Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! After updating my hosts in my house to the new stable, Debian Squeeze, I'm thinking of upgrading my desktop to Squeeze. With my hosts with Lenny in general, except for some things, everything was working after upgrading to Squeeze, but I worry that something is bro

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-19 Thread Doug
On 03/20/2011 01:57 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! /snip/ Regards, Daniel I used Synaptic so I could hunt down all the kde version 3.5.10 packages and remove them, that will help with stability, also you maybe interested in http://qt-kde.debian.net/ you can ins

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! After updating my hosts in my house to the new stable, Debian Squeeze, I'm thinking of upgrading my desktop to Squeeze. With my hosts with Lenny in general, except for some things, everything was working after upgrading to Squeeze, but I worry that something is bro

Re: AW: Virus

2011-03-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Boblitz John Said; Setup.exe? Is that really a Debian file? I thought, but wasn't sure, so didn't want to say, that no Debian boot CD would contain an .exe file. As these are a Microsoft Windows Format and by and by Linux as an Operating System only

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-19 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:19:54 -0400 Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > > heh, i'd think you'd go with nfs because it's drop dead simple to setup. > > seriously, google something like 'linux exports example' and just look at > > it. you should have it

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-19 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:01:27 -0400 Chris Brennan wrote: > Sshfs requires fusefs to function, syntax is the same as SSH/sftp/scp. IIUC, sshfs+fusefs must be on the system from which I'm running the sshfs command, but is not necessary on the other one; correct me if I'm wrong. As I've said, I do h

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Brennan
Sshfs requires fusefs to function, syntax is the same as SSH/sftp/scp. -- Sent from my Droid On Mar 19, 2011 11:48 PM, "Celejar" wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:48:22 -0700 > "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Celejar wrote: >> >> > I want to set up a network filesys

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-19 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:15:53 -0400 shawn wilson wrote: ... > heh, i'd think you'd go with nfs because it's drop dead simple to setup. > seriously, google something like 'linux exports example' and just look at > it. you should have it setup in no more than 10 minutes. now, if you have > 100 serv

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-19 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:59:38 -0400 shawn wilson wrote: > btw, i just ran across this (looking at perlbal) but this looks related to > the 'network file system' conversation. > http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ Interesting, but almost certainly not what I need: > MogileFS is not: > > * POSIX C

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-19 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:50:36 -0400 shawn wilson wrote: > On Mar 17, 2011 3:10 PM, "Celejar" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I want to set up a network filesystem to share files between several > > linux systems (Debian & OpenWrt). Judging from what I see on the list > > and elsewhere, NFS stills see

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-19 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:48:22 -0700 "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Celejar wrote: > > > I want to set up a network filesystem to share files between several > > linux systems (Debian & OpenWrt).  Judging from what I see on the list > > Do you actually need all the f

Re: Debian mini CDs

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Brennan
Having a professionally pressed multi-arch cd/DVD would be much more visually appealing and creditable when you walk into an office to do something. -- Sent from my Droid (sorry for the top-post, it's my phone.) On Mar 19, 2011 10:06 PM, "Andrew McGlashan" < andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au>

Re: raid10 and lvm problem on new lenny install

2011-03-19 Thread Jim Green
Thank you for the excellent explanation! http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php from this link I read "The maximum number of physical extents is approximately 65k so take your maximum volume size and divide it by 65k then round it to the next nice round number. " looks like I already have

Re: raid10 and lvm problem on new lenny install

2011-03-19 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:02:24PM -0400, Jim Green wrote: > this is what I have from fdisk -l, I have lvm on /dev/md1, md1 is a > raid10 array with 4x2T drives. > Disk /dev/md1: 4000.5 GB, 4000525058048 bytes > 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 976690688 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 byt

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-19 Thread Brad Alexander
Concur. Unlike windows tools, Linux GUI tools (should) build on the existing command line tools. So using the command line version should give you the same effect as using the gui. Case in point, I use apt-get or aptitude (primarily the latter), instead of synaptic or one of the gui tools available

Re: Debian mini CDs

2011-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Gabor Kum wrote: As a member of the Debian CD project (www.debiancd.org) I would like to let you know that we are now shipping Squeeze netinst mini CDs for the i386 and for the amd64 architectures. Just a suggestion, why not have multi-arch ISO there too? I download my own ISO files, but

raid10 and lvm problem on new lenny install

2011-03-19 Thread Jim Green
this is what I have from fdisk -l, I have lvm on /dev/md1, md1 is a raid10 array with 4x2T drives. Disk /dev/md1: 4000.5 GB, 4000525058048 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 976690688 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (mi

Re: irc.debian.org

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Mario . wrote: irc.debian.org seems to be blocking mibbit.com, a web based chat client, I > can't enter #debian. > The error message is: > > 18:55oxygen.oftc.net*** Found your hostname > 18:55oxygen.oftc.net*** Got Ident response > 18:55oxygen

irc.debian.org

2011-03-19 Thread Mario .
irc.debian.org seems to be blocking mibbit.com, a web based chat client, I can't enter #debian. The error message is: 18:55oxygen.oftc.net*** Found your hostname 18:55oxygen.oftc.net*** Got Ident response 18:55oxygen.oftc.net002: | [0] foto, [1] Your host is oxygen.o

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 mar 11, 18:35:10, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > Hi all! > > After updating my hosts in my house to the new stable, Debian Squeeze, > I'm thinking of upgrading my desktop to Squeeze. > > With my hosts with Lenny in general, except for some things, everything > was working after upgrading to

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-19 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 18:35 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > After updating my hosts in my house to the new stable, Debian Squeeze, > I'm thinking of upgrading my desktop to Squeeze. > > With my hosts with Lenny in general, except for some things, everything > was working after upgradin

Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-19 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! After updating my hosts in my house to the new stable, Debian Squeeze, I'm thinking of upgrading my desktop to Squeeze. With my hosts with Lenny in general, except for some things, everything was working after upgrading to Squeeze, but I worry that something is broken in the upgrade from

Re: aptitude stuck "resolving dependencies..."

2011-03-19 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Op 19-03-11 18:18, Joe Riel schreef: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:04:47 -0700 > Joe Riel wrote: > >> This morning I ran >> >> $ sudo aptitude update >> $ aptitude --simulate safe-upgrade >> Resolving dependencies... >> open: 16431; closed: 11272; defer: 105; conflict: 54 >> >> At

Re: unexpected problem with php-5.3

2011-03-19 Thread Bernard
Luciano Furtado wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Check if you have those on your /etc/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2010-12-08 11:47 php5.load -> ../mods-available/php5.load lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2010-12-08 11:47 php5.conf -> ../mods-available/php5.conf lrfurtado@lrfurtado

Re: unexpected problem with php-5.3

2011-03-19 Thread Bernard
Dom wrote: [stuff deleted] http://localhost/MyDirectory/index.php => doesn't work ! The system proposes that I download the file 'index.php' ! *.html files are treated, but not *.php. The same system does operate allright on my Desktop under Lenny (not the same versions of php an mysql though)

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 mar 11, 20:35:28, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 19 mar 11, 22:19:45, Joel Rees wrote: > > > > Speaking of which, are the command line user/group management tools > > (adduser, etc.) going to leave something undone if I use them instead? > > Or, if I use vipw and hand-copy the bash skele

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 19 mar 11, 22:19:45, Joel Rees wrote: > > Speaking of which, are the command line user/group management tools > (adduser, etc.) going to leave something undone if I use them instead? > Or, if I use vipw and hand-copy the bash skeleton, for a user, am I > going to regret it later? AFAIK add

External hard drive with mounting problems

2011-03-19 Thread Jason Hsu
I have a 250 GB Seagate Expansion Portable Hard Drive that sometimes won't mount. I end up having to use TestDisk to recover my files from it, and then I have to reformat the drive. The drive works for a while, and then it becomes unmountable sometime later. I've had this happen with the driv

Re: tomboy, and mono dependencies in gnome?

2011-03-19 Thread george.stand...@gmail.com
>> Why is tomboy in the default basic desktop when installed from the >> netinstall CD? Using the netinstall CD, you choose what gets installed. Did you install the "gnome" package? > Let it do it's thing and reinstall gnome-session and go from there. > gnome-desktop-environment is a metapackage

Debian mini CDs

2011-03-19 Thread Gabor Kum
Hello Everyone, As a member of the Debian CD project (www.debiancd.org) I would like to let you know that we are now shipping Squeeze netinst mini CDs for the i386 and for the amd64 architectures. We are an independent project to promote the use of Debian GNU/Linux. Our goal is to give you nice,

Re: aptitude stuck "resolving dependencies..."

2011-03-19 Thread Joe Riel
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:04:47 -0700 Joe Riel wrote: > This morning I ran > > $ sudo aptitude update > $ aptitude --simulate safe-upgrade > Resolving dependencies... > open: 16431; closed: 11272; defer: 105; conflict: 54 > > At this point it kept churning; the number of open

aptitude stuck "resolving dependencies..."

2011-03-19 Thread Joe Riel
This morning I ran $ sudo aptitude update $ aptitude --simulate safe-upgrade Resolving dependencies... open: 16431; closed: 11272; defer: 105; conflict: 54 At this point it kept churning; the number of open dependencies kept increasing. Because of this I haven't run a real u

Re: I should not be trying to use tor, but...

2011-03-19 Thread AG
On 19/03/11 15:50, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20110319_083513, AG wrote: On 19/03/11 04:50, Nomen Nescio wrote: I am trying to install tor without knowing what I'm doing. I typed apt-get install tor, and that seemed to work. Then I downloaded torbutton from the tor website, and it

Re: tightvncserver: Could not start screen

2011-03-19 Thread briand
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:17:31 +0530 Susam Pal wrote: > susam@nifty:~$ > > Could you please help me n troubleshooting this? aaah, here it is: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@" xserverrc (END) btw, I'm guessing here, I have no idea if it's the problem. if you are going from a unix

Re: tightvncserver: Could not start screen

2011-03-19 Thread briand
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:17:31 +0530 Susam Pal wrote: > > Fatal server error: > Couldn't add screen > > susam@nifty:~$ > > Could you please help me n troubleshooting this? I remember that a long time ago X used be installed default with tcp access turned off, and that you need tcp access for so

Re: I should not be trying to use tor, but...

2011-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110319_083513, AG wrote: > On 19/03/11 04:50, Nomen Nescio wrote: > >I am trying to install tor without knowing what > >I'm doing. I typed apt-get install tor, and that > >seemed to work. Then I downloaded torbutton from > >the tor website, and it seemed to install. [was > >that a mista

tightvncserver: Could not start screen

2011-03-19 Thread Susam Pal
I followed the following steps to start tightvncserver on Debian Wheezy. 1. Ran the following command as root: aptitude update; aptitude install tightvncserver 2. Logged into my GNOME desktop as non root user. 3. Opened mrxvt. Executed the following command in bash prompt: tightvncserver I got

Re: [help-a-newb] setting grub

2011-03-19 Thread Dom
On 19/03/11 13:29, Joel Rees wrote: I really didn't have much problem with grub 1, just edit menu.lst . I'm having the devil of a time trying to figure out how to set the default boot and how to chain in grub 2 in squeeze. I found something about using update grub and setting the default boot i

Re: Firewall rules to block unwanted protocolls on given ports

2011-03-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <12ece38cdc9.930887499216092428.2266832439697170...@zoho.com>, johhny_at_poland77 wrote: >Does somebody has an idea, that what kind of iptables/pf rule must i use to >achieve this?: > >i only want to allow these connections [on the output chain]: > >on port 53 output only allow udp - dns >on po

Re: [help-a-newb] setting grub

2011-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Joel, Joel Rees wrote: I really didn't have much problem with grub 1, just edit menu.lst . I'm having the devil of a time trying to figure out how to set the default boot and how to chain in grub 2 in squeeze. I found something about using update grub and setting the default boot in a fle i

Re: Re: need help with sed problem

2011-03-19 Thread Clive Standbridge
> i agree with that - the underscore that was used is also valid. you > might look at proper quoting of variables to avoid this. something > like cat text.txt | sed -e 's/bbb.*/:"$PWD"/' > new.txt The output from that, given Joao's original text.txt, is :"$PWD" The reason is t

Re: tomboy, and mono dependencies in gnome?

2011-03-19 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:35:15 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Why is tomboy in the default basic desktop when installed from the > netinstall CD? > > And, more to the point, when I run synaptic and check on uninstalling > libmono-cor or whatever, it threatens to uninstall gnome. (Not really > a big deal

Re: [help-a-newb] problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager

2011-03-19 Thread Lisi
Posting back on list. (Joel, replies are supposed to be to the list, not to the individual.) On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 19 March 2011 05:50:19 Joel Rees wrote: >> After that, I can't >> authenticate with the gui tool. > > Which version of Debian? Which DE or WM

Re: Xorg sever does not work in squeeze for me

2011-03-19 Thread Martin
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 07:43:26PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-03-16 17:26 +0100, Martin wrote: > > > Btw. to use startx I have to use: sudo startx > > $ startx -- -depth 16 > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > > > What group do I need to join? > > None. Permiss

tomboy, and mono dependencies in gnome?

2011-03-19 Thread Joel Rees
Why is tomboy in the default basic desktop when installed from the netinstall CD? And, more to the point, when I run synaptic and check on uninstalling libmono-cor or whatever, it threatens to uninstall gnome. (Not really a big deal, I'm comfortable using XFCE.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

[help-a-newb] setting grub

2011-03-19 Thread Joel Rees
I really didn't have much problem with grub 1, just edit menu.lst . I'm having the devil of a time trying to figure out how to set the default boot and how to chain in grub 2 in squeeze. I found something about using update grub and setting the default boot in a fle in /usr/share/grub, followed b

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-19 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > Nuts. I keep forgetting the list when using google's webmail. > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Lisi wrote: >> On Saturday 19 March 2011 05:50:19 Joel Rees wrote: >>>  After that, I can't >>> authenticate with the gui tool. >> >> Which versi

Fwd: [help-a-newb] problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager

2011-03-19 Thread Joel Rees
Nuts. I keep forgetting the list when using google's webmail. On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 19 March 2011 05:50:19 Joel Rees wrote: >>  After that, I can't >> authenticate with the gui tool. > > Which version of Debian?  Which DE or WM? > Squeeze, installed from the n

Firewall rules to block unwanted protocolls on given ports

2011-03-19 Thread johhny_at_poland77
Does somebody has an idea, that what kind of iptables/pf rule must i use to achieve this?: i only want to allow these connections [on the output chain]: on port 53 output only allow udp - dns on port 80 output only allow tcp - http on port 443 output only allow tcp - https on port 993 output onl

Re: download debian

2011-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 18 mar 11, 21:13:54, hl 1983 wrote: > > please help. i want to try debian on my computer. > my question is, which one iso (debian-6.0.0-i386-CD-1.iso) file should i > download. > i mean is that difference betwen cd-1, cd-2, cd-3 or dvd? http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#which-cd Regards, An

Re: kernel 2.6.37 and ati proprietary drivers

2011-03-19 Thread Eren Caylan
Fglrx from Sid repo worked without any problem. Thanks a lot for the advise. Eren On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 16:31 +0100, Debiantr.WP wrote: > That line won't work, since i have deleted everything that has to do > anything with fglrx. I will try to get fglrx from unstable repo, if it > doesnt work e

Re: Automagical Dependency Resolutions?

2011-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 18 mar 11, 09:56:08, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > apt-cache show gdebi-core gdebi > > Came across gdebi in my initial research, but I was hoping there was a > switch or option that I missed in apt-get, etc. that would do the same > thing like the 'localinstall' option does with yum. >

Re: [help-a-newb] problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager

2011-03-19 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 19 March 2011 05:50:19 Joel Rees wrote: > After that, I can't > authenticate with the gui tool. Which version of Debian? Which DE or WM? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: I should not be trying to use tor, but...

2011-03-19 Thread AG
On 19/03/11 04:50, Nomen Nescio wrote: I am trying to install tor without knowing what I'm doing. I typed apt-get install tor, and that seemed to work. Then I downloaded torbutton from the tor website, and it seemed to install. [was that a mistake?] When I start iceweasel/firefox and

Re: custom init script

2011-03-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:35:51AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > If I create a custom init script (it's for a second instance of ssh), > do I still use the update-rc.d command to set that script to start in > the various runlevels? Or is there some new procedure due to the > dependency-based init sequ