Hal Vaughan wrote:
> Without doing a chroot (while I know the mobo on the old system
> crashed, I'm beginning to suspect drive/OS issues), I could use a
> few utils like grep and awk to change a list from
> /var/lib/dpkg/status if I needed to, couldn't I?
Try this:
grep-dctrl -FStatus -sPackage
Alan Chandler wrote:
> I can obviously (at least according to one of the blog entries)
> change the txqueuelen manually to some other value, but how do you
> set such entries permenantly in Debian - and what is controlling
> that value - why are they different between my server and desktop?
>
> I
On 01/08/2011 08:25 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote:
I'm running a series of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" clients on my network (in the
process of upgrading from lenny) that mount NFS from a Solaris 10 (x86) box
through autofs (5.0.4-3.2 amd64). They all do their aut
On 01/08/2011 08:25 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote:
I'm running a series of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" clients on my network (in the
process of upgrading from lenny) that mount NFS from a Solaris 10 (x86) box
through autofs (5.0.4-3.2 amd64). They all do their aut
The release team seems to be on the final stretch of the RC bug
squash. The last RC bugs are being squashed, or packages are being
removed from squeeze if their bugs can't be squashed.
Yes, we seem to be very close to release. But no official announcement yet.
I don't know about you, but I'm exci
After upgrading the base-files package to 6.0 in squeeze:
free...@europa:~$ cat /etc/issue.net
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
free...@europa:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
6.0
and
http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/2914/screenshotbw.png
Will there be an announcement of squeeze going stable in
debian-devel-a
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>
> Thank you, everyone, for the answers. This will make restoring this go
> faster.
You can also use "aptitude search -F '%p' '?installed'" or "aptitude
search -F '%p' '?installed' > pkgs-installed" and "aptitude -F '%p'
search '?installed ?au
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote:
>
> I'm running a series of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" clients on my network (in the
> process of upgrading from lenny) that mount NFS from a Solaris 10 (x86) box
> through autofs (5.0.4-3.2 amd64). They all do their authentication through
> NIS (which
Hello,
I'm running a series of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" clients on my network (in
the process of upgrading from lenny) that mount NFS from a Solaris 10
(x86) box through autofs (5.0.4-3.2 amd64). They all do their
authentication through NIS (which is also being served by the same box).
Another So
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:40 PM, wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 12:37:40 +0200
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
>> On Sb, 08 ian 11, 13:50:44, Thomas Yao wrote:
>> > Hi all, I'm using Debian Squeeze(amd64) on my PC, using KDE and SCIM
>> > input method.
>> > The problem I found recently is that after I op
On Sb, 08 ian 11, 18:38:45, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> David Sastre wrote:
>
> > You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to
> > request that (or any other) info:
>
> You can also use dpkg's --admindir option so:
>
> dpkg --admindir=/mnt/backup/var/lib/apt --get-selection
Neil Youngman wrote:
> Now that I'm looking for swapping, it's obvious that there are 2
> factors here. The system is definitely slower than lenny even
> before it starts swapping, but at the points where it gets
> excessively slow, it's clearly being slowed further by swapping.
What does vmstat
On 01/08/2011 03:44 AM, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
So question being is there really any advantages to Mint in the gaming arena
over the capabilities of Debian itself? Really logic tells me GNU is GNU, and a
personally configured system is always better, but not knowing my way around
t
On 8 January 2011 08:48, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In , Paul
> Richards wrote:
>>On first boot into the system I got the following error:
>>
>>FATAL: Error inserting btrfs
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko): Unknown symbol
>>in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>
On Saturday 08 January 2011 17:47:12 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sb, 08 ian 11, 15:44:03, Lisi wrote:
> > Testing - currently Squeeze. Soon to be Wheezy (the present, Sid)
>
> testing starts as a copy of the freshly released stable and is
> then gradually updated with packages from unstable
>
> Reg
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-01-08 16:02 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-01-07 22:20 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I can't suspend to ram twice. Once works but never the second time.
So I googled that and there are hints that the nvidia drive
In <20110108174712.gb4...@think.homelan>, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>On Sb, 08 ian 11, 15:44:03, Lisi wrote:
>> Testing - currently Squeeze. Soon to be Wheezy (the present, Sid)
>
>testing starts as a copy of the freshly released stable and is
>then gradually updated with packages from unstable
This
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, John Hasler wrote:
Peter Koellner writes:
Also: You can set the physical write protect switch in the diskette
corner to prevent accidental writes. You know, the hole in the corner
should not be covered, in case you don't recall...
No, no. You put a piece of tape over the
Thank you, everyone, for the answers. This will make restoring this go faster.
Just a little note with this to say I can't tell people on this list and the
Debian Developers how much I appreciate Debian. Right now I'm having issues
with the new hardware fitting in place and irritating stuff li
On Jan 8, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sb, 08 ian 11, 18:42:53, David Sastre wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:22:01 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>>
>>> I can simply re-install Debian with no trouble, the only issue is that I
>>> don't have the up-to-date list of all the packages in
On Saturday 08 January 2011 17:41:54 John Hasler wrote:
> Lisi writes:
> > Testing - currently Squeeze. Soon to be Wheezy (the present, Sid)
>
> There currently is no Wheezy. Nothing but Sid ever points to Unstable.
I did say soon to be, not is. And I said that it would be testing _not_
unstabl
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-01-08 16:02 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-01-07 22:20 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I can't suspend to ram twice. Once works but never the second time.
So I googled that and there are hints that the nvidia driver is a
fault and the pro
David Sastre wrote:
> You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to
> request that (or any other) info:
You can also use dpkg's --admindir option so:
dpkg --admindir=/mnt/backup/var/lib/apt --get-selections >
packagelist.txt
I'd imagine you could just pipe that into an
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:44 AM, wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Last night at the 2600 group I managed to score a deal on some basic
> hardware, though not all that impressive, a major leap forward for my desktop.
>
> Anyways; I have been a Debian fan for quite awhile but I do believe there are
> different d
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:40:52 +0100
Sven Joachim wrote:
> I think the option is spelled NVreg_Mobile, with a capital 'V'. See
> "modinfo nvidia" for supported options.
>
Is there a way to list the modules for which info is available ?
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On Sb, 08 ian 11, 18:42:53, David Sastre wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:22:01 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>
> > I can simply re-install Debian with no trouble, the only issue is that I
> > don't have the up-to-date list of all the packages installed on the old
> > PATA drive. I can, though, plug i
Lisi writes:
> Testing - currently Squeeze. Soon to be Wheezy (the present, Sid)
There currently is no Wheezy. Nothing but Sid ever points to Unstable.
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I still run into the menu issues with 1.6.0_23, it seems. I'm assuming
what I describe below worked effectively.
:((
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 20:06 +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:16:14 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 12:57 +, Camaleón wrote:
>
> >>
On Sb, 08 ian 11, 15:44:03, Lisi wrote:
>
> Testing - currently Squeeze. Soon to be Wheezy (the present, Sid)
testing starts as a copy of the freshly released stable and is
then gradually updated with packages from unstable
Regards,
Andrei
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On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:22:01 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I can simply re-install Debian with no trouble, the only issue is that I
> don't have the up-to-date list of all the packages installed on the old
> PATA drive. I can, though, plug it in and read it as a data drive.
>
> So where on that dri
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:22:01 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
(...)
> I can simply re-install Debian with no trouble, the only issue is that I
> don't have the up-to-date list of all the packages installed on the old
> PATA drive. I can, though, plug it in and read it as a data drive.
>
> So where on t
I have a frustrating situation.
I had a RAID go out on me and require rebuilding. It's mostly rebuilt and all
my data is intact, but not all the settings and config info and program files
have been copied over yet.
And, while I have to rebuild that RAID, which is my back up -- well, you can
p
On Saturday 08 January 2011 13:46:05 Neil Youngman wrote:
> On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 09:29:47 Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> > So, what did you do exactly? I am asking, because upgrading from Lenny
> > to sid is not as easy as replacing "lenny" with "sid" in your
> > sources.list and running "apt-get dis
On 2011-01-08 16:02 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2011-01-07 22:20 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>
>>> I can't suspend to ram twice. Once works but never the second time.
>>>
>>> So I googled that and there are hints that the nvidia driver is a
>>> fault and the propos
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 12:37:40 +0200
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sb, 08 ian 11, 13:50:44, Thomas Yao wrote:
> > Hi all, I'm using Debian Squeeze(amd64) on my PC, using KDE and SCIM
> > input method.
> > The problem I found recently is that after I opened Iceweasel for a
> > long time, the input gets
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-01-07 22:20 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I can't suspend to ram twice. Once works but never the second time.
So I googled that and there are hints that the nvidia driver is a
fault and the proposed fix is to add 'Nvreg_Mobile=3' as module
option.
What is the right
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:29:54 -0430, Edward Monsalve wrote:
Edward, you have hijacked a thread (you replied to a message instead of
creating a new one).
> Buenas Dias,
And this is an English-speaking list, you better send the message to the
Spanish mailing list:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-
On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 14:21:27 teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
> Lenny is Stable
> Squeeze is Testing
> Sid is Unstable
OK, I've got my names mixed up. it's not Sid I'm running at all, it's Squeeze.
Neil Youngman
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On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:56:06 -0500, Paul Boughner wrote:
> I have had a problem getting my mouse buttons to complete a click on
> anything. This began after I wiped lenny and installed squeeze. If I
> click on any button in the GUI, the mouse will hang and if I let it go
> long enough I will get a
Neil Youngman said:
OK, I'm obviously missing something here. Sid is testing, squeeze is in
testing, I thought sid and squeeze were essentially the same thing?
Essentially I changed the priorities to make testing the default and did an
apt-get dist-upgrade, although I had previously upgraded a f
Op Sat, 8 Jan 2011 12:02:12 +
teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net schreef:
> Andrei Popescu said:
>
> You said nothing about the games you intend to play.
>
> [Snip]
>
> --
>
> I apologize, I am mainly refering to windows based games, rpg's fps's
> and console emulators.
>
> I do from time to
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Hi Group,
I am seeing the errors (warning since I am on permissive mode) bellow
for mysql_upgrade after I enabled selinux.
Linux lrfurtado 2.6.26-2-xen-686 #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 02:32:31 UTC 2010
i686 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.7
SELinux s
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 18:28:11 Neil Youngman wrote:
> I will continue to observe the system, with swapping in mind as a possible
> factor and see if there is a correlation.
Now that I'm looking for swapping, it's obvious that there are 2 factors here.
The system is definitely slower than lenny e
On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 13:15:58 Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> > It would be great if you could save the attached script and provide the
> >
> > output of the following command:
> > # for dist in lenny squeeze sid; do
> >
> > echo $dist;
> >
Neil Youngman:
> On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 03:28:47 Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>
>> I wanted to make sure that the slow graphics you are abserving aren't
>> just the result of a more general problem with your system. If compiling
>> a kernel (with output redirection) takes about the same time now as
>> b
On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 09:29:47 Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> So, what did you do exactly? I am asking, because upgrading from Lenny
> to sid is not as easy as replacing "lenny" with "sid" in your
> sources.list and running "apt-get dist-upgrade".
>
> It is a much better idea to follow the process ou
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 01:31:32PM +, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
> With that kind of hardware you shouldn't be having resource problems, bloat
> ware or not...
>
> It could be, as mentioned before, a process hogging it all... But
>
> $ top
>
> Would show that... With drive write is
John , some years ago i used IFS, from http://www.fs-driver.org , it's 32bit
but who knows...
It works as an ext2 driver, but worked fine with ext3, although without
journaling .
Regards.
Pablo
I have to use Windows 7 Pro 64 bit for some work I do. i want to know if
anyone knows of a viewer
On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 03:32:35 Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Oh, and you are sure you didn't overlook a tiny line along the lines of
> "IRQ 16: nobody cared"?
# grep cared /var/log/messages*
#
No sign of that on this system.
Neil Youngman
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On Saturday 08 Jan 2011 03:28:47 Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Neil Youngman:
> > On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >> Can you confirm this by doing something CPU intensive which doesn't draw
> >> anything on the screen? Something like a kernel compile or video/audio
> >> encoding.
> >
I've been seeing a lot of random freezes on a number of Debian systems
(testing and unstable) over the last few months. Resources shouldn't
be an issue--one is a quad core system with 8GiB memory and very fast
discs. But I regularly see X programs freezing for tens of seconds,
even in konsole and
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 18:39:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > I will continue to observe the system, with swapping in mind as a
> > possible factor and see if there is a correlation.
>
> But if it was swapping you would see the HDD light being lit when you
> were not doing any obvious disk activity.
Hi,
Wolodja Wentland wrote:
It would be great if you could save the attached script and provide the
output of the following command:
# for dist in lenny squeeze sid; do
echo $dist;
list_repositories | grep $dist | wc -l;
done
I've refined that a little, because it
HI,
Debian “squeeze” would get my vote. I guess this is more trial and
error approach. I think the rule is: If Debian can do it stick to it !
I know you can do anything on Debian, but it only may take more
configuration time.
Lubo
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On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:02 PM
Buenas Dias,
tengo un problema con el entorno grafico, no se inicia automaticamente con
el sistema operativo,
tengo debian squeeze amd64 usando gnome
yo puedo loguearme en consola y luego stratx y funciona, pero me gustaria
que se iniciara automaticamente
saludos
Edward Monsalve
Analista de tec
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:07:30AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Neil Youngman wrote:
> > It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case,
> > swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if the
> > other window is a simple xterm. I have also observed windows being
>
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:16:39 +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> After a Slashdot entry, I discovered an interesting series of blog posts
> by Jim Gettys. The series starts
> http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/first-puzzle-piece/ (unlike
> Slashdot which linked to a random place in the middle).
>
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:54:40 +0100, Clemens Kienzler wrote:
> Trying to get online wirelessly I encountered problems connecting by
> means of wpa_supplicant.
(...)
Ugh, please sir, re-send the message in plain text (avoid html) an put
the log files online (www.pastebin.com) or send them as an
Andrei Popescu said:
You said nothing about the games you intend to play.
[Snip]
--
I apologize, I am mainly refering to windows based games, rpg's fps's and
console emulators.
I do from time to time play linux based games, but when asking this question I
was referring to / thinking of
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:50:25 +0100, Informatik.hu wrote:
> On 2011.01.07. 20:17, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:14:34 +0100, Informatik.hu wrote:
>>
>>> Do you know a cheap, safe and well known trusted ssl certificate
>>> provider? I would like to use it with lighttpd, postfix and dovec
After a Slashdot entry, I discovered an interesting series of blog posts
by Jim Gettys. The series starts
http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/first-puzzle-piece/ (unlike
Slashdot which linked to a random place in the middle).
I checked out my txqueuelen in my desktop (its one interface is
Hi,
I don`t know about a tool under windows. For this matter I use
a fat32-partition for my files which not use a better security,
as windows allows. The files there I can use from both systems.
best regards and a nice day
klaus
IS YOUR SYSTEM OPEN LIKE GATES? TRY LINUX!!!
Am Freitag, den 07.
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On Sb, 08 ian 11, 08:44:25, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote:
>
> So question being is there really any advantages to Mint in the gaming
> arena over the capabilities of Debian itself? Really logic tells me
> GNU is GNU, and a personally configured system is alway
On Sb, 08 ian 11, 13:50:44, Thomas Yao wrote:
> Hi all, I'm using Debian Squeeze(amd64) on my PC, using KDE and SCIM
> input method.
> The problem I found recently is that after I opened Iceweasel for a
> long time, the input gets really slow.
> It tooks Iceweasel almost 5 seconds to display all th
On Sb, 08 ian 11, 14:12:44, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Andrei wrote:
>
> > Add the repository to your sources.list, update and then use aptitude
> > to search for packages with the respective origin [~O or
> > ?origin(repository)], but it's simpler to just open the repository in
>
> I've got plenty of p
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 17:04 +, Neil Youngman wrote:
> On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:45:41 you wrote:
> > Neil Youngman wrote:
> > > Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to
> > > the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to
> > > respond to anyth
Klistvud;
Thank you for the info and links,
I will spend some time pouring over em.
If anybody is interested; I, for the time; am still useing my old evga geforce
6600, w/ 128 GB RAM, if I really get into it I may invest in a better graphics
card but for now this one will do...
TeddyB
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Dne, 08. 01. 2011 09:44:25 je teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net napisal(a):
Hi:
Last night at the 2600 group I managed to score a deal on some basic
hardware, though not all that impressive, a major leap forward for my
desktop.
Anyways; I have been a Debian fan for quite awhile but I do believe
teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net put forth on 1/8/2011 2:44 AM:
> So question being is there really any advantages to Mint in the gaming arena
> over the capabilities of Debian itself? Really logic tells me GNU is GNU, and
> a personally configured system is always better, but not knowing my way
> a
Dne, 08. 01. 2011 06:50:44 je Thomas Yao napisal(a):
Hi all, I'm using Debian Squeeze(amd64) on my PC, using KDE and SCIM
input method.
The problem I found recently is that after I opened Iceweasel for a
long time, the input gets really slow.
It tooks Iceweasel almost 5 seconds to display all the
In , Paul
Richards wrote:
>On first boot into the system I got the following error:
>
>FATAL: Error inserting btrfs
>(/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko): Unknown symbol
>in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>
>A few other errors follow as a consequence of not being able t
Hi:
Last night at the 2600 group I managed to score a deal on some basic hardware,
though not all that impressive, a major leap forward for my desktop.
Anyways; I have been a Debian fan for quite awhile but I do believe there are
different distros for different things.
My roomate has been ravi
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