Re: trinity & konqueror

2010-08-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Paul Cartwright wrote: well, I have the trinity session working fine, but now konqueror doesn't work for my gnome session or my wifes regular KDE session ( she never logged out after I installed trinity). when i ran konqueror from the terminal I got this error: QComboBox::pixmap: (history com

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [2010.08.16.0034 +0200]: > Last I checked, it is possible to have the kernel itself start the > root array, via a (series of) kernel command-line arguments. > However, this doesn't use mdadm or any of its configuration files. That only works for the deprecated

Re: Bootable Flag: toggle problem with squeeze

2010-08-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
brownh wrote: I'm doing a fresh install of squeeze from USB key on a disk that had a unused copy of lenny on it. Ran into a problem when manually partitioning the disk. The first partition I went to create was a /boot primary partition, but I found that the partitioning utility wouldn't toggle

Re: squeeze install: Gave up waiting for root devices

2010-08-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
brownh wrote: I assume that the UUID assigned to my hard disk does not match the kernel line in GRUB2. Is there any way to find out what the assigned ID numbers are? Haines Brown Yes, as Boyd said, as root in the console type 'blkid'. It can also be ran as user, but I've heard you can get t

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-08-15 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 02:31:49AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Very interesting and helpful post. Thank you. I've snipped most of it > out for the sake of those for whom long emails are a problem or > expensive. You should ALWAYS trim your messages, cutting out the irrelevant cruft, lea

Re: Blank blue screen after logging into an account for the first time with gdm & choosing window manager

2010-08-15 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:41:26PM +, Daniel Trebbien wrote: > > So why didn't Nautilus start after I selected a window manager? > > I figured it out. For some reason, the X session manager was set to > `/usr/bin/choosewm` by default when it needed to be `/usr/bin/gnome-session`. > I > correc

Re: get kernel version of chroot

2010-08-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:00:54 -0400 (EDT), Tong wrote: > > Is it possible to get the kernel version of a chroot system? I'm not sure that I understand what question you are really asking. I am assuming that you have, for example, used a Debian installation CD as a rescue CD on a system that you do

Re: Auto enabling swap at boot up

2010-08-15 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:13:23 -0400, Celejar wrote: >> I am not sure, but is Debain able to pick the swap partition(s) and use >> it on boot up without using specifying it in fstab file? > > You can always have a script call swapon (see 'man swapon'), but what, > exactly, are you trying to accompl

get kernel version of chroot

2010-08-15 Thread T o n g
Hi, Is it possible to get the kernel version of a chroot system? I tried chroot chroot_fs uname -r but it only reports the kernel version of my current system, not the chroot system. Any other way? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ h

Re: DHClient Exit Scripts

2010-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 15, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <1af890a5-5bf9-46c9-8c4b-b709170dd...@halblog.com>, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> I've been reading the man pages for dhclient, but I'm stuck with one key >> question I've missed. >> >> I have an exit script set up to notify me of the IP ad

Re: newbie intro

2010-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 06:54:56PM -0500, Tom Poe wrote: > Ubuntu sees both drives, now. DUH! Now you know why I never worked in > the IT industry. > > I can't think of any reason for using Windows. I have an older eMachine > from Wal-Mart that I hope to set up an Asterisk PBX this winter.

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Re: Auto enabling swap at boot up

2010-08-15 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:05:07 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure, but is Debain able to pick the swap partition(s) and use > it on boot up without using specifying it in fstab file? You can always have a script call swapon (see 'man swapon'), but what, exactly, are you trying to

Re: squeeze install: Gave up waiting for root devices

2010-08-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <871v9z7ayl@teufel.historicalmaterialism.info>, brownh wrote: >I assume that the UUID assigned to my hard disk does not match the >kernel line in GRUB2. Is there any way to find out what the assigned >ID numbers are? blkid -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguana

squeeze install: Gave up waiting for root devices

2010-08-15 Thread brownh
I'm doing a fresh squeeze install from USB key, and it installs grub 0.97 and kernel 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem. A single SATA drive. Boot hangs with Waiting for root filesystem... Gave up waiting for root device. ... I edited grub kernel line to add rootdelay=5, which didn't help.

Re: DHClient Exit Scripts

2010-08-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1af890a5-5bf9-46c9-8c4b-b709170dd...@halblog.com>, Hal Vaughan wrote: >I've been reading the man pages for dhclient, but I'm stuck with one key >question I've missed. > >I have an exit script set up to notify me of the IP address of a particular >system (on a LAN) whenever the IP address change

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100815190053.ga4...@gandalf.home.lxtec.de>, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >How do I set up mdadm to create the root array witout an initramfs? You can't. mdadm is a user-space binary that can't be compiled into the kernel images. Therefore, to run mdadm you need an initramfs, or the file sys

DHClient Exit Scripts

2010-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
I've been reading the man pages for dhclient, but I'm stuck with one key question I've missed. I have an exit script set up to notify me of the IP address of a particular system (on a LAN) whenever the IP address changes. For now I'm testing, but in the future it'll be running where I have no

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:53:41 -0400 (EDT), Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > With the new versions of kernel-package in Squeeze, running > make-kpkg clean should almost never be required (if the upstream > Makefiles are not borked, as they rarely are). The new make-kpkg > starts by removing and re-creat

Re: Transmitting a webcam's flux to the Internet: how?

2010-08-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, You didn't find anything on the Internet? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+webcam+streaming I assume your 'device' is running some *nix variant, in which case it doesn't seem that hard (i've never tried it, i'm just judging by the search results). However, "snapshots every second" are not what i'd

Re: Transmitting a webcam's flux to the Internet: how?

2010-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:18:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Many cities/special places, etc., have `live' webcams which allow > Internet users to see these places `live.' This is often achieved thanks > to hosting websites, etc. I'm here asking myself how I could, from a > device (not necessarily

Re: wicd refuses to start

2010-08-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:21:04 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > Earlier you mentioned an update... > I was referring to a selective update using aptitude. > > available, enough to consider moving to Xubuntu. :) I think I'm > > losing interest in a rolling distro (having previously been on > > Gentoo

Transmitting a webcam's flux to the Internet: how?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Many cities/special places, etc., have `live' webcams which allow Internet users to see these places `live.' This is often achieved thanks to hosting websites, etc. I'm here asking myself how I could, from a device (not necessarily a traditional computer), send the webcam flux to the Internet.

mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-15 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, I've set up a new machine with sw raid1. / and /boot are on seperated arrays. raid1 support is compiled direct into 2.6.35.1. The machine is only bootable with an initramfs created by the hints in /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3.gz. How do I set up mdadm to create the root arr

Bootable Flag: toggle problem with squeeze

2010-08-15 Thread brownh
I'm doing a fresh install of squeeze from USB key on a disk that had a unused copy of lenny on it. Ran into a problem when manually partitioning the disk. The first partition I went to create was a /boot primary partition, but I found that the partitioning utility wouldn't toggle its bootable sta

Re: konqueror crashing

2010-08-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun August 15 2010, Camaleón wrote: > >> Did you try to follow the suggested steps? > > > > well, no, dcopserver has been running since: > > pbc       9203     1  0 > > Jun29 ?        00:00:55 dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid --suicide > > > > > > do I have to log out & back in? restart it? how? > >

Re: Connection loss to mounted nfs volume

2010-08-15 Thread Robert Latest
Sorry guys for the incremental mess I made in this mailing list.Must be a bug in claws-mail's IMAP handling. robert -- 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/aa

Re: konqueror crashing

2010-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:45:25 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun August 15 2010, Camaleón wrote: >> > $ konqueror >> > - >> > It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it >> > is not already running, >> > remove /home/pbc/.DCOPserver_paula

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, Aug 14 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > Oops! I forgot to show the "make-kpkg clean" step after "make > menuconfig". I'm not sure if this is still needed anymore, but it's > good practice. In real life, I did issue it; but when I composed the > e-mail, I forgot to document it. Wit

Re: kvm virtualization, consistent guest backup

2010-08-15 Thread Martin Kraus
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 03:50:28PM +, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:00:26 +0200, Martin Kraus wrote: > > > Is there a > > way to make consistent backups of the guest without shutting them down? > > The major problem I see is that there's no way to freeze a filesystem > > inside a gue

Re: konqueror crashing

2010-08-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun August 15 2010, Camaleón wrote: > > $ konqueror > > - > > It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is > > not already running, > > remove /home/pbc/.DCOPserver_paulandcilla.homelinux.org__0 and start > > dcopserver again. > > --

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:11:21 -0400 (EDT), Angus Hedger wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> If you copy your module directly into the source tree, then you need >> to download a new kernel source tree and unpack it due to kernel >> maintenance, you lose your modifications.  By keeping the out-of-ke

Re: konqueror crashing

2010-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:19:34 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > not sure what happened, might be the trinity install, but konqueror > isn't working anymore under gnome or KDE ( but it is working for > trinity). when I run it from a terminal I get this: > $ konqueror > ---

Re: wicd refuses to start

2010-08-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 aug 10, 17:36:58, Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > I'm using wicd 1.7.0 on an outdated Debian squeeze. > > > > I guess you mean updated ;) > > > No, I actually meant very outdated. I have ~1300 upstream upgrades Earlier you mentioned an update... > available, enough to consider moving to

konqueror crashing

2010-08-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
not sure what happened, might be the trinity install, but konqueror isn't working anymore under gnome or KDE ( but it is working for trinity). when I run it from a terminal I get this: $ konqueror - It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that i

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:00:52 -0400, Borden Rhodes wrote: > I'm going to list some of the frustrations I've been having with > troubleshooting Linux's quirks, crashes and problems in hopes that > someone may be able to help me (and the community) become better bug > reporters and troubleshooters.

Re: wicd refuses to start

2010-08-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:32:52 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > What Desktop Environment are you using? > Xfce, with its xfce4-notifyd. I just went through the bug report and disabling notification in wicd seems to do the trick. As a work-around, this is fine with me. > > I'm using wicd 1.7.0 on an

Re: wicd refuses to start

2010-08-15 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:52:29 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > After some recent updates, I assume, wicd strangely refuses to start. > li...@debian-liv:~$ wicd-gtk > [. . .] Yes, I'm getting that as well. My WM is fluxbox. > I'm using wicd 1.7.0 on an outdated Debian squeeze. Debian sq

Re: mount USB drive read-write but only got read-only so far

2010-08-15 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 15/08/10 15:56, wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:23:25 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: (...) It seems most people have other problems with Time Machine back-ups like just reading them at all or creating them, and I haven't found anybody talking about what I can do to share the hard drive wit

Re: Any package instillation breaks libraries.

2010-08-15 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Before? After? > Dowloading the packages? Installing them? after instillation. > Any specific error message? nothing that i can really see. in text. the only reason i know the network has stopped functioning is my panel weather space displ

Re: mount USB drive read-write but only got read-only so far

2010-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:23:25 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: (...) > It seems most people have other problems with Time Machine back-ups like > just reading them at all or creating them, and I haven't found anybody > talking about what I can do to share the hard drive with one. > > And if I can mount i

mount USB drive read-write but only got read-only so far

2010-08-15 Thread Adam Hardy
I have a couple of questions about mounting and writing to a USB drive. I bought a 1Tb Western Digital 'Passport' HDD that powers itself from the USB, so just one cable to plug in. I want to use it to back up both my Debian box and my girlfriend's Mac which uses Time Machine. I let the Time M

Re: What to put on SSD

2010-08-15 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:02:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Grumpy Old Man says: sell the SSD and buy more RAM. Already did. Get more RAM that is. I went from 4 to 8 GB. 16 is max and I can go to 12 without swapping out existing memory. It's a work machine, so I can't just sell extra parts away

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:03:35 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > > (...) > > >>> Me neither... maybe it's just an Eclipse issue. Can you launch any >>> other java application and see if that works? >>> >>> >> Yes, I can, but the result is

kvm virtualization, consistent guest backup

2010-08-15 Thread Martin Kraus
Hello. I have kvm guests running from lvm partitions on the host. Is there a way to make consistent backups of the guest without shutting them down? The major problem I see is that there's no way to freeze a filesystem inside a guest to make an lvm snapshot from the host. Does anyone have any (p

Re: Replacing an HDD: will it be labeled as before?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:42:54 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > > (...) > > Say now that I manage to copy my home to the new HDD (in ext3) which will replace the old one. If I physically put a new HDD at the place of the old one, wil

Re: Replacing an HDD: will it be labeled as before?

2010-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:42:54 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Say now that I manage to copy my home to the new HDD (in ext3) which >>> will replace the old one. If I physically put a new HDD at the place >>> of the old one, will I encounter issues? >>> >>> >> Mo

Re: Any package instillation breaks libraries.

2010-08-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 09:11:12AM -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > I am having a very annoying issue at the moment. any time i install a > package via apt / synaptic / aptitude my internet connection fails. Before? After? Dowloading the packages? Installing them? > > this issue is beyond me. but

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:03:35 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Me neither... maybe it's just an Eclipse issue. Can you launch any >> other java application and see if that works? >> > Yes, I can, but the result is negative: no other java app works. Ugh... >> P.S. Also,

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:27:12 -0400 (EDT), Angus Hedger wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> ... >>> $ make-kpkg --append-to-version -custom5-686 --revision 2.6.32-18 \ >>>   --initrd --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:13:27 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > > (...) > > >>> Try by manually forcing the full path to java bin: >>> >>> *** >>> ./eclipse -debug -vm >>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/bin/java *** >>> >

Re: Replacing an HDD: will it be labeled as before?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:55:22 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> I would like to replace one of my HDDs by another one (a bigger one). >> Say that this is /dev/sdc. Then, its structure is defined like this: >> >> /dev/sdc1 (extended) >> /dev/sdc5 (ext3) >> >> where >> >> /d

Re: wicd refuses to start

2010-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:52:29 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > After some recent updates, I assume, wicd strangely refuses to start. > li...@debian-liv:~$ wicd-gtk (...) > File "/usr/share/wicd/gtk/wicd-client.py", line 233, in > _show_notification self._last_bubble.show() glib.GError:

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:27:12 -0400 (EDT), Angus Hedger wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> $ make-kpkg --append-to-version -custom5-686 --revision 2.6.32-18 \ >>   --initrd --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image modules_image >> ... > > Quick question, is there an adv

Re: Replacing an HDD: will it be labeled as before?

2010-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:55:22 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I would like to replace one of my HDDs by another one (a bigger one). > Say that this is /dev/sdc. Then, its structure is defined like this: > > /dev/sdc1 (extended) > /dev/sdc5 (ext3) > > where > > /dev/sdc5 is mounted as my home

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:13:27 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Try by manually forcing the full path to java bin: >> >> *** >> ./eclipse -debug -vm >> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/bin/java *** >> > Thanks for the trick. It first gives a box `No

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-08-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201008150200.52677.j...@bordenrhodes.com>, Borden Rhodes wrote: >1) Is there a way to apply debugging symbols retroactively to a dump? A few >times I've had Linux crash on me and spit out a debugging dump. I do my >best to install debugging symbols for all 1400 packages I have on my system >(w

Re: wicd refuses to start

2010-08-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 aug 10, 07:52:29, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > After some recent updates, I assume, wicd strangely refuses to start. > li...@debian-liv:~$ wicd-gtk [snip errors] > However, it starts just fine with > li...@debian-liv:~$ wicd-gtk --no-tray > Has notifications support True > Loadi

Re: Replacing an HDD: will it be labeled as before?

2010-08-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 15 aug 10, 10:55:22, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to replace one of my HDDs by another one (a bigger one). > Say that this is /dev/sdc. Then, its structure is defined like this: > > /dev/sdc1 (extended) > /dev/sdc5 (ext3) > > where > > /dev/sdc5 is mounted as my home

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, Sorry for the double, but forgot something! On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > $ make-kpkg --append-to-version -custom5-686 --revision 2.6.32-18 \ >   --initrd --rootcmd fakeroot kernel_image modules_image Quick question, is there an advantage to building a modules_

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey. On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I don't think that this is a bug.  I think you're trying to mix and match > two different ways of doing things.  There are two basic ways of creating > an out-of-kernel-source-tree module from source: (1) install the kernel > header

Replacing an HDD: will it be labeled as before?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I would like to replace one of my HDDs by another one (a bigger one). Say that this is /dev/sdc. Then, its structure is defined like this: /dev/sdc1 (extended) /dev/sdc5 (ext3) where /dev/sdc5 is mounted as my home in /etc/fstab: == # cat /etc/fstab | grep merciadriluca /dev/sdc5

Re: Corrupted FS every 50 checks

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> always on the same: /dev/sdc5. Well, this is where I have all my docs, >> my university stuff, and this is even more annoying. I could do backups, >> > > I sure hope you *DID* extensive backups. Often. An

Re: Corrupted FS every 50 checks

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Bob Proulx wrote: > Does your disk support S.M.A.R.T.? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T. > > Try it and see if the disk drive reports any physical errors. > > $ sudo apt-get install smartmontools > > Here are some example uses: > > $ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda > SMART support is: A

Re: Corrupted FS every 50 checks

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Bob Proulx wrote: > Hanspeter Spalinger wrote: > >> Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >>> problem is that I always get errors when e2fsck verifies the fs, and >>> always on the same: /dev/sdc5. ... >>> but I can't understand why this filesystem is problematic, because I >>> don't use it often, at l

Re: Corrupted FS every 50 checks

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hanspeter Spalinger wrote: > On 08/14/2010 09:01 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have the fs' checking period set to 50 mounts for now some years. The > > problem is that I always get errors when e2fsck verifies the fs, and > > always on the same: /dev/sdc5. Well, this is where I have all

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:00:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > > > (...) > > > > (...) > > > > The above path... not sure if it's right. > > Try by manually forcing the full path to java bin: > > *** > ./eclipse -debug -vm > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/j

Re: Huawei E220 on NetworkManager

2010-08-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 11 aug 10, 10:28:28, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > Hello, > > has anyone out there been able to get NetworkManager to bring up a 3G > connection on a Huawei E220 (portuguese operator Vodafone). > > I have never been able to achieve this. Now I migrated from Lenny to > Squeeze (fresh install

Re: Udev rule for external hard-drive

2010-08-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 10 aug 10, 09:48:35, Brian Troutwine wrote: > > I'd like to give the volume a static name so that I can reliably point > autofs at it. While I realize that I could simply use the entries in > /dev/disk, I find it difficult to maintain the mental mapping of names > to device, especially at a

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-08-15 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 02:00:52AM -0400, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Good morning, > > I'm going to list some of the frustrations I've been having with > troubleshooting Linux's quirks, crashes and problems in hopes that someone > may > be able to help me (and the community) become better bug repor

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 12 aug 10, 11:10:16, Arthur Machlas wrote: > > Isn't there a risk in granting user access to src, adm, and such if > ever your user account is compromised? My uninformed opinion is that > it's a question of relative risk; the 'risk' involved in building > kernels as root, versus the risk in