George Standish said:
Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now
you expect it to "upgrade" to a new distro... This idea doesn't seem
like a good idea to me.
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I agree with this assessment though any ubuntu head will challenge any
statement like this with such
Hi,
Hal Vaughan wrote:
Does Java handle the SMB protocol on its own? I know I can't list a directory
that way with ls, even with the Samba client package installed.
Yeah, I tried that too.
I was thinking if I could list the files, then I might try to do a
symbolic link.
It seems odd that
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 15:35 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <1303435546.3090.3.ca...@zircon.lan.walnut.gen.nz>, Richard Hector
> wrote:
> >On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 12:04 +0200, Axel Freyn wrote:
> >> But the principal problem is: each of those limits/protections
> reduces
> >> the usability
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote at 2011-04-22 15:35 -0500:
> I turn off over-commit on all of my systems. I'd rather have malloc fail and
> let the userland handle things (possibly by crashing!) than have the semi-
> predictable OOM killer set loose.
Yes, I turn off overcommit as well. Before I st
In <1303435546.3090.3.ca...@zircon.lan.walnut.gen.nz>, Richard Hector wrote:
>On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 12:04 +0200, Axel Freyn wrote:
>> But the principal problem is: each of those limits/protections reduces
>> the usability (e.g. if you have 2GB Ram, and you limit eclipse to 2GB,
>> it will be killed
I switched to custom kernel and came across this thread. I also use
squeeze and this is what I have found.
First of, Debian has the following versions of nvidia-kernel-dkms packages:
squeeze: 195.36.31-6
sid/wheezy: 260.19.44-1
experimental: 270.30-1
The version in squeeze fail on anything above
I switched to custom kernel and came across this thread. I also use
squeeze and this is what I have found.
First of, Debian has the following versions of nvidia-kernel-dkms packages:
squeeze: 195.36.31-6
sid/wheezy: 260.19.44-1
experimental: 270.30-1
The version in squeeze fail on anything above
On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:03:00 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>> I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which could
>> be SMB or NFS (or something else) without mounting the volume. For
>> example, if I'm on System A and
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 08:37:39PM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> 1. The site http://ndt.switch.ch/ warns me about a missing Java
> Runtime Environment and prompts me to install it. I checked with
> aptitude, and sure enough, openjdk-6-jre is installed.
Works here with the openjdk from Squeeze.
The bro
Thank you, Boyd, that was just the sort of answer I was looking for. I tried
using Ctrl+Alt+F1 to drop into a terminal but, again, it wasn't responsive.
I'll commit your suggestions to memory for the next time the system locks up.
You touched on the crux of my complaint: sure, I expect the odd
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:25:36 -0700, tony mollica wrote:
> Using deb6-amd64 and I've searched for an acceptable solution but I find
> none that I like.
>
> The problem is that I would like to have this 'option single-request'
> lline in
> /etc/resolv.conf but network-manager continuously removes t
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:37:39 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
(...)
> Also, in general, how can I know when something Java-related won't work,
> is it the fault of the open Java I'm using or some wrong configuration
> somewhere in my system?
>
> Is there any simple, yet good howto on this?
Hum... "simpl
On 04/22/2011 01:01 PM, Celejar wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:20:33 -0400
Wayne Topa wrote:
I have recoll installed on stable, wheezy and sid. It is working fine
on stable but on the other two it indexes fine but is not displaying the
results. I installed the helper files but still no displa
Howdie, fellow Debianites!
I need somebody to explain to me in lay terms what's "wrong" with Java
in Debian. I'm running Squeeze and have recently bumped into two
Java-related issues:
1. The site http://ndt.switch.ch/ warns me about a missing Java Runtime
Environment and prompts me to ins
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:34:26 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> I did my first server upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze the other day and
> dbus-daemon was installed automatically.
You should have instructed apt to do not install recommended packages by
default.
> Dbus is strictly for desktops isn't i
Erwan David put forth on 4/22/2011 12:40 PM:
> On 22/04/11 19:34, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> I did my first server upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze the other day and
>> dbus-daemon was installed automatically. Dbus is strictly for desktops
>> isn't it? Is this necessary on a headless server? Can I saf
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:03:00 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
(...)
> I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which could
> be SMB or NFS (or something else) without mounting the volume. For
> example, if I'm on System A and I have an executable on System B, and
> it's on a network
Hal Vaughan put forth on 4/22/2011 12:03 PM:
> I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having
> to mount it, but I need to do more than that.
>
> I want to be able to access either Java classes or an executable on a shared
> volume on a server without having to mount
Arnt Karlsen put forth on 4/22/2011 8:18 AM:
> ..I've had about half a dozen crashes on ext3 where the journal
> was written to disk but not the data, so the journal trashed my
> old data "that were gone" according to the journal, on the next
> fsck.
This is a result of using data=writeback jo
On 22/04/11 19:34, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> I did my first server upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze the other day and
> dbus-daemon was installed automatically. Dbus is strictly for desktops
> isn't it? Is this necessary on a headless server? Can I safely remove it?
>
aptitude why dbus tells me avah
I did my first server upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze the other day and
dbus-daemon was installed automatically. Dbus is strictly for desktops
isn't it? Is this necessary on a headless server? Can I safely remove it?
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I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having to
mount it, but I need to do more than that.
I want to be able to access either Java classes or an executable on a shared
volume on a server without having to mount the volume on the local system.
(There are a couple r
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> I'm not sure to have correctly understood your goal... basically you want
> to use one key (same passphrase) for two users? If yes, do you think
> doing that is a good idea? User A and B being different in real life will
> become the
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Sorry, I sent this reply only to Camaleón instead of to the list.
Pushed the Reply button instead of Reply to List. Apologies.
Regards, Ken Heard
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:20:33 -0400
Wayne Topa wrote:
> I have recoll installed on stable, wheezy and sid. It is working fine
> on stable but on the other two it indexes fine but is not displaying the
> results. I installed the helper files but still no display other then
>
> -
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:54:11 -0700, Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 06:51:23PM -0500, John W Foster wrote:
>> I'm looking for more Mediawiki extensions packaged for Debian..stable
>> Mediawiki 1.1xxx
>>
>> Any suggestions? And of course I know I can install them myself, just
>> lazy & wa
On 04/22/2011 12:19 PM, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:20:33 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
I have recoll installed on stable, wheezy and sid. It is working fine
on stable but on the other two it indexes fine but is not displaying the
results.
(...)
Not using recoll here, but there are so
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:57:45 -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
> I created a secret-public key pair for user A in computer P. It is one
> of two key pairs in file $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg.
>
> I would like to copy that key-pair for use by user A computer Q, but als
> for use of user B in computer Q. (I wa
On Apr 22, 2011 11:06 AM, "Anthony Campbell" wrote:
>
> On 22 Apr 2011, shawn wilson wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Anthony Campbell
wrote:
> > > My HP laptop tends to boot with a dim screen. I can fix this with
> > >
> > > echo 10 > /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brig
hmm. nevermind.
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/22/2011 08:12 AM, PMA wrote:
Wonder if Reiser's FS inspired his decision where to stash his wife.
In a tree?
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:20:33 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> I have recoll installed on stable, wheezy and sid. It is working fine
> on stable but on the other two it indexes fine but is not displaying the
> results.
(...)
Not using recoll here, but there are some bugs for it:
http://bugs.debian.
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I created a secret-public key pair for user A in computer P. It is one
of two key pairs in file $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg.
I would like to copy that key-pair for use by user A computer Q, but als
for use of user B in computer Q. (I want to allow both
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:19:54 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
>> Assembled Wisdom!
>>
>> I have been running mutt for a good many years from with my Debian
>> Linux distribution. A couple of days ago I upgraded from Debian etch
>> to
Dosemu should work fine with DPMI memory handling - if configured properly.
Have you checked your dosemu.conf for its cpu_emu setting?
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:21:41 -0400, Sebastian Lara wrote:
> I have three different serial devices connected to three usb-serial
> converters (FTDI USB-RS232). If I connect them, I get the generic device
> names /dev/ttyUSBx as expected. When I try to write some udev rules,
> udevadm shows me the s
On 20110421_173702, Alan McConnell wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:30:38AM -0500, green wrote:
> > Alan McConnell wrote at 2011-04-21 09:34 -0500:
> > > I have looked at /etc/mailcap in my new squeeze, and also
> > > at the mailcap in my backup of my etc etc. They seem to be
> > > different fi
On 04/22/2011 08:12 AM, PMA wrote:
Wonder if Reiser's FS inspired his decision where to stash his wife.
In a tree?
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On 22 Apr 2011, shawn wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Anthony Campbell
> wrote:
> > My HP laptop tends to boot with a dim screen. I can fix this with
> >
> > echo 10 > /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
> >
> > which I run from /etc/rc,local.
> >
>
> the ri
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:14:35 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> My HP laptop tends to boot with a dim screen.
(...)
Hum... some of the new HP notebooks have a sensor that automatically
adjusts the brightness of the screen depending on the ambient light. This
can be turned off in windows but I d
On 22 Apr 2011, James Robertson wrote:
>I'm taking a stab in the dark here (pun intended)...
>do you happen to have a /run directory?
>I had some issues with devices not being detected on boot recently which
>turned out to be related to udev attempting to read from /run.
>http:/
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:33:46 +0200, Engi Zoltán wrote:
> I upgraded to Debian 6.0. After upgrading the taskbar is missing. I can
> get back it with "killall gnome-panel" command.
>
> What is wrong?
Try by login with another user and check if the error persists.
Sometimes GNOME settings are bad
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:12:50 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> I made the mistake of purchasing an external HDD enclosure without
> researching first. The enclosure wouldn't be recognized in Debian
> Squeeze or Wheezy with errors that are not relevant since I've returned
> it to the shop.
(..
Hello List,
On 22/04/11 16:25, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:06:33 -0700, geertsky wrote:
I want to powerdown my ide harddisk completly. I'm booting from a usb
stick so the IDE disk is CONSUMING... I have an old laptop so I'd like
to preserver as much as possible.
I tried hdparm -Y /
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:06:33 -0700, geertsky wrote:
> I want to powerdown my ide harddisk completly. I'm booting from a usb
> stick so the IDE disk is CONSUMING... I have an old laptop so I'd like
> to preserver as much as possible.
>
> I tried hdparm -Y /dev/sda but hdparm -C /dev/sda reports it
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:36:55 + (UTC), Juan wrote in message
:
> I'm in the process of moving from Ubuntu to Debian. I've installed
> squeeze and want to restore some of 2 users home files and
> directories from a backup made in Ubuntu. There are also some files
> from /etc needed to be resto
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:21:17 +0200, Sven wrote in message
<87ipu8ch82@turtle.gmx.de>:
> On 2011-04-21 05:54 +0200, Joe Neal wrote:
>
> > I recently upgraded my sid box with a Gforce 8600. Following a
> > reboot the binary nvidia drivers would only give me a screen
> > resolution so small it
On Apr 22, 2011 8:45 AM, "lemonnier" wrote:
>
>
>Programs developed for the real mode in turbo
>pascal work correctly.
>
>But programs developed in 16-bit protected
>(DPMI) don't work.
I'm not sure wha
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:14:32 -0700, prad wrote in message
<87bozzfmcn@towardsfreedom.com>:
> Stan Hoeppner writes:
>
> > prad put forth on 4/20/2011 11:43 PM:
> >
> >> we want to run our servers through virtual box off usb drives
> >> which is a total departure from what we've done over the
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:34:24 +1000, Andrew wrote in message
<4db04070.1030...@affinityvision.com.au>:
> Hi,
>
> Heddle Weaver wrote:
> > *http://tinyurl.com/3tu3ww9
>
> That's a pretty old reference, but an interesting read.
>
> Important note:
> These tests were done with a 2.4 kernel. They s
Wonder if Reiser's FS inspired his decision where to stash his wife.
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Hello Sir
I don't understand that Debian provides version
of dosemu_1.4.0
+svn.1999-2_i386.deb in stable packages.
So many people have found a bug with the
programs written in PAS
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:08:52 -0700, Freeman wrote:
> In Guayadeque 0.2.9, the file menu is not present when gnome globalmenu
> 0.7.9 packages are installed.
>
> How can I decide or diagnose which package has the bug?
Don't bother about that, just report against the more natural one
(Guayadeque)
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:12:03 +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> Sven Joachim wrote: SJ> On 2011-04-11 20:06 +0200,
> Camaleón wrote:
>>> On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:12:40 +, i'll teach you to turn away.
>>> wrote:
hi guys. i'm having some trouble with what appears to be a gtk issue
>
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:57 PM, adris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the help.
>
> Am Montag, den 18.04.2011, 20:34 +0900 schrieb Joel Rees:
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:06 PM, adris wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > how can you undo the permission "Always Trust this Publisher", once you
>> > checked that
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:06:14 +0700, Hoang Le wrote:
(sorry for the delay, I've been a bit overflowed at work)
> How can I know what package the bug belongs to? For now, all I know is
> that that message can be found in kern.log file
I'd say those messages come from kernel, so running the command
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Anthony Campbell
wrote:
> My HP laptop tends to boot with a dim screen. I can fix this with
>
> echo 10 > /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
>
> which I run from /etc/rc,local.
>
the right way would be to use sysctl. that said, i always do t
Dne, 21. 04. 2011 23:36:55 je Juan R. de Silva napisal(a):
I'm in the process of moving from Ubuntu to Debian. I've installed
squeeze and want to restore some of 2 users home files and directories
from a backup made in Ubuntu. There are also some files from /etc
needed
to be restored.
I prese
I'm taking a stab in the dark here (pun intended)...
do you happen to have a /run directory?
I had some issues with devices not being detected on boot recently which
turned out to be related to udev attempting to read from /run.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621036
In my case
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