Re: How up-to-date is Debian's stable release kept to fix published kernel security vulnerabilities?

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110509043430.ga1...@cox.net>, Robert Holtzman wrote: >On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 10:08:31PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Kelly Dean: >> > http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2943 was >> > published Sept 30, 2010, and says that Linux 2.6.32.5 is >> > vulnerable. Squeeze

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105081801.00768@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >I'm off to experiment some more and see if I can get accelerated nouveau >working on something. I guess even the testing/Sid kernels are worth >another attempt. I won't have the nvidia kernel module tainting the >kern

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <784041656.444588.1304907525303.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>, Stephen Powell wrote: >On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:01:00 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> BTW, anyone know how to request that the non-X virtual terminals not use >> the framebuffer? It looks quite weird with my setup

Re: Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-08 Thread Klaus Wolf
Sorry, I think that this is not a debian related problem, The BIOS of your Laptop has to bi figured to use the USB-Drive for boot. so long klaus Am Sonntag, den 08.05.2011, 21:02 -0700 schrieb Peter Bonucci: > I have installed Debian onto a USB hard drive and would like to boot to the > disk a

Booting a USB hard drive

2011-05-08 Thread Peter Bonucci
I have installed Debian onto a USB hard drive and would like to boot to the disk and run Debian. When I try to boot directly to this disk, my laptop tries to perform a network boot. This normal for this laptop when it can't find the boot device. The laptop uses the grub2 bootloader. When I bo

Re: How up-to-date is Debian's stable release kept to fix published kernel security vulnerabilities?

2011-05-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 10:08:31PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Kelly Dean: > > > http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2943 was > > published Sept 30, 2010, and says that Linux 2.6.32.5 is > > vulnerable. Squeeze uses 2.6.32-5, built on Jan 12, 2011. Is > > Squeeze's kernel

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-08 Thread Carl Johnson
Ron Johnson writes: > On 05/08/2011 07:55 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: >>I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I >> wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4. I used >> aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4, exim4-base, >> exim4-confi

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:01:00 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > BTW, anyone know how to request that the non-X virtual terminals not use the > framebuffer? It looks quite weird with my setup, so I'd prefer text mode VTs > for the most part. I don't think that's possible. If you us

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/08/2011 07:55 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4. I used aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4, exim4-base, exim4-config, and exim4-daemon-light. It see

Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-08 Thread Carl Johnson
I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4. I used aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4, exim4-base, exim4-config, and exim4-daemon-light. It seems to accept the selections, but when it actual

Re: Need debian package management status files explained

2011-05-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 08 May 2011, Ciaran Smith wrote: > My confusion begins with these files: > /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin Read the apt source and any documentation on its internals. > /var/lib/dpkg/status > /var/lib/dpkg/available Read the dpkg source, and possibly the dselect source (ick), as well as the

Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105081209.28976@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In <20110508080807.GC7081@think.nuvreauspam>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>And nouveau? > >I'll give Nouveau a chance sometime this week. It's definitely got some rough edges. AIXGL is disabled in the Squeeze version becaus

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty

2011-05-08 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 08 May 2011 18:49:27 Camaleón wrote: > Good. And I'm so sorry for NM but is nothing but a headache If NM ever gets installed by default, the first thing I do is purge it! ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: rootfs on SSD

2011-05-08 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi Florian, Am Sonntag, 8. Mai 2011 schrieb Florian Ernst: > Hello Rainer, > > On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 04:14:53PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > [...] > > When I now run the mount command, I get all options listed for /home > > > > /dev/sdc2 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,discard,data=ordered)

Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list

2011-05-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 13:28, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 08 May 2011 09:42:49 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 12:41, Camaleón wrote: I just tried tinyurl with wget and got the same IP address (and 200 response) as you. I didn't check the links, though. >>> >>> Then?

Re: Now cannot ping print server from second machine

2011-05-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110507_123607, AG wrote: > Hello (again) > > I don't know if this is related to the connectivity issues reported > earlier, but now when trying to print from a second machine, I am > unable to. > > The set up is my machine runs the CUPS print server and is directly > connected to a USB print

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 08 mai 11, 17:56:41, Camaleón wrote: > > Hum... then as Boyd also said (@Boyd, thanks for the explanation), can we > conclude that _only_ a kernel meta-package will be able to perform the > automatic upgrade to the latest version available? Well, "only" is a bit strong here, but given th

Re: Customising Debian install

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 08 mai 11, 20:36:48, Andrew Wood wrote: > Whats the logic here? Surely it should be the other way round? > >The problem here, I think, is that gnome-desktop-environment depends on > >empathy. I assume you don't mean empathy should depend on gnome-desktop-environment, but wonder why removin

Re: URL shortening (was Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list)

2011-05-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:28:54AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > There were actually a few cases of these link-shortening services > going under. Tr.im went under and was bought, Canonical and Google > both bought and saved one (I don't remember the names) and for a while > bit.ly was under threat

Re: How up-to-date is Debian's stable release kept to fix published kernel security vulnerabilities?

2011-05-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Kelly Dean: > http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2943 was > published Sept 30, 2010, and says that Linux 2.6.32.5 is > vulnerable. Squeeze uses 2.6.32-5, built on Jan 12, 2011. Is > Squeeze's kernel fixed, or does it have the vulnerability? According to our records, this i

Re: Customising Debian install

2011-05-08 Thread Andrew Wood
Whats the logic here? Surely it should be the other way round? The problem here, I think, is that gnome-desktop-environment depends on empathy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: ReiserFS: "filesystem is not clean" after a kernel update

2011-05-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/8/2011 7:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: Hello, Yesterday I updated the kernel to 2.6.38-2 on wheezy and now I get (at a random basis) a warning about the ReiserFS filesystem "is not clean" when booting. Despite the boot message, there are no more indications of a filesystem corruption and indeed,

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110508_095510, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: > > >> I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a > >> new kernel will come to testing :-) > >> > >> root@debian:~# cat /

Re: Need debian package management status files explained

2011-05-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110508_110206, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/08/2011 06:51 AM, Ciaran Smith wrote: > >Hi > >I have read up on Debian Package Management as much as I can at this stage. > [snip] > >I figure I need to understand how dpkg works because apt builds on top > >of it. > >How this is not too many question

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 20:33:22 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 08 mai 11, 17:13:38, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Sure. I mean I already had the "linux-image-2.6.32-5-686" package >> installed but "apt-get dist-upgrade" did not offer the latest version >> available ("linux-image-2.6.38-2-686") so I h

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Dom
On 08/05/11 18:13, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:49:06 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 08 mai 11, 09:55:10, Camaleón wrote: Curious is that, as I said before, it was installed it: dpkg test@debian:~$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-31

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 18:18:58 +0100, AG wrote: > On 08/05/11 17:53, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Ensure: >> >> - There is a static "/etc/resolv.conf" file not pointing to nothing (if >> not there, recreate one) > > Can you clarify this suggestion please. Do you mean that the > /etc/resolv.conf must *no

Re: Boot errors

2011-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 08 May 2011 10:52:26 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am still seeing a bunch of errors related to udev when I boot > > this machine running Sid up-to-date. > > The errors come from udev but are not logged anywhere. > > I suspect they are related to the situatio

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty

2011-05-08 Thread AG
On 08/05/11 18:01, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 08 mai 11, 16:48:43, AG wrote: dpkg -l | grep resolvconf rc resolvconf 1.48 name server information handler Thanks all - learn something everyday: didn't know that is what rc referred to. dpkg would tell you so if yo

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty

2011-05-08 Thread AG
On 08/05/11 17:53, Camaleón wrote: Ensure: - There is a static "/etc/resolv.conf" file not pointing to nothing (if not there, recreate one) Can you clarify this suggestion please. Do you mean that the /etc/resolv.conf must *not* be pointing to something or *must* be pointing to something (

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105081231.04151@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In , Camaleón wrote: >>On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> You need either the package linux-image- or >>> linux-image-2.6- and a new kernel will be installed as soon as >>> the Kernel Team updat

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 08 mai 11, 17:13:38, Camaleón wrote: > > Sure. I mean I already had the "linux-image-2.6.32-5-686" package > installed but "apt-get dist-upgrade" did not offer the latest version > available ("linux-image-2.6.38-2-686") so I had to manually install it. (so I did understand it right after

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Camaleón wrote: >On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: >>> I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a >>> new kernel will come to testing :-) >>> >>> Now (by purely chance) I realized that there is

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:49:06 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 08 mai 11, 09:55:10, Camaleón wrote: >> Curious is that, as I said before, it was installed it: >> >> dpkg test@debian:~$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image ii >> linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-31 Linux >>

Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110508080807.GC7081@think.nuvreauspam>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >On Sb, 07 mai 11, 09:54:37, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> You could try this one, if you aren't using any out-of-tree modules. For >> me it is the NVidia module. I really should find the money for a cheap >> ATI card so I can

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 08 mai 11, 16:48:43, AG wrote: > >> > >>>dpkg -l | grep resolvconf > >>>rc resolvconf > >>>1.48 name server information handler > > > Thanks all - learn something everyday: didn't know that is what rc > referred to. dpkg would tell you so if you wouldn't cut it

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty

2011-05-08 Thread Brian
On Sun 08 May 2011 at 16:48:43 +0100, AG wrote: > So, Hans suggested that I delete the symlink to resolvconf, but > resolvconf isn't installed. However, since its config files are there I > wonder if a symlink was created? I doubt it. > Are there other options that might explain and remedy

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 16:48:43 +0100, AG wrote: > On 08/05/11 14:56, Brian wrote: >> On Sun 08 May 2011 at 13:29:19 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:30:59 +0100, AG wrote: >>> dpkg -l | grep resolvconf rc resolvconf 1.48 name server in

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 08 mai 11, 09:55:10, Camaleón wrote: > > > > You need either the package linux-image- or > > linux-image-2.6- and a new kernel will be installed as soon as > > the Kernel Team updates the dependencies of these packages. > > Do I need "either" or do I need "both"? :-) I did say "either", u

Re: Need debian package management status files explained

2011-05-08 Thread Ciaran Smith
On 08/05/2011 17:02, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/08/2011 06:51 AM, Ciaran Smith wrote: Hi I have read up on Debian Package Management as much as I can at this stage. [snip] I figure I need to understand how dpkg works because apt builds on top of it. How this is not too many questions and thanks

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty

2011-05-08 Thread AG
On 08/05/11 14:56, Brian wrote: On Sun 08 May 2011 at 13:29:19 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:30:59 +0100, AG wrote: dpkg -l | grep resolvconf rc resolvconf 1.48 name server information handler Ein?>>>:-) So you finally do have it installed. rc

Re: findfs does not find rootfs UUID

2011-05-08 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Sonntag, 8. Mai 2011 schrieb Rainer Dorsch: > Hello, > > I moved my root partition to a new SSD and used ext4 as filesystem. > Everything works well, except that I get an error message during boot > (which I think was not there before): > > findfs: Unable to resolve ... > > http://bokomoko.de

Re: Need debian package management status files explained

2011-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/08/2011 06:51 AM, Ciaran Smith wrote: Hi I have read up on Debian Package Management as much as I can at this stage. [snip] I figure I need to understand how dpkg works because apt builds on top of it. How this is not too many questions and thanks in advance for the help, Why? Curiosit

Re: Boot errors

2011-05-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank McCormick wrote: I am still seeing a bunch of errors related to udev when I boot this machine running Sid up-to-date. The errors come from udev but are not logged anywhere. I suspect they are related to the situation weeks ago when an update created a situation which needed a new directory

Re: Finding Library Dependencies - MxEasy Security Camera Software

2011-05-08 Thread godo
I looked for libsdl1.2debian-all in Debian's packages and found it in Squeeze and Sid, but not Testing. Technically this MxEasy package is for Ubuntu, but I've never had a problem like this before. I know there is a way to check an app to find out what libs it's calling for, but I can't rememb

Re: rootfs on SSD

2011-05-08 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Rainer, On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 04:14:53PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > [...] > When I now run the mount command, I get all options listed for /home > > /dev/sdc2 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime,discard,data=ordered) > > but not for root > > rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) > > Were the noat

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread KS
On 07/05/11 09:36 PM, KS wrote: > > However, I did an update just around the time I saw the reply and apt is > not able to find the 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (for for that matter 2.6.38-2) > either! It exists on packages.debian.org though. > Must have been an issue with the mirrors as apt was getting

Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 05:55:18 -0700, CACook wrote: > On Saturday 7 May, 2011 07:04:16 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> As a current btrfs user, I don't recommend you run it on the Squeeze >> kernel (2.6.32-5) because there are certain circumstances where it >> doesn't gracefully handle out-of-space

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty

2011-05-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Camaleón wrote: dpkg -l | grep resolvconf rc resolvconf 1.48 name server information handler Ein? >>>:-) So you finally do have it installed. Remember that this package can be also interferring with your "/etc/ resolv.conf" file so either you configure it properl

OTP for RoundCube

2011-05-08 Thread Gregory Seidman
I'm trying to do something that may not make a whole lot of sense, but bear with me. My current setup includes courier-imap (and courier-imap-ssl) using /etc/courier/userdb for authentication and apache2 (with a valid SSL cert). I've installed RoundCube and gotten it working nicely with apache, but

Re: Finding Library Dependencies - MxEasy Security Camera Software

2011-05-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 07:35:56AM -0700, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote: > > I am trying to install Mobotix's MxEasy security camera software, but it's > refusing for dependency: > [cut] > > I know there is a way to check an app to find out what libs it's calling for, > but I can't remember how

Finding Library Dependencies - MxEasy Security Camera Software

2011-05-08 Thread CACook
I am trying to install Mobotix's MxEasy security camera software, but it's refusing for dependency: # dpkg -i /home/bill/dl/MxEasy_1.3.2-ubuntu-10.10_amd64.deb Selecting previously deselected package mxeasy. (Reading database ...

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty (was: Network problem {start of part 2})

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 14:46:39 +0100, AG wrote: > On 08/05/11 14:29, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> dpkg -l | grep resolvconf >>> rc resolvconf >>> 1.48 name server information handler >> Ein?>>>:-) >> >> So you finally do have it installed. >> >> Remember that this packag

rootfs on SSD

2011-05-08 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I migrated my root partition to an ext4 formated SSD partition. I added it to fstab as I did the /home partition UUID="4a4eb948-2d2b-4188-96ae-76a3776ae69c" /ext4 noatime,discard,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro 0 1 UUID="8b30f379-55fe-49e5-97b7-0f6

Re: Network problem {start of part 2}

2011-05-08 Thread Brian
On Sun 08 May 2011 at 12:33:00 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I believe, /etc/resolv.conf is at first installation a symlink to another > file. I don't think so. If resolvconf is installed the symlink may be made. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty (was: Network problem {start of part 2})

2011-05-08 Thread Brian
On Sun 08 May 2011 at 13:29:19 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:30:59 +0100, AG wrote: > > > dpkg -l | grep resolvconf > > rc resolvconf > > 1.48 name server information handler > > Ein? >>>:-) > > So you finally do have it installed. rc - Package r

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty (was: Network problem {start of part 2})

2011-05-08 Thread AG
On 08/05/11 14:29, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:30:59 +0100, AG wrote: On 08/05/11 11:55, Brian wrote: On Sun 08 May 2011 at 10:34:00 +0100, AG wrote: But, after rebooting this file was again blank, stopping me from accessing the Net. How can I ensure that this file remains populat

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty (was: Network problem {start of part 2})

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:30:59 +0100, AG wrote: > On 08/05/11 11:55, Brian wrote: >> On Sun 08 May 2011 at 10:34:00 +0100, AG wrote: >> >>> But, after rebooting this file was again blank, stopping me from >>> accessing the Net. How can I ensure that this file remains populated >>> between reboots?

Re: Network problem {start of part 2}

2011-05-08 Thread AG
On 08/05/11 12:19, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:52:56 +0100, AG wrote: On 08/05/11 11:41, Camaleón wrote: Hum... may I suggest you to disable the NetworkManager service at all? Not unistalling it but getting rid of it (avoid the service to be started on boot). If you are not using a

Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'

2011-05-08 Thread CACook
On Saturday 7 May, 2011 07:04:16 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > As a current btrfs user, I don't recommend you run it on the Squeeze kernel > (2.6.32-5) because there are certain circumstances where it doesn't > gracefully > handle out-of-space issues and that "df" reports for it lie. I recent

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty (was: Network problem {start of part 2})

2011-05-08 Thread AG
On 08/05/11 11:55, Brian wrote: On Sun 08 May 2011 at 10:34:00 +0100, AG wrote: But, after rebooting this file was again blank, stopping me from accessing the Net. How can I ensure that this file remains populated between reboots? Or does this file get generated by some other function, and in

ReiserFS: "filesystem is not clean" after a kernel update

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
Hello, Yesterday I updated the kernel to 2.6.38-2 on wheezy and now I get (at a random basis) a warning about the ReiserFS filesystem "is not clean" when booting. Despite the boot message, there are no more indications of a filesystem corruption and indeed, the system has been always being shu

Re: Boot errors

2011-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 08 May 2011 10:03:57 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 07 May 2011 20:12:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > On Sat, 07 May 2011 18:34:23 -0400 > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 07 May 2011 21:28:34 + (UTC) Camaleón > >> wrote: > > >> > How about enabling the bo

Re: Boot errors

2011-05-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:28:04 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 07 mai 11, 20:12:24, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > By the way I am more interested in the errors themselves than > > in the fact they are not logged. > > Not sure what you mean by this. Can you try to reproduce the errors at

Need debian package management status files explained

2011-05-08 Thread Ciaran Smith
Hi I have read up on Debian Package Management as much as I can at this stage. Thanks to the Debian Policy manual, I understand how the remote repositories are structured and how sources.list is used to consult the repositories to locate updates. I understand what is contained in a package file a

Re: Network problem {start of part 2}

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:52:56 +0100, AG wrote: > On 08/05/11 11:41, Camaleón wrote: >> Hum... may I suggest you to disable the NetworkManager service at all? >> Not unistalling it but getting rid of it (avoid the service to be >> started on boot). If you are not using a laptop nor need a dynamic >

Re: Network problem {start of part 2}

2011-05-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Thanks for the info. How do I trace the symlink back to the original > (i.e. the file that it is linked from)? Look where the symlink is pointing to, and do not forget it. Then you can delete it. To restore the link, use the command "ln". The syntax is: ln -s source_file symlink_name for e

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty (was: Network problem {start of part 2})

2011-05-08 Thread Brian
On Sun 08 May 2011 at 10:34:00 +0100, AG wrote: > But, after rebooting this file was again blank, stopping me from > accessing the Net. How can I ensure that this file remains populated > between reboots? Or does this file get generated by some other > function, and in which case, what? Wh

Re: Network problem {start of part 2}

2011-05-08 Thread AG
On 08/05/11 11:41, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:08:38 +0100, AG wrote: On 08/05/11 10:40, Camaleón wrote: (...) Back to your setup, now you are using an external set of DNS resolvers (87.194.255.154/87.194.255.155) and before you had setup your local router as a DNS resolver (192.1

Re: Network problem {start of part 2}

2011-05-08 Thread AG
On 08/05/11 11:33, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I believe, /etc/resolv.conf is at first installation a symlink to another file. Try to delete the sysmlink, create a file /etc/resolv.conf, edit it to your needs and make it only writable by root. Hi Hans Thanks for the info. How do I trace the sy

Re: Network problem {start of part 2}

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:08:38 +0100, AG wrote: > On 08/05/11 10:40, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Back to your setup, now you are using an external set of DNS resolvers >> (87.194.255.154/87.194.255.155) and before you had setup your local >> router as a DNS resolver (192.168.1.254). Both forms are ok

Re: Network problem {start of part 2}

2011-05-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
issues, not getting around them :-) > > Fair point. It's just really difficult working with a system one cannot > log into :-) > > Thanks for your continued help and patience. > > AG I believe, /etc/resolv.conf is at first installation a symlink to another file. Try to delete the sysmlink, c

Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 09:42:49 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 12:41, Camaleón wrote: >>> I just tried tinyurl with wget and got the same IP address (and 200 >>> response) as you. I didn't check the links, though. >> >> Then? Are you still getting trouble to reach the tinyurl web

Re: Network problem {start of part 2}

2011-05-08 Thread AG
On 08/05/11 10:40, Camaleón wrote: I'm now running squeeze from the Feb netinst i386 iso.[1] This is a fresh install using graphical expert install. You should have not installed by scratch>;-P No doubt. Except, given I had tinkered around so much with the previous installation, I wanted

Re: Boot errors

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 07 May 2011 20:12:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sat, 07 May 2011 18:34:23 -0400 > Frank McCormick wrote: > >> On Sat, 07 May 2011 21:28:34 + (UTC) Camaleón >> wrote: >> > How about enabling the boot log at "/etc/default/ bootlogd" >> > (BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes)? :-? >> > >> >

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: >> I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a >> new kernel will come to testing :-) >> >> root@debian:~# cat /etc/issue >> Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l >> >

Re: Now cannot ping print server from second machine

2011-05-08 Thread godo
Great! So how then can I stop dhcp from randomly assigning a new IP address to my machine so that the client machine can see the server AND enable my (server) machine to access the Net after a reboot? This used to work fine - now it's borked and I don't know why or how, nor more importantly how

Re: Network problem {start of part 2}

2011-05-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 May 2011 08:49:37 +0100, AG wrote: > On 07/05/11 19:10, AG wrote: > I'm now running squeeze from the Feb netinst i386 iso.[1] This is a > fresh install using graphical expert install. You should have not installed by scratch >;-P When there is a problem is better to solve to know

/etc/resolv.conf file is empty (was: Network problem {start of part 2})

2011-05-08 Thread AG
Further developments on this: When I rebooted after the installation, I lost my ability to access the Net (again). I checked the contents of /etc/resolv.conf and there was nothing in that file - apparently it is generated by Network Manager, so I reinstalled Network Manager and manually copie

Re: Customising Debian install

2011-05-08 Thread godo
Ugh... very true, at least for squeeze onwards :-( http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gnome-desktop-environment Then better install "gnome-core", right? Greetings, That's right. KDE have kde-minimal (or something like that) and XFCE have xfce4 + xfce goodies. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrv

Re: Boot errors

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 07 mai 11, 20:12:24, Frank McCormick wrote: > > By the way I am more interested in the errors themselves than > in the fact they are not logged. Not sure what you mean by this. Can you try to reproduce the errors at least from memory, or take a picture of your screen while booting ;)

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a > new kernel will come to testing :-) > > root@debian:~# cat /etc/issue > Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l > > test@debian:~$ uname -r > 2.6.32-5-686 > > Now (by pu

Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'

2011-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 07 mai 11, 09:54:37, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > You could try this one, if you aren't using any out-of-tree modules. For me > it is the NVidia module. I really should find the money for a cheap ATI card > so I can use FLOSS modules. And nouveau? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic dis

Re: Network problem {start of part 2}

2011-05-08 Thread AG
On 07/05/11 19:10, AG wrote: I'm going for the "nuclear" option and am downloading the netinstall.iso and will install from scratch and see if I run into the same problems again in the future. So far, the only successes have been when I enable the dhcp option in the /etc/network/interfaces fi

Re: Some way to restrict what apt-get/aptitude installs

2011-05-08 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/2011 12:44 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Not exactly what you are looking for, but look at apt pinning. The > apt_preferences(5) man page would be a good start. > > Regards, > Andrei +1 - -- Best regards, Panayiotis Karabassis -BEGI