Re: System Hangs on Activating Swap

2011-02-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Tim Nelson wrote: - Original Message - On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:40:01 +0100, Tim Nelson scribbled: Greetings fellow Debian'ers- I've got a system (Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-486)that occasionally fails to boot fully. The last item noted on the console is 'Activating Swap', then nothing. I'

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Adrian Levi
On 4 February 2011 22:42, Lubos Rendek wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I'm on ADSL2. I had constant speed for years and it was always around > 6 - 8 Mbps. Suddenly it dropped to 0.3 - 4 Mbps but on average I have > 0.9. As you also mentioned I too believe that the weather is to be > blamed. > > My Telstra

Trying to use the Droid fonts in xterm

2011-02-04 Thread John Magolske
I just installed the Droid fonts on Debian sid like so: % wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/ttf-droid/ttf-droid_1.00~b112+dfsg+1-0ubuntu1_all.deb # dpkg -i ttf-droid_1.00\~b112+dfsg+1-0ubuntu1_all.deb # fc-cache -v -f /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-droid I find it's poss

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-04 Thread RR
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Freeman wrote: > This may not help. I made on on-disk version for debs I build or scarf. > There are examples for creating package files and of a release file. > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto > > Of course apt-cacher-ng will

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Lubos Rendek
Hi Kristjan, sounds good. I'll try that too. I have Vigor 2710 ADSL/ router. This router has some log collect facility with an external PC using a Draytek's software which is apparently for a MS windows only. Your solution may provide an alternative to it. thank you Lubos On Sat, Feb 5, 201

Re: allow/deny user power of the os

2011-02-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 04 Feb 2011 at 15:13:18 +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > How is the best way to deny and allow by time and date of user/s > poweroff/reboot system? > > This client runs from 08am to 8pm. I have to deny all users reboot or > poweroff > within time, but user/s can reboot or poweroff this system

Re: why is the RIGHT ALT key ignored?

2011-02-04 Thread Doug
On 02/04/2011 08:22 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:52:09PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Why in emacs, iceweasel, etc. is RIGHT ALT ignored? LEFT ALT is processed as ALT, but RIGHT ALT is treated like I didn't press

Re: Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-04 Thread R. Ramesh
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:34 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: > All, > > I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I > am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to > understand how long my flash is likely to last. [..] > Note that the kernel writes d

Unusable Squeeze: Can't switch off from X to consoles, neither between

2011-02-04 Thread Pier Paolo
Fresh installation of squeeze here, machine AMD Athlon II x2, board Asus M4A78LT-M LE with integrated Radeon 3000. The problem is: 1) startx on openbox - Switching between consoles (CTRL+ALT+Fn) make appear a blank screen, - returning to X works (ALT+F7) 2) exit from openbox - X c

Re: why is the RIGHT ALT key ignored?

2011-02-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:52:09PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > Why in emacs, iceweasel, etc. is RIGHT ALT ignored? LEFT ALT is > > processed as ALT, but RIGHT ALT is treated like I didn't press it. > > Set as a compose key? > > Does 'RightAlt o

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Kristjan Onu
If your service is an ADSL one, first check to see what the line sync figures are, then look at the downstream attenuation figure. I'm able to log downstream attenuation from my DSL modem with collectd[1]. Sync rates could likewise be logged. This is straightforward as long as the modem provid

Re: allow/deny user power of the os

2011-02-04 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <201102041513.18513.debenv...@fuckaround.org>, Pol Hallen wrote: >> >>How is the best way to deny and allow by time and date of user/s >>poweroff/reboot system? > > You could try something involving a cron job switching between two

Re: Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-04 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:34 -0600, R. Ramesh wrote: > All, > > I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I > am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to > understand how long my flash is likely to last. [..] > Note that the kernel writes do n

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-04 Thread Freeman
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 06:19:15AM -0500, RR wrote: > Thanks all for your comments and advice. After having done a bunch of > research and everywhere it says that debian was NOT built to be booted off > of an NFS server and it's supposed to use HTTP. After fighting it a little > bit, I decied to qu

Re: Paravirtualization kvm with libvirt

2011-02-04 Thread Nikita A Menkovich
My advice is to use Debian Sid with packages and kernel from experimental. The latest packages is best one. On 5 February 2011 00:32, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > I have some questions regarding > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio > ie., paravirtualization kvm with libvirt > > Followings are quot

Re: nat issue

2011-02-04 Thread Oleg
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:54:20PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > Oleg a ?crit : > > > > INET <-- (eth0)[host](tap0) <-- [kvm1] <-- [kvm2] > > > > host:~# iptables-save > > # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.10 on Thu Feb 3 15:53:45 2011 > > *nat > > :PREROUTING ACCEPT [158:19117]

Re: allow/deny user power of the os

2011-02-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201102041513.18513.debenv...@fuckaround.org>, Pol Hallen wrote: >How is the best way to deny and allow by time and date of user/s >poweroff/reboot system? Well, the standard security model for Linux systems doesn't really take time into account. Also, sudo, which can be configured slightly m

Paravirtualization kvm with libvirt

2011-02-04 Thread T o n g
Hi, I have some questions regarding http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio ie., paravirtualization kvm with libvirt Followings are quotes and my questions, ,- | We assume that you have installed the virtio-compatible guest | under KVM using libvirt (ie. using something like virt-install or

Re: System Hangs on Activating Swap

2011-02-04 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - > On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:40:01 +0100, Tim Nelson scribbled: > > > Greetings fellow Debian'ers- > > > > I've got a system (Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-486)that occasionally > > fails to > > boot fully. The last item noted on the console is 'Activating Swap', > > then nothing

Re: hide url in apache2

2011-02-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Jesus arteche wrote: >yes with mod_rewrite I got hide the folder in the url...but just for the one >of the initilization. "the one of the initialization" -- this phrase confuses me and I'm a native speaker. Do you mean "the first request"? >When I "play" with the app the folders still >ap

Re: allow/deny user power of the os

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Dennen
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:30:01 +0100, Pol Hallen scribbled: > hi folks :) > > How is the best way to deny and allow by time and date of user/s > poweroff/reboot system? > > This client runs from 08am to 8pm. I have to deny all users reboot or > poweroff within time, but user/s can reboot or powero

Re: System Hangs on Activating Swap

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Dennen
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:40:01 +0100, Tim Nelson scribbled: > Greetings fellow Debian'ers- > > I've got a system (Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-486)that occasionally fails to > boot fully. The last item noted on the console is 'Activating Swap', > then nothing. > > I've enabled bootlogd (/etc/default/boo

Please help me to evaluate flash/ssd life using vmstat -d

2011-02-04 Thread R. Ramesh
All, I run a debian firewall on an atom PC running of a 16G flash drive. I am trying understand the amount of disk write performed in order to understand how long my flash is likely to last. I have two vmstat -d information on the flash 2011-01-31 00:35 disk- reads

System Hangs on Activating Swap

2011-02-04 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings fellow Debian'ers- I've got a system (Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-486)that occasionally fails to boot fully. The last item noted on the console is 'Activating Swap', then nothing. I've enabled bootlogd (/etc/default/bootlogd) and verbose mode (/etc/default/rcS) but nothing of importance is

Re: help

2011-02-04 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Chris Bannister < mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:37:05AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <20110131040038.GA3315@fischer>, Chris Bannister wrote: > > >On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:40:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Wayne Topa
On 02/04/2011 08:17 AM, Lubos Rendek wrote: Hi Stefan, I'll look into this...thank you Lubos On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Stefan Pietsch wrote: On 04.02.2011 12:17, Lubos Rendek wrote: Have a look at smokeping: http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ It can graph latency and packet loss ov

Re: hide url in apache2

2011-02-04 Thread Jesus arteche
yes with mod_rewrite I got hide the folder in the url...but just for the one of the initilization. When I "play" with the app the folders still appearing...my rewrite rule is: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule^$ app/webroot/[L] RewriteRule(.*) app/webroot/$1 [L] some idea 2011

Routing via an OpenVPN tunnel; was "message threading ..."

2011-02-04 Thread peasthope
From: Bob Proulx Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:12:47 -0700 > I am suggesting that you have such a complicated routing setup that it > is causing you difficulty and that you should simplify it by some > method. You listed five (5!) route commands in your configuration. Yes; addressing subnets rat

Re: allow/deny user power of the os

2011-02-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:13:18 +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > How is the best way to deny and allow by time and date of user/s > poweroff/reboot system? > > This client runs from 08am to 8pm. I have to deny all users reboot or > poweroff within time, but user/s can reboot or poweroff this system from >

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:17:15 +1100, Lubos Rendek wrote: > I'm having a real problems with my internet provider. I have plenty of > disconnection and slow internet connection. However, my internet > provider claims that everything is OK. Does Debian have some tool which > can be run overnight or so

Re: Evolution - copy link location

2011-02-04 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-02-04 a las 18:20 +1300, Richard Hector escribió: (resending to the list) > On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 13:04 +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:40:22 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > > > > I've seen this problem in squeeze (and ubuntu maverick). > > > > > > I used to be able t

Re: nat issue

2011-02-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Oleg a écrit : > > INET <-- (eth0)[host](tap0) <-- [kvm1] <-- [kvm2] > > host:~# iptables-save > # Generated by iptables-save v1.4.10 on Thu Feb 3 15:53:45 2011 > *nat > :PREROUTING ACCEPT [158:19117] > :INPUT ACCEPT [142:17947] > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [1273:77619] > :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [23:1

Re: why is the RIGHT ALT key ignored?

2011-02-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 02:52, wrote: > Why in emacs, iceweasel, etc. is RIGHT ALT ignored? LEFT ALT is > processed as ALT, but RIGHT ALT is treated like I didn't press it. > > xev shows that indeed my keyboard is not broken, > KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1a1, >    root 0

allow/deny user power of the os

2011-02-04 Thread Pol Hallen
hi folks :) How is the best way to deny and allow by time and date of user/s poweroff/reboot system? This client runs from 08am to 8pm. I have to deny all users reboot or poweroff within time, but user/s can reboot or poweroff this system from 8.01pm to 7.59am. Thanks! Pol -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: why is the RIGHT ALT key ignored?

2011-02-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:52:09 +0800, jidanni wrote: > Why in emacs, iceweasel, etc. is RIGHT ALT ignored? LEFT ALT is > processed as ALT, but RIGHT ALT is treated like I didn't press it. "Alt" and "AltGr" (or "right-alt") are different keys and receive different treatement. > xev shows that inde

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Lubos Rendek
Hi Stefan, I'll look into this...thank you Lubos On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Stefan Pietsch wrote: > On 04.02.2011 12:17, Lubos Rendek wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm having a real problems with my internet provider. I have plenty of >> disconnection and slow internet connection. However, my

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Lubos Rendek
Hi Paul, >  However, I've seen problems "disappear" after their visits for some > customers not in my case. It is little bit better now but I think that this is because is raining less. I have this problem for last 2 months. > Incorrect call out fee is a bit harsh, but it is a Telstra charg

Re: help

2011-02-04 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:16:46 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:54:46AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> Well, if that option is possible even in the common installation setup, >> I can't see why is people complaining about this "sudo/su" thing... > > Nobody is complaining about

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Lubos Rendek
Hi Paul, Before is when I did not have problem and after is what I really would like to know. What happened that suddenly after years I have disconnections and slow internet which is sometimes so slow that it could be considered as a disconnection. > when you are getting download speeds of 0.80 w

Re: nat issue

2011-02-04 Thread Oleg
Sorry. I forgot about routes on the host machine: host:~# ip rou 192.168.100.0/24 dev tap0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.100.2 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.254 192.168.200.0/24 via 192.168.100.1 dev tap0 default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 On Thu, Feb 03, 201

Re: Backup media - double-layer DVD

2011-02-04 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 02/04/2011 02:11 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 05:35:51PM -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: People think I'm crazy, but, when I leave the house, I always carry a disc wallet that holds the last year's worth of weekly full backups on DVD+R. (Well, I probably am crazy, but thi

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 04.02.2011 12:17, Lubos Rendek wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm having a real problems with my internet provider. I have plenty of > disconnection and slow internet connection. However, my internet > provider claims that everything is OK. Does Debian have some tool > which can be run overnight or so t

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Lubos, Lubos Rendek wrote: I'm on ADSL2. I had constant speed for years and it was always around 6 - 8 Mbps. Suddenly it dropped to 0.3 - 4 Mbps but on average I have 0.9. As you also mentioned I too believe that the weather is to be blamed. Okay. My Telstra land line had such a nose that

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Lubos Rendek
Hi Andrew, I'm on ADSL2. I had constant speed for years and it was always around 6 - 8 Mbps. Suddenly it dropped to 0.3 - 4 Mbps but on average I have 0.9. As you also mentioned I too believe that the weather is to be blamed. My Telstra land line had such a nose that I could not make a phone call

Re: strange behavior of mount

2011-02-04 Thread darkestkhan
2011/2/3 Tom H : > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:53 PM, darkestkhan wrote: >> >> [ . . . ] > > You're simply overlaying mounts; it isn't a bug. How are you mounting > these devices? > How? I'm just doing: sudo mount /dev/sdX4 /storage #X is always greater than a for some reasons it is disconnecting, c

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Lubos Rendek
Hi Paul, thanks for that. However, I'm looking for some real time monitoring that could give me some concrete data which for example a can base my complaint on. The problem is that the speed varies and is not constantly slow as well as I'm not constantly disconnected from the internet. Here are my

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Lubos Rendek wrote: I'm having a real problems with my internet provider. I have plenty of disconnection and slow internet connection. However, my internet provider claims that everything is OK. Does Debian have some tool which can be run overnight or so to check for internet speed and/or co

Re: why is the RIGHT ALT key ignored?

2011-02-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:52:09PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Why in emacs, iceweasel, etc. is RIGHT ALT ignored? LEFT ALT is > processed as ALT, but RIGHT ALT is treated like I didn't press it. > > xev shows that indeed my keyboard is not broken, > KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO

tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Lubos Rendek
Hi guys, I'm having a real problems with my internet provider. I have plenty of disconnection and slow internet connection. However, my internet provider claims that everything is OK. Does Debian have some tool which can be run overnight or so to check for internet speed and/or count number of dis

Re: why is the RIGHT ALT key ignored?

2011-02-04 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:52:09PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Why in emacs, iceweasel, etc. is RIGHT ALT ignored? LEFT ALT is > processed as ALT, but RIGHT ALT is treated like I didn't press it. Set as a compose key? Does 'RightAlt o c' give you '©', 'RightAlt ' a' give you 'á' etc.? R

why is the RIGHT ALT key ignored?

2011-02-04 Thread jidanni
Why in emacs, iceweasel, etc. is RIGHT ALT ignored? LEFT ALT is processed as ALT, but RIGHT ALT is treated like I didn't press it. xev shows that indeed my keyboard is not broken, KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1a1, root 0x119, subw 0x0, time 5852895, (169,-14), root:(17

Re: Copying DVD

2011-02-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:58:48AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Are you sure the media is ok? > > Yes. Works fine with my macminig4 box. Oh, I thought it was a dual layer DVD, as in video. > > That is does the media play ok, can you see the contents from another > > computer. Is your DVD

Re: Copying DVD

2011-02-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 11:04:06AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > $ dd if=/dev/sr0 of=backup.iso > > 16386432+0 records in > > 16386432+0 records out > > 8389853184 bytes (8.4 GB) copied, 687.9 s, 12.2 MB/s > > > > I'll try next to see if I can burn that iso now. > > This looks ok. Doing a fi

Re: Copying DVD

2011-02-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Chris Bannister > wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> $ sudo mount /media/cdrom0 >>> mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only >> >> W

Re: Copying DVD

2011-02-04 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> $ sudo mount /media/cdrom0 >> mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > > What does "ls -al /dev/sr0" output? > What does "ls -al /dev/scd0" ou

ALSA: turn external amplifier on and off automatically?

2011-02-04 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi list, I have an external amplifier that can be controlled using the commands "remote_power amp on" and "remote_power amp off". I'd like to have ALSA automatically turn on the amplifier whenever something tries to play sound and to turn it off after some period of idleness. Is this possible?

Re: status of LILO in upcoming Stable release

2011-02-04 Thread Brian
On Thu 03 Feb 2011 at 21:43:02 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > I haven't done a new install of Squeeze in over six months; > but as far as I know, the Debian installer has not removed > lilo as a boot loader option. Somebody please correct me > if that is no longer the case. No need for a correct

Re: Oh no, not partitioning again!

2011-02-04 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On the 04/02/2011 02:54, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011, PMA wrote: [cut] > >> /tmp As a rule of thumb -- i.e., special considerations >> notwithstanding -- what do you think of making >> this the same size as /var? > > I leave it on /, and ask the ini

Re: Oh no, not partitioning again!

2011-02-04 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:32 Thu 03 Feb, PMA (peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu) wrote: > Hi List. > > I plan to install Squeeze pretty soon, and am reviewing > my old decisions re disk partitioning. I will mainly resize > proportionally to my 'df -k' output's Used column. > > But two items puzzle me: > /srv I gather th