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

2010-03-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Celejar put forth on 3/26/2010 4:20 PM: > Good to know - I guess it's just luck of the draw. I once cringed as I > dropped my WD external about four feet (onto carpet), but so far > (months later) it's still working fine. Here's what you guys need: http://www.adata.com.tw/en/product_show.php?Pro

Re: Lenny in less than 32 MB of drive space?

2010-03-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
VR put forth on 3/26/2010 11:09 AM: > Hello, > > I'm poking at a Wyse 3150SE and have the 180 MB netinst booting from USB > but would ideally want the operating system inside this unit instead of > attaching a permanent USB flash for storage. > > I'm wondering if anyone lurking here has successfu

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Tom H
>> If fstab's 6th column is 0, the mount count is not checked. > For the USB drives in question, there is no entry in /etc/fstab. Exactly! Since it is not in fstab, its mount count increments past the maximum mount count without an fsck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: System hangs while rebooting.

2010-03-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Usman Ajmal put forth on 3/26/2010 6:32 AM: > Hi, > > I have Debian installed on two computers. On one of them it reboots quite > finely but I am having following problem with rebooting Debian on my second > computer. > > When i type reboot at the linux prompt, following messages appear and syste

handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-26 Thread briand
Hi all, ivman ? automount ? I'd like something where I can encode the behavior for particular devices, i.e. as I'm using the same devices over and over I'd like a way to make sure that the same device gets mapped to the same thing. Not needing X to be up and running is nice too. teh google reve

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100327_000658, Tom H wrote: > >> > Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been > >> > mounted > >> > and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) > >> > responsible for > >> > doing this check? > > >> No, that is a property of the file system i

Re: Repartitioning a USB external HD. Need help removing existing partition (private question)

2010-03-26 Thread Tom H
>> 2) echo "1" /sys/block/sr0/device/delete should have been echo "1" >/sys/block/sr0/device/delete with apologies. -- 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

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Tom H
>> > Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been >> > mounted >> > and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) >> > responsible for >> > doing this check? >> No, that is a property of the file system itself. > I think that the fs does the incremen

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
I started a run of e2fsck on one of my USB drives and got the following: r...@big:~# e2fsck /dev/sdb1 e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010) WDP-5 has been mounted 58 times without being checked, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Error reading block 119439482 (Attempt to read block fr

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100326_214159, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:28:40 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been > > mounted > > and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) responsible > > for > > doing

Re: Flash drive internal fragmentation.

2010-03-26 Thread R. Clayton
Thanks for your replies to my message. Putting a fat32 fs on the thumb drive did the trick; the block size is 4k, matching what's on the hard drive file systems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:28:40 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon wrote: > > Was gvm ever involved in checking the number of times a volume has been > mounted > and running e2fsck as needed? What software is now (in squeeze) responsible > for > doing this check? No, that is a property of the file system

RE: [UPDATE] Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-26 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 10.2

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100327_003115, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 26.03.2010 22:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Michael Biebl
On 26.03.2010 22:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not > Squeeze, at least not for me. > > Googlin

Re: Testing upgrade Failures:

2010-03-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:29:15 -0500, JW Foster wrote: > I just tried to do an upgrade on testing & I,m getting several errors. > First snip of output is regarding unknown types. I have no idea what > this is but I seen it before. > SNIP- > > Processing t

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100326_151046, Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was availabl

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100326_164643, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-26 16:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > >I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > >just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > >in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not > Squeeze, at least not

Re: Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-26 16:31, Paul E Condon wrote: I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not Squeeze, at least not for me. Googling indicate

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Mike Dresser on 2010-03-03 15:14:02: > Icedove has a 4gb folder size limit.. could you have hit that? If his email traffic is anything like mine, then he should have plenty of room within that 4GiB limit, considering he has less than 3000 messages -- A 30K-message maildir is only 54MB gzip

Re: col command broken

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Jude DaShiell on 2010-03-25 17:01:43: > When I find out what package provides col, I'll do a report-bug on it bry...@esterhazy:~$ dpkg -S `which col` bsdmainutils: /usr/bin/col It's provided by the package 'bsdmainutils'. dpkg can do way more than installing and removing packages, as I ju

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Carlos Williams on 2010-03-02 09:28:13: > I thought I was purging the package, no? > > #apt-get remove --purge exim4 As implied by Boyd in a sibling post, the package 'exim4' is what's termed a metapackage, a package whose only role is to pull in other packages via Depends. The package man

Squeeze Gnome Preferences >> Removable Drives and Media

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not Squeeze, at least not for me. Googling indicates this is a known issue, but seems to be ign

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

2010-03-26 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:11:48 -0700 Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18:57AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:51:07 -0700 > > Freeman wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > I've had two passports for about 3 and 5 years now. The third and newest, > > > the only SATA, died from

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

2010-03-26 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:18:57AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:51:07 -0700 > Freeman wrote: > > ... > > > I've had two passports for about 3 and 5 years now. The third and newest, > > the only SATA, died from a ridiculously small drop, maybe three feet onto > > carpet. > > Wh

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

2010-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-26 13:51, Tech Geek wrote: Thanks Ron for the link. That was informative. I will try to go that route. But the original question still remains unanswered as to why setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose does not produces more ouput as it claims. Should I file a bug report against mesa-utils p

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

2010-03-26 Thread Tech Geek
Thanks Ron for the link. That was informative. I will try to go that route. But the original question still remains unanswered as to why setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose does not produces more ouput as it claims. Should I file a bug report against mesa-utils package?

installation failure

2010-03-26 Thread Alexander Petrov
Than you for the advice. I will start over the installation. greetings, Alexander _ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

Re: Lenny in less than 32 MB of drive space?

2010-03-26 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:09 PM, VR wrote: > Hello, > > I'm poking at a Wyse 3150SE and have the 180 MB netinst booting from USB but > would ideally want the operating system inside this unit instead of > attaching a permanent USB flash for storage. > > I'm wondering if anyone lurking here has su

Re: Lenny in less than 32 MB of drive space?

2010-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-26 12:45, Rick Thomas wrote: [snip] I've got an NSLU2 ("slug") with 32 MB RAM and 8 MB of flash doing duty as an NTP server. It has a "Gizmo! jr" drive as it's only mass storage. Works a treat. What's the package list? -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to

Re: Lenny in less than 32 MB of drive space?

2010-03-26 Thread Rick Thomas
If you want a reasonable approximation to a headless, but otherwise full Debian installation, your best bet would be to buy a 2GB USB2.0 flash drive. 32 MB isn't going to cut it.Crucial sells their "Gizmo! jr" 2 GB drive[1] for US$15. It's "about half the size of a stick of gum". (

Re: nic issue on Debian Lenny

2010-03-26 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On Fri, Mar 26 at 10:55, Stephen Powell penned: > > First of all, when you say that you have "two onboard nics", I > interpret that to mean that there are two network adapters built-in > to the motherboard, as opposed to separate network adapters > installed in a bus-slot. Is that what you mean?

Debian Cloaks on Freenode

2010-03-26 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
I am a regular supporter of Debian in the #debian channel on irc.freenode.net. This is not the "official" channel but still more popular than the official channel on OFTC. I was informed by the Freenode staff that in order to get "Debian" in my cloak, I needed a "group cloak". I was also informed

Testing upgrade Failures:

2010-03-26 Thread JW Foster
I just tried to do an upgrade on testing & I,m getting several errors. First snip of output is regarding unknown types. I have no idea what this is but I seen it before. SNIP- Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for gnome-menu

Re: nic issue on Debian Lenny

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:55:17 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > It's quite common to see a motherboard with a built-in ethernet > adapter, but I haven't seen any motherboards with *two* built-in > ethernet adapters. I have been informed in a private e-mail that two built-in nics is not uncommon

Re: Flash drive internal fragmentation.

2010-03-26 Thread Bob McGowan
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-24 12:07, Bob McGowan wrote: > [snip] >> >> And, I used VFAT for the filesystem type: > > That's the key difference, since vfat "is" fat32. > Ah, yes. Too long since I've dealt much with FAT of any sort, details get forgotten ... Thanks for the reminder. >> $ m

Re: Lenny in less than 32 MB of drive space?

2010-03-26 Thread VR
On 3/26/2010 12:09 PM, VR wrote: Hello, I'm poking at a Wyse 3150SE and have the 180 MB netinst booting from USB but would ideally want the operating system inside this unit instead of attaching a permanent USB flash for storage. I'm wondering if anyone lurking here has successfully gotten Debi

Re: Problems when logging out Gnome

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:43:14 -0400 (EDT), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Lenny installed on my old Pentium III often gets stuck when logging out Gnome, > either via the panel menu or with `Ctrl-Alt-Backspace'. > > Does anyone have any direct experience of the same problem or can suggest what > the cause

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

2010-03-26 Thread Tom H
>> 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 the Windows software Tom H mentioned and shown here makes me > skepti

Re: Lenny in less than 32 MB of drive space?

2010-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-26 11:09, VR wrote: Hello, I'm poking at a Wyse 3150SE and have the 180 MB netinst booting from USB but would ideally want the operating system inside this unit instead of attaching a permanent USB flash for storage. I'm wondering if anyone lurking here has successfully gotten Deb

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

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:52:49 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-26 00:57, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> Nowhere does it mention Linux, period. How can you complain about their >> Linux support when the product literature doesn't mention Linux? So, you >> assume that the lack of mention me

Lenny in less than 32 MB of drive space?

2010-03-26 Thread VR
Hello, I'm poking at a Wyse 3150SE and have the 180 MB netinst booting from USB but would ideally want the operating system inside this unit instead of attaching a permanent USB flash for storage. I'm wondering if anyone lurking here has successfully gotten Debian to install into less than 3

Re: System hangs while rebooting.

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:32:31 -0400 (EDT), Usman Ajmal wrote: > > I have Debian installed on two computers. On one of them it reboots quite > finely but I am having following problem with rebooting Debian on my second > computer. > > When i type reboot at the linux prompt, following messages appea

Re: Debian pdf files

2010-03-26 Thread godo
Bikash Poudel wrote: Hellow, I want to switch from Windows to Linux, and intending to adopt Debian distribution. Since I do not have regular and reliable internet,I want to download all free PDF files of manuals,books,HOW TOs and references of Debian. Is there a package of all books downloadable

[SOLVED] pivot_root. unmount old root

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:50:44 -0400 (EDT), Katharina Haselhorst wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Katharina Haselhorst wrote: >>> What I still need to figure out is how I can replace init with a custom >>> process... but I think for that I will have to patch init itself. >> >> Why do you need to pat

Re: nic issue on Debian Lenny

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:16:59 -0400 (EDT), Roman Gelfand wrote: > > 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?

Re: Problems when logging out Gnome

2010-03-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > Lenny installed on my old Pentium III often gets stuck when logging out Gnome, > either via the panel menu or with `Ctrl-Alt-Backspace'. > > Does anyone have any direct experience of the same problem or can suggest what > the cause may ever be and how to work it

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

2010-03-26 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:51:07 -0700 Freeman wrote: ... > I've had two passports for about 3 and 5 years now. The third and newest, > the only SATA, died from a ridiculously small drop, maybe three feet onto > carpet. While on or off? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offlin

Re: Apache Document Root

2010-03-26 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I for whatever reason am unable to locate the Apache 'DocumentRoot' > directory setting in '/etc/apache2/apach2.conf' file. I normally would > find his in httpd.conf but that is emptry in Debian and they use > 'apache2.conf' for whatever re

Apache Document Root

2010-03-26 Thread Carlos Mennens
I for whatever reason am unable to locate the Apache 'DocumentRoot' directory setting in '/etc/apache2/apach2.conf' file. I normally would find his in httpd.conf but that is emptry in Debian and they use 'apache2.conf' for whatever reason. Can someone please tell me why in my 'apache2.conf' file th

Problems when logging out Gnome

2010-03-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. Lenny installed on my old Pentium III often gets stuck when logging out Gnome, either via the panel menu or with `Ctrl-Alt-Backspace'. Does anyone have any direct experience of the same problem or can suggest what the cause may ever be and how to work it out? Thanks for any help Rodolfo

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

2010-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100326_005717, 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 makes the small partiti

Re: System hangs while rebooting.

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 16:32:31 +0500, Usman Ajmal (syedusmanaj...@gmail.com) wrote: > I have Debian installed on two computers. On one of them it reboots quite > finely but I am having following problem with rebooting Debian on my second > computer. > > When i type reboot at the linux prompt,

Re: installation failure

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:16:41 -0400 (EDT), Alexander Petrov wrote: > 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

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

2010-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-25 21:35, Tech Geek wrote: > 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 driv

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

2010-03-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:52:49 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-26 00:57, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip] >> >> Nowhere does it mention Linux, period. How can you complain about >> their Linux support when the product literature doesn't mention Linux? >> So, you assume that the lack of mention

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

2010-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-26 00:57, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip] Nowhere does it mention Linux, period. How can you complain about their Linux support when the product literature doesn't mention Linux? So, you assume that the lack of mention means it's supported? Even though all the other OS's supported are

System hangs while rebooting.

2010-03-26 Thread Usman Ajmal
Hi, I have Debian installed on two computers. On one of them it reboots quite finely but I am having following problem with rebooting Debian on my second computer. When i type reboot at the linux prompt, following messages appear and system hangs up after saying "Restarting System": *Broadcast

Re: Videos playing slowly on full screen mode

2010-03-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:52:14 +0530, Varun Paliwal wrote: > I am using Debian Lenny on a Dell Latitude D630 ( intel 965GM chipset > with integrated moblie intel GMA X3100) with all the latest updates but > my videos play slowly on vlc media player/totem player on full screen. > On windows xp sp3 th

Re: col command broken

2010-03-26 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:01:43 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > 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

Videos playing slowly on full screen mode

2010-03-26 Thread Varun Paliwal
Hi, I am using Debian Lenny on a Dell Latitude D630 ( intel 965GM chipset with integrated moblie intel GMA X3100) with all the latest updates but my videos play slowly on vlc media player/totem player on full screen. On windows xp sp3 there was no problem at all. Could someone pls help me with thi

Re: installation failure

2010-03-26 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:16:41 +0200, Alexander Petrov wrote: > 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

Re: pivot_root. unmount old root

2010-03-26 Thread Katharina Haselhorst
What I still need to figure out is how I can replace init with a custom process... but I think for that I will have to patch init itself. Why do you need to patch init? I'm not sure if I really have to but I don't want to run all init scripts of the new system right away but do some other stu