When installing from a CD image How to Gain Internet Access using a router and What is to Enter as Proxy information?

2011-04-17 Thread Varuna Seneviratna
I am trying to install from a CD image of 180MB, On the way I am asked to select a Mirror and also a proxy, I am Using a router to connect to the Internet. I selected a mirror and left the proxy information blank.The Installation process displays a message that says unable to gain Internet connect

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread sal migondis
> And me? A Kiwi living in Australia, a Brit?? lol .. Drunk as I was, I did smell something fishy.. all apologies, mate.. So now we have a Prisoner of his Majesty siding with the poms..? What is the world coming to..? > No need to be insulting! :-) > The OP got so many appropriate answers th

Clang include paths

2011-04-17 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
I'm running a fresh install of debian-testing on an amd64 laptop. I do lots of C++ compiling, and prefer clang's error messages to g++'s cryptic gobbledygook. After installing clang, I was surprised to find that nothing compiled. Stepping back, I tried to compile hello world: $ clang++ test.cpp

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2011-04-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/17/2011 10:16 PM: > > "Speedtest.net requires at least version 9 of Flash. Please update your > client." I've been greedily keeping these b/w testing sites to myself for many many years, but I'm in a sharing mood. Use the server nearest you. http://ndt-202.net.berkele

Re: arbitrary disk name assignment affects dump/restore

2011-04-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andrei Popescu put forth on 4/17/2011 3:12 AM: > /dev/disk/by-id/ > /dev/disk/by-label/ # assuming you defined labels > /dev/disk/by-path/ > /dev/disk/by-uuid/ > > I prefer labels since they can be set to something meaningful/mnemonic. Yes, I use labels for partitions as well, more for organizat

Gdm login failing "I could not start your session"

2011-04-17 Thread dbu . sat . nobrainer
How can I restore full gnome login? Only a gnome-failsafe session works now. /var/log/gdm/:0.log shows: FATAL: Module fbcon not found SELinux disabled on system, no enabling in X $HOME/.xsession-errors shows: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... load s .profile /etc/gdm/Xsession: Executi

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2011-04-17 Thread Ron Johnson
"Speedtest.net requires at least version 9 of Flash. Please update your client." On 04/17/2011 01:37 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: You can do apt-get lynx -r as root then try: lynx http://www.speedtest.net/. The statistics you need should then appear on the screen for you to examine.On Sun, 17 Apr

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 18 April 2011 11:50, sal migondis wrote: > On Sunday 17 April 2011 14:40:46 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > >> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > ... > >> > >> Hi Osamu, > >> thank you for taking time to write a long answer, > >> Nonetheless, there is a basic misunderstanding of my post:for

Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
Your two emails were a help, but opened up some new questions: Executing install-mh in an xterm failed because install-mh was not found. I used find /usr -name 'install-mh' and found *two* versions. One was in /usr/bin/mh . I take this to be the modern equivalent of the old /usr/local/nmh/bin. So

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread sal migondis
On Sunday 17 April 2011 14:40:46 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > ... >> >> Hi Osamu, >> thank you for taking time to write a long answer, >> Nonetheless, there is a basic misunderstanding of my post:for me, asking >> a question is not equivalent to complaining!

Re: How to automate the upgrade of openssh-server?

2011-04-17 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2011/4/17 Bjørn Michelsen : > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 05:49:08PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > It's possible to pass these options to apt, for instance > >  apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" upgrade Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: How to automate the upgrade of openssh-server?

2011-04-17 Thread Bjørn Michelsen
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 05:49:08PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hey there, > I'm trying to automate the setup of an Ubuntu Server 10.04 64bit > system. I am unable to run apt-get upgrade sucessfully (i.e. without > manual intervention). Every time it blocks because of openssh-server > (and portma

Re: Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 18 April 2011 06:41, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On 17 April 2011 21:19, PMA wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > My cat, much enjoying this thread, would like to know: > > "What please, referencing particular persons, is a 'git'?" > > Tell it to have a look at > http://www.urbandictionary.com/define

How to automate the upgrade of openssh-server?

2011-04-17 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, I'm trying to automate the setup of an Ubuntu Server 10.04 64bit system. I am unable to run apt-get upgrade sucessfully (i.e. without manual intervention). Every time it blocks because of openssh-server (and portmap): Setting up openssh-server (1:5.3p1-3ubuntu6) ... Configuration file `/

Re: Much Ado About Nothing [was: changing my e-mail address]

2011-04-17 Thread Peter Beck
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 18:51 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 17. 04. 2011 16:19:30 je sal migondis napisal(a): > > > > > Yeah, right.. Imagine for a second the OP is subscribed > > to .. TEN.. TWENTY.. different debian mailing lists... IMHO this is a subscriber issuei would create a rule on my

Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:38:21PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years > the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail to > get email from my ISP, exim4 to send outgoing email to my ISP, and > do other things locally, and pro

salmi...@gmail.com

2011-04-17 Thread sal migondis
Jonathan Matthews jpluscplusm.com> writes: > On 16 April 2011 18:39, Pierre Frenkiel: > > On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Lisi wrote: > >> Have you tried this? You don't mention it. > > > > And did you read my post? > > The question was not > > "how to unsubcribe?", > > but > > "how to modif

Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
In debian dpkg-reconfigure nmh may do what install-nmh does for non-debian systems. I read up on nmh from the nmh website.On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Paul E Condon wrote: > I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years > the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail t

Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you runn install-nmh, then nmh will make the directories it needs and perhaps start working. I use nmh and like it better than mbox because when malware hits a message that message with offending garbage can be sacrificed without the loss of your entire collection of messages. Hope this hel

Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail to get email from my ISP, exim4 to send outgoing email to my ISP, and do other things locally, and procmail running in my $home. I have no interest in setting up system-wide

Re: Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 17 April 2011 21:19, PMA wrote: > Dear List, > > My cat, much enjoying this thread, would like to know: > "What please, referencing particular persons, is a 'git'?" Tell it to have a look at http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=git It's a predominately British insult. Jonathan -- J

Re: UNA BENDICION ESTA LLEGANDO A TI.....

2011-04-17 Thread shawn wilson
first, i'd recommend against anyone opening that docx attachment (especially on windows). second, this is an english list - though if this is legitimate, i'm sure someone here will be able to advise. 2011/4/17 URGENTE : > Una bendición está llegando a ti > Como recibir bolsas repletas de dinero .

Fwd: Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread PMA
Dear List, My cat, much enjoying this thread, would like to know: "What please, referencing particular persons, is a 'git'?" Thank you. P.A. Original Message Subject: Re: changing my e-mail address Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:48:55 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@li

Re: User cannot set process priority nice --10 despite changes in limits.conf

2011-04-17 Thread Sebastian Tarach
> Doesn't look to me like you're running the command as the user you > specified in limits.conf. > > Jonathan > -- > Jonathan Matthews > London, UK > http://www.jpluscplusm.com/contact.html You are completely correct but despite my mistake on trying to reproduce this problem on different machine i

UNA BENDICION ESTA LLEGANDO A TI.....

2011-04-17 Thread URGENTE
Una bendición está llegando a ti Como recibir bolsas repletas de dinero . Has recibido Una Buena Noticia: Esto correo lo reciben algunas personas privilegiadas: Esta tradición empezó en el oriente medio, en Europa y Asia, se repite cada 823 años y lo tienen como tradición oral, pero por ha

Re: Reformat/salvage old LaCie drive?

2011-04-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 17 April 2011 19:55, Brian Flaherty wrote: > Hello, > I have an old LaCie 500 GB hard drive. I opened it up last night and see > that it is two 250 ATA/133 hard drives: one master, one slave on a single > IDE ribbon connector. (Hope my words are right.) It is connected to my > laptop via USB. (

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 18 April 2011 05:34, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On 16 April 2011 18:39, Pierre Frenkiel > wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Lisi wrote: > > > >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". > >> > >> Have you tried this? You don't mentio

Re: User cannot set process priority nice --10 despite changes in limits.conf

2011-04-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 17 April 2011 11:21, Sebastian Tarach wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to allow user hlds to be able to start game server daemon with > higher priority. Even though I've added fallowing line in > /etc/security/limits.conf > > hlds - nice-20 > > I'm still getting > >

Re: HALF SOLVED!! :) - 2 encrypted VG's on 1 disk - HOW?

2011-04-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 17 April 2011 12:49, johhny_at_poland77 wrote: > I "half solved" it!! :P Well done. As I believe you were previously informed, this is a mailing list for debian-specific traffic. Please use it as such. You may have better luck over here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/. Jonathan -- Jonathan Matth

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 16 April 2011 18:39, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Lisi wrote: > >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". >> >> Have you tried this?  You don't mention it. > >  And did you read my post? >  The question was not >    

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:19:30AM -0400, sal migondis wrote: > >>> "how to modify my address without doing unsubscribe/subscribe?" > >> > >> The answer to your question is:  unsubscribe the old address.  Subscribe > >> the new one. > > That's not what he asked, is it...?!!! > > OP: > > "how

Reformat/salvage old LaCie drive?

2011-04-17 Thread Brian Flaherty
Hello, I have an old LaCie 500 GB hard drive. I opened it up last night and see that it is two 250 ATA/133 hard drives: one master, one slave on a single IDE ribbon connector. (Hope my words are right.) It is connected to my laptop via USB. (recent Debian Squeeze install on a Lenovo X201) How

Re: Troubleshooting boot

2011-04-17 Thread Kent West
On 4/17/11 12:23 PM, Michaël Grünewald wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I have trouble running Debian Squeeze on my machine. The installation > process successfully completes, but most of the time (19 times in 20?) > the kernel stalls after displaying its `Loading ...' message. Any > hint to help

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2011-04-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
You can do apt-get lynx -r as root then try: lynx http://www.speedtest.net/ . The statistics you need should then appear on the screen for you to examine.On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 04/17/2011 01:29 AM, sahaya wrote: > > > > > > > > Nathan Zabaldo wrote: > > > > > > Is there a

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2011-04-17 Thread Glenn English
On Apr 17, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Wayne Topa wrote: > Install the iftop package Wow! That is profoundly cool. I didn't know it existed. Thanks -- I just hope Nathan likes it too :-) -- Glenn English “Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live.” - Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2011-04-17 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/17/2011 01:29 AM, sahaya wrote: Nathan Zabaldo wrote: Is there a package or a way to test upstream and downstream speeds of an Internet connection from a terminal in Debian Woody? e.g. www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ , but I need to test from a terminal as I do not have a browser. In

Troobleshooting boot

2011-04-17 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Dear Debian users, I have trouble running Debian Squeeze on my machine. The installation process successfully completes, but most of the time (19 times in 20?) the kernel stalls after displaying its `Loading ...' message. Any hint to help me fix this would be much appreciated! My machine i

Re: arbitrary disk name assignment affects dump/restore

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110417_111214, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 16 apr 11, 15:00:39, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > > > > This means that I must NOT rely on my automatic (crontab-based) dump > > scripts, but interrogate the system manually, and if necessary, alter > > /var/lib/dumpdates so that the scr

Re: Wheezy upgrade trashes display

2011-04-17 Thread Steve Kleene
> I had same issue after last major upgrade. ... Was able to overcome the > problem changing radeonhd to radeon in my xorg.conf file. Thanks. I also solved the problem here but by putting back older versions of some xorg and xserver-xorg packages. The discussion of this ended up in another threa

Re: Much Ado About Nothing [was: changing my e-mail address]

2011-04-17 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 17. 04. 2011 16:19:30 je sal migondis napisal(a): Yeah, right.. Imagine for a second the OP is subscribed to .. TEN.. TWENTY.. different debian mailing lists... Or is there a recommendation somewhere that says that it is foolish to subscribe to more than one (two?) debian list(s) at the s

Re: Re: Wheezy upgrade trashes display

2011-04-17 Thread Giovanni Badi
I had same issue after last major upgrade. Error was radeonhd module not found. Was able to overcome the problem changing radeonhd to radeon in my xorg.conf file. Think some module are missed in the last update of kernel. Sorry for any wrong reference in my e-mail . I'm using since long time De

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread sal migondis
>>> "how to modify my address without doing unsubscribe/subscribe?" >> >> The answer to your question is:  unsubscribe the old address.  Subscribe >> the new one. That's not what he asked, is it...?!!! OP: "how do I MODIFY my address WITHOUT doing unsubscribe/subscribe" Wise guy: "The answ

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 17 April 2011 14:40:46 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > ... > > Hi Osamu, > thank you for taking time to write a long answer, > Nonetheless, there is a basic misunderstanding of my post:for me, asking > a question is not equivalent to complaining! PS:

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... Hi Osamu, thank you for taking time to write a long answer, Nonetheless, there is a basic misunderstanding of my post:for me, asking a question is not equivalent to complaining! I asked: is a feature available for ubuntu lists available for debian? The

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi Pierre, On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:02:43PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: > "how to modify my address without doing unsubscribe/subscribe?" > >>> > >>>The answer to your question is: unsubscribe the old address. Subscribe > >>>the new one. > >> > >>I

HALF SOLVED!! :) - 2 encrypted VG's on 1 disk - HOW?

2011-04-17 Thread johhny_at_poland77
I "half solved" it!! :P http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11289/how-to-install-fedoraubuntu-with-encrypted-vgs-on-one-disk/11509#11509 but there are still 2 questions regarding it...can anyone answer them? Thank you!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

User cannot set process priority nice --10 despite changes in limits.conf

2011-04-17 Thread Sebastian Tarach
Hello, I'm trying to allow user hlds to be able to start game server daemon with higher priority. Even though I've added fallowing line in /etc/security/limits.conf # # #* softcore0 #roothardcore10 #* ha

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 17 April 2011 11:02:43 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >  As for the "modify address" feature, do you put the Ubuntu mailing lists >    in the "snail" category?! They are certainly not "most other lists". Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: "how to modify my address without doing unsubscribe/subscribe?" The answer to your question is: unsubscribe the old address. Subscribe the new one. I'm afraid your logic is not mine! The correct answer to my question is: "that's not possiblë with deb

Re: 2 encrypted VG's on 1 disk - HOW?

2011-04-17 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 17 April 2011 10:02:15 johhny_at_poland77 wrote: > I don't think it's a "distro related" issue, so i'm posting it here too: It is distro related. It is an inconvenient quirk of Fedora, which I imagine that you installed second if you have this problem. > http://unix.stackexchange.com/

2 encrypted VG's on 1 disk - HOW?

2011-04-17 Thread johhny_at_poland77
I don't think it's a "distro related" issue, so i'm posting it here too: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11289/how-to-install-fedoraubuntu-with-encrypted-vgs-on-one-disk what am i missing? why doesn't GRUB offer the 2 distros@boot, why is it only offering only 1?? why doesn't it sees th

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/17/2011 02:08 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: "how to modify my address without doing unsubscribe/subscribe?" The answer to your question is: unsubscribe the old address. Subscribe the new one. I'm afraid your logic is not mine! The correct answer

Re: arbitrary disk name assignment affects dump/restore

2011-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 16 apr 11, 15:00:39, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > > This means that I must NOT rely on my automatic (crontab-based) dump > scripts, but interrogate the system manually, and if necessary, alter > /var/lib/dumpdates so that the script will run properly. No, just adapt your script t

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: "how to modify my address without doing unsubscribe/subscribe?" The answer to your question is: unsubscribe the old address. Subscribe the new one. I'm afraid your logic is not mine! The correct answer to my question is: "that's not possi