On Saturday 10 April 2010 22:12:04 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Stephen Powell put forth on 4/8/2010 9:38 PM:
> >> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
> >>
> >> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
> >> Teach a
Paul E Condon put forth on 4/10/2010 11:41 PM:
> So, the fact that my WD drives don't play well with S.M.A.R.T doesn't
> make them special, and I should not spend much, if any, time looking
> for a USB solution. What other options are there for external HD?
You're got 3 USB hard drives already,
On 20100411_005504, Celejar wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:41:57 -0600
> Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > So, the fact that my WD drives don't play well with S.M.A.R.T doesn't
> > make them special, and I should not spend much, if any, time looking
> > for a USB solution. What other options
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:41:57 -0600
Paul E Condon wrote:
...
> So, the fact that my WD drives don't play well with S.M.A.R.T doesn't
> make them special, and I should not spend much, if any, time looking
> for a USB solution. What other options are there for external HD?
I'm sorry, I don't real
On 20100411_002510, Celejar wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:06:06 -0600
> Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > I got a little less timid and tried running smartctl even though I was
> > quite unsure of what to expect. It ran. Each of the three USB HD gave
> > somewhat different output, but none ga
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:06:06 -0600
Paul E Condon wrote:
...
> I got a little less timid and tried running smartctl even though I was
> quite unsure of what to expect. It ran. Each of the three USB HD gave
> somewhat different output, but none gave output that claimed there was
> a working SMART
Hello,
I was hoping to get some feedback or tips on how to setup a PCI serial card
(not onboard) for kernel message log capturing. I am using Debian Lenny x64
with the grub2 bootloader.
This might sound like an easy question, but does the Linux kernel module have
to be compiled with the runni
On 20100410_162445, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20100410_092044, Clive McBarton wrote:
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> > Paul E Condon wrote:>
> > > dumpe2fs -b is supposed to print the bad blocks that have
> > > been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing.
Hiya
I came across this blog
http://ryanbigg.com/2010/04/want-it-give/
and I couldn't agree more with this person.
But I would like to bring this a little more home, and make it in the
Debian sense.
I would like to encourage more people to run Debian Testing, get more
debugging, but more imp
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:59:11 -0500
Nate Bargmann wrote:
> If at all possible, avoid WEP and use WPA pre-shared key encryption.
> WEP is easily cracked while WPA offers the use of a 63 character key.
> Using random characters (as generated at:
> https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm ) will give you
On 20100410_092044, Clive McBarton wrote:
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> Paul E Condon wrote:>
> > dumpe2fs -b is supposed to print the bad blocks that have
> > been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find it
> > hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:12:04AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Stephen Powell put forth on 4/8/2010 9:38 PM:
> >
> >> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
> >>
> >> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
> >>
vr schreef:
> What's the best mechanism to migrate a working bootable system from one
> drive to a smaller capacity drive?
>
> e.g. take this 226G filesystem
>
> df -h
> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1 226G 4.1G 210G 2% /
> tmpfs
> Actually lenny is still on KDE 3.5, but you can get OOo 3.2 from
> backports.
>
Thanks, I was going from the info on distrowatch. I will look into backports.
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e.g. take this 226G filesystem
df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 226G 4.1G 210G 2% /
tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /lib/ini
On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Stephen Powell put forth on 4/8/2010 9:38 PM:
>
>> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
>>
>> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
>> Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
>>
>> I'd rather le
On Sun,11.Apr.10, 00:00:24, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I was thinking of squeeze as (if I'm not mistaken, correct me if I am)
> Lenny is still on KDE 4.2.x and Open Office 2.x. KDE 4.4 is such an
> improvement over 4.2, and OOo 3.2 is worlds ahead of 2.4.
Actually lenny is still on KDE 3.5, but you ca
>> Stability issues and updates are the reasons that I switched _to_
>> Ubuntu! Before that it was the early Fedoras. I still think that my
>> favourite two Linux OSes were Fedora Core 3 and Ubuntu Feisty.
>>
>> Maybe I will give Squeeze a round before my next install. I've last
>> tested only Lenn
> (1) No need to CC me; I am subscribed to the list.
>
Sorry, I will try to remember. Gmail has random
to-whom-the-message-will-be-replied-to behaviour, and furthermore I
prefer that I get CCed. So I usually play it safe.
> (2) I see that you (and a number of others) have had fun with parodies o
> While what you say is true to an extent, there are a number of members of
> the Ubuntu list who are quite sharp. The Debian list on the whole is more
> informative.
>
I did not mean to insult the whole list. Users such as NoOp (who also
posts on openoffice-users) as tremendous help there. I real
> Well, squeeze my be well into the last half of its cycle. They are working
> toward a pre-release freeze now.
>
I was thinking of squeeze as (if I'm not mistaken, correct me if I am)
Lenny is still on KDE 4.2.x and Open Office 2.x. KDE 4.4 is such an
improvement over 4.2, and OOo 3.2 is worlds a
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:43:29PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:09:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sat,10.Apr.10, 11:38:08, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> > > Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
>
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:59:11AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> If at all possible, avoid WEP and use WPA pre-shared key encryption.
> WEP is easily cracked while WPA offers the use of a 63 character key.
> Using random characters (as generated at:
> https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm ) will give
> will be listed as "Pending". Pending sectors are much worse than
> Reallocated sectors, as Pending sectors mean lost data (if the sector
Indeed. OTOH "Pending sectors" can be eliminated by turning them into
Reallocated sectors (just write to the corresponding sector), whereas
Reallocated sec
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 18:41:15, Clive McBarton wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
>
> I believe that this is not complelely true. What is true is that, on the
> command line, in interactive mode, you can use either and it wi
Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:50:05 +0200, steef wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
here it comes:
st...@debianlennynw:~$ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible
controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics
Controller (rev 03) 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller
Where can I find the definitions of all sections in the Control file?
Examples of sections: admin, cli-mono, comm, database, devel, debug, doc,
editors, electronics, embedded, fonts, games, gnome, graphics, gnu-r, gnustep,
hamradio, haskell, httpd, interpreters, java, kde, kernel, libs, libdevel
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Tony Nelson wrote:
> If the data in a sector was not readable, the sector
> will be listed as "Pending". Pending sectors are much worse than
> Reallocated sectors, as Pending sectors mean lost data (if the sector
> was in actual use, which SMART do
On 10-04-10 03:20:44, Clive McBarton wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:>
> > dumpe2fs -b is supposed to print the bad blocks that have
> > been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find
> > it hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains ZERO bad blocks.
>
> Every HD that is even remot
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:37:55 -0400, Dave Witbrodt
wrote:
> On 04/10/2010 10:37 AM, vr wrote:
>> I just picked up a laptop that has that display adapter.
>> lspci:
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon
>> HD
>> 5600 Series]
>>
>>
>> The highest resolution I've be
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:50:05 +0200, steef wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
>> Just another thing to try.
>>
>> Issue "lspci | grep VGA" and put here the output.
(...)
> here it comes:
>
> st...@debianlennynw:~$ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible
> controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset In
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I run KDE and normally mount usb devices with the "Storage Media" applet
in the task bar. Recently I have been getting strange errors and
mounting failed:
Rejected send message, 3 matched rules; type="method_call",
sender=":1.21" (uid=101 pid=13921 c
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Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> Interesting. So what is /badblocks/ for,
>
> I would say it is useful to make the drive access every single block;
> afterwards you can check in the SMART log if that caused any remappings.
That's a good idea.
Another appl
Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:48:28 +0200, steef wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
please! some further suggestions??
Try to load "nv" driver and see what happens.
and that is what i did. kaffeine is still giving trouble
with mpeg4-files&&. so i
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,10.Apr.10, 08:51:16, Clive McBarton wrote:
>
>> Certainly so. What I meant to ask is what to do if you (like the OP)
>> want automatic upgrades (downloaded and installed without the admin
>> present) but (unlike the OP)
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:48:28 +0200, steef wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
>>> please! some further suggestions??
>>>
>> Try to load "nv" driver and see what happens.
>>
>>
>>
> and that is what i did. kaffeine is still giving trouble
> with mpeg4-files &&. so i loaded again the intel-d
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 08:45:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-04-10 02:20, Clive McBarton wrote:
[...]
> >Every HD that is even remotely close to being usable will always have
> >zero bad blocks when seen from outside the HD. All HDs have error
> >recognition and error correction and autom
Everytime I log into GNOME, I run this command in my home directory.
xmodmap keymaps
How can I automate this?
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Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:25:32 +0200, steef wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
(...)
<.>
please! some further suggestions??
Try to load "nv" driver and see what happens.
Greetings,
and that is what i did. kaffeine is still giving trouble
On 04/10/2010 10:37 AM, vr wrote:
I just picked up a laptop that has that display adapter.
lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD
5600 Series]
The highest resolution I've been able to get so far is 1400x1040 but using
the VESA driver.
xrandr:
Screen 0:
Francesco Pietra wrote:
Following "apt-get dist-upgrade" with debian squeeze i386, upgrading
from kernel 2.6.30 to 2.6.32, the xserver was broken at "startx"
because kernel compiled with gcc 4.3 while now gcc 4.4. I could only
boot from previous 2.6.30 to have the xserver at startx.
Following
e
Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:25:32 +0200, steef wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
(...)
I would first try with "nv" driver (no 3D accel) to discard the freeze
coming from another source. If using "nv" driver and you get no more
freezes, then you can safely blame the nvidia drive
I just picked up a laptop that has that display adapter.
lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD
5600 Series]
The highest resolution I've been able to get so far is 1400x1040 but using
the VESA driver.
xrandr:
Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 1400 x 1
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-10 02:20, Clive McBarton wrote:
Paul E Condon wrote:>
dumpe2fs -b is supposed to print the bad blocks that have
been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find it
hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains ZERO bad blocks.
Every HD that is even
We have found that the Lenny rdestkop-1.6.0-2 package seg faults
reliably when using seamlessrdp. In fact, it seg faults on every other
access. Apparently this is a known problem. We did apply the known
patch. It works and we have packaged internally as rdesktop-1.6.0-2.1.
Should we do anything
On 2010-04-10 02:20, Clive McBarton wrote:
Paul E Condon wrote:>
dumpe2fs -b is supposed to print the bad blocks that have
been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find it
hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains ZERO bad blocks.
Every HD that is even remotely close to b
If at all possible, avoid WEP and use WPA pre-shared key encryption.
WEP is easily cracked while WPA offers the use of a 63 character key.
Using random characters (as generated at:
https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm ) will give you a network that will
be extremely hard to crack via a brute force a
* On 2010 09 Apr 09:40 -0500, Lisi wrote:
> > wicd and network-mangler also have curses interfaces, but it is
> > impossible to use them for advanced setups like RADIUS, ...
>
> +1 for wicd if you want an easy life. But you may need to use the backported
> version if you are running Lenny. In
Thanks.
thib wrote:
> Was.
>
> The only thing to keep in mind is that aptitude keeps an internal
> state; a sort of staging state that you work on while using the
> ncurses UI. It only "clears" it on demand or when you "commit" your
> changes, thus you can close and re-open a session without los
Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
I think I know what went wrong. I used an older net-install disk from
testing when lenny was not stable. I misslabeled the CD. My bad!
Sorry, that was about another problem I had. It was late when I wrote
the above message. While installing a new system (using
Merciadri Luca wrote:
Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:09:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I guess this was the big headach
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411123
_was_ or _is still_?
Was.
The only thing to keep in mind is that aptitude keeps an internal sta
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:25:32 +0200, steef wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> I would first try with "nv" driver (no 3D accel) to discard the freeze
>> coming from another source. If using "nv" driver and you get no more
>> freezes, then you can safely blame the nvidia driver and try by
>> searchi
I seem to be stuck (slightly) with converting an some postgres and mysql
based php web applications to sqlite.
There seems to be two possible interfaces to the database SQLite3 and PDO
I have discovered that SQLite3 seems to set the busy timeout to 0 -
meaning that if there is any other activi
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 09:02 +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
> I don't want to put: apt-get update in:
> /etc/crontab
>
> But then how could I "automate" the: apt-get update
APT has such built-in feature, see
/etc/cron.daily/apt
Which you can configure manually, or...
> ? Is there a program for it?
Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:09:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
>
> I guess this was the big headach
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411123
>
>
>
>
_was_ or _is still_?
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I us
Hello Russel,
I am suspecting an issue on the server side.
Can you provide a verbose log of the server side,
Regards,
Franklin
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 20:00 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote:
>
> On my main system I have two user accounts, 'rcarter' and 'sardine'. I
> remove the .ssh directories f
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:09:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,10.Apr.10, 11:38:08, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> > Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > >
> > > It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
> > >
> > Sure? How can you state this? Any proof? I always thought t
Okay. Thanks for these precisions.
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,10.Apr.10, 11:38:08, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
>
> I'm not sure what I can do to prove that something doesn't exist. I
> could for example post the console output of:
>
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get upgrade
> # aptitude safe-upgr
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 12:25:32, steef wrote:
> thanks for your answers. i tried to install xserver-xorg-video-nv
> on my (simple) machine asusrock g41m-s with the bios adapted. i
> could of course install the nv-driver but this driver did not appesr
> in /etc/X11. maybe a hardware problem: a bad card
Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:02:06 +0200, steef wrote:
got myself a asusrock standard atx mobo with a gforce 9400 (nvidia) in a
pci-express slot. i have to use the 195 4driver from *their* site. the
standard lenny driver for nvidia does not support this hardware. (or am
i wrong??)
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 11:38:08, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
> >
> Sure? How can you state this? Any proof? I always thought that they were
> incompatible.
I'm not sure what I can do to prove that some
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,10.Apr.10, 08:51:16, Clive McBarton wrote:
>
>
>
> It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and aptitude is not a problem anymore.
>
Sure? How can you state this? Any proof? I always thought that they were
incompatible.
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On Fri,09.Apr.10, 11:58:32, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Ionel ;)
> I just migrate my desktop from lenny to squeeze and after installing
> all new packages and reboot the system hang at the boot process
> asking for the root password because it can't find /dev/sdaX, where
> X=2,6,7,8,9.
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 08:51:16, Clive McBarton wrote:
> Certainly so. What I meant to ask is what to do if you (like the OP)
> want automatic upgrades (downloaded and installed without the admin
> present) but (unlike the OP) only use aptitude and never apt-get.
It doesn't matter. Mixing apt-get and
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Mirco Piccin writes:
> Hi Luca,
>
>> I have a PDF document that I want to lock for some features, such as
>> content extraction, and printing.
>
> If you want to use a shell command, you can use the pdftk package.
> You can set encryption, allow/disa
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 03:02:51PM +, T o n g wrote:
> 1st of all, thanks everyone that responded.
>
> On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:16:57 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
>
> > Check http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse
> >
> > I am particularly fond of wpa_supplicant in roaming mode [1] but you
>
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Paul E Condon wrote:>
> dumpe2fs -b is supposed to print the bad blocks that have
> been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find it
> hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains ZERO bad blocks.
Every HD that is even remotely close
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