On 30/05/10 23:46, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Can anyone help me with this?
Have you tried the unetbootin package. I have an little device that is
a usb connector with a slot in the side for an sd card. I have been
using unetbootin to create various bootable versions of the different
distributio
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=201855
T> on my openmoko freerunner I modified /etc/pam.d/xdm by replacing
T>
T> @include common-auth
T>
T> with
T>
T> authrequiredpam_permit.so
T>
T> so that I only need to type the username of the user I want to
T> use. This is
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:58:11PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Andrei Popescu
> wrote:
>
> > On Lu, 31 mai 10, 10:19:46, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> > > What's the status?
> > > - aptitude better?
> > > - apt-get better?
> >
> > From the top of my head (a
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:14:27PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 02:24:57 -0700, freeman wrote:
>
> > Today my CPU seemingly jumped to 85' C and remained there without one
> > change during three 15 min. sessions.
>
> Did you check that values from BIOS or other sources?
>
The BI
iftop is what I use.
- Ryan
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:12:27AM +0100, AG wrote:
> Hi List
>
> Every now and again the lights on my broadband modem start flashing
> which indicates package transmission/ receiving. When I have
> deliberately started an application to access the web (e.g. web b
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 22:44, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 02:24:57 -0700, freeman wrote:
>
> > Today my CPU seemingly jumped to 85' C and remained there without one
> > change during three 15 min. sessions.
>
> Did you check that values from BIOS or other sources?
>
> (...)
>
> > I gue
Hi,
I recently set up binary nvidia drivers on my machine and set up the Xorg to
use the twinhead setup.
Now when I run the vnc4server to set up a vnc instance to log
in to my machine from another machine, the vnc4server does not start up. If I
move the xorg.conf file that
is set up for the b
On Sun, 30 May 2010 03:48:50 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,29.May.10, 22:35:56, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>
>> My gut instinct is that due to the above reasons and possibly others, the
>> next
>> dist upgrade is going to hose all my production servers whilst trying to
>> forcibly conver
I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about
booting a squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills
were never very great, but now are really quite rusty. And
my rescus CD dates from 2-3 years ago. I have and use a
businesscard CD for installing Squeeze, and I see a menu
entry o
On 05/31/2010 04:02 PM, Sthu Deus wrote:
Good day.
I need a perl module called Mplib.pm .
But I cannot find it in lenny trying this command:
aptitude search Mplib.pm
Is there no such a package containing such a file, or I searched
wrongfully?
That search is unlikely to provide results. T
'iptables -L' will list all rules so maybe somebody from the list will
notice something.
Tux:/home/lisi# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTP
On Lu, 31 mai 10, 16:11:06, John Culleton wrote:
> I have a Debian Derivative (Knoppix) installed on the hard drive of
> my son's computer. He has a flat screen much wider
> than it is high. As a result the screen background only fills part of
> the width and does not go all the way to the top e
Thanks for the comments and help.
I have edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg to match my devices by UUID as
proposed, getting UUIDs from blkid /dev/md{0,1} (previously I run
blkid -g):
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-3-686-bigmem" --class
debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
On Lu, 31 mai 10, 20:21:47, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Camaleón:
> > On Mon, 31 May 2010 23:22:46 +0530, emigrant wrote:
> >
> >> thanks.
> >
> > It has not been released yet! :-)
> >
> > ~2 years after it gets released, AFAIK.
>
> NACK. Debian releases are supported until the next (major) release
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:04:24PM -0500, Nathan Martin wrote:
> Help!
>
> After the setup process for Lenny, the system reboots to start the new
> installation but the GUI does not come up. The screen remains blank. I
> checked the option for "Desktop" in the set up process. Everything seems to
>
Camaleon -- your suggestion did the trick! I changed the appropriate BIOS
setting to AHCI, and the install was able to continue. The installer is
currently setting up the filesystem on the hard drive...
Thanks for straightening that out for me!
-PT
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Peter Tenen
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Nathan Martin wrote:
> Help!
>
> After the setup process for Lenny, the system reboots to start the new
> installation but the GUI does not come up. The screen remains blank. I
> checked the option for “Desktop” in the set up process. Everything seems to
> go smoot
I have a Debian Derivative (Knoppix) installed on the hard drive of
my son's computer. He has a flat screen much wider
than it is high. As a result the screen background only fills part of
the width and does not go all the way to the top either. The bottom
bar goes all the way to the left but c
Help!
After the setup process for Lenny, the system reboots to start the new
installation but the GUI does not come up. The screen remains blank. I
checked the option for "Desktop" in the set up process. Everything seems to
go smoothly until the GUI should come up. I am starting from a "net-instal
On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:27:55 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> Hi, again -- I recently posted on an issue with installing Debian Lenny
> on a new workstation with a Lite-On DVD writer. I had thought that the
> problem was the driver, but it turns out that my problem is a more
> familiar one, the "N
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emigrant wrote:
> How long is squeeze supported?
thanks.
The short answer is at least 3 years.
Two years as stable and one year as old-stable, but we are talking about
Debian, so those times and days can get stretched a bit. :-)
--
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Debian Squeeze at sda9
Registered Linux Us
Hi
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:02:54AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> I need a perl module called Mplib.pm .
> But I cannot find it in lenny trying this command:
>
> aptitude search Mplib.pm
>
> Is there no such a package containing such a file, or I searched
> wrongfully?
>
> Thank You for Your time
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:50 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> emigrant:
> > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:21 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >>
> >> NACK. Debian releases are supported until the next (major) release +
> >> another year. Usually, that's more than one year in total.
>
> D'ouh. Of course, I me
Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
Mr. Johnson --�
Regarding your suggestion of adding a rootdelay=10 line to the boot
kernel: �how do I go about doing that? �I'm attempting to install onto a
blank hard drive from Debian Lenny DVDs, so I don't think there's
anywhere that I can write to which makes sense.
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:15:46AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu,06.May.10, 10:36:15, Oleg wrote:
> > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 09:37:18AM +0400, Михаил wrote:
> > > Здравствуйте.
> >
> > Hi. You can use debian-russ...@lists.debian.org for russian speaking
> > mailing list. This list use
Good day.
I need a perl module called Mplib.pm .
But I cannot find it in lenny trying this command:
aptitude search Mplib.pm
Is there no such a package containing such a file, or I searched
wrongfully?
Thank You for Your time.
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I'm having a wierd occurrence with my keyboard keys. First, I'm running sid
with kde 4.4.3-2 with Compiz 0.8.3. I've been running this configuration
(kde + compiz) for a couple of years.
Lately, call it the last month or so, I get strange keyboard behavior. I can
be composing an email here i
I just started a new thread which supersedes this one, as I think my problem
is not actually a driver problem but the more notorious issue of SATA drives
not being detected (specifically, "No common CD-ROM drive was detected").
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> Mr. Johns
emigrant:
> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:21 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>
>> NACK. Debian releases are supported until the next (major) release +
>> another year. Usually, that's more than one year in total.
D'ouh. Of course, I meant to write "that's more than two years in
total".
> :-(
> is the li
Il 31/05/2010 20:20, T o n g ha scritto:
Hi,
I came across a tool called something like "ext2 empty" but forgot where
it is now. Primarily, it zero out all unused spaces in ext2 fs, so that
the unused spaces won't take up much spaces when compressed.
Any hint?
Thanks
probably zerofree
--
T
Hi, again -- I recently posted on an issue with installing Debian Lenny on a
new workstation with a Lite-On DVD writer. I had thought that the problem
was the driver, but it turns out that my problem is a more familiar one, the
"No common CD-ROM drive was detected" error with SATA optical drives.
On Mon, 31 May 2010 20:21:47 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Camaleón:
>> On Mon, 31 May 2010 23:22:46 +0530, emigrant wrote:
>>
>>> thanks.
>>
>> It has not been released yet! :-)
>>
>> ~2 years after it gets released, AFAIK.
>
> NACK. Debian releases are supported until the next (major) releas
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:21 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Camaleón:
> > On Mon, 31 May 2010 23:22:46 +0530, emigrant wrote:
> >
> >> thanks.
> >
> > It has not been released yet! :-)
> >
> > ~2 years after it gets released, AFAIK.
>
> NACK. Debian releases are supported until the next (major) r
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:57:04PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 23:22:46 +0530, emigrant wrote:
>
> > thanks.
>
> It has not been released yet! :-)
>
> ~2 years after it gets released, AFAIK.
I think it's one year after the following release makes squeeze
oldstable - probably n
On Mon, 31 May 2010 18:18:47 +, T o n g wrote:
> I came across a tool called something like "ext2 empty" but forgot where
> it is now. Primarily, it zero out all unused spaces in ext2 fs, so that
> the unused spaces won't take up much spaces when compressed.
zerofree - zero free blocks from e
On 05/31/2010 12:44 PM, Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:34:12 +, T o n g wrote:
Please take a look at the following, do you think it is bug of date?
(...)
$ date --date='next month'
Thu Jul 1 11:07:31 EDT 2010
I was hoping to get June.
But June has not "31 days" so the closes
Camaleón:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 23:22:46 +0530, emigrant wrote:
>
>> thanks.
>
> It has not been released yet! :-)
>
> ~2 years after it gets released, AFAIK.
NACK. Debian releases are supported until the next (major) release +
another year. Usually, that's more than one year in total.
J.
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Hi,
I came across a tool called something like "ext2 empty" but forgot where
it is now. Primarily, it zero out all unused spaces in ext2 fs, so that
the unused spaces won't take up much spaces when compressed.
Any hint?
Thanks
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On Mon, 31 May 2010 23:22:46 +0530, emigrant wrote:
> thanks.
It has not been released yet! :-)
~2 years after it gets released, AFAIK.
Greetings,
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On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:34:12 +, T o n g wrote:
> Please take a look at the following, do you think it is bug of date?
(...)
> $ date --date='next month'
> Thu Jul 1 11:07:31 EDT 2010
>
> I was hoping to get June.
But June has not "31 days" so the closest is indeed "1st July" ;-)
> Is it
Hi,
Please take a look at the following, do you think it is bug of date?
$ date
Mon May 31 13:26:13 EDT 2010
$ date --date='1 month ago'
Sat May 1 13:24:20 EDT 2010
$ date --date='last month'
Sat May 1 11:09:21 EDT 2010
$ date --date='-1 month'
Sat May 1 13:26:49 EDT 2010
All above should
> And so they market it heavily. Thus the Web sites that say "To read
> this you need Acroread", not "To read this you need a PDF viewer".
I try to complain to each one of those websites about the fact that
their site is factually wrong. I encourage every supporter of Free
Software or Open Sourc
>> Maybe, but ext4 support is not really crucial. Simply make /boot ext2.
Actually ext3 works fine.
> Having /boot on a separate partition for robustness, security or
> advanced features (encrypted LVM and stuff) is one thing, but having it
> because the default bootloader doesn't support curre
Mr. Johnson --
Regarding your suggestion of adding a rootdelay=10 line to the boot kernel:
how do I go about doing that? I'm attempting to install onto a blank hard
drive from Debian Lenny DVDs, so I don't think there's anywhere that I can
write to which makes sense. Would I need to do a boot f
On Mon, 31 May 2010 06:22:10 +0530, emigrant wrote:
> i installed squeeze in sun virtual box by only downloading the first cd
> image.
> i couldn't find the network-manager,
> doesn't it come by default?
> and how can i install it?
It should be there:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/network-m
On Mon, 31 May 2010 02:24:57 -0700, freeman wrote:
> Today my CPU seemingly jumped to 85' C and remained there without one
> change during three 15 min. sessions.
Did you check that values from BIOS or other sources?
(...)
> I guess I'll never know. How could a dust buildup cause a sudden chang
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:40:59AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> I have a few debian unstable boxes that I like to keep up-to-date.
>
> Currently, I run apt-cacher-ng (a proxy for apt-get which stores
> packages so they don't need to be downloaded again) on my gateway box
> (lenny 32-bit), so
Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> "H.S." writes:
>
>> Here are the grub.cfg stanzas for the current running kernel and for my
>> compiled kernel respectively:
>> #the default debian kernel
>>initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
>
>> #kernel compiled by me the Debian way
>>initrd /initr
On Mon May 31 2010 06:27:37 am Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> ...
>
> >> How to send email to popularity contest ?
> >
> > Run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and set it up to use a smarthost,
> > your usual email smtp address will probably be ok.
>
> Sorry I forgot to mention that this sys
Hello,
...
How to send email to popularity contest ?
Run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and set it up to use a smarthost, your
usual email smtp address will probably be ok.
Sorry I forgot to mention that this system is not allowed to send email.
So there is no exim4.
This is why the HTTP
On 05/31/2010 01:39 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2010 01:51:14 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun,30.May.10, 18:05:43, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
This way I have to think *less* to be sure about the date. No guessing.
You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date form
* On 2010 31 May 04:39 -0500, Camaleón wrote:
> Worst is that, inside my company, there are people still using just two
> digits for the year, something like "31/05/10" (it reads 31st May, 2010).
> Woow, sir, for sure is confusing (I ask them, "hey, what will happen in
> year 3010? >:-)") and th
Hello all,
I have a computer running Debian which I'm using as a router. The
motherboard has a mini PCI-E slot (it's an integrated Atom board) and
I'd like to plug in a wireless card to use the machine as an access
point. The problem is that PCI-E mini wireless cards don't seem to be
all that comm
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Andrei Popescu
wrote:
> On Lu, 31 mai 10, 10:19:46, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> > What's the status?
> > - aptitude better?
> > - apt-get better?
>
> From the top of my head (assuming you only use aptitude in command-line
> mode):
>
> advantages:
> + the reso
Both can achieve basically the same thing, but the real difference (IMO) is
in their respective goals/directions/purposes.
apt-* tools have become relatively complex over the years, and can be
considered a "low-level" interface to APT. To be clear, they're not *that*
complex, but you get the
Today my CPU seemingly jumped to 85' C and remained there without one change
during three 15 min. sessions.
Weird in numerous ways.
It never stays at the same temperature.
It has achieved 74' C maybe 6 times in 4 years.
The fan achieved a speed I have never seen and stayed there.
It was that h
On Mon, 31 May 2010 12:07:54 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 31 mai 10, 06:39:15, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> And that is precisely the gain of the ISO date format over the rest of
>> the other alternatives: nodoby has to ask -or guess- "what your locale
>> is" in order to correctly interpret the
Celejar wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2010 20:47:52 +0200
> Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
>
>
> Don't know how useful it is, but I recently noticed that pdfgrep has
> been added to Sid:
>
> $ apt-cache show pdfgrep
> Package: pdfgrep
>
> ...
>
> Description: search in pdf files for strings matching a regu
John Hasler wrote:
> Merciadri Luca writes:
>
>> But I find it special that it does not go faster. Adobe wants everybody
>> to use its client.
>>
>
> No. They want everybody who creates "content" to buy Acrobat. Giving
> away Acroread is just part of the marketing thereof.
>
You're ri
On Lu, 31 mai 10, 10:19:46, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> What's the status?
> - aptitude better?
> - apt-get better?
From the top of my head (assuming you only use aptitude in command-line
mode):
advantages:
+ the resolver is more complex and *usually* gets the dependencies
better than apt-
On Lu, 31 mai 10, 06:39:15, Camaleón wrote:
> >
> > -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg
> > -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg
> >
> > Can you tell if these files were created 5th march or 3rd may? How (I'd
> > really like to know)?
>
> You go
On Sb, 29 mai 10, 23:21:57, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
>
> Is there an easy way how I can found out from which repo and which
> section (or whatever it is called, I mean here: main, contrib,
> non-free) one or more packages come from?
>
> For example, I want to know if I have the packages insta
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 07:19:13PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> Really? Well, I expect XFS has a substitute. If not, it should.
No, it doesn't. XFS will handle journaling issues at boot automagically,
but a real fsck requires a bit of manual intervention. I just went
through this today, and this
Hi,
last version of Knoppix ( www.knopper.net ) have the Option - after
starting from DVD - to install on an SD-card.
Perhaps this may solve your problem
best regards and a nice day
klaus
Am Sonntag, den 30.05.2010, 23:43 -0700 schrieb Marc Shapiro:
> > From: Mark Allums
> >
> > On 5/30/2010
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 23:21 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Is there an easy way how I can found out from which repo and which
> section (or whatever it is called, I mean here: main, contrib,
> non-free) one or more packages come from?
Certainly - Brought to me by #d's dpkg I now have the following am
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:21:57PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Is there an easy way how I can found out from which repo and which
> section (or whatever it is called, I mean here: main, contrib,
> non-free) one or more packages come from?
>
> For example, I want to know if I have the packages instal
My Eee PC can't boot off of the SD card. It may
be that other models, possibly yours, can, but mine can't.
If you hold down the escape key while booting you get the option to boot from
the hard drive, or the SD card reader.
Well, whaddayaknow, learn something new every day!
If I wer
> elfie...@aol.com :
>Hi! The following 2 posts (pages) contain my name. Can you please
>remove them or make them unsearchable? I was involved in this over 12
>years ago when I didn't know better. I am now a business woman and
>it's embarrassing.
>http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1998/08/msg005
On 05/29/2010 08:18 AM, elfie...@aol.com wrote:
Hi! The following 2 posts (pages) contain my name. Can you please remove them
or make them unsearchable? I was involved in this over 12 years ago when I
didn't know better. I am now a business woman and it's embarrassing.
http://lists.debian.org/
Good day.
Is there an easy way how I can found out from which repo and which
section (or whatever it is called, I mean here: main, contrib,
non-free) one or more packages come from?
For example, I want to know if I have the packages installed from, say
Testing / contrib - how I can do this?
Than
On 05/31/2010 12:49 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour,
I have some collegues (including my direct boss) insisting me to use
aptitude.
I dont want to.
When I ask them why, they just tell "aptitude is better than apt-get".
May be... but I'm used with apt-get and do
On 05/30/2010 11:28 PM, emigrant wrote:
hi,
this is my first question here,
i want to know whether, mobile broad band works out of the box in
squeeze?
i use huawei ce0862 dongle to connect.
it didn't work for me in lenny (in fact i didn't find a way to initiate
a mobile broadband connection at t
$ apt-file search bin/autoexpect
> expect-dev: /usr/bin/autoexpect
>
> Thank you very much. I got the point.
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour,
I have some collegues (including my direct boss) insisting me to use
aptitude.
I dont want to.
When I ask them why, they just tell "aptitude is better than apt-get".
May be... but I'm used with apt-get and dont want to switch, and I also
Googled a bit and found a p
Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find a linux driver for the Lite-on
iHAS324-98 DVD writer? �I'm trying to install Debian on a brand-new,
assembled-from-parts workstation, and I'm getting a complaint about
this. �Interestingly, the DVD reader is recognized well enough to boot
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