RE: Kiosk - binary image

2010-03-25 Thread فـــــريـــــــد الغـــــــامــــــدي
Thanks every one. i have found that i missed dhcp3-client package. Thanks Stan. i just install this package. i need to mention to that i have not created /etc/network/interfaces file > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition [SOLVED]

2010-03-25 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:57:17AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Paul E Condon put forth on 3/25/2010 11:32 PM: > > > Western Digital uses what must be the same software technology, but > > they call it Virtual-CD or VCD. They also provide a software fix. But > > the WD fix only disables VCD and m

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition [SOLVED]

2010-03-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul E Condon put forth on 3/25/2010 11:32 PM: > Western Digital uses what must be the same software technology, but > they call it Virtual-CD or VCD. They also provide a software fix. But > the WD fix only disables VCD and makes the small partition > invisible. It does not release the space on th

Re: nic issue on Debian Lenny

2010-03-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Roman Gelfand put forth on 3/25/2010 10:16 PM: > My server has two onboard nics. I am using etho. For the longest > time it was working no problem. Then it just lost network > connectivity.When running ifconfig I get RX packets:0. > > Would any one know a way to fix it? I had similar probl

Re: Kiosk - binary image

2010-03-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 3/25/2010 8:02 PM: > On 2010-03-25 17:31, فـريـــد الغـــامــدي wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I am working on a project. it is building an ISO image. this ISO >> should have some configurations. Simply, the ISO will boot and >> directly the Iceweasel appear and the

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition [SOLVED]

2010-03-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100325_204331, Mark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Tom H wrote: > > > > > It is a feature! ;) > > > > There's probably Windows backup software on it; and who knows what else. > > > > Helpful post from Tom, I've done similar but only on Sandisk products. I > thought U3 was only a

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition

2010-03-25 Thread Mark
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Tom H wrote: > > It is a feature! ;) > > There's probably Windows backup software on it; and who knows what else. > Helpful post from Tom, I've done similar but only on Sandisk products. I thought U3 was only a Sandisk thing but now WD is using it too? Some of

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition

2010-03-25 Thread Tom H
>>> This thingy mounts as /media/My Passport >>> Or some such. Its unplugged not so I can't check(note embedded space in >>> name) >> It is an ro U3 partition on the WD usb drive. > That makes vague sense if WD is trying to play some games. It is a feature! ;) There's probably Windows backup so

nic issue on Debian Lenny

2010-03-25 Thread Roman Gelfand
My server has two onboard nics. I am using etho. For the longest time it was working no problem. Then it just lost network connectivity.When running ifconfig I get RX packets:0. Would any one know a way to fix it? I had similar problem with centos. The solution there was to assign eth1 de

Re: glxinfo setting to verbose mode outputs no extra info?

2010-03-25 Thread Tech Geek
> What driver do you use? Basically I am using ATI Rage Mobility M1 card and Xorg is using "mach64" driver. # lspci | grep VGA 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M (rev 64) # # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep driver X.Org XInput driver : 2.0 (==) Match

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-25 20:49, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] that will be a problem. The comment "CD part" confirms that I'm not hallucinating. And neither am I. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3#U3_disk_mounting:_hardware_emulation So, I think you're stuck with that little sr0 partition. Next time, buy an

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-25 20:20, Tom H wrote: I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in, it moun

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition

2010-03-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100325_204032, Tom H wrote: > > I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this > > before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern > > features that are causing be problem pain.  As delivered, the drive > > has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS).  When I plug i

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition

2010-03-25 Thread Tom H
>> >I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this >> >before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern >> >features that are causing be problem pain.  As delivered, the drive >> >has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS).  When I plug it in, it mounts as 2 >> >partitio

RE: Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Viau
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:55:24 -0400 wrote: > > > r...@localhost:~# tcpdump -pni br200 host 10.254.2.254 > > tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode > > listening on br200, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes > > 20:05:40.718890 IP 10.254.2.1.405

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition

2010-03-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100325_193701, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-25 19:17, Paul E Condon wrote: > >I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this > >before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern > >features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive > >

Re: Kiosk - binary image

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-25 17:31, فـريـــد الغـــامــدي wrote: Hi I am working on a project. it is building an ISO image. this ISO should have some configurations. Simply, the ISO will boot and directly the Iceweasel appear and the user just surf the web pages. Excellent. Good luck.

Re: Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-25 Thread Tom H
> r...@localhost:~# tcpdump -pni br200 host 10.254.2.254 > tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode > listening on br200, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes > 20:05:40.718890 IP 10.254.2.1.40570 > 10.254.2.254.53: 57874+ A? google.com. > (28) > 20:0

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition

2010-03-25 Thread Tom H
> I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this > before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern > features that are causing be problem pain.  As delivered, the drive > has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS).  When I plug it in, it mounts as 2 > partitions. One is

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-25 19:17, Paul E Condon wrote: I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in,

Re: glxinfo setting to verbose mode outputs no extra info?

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-25 18:53, Tech Geek wrote: Hi, I am using Debian Lenny on a PC. I am trying to figure out why direct rendering is not working so upon giving "glxinfo" command I get: # glxinfo > glxinfo.txt name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No (If you want to find out w

RE: Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Viau
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:00:51 -0400 wrote: > >> Why not add a dns-nameservers to "iface br200"? > > > Updated my /etc/network/interfaces with: > > # INTERNAL LAN VLAN/BRIDGE > > iface eth1.200 inet manual > > auto br200 > > iface br200 inet static > > dns-nameservers 10.254.2.254 > > address 10.25

RE: Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Viau
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:22:26 +1100 wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Mike Viau wrote: > > Hello debian-users, > > > > I have run into an interesting issue with the DNS resolution on only one of > > my debian lenny systems on my network. > > > [snip] > > So 10.254.2.254 is router, d

Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition

2010-03-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in, it mounts as 2 partitions. One is called /d

Re: NIS user member of plugdev, gnome-mount of flash drive raises error

2010-03-25 Thread Andrew Reid
On Thursday 25 March 2010 18:38:36 Joseph Lenox wrote: > I'm running lenny (5.0.4); and trying to get USB flash drive mounting in a > way that doesn't involve hand-adding every user to the plugdev group (we're > running NIS). > > I tried the pam_group approach, and id says the user is in the plugde

glxinfo setting to verbose mode outputs no extra info?

2010-03-25 Thread Tech Geek
Hi, I am using Debian Lenny on a PC. I am trying to figure out why direct rendering is not working so upon giving "glxinfo" command I get: # glxinfo > glxinfo.txt name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose) server

Re: NIS user member of plugdev, gnome-mount of flash drive raises error

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.03.2010 23:38, schrieb Joseph Lenox: > > I tried the pam_group approach, and id says the user is in the plugdev > group, but I'm still getting a permissions error from DBus. Adding the exact > user to the plugdev group on the local machine worked as far as the mounter. > http://bugs.debian

Re: Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-25 Thread Tom H
>> Why not add a dns-nameservers to "iface br200"? > Updated my /etc/network/interfaces with: > # INTERNAL LAN VLAN/BRIDGE > iface eth1.200 inet manual > auto br200 > iface br200 inet static >  dns-nameservers 10.254.2.254 >  address 10.254.2.1 >  netmask 255.255.255.0 >  network 10.254.2.0 >  bro

NIS user member of plugdev, gnome-mount of flash drive raises error

2010-03-25 Thread Joseph Lenox
I'm running lenny (5.0.4); and trying to get USB flash drive mounting in a way that doesn't involve hand-adding every user to the plugdev group (we're running NIS). I tried the pam_group approach, and id says the user is in the plugdev group, but I'm still getting a permissions error from DBus. Ad

Kiosk - binary image

2010-03-25 Thread فـــــريـــــــد الغـــــــامــــــدي
Hi I am working on a project. it is building an ISO image. this ISO should have some configurations. Simply, the ISO will boot and directly the Iceweasel appear and the user just surf the web pages. I am using Xserver-Xorg. I have done everything and the ISO boot and the Iceweasel start aut

col command broken

2010-03-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Earlier I used col -bx < typescript >typescript.tmp; mv typescript.tmp typescript to clean up typescript files so the escape codes are removed. With the latest update of col that I got though, running that command no longer cleans up typescript files and just leaves them in their original for

Re: Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-25 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Mike Viau wrote: > Hello debian-users, > > I have run into an interesting issue with the DNS resolution on only one of > my debian lenny systems on my network. > [snip] So 10.254.2.254 is router, dgw, dns and it working 10.254.2.1 is machine you are on that can't

Re: grub2; unknown command initrd

2010-03-25 Thread Tom H
>>> I have debian 5 on /dev/sda1 and ubuntu 10.04 on /dev/sda3 >>> here are my grub.cfg >>> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### >>> menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-2-amd64" { >>> set root=(hd0,1) >>> search --fs-uuid --set da13d632-e65a-4128-9b06-0ec24a5d390f >>> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26

installation failure

2010-03-25 Thread Alexander Petrov
Hi all, I tried to install Lenny on Toshiba laptop which has Windows Vista using network installation (netinst cd). It booted normally and after downloading some files suddenly stopped. The system failed to boot. I started it from a live cd and found that the ext3 filesystem was created and t

Re: VMWare Player as debian package

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:26:58 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Has anyone tried to package VMWare-Player as debian package ? I am > not able to find anything up-to-date for things related to vmware. I am > not very incline to run the shell (.bundle) script as root. It was formerly packaged, but

RE: Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Viau
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:19:18 -0500 wrote: > > On 2010-03-25 13:54, Mike Viau wrote: > > Hello debian-users, > > > > I have run into an interesting issue with the DNS resolution on only > > _one_ of my debian lenny systems on my network. > > > > I have confirmed that this system has working netw

RE: Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Viau
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:19:18 -0500 wrote: > > On 2010-03-25 13:54, Mike Viau wrote: > > Hello debian-users, > > > > I have run into an interesting issue with the DNS resolution on only > > _one_ of my debian lenny systems on my network. > > > > I have confirmed that this system has working netwo

Re: Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-25 13:54, Mike Viau wrote: Hello debian-users, I have run into an interesting issue with the DNS resolution on only _one_ of my debian lenny systems on my network. I have confirmed that this system has working network connectivity but I would like to restore the ability to query D

Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Viau
Hello debian-users, I have run into an interesting issue with the DNS resolution on only one of my debian lenny systems on my network. I have confirmed that this system has working network connectivity but I would like to restore the ability to query DNS records from my local DNS server which

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-25 12:58, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:40:29 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: ... I don't even play CDs anymore. Rip/transcode using abcde and play using moc (which is the only FLAC-understanding CLI player I've found). mplayer doesn't handle flac? Maybe, but while I'm sure

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

2010-03-25 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:40:29 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: ... > I don't even play CDs anymore. Rip/transcode using abcde and play > using moc (which is the only FLAC-understanding CLI player I've found). mplayer doesn't handle flac? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline R

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-25 12:06, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] And for simply playing audio CDs, I like the cdtool package. It uses the analog play method. For it to work, the cd or dvd drive I don't even play CDs anymore. Rip/transcode using abcde and play using moc (which is the only FLAC-understandi

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

2010-03-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:37:40 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-25 10:59, Rick Pasotto wrote: >> >> The grip help talks about making sure that IDE devices use SCSI >> emulation as the 2.4 kernels didn't support dma for IDE. Has that >> changed for the 2.6 kernels? > > Yes. Completely d

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-25 11:48, Mark wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Ron Johnson > wrote: For simply ripping CDs, I've always had great success using abcde. No frills, simple rip+transcode from WAV -> MP3/OGG/FLAC. I haven't used abcde but your email made me

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

2010-03-25 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:48:31 -0700 Mark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > For simply ripping CDs, I've always had great success using abcde. No > > frills, simple rip+transcode from WAV -> MP3/OGG/FLAC. > > > > I haven't used abcde but your email made me want

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

2010-03-25 Thread Mark
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > For simply ripping CDs, I've always had great success using abcde. No > frills, simple rip+transcode from WAV -> MP3/OGG/FLAC. > I haven't used abcde but your email made me want to learn about it which resulted in finding the website here ht

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-25 10:59, Rick Pasotto wrote: [snip] The grip help talks about making sure that IDE devices use SCSI emulation as the 2.4 kernels didn't support dma for IDE. Has that changed for the 2.6 kernels? Yes. Completely different now. Just checked the archives for the grip-users mailing

Re: Epson Stylus SX110 under Debian Lenny?

2010-03-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 25 March 2010 14:53:26 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > I a shop in my town it is sold at a good price the multifunction Epson > Stylus SX110 printer and I wish to buy it. Does anybody have any direct > experience that it should work fine under Lenny? > > Thanks for any response

Re: playing/ripping audio cds

2010-03-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:50:55PM +0100, Ingo Kasten wrote: > Sorry for just putting in another thought, maybe I am wrong: > > During upgrade of the kernel and/or udev the devices are sometimes newly > recognized. This makes udev create "new" devices , too. > It doesn't matter as far the devices

Re: Epson Stylus SX110 under Debian Lenny?

2010-03-25 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:39:17 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Rodolfo Medina put forth on 3/25/2010 8:53 AM: >> Hi all. >> >> I a shop in my town it is sold at a good price the multifunction Epson >> Stylus SX110 printer and I wish to buy it. Does anybody have any >> direct experience that it shoul

Re: Epson Stylus SX110 under Debian Lenny?

2010-03-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rodolfo Medina put forth on 3/25/2010 8:53 AM: > Hi all. > > I a shop in my town it is sold at a good price the multifunction Epson Stylus > SX110 printer and I wish to buy it. Does anybody have any direct experience > that it should work fine under Lenny? PDF here says Windows + MAC only, no Li

Re: PPTP VPN + radius on lenny

2010-03-25 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Mirko Scurk schreef: Hi! On Lenny need to setup pptpd + radius for windows clients. Studied couple of howtos but all seem to be incomplete or to complicated. That's because it is rather complicated. Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem libradiusclient-ng2 0.5.5-1 pptpd

Epson Stylus SX110 under Debian Lenny?

2010-03-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. I a shop in my town it is sold at a good price the multifunction Epson Stylus SX110 printer and I wish to buy it. Does anybody have any direct experience that it should work fine under Lenny? Thanks for any response. Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

PPTP VPN + radius on lenny

2010-03-25 Thread Mirko Scurk
Hi! On Lenny need to setup pptpd + radius for windows clients. Studied couple of howtos but all seem to be incomplete or to complicated. Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem libradiusclient-ng2 0.5.5-1 pptpd 1.3.4-2.1 freeradius2.1.3-0lenny0 /etc/pptpd

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-25 Thread Tom H
>> >> You can cnahe the UUID of any ext partition with >> > cnahe??? >> It is Sunday and my first weekend off in a few weeks so my fingers are >> on holiday... > Yes - excuse accepted.  But that still leaves the question marks.  Is it meant > to be "change"??  I never have been good at anagrams

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-24 22:40, Lubos Rendek wrote: Hi Paul, For me, linux device names have become very intuitive. Certainly more intuitive than UUIDs. I've been thinking about UUIDs for a little over a week. To me, the idea of UUIDs suffers from a great excess of pseudo-intellectual baggage. A conventio

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-25 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:26 -, Jen wrote: > I've installed linux-image-2.6.32-4-i686, but I can't boot in to the > new kernel. I have also installed the latest version of grub. I think I don't quite understand you. Stephen and I have pointed out the reasons *why* the -trunk- kernel is still

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-25 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Jen wrote: > I've installed linux-image-2.6.32-4-i686, but I can't boot in to the new > kernel. I have also installed the latest version of grub. > > What do I now have to do to get my machine to boot from the new kernel? I've > been told I should perge the package

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-25 Thread Jen
I've installed linux-image-2.6.32-4-i686, but I can't boot in to the new kernel. I have also installed the latest version of grub. What do I now have to do to get my machine to boot from the new kernel? I've been told I should perge the package linux-image2.6.32-trunk-686, but I don't have to.

Re: Debug files for kget?

2010-03-25 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:19:07 +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: > Hey, I got a crash from kget and besides installing kde{base,libs}-dbg, > I have no idea what other *-dbg files to install in order to get a > meaningful backtrace for reporting. Anyone can please help ? I think you will need "kdenetwork-