On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:07 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote:
Rick Thomas schrieb:
2) if reformatting is necessary or desired, have the option
(default) of preserving the UUID.
This would be an useful option for all partitions, not only for swap,
for people like me who dare to test DI in a spare pa
On Dec 21, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2010, Rick Thomas was heard to say:
Curt Howland wrote:
Is there a
reason anyone can think of for not reformatting in ext2 or some
other "fsck-able" format?
Have you thought about a simple log-structured filesystem?
Ri
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 22:16:42 Mark Goldshtein wrote:
> I am just curious, how novices 'get lost' with, for example, "Debian
> Stable 2011"? Of course, after that, you may add "6.0" and "Squeeze"
> and whatever the Team wants, for example, full GNU v3 license text.
a) Suppose that there are
On 2010-12-21 2:16 PM, Mark Goldshtein wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Jim Pazarena wrote:
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy naming system which throws the novice?
In my
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On Monday 20 December 2010, Rick Thomas was heard to say:
> Curt Howland wrote:
> > Is there a
> > reason anyone can think of for not reformatting in ext2 or some
> > other "fsck-able" format?
> Have you thought about a simple log-structured filesyste
Hello,
I once ran multiple X server instances in the past, the details of how
I got it running elude my memory. Though I do remember that I had to
login whenever I went to the second virtual terminal (vt8).
I don't want to do this, what I want to do is run a script which starts
X on the next ava
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Jim Pazarena wrote:
>> having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
>> And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
>> goofy naming system which throws the novice?
>
> In my experience it is the opposite. Novi
Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
Hmm, it seems to be a power issue. I had a usb hub connected to the same
bus and I disconnected it. Since then there have been no problems.
Regards,
Panayiotis
Best way to get persistent name for USB device is to use UUID and add it
to your fstab, 'blkid' as
Bob Proulx wrote:
Additionally in Debian the release number doesn't really figure into
package upgrades. It doesn't matter that Lenny is 5 and Squeeze is 6
because the upgrade happens at the package level and every package has
its own version number. The number of the release is relatively
ins
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:51:18 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Hi all,
> This has been happening from the day I installed Debian.
> Sometimes the mouse just doesn't respond. On further investigation it
> was revealed that in my X.org.log I was getting continuous messages
> saying my mouse was "d
On 20101221_031624, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
> >> On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the
> >>> uu
Hi all,
This has been happening from the day I installed Debian.
Sometimes the mouse just doesn't respond. On further investigation it
was revealed that in my X.org.log I was getting continuous messages
saying my mouse was "dropping event due to full queue!" . I don't know
why its behaving li
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>
> http://debian.slimdevices.com/dists/
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/
>
> Why not choosing another mirror that can handle codenames? Or is that a
> special mirror, different (non synced) from Debian ones?
>
> For standard mirrors, shou
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:15:46 -0800, Mark wrote:
> 2010/12/21 Jesús M. Navarro
>> Hi:
>>
>> >On Monday 20 December 2010 15:17:06 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> >
>> > This will work for a while,
>>
>> For a value of "a while" about a year.
>>
>>
> Thanks for the replies everyone. One of my old
2010/12/21 Jesús M. Navarro
> Hi:
>
> >On Monday 20 December 2010 15:17:06 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >
> > This will work for a while,
>
> For a value of "a while" about a year.
>
Thanks for the replies everyone. One of my old desktops is dedicated to
running as a Squeezebox slimserver, a
On 20101221_040215, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Paul E Condon
> wrote:
> > On 20101220_173710, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The Debian Installer insists on reformatting any swap partitions it
> >>> finds, ev
On 2010-12-21 14:59 +0100, Celejar wrote:
> Okay, I've just booted into my new kernel with
> CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y, and everything seems to be working fine!
>
> If we can establish that this was the problem (that it must be
> built-in, and not built as a module), is this a bug?
I would thi
2/ turned out to be the case.
Regards,
Panayiotis
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Hi:
On Monday 20 December 2010 15:17:06 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In , Mark
wrote:
> >I am giving my parents a laptop for Christmas this year that I put Lenny
> > on and as I'm on the other side of the country, want to make sure they
> > stay on Lenny until I am home in the future to upgrad
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:12:11 -0500
Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:11:59 +0100
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> > On 2010-12-20 22:52 +0100, Celejar wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:55 +0100
> > > Sven Joachim wrote:
> > >> Is CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY set?
> > >
>
On 20/12/10 20:18, Sven Joachim wrote:
?
If nouveau does not suite you and you want the proprietary driver, this
is indeed necessary, X will not probe non-free drivers for you. The
file only needs to be four lines long:
--8<---cut here---start->8---
Section
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:18:37 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having
> actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does
> appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system
> which throws the novice?
I
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:08:51 -0600, D. Busboom wrote:
> I've recently installed Squeeze on a desktop system with Gnome and KDE.
> All seems quite well with the exception of a poorly displayed font when
> using KDE. 99% of the fonts look great but in certain places the font
> used is barely readab
Justin The Cynical wrote:
>On 12/20/2010 20:45, Petrus Validus wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:18 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>>> what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
>>> having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
>>> And there does appear to BE release
shirish शिरीष wrote:
> I had been trying (unsuccessfully though) to use jigdo. Here's what I
> have been trying/wanting to do.
> From what I know Debian released Squeeze 6.0 b2 about 3-4 days (on
> 6th IIRC). Now I know that debian also has a weekly build which is
> built every week which has al
Dne, 21. 12. 2010 03:45:51 je Jerome BENOIT napisal(a):
Hi ,
On 21/12/10 10:18, Jim Pazarena wrote:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy nam
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:24:04AM +0200, Alexander Batischev wrote:
> That's exactly what I need. Thank you!
Good. But please keep the thread in the list, don't mail me privately without a
need. ;)
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To: Alexander Batischev
Subject: Re: Safe and easy ipgrade to unstable/testing.
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:24:47 +0200, Alexander Batischev
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 07:27:37AM +, r...@
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Paul E Condon
wrote:
> On 20101220_173710, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> The Debian Installer insists on reformatting any swap partitions it
>>> finds, even though that partition, specified by UUID, is
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 07:27:37AM +, r...@upp.pt wrote:
> I'm searhcing for the safe way to upgrade my current debian to
> testing/unstable in order to install the newset verion of OpenAFS
> (1.4.12.1). I don't want to fully upgrade my system -- only the the
> necessary dependencies should be
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote:
>> On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>>
>>> Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the
>>> uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-s
I'm searhcing for the safe way to upgrade my current debian to
testing/unstable in order to install the newset verion of OpenAFS
(1.4.12.1). I don't want to fully upgrade my system -- only the the
necessary dependencies should be used from testing/unstable repositories.
Hw can I do that?
-- Rizo
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:28:52 -0500 (EST), Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I have been able to circumvent the problem
>>> by commenting out the following entries in /etc/fstab and rebooting:
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