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

2010-11-29 Thread Yuwen Dai
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Yuwen Dai put forth on 11/23/2010 11:59 PM: > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner >wrote: > > >> CRC errors indicate a transmission problem on the interface conductors. > >> Whether the problem is either of the two things I men

squeeze dist-upgrade of 11/29/2010 broke typo3 installation

2010-11-29 Thread Geronimo
Hello, with the dist-upgrade of yesterday (11/29/2010) my typo3 installations don't work any more. Error from syslog is: PHP Warning: Unknown: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/local/share/typo3_src+dummy-4.4.4/index.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (...:/usr/local/share/t

Re: To make unreadable a functional system.

2010-11-29 Thread Mike
Sthu Deus wrote: > Is it possible to save the encryption pass in a loader - like grub2 > or some other program standing somewhere in the boot process? Not in the way I'm imagining it. You want each *whole partition* on the disk to be encrypted as stored on the disk, which means that you need to d

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/10 16:52, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since th

Re: To make unreadable a functional system.

2010-11-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Mike: > As Eduardo wrote, "running" and "reading" are the same thing here. > Entering the password makes decryption by the OS possible. Without > the password, the OS can't even read the partition, so it can't run. > And once you have the password to decrypt a

Re: To make unreadable a functional system.

2010-11-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Eduardo: > > Can the passwords (to run and to read) be different? > > No. "Running" requires reading. Can I place the password for lunching inside the FS? - For booting purposes? The FS being encrypted itself? > > - So that one > > person can all the admini

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4cf46610.3040...@gmail.com>, Marc Shapiro wrote: >I used to use a few KDE apps (kate, in particular) but >artsd kept messing up my sound so that I had to kill it to get any sound >back. ARTSd is dead is KDE SC 4. KDE SC 4 does include Phonon, a common API or A/V manipulations, but it does no

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/10 16:18, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 11/29/2010 06:09 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I seem not to have mentioned it. My bad. If nothing else works for me then I could update to Squeeze. I'm running it on my netbook without any problems, but the desktop still has Lenny. My wife and daughter

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 09:31:10PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been > running Debian since Bo. > > I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will > degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes an

Re: mdadm - cannot get array info

2010-11-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Matthias wrote: > After replacing one drive with a bigger drive another drive in the raid > raises an error: > lost page write due to I/O error on dm-1 That reads to me like a hardware disk failure. > After rebooting I can -re-add the drive into the array but after 30 minutes > the raid stops wi

mdadm - cannot get array info

2010-11-29 Thread Matthias
Hi, I've a problem wit my software raid. After replacing one drive with a bigger drive another drive in the raid raises an error: lost page write due to I/O error on dm-1 After rebooting I can -re-add the drive into the array but after 30 minutes the raid stops with the same error. Now, I don't

Re: upgrade to squeeze fails for NFS-rooted system

2010-11-29 Thread Mike
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Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:19:14 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> On 11/28/10 23:10, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> PiTiVi, OpenShot and Kino are the easy-ones (in the line of Windows >>> Movie Maker). >> >> I'll give PiTiVi and Kino a shot as soon as

Re: Sid and Squeeze /etc/network/interfaces error

2010-11-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 29 nov 10, 22:05:07, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > I fail to see the reason for Network Manager. If people want to use > Windows, they should do it. In Debian interfaces are configured in > /etc/network/interfaces, and this file should not be touched by > crappy software. It's useful for people

State of interfaces ; was Re (3): error message from openvpn.

2010-11-29 Thread peasthope
Progress. From: Bob Proulx Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:39:20 -0700 > You might crank up the verbosity of the openvpn > logging and see if it logs something interesting. r...@dalton:~# grep verb /etc/openvpn/my* verb 9 r...@dalton:~# grep tun0 /var/log/syslog r...@dalton:~# grep tun0 /var/log/k

Re: need help on recovering Windows partition

2010-11-29 Thread Long Wind
I have never deleted hd4 It still works and can boot into etch but can't mount hda2 or hda3 even though they start and end at their old places It complains: FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda2. I have tried testdisk It warns that the current

Re: Sid and Squeeze /etc/network/interfaces error

2010-11-29 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:16:41PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Network Manager only manages interfaces that are *NOT* listed in the system /etc/network/interfaces file. This means that other programs Does this crappy software now recognize if the system has no eth0 configured but vlan2, vlan3 an

Re: Sid and Squeeze /etc/network/interfaces error

2010-11-29 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 14:16 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > godo wrote: > > does anybody notice that /etc/network/interfaces has changed? > > I notice that on my Sid and Squeeze box when I boot to single user > > mode for update and there wasn't networking. > > > > /etc/network/interfaces had > > # Th

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Alvin Thompson wrote: > On Sat, November 27, 2010 10:36 am, Leandro Minatel wrote: > > # echo 'blacklist module_name' > /etc/modprobe.d/module_name.conf > > Should that be? > # echo 'blacklist module_name' >> /etc/modprobe.d/module_name.conf not necessarily, as long as you

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2010-11-29 Thread Joe
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:47:31 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:20:27 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > > > Daughter is a banker, not computer scientist. IMHO many of those > > underestimate the importance of backups. > > Oh, c'mon. There is no need to be a "computer sc

Re: Mount esata ntfs drives as user.

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:20:24 +0100, Josep M. Gasso wrote: > I have an external HD in ntfs format with esata/usb connections, via usb > runs fine but via esata I can't mount this automaticaly as user. > > I have found a great post at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev > but using this op

Re: need help on recovering Windows partition

2010-11-29 Thread Joe
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:38:29 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:07:47 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > > > I play with etch's fdisk, now I can't access all files in Windows > > partitions > > > > At first my partition is as follow and they work: > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 20.8 GB, 20847

AstroTown - Science Fiction

2010-11-29 Thread Saulo Fonseca
The development of humankind can be compared to that of a single individual. Humankind has lived its phase of childhood, wanting to accomplish great discoveries. At that time, it thought that it was the center of universe, tied to many claims without foundation and with a certainty to be special

Mount esata ntfs drives as user.

2010-11-29 Thread Josep M. Gasso
Hello. I have an external HD in ntfs format with esata/usb connections, via usb runs fine but via esata I can't mount this automaticaly as user. I have found a great post at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev but using this options https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Mount_under_

Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-29 Thread w f
Again - thanks, Andrei! I did the following ... - restored S04gdm3 to /etc/rc2.d - added "reboot=p nouveau.modeset=0" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub - ran "sudo update-grub" - rebooted I didn't disable KMS. So far, it's working like a charm! (GUI logon screen and all.) __

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 29 nov 10, 12:30:49, Alvin Thompson wrote: > On Sat, November 27, 2010 10:36 am, Leandro Minatel wrote: > > # echo 'blacklist module_name' > /etc/modprobe.d/module_name.conf > > Should that be? > # echo 'blacklist module_name' >> /etc/modprobe.d/module_name.conf Your way is safer if you do

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 29 nov 10, 17:07:43, Brian wrote: > On Mon 29 Nov 2010 at 17:39:34 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Does key-only login and a passphrase twice as long for the key count? > > You're a cautious man, I see, and don't mind the extra typing. So, why > shouldn't it? It's not that bad if you u

Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 29 nov 10, 08:05:41, w f wrote: > > I waited 10 minutes and successfully SSH'd in from a different machine. > So ... it's up and running. Now I suspect it's video hardware issues. > After checking /etc/intttab, the default runlevel is 2. > I removed the S04gdm3 symlink from /etc/rc2.d then

Re: unloading unnecessary modules

2010-11-29 Thread Alvin Thompson
On Sat, November 27, 2010 10:36 am, Leandro Minatel wrote: > # echo 'blacklist module_name' > /etc/modprobe.d/module_name.conf Should that be? # echo 'blacklist module_name' >> /etc/modprobe.d/module_name.conf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-29 Thread Brian
On Mon 29 Nov 2010 at 17:39:34 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Does key-only login and a passphrase twice as long for the key count? You're a cautious man, I see, and don't mind the extra typing. So, why shouldn't it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Smileys don't animate [Solved again - Yes really!]

2010-11-29 Thread Barry Samuels
On 29/11/10 11:29:46, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:14:05 +, Barry Samuels wrote: > > > On 29/11/10 10:21:56, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > Well that 'cure' lasted less than 24 hours and the problem is back. > >> > > >> > What the hell is going on? > >> > >> We can't tell if you do no

Re: To make unreadable a functional system.

2010-11-29 Thread Mike
Sthu Deus wrote: >> Once the disk is encrypted, you'll at least need to enter a >> password as a key to decrypt it when it powers on. > > Can the passwords (to run and to read) be different? - So that one > person can all the administration - that is the system is totally open > to him while anoth

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:20:27 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:32:29 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> >> Last backup was from a year ago, that should give you some hints about >> how valuable is data for the user. > > Daughter is a banker, not compu

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2010-11-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:32:29 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Last backup was from a year ago, that should give you some hints about > how valuable is data for the user. Daughter is a banker, not computer scientist. IMHO many o

Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010)

2010-11-29 Thread w f
Thanks, Andreas! I gave it a try and it worked ... sort of. I don't have Mac OSX installed on the box but I did boot first into the Mac OSX installer DVD. Then I rebooted into a bootable rEFIt disc. I used its tools and sync'd the MBR. I then rebooted and - BAM! - GRUB menu! I chose my image (the

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 29 nov 10, 10:55:32, Brian wrote: > On Sun 28 Nov 2010 at 19:28:48 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > > Plus the mundane stuff, like regularly changing passwords, disabling > > root logins in ssh, and things like that are all a part of your > > defensive stance. > > Changing passwords as f

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:19:14 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 11/28/10 23:10, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> PiTiVi, OpenShot and Kino are the easy-ones (in the line of Windows >> Movie Maker). > > I'll give PiTiVi and Kino a shot as soon as I get the card installed. Is > OpenShot a Debian package? I

Re: To make unreadable a functional system.

2010-11-29 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 23:34 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > after a system has been installed and configured - to make it > encrypted so that it will make impossible (or almost so) to read its > files, configuration, etc (even though the HDD be removed from the > host and connected to another running O

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/10 04:24, Paul Cartwright wrote: First off, I'm a video editing newbie. Not a linux newbie. I've been running Debian since Bo. I have a lot of video tapes lying around and I am afraid they will degrade over time. Also, since they are not making tapes any more (or VCRs?) I expect it w

Re: Newbie video editing question

2010-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/28/10 23:10, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:31:10 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: When I mentioned this to a friend, he pulled out a WinTV card, using a Hauppauge PVR-250. Are there drivers for this in the standard kernel tree, or do I need to get them from somewhere? As per this doc

Re: To make unreadable a functional system.

2010-11-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 29 Nov 2010, Sthu Deus wrote: Sorry, didn't got an idea: Yo say that I can make encrypted right from the box (Debian) - then why do I need to have a live CD and then adhust my FS settings? You can create encrypted filesystems, but you cannot encrypt on the fly one that already exists.

Re: To make unreadable a functional system.

2010-11-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 29 Nov 2010, Sthu Deus wrote: Sounds like you're asking for the impossible. Once the disk is encrypted, you'll at least need to enter a password as a key to decrypt it when it powers on. Can the passwords (to run and to read) be different? No. "Running" requires reading. - So that

Re: To make unreadable a functional system.

2010-11-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Eduardo: > It would have been easier to set up encryption while the system is > being installed. The debian installer can do that for you, as a > matter of fact. > > Afterwards, I'd recommend booting a live distro of your choice, > backing up the data, creating

Re: To make unreadable a functional system.

2010-11-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Mike: > Sounds like you're asking for the impossible. Once the disk is > encrypted, you'll at least need to enter a password as a key to > decrypt it when it powers on. Can the passwords (to run and to read) be different? - So that one person can all the admin

Re: need help on recovering Windows partition

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:07:47 -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I play with etch's fdisk, now I can't access all files in Windows > partitions > > At first my partition is as follow and they work: > > Disk /dev/hda: 20.8 GB, 20847697920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, > 2534 cylinders Units = cylinder

Re: debian sled install failed

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:51:50 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have drives on sleds here so as to be able to switch operating systems > in and out when needed. I think espeakup-amd64.iso was built with some > version of debian squeeze and I tried to install it onto one of these > drives and later h

Re: Smileys don't animate [Unsolved again]

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:14:05 +, Barry Samuels wrote: > On 29/11/10 10:21:56, Camaleón wrote: >> > Well that 'cure' lasted less than 24 hours and the problem is back. >> > >> > What the hell is going on? >> >> We can't tell if you do not provide the requested data. >> >> Does it work using

Re: Smileys don't animate [Unsolved again]

2010-11-29 Thread Barry Samuels
On 29/11/10 10:21:56, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:03:42 +, Barry Samuels wrote: > > > On 28/11/10 17:10:28, Barry Samuels wrote: > >> > > I have found that creating a new browser profile has cured the > >> > > problem on Firefox. That, however, is a bit of a nuisance as it > >> >

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-29 Thread Brian
On Sun 28 Nov 2010 at 19:28:48 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: > > Plus the mundane stuff, like regularly changing passwords, disabling > root logins in ssh, and things like that are all a part of your > defensive stance. Changing passwords as frequently as changing the locks on the doors of your ho

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:32:29 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Well, no need to worry. You are thinking in the worst scenario but even >> if the file system structure is completey destroyed, "defrag" is also >> capable of performing a test only disk analysis and so does "chkd

Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

2010-11-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:48:18 +0100, Axel Freyn wrote: >> A similiar point is true for scandisk / chkdsk: Again, independent on >> the filesystem: Once the filesystem is corrupted, the recovery tool has >> to make assumptions about wha

Re: Smileys don't animate [Unsolved again]

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:03:42 +, Barry Samuels wrote: > On 28/11/10 17:10:28, Barry Samuels wrote: >> > > I have found that creating a new browser profile has cured the >> > > problem on Firefox. That, however, is a bit of a nuisance as it >> > > means transferring bookmarks, re-installing add-

need help on recovering Windows partition

2010-11-29 Thread Long Wind
I play with etch's fdisk, now I can't access all files in Windows partitions At first my partition is as follow and they work: Disk /dev/hda: 20.8 GB, 20847697920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2534 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start E

Re: Smileys don't animate [Unsolved again]

2010-11-29 Thread Barry Samuels
On 28/11/10 17:10:28, Barry Samuels wrote: > > > I have found that creating a new browser profile has cured the > > > problem on Firefox. That, however, is a bit of a nuisance as it > > > means transferring bookmarks, re-installing add-ons etc. It would be > > > nice to know what part of the prof

Re: frequency out of range

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:49:36 +0100, danzieger wrote: > Hi! After the fresh install of Debian Lenny my monitor screen displays > "frequency out of range". I found that many people have the same problem > with Xorg settings. It`s strange beacouse that works fine on my > computer. Is there any soluti

Re: after upgrade to squeeze keyboard does no longer work with X

2010-11-29 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:47:29 +0100, Joachim Reichel wrote: > after an upgrade to squeeze I have the problem that my keyboard is no > longer recognized by X (the mouse works). If I kill gdm/kdm from another > machine via ssh, I get a console where the keyboard works. Xorg.0.log > does not show any

debian sled install failed

2010-11-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have drives on sleds here so as to be able to switch operating systems in and out when needed. I think espeakup-amd64.iso was built with some version of debian squeeze and I tried to install it onto one of these drives and later hung the hard drive off of a usb port. In both instances debia

frequency out of range

2010-11-29 Thread danzieger
Hi! After the fresh install of Debian Lenny my monitor screen displays "frequency out of range". I found that many people have the same problem with Xorg settings. It`s strange beacouse that works fine on my computer. Is there any solution to fix it? I need X serwer on my machine to set up my in