Eclipse And CDT / Subclispe Do Not Longer Work

2010-07-12 Thread Michael Ott
Hi! A few days ago I upgrade eclipse to 3.5.2-5. After that CDT and Subclipse does not longer work. I reinstalled CDT and Eclipse but no changes. Does anyone have the same problem? CU Michael -- ,''`. : :' : Michael Ott `. `'e-mail: michael at king-c

Re: thinking of installing amd64 Debian: what is its current state?

2010-07-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 01:19:34AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > I understand that I just have to reinstall my system with the correct > architecture install media. My /home is on a separate partition so I > supposed I do not need to touch it. Correct? Yes, but remember to select manual partitioning whe

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 13/07/10 01:58 AM, Tom H wrote: > > Quite frankly, I thought that this had been fixed (I read it on either > the Debian or Ubuntu bug reporting system), but I came across this > problem last year and the script was looking for initrds of the form > "initrd.img-..." and therefore ignored "initra

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-07-13 07:45 +0200, H.S. wrote: > >> On 13/07/10 01:28 AM, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> Yes. The Fedora/RHEL initrd names are not recognized by Debian/Ubuntu's >>> grub... > > It should work in os-prober 1.39. Thanks for the info. As I said i

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-13 07:45 +0200, H.S. wrote: > On 13/07/10 01:28 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Yes. The Fedora/RHEL initrd names are not recognized by Debian/Ubuntu's >> grub... It should work in os-prober 1.39. > I see. Could you briefly explain why is that? Because Fedora uses initramfs$something as the

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:45 AM, H.S. wrote: > On 13/07/10 01:28 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:37 AM, H.S. wrote: >>> >>> It is missing the initrd line. Without that line the kernel does not >>> boot and panics and halts. >>> >>> I have to put the correct stanza myself in /etc/gr

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-13 07:38 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> Yes, but any system that you install _after_ Debian will not >> automagically show up in the menu.  You'll probably have to add it by >> hand then. I was talking about grub-legacy here. > Any sy

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 13/07/10 01:28 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:37 AM, H.S. wrote: >> >> It is missing the initrd line. Without that line the kernel does not >> boot and panics and halts. >> >> I have to put the correct stanza myself in /etc/grub.d/40_custom to get >> the correct grub entry which

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Yes, but any system that you install _after_ Debian will not > automagically show up in the menu.  You'll probably have to add it by > hand then. Any system that you install after Debian is added (in my experience) or should be added to gru

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:37 AM, H.S. wrote: > On 12/07/10 03:07 PM, H.S. wrote: >> >> Curiously though, update-grub is now detecting Fedora 13! It was not > > Well, I wrote that too soon. > > Here is what update-grub puts in /boot/grub > /grub.cfg regarding the Fedora 13 installation: >

thinking of installing amd64 Debian: what is its current state?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
I am thinking of reinstalling my Debian system with Testing for amd64 architecture. Currently I have 32 bit Debian installed on my AMD 64 bit AM3 socket motherboard. I understand that I just have to reinstall my system with the correct architecture install media. My /home is on a separate partitio

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 03:07 PM, H.S. wrote: > > Curiously though, update-grub is now detecting Fedora 13! It was not Well, I wrote that too soon. Here is what update-grub puts in /boot/grub /grub.cfg regarding the Fedora 13 installation: ### menuentry "F

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Arcady Genkin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 22:28, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm curious as to why you're (apparently) wasting 2/3 of your storage for > redundancy.  Have you considered a straight RAID 10 across those 30 > disks/LUNs? This is a very good question. And the answer is: because Linux's MD does not impleme

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/12/2010 06:26 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Now, you can argue what RAID 10 is from now until you are blue in the face, > and the list is tired of hearing it. But that won't change the industry > definition of RAID 10. It's been well documented for over 15 years and won't > be changing any tim

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Arcady Genkin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 20:06, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I had the same reaction Mike.  Turns out mdadm actually performs RAID 1E with > 3 disks when you specify RAID 10.  I'm not sure what, if any, benefit RAID 1E > yields here--almost nobody uses it. The people who are surprised to see us do RAID

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Goh Lip
On 07/12/2010 12:17 PM, H.S. wrote: On a newly installed Debian Testing system, I installed Fedora 13 in a partition but chose not to install the boot loaded since I wanted to use Debian's boot loader for all OSes. Now when I do update-grub in Debian, it detects all OSes installed in the hard d

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Arcady Genkin put forth on 7/12/2010 12:45 PM: > I just tried to use LVM for striping the RAID1 triplets together > (instead of MD). Using the following three commands to create the > logical volume, I get 550 MB/s sequential read speed, which is quite > faster than before, but is still 10% slower

Re: lenny boot with grub2

2010-07-12 Thread Goh Lip
On 07/12/2010 06:52 AM, mess-mate wrote: Hi list, i've installed sqeeze (amd64) and grub2 as the boot loader. On an 2d hd lenny with grub (older version with the stage.. files) is installed. Since grub2 is installed on the mbr no way to boot my lenny system. Here is the lenny part on grub.cfg: m

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Aaron Toponce put forth on 7/12/2010 6:56 PM: > The argument is not whether Linux software RAID 10 is standard or not, > but the requirement of the number of disks that Linux software RAID > supports. In this case, it supports 2+ disks, regardless what its > "effectiveness" is. Yes, it is the arg

Re: newly installed KDE: don't want Nautilus window when USB memory inserted

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 05:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:46:04 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> I am yet to try your suggestion. Meanwhile, I killed the following >> processes in my KDE session: > >> $ ps uax | grep gv >> hs 13699 0.0 0.0 7320 2904 ?S12:46 0:00 >> /usr/lib/gvfs/g

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Roger Leigh put forth on 7/12/2010 5:45 PM: > Have a closer look at lvcreate(8). The last arguments are: > >[-Z|--zero y|n] VolumeGroupName [PhysicalVolumePath[:PE[-PE]]...] Good catch. As I said I've never used it before, so I wasn't exactly sure how it all fits. Seemed logical that

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mike Bird put forth on 7/12/2010 4:00 PM: > On Mon July 12 2010 12:45:57 Arcady Genkin wrote: >> Creating the ten 3-way RAID1 triplets - for N in 0 through 9: >> mdadm --create /dev/mdN -v --raid-devices=3 --level=raid10 \ >> --layout=n3 --metadata=0 --bitmap=internal --bitmap-chunk=2048 \ >> --c

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 7/12/2010 5:52 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Aaron Toponce put forth on 7/12/2010 5:16 PM: >> On 7/12/2010 4:13 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Is that a typo, or are you turning those 3 disk mdadm sets into RAID10 as >>> shown above, instead of the 3-way mirror sets you stated previously? RAID >>>

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Aaron Toponce put forth on 7/12/2010 5:16 PM: > On 7/12/2010 4:13 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Is that a typo, or are you turning those 3 disk mdadm sets into RAID10 as >> shown above, instead of the 3-way mirror sets you stated previously? RAID 10 >> requires a minimum of 4 disks, you have 3. Som

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2010-07-12 Thread Учет и налоги
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Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon July 12 2010 15:16:47 Aaron Toponce wrote: > Incorrect. The Linux RAID implementation can do level 10 across 3 disks. > In fact, it can even do it across 2 disks. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#Linux_MD_RAID_10 Thanks, I learned something new today. Now I guess t

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 05:13:16PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Arcady Genkin put forth on 7/12/2010 11:52 AM: > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 02:05, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > >> lvcreate -i 10 -I [stripe_size] -l 102389 vg0 > >> > >> I believe you're losing 10x performance because you have a 10 "d

Re: installing a second hard disk?

2010-07-12 Thread Charles Kroeger
>An image copy is taken at a level closer to the hardware than >the filesystem is. The data files are copied into the image still firmly >embedded into the filesystem, along with all its metadata. Thanks very much for that illuminating description. I have to go deeper. I did find this link: htt

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 7/12/2010 4:13 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Is that a typo, or are you turning those 3 disk mdadm sets into RAID10 as > shown above, instead of the 3-way mirror sets you stated previously? RAID 10 > requires a minimum of 4 disks, you have 3. Something isn't right here... Incorrect. The Linux RA

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Arcady Genkin put forth on 7/12/2010 11:52 AM: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 02:05, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> lvcreate -i 10 -I [stripe_size] -l 102389 vg0 >> >> I believe you're losing 10x performance because you have a 10 "disk" mdadm >> stripe but you didn't inform lvcreate about this fact. > > H

Re: newly installed KDE: don't want Nautilus window when USB memory inserted

2010-07-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:46:04 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 11/07/10 07:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> If you've got GNOME installed, open a GNOME session and launch "config >> editor". Navigate to "Desktop/gnome/volume manager" (in Squeeze, the >> location of these keys may vary) and uncheck: >> >>

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon July 12 2010 12:45:57 Arcady Genkin wrote: > Creating the ten 3-way RAID1 triplets - for N in 0 through 9: > mdadm --create /dev/mdN -v --raid-devices=3 --level=raid10 \ > --layout=n3 --metadata=0 --bitmap=internal --bitmap-chunk=2048 \ > --chunk=1024 /dev/sdX /dev/sdY /dev/sdZ RAID 10 wi

Re: newly installed KDE: don't want Nautilus window when USB memory inserted

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 11/07/10 07:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:06:14 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> On a newly installed KDE on a Testing system, I notice that when I >> connect a USB flash stick memory, it automatically opens in a Nautilus >> window. >> >> On the previously installed system, the Nautilu

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 7/12/2010 1:45 PM, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Creating the ten 3-way RAID1 triplets - for N in 0 through 9: > mdadm --create /dev/mdN -v --raid-devices=3 --level=raid10 \ > --layout=n3 --metadata=0 --bitmap=internal --bitmap-chunk=2048 \ > --chunk=1024 /dev/sdX /dev/sdY /dev/sdZ > > Then the big

Re: lenny boot with grub2

2010-07-12 Thread mess-mate
On 07/12/2010 03:19 PM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:05 AM, mess-mate wrote: On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:15 AM, mess-mate wrote: On 07/12/2010 09:48 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM, mess-mate wrote: i've installed sqeeze (amd6

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Arcady Genkin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 14:54, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Can you provide the commands from start to finish when building the volume? > > fdisk ... > mdadm ... > pvcreate ... > vgcreate ... > lvcreate ... Hi, Aaron, I already provided all of the above commands in earlier messages (except for fdisk, s

[SOLVED] Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 01:45 PM, H.S. wrote: > On 12/07/10 01:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:22:29 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> On 2010-07-12 19:09 +0200, Camaleón wrote: >>> Also, take a look into the bugs that have already filled for grub-pc: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 7/12/2010 11:45 AM, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I would still like to know why LVM on top of RAID0 performs so poorly > in our case. Can you provide the commands from start to finish when building the volume? fdisk ... mdadm ... pvcreate ... vgcreate ... lvcreate ... etc. My experience has been t

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-12 20:21 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:03:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-07-12 19:41 +0200, Camaleón wrote: >> Foreign operating systems are (supposed to be) detected by os-prober, so if Fedora 13 does not show up, this is a bug in os-prober. >>>

Re: Missing key issue

2010-07-12 Thread John W Foster
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 17:41 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 08:57 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > > Anyone know how to get rid of this issue. I,m getting this message with > > every reload of Synaptic. > > > > W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze Release: T

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:03:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-07-12 19:41 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Foreign operating systems are (supposed to be) detected by os-prober, >>> so if Fedora 13 does not show up, this is a bug in os-prober. >> >> Mmm, I don't even have that installed on my syst

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-12 19:41 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:22:29 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-07-12 19:09 +0200, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> Also, take a look into the bugs that have already filled for grub-pc: >>> >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=grub-pc >>

Re: Scim and iceweasel

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 06/07/10 05:53 PM, Lisi wrote: > > I may not have time to do this tomorrow - and must get myself to bed now > before I fall asleep at the keyboard. :-( But I'll do it in the > foreseeable future. > > Lisi I just reinstalled my system (replace a faulty hard disk). Regarding scim, I instal

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 01:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:22:29 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2010-07-12 19:09 +0200, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> Also, take a look into the bugs that have already filled for grub-pc: >>> >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=grub-pc >> >> s/

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Arcady Genkin
I just tried to use LVM for striping the RAID1 triplets together (instead of MD). Using the following three commands to create the logical volume, I get 550 MB/s sequential read speed, which is quite faster than before, but is still 10% slower than what plain MD RAID0 stripe can do with the same d

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 01:22 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-07-12 19:09 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > >> Also, take a look into the bugs that have already filled for grub-pc: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=grub-pc > > s/grub-pc/os-prober/ > > Foreign operating systems are (suppose

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:22:29 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-07-12 19:09 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > >> Also, take a look into the bugs that have already filled for grub-pc: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=grub-pc > > s/grub-pc/os-prober/ > > Foreign operating syste

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-07-12 19:09 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > Also, take a look into the bugs that have already filled for grub-pc: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=grub-pc s/grub-pc/os-prober/ Foreign operating systems are (supposed to be) detected by os-prober, so if Fedora 13 does not

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 01:09 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > I think windows OS falls apart (as there are no "vmlinuz" files to > detect) but fedora9 should be the same case than Fedora13, provided that > is also located in a different disk. > > When you run the "update-grub" command, it writes a bad entry for >

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:24:44 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 12/07/10 12:15 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> I don't know so much how the "new beast" (GRUB2) works, but if "man >> update-grub¹" is right, it will detect all the "vmlinuz" files that are >> under the "/boot" partition, not sure if this condition fits

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Arcady Genkin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 02:05, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > lvcreate -i 10 -I [stripe_size] -l 102389 vg0 > > I believe you're losing 10x performance because you have a 10 "disk" mdadm > stripe but you didn't inform lvcreate about this fact. Hi, Stan: I believe that the -i and -I options are for usin

Re (2): output from udevadm

2010-07-12 Thread peasthope
From: Tom H Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:43:02 -0400 >From a filesystem perspective, there is an assumed /sys "in front of" >/class/... OK, thanks. This confirms. joule:/home/peter# cd /sys/class/ieee1394_protocol joule:/sys/class/ieee1394_protocol# ls -l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2010

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 12:15 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:17:53 -0400, H.S. wrote: > > (...) > >> Now when I do update-grub in Debian, it detects all OSes installed in >> the hard drives connected to the system, but does not detect Fedora 13. >> I had to manually add the stanza lines for F13

Re: Why does not update-grub detect Fedora 13 installation?

2010-07-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:17:53 -0400, H.S. wrote: (...) > Now when I do update-grub in Debian, it detects all OSes installed in > the hard drives connected to the system, but does not detect Fedora 13. > I had to manually add the stanza lines for F13 to get its option in the > grub boot list. > >

Re: Recovering deleted items once Kmail trash is emptied

2010-07-12 Thread Carl Johnson
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:27:25 +0100, AG wrote: > >> Is there anyway of recovering items that have been deleted by "emptying" >> KMail's trash folder? >> >> I suspect not, and certainly the KMail manual suggests that once it's >> gone, it's gone. However, ever hopeful, I though

Uninstallation of Java tools for eclipse

2010-07-12 Thread J.Hwan.Kim
Hi, everyone My system is lenny 5.03 and when I installed eclipse, the development tools are installed, too. But now I want to unistall the java development tools of eclipse. So, I did it, but the java tools of eclipse is not installed. When I overwrite sun java packages, the java tools of ec

Re: how to backup and restore /var partition.

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 11/07/10 11:12 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > H. S. wrote: >> I want to reinstall Debian on a machine which is also running my local >> web server. I am planning on backing up /home, /var and /etc. > > Backups are good. But... > > Re-install? Why? Is the machine running now? If so then why not

Re: output from udevadm

2010-07-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:23:37 -0700, peasthope wrote: > The following short transcript is from adapting the udevadm invocation > in http://wiki.debian.org/udev to investigate 1394 support in my Squeeze > system. Two questions. > > * What exactly is meant by "device specified by the devpath" in >

Re: lenny boot with grub2

2010-07-12 Thread mess-mate
On 07/12/2010 03:19 PM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:05 AM, mess-mate wrote: On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:15 AM, mess-mate wrote: On 07/12/2010 09:48 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM, mess-mate wrote: i've installed sqeeze (amd6

Re: No lvm2 volumes after kernel update

2010-07-12 Thread konsti
Sorry, this is not a reply but in initial message to the list. > Are you using the kernel to autodetect the LVM volumes (using type 0xfd). It Well I use only the kernel modules (dm_mod) and let userspace do its stuff, mainly debian's /etc/init.d/lvm does the job well. It relies on pvscan dete

Re: Recovering deleted items once Kmail trash is emptied

2010-07-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:27:25 +0100, AG wrote: > Is there anyway of recovering items that have been deleted by "emptying" > KMail's trash folder? > > I suspect not, and certainly the KMail manual suggests that once it's > gone, it's gone. However, ever hopeful, I thought that someone here may > h

Recovering deleted items once Kmail trash is emptied

2010-07-12 Thread AG
Hi Is there anyway of recovering items that have been deleted by "emptying" KMail's trash folder? I suspect not, and certainly the KMail manual suggests that once it's gone, it's gone. However, ever hopeful, I thought that someone here may have a trick or two up their sleeve. Thanks for a

'Mounting local filesystems... failed.' when /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts.

2010-07-12 Thread higeon
Hi,all I want make a readonly ROOT following the guide http://wiki.debian.org/ReadonlyRoot /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts. and the udev-mtab is disabled. But I got the error when boot: 'Mounting local filesystems... failed.' Where is the problem? Thank you! OS: debian 5.04 lenny x86

Re: lenny boot with grub2

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:05 AM, mess-mate wrote: > On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:15 AM, mess-mate wrote: > On 07/12/2010 09:48 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM, mess-mate wrote: > > i've installed sqeeze (amd64) and grub2 as the boot loader.

Re: how to backup and restore /var partition.

2010-07-12 Thread John Hasler
Bob Proulx writes: > Upgrade. Don't re-install. But note that it is best not to skip releases when doing so. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.de

[SOLVED] What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 is installed?

2010-07-12 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:41:06 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> What's the easiest way for a shell script to tell if grub version 1 >> is installed?  It is important to distinguish grub version 1 from >> grub version 2.  For example, can I just do this? >> ... > > Anand Sivaram

Re: lenny boot with grub2

2010-07-12 Thread mess-mate
On 07/12/2010 11:51 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:15 AM, mess-mate wrote: On 07/12/2010 09:48 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM, mess-mate wrote: i've installed sqeeze (amd64) and grub2 as the boot loader. On an 2d hd lenny with grub (older version with the

Re: No lvm2 volumes after kernel update

2010-07-12 Thread Michael Tsang
On Monday 12 July 2010 17:53:56 Konstantin Kletschke wrote: > Well the update itself did run very well, grub2 loads new kernel and > ramdisk and iniiates to start userspace. There pvscan detects no > physical volumes anymore all of a sudden. Booting the old kernel again > runs well and the bos come

Re: GRUB broken after upgrade on Macbook

2010-07-12 Thread Sylvain Archenault
I managed to fix this. I should have run "grub-install /dev/sda" at a moment instead of "/dev/sda3/" which lead to a corrupt mbr. I fixed this by clearing the mbr (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=811240): dd if=fakembr80.tx of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 and reinstalling grub: gptsync grub

Re: USB memory stick plugged in - mouse stops

2010-07-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On 12/07/10 10:43, Alan Chandler wrote: In the last few days, I have noticed that when I plug in the memory stick my mouse stops responding. I think it must be hardware related. I just tried moving to another USB slot on the front, and that is working without any problem. Forgive the nois

No lvm2 volumes after kernel update

2010-07-12 Thread Konstantin Kletschke
Hello, I tried to do a Kernel update on an (mainly) lenny box after it had an uptime of over 400 days. This means quite old Box with old kernel meets bleeding edge modern stuff. Additionally I moved from lilo to grub2 (if that is from concern). Well the update itself did run very well, grub2 load

Re: lenny boot with grub2

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:15 AM, mess-mate wrote: > On 07/12/2010 09:48 AM, Tom H wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM, mess-mate wrote: > > > i've installed sqeeze (amd64) and grub2 as the boot loader. > On an 2d hd lenny with  grub (older version with the stage.. files) is > installed. >

USB memory stick plugged in - mouse stops

2010-07-12 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a USB mouse and keyboard both plugged through an external hub and connected into a USB port at the back of my computer Separately I have a USB port out of the front of the computer in which (via a short extension lead) I am plugging in a memory stick. (I am saying this because I think i

Re: lenny boot with grub2

2010-07-12 Thread mess-mate
On 07/12/2010 09:48 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM, mess-mate wrote: i've installed sqeeze (amd64) and grub2 as the boot loader. On an 2d hd lenny with grub (older version with the stage.. files) is installed. Since grub2 is installed on the mbr no way to boot my lenny sy

Re: lenny boot with grub2

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM, mess-mate wrote: > > i've installed sqeeze (amd64) and grub2 as the boot loader. > On an 2d hd lenny with  grub (older version with the stage.. files) is > installed. > Since grub2 is installed on the mbr no way to boot my lenny system. > Here is the lenny part on

Re: output from udevadm

2010-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:23 PM, wrote: > The following short transcript is from adapting the udevadm > invocation in http://wiki.debian.org/udev to investigate > 1394 support in my Squeeze system.  Two questions. > > * What exactly is meant by "device specified by the devpath" in >  the output?

Re: lenny boot with grub2

2010-07-12 Thread mess-mate
On 07/12/2010 05:41 AM, Greg Madden wrote: On Sunday 11 July 2010 14:52:05 mess-mate wrote: Hi list, i've installed sqeeze (amd64) and grub2 as the boot loader. On an 2d hd lenny with grub (older version with the stage.. files) is installed. Since grub2 is installed on the mbr no way to boo

Re: lenny boot with grub2

2010-07-12 Thread mess-mate
On 07/12/2010 04:43 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: mess-mate wrote: i've installed sqeeze (amd64) and grub2 as the boot loader. On an 2d hd lenny with grub (older version with the stage.. files) is installed. Since grub2 is installed on the mbr no way to boot my lenny system. Have you tried t