including a load of X stuff, > which I don't like installing while X is running. > > I save all the update output from the konsole in my history-files for future > reference. > > Is there a way

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Matthew Moore
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 7:49:56 am Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 > Micha Feigin wrote: > > Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input > > device) settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. > > > > How do I enable tapping and circular

Re: How to save output when working in runlevel 3 (Lenny)

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:27:48 -0400 (EDT), Nigel Henry wrote: > I've got a whole bunch of updates for Lenny, including a load of X stuff, > which I don't like installing while X is running. > > I save all the update output from the konsole in my history-files for future > reference. > > Is there

Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:34:47 +0100, Ervin Hegedüs wrote: >> Yes. This can be achieved with "$env{ID_FS_LABEL}" variable used by >> "udev" (I've had to search for this :-P): >> >> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev >> >> That way you can forget about the serial number of the disks being >> de

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: > > > Current Squeeze. > > > eog > gedit > gnome-applets > gnome-control-center > gnome-icon-theme > gnome-menus > gnome-panel > gnome-power-manager > gnome-session > gnome-settings-daemon > gnome-terminal > gvfs > metacity > mutter > nautilus > yelp > > suggests

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks > that are consuming the inodes. hardlinks do not use inodes (they only use up space in the directory in which they appear). But every symlink and every directory does use an inode. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Installing Gnash screws up Flash. That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so that each user on the machine can choose which flash player she wants to use. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: WLAN and Bluetooth

2010-03-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:39:47PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:15:40 +0100 > pch0317 wrote: > > > Celejar wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:03:51 +0100 > > > pch0317 wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Hi > > >> I have problem with my wireless embedded device. > > >> > > >> I use D

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:40:01 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Stephen Powell put forth on 3/17/2010 8:20 AM: >> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:12:49 -0400 (EDT), Aioanei Rares wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , >>> as reported by df : >>> >>> /dev/sd

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/17/2010 7:51 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: I'm surprised to hear that gnome-core requires gnash. It's certainly not the case on Lenny: I it was introduced into squeeze yesterday (source package meta-gnome2 2.28+6 transitioned to squeeze on 2010-03-16). The reason seems to be that swfdec was

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Wayne
Bob Cox wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:09:05 -0400, Wayne (linux...@gmail.com) wrote: After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the past month. I would like to propose a new feature for aptitude. How about apt-listbugs? apt-listbugs -s all list openoffice.org S

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will >>> cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now >>> used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab. >> Call me a luddite but UUID < partition numbers for the simple reason >> I can manually w

Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Ervin Hegedüs
hello, > Yes. This can be achieved with "$env{ID_FS_LABEL}" variable used by > "udev" (I've had to search for this :-P): > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev > > That way you can forget about the serial number of the disks being > detected the same as the devices/partitions will be identif

How to save output when working in runlevel 3 (Lenny)

2010-03-17 Thread Nigel Henry
Hi Folks. I've got a whole bunch of updates for Lenny, including a load of X stuff, which I don't like installing while X is running. I save all the update output from the konsole in my history-files for future reference. Is there a way to save the output when working in runlevel 3? Thanks.

Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as > reported by df : > /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% / > /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot > /dev/sda5 345G 232G 96G 71% /home > /dev/sda8 29G 172M 27G 1% /tm

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/17/2010 6:48 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/17/2010 4:42 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums wrote: Why does GNOME require Gnash? And what can I do to put a stop to it? Look at the following metapackages, their descriptions and dependen

Re: Evince rendering the New Maintainers guide improperly

2010-03-17 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
Report availible here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574353 On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:33:54 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:47:17 +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > > downloading the Debian New Maintainer guide from the debian website at > > > > http://www

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Micha
On 17/03/2010 16:57, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Micha Feigin schreef: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. How do I enable tapping and circular scrol

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Wayne
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 14:15:53 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:44 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:47:55 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: Nobody will manually verify each package that is going to be installed. apt-listbugs

Re: use preseeding for one package

2010-03-17 Thread Chantal Rosmuller
Op dinsdag 16 maart 2010 15:39:50 schreef Tzafrir Cohen: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:06:34AM +0100, Chantal Rosmuller wrote: > > > You can force the non-interactive front-end by setting > > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND in the environment: > > > > > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

Re: udev: same serial on different disks

2010-03-17 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:55:35 +0100, Ervin Hegedüs wrote: > thanks, sorry I think we don't understand each other... I know how can I > determine labels, I would like to make some elegant way for user > plug USB disk, and udev catch that event, send an email for me which > contains serial > part of

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Micha Feigin schreef: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. How do I enable tapping and circular scrolling permanently (i.e each boot) on the touch

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