Re: Does "I/O error" mean hardware problem?

2010-11-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/21/2010 11:44 PM: > Dear all, > > My Debian Lenny constantly reports "disk I/O error on block xxx" when > booting, then it runs e2fschk and reports some files are missing. I'd > formated the partition but the problem still occurs. The hardware is an > Dell E6400 whic

How to install dpkg package in Cygwin OS on i686 computer

2010-11-21 Thread guojiang wu
Hi Everyone, When I installed dpkg-1.14.29 in Cygwin system on an i686 computer, the following information was displayed: "checking dpkg cpu type... i386 configure: WARNING: I686 not found in cputable checking dpkg operating system type... cygwin configure: WARNING: cygwin not found in ostable"

Does "I/O error" mean hardware problem?

2010-11-21 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, My Debian Lenny constantly reports "disk I/O error on block xxx" when booting, then it runs e2fschk and reports some files are missing. I'd formated the partition but the problem still occurs. The hardware is an Dell E6400 which has a Diagnostic tool. I'd run the tool, but it said

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/21/2010 09:02 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > I also recommend using volatile. > thanks! >> > Volatile is meant for updates to packages whose usefulness naturally >> > degrades as time passes, like virus scanners and spam filters. >> > ... > Another example of a package in volatile is tzdata. Time z

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:09:05 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In <20101120185835.2915d9d3.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: > >On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:26:43 -0600 > >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > >> Much of the memory usage can be blamed on aggressive per-tab caching of > >> webpages

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > >I have volatile commented out in my sources.list.. should I be using it? > > I recommend it, but there aren't that many packages in it anyway so you are > likely not missing anything. I also recommend using volatile. > Volatile is meant

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:35:37 + Nuno Magalhães wrote: ... > I use Iceweasel with ADP and NoScript and that's it. Sometimes i get > in trouble with flash-sites and sometimes my cpu will spike 'cos of > some tab, but i think it's the most all-round browser i have. I'll use > 30 tabs max, and do

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > The first task of a package manager is to ensure a consistent system > state by enforcing Depends. However, it is also supposed to make it > easy to install new software; most users and developers want > Recommends installed, since without them some advertised featu

Re: (solved)Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Long Wind
Not fully solved. It works on a P4bmx motherboard Notice that I have tried mapping myself earlier on a MS 6163 ( BX) motherboard It still doesn't work I believe it's related to BIOS On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:41 PM, wrote: > > Hmmm, I learned sometin'; I didn't know about the whole map/hide trig

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
Below... > If people really feel they NEED desktop > widgets either make it add on software or make a third party desktop > environment based off the main environment. The way it is now KDE and > Gnome, the two biggest are competing for 'most bloat award' and the > sleek fast environments like lxd

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread debian
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:20:39 + teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > ... > Linux Desktop Enviroments need to stop trying to compete to impress > microsoft users and N00b's and stick to what Linux is all about, > clean, efficient, FAST! Why? Linux can (and does) do both... and quite well. > I

Re: lotsa udev warnings after lenny->squeeze upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread baldyeti
Thanks for your reply, Wolodja. I've run your "aptitude" suggestion and accepted all purges. This seems to have gotten rid of a few udev complaints, but some remain. They're related to libjnb (I have an old creative mp3 "jukebox" I plug every once in a while), and xserver-wacom (I do *not* have a

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Doug
On 11/21/2010 07:00 AM, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Well what does the partitioning on the SCSI disk look like? It's odd for the system to boot into the HDA device using hd[0,#] AND hd[1,#] even if hd[1,#] was incorrect for the SCSI device, it should give you a can't find error, devices

Re: Problems with cups/printconf on Squeeze and Sid

2010-11-21 Thread Wayne Topa
On 11/21/2010 01:00 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:34:38 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 11/21/2010 10:49 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) And why not reporting the error? A year is so much time for leaving Cups crashing without reporting the bug. Printing facility is a must in any system.

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4ce98645.6060...@optonline.net>, Doug wrote: >This may be my stupidity, but shouldn't a scsi disk be referred to as >sdx? (Where x is a number, like 0 or 1.) Not in GRUB. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 21 nov 10, 12:19:56, Matthias Andersson wrote: > On 11/21/2010 09:56 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > claws-mail is fantastic, I would like to encourage others to give it a > > try. Fast and powerful. > > I have installed claws-mail to try it out - now there's the question > regarding exp

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
I agree Nuno Magalhães; I use to use KDE, I loved the incredible functionality and customization you got from it. Now I've switched to Lxde, not because I like it, but because KDE4 is complete tripe, sure it looks pretty, but there is really no customization to it, which background image do yo

Re: (solved)Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
Hmmm, I learned sometin'; I didn't know about the whole map/hide triggers. Good call Camale=F3n! Glad it's working now Long Wind. TeddyB -Original Message- From: Long Wind Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:02:31 To: Cc: Subject: (solved)Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk? You

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread gun_smoke
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:56:49PM -0800, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > claws-mail is fantastic, I would like to encourage others to give it a > try. Fast and powerful. > > > Brian Since this thread has started I decided to give claws a go. From what I've messed with so far it seems nice. I wo

(solved)Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Long Wind
You are great! I add mapping and it can boot Win98. title Microsoft Windows 98 root(hd1,0) map (hd1) (hd0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:13:41 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > > Mmm... I see. >

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:19:24 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: So, you have changed not only the board but also the disk interface (it was ide and now is sata)? Does the new kernel has "libata" module loaded? It was a sata disk in an external enclosure connected

Re: Problems with cups/printconf on Squeeze and Sid

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:34:38 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 11/21/2010 10:49 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> And why not reporting the error? A year is so much time for leaving >> Cups crashing without reporting the bug. Printing facility is a must in >> any system. > > IIRC when I first experience

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:19:24 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> So, you have changed not only the board but also the disk interface (it >> was ide and now is sata)? Does the new kernel has "libata" module >> loaded? > > It was a sata disk in an external enclosure connected with U

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:45, Alan Chandler wrote: >> My machine >> is an older desktop with only 1 Gb of RAM Have big applications like office suites, internet browsers and the like added so many more features that a "mere" 1GB of RAM doesn't suffice?! Isn't Web2.0's structure mostly text-based

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Maybe now is a good time for you to put your Grub's menu config (either upload the full file to an external server or attach the file to the message). Also, include the output of "fdisk -l" that will help us to get a better understanding of your current system structure :-) I use SGD. I at

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
2010/11/20 Nuno Magalhães : > >I've read nice stuff about dillo (which rendering engine?), >but haven't tried it. It uses it's own rendering engine, which is very limited compared to the big 4 (modern Gecko, Webkit, Presto and Trident). Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:55:53 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Or maybe your GRUB has to be properly updated for looking into the right "root (hdx,n)" device? Let me do a grub-install, but it finds the root device and boots it, but it hangs after init

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:55:53 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Or maybe your GRUB has to be properly updated for looking into the >> right "root (hdx,n)" device? >> >> > Let me do a grub-install, but it finds the root device and boots it, but > it hangs after initrd w

Re: what to use besides selinux?

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:37:58 +0100, Arthur Bela wrote: > On 21 November 2010 14:23, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> But you should be more specific. What services are you running? are all >> that services providing remote functionalities? Have you setup a >> firewall, IPS, IDS...? What are your requir

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:58:00 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I changed motherboards and now when I boot I get "waiting for root file > system". (...) Same motherboard or a different (brand/model) one? How are the sata BIOS settings now and then (sata/ahci/raid)? Maybe you need to load a kernel

Re: waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:58:00 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I changed motherboards and now when I boot I get "waiting for root file system". (...) Same motherboard or a different (brand/model) one? Different motherboard/cpu/memory old:epox 8VTAI new:asus M4N98TD EVO + Athl

Re: what to use besides selinux?

2010-11-21 Thread Arthur Bela
just a normal desktop. [no server function on it]. on a plain notebook. On 21 November 2010 14:23, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:27:09 +0100, Arthur Bela wrote: > >> I >> >> apt-get install selinux >> >> Ok. Reboot. So I'm better protected now, or i have to set a few things? > > Congra

Re: Problems with cups/printconf on Squeeze and Sid

2010-11-21 Thread Wayne Topa
On 11/21/2010 10:49 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:05:05 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 11/21/2010 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: Uh? That is not normal. You should be able to add/manage your printer from web interface. What do logs say? Sorry, I forgot the log entries. After purging

waiting for root file system

2010-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I changed motherboards and now when I boot I get "waiting for root file system". But the disks have not changed, they are the same ones as with the old motherboard. All partitions are labelled. One disk had a USB connection on the old motherboard and now has a SATA connection. Fstab and gr

Re: Problems with cups/printconf on Squeeze and Sid

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:05:05 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 11/21/2010 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Uh? That is not normal. You should be able to add/manage your printer >> from web interface. What do logs say? >> >> > Sorry, I forgot the log entries. After purging all of the cups packages > as w

Re: Problems with cups/printconf on Squeeze and Sid

2010-11-21 Thread Wayne Topa
On 11/21/2010 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:26:41 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: I can't get cups to do anything but show the entry page at localhost:631. All of the other tabs display 500 Internal Server Error. Uh? That is not normal. You should be able to add/manage your p

Re: lotsa udev warnings after lenny->squeeze upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:53 +0100, baldyeti wrote: > I've performed a mostly uneventful lenny->squeeze upgrade > On bootup though I see a lot of udev-related messages scrolling > by (see below for exmaples). Can someone comment if these are > harmless and how to get rid of them ? Before trying t

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:13:41 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > Below is output by fdisk > other files are attached in email! (...) Thanks :-) Mmm... I see. GRUB is giving priority to your IDE disk so maybe your BIOS is also priorizing IDE controller instead SCSI. In this setup you may need using the

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Long Wind
I have only 2 hard drives Win98 is in sda1 >From BIOS menu I can select to boot from scsi disk and Win98 will boot. On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 8:25 AM, wrote: > > Well that's good! It's what I would expect it to do if it didn't find the > boot partition specified. > > You say Sda1 is the Win 98 OS

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 15:08, François TOURDE wrote: > What??? Why killall or reboot? > > The zombie process don't use any resources in general. No need to reboot > at this point, because nothing is wrong. > If it's running in a shell, then I agree that it is no bother (doesn't use any memory or

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 11. 2010 13:35:21 je Paul Cartwright napisal(a): already mad because people email her with M$ powerpoint attachments, and we hear no sound from them... isn't that what youtube is for? I cannot understand why people will send 9Mb powerpoint attachments of a youtube video, instead of

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
Well that's good! It's what I would expect it to do if it didn't find the boot partition specified. You say Sda1 is the Win 98 OS In question? Are you certain of this?? the partitions on the hda device boot with (hd0,#) and there are no other disk drives?? TeddyB -Original Message-

Re: what to use besides selinux?

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:27:09 +0100, Arthur Bela wrote: > I > > apt-get install selinux > > Ok. Reboot. So I'm better protected now, or i have to set a few things? Congrats. Now your "odessy" starts by here :-P http://wiki.debian.org/SELinux > I read that selinux is good for post-exploitation

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Long Wind
When I select Win98 in grub menu grub enters grub's command line interface -- 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/aanlktimkzwsgik1uyapfptu+_qjsqjaigh6tobyh2.

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Long Wind
Thank Camaleón! Below is output by fdisk other files are attached in email! Disk /dev/sda: 4551 MB, 4551129088 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 553 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 *

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread François TOURDE
Le 14934ième jour après Epoch, Dotan Cohen écrivait: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:58, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > wrote: >>  It's a zombie process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process >> > > Eduardo's right, it's a zombie. I didn't look at the output that was > in the screenshot, but now that

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
The (hd1,0) structure is right, sorry for syntax error, was working from memory. Looking at your list entry, it should work. The two drives are the only ones in the machine right? And you said if you boot it with (hd1,0) it gives you same os as configured for (hd0,0) ?? H, if this is all a

Re: squeeze/amd64/gnome - edid error, 5 minutes to boot

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:27:31 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote: > I'm trying to run squeeze/amd64/gnome on a compaq 6820S . > > Video card is a mobile radeon 1350 : > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV516 [Mobility > Radeon X1350] > > Driver in use in "radeon", and it seems is u

Re: Problems with cups/printconf on Squeeze and Sid

2010-11-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/21/2010 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> >I can't get cups to do anything but show the entry page at >> > localhost:631. All of the other tabs display 500 Internal Server Error. > (...) > > I would try first to get Cups working as it should, getting a 500 error > is not a good signal. If i

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/20/2010 06:34 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I recommend it, but there aren't that many packages in it anyway so you are > likely not missing anything. I added it back did an update, and I think it did find 1 or 2 apps to update.. nothing.. that I could see, that might be a security iss

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:34:37 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I have installed etch on hda4 > Now I add a scsi disk that have Windows 98 Can grub boot Windows 98?? Upload to www.pastebin.com (or copy/paste here) your "/boot/grub/ menu.lst, "/boot/grub/device.map" and the output of "fdisk -l". Greetings

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/20/2010 07:07 PM, Brian wrote: > Slapper Worm: ". . . . spreads on Linux machines by using a flaw > discovered in August 2002 in OpenSSL libraries." (www.f-secure.com). And > the flaw hasn't been fixed? don't have that one, good info though! > You'll have to make your own mind up about the v

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:58, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >  It's a zombie process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process > Eduardo's right, it's a zombie. I didn't look at the output that was in the screenshot, but now that I did I see the Z in the stats column. Killall -9 or reboot at th

Re: Problems with cups/printconf on Squeeze and Sid

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:26:41 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: >I can't get cups to do anything but show the entry page at > localhost:631. All of the other tabs display 500 Internal Server Error. Uh? That is not normal. You should be able to add/manage your printer from web interface. What do logs

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Long Wind
Thanks for your attention! the partition of scsi disk is nothing unusual Win98 is installed at sda1 I notice that you say "hd[1,#]" but I always use the form (hd1,#) menu entries for Win98 is nothing unusual during installation of etch or lenny they create entries for Windows I just make some ch

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
Well what does the partitioning on the SCSI disk look like? It's odd for the system to boot into the HDA device using hd[0,#] AND hd[1,#] even if hd[1,#] was incorrect for the SCSI device, it should give you a can't find error, devices 0 AND 1 shouldn't work for the same OS in any case. If we'

Re: rkhunter report

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 08:08:02 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I run rkhunter, and today I got this report: > > Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.10', is out of date, and > possibly a security risk. > Warning: Application 'openssl', version '0.9.8n', is out of date, and > possibly a securi

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Long Wind
I use (hd1,0), it doesn't work It boot Windows in hda instead I try by adding map (hd0) (hd1) or map (hd1) (hd0) Both don't work. On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 5:44 AM, wrote: > > The hd[#,#] doesn't refer to the device type (i.e. scsi disk sda) grub > operates BEFORE the OS and so that doesn't

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On 21/11/10 10:19, Matthias Andersson wrote: On 11/21/2010 09:56 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: claws-mail is fantastic, I would like to encourage others to give it a try. Fast and powerful. I have installed claws-mail to try it out - now there's the question regarding exporting the mail from

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-11-21 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:18:09 -0500, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Can I get a second on Teddy's opinion? I tend to believe that I just > share the Linux experience, and if I can get something useful done > whilst the computer is willing, so much the better. Is this the truth > about open source softwar

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
It's a zombie process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process -- Old timer, n.: One who remembers when charity was a virtue and not an organization. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: what to use besides selinux?

2010-11-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 11. 2010 11:27:09 je Arthur Bela napisal(a): I apt-get install selinux Ok. Reboot. So I'm better protected now, or i have to set a few things? I read that selinux is good for post-exploitation situations. What do i have to google to search for solutions protecting me "before-exploi

lotsa udev warnings after lenny->squeeze upgrade

2010-11-21 Thread baldyeti
I've performed a mostly uneventful lenny->squeeze upgrade On bootup though I see a lot of udev-related messages scrolling by (see below for exmaples). Can someone comment if these are harmless and how to get rid of them ? Nov 20 00:52:41 shoebox udevd[1076]: add_to_rules: unknown key 'SYMLINK{u

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
Not really an answer, but I disliked transmission. I've had far better luck with qbittorrent Just a thought TeddyB -Original Message- From: Dotan Cohen Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:50:13 To: Arthur Bela Cc: Debian User Mailing list Subject: Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Arthur Bela
I tried to: kill -9 3341 but it's still there, and it's using 100% cpu :\ I only tried to download a few linux iso's, so i can seed them back a couple of times [about ~20 at a time :O ] but transmission just freezez I tried to log out, and log in, when i log back, it's still there :O only when

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:17, Arthur Bela wrote: > I tried to: > > kill -9 3341 > > but it's still there, and it's using 100% cpu :\ > > I only tried to download a few linux iso's, so i can seed them back a > couple of times [about ~20 at a time :O ] but transmission just > freezez > > I tried to

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread teddieeb
The hd[#,#] doesn't refer to the device type (i.e. scsi disk sda) grub operates BEFORE the OS and so that doesn't come into play. If your IDE device is hd[0,#] than your SCSI device is going to be hd[1,#] Obviously you must substitute the second # with the partition number your Win 98 OS is on

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 11. 2010 11:29:38 je Long Wind napisal(a): My first disk is IDE and called hd0 by grub My 2nd disk is scsi, it probably won't work if I call it "hd[0,1]" in menu.lst Agreed. Both the legacy and the new Grub have the so-called interactive mode, which allows you to find out how Grub

Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

2010-11-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 11. 2010 11:17:47 je Arthur Bela napisal(a): I found out that the gnome-system-monitor would kill any processes I otherwise don't know how to kill. Since gnome-system-monitor can do it, I guess it can be done with "kill" or "top" too, you probably just have to try hard enough. --

Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?

2010-11-21 Thread Long Wind
My first disk is IDE and called hd0 by grub My 2nd disk is scsi, it probably won't work if I call it "hd[0,1]" in menu.lst On 11/21/10, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > > > Running etch your most likely running grub1. If this is the case you must > edit your > > /boot/grub/menu.list > > Ther

what to use besides selinux?

2010-11-21 Thread Arthur Bela
I apt-get install selinux Ok. Reboot. So I'm better protected now, or i have to set a few things? I read that selinux is good for post-exploitation situations. What do i have to google to search for solutions protecting me "before-exploitations"? *exploitations ~ intrusions, penetrations, sry4

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread Matthias Andersson
On 11/21/2010 09:56 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > claws-mail is fantastic, I would like to encourage others to give it a > try. Fast and powerful. I have installed claws-mail to try it out - now there's the question regarding exporting the mail from Thunderbird3 to claws. I've googled about it

Re: Preventing installation of specific virtual packages

2010-11-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 20 nov 10, 17:22:39, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I end up installing most Recommends, but I do configure my systems so > they are not installed automatically. I tend to install Recommends by default and just disable individual packages that seem useless for me. On minimal system

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread briand
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:37:32 -0800 Dan Serban wrote: > I now have chromium and claws at my beck and call. Man.. are they > ever fast. I assume you are referring to claws-mail ? claws-mail is fantastic, I would like to encourage others to give it a try. Fast and powerful. Brian -- To UNS