Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-27 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Thank you guys. I have not follow Stephen's guide, but I figured the reason out. It seems like an ext3's fault. The space (i-node wise) was used 5.x GB, but the actual space (data wise) was used only 1 GB. So a lot of space was just empty and wasted. I attached another disk to get the job done. PS

Re: gpart can retire now

2010-06-27 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:37:31 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: >> quick scan > > An old fashioned, but still reliable method , cli: not gui > ... > I have recovered deleted partitions this way ,never had to do a whole > hard drive. > > I found this that has more detail: > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-

Re: grub2 and USB

2010-06-27 Thread cjns1989
Yes. Search for "usb device not seen by grub" in the grub-devel ml - dec. 2009. It was rather messy back then - maybe they've improved it. -- Original Message -- From: "T o n g" mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com Date: Jun. 27 2010 04:57PM Subject: grub2 and USB Hi, Anybody knows if grub

Re: change system behavior upon IP address conflict

2010-06-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On 2010年06月26日 23:16, Camaleón wrote: > I am unaware of any specific configuration to prevent this, at least when > using no DHCP server and you manually define the IP address of the network > devices. > Just for your information I heard a solution. IPwatchD is a userland tool (in debian) that

Re: gpart can retire now

2010-06-27 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 27 June 2010 13:30:50 T o n g wrote: > quick scan An old fashioned, but still reliable method , cli: not gui You can use the same strategy for partition tables as data ...backups. 'fdisk -l /dev/' > partition_table.txt, Then use fdisk to create partitons again. This will write a

Fw: Re: Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-27 Thread cjns1989
-- Original Message -- From: cjns1...@gmail.com Date: Jun. 27 2010 02:26PM Subject: Re: Re: switching to console and zapping buggy video driver? try Driver "vesa" in device section of xorg.conf. -- Original Message -- From: "lee" l...@yun.yagibdah.de Date: Jun.

Re: mashup "apt-cache search " & "dpkg -l" - HowTo? ; jor

2010-06-27 Thread Mickey Fox
2010/6/27 giovanni_re : > Is there a way to mashup "apt-cache search " & "dpkg -l" > - so that given a SearchTerm, > it would find all the related package names in the cache, > then do a "dpkg -l" on those package names? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > wit

grub2 and USB

2010-06-27 Thread T o n g
Hi, Anybody knows if grub2 allows me to boot partitions from USB? If so, that'd be useful to boot from boxes that don't have booting off USB disks ability. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUB

gpart can retire now

2010-06-27 Thread T o n g
Hi, [sorry about the cross-posting first] The gpart package that find lost partitions, has anyone try to test if it still works? "Luckily" my whole partition table is wiped clean by a running away Windows app, and I get the chance to test it. The result? -- After 1 hour and 25+ minutes of scan

Re: mashup "apt-cache search " & "dpkg -l" - HowTo? ; jor

2010-06-27 Thread giovanni_re
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:27:14 -0700, "giovanni_re" said: > Note: One way might be to: > 1) Do the apt-cache search > 2) For each line > 2a) Pull out the package name > 2b) Write an apt-cache search for that name only to a temp file Er, that should have been a "dpkg -l" command, like this: > 2b)

Re: mashup "apt-cache search " & "dpkg -l" - HowTo? ; jor

2010-06-27 Thread giovanni_re
Thanks Aaron & Tom - That's progress, but not there yet. ;) Further suggestion? Thanks :) On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:00:20 -0600, "Aaron Toponce" said: > On 6/26/2010 6:58 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > On 6/26/2010 6:55 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > >> On 6/26/2010 5:57 PM, giovanni_re wrote: > >>> I

Re: mashup "apt-cache search " & "dpkg -l" - HowTo? ; jor

2010-06-27 Thread giovanni_re
Thanks Aaron & Tom - That's progress, but not there yet. ;) Further suggestion? Thanks :) On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:39:41 -0400, "Tom H" said: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:57 PM, giovanni_re wrote: > > Is there a way to mashup "apt-cache search " & "dpkg -l" > > - so that given a SearchTerm, > >

Re: Plasma lock/logout buttons lack icons

2010-06-27 Thread B. Alexander
Anyone? On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:11 AM, B. Alexander wrote: > I just built a brand new laptop, a Lenovo T400 specifically, with KDE > 4.4.4. One of the things I enabled on the panel is the lock/logout plasmoid. > However, instead of a blue lock and red logout icon, both (all three, since > I ha

Re: Which version for CPU Intel Double Cores 64bits ?

2010-06-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 04:17, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Bruno Costacurta writes: >> I just ordered a laptop with following CPU and vendor specifications >> >> - CPU: Intel Double Cores 64bits (ULV SU4100) >> - 2Mo cache >> - UltraLowVoltage 10W 1.3Ghz > > On Sat, 26 Jun

Re: umapper, linux, and YOU!

2010-06-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2010 26 Jun 08:03 -0500, jeremy jozwik wrote: > i want to know if this is just my build of flash, or a general linux > wont go there? > > iceweasel 3.0.6 libflashplayer-10.0.22.87.linux I don't know, but it works fine in Konquerer in KDE 4.4.4 in Sid. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims

Re: repositories for AMD 64 apps

2010-06-27 Thread tabris
On 06/27/2010 09:19 AM, John W Foster wrote: > TO ALL: anyone that knows of ANY applications, drivers, that are > designed to run in native 64bit AMD architecture especially those with > GPLed source code available...Please send me the site of the apps, if > they are your creations I would like to

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 iun 10, 09:24:28, Mark wrote: > I would never use Suspend on a desktop due to lack of battery/UPS present. > As for Hibernate, it takes as long to do a fresh boot as a resume from > Hibernate on my desktops so really there's not much point there. Especially if your session manager can

Re: [SOLVED] dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure)

2010-06-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 iun 10, 13:43:12, Stephen Powell wrote: [big snip] > I see why dpkg-reconfigure didn't work. The package was > classified as "partially installed". The package has to be > installed successfully before it can be re-configured. JFTR, 'dpkg --configure -a' would have done the trick. R

Re: dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure):

2010-06-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 26 iun 10, 20:22:20, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Please provide the following information: > > (1) Which boot loader are you using? (Grub version 1? Grub version 2? > lilo? extlinux?) > > (2) What is the contents of /etc/kernel-img.conf? > > (3) What are the names of the files in the f

[SOLVED] Re: dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure)

2010-06-27 Thread Mizanur Khondoker
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:38:50 -0400 (EDT), Mizanur Khondoker wrote: >> Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> Please provide the following information: >>> >>> (1) Which boot loader are you using? =C2=A0(Grub version 1? =C2=A0Grub v= > ersion 2? >>> =C2=A0lilo? =C2=A0extlinux?) >>> >>> (2) What is the cont

[SOLVED] dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure)

2010-06-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:51:49 -0400 (EDT), Mizanur Khondoker wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> OK, I see what's wrong.  You've got your symlinks messed up. >> I'm not sure how things got into that state, but they're all >> messed up.  You could fix your symlinks, but since grub doesn't >> need th

Re: xorg.conf -- nvidia to ati

2010-06-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 24 iun 10, 19:58:45, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thursday 24 June 2010 18:38:19 Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > Any ideas on what I need to change? > > You need the Radeon driver, not ATI. There might be some related glx > package. > I use mesa-utils to test , glxgears. Also check 'dmesg' for a

Re: repositories for AMD 64 apps

2010-06-27 Thread Török Edwin
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:19:23 -0500 John W Foster wrote: > TO ALL: anyone that knows of ANY applications, drivers, that are > designed to run in native 64bit AMD architecture especially those with > GPLed source code available...Please send me the site of the apps, if > they are your creations I w

Re: GDM won't unlock screen

2010-06-27 Thread cothrige
Rob Owens writes: > Have you tried hitting a key or wiggling the mouse, instead of switching > to a console and back? > Yes, without effect. So far the only action which seems to make a difference is to switch to a console and back. > There's always xscreensaver. You could use that instead.

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-27 Thread ABS Doug
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I have no real help to your specific problem, but you need to provide > some solid useful data so others can debug the problem. Based on stuff > in the other thread about what versions work and don't work, and the > above, I recomme

Re: Req. Advice from Lazy Web on Configuring 1.5TB extern. HD

2010-06-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 23 iun 10, 10:22:29, Arthur Machlas wrote: > Greetings, > > I just purchased a 1.5 WD sata II HD and enclosure connected via USB > after an unfortunate incident involve rm -rf, something called "home" > and a bicycle. It's purpose will be two-fold: As a back-up device for > two laptops (HD

Re: repositories for AMD 64 apps

2010-06-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
John W Foster: > TO ALL: anyone that knows of ANY applications, drivers, that are > designed to run in native 64bit AMD architecture especially those with > GPLed source code available... What exactly are you looking for? The complete Debian archive is available for pure AMD64. I am running Debia

Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot 2.6.32-3 after running 2.6.32-5 for a while

2010-06-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 24 iun 10, 06:53:08, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] > device; and the boot process hung. The solution was to use a > direct specification of the UUID in /etc/lilo.conf instead of an > indirect one via a udev symbolic link. For example, instead of > specifying > >root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 24 iun 10, 13:16:29, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I was OP on a related thread a couple of months ago. I would say that > I abandoned trying to understand issues of checking for errors on USB > drives as a user. I did gain the impression that what I thought were > hardware errors were instead m

Re: repositories for AMD 64 apps

2010-06-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello John W Foster, Am 2010-06-27 11:19:23, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > TO ALL: anyone that knows of ANY applications, drivers, that are > designed to run in native 64bit AMD architecture especially those with > GPLed source code available...Please send me the site of the apps, if > they ar

repositories for AMD 64 apps

2010-06-27 Thread John W Foster
TO ALL: anyone that knows of ANY applications, drivers, that are designed to run in native 64bit AMD architecture especially those with GPLed source code available...Please send me the site of the apps, if they are your creations I would like to package them for Debian. I am not a Debian developer

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] > I for one do not use hibernation neither suspension at all [snip] The only machine I use Suspend on is a laptop running Windows, because (a) it's a laptop and has a built-in UPS should power go out, and (b) Windows nvidia drivers resu

Re: New amd64 system needs flash player

2010-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:00:12 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 18:55 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> If you want all your users make use of the plugin, I guess it has to be >> dropped under "/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so". But >> remember that if you leave the "A

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:28:45 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:43:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> And how do you suspend to disk? By pressing a button, running a >> script...? You said in your first writing that "(sic) after suspending >> to disk during the night and resuming..." you

Re: New amd64 system needs flash player

2010-06-27 Thread John W Foster
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 14:46 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2010 14:32:40 John W Foster wrote: > > > Thanks send it & I,ll look at it. I have what is 'supposed' to be a pure > > 64 bit libflahplayer.so that I got from Ubuntu. It will not install. I > > tried just placing the lib in

Re: New amd64 system needs flash player

2010-06-27 Thread John W Foster
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 18:55 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:32:40 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 10:31 +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> If got that file ("libflashplayer.so", pure 64-bits) installed in my > >> system (it's about 9.1 MiB and *is vulnerable* to

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:35:23AM -0700, John Magolske wrote: > * lee [100626 12:44]: > > > > Neither switching to consoles is possible, nor terminating the X > > server with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. > > I have DontZap in the ServerFlags section rather under ServerLayout as > you show. The relevant

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-27 Thread John Magolske
* lee [100626 12:45]: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:29:50AM +0530, Anand Sivaram wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:44, lee wrote: > > > > Try "chvt n" where n is the same as n of Fn. similary "chvt 7" from a text > > console should bring you back to your x session. > > Thanks! It doesn't work

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-27 Thread John Magolske
* lee [100626 12:44]: > What I have is: > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Layout0" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" > Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off" > Option "AllowE

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:43:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:28:06 +0200, lee wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:00:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> If you are not using GNOME, what is your DE, if any? and how do you > >> send the machine to hibernate? > > > > Curren

Re: bunzip?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 02:01:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:33:55 +0200, lee wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:15:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Run "file myfile.bz" and put here the ouput. > > > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee627 Dec 23 1997 rules4writers.txt

Re: dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure)

2010-06-27 Thread Mizanur Khondoker
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:38:50 -0400 (EDT), Mizanur Khondoker wrote: >> Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> Please provide the following information: >>> >>> (1) Which boot loader are you using? =C2=A0(Grub version 1? =C2=A0Grub v= > ersion 2? >>> =C2=A0lilo? =C2=A0extlinux?) >>> >>> (2) What is the cont

Re: sudo a user without password

2010-06-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:54:53AM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote: > Hi > > On a Desktop machine, running Debian Lenny [GNOME], i just want to put > a .desktop icon on the desktop, so that i can easy launch apps with > other users [e.g. not so trusted programs..maybe this way i could get a > little mo

Re: GDM won't unlock screen

2010-06-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:06:42PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > I recently installed Debian Testing on my laptop, an HP dv6-1355dx, > which had been running Ubuntu. Once I got past the missing wireless > tools and drivers things have been pretty smooth. However, there is an > oddity in GDM regardi

Re: bunzip?

2010-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:33:55 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:15:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> Run "file myfile.bz" and put here the ouput. > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee627 Dec 23 1997 rules4writers.txt.bz 1997? That looks quite old. Maybe you will need to use the old bzip

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:28:06 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:00:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> If you are not using GNOME, what is your DE, if any? and how do you >> send the machine to hibernate? > > Currently, I'm using fvwm-crystal. The pm-utils package is installed, > and now

Re: bunzip?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:15:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:30:38 +0200, lee wrote: > > > I've got some files I compressed years back with bzip. > > Run "file myfile.bz" and put here the ouput. -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee627 Dec 23 1997 rules4writers.txt.bz l...@yun:~/

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:00:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > Every hibernation/suspend methods have their own way to make things, so > the first you should do is knowing what method are you using to hibernate > the machine. > > If you are not using GNOME, what is your DE, if any? and how do yo

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:59:25PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 03:36:03PM +0200, lee wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:54:50AM +, Sascha Silbe wrote: > > > No idea why VT switching doesn't work for you. To get Ctrl+Alt+BS working > > > again you need to change /e

Re: bunzip?

2010-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:30:38 +0200, lee wrote: > I've got some files I compressed years back with bzip. Run "file myfile.bz" and put here the ouput. > Now bunzip2 can't > decompress them, and there doesn't seem to be something like bunzip in > Debian. What error are you getting? How are you un

bunzip?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
Hi, I've got some files I compressed years back with bzip. Now bunzip2 can't decompress them, and there doesn't seem to be something like bunzip in Debian. And idea how to uncompress these files? -- 27/06/2010 04:03:46 The X server says there are 10 mouse buttons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:37:30 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:21:05AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> You better read further info about suspend in Debian and what are your >> options ;-) >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/Suspend > > Thanks, I'm checking it out right now :) Seems that you

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 03:36:03PM +0200, lee wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:54:50AM +, Sascha Silbe wrote: > > No idea why VT switching doesn't work for you. To get Ctrl+Alt+BS working > > again you need to change /etc/default/keyboard: > > > > XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > > I

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:21:05AM +, Camaleón wrote: > > You better read further info about suspend in Debian and what are your > options ;-) > > http://wiki.debian.org/Suspend Thanks, I'm checking it out right now :) Seems that you can't just suspend as described in the kernel documentati

Re: Which version for CPU Intel Double Cores 64bits ?

2010-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:17:29 +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > Shouldn't he be using ia64 port instead? No, ia64 (Itanium) it's a pure 64 bits Intel architecture. > In here[1], for ia64, it writes > that > > First officially released with Debian 3.0. This is a port to Intel's > first 64-bit ar

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:11:06 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53:41AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> Usually, "/var/log/suspend.log" but can vary, depending on the suspend >> system you are using (GNOME default, swsusp, uswsusp, tuxonice...). > > Well, I was using: > > > # echo 85899

Re: Which version for CPU Intel Double Cores 64bits ?

2010-06-27 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Bruno Costacurta writes: > I just ordered a laptop with following CPU and vendor specifications > > - CPU: Intel Double Cores 64bits (ULV SU4100) > - 2Mo cache > - UltraLowVoltage 10W 1.3Ghz On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Amrit Panesar writes: > The AMD64 dist. would probably be

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53:41AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:28:36 +0200, lee wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:13:23AM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> No, but there can be problems with some of your devices or drivers that > >> prevent restoring from hibernation "gracef

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:28:36 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:13:23AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> No, but there can be problems with some of your devices or drivers that >> prevent restoring from hibernation "gracefully". You'll have to >> investigate a bit. Review your log. > > But

Re: dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure)

2010-06-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:38:50 -0400 (EDT), Mizanur Khondoker wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Please provide the following information: >> >> (1) Which boot loader are you using?  (Grub version 1?  Grub version 2? >>  lilo?  extlinux?) >> >> (2) What is the contents of /etc/kernel-img.conf? >> >

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:13:23AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:58:09 +0200, lee wrote: > > > after suspending to disk during the night and resuming, my computer > > froze with a black screen after running maybe three minutes. > > > > Is suspend to disk that unreliable? > > No

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:58:09 +0200, lee wrote: > after suspending to disk during the night and resuming, my computer > froze with a black screen after running maybe three minutes. > > Is suspend to disk that unreliable? No, but there can be problems with some of your devices or drivers that pre

suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
Hi, after suspending to disk during the night and resuming, my computer froze with a black screen after running maybe three minutes. Is suspend to disk that unreliable? When suspending to disk, the default size of the image written is 512MB. What happens when there's more data that needs to be

Re: dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 (--configure)

2010-06-27 Thread Mizanur Khondoker
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:23:17 -0400 (EDT), Mizanur Khondoker wrote: >> >> I am having the following error while upgrading lenny. Any help would >> be greatly appreciated. >> >> debian:/home/mizanur# aptitude safe-upgrade >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 07:32:48AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le Sun 27/06/2010, lee disait > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 08:14:07PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > Le Sat 26/06/2010, lee disait > > > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:24:55PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > > > > > > > > receiving direc

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-27 Thread Hanspeter Spalinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 27.06.10 11:12, schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/27/2010 12:57 AM: >> From: Stan Hoeppner >> >>> If you were unable to find any inbound connections whilst these ~300 >>> outbound connections were present, >> >> Has anyone com

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:57:12 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Has anyone come up with a viable theory as to why outbound connections > would be initiated by sshd (or something calling itself sshd) as opposed > to ssh? (...) "sshd" is daemon server name for SSH service. As long as someone establish

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 26 iun 10, 23:08:56, ABS Doug wrote: > > absd...@aceraspireonezg5:~$ iwconfig -a > -aNo such device Try 'iwconfig' instead. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.

Re: Hundreds of sshd processes spawned by Postgresql

2010-06-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/27/2010 12:57 AM: > From: Stan Hoeppner > >> If you were unable to find any inbound connections whilst these ~300 >> outbound connections were present, > > Has anyone come up with a viable theory as to why outbound connections would > be initiated by sshd (or someth

Re: sudo a user without password

2010-06-27 Thread Jozsi Avadkan
wow, thanks for the quick answer! :) but it still doesn't work. i'm pretty sure, that i'm missing something: ## $ whoami someone $ sudo -u dude-user wine "/home/dude-user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Dude/dude.exe" We trust you have received the usual lecture from the

Re: mashup "apt-cache search " & "dpkg -l" - HowTo? ; jor

2010-06-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:57 PM, giovanni_re wrote: > Is there a way to mashup "apt-cache search " & "dpkg -l" > - so that given a SearchTerm, > it would find all the related package names in the cache, > then do a "dpkg -l" on those package names? No need for dpkg. aptitude -F "%c%a %p %v %d" s

Re: OpenOffice.org tries to print to Letter instead of A4

2010-06-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 26 iun 10, 14:00:33, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am stuck with this, hopefully someone else knows what's going on. ... > but OpenOffice.org still defaults to "US Letter" for the printer > settings. Where is this setting coming from? Apparently it comes from: ,[ /us

Re: OpenOffice.org tries to print to Letter instead of A4

2010-06-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 26 iun 10, 18:30:46, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:18:23 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sb, 26 iun 10, 11:31:48, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Did you check the default settings for the printer in CUPS? > > > > Yes (not very obvious from my message), that was the very first th

Re: sudo a user without password

2010-06-27 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Jozsi Avadkan wrote: > > On a Desktop machine, running Debian Lenny [GNOME], i just want to put > a .desktop icon on the desktop. > > $ cat Dude.desktop > [Desktop Entry] > Version=1.0 > Encoding=UTF-8 > Name=Dude > Type=Application > Terminal=false > Icon=gnome-mi

Re: sudo a user without password

2010-06-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi! On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:54:53AM +0200, Jozsi Avadkan wrote: > Hi > > On a Desktop machine, running Debian Lenny [GNOME], i just want to put > a .desktop icon on the desktop, so that i can easy launch apps with > other users [e.g. not so trusted programs..maybe this way i could get a > litt