Re: Which USB wireless LAN adapter really works on Debian?

2010-06-07 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 08. 06. 2010 03:19:16 je jida...@jidanni.org napisal(a): Fellows, it turns out "ndiswrapper" can enable many Windows drivers to be used on Debian. Cool! Well of course it can. That's just another area in which GNU/Linux is years ahead of Gates/Windows. That's not a proper "driver" thoug

logrotate won't finish, high cpu usage

2010-06-07 Thread manuel
Hi! recently i've been experiencing problems with logrotate, each time it runs it gets kinda stuck and eats up the systems cpu for days without finishing (i don't have that many/big logfiles to rotate) the output of "logrotate -d -v /etc/logrotate.conf" just stops at "reading config info for /

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

2010-06-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 02:31:21AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > There's a Windows program called something like Goodbye Windows, or ByeBye > Windows or something like that that is a Linux installer. I no longer know > where I got it, unfortunately. I believe it used to be at goodbye-microsoft.com,

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

2010-06-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
Hendrik Boom wrote: > If you can't avoid the Windows tax, and get Windows on it,m you might want to > start from there (I did this with my Asus 1000HE). There's a Windows > program called something like Goodbye Windows, or ByeBye Windows or > something like that that is a Linux installer. I

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-07 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Op 08-06-10 05:42, Steve Fishpaste schreef: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:10:54PM -0400, H.S. uttered: > When I used TBird there was a GPG extension. Why not use that? Search > the extension repository. `aptitude install enigmail` Sjoerd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 11:42 PM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:10:54PM -0400, H.S. uttered: >> On 07/06/10 02:05 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> Since firegpg support has been discontinued (*), I'd like to know >>> what are gmail users favorite gpg tool ? >>> >> >> C

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-07 Thread Chris
Claws-Mail also Sent from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: Steve Fishpaste Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 23:42:34 To: Subject: Re: GPG / GMail On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:10:54PM -0400, H.S. uttered: > On 07/06/10 02:05 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Since firegpg

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-07 Thread Steve Fishpaste
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:10:54PM -0400, H.S. uttered: > On 07/06/10 02:05 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Since firegpg support has been discontinued (*), I'd like to know > > what are gmail users favorite gpg tool ? > > > > Crap! I was using Firegpg for mails to my friend

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

2010-06-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:53:26 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Daniel Dalton: >> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:24:31PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> >>> The only drawback is that you probably won't have that much fun >>> running stable on it, because I don't think stable supports the >>> graphics chip

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-06-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Hugo: On Tuesday 04 May 2010 20:25:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Hugo Vanwoerkom [2010.05.04.1808 +0200]: > >> I forget your specifics, but you do RAID *and* backup regularly to an > >> external lvm2? > > > > RAID is not a backup solution, it's an availabi

Re: It looks as if OpenOffice is sick.

2010-06-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/7/2010 7:44 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Since several people have had success with version 3.2, I suppose I should try it again, just to make sure I'm really talking about the right version. It's [possible I misremember a detail of what I didn, or that somehow I was still getting the old versi

Re: Which USB wireless LAN adapter really works on Debian?

2010-06-07 Thread jidanni
Fellows, it turns out "ndiswrapper" can enable many Windows drivers to be used on Debian. Cool! -- 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/20100608011916.ga12...

Re: It looks as if OpenOffice is sick.

2010-06-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:44:32 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:09:36 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/06/2010 03:13 PM, hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:44:13PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 07:08:55PM +00

Re: Problems with version 10.01

2010-06-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
Escuse me, I sent previous message to wrong list. -- Regards, Alexander Batischev -- 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/20100608001743.ga2...@speedy

Re: Problems with version 10.01

2010-06-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:54:03PM -0700, Leroy Hunninghake wrote: > I recently upgraded to version 10.01 and have been experiencing a few > problems.  After installing the new version, I no longer have any menu options > in the upper task bar.  I have to hover over it to get the context of what's

Fwd: Re: Problems with version 10.01

2010-06-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
- Forwarded message from Leroy Hunninghake - Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 16:43:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Leroy Hunninghake To: Alexander Batischev Subject: Re: Problems with version 10.01 Alexander, I'm sorry, you're right about it being Ubuntu.  I thought the friend who gave me 9.10 said Ubuntu

Fwd: Re: New to Debian (what I've done so far)

2010-06-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
- Forwarded message from ABSDoug - Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 15:39:53 -0700 (PDT) From: ABSDoug To: Alexander Batischev Subject: Re: New to Debian (what I've done so far) --- On Mon, 6/7/10, Alexander Batischev wrote: > How did you try to install Gnome? Did you check "Install > Desktop E

Re: New to Debian (what I've done so far)

2010-06-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 03:37:27PM -0700, ABSDoug wrote: > Javier, thanks for pointing me in the right direction! & yes I'm subscribed... > don't know why I didn't get the orginal replys to my original post, but I am > now. Did you read manual I mentioned before? Anyone can write to debian-user, b

Re: Debian on a Dell r310?

2010-06-07 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Justin Sherrill wrote: > > I have a Dell R310 server; The Debian Lenny installer does not see the CDROM > or the hard drives.  The “testing” image does see the CDROM, but not the hard > drives, which are SAS drives connected through a SAS 6/iR. > > > > I see menti

Re: New to Debian (what I've done so far)

2010-06-07 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:13 PM, ABSDoug wrote: > 1st, tried to do "Installing Debian GNU/Linux via the > Internet"(debian-504-i386-netinst.iso) but could not connect to wireless. At > the time I did not have physical access to the router, but that can be done > now if necessary. > > 2nd, tried th

Re: New to Debian (what I've done so far)

2010-06-07 Thread ABSDoug
I'm in Windows right now for my iPhone... SO slow, that last blank E-mail was a Windows freeze issue. Javier, thanks for pointing me in the right direction! & yes I'm subscribed... don't know why I didn't get the orginal replys to my original post, but I am now. --- On Mon, 6/7/10, Javier Ba

Re: New to Debian (what I've done so far)

2010-06-07 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Mon, 6/7/10, Javier Barroso wrote: From: Javier Barroso Subject: Re: New to Debian (what I've done so far) To: "ABSDoug" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 6:25 PM On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:13 AM, ABSDoug wrote: 1st, tried to do "Installing Debian GNU/L

Re: New to Debian (what I've done so far)

2010-06-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
Hi, On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 03:13:11PM -0700, ABSDoug wrote: > 1st, tried to do "Installing Debian GNU/Linux via the Internet" > (debian-504-i386-netinst.iso) but could not connect to wireless. At the time > I did not have physical access to the router, but that can be done now if > necessary. On

Re: New to Debian (what I've done so far)

2010-06-07 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:13 AM, ABSDoug wrote: > 1st, tried to do "Installing Debian GNU/Linux via the > Internet"(debian-504-i386-netinst.iso) but could not connect to wireless. At > the time I did not have physical access to the router, but that can be done > now if necessary. > > 2nd, tried t

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:53 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 07/06/10 04:27 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:52 PM, H.S. wrote: > >> > >> A little success. I commented out the following option from smb.conf and > >> now I can connect to the share from a VPN client: > >> ; interfaces =

New to Debian (what I've done so far)

2010-06-07 Thread ABSDoug
1st, tried to do "Installing Debian GNU/Linux via the Internet"(debian-504-i386-netinst.iso) but could not connect to wireless. At the time I did not have physical access to the router, but that can be done now if necessary. 2nd, tried the big DVD image (debian-504-i386-DVD-1.iso). Tried to ru

Re: New user: Did not see any responds

2010-06-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:40:46PM -0700, ABSDoug wrote: > I don't know what happen, but I reposted my question & someone posted that I > should look at the 1st E-mail string I started... but I didn't see anything. You should be subscribed to mailing list in order to receive responses to your posts

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 04:27 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:52 PM, H.S. wrote: >> >> A little success. I commented out the following option from smb.conf and >> now I can connect to the share from a VPN client: >> ; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 172.16.15.0/24 192.168.5.0/24 >> >> >> However

Re: New user: Did not see any responds

2010-06-07 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:40:46PM -0700, ABSDoug wrote: > I don't know what happen, but I reposted my question & someone posted that I > should look at the 1st E-mail string I started... but I didn't see anything. Have you already subscribed to the list? You saw the answer to your second mail be

Debian on a Dell r310?

2010-06-07 Thread Justin Sherrill
I have a Dell R310 server; The Debian Lenny installer does not see the CDROM or the hard drives. The "testing" image does see the CDROM, but not the hard drives, which are SAS drives connected through a SAS 6/iR. I see mention of the SAS 6/iR as supported when searching, though I suspect it's

Re: New user: Did not see any responds

2010-06-07 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:40 PM, ABSDoug wrote: > I don't know what happen, but I reposted my question & someone posted that > I should look at the 1st E-mail string I started... but I didn't see > anything. > > I'm an Ubuntu user who wants to try out Debian. I'm weak on terminal. I'm > only getti

New user: Did not see any responds

2010-06-07 Thread ABSDoug
I don't know what happen, but I reposted my question & someone posted that I should look at the 1st E-mail string I started... but I didn't see anything. I'm an Ubuntu user who wants to try out Debian. I'm weak on terminal. I'm only getting terminal on Debian now. I don't know what to do next. T

Re: Help new Debian user

2010-06-07 Thread ABSDoug
--- On Mon, 6/7/10, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Read the replies you got to your previous mail ;) > > Regards, > Andrei > P.S. Sorry for the CC, I assumed you are not subscribed. Damn, I didn't see ANY responds to my post. But I'm seeing this one. Now what? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: JFS needs to be defragmented?

2010-06-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 7 June 2010 17:50, Camaleón wrote: > In fact, it seems there are dedicated tools for defragging many of the > most popular filesystems: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defrag#Approach_and_defragmenters_by_file_system_type > > What I have not found is something for ReiserFS volumes :-? > That

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:52 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 07/06/10 03:32 PM, H.S. wrote: > > On 07/06/10 03:28 PM, H.S. wrote: > >> On 07/06/10 03:11 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> Did you check "hosts allow" parameter from smb.conf in your server ? > >>> > >>> I'm not sure if it can works, so

Re: horrible mc colorscheme

2010-06-07 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 04. 2010 22:26:20 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): Real Geeks do not use file managers. bash (or zsh if you're an Uber Real Geek) Is Sufficient. [OT] Why bother with bash or zsh? Just use assembler, poking values directly into CPU registers! ;P -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Lo

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 03:52 PM, H.S. wrote: > > A little success. I commented out the following option from smb.conf and > now I can connect to the share from a VPN client: > ; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 172.16.15.0/24 192.168.5.0/24 > > > However, I can not only use "sudo smbmount ..." command to access th

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 03:32 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 07/06/10 03:28 PM, H.S. wrote: >> On 07/06/10 03:11 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: >>> Hi, >>> Did you check "hosts allow" parameter from smb.conf in your server ? >>> >>> I'm not sure if it can works, so please tell us if you get this working :) >>> >>> Regards,

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 03:28 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 07/06/10 03:11 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: >> Hi, >> Did you check "hosts allow" parameter from smb.conf in your server ? >> >> I'm not sure if it can works, so please tell us if you get this working :) >> >> Regards, >> > > I didn't have that in smb.conf file

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 03:11 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi, > Did you check "hosts allow" parameter from smb.conf in your server ? > > I'm not sure if it can works, so please tell us if you get this working :) > > Regards, > I didn't have that in smb.conf file at all. I have included the following lines

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread Javier Barroso
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:36 PM, H.S. wrote: > >> On 07/06/10 01:04 PM, Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: >> > Em 7/6/2010 13:54, H.S. escreveu: >> >> Consider a LAN with a Debian machine as a router. The Debian machine >> >> has three int

Re: dist-upgrade to testing killed dual-monitors

2010-06-07 Thread Kent West
On 06/04/2010 05:56 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote: On 20:17 Fri 04 Jun , Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-06-04 20:09 +0200, Mitchell Laks wrote: another option is to ban the entire new nouveau driver from your system which should restore some sanity. Except that kent got a black d

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:36 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 07/06/10 01:04 PM, Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: > > Em 7/6/2010 13:54, H.S. escreveu: > >> Consider a LAN with a Debian machine as a router. The Debian machine > >> has three interfaces, eth0, eth1 and wlan0. The interface for VPN is > tun0. >

Re: AVD for Android's SDK gives NullPointerException: because of no recognized XML Schema validation tool?

2010-06-07 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:23:41 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I am trying to install some AVD relative to my Android's SDK (still >> under Debian Lenny). Well, updating info from the SDK source gives me >> >> == >> XML verificati

Re: git: Interactive rebase already started

2010-06-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 07 June 2010 10:46:15 T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > What should I do if encountered the "Interactive rebase already started" > situation? > > I did: > > $ git checkout -b t/unmount > Switched to a new branch 't/unmount' > > # hack grml-debootstrap > > $ git rebase -i origin/master

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 02:05 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > Since firegpg support has been discontinued (*), I'd like to know > what are gmail users favorite gpg tool ? > Crap! I was using Firegpg for mails to my friends and family whose primary mail contact is yahoo or google and Firegpg p

Re: GPG / GMail

2010-06-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 07 iun 10, 20:05:54, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > Since firegpg support has been discontinued (*), I'd like to know > what are gmail users favorite gpg tool ? The favorite IMAP client ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists

Re: Help new Debian user

2010-06-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 07 iun 10, 11:02:46, ABSDoug wrote: > I've been using Ubuntu for a couple years now. I want to try Debian. > I'm real weak on the terminal. When I was doing the GUI install, I > could not get a wireless connection(router is physically located in a > part of the house I DON'T rent). So now

GPG / GMail

2010-06-07 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, Since firegpg support has been discontinued (*), I'd like to know what are gmail users favorite gpg tool ? Thanks, -- Mathieu (*) http://blog.getfiregpg.org/2010/06/07/firegpg-discontinued/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Help new Debian user

2010-06-07 Thread ABSDoug
I've been using Ubuntu for a couple years now. I want to try Debian. I'm real weak on the terminal. When I was doing the GUI install, I could not get a wireless connection(router is physically located in a part of the house I DON'T rent). So now I boot up & get the terminal. Trying to install Gn

Re: how can I upgrade kernel in etch

2010-06-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 06 June 2010 17:06:25 Long Wind wrote: > I have etch which use kernel 2.6.18-6 > I want to upgrade it to kernel 2.6.24 or later > but it doesn't contain it: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main > > Where can I find new kernel images in Debian packages? Suggestions so far:

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
On 07/06/10 01:04 PM, Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: > Em 7/6/2010 13:54, H.S. escreveu: >> Consider a LAN with a Debian machine as a router. The Debian machine >> has three interfaces, eth0, eth1 and wlan0. The interface for VPN is tun0. >> ,--. >> ppp0 <--eth1eth0--192.1

Re: Boot order / Grub / USB installer

2010-06-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Where do I do that from the debian installer ? (I used option "LVM on > entire disk"). If you use LVM then every logical volume already has a name (independently from the label you may have set or not on each file system). So just use that insted of a UUID. I.e. use something like /dev/mapper/-

Re: Sed or awk: remove a line from a file

2010-06-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 3 June 2010 03:33, Karl Vogel wrote: > > Here are some good pages on sed and awk one-liners: > >  http://www.catonmat.net/blog/sed-one-liners-explained-part-one/ >  Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and >    Text Conversion and Substitution >  Wed, 8 Oct 2008 03:0

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread Márcio Luciano Donada
Em 7/6/2010 13:54, H.S. escreveu: > Consider a LAN with a Debian machine as a router. The Debian machine > has three interfaces, eth0, eth1 and wlan0. The interface for VPN is tun0. > ,--. > ppp0 <--eth1eth0--192.168.0.0/24--->to LAN switch > | wlan0--19

Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-07 Thread H.S.
Consider a LAN with a Debian machine as a router. The Debian machine has three interfaces, eth0, eth1 and wlan0. The interface for VPN is tun0. ,--. ppp0 <--eth1eth0--192.168.0.0/24--->to LAN switch | wlan0--192.168.5.0/24---> WLAN | tu

Re: How can I change the order of init scripts?

2010-06-07 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote: > Greetings list, > > I have created a simple init script to apply custom vid values to my > cpus via the phc_intel module, which > Sorry about that, I just discovered there is a keyboard shortcut to send an email in gmail. To continue, I've

Re: AVD for Android's SDK gives NullPointerException: because of no recognized XML Schema validation tool?

2010-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:23:41 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I am trying to install some AVD relative to my Android's SDK (still > under Debian Lenny). Well, updating info from the SDK source gives me > > == > XML verification failed for > https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xm

git: Interactive rebase already started

2010-06-07 Thread T o n g
Hi, What should I do if encountered the "Interactive rebase already started" situation? I did: $ git checkout -b t/unmount Switched to a new branch 't/unmount' # hack grml-debootstrap $ git rebase -i origin/master Waiting for Emacs... Cannot 'squash' without a previous commit But

Re: Working around missing VRDP in VirtualBox debian package

2010-06-07 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 06/07/2010 11:42 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi there, I'd like to know how are people working around the missing VRDP feature in debian VirtualBox package ? If one cannot use rdesktop, what are people using ? Thanks ! I use ssh to access the guests. This is not necessarily a limitatio

How can I change the order of init scripts?

2010-06-07 Thread Arthur Machlas
Greetings list, I have created a simple init script to apply custom vid values to my cpus via the phc_intel module, which -- 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

Re: Some clarification is needed on Debian repos.

2010-06-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 21:51 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > Could You please explain, should some security testing repo be > specified for a stable + testing Debian, or stable, updates and testing > repos is all that should be enabled for the stable, testing with all > *for the repos* secu

Working around missing VRDP in VirtualBox debian package

2010-06-07 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I'd like to know how are people working around the missing VRDP feature in debian VirtualBox package ? If one cannot use rdesktop, what are people using ? Thanks ! -- Mathieu ref: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475202 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: new lilo package maintainer? (was lilo removal in squeeze or please test grub2)

2010-06-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:33:52 -0400 (EDT), Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > thanks for stepping up maintaining lilo in Debian! I hope you'll manage this > well. Um, thanks; but I don't understand the reassignment of bug number 505609 to package initramfs-tools. If you read my previous po

AVD for Android's SDK gives NullPointerException: because of no recognized XML Schema validation tool?

2010-06-07 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I am trying to install some AVD relative to my Android's SDK (still under Debian Lenny). Well, updating info from the SDK source gives me == XML verification failed for https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xml. Error: java.lang.NullPointerException == It appears that I am n

Re: Buffer I/O error on device ... logical block ...

2010-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:40:15 +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > ~ > I have some 1980 data on DVDs I would like to back up to a hard drive > ~ > The data itself is apparently mounted read only and I can access and > see it with no problems > ~ > The thing is that when I try to copy it to my hard d

Re: Where is the Xorg.conf - to setup XKB layouts on Squeeze?

2010-06-07 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 6/6/10, Paul Chany wrote: > Javier Vasquez writes: > >> xorg.conf accepts the following server flags: >> >> Section "ServerFlags" >> Option "AutoAddDevices""False" >> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False" >> EndSection >> >> If you have them, then you must specify th

Some clarification is needed on Debian repos.

2010-06-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Could You please explain, should some security testing repo be specified for a stable + testing Debian, or stable, updates and testing repos is all that should be enabled for the stable, testing with all *for the repos* security fixes? In other words, is there a security repo for testin

Re: JFS needs to be defragmented?

2010-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:06:01 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > This seems to imply that JFS needs to be defragged: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JFS_Filesystem#Defragmenting_JFS > "JFS, like all file systems, will degrade in performance over time due > to file fragmentation. While there is in-pl

Re: Help for Ubuntu user trying Debian

2010-06-07 Thread R. Tyson
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:31:22 +0200 Javier Barroso wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:47 PM, ABSDoug wrote: > > > I'm real weak on the terminal. When I was doing the GUI install, I could > > not get a wireless connection(router is physically located in a part of the > > house I DON'T rent). So now

new lilo package maintainer? (was lilo removal in squeeze or please test grub2)

2010-06-07 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:22:46 -0400 (EDT), sean finney wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:44:05AM +0400, William Pitcock wrote: >> Have fun. When you have a release that actually has merit, it can be >> reconsidered for inclusion in Debian. >> >> In the meantime, the original plan continues. > >

Re: Server support

2010-06-07 Thread Adrián Ribao Martínez
Thank you very much for your help. > Adrián Ribao Martínez put forth on 6/7/2010 7:10 AM: > > Thank you very much Javier, > > > > We don't need virtualization in the server, I suppose it's the same and > > everything works ok. > > > > Do you have a RAID controller in the system? > > According

Re: Server support

2010-06-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Adrián Ribao Martínez put forth on 6/7/2010 7:10 AM: > Thank you very much Javier, > > We don't need virtualization in the server, I suppose it's the same and > everything works ok. > > Do you have a RAID controller in the system? According to this: https://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/docs/ds_prim-r

Re: Server support

2010-06-07 Thread Adrián Ribao Martínez
Thank you very much Javier, We don't need virtualization in the server, I suppose it's the same and everything works ok. Do you have a RAID controller in the system? Thank you. > Hi, > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Adrián Ribao Martínez wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > We are about to buy a Fuji

Re: Mplib.pm wanted.

2010-06-07 Thread Alexander Batischev
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: Nor do I. > aptitude search Mplib.pm > > Is there no such a package containing such a file, or I searched > wrongfully? Yes, you searched w

Re: Server support

2010-06-07 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Adrián Ribao Martínez wrote: > Hello, > > We are about to buy a Fujitsu server: > > * Fujitsu Primergy RX300 > > and I'd like to know if someone has experience with it. I'm afraid that The > server is not supported by debian. They don't list debian in the suppor

Re: Update GRUB to GRUB2 / Lenny to Squeeze

2010-06-07 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 5:30 PM, lrhorer wrote: You can't load modules for grub-probe. But you can for grub-install. The default modules that I have in a Sid VM for an install without mdraid or lvm are: minicmd, true, loadenv, extcmd, test, sh, normal, charset, te

Server support

2010-06-07 Thread Adrián Ribao Martínez
Hello, We are about to buy a Fujitsu server: * Fujitsu Primergy RX300 and I'd like to know if someone has experience with it. I'm afraid that The server is not supported by debian. They don't list debian in the supported OS and there are no drivers for this server. Thank you for your help, A

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze / new lilo upstream

2010-06-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stephen Powell put forth on 6/6/2010 7:37 PM: > On: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:44:05 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote: >> "Joachim Wiedorn" wrote: >>> I see that more people than thought still want to have or need LiLO. >>> Now I have decided to start and reanimate the upstream development. >>> Everyon

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze / new lilo upstream

2010-06-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Joachim Wiedorn put forth on 6/6/2010 8:39 AM: > Russell Coker wrote on 2010-06-05 22:30: > >> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> You're missing the point. The main selling point to management >>> is that Linux is free. If they have to buy new backup software >>> in order to accomm

Re: downloading squeeze

2010-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 11:07:18PM +0200, roberto wrote: > i currently use lenny on my laptop > but i'd like to use squeeze on my second pc; > > since i have no wired connection on the pc where i'll install squeeze, > i think i have to download the entire cd set or the dvd, right ? No! Please don

Re: IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported

2010-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:04:50 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: >> Have you tried to purge and reinstall cups packages again? > > Yes, I have... The very same log error I see. > > Could You please explain what does this mean: > > IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Send-Document Without co

Re: IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported

2010-06-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > Have you tried to purge and reinstall cups packages again? Yes, I have... The very same log error I see. Could You please explain what does this mean: IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Send-Document what offers the the document f

Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

2010-06-07 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 08:41:58AM CEST, "Andrew M.A. Cater" said: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:12:36AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:53:20 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:38:28 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > > >> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote