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2010-04-12 Thread Jeffrin Thalakkottoor
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Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-12 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: pecon...@mesanetworks.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: About USB hard drives and errors >Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:47:40 -0600 > >>On 20100411_115203, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Sat,10.Apr.10, 16:24:45, Paul E Condon wrote: >>> >>> > T

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-12 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon wrote: >> My understanding is that S.M.A.R.T. doesn't generally work over USB. > > 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

Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?

2010-04-12 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Clive McBarton schreef: >> Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >>> mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a >>> rsync -ax / /media/newdevice. >> What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"? > Adde

Re: What prevents mounting of USB devices?

2010-04-12 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > Did you have any security upgrades lately Sure, I install them regularly. Doesn't everybody? > or did you install packages from backports or volatile I do have the following as part of my sources.conf: deb http://volatile.d

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100412_152156, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > 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

Re: Definitions of all sections in the Control file.

2010-04-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Xuan Ngo writes: > 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, k

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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 gave output that claimed there was a work

Re: Google repositories

2010-04-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100412_153139, Christopher Judd wrote: > On Monday 12 April 2010 15:13:06 Camaleón wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:34:30 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > > > I was trying to install Google-earth, but was not successful. Have > > > the > > > Google repositories moved, or been disco

Re: Boot / LVM best practices

2010-04-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm thinking to replace this IDE drive with two SATA HDs. One as small as > I can get. Say 100GB or so and make that the boot drive. And a second HD say > 500GB or so and moving the LVM over to that. That begs the question: why exactly do you want 2 drives, and why do you want one of the two to

Re: What prevents mounting of USB devices?

2010-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 14:57:01 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 19:20:42 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > >> 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

Re: Google repositories

2010-04-12 Thread Christopher Judd
On Monday 12 April 2010 15:13:06 Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:34:30 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > > I was trying to install Google-earth, but was not successful. Have > > the > > Google repositories moved, or been discontinued? > > IIRC, I installed GoogleEarth on 64-bits

Re: Google repositories

2010-04-12 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:34:30 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > >>      I was trying to install Google-earth, but was not successful.  Have >>      the >> Google repositories moved, or been discontinued? > > IIRC, I installed GoogleEarth on 64-bits

wget, apache and spam

2010-04-12 Thread sethurf
Hi, Since a few months, I try to find a solution for my problem. Indeed, files are put into /tmp/ (like dc.txt, email.txt, enviar.txt, etc.) with the www-data (=apache) user. In these files, there are perl scripts and mails (so much mails !!). Perls scripts are running and send spam, so, my mail

Re: Google repositories

2010-04-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:34:30 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > I was trying to install Google-earth, but was not successful. Have > the > Google repositories moved, or been discontinued? IIRC, I installed GoogleEarth on 64-bits lenny by downloading from Google's site (.bin file) and ha

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Re: Google repositories

2010-04-12 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Christopher Judd wrote: > Hi, > >     I was trying to install Google-earth, but was not successful.  Have the > Google repositories moved, or been discontinued? > > -Chris > The package googleearth-package appears to be in contrib. Have you enabled contrib in your

Re: Google repositories

2010-04-12 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Christopher Judd wrote: > Hi, > >     I was trying to install Google-earth, but was not successful.  Have the > Google repositories moved, or been discontinued? > > -Chris > The package googleearth-package appears to be in contrib. Have you enabled contrib in your

Google repositories

2010-04-12 Thread Christopher Judd
Hi, I was trying to install Google-earth, but was not successful. Have the Google repositories moved, or been discontinued? -Chris | Christopher Judd, Ph. D. | | Research

Re: udev & /dev/sdaX & lenny2squeeze

2010-04-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:59:19 -0400 (EDT), Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > My previous post was premature, if I restore /dev/sdaX using tar, > I can only use the console. X can't make use of the keyboard or mouse. > /edv/eth0 also doesn't exist, althought the interface is up, etc. > It looks like

RE: Debian Lenny + Grub2 + kernel message log capturing

2010-04-12 Thread Mike Viau
> Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:20:54 -0400 > > 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 t

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:07:08 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-04-12 11:19 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> There's something broken in the design of Debian's migration to testing. >> >> A grave bug in the testing version of module-init-tools (3.12~pre2-1) >> was fixed several weeks ago, a

Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?

2010-04-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:44:07 -0400 (EDT), thib wrote: > > Well, as I said in another branch of the thread, you can shrink most > filesystems, including all extfs (I think the only bad boy here is XFS), > look at resize2fs(8) from e2fsprogs for these. vr, it looks like you've already received pl

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Celejar wrote: > He probably read your 'Control-R' as 'Control + R', which tells web > browsers to reload, rather than 'right Control key'. yep. ²³±!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Error: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

2010-04-12 Thread Darshaka Pathirana
On 04/12/2010 08:26 AM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > vikram wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is the output of scp -vv >> >> $ scp -vv files.tar.gz r...@192.168.1.11:/root/Desktop >> Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host 192.168.1.11, user root, command >> scp -v -t /root/Desktop >> OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5, OpenSS

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:59:31 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:47:07 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > > (...) > > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> - Press Control-R and then press Shift-R (keep those pressed at the > >> same time) > >> - Now press "u" an

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Maybe you mistyped the sequence? ;-) nah, works in gedit. just not iceweasel. so, its obvious that i have ² . so why is it not showing up in the character map? thanks for all your suggestions. and camaleón, sorry for the half-built email sent

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:47:07 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: (...) > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> - Press Control-R and then press Shift-R (keep those pressed at the >> same time) >> - Now press "u" and release the three keys (it will appear an underline >> "u" in the screen)

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread jeremy jozwik
christ! lots of replies here! $ echo -e "\xc2\xb9\xc2\xb2\xc2\xb3\xe2\x81\xb4\xe2\x81\xb5" ¹²³⁴⁵ so, that is copy>pasteable. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: > - Press Control-R and then press Shift-R (keep those pressed at the same > time) > - Now press "u" and release the th

Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)

2010-04-12 Thread Steve Fishpaste
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 09:46:45AM -0400, Stephen Powell uttered: > You're welcome to search our archives. But don't post here unless you > run Debian, want to know how your system works, and are willing to help > others as well as yourself. I'm not trying to be unkind. I have nothing > against

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 12 April 2010 15:23:45 Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:05:59 -0400, Celejar wrote: > Curious is that I can get "¹²³" by using the "Shift+^+number" method but > that does not work for the rest of the numbers "4 5 6 7 8 9". When I > press that combo (i.e., "Shift+^+4"), my system

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:05:59 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:05:57 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > ... > >> Besides the tip Cameron provided, I add another one (only for GNOME): > > Actually, this is a GTK+ method (based on ISO 14755), and it's what I > use on my XFCE system. >

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:05:57 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... > Besides the tip Cameron provided, I add another one (only for GNOME): Actually, this is a GTK+ method (based on ISO 14755), and it's what I use on my XFCE system. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html http://en.wikipedia.org/

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-12 01:41, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 19:43:30 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page, the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a dp

Re: Migrate OS to smaller drive?

2010-04-12 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Ron Johnson schreef: On 2010-04-12 03:14, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Ron Johnson schreef: On 2010-04-11 15:54, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Ron Johnson schreef: On 2010-04-11 08:11, Clive McBarton wrote: Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a rsync -ax / /

Re: udev & /dev/sdaX & lenny2squeeze

2010-04-12 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
Thierry Chatelet wrote: So, I guess you are better to switch now to UUID, it should solve your problem, and give you a head on future changes. Thierry As I said in one of my previous posts, udev will not create /dev/sdaX, nor their counterpart using names or uuid. So I can't do that.

Re: udev & /dev/sdaX & lenny2squeeze

2010-04-12 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 12 April 2010 12:59:28 Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > Hi, > > From debian-development-announce: linux-2.6/linux-base libata transition New drivers using 'libata' are about to replace the old IDE drivers. linux-base will prompt you on x86 to upgra

Re: udev & /dev/sdaX & lenny2squeeze

2010-04-12 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: Hi, 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. All are valid partitions. root is /dev/sda5 an

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-12 12:21 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Moreover, with the current status of module-init-tools, it seems > that the broken version will get into squeeze anyway (at least, > there doesn't seem to be anything to prevent that) if the problem > on HPPA isn't fixed. There is something to p

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-04-12 12:07:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > The conclusion I had drawn from this long ago: don't use testing, it is > only meant to be a staging area for preparing the next release and not > as a distribution actually to be used by people, except during freezes > maybe. The machine in ques

Re: Debian in Debian via Virtual box

2010-04-12 Thread James Allsopp
Just running 64-bit version of squeeze on a nvidia GT9500 graphics card. I'll try your shared directory trick, thanks! On 12 April 2010 11:15, Monsieur Louk wrote: > > > 2010/4/12 James Allsopp > >> Hi, >> >> How have people managed to get debian in virtual box to display with a >> resolution h

Re: Debian in Debian via Virtual box

2010-04-12 Thread Monsieur Louk
2010/4/12 James Allsopp > Hi, > How have people managed to get debian in virtual box to display with a > resolution higher than 800x600. I've tried reinstalling with a higher video > memory setting and installing the guest additions. Was finding it difficult > to find out if the additions actual

Debian in Debian via Virtual box

2010-04-12 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, How have people managed to get debian in virtual box to display with a resolution higher than 800x600. I've tried reinstalling with a higher video memory setting and installing the guest additions. Was finding it difficult to find out if the additions actually installed correctly, so if anyone

Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-12 11:19 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > There's something broken in the design of Debian's migration to testing. > > A grave bug in the testing version of module-init-tools (3.12~pre2-1) > was fixed several weeks ago, and the package was uploaded with > urgency=high: > > module-init-t

Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

2010-04-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
There's something broken in the design of Debian's migration to testing. A grave bug in the testing version of module-init-tools (3.12~pre2-1) was fixed several weeks ago, and the package was uploaded with urgency=high: module-init-tools (3.12~pre2-2) unstable; urgency=high * Fixed an init

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:20:57 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Monday 12 April 2010 09:05:57 Camaleón wrote: (...) >> There is a small list of secuences in this page: >> >> http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html >> >> And a full one: >> >> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 12 April 2010 09:05:57 Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:43:30 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > > im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read power > > of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page, the power > > displays as a normal character 2.

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:43:30 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read power > of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page, the power > displays as a normal character 2. is this a dpkg-reconfigure locales > issue? Web pages

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 19:43:30 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read > power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page, > the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a > dpkg-reconfigure locales issue? It coul