Re: [Debian 6] Unable to install Debian 6.0.1 - no supporting mirrors found

2011-06-10 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 11 June 2011 07:33:19 Bret Busby wrote: [snip]> > I have just switched back to the computer onto which the Debian 6.01 > amd64 version is to be installed (I have to disconnect the monitor from > this computer, and connect it to the other computer, as the monitor that > I had connected t

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-10 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt > > to list all the available packages for a system, rather than directly > > parsing /var/lib/dpkg/avail

Re: Subscription

2011-06-10 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 11 June 2011 13:13, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:50:28 -0400 (EDT), "Morning Star" wrote: > > > > i want to join this mailing lists because i have a question about debian. > > See http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ for instructions on how to > subscribe. > Yes, join the lis

Re: [Debian 6] Unable to install Debian 6.0.1 - no supporting mirrors found

2011-06-10 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Scott Ferguson wrote: Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:04:36 +1000 From: Scott Ferguson To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [Debian 6] Unable to install Debian 6.0.1 - no supporting mirrors found Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:05:13 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian

Re: generating graphs

2011-06-10 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:31:03 +0200, Maros Zilka writes: > I want to generate a graphs of CPU usage, temperatures etc ... and then > put them on the web page. Can you recommend me some good program for > this ? I know i can use Google or search packages but i want to know > your opinion what is the

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
> This is weird, when I last tried I didn't experience any problem and all > required packages were installed. Which install mode did you use, from > what media (if you have the download url that would be even better) ? I used jigdo-lite to expand the .jigdo file found on the official page, http:/

Re: Subscription

2011-06-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:50:28 -0400 (EDT), "Morning Star" wrote: > > i want to join this mailing lists because i have a question about debian. See http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ for instructions on how to subscribe. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
- Original Message - From: "Miles Fidelman" To: "debian-user" Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 9:10:03 PM Subject: open source time/expense tracking package? Hi Folks, I've been looking high and low for a simple time & expense tracking package that I can run on my (Debian) server, to suppo

Re: open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-10 Thread Sudev Barar
On 11 June 2011 07:14, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Sudev Barar wrote: >> >> On 11 June 2011 06:40, Miles Fidelman  wrote: >>> >>> I've been looking high and low for  a simple time&  expense tracking >>> package >>> that I can run on my (Debian) server, to support a small project team. >>>  Can't seem

Re: generating graphs

2011-06-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 22:01, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/11/11 at 03:31am, Maros Zilka wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to generate a graphs of CPU usage, temperatures etc ... and then >> put them on the web page. Can you recommend me some good program for >> this ? I know i can use Google or searc

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/10/11 at 10:14pm, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/10/11 at 07:42am, Mark Panen wrote: > > Hi > > > > Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit > > 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on > > and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. > >

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/10/11 at 07:42am, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi > > Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit > 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on > and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. telinit 3 should work for you, what does `who -r` show? Why do

Subscription

2011-06-10 Thread Morning Star
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Re: generating graphs

2011-06-10 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/11/11 at 03:31am, Maros Zilka wrote: > Hi, > > I want to generate a graphs of CPU usage, temperatures etc ... and then > put them on the web page. Can you recommend me some good program for > this ? I know i can use Google or search packages but i want to know > your opinion what is the best

Re: open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Sudev Barar wrote: On 11 June 2011 06:40, Miles Fidelman wrote: I've been looking high and low for a simple time& expense tracking package that I can run on my (Debian) server, to support a small project team. Can't seem to find anything but commercial web services (e.g., clicktime). So...

generating graphs

2011-06-10 Thread Maros Zilka
Hi, I want to generate a graphs of CPU usage, temperatures etc ... and then put them on the web page. Can you recommend me some good program for this ? I know i can use Google or search packages but i want to know your opinion what is the best. Thank you, Maros. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-10 Thread Sudev Barar
On 11 June 2011 06:40, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I've been looking high and low for  a simple time & expense tracking package > that I can run on my (Debian) server, to support a small project team. >  Can't seem to find anything but commercial web services (e.g., clicktime). > > So... Figured I'd a

open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I've been looking high and low for a simple time & expense tracking package that I can run on my (Debian) server, to support a small project team. Can't seem to find anything but commercial web services (e.g., clicktime). So... Figured I'd ask and see if anyone here has found suc

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-10 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/09/11 at 05:31pm, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:46:54 +0100, Dom wrote: > > I think that as the wrapper is translating x-terminal options to > > gnome-terminal equivalents, it shouldn't pass through "-h" or "--help", > > but should display a basic usage page for the options that *i

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt > to list all the available packages for a system, rather than directly > parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available, but this is not it. > Does this do what you want? a

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:23:08AM -0700, prad wrote: > in the past we've had two partitions: > / > /data > into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the > appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that > when we upgraded or tried a different system there

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 00:54 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 10 iun 11, 21:11:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > The advantage to have / only, including /home is, that you don't need > > think that much about allocation of free space. You anyway can do > > separated backups. And having tons of

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 10 iun 11, 21:11:49, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > The advantage to have / only, including /home is, that you don't need > think that much about allocation of free space. You anyway can do > separated backups. And having tons of individual mounted directories > won't speed up anything or won't ha

Re: icedove/yahoo imap: messages marked as read & filters not run on inbox

2011-06-10 Thread PaulNM
To clarify, I was talking about my experiences with multiple other imap accounts. I do have a yahoo account that I don't really use, but it is pop3. PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: icedove/yahoo imap: messages marked as read & filters not run on inbox

2011-06-10 Thread PaulNM
On 06/10/2011 04:13 PM, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > Hi, > snip > > 1. Near every messages that arrive into inbox and are marked as read, > but not all of them. This seems to be an imap side-problem: my account > was freshly set up and I never saw this before with account from other > imap provid

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
>10/06/2011 17:54, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I got it to work now. > >> 2011/6/10 tv.deb...@googlemail.com : [...] > >> Maybe cp the /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/cryptroot hook script to >> /etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/, this shouldn't be necessary though. > > My system

Re: Brightness control is dead after install Nvidia Drivers

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:11 +0100, Pedro Rodrigues wrote: > Hey, > > I've just installed the Nvidia drivers on my Debian, however, after i > do it, the laptop brightness control doesn't work anymore... > > When i press the keys, i see the brightness bar, however, the > brightness stays at maximum

Brightness control is dead after install Nvidia Drivers

2011-06-10 Thread Pedro Rodrigues
Hey, I've just installed the Nvidia drivers on my Debian, however, after i do it, the laptop brightness control doesn't work anymore... When i press the keys, i see the brightness bar, however, the brightness stays at maximum. I've used the following commands to install the drivers. apt-get upda

icedove/yahoo imap: messages marked as read & filters not run on inbox

2011-06-10 Thread Nicolas Bercher
Hi, I recently set up my yahoo.fr account (this one) as an *imap* mailbox under thunderbird. I've waited a long time for this to happen and with the success of smart phones, it seems that yahoo enabled an imap server, but didn't communicate that much for regular users (the one who got their ac

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 iun 11, 10:06:36, Lisi wrote: > > I did say "YMMV" As I say, I personally find the traction inadequate with > optical mice. I can easily deduce that most people like them! Maybe it's just because of more dust here, but I have to clean the "sliders" all the time on my mice. OTOH I do

Re: Configuring Iceweasel security policies.

2011-06-10 Thread peasthope
From: peasth...@shaw.ca Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:24:32 -0800 > Appears that the instructions for the Mozilla security policies are for the > case > where both the file URI link comes from the same machine as the browser runs > on. That was garbled. This might make more sense. Are the ins

Re: gnome sensors applet: which is which ?

2011-06-10 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > > which is which ? CPU ? Motherboard ? > > Most probably the CPU, as Brian pointed out (there should be an icon > identifiying the item) both icons are identical !!! > but 74°C and 95°C -being Celsius- are a bit high > values for whatever t

Re: gnome sensors applet: which is which ?

2011-06-10 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:34:37 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > > > I'm using gnome sensors applet to keep an eye on computer temperature. > > > > The applet configuration lets me choose: > > > > - libsensors > > \temp1 > > \temp1 >

Configuring Iceweasel security policies.

2011-06-10 Thread peasthope
After reading http://kb.mozillazine.org/Security_Policies add these four lines to dalton:/etc/iceweasel/pref/iceweasel.js . // Allow my file URI to be opened. user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks"); user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 21:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > for single user or > > / > /home > /media/big -> /home/$user1/big > /media/big -> /home/$user2/big For a single user I switched from / + /home to / only. For special tasks I add e.g. /music_productions to /mnt or /home. The advantage to

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/06/11 04:44, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 10 iun 11, 23:55:58, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> Asking me about the merits of aptitude is liking asking a emac fanboi >> about the merits of vi :-) > > I don't think this is a fair comparison, but rather vi vs. vim ;) It wasn't meant to be :-) I

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 iun 11, 09:23:08, prad wrote: > in the past we've had two partitions: > / > /data > into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the > appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that > when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any da

Re: Iceape's inability to render sites

2011-06-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-06-09, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 04:43:42PM -0400, Michael Checca wrote: >> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:11:48 -0400, Robert Ho

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 10 iun 11, 23:55:58, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Asking me about the merits of aptitude is liking asking a emac fanboi > about the merits of vi :-) I don't think this is a fair comparison, but rather vi vs. vim ;) aptitude can do almost everything apt-get/apt-cache can do, but: + has very

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/10/2011 12:47 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:17:40AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 15:12 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: Squeeze autoinstalls gnash which seems to work perfectly. Is there a reason to install flashplugin-nonfree and icedtea6-plugin? W

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Jun 2011 at 02:46:04 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Re-inserted text (referring to an active cable being plugged and unplugged:- What is an 'active' cable? > -- > If you change the static settings to dhcp it should change - provided > network manager is not installed of course.

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:01:36 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 11/06/11 01:02, � wrote: >> But how about the fourth of the snapshots? It seems to display the name >> just right. > > Yes - but they're the only ones from you this year that do, which is why > I showed them. Hoping the dates might m

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 10:47 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:17:40AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 15:12 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: > > > > Squeeze autoinstalls gnash which seems to work perfectly. Is there a > > > > reason to install flashplugin-n

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 06:23:42PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/06/11 05:25, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 03:44:20AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > ..snip > >> > >> Guessing that you're new - you'll probably go for a default install

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-10 Thread George Standish
On 10/06/11 01:47 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: Can you watch this video with gnash? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZLFTW4OGY&feature=related This video works with HTML5 on Iceweasel 4 on "free" squeeze. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:17:40AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 15:12 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: > > > Squeeze autoinstalls gnash which seems to work perfectly. Is there a > > > reason to install flashplugin-nonfree and icedtea6-plugin? What am I > > > missing? > > Can you

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
See my other reply, it seems pretty clear that there is a bug in the debian installer (assuming that the installer is *meant* to support installing a system with encrypted root and that the result boots). Glad it worked for you; please tell if you can add information to pin the problem down more.

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/06/11 01:02, � wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:46:12 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 10/06/11 20:46, � wrote: > > (...) > > Wow... I look horrible 8:-) Aw, I dunno - looks classier that the symbol used by the artist formerly know as... ;-p > > But how about the fourth of the snaps

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/06/11 00:43, Brian wrote: > On Fri 10 Jun 2011 at 23:40:35 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 10/06/11 22:20, Brian wrote: >>> >>> Remove cable. >>> >>>root@dektop3:~# dmesg | tail -n 1 >>>[ 158.220270] via-rhine :00:12.0: eth0: link down >>> >> >>> >>> eth0 is not brought do

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:25:43AM -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to install squeeze with "/" being a partition dmcrypt'ed > with luks. Is Debian supposed to support that or not? For me the > debian installer failed to do it, so I sent mail to debian-boot about > it [1] and the

Re: [Debian 6] Unable to install Debian 6.0.1 - no supporting mirrors found

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:37:17 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > I have been trying to install Debian 6.0.1 amd64 version, with a > firmware netinst iso (from > http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd- including-firmware/ > ), and, at the package manager setup stage, every mirror

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
Thanks for your reply. I got it to work now. 2011/6/10 tv.deb...@googlemail.com : > Hi, I can confirm that it works, my main system is fully on Luks ( To be > precise it is luks on raid1, and /home is decrypted with pam, swap with > decrypt_derived.). (The additional RAID layer might make a diffe

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 10, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Lisi wrote: I presumed it *likely* that you are female, but was uncertain Yes, most of the time on line it is very difficult to be sure. And we have to accept that statistically the majority ... On the internet, nobody knows you're a God... -- Dysl

Re: gdmsetup can't unlock problem: any workaround?

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:26:04 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > I seem to be facing a bug where gdmsetup can't be unlocked: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622234 > > Does anyone know of a workaround to turn on/off automatic login without > gdmsetup? I'm often switching, leaving

Re: unable to enumerate usb device on port 5

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Brennan
* Camale?n [2011-06-10 10:25:46 +]: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:04:00 +0530, Rohit Vaidya wrote: > > > I have just installed Debian Squeeze successfully. On boot up I get the > > following message constantly dumped > > on the console. Whenever I try to access the virtual terminal it gives > > m

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:25:40 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 10 Jun 2011 at 11:25:25 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Now we have to extract some conclusions which is what I tried to do. > > The premise is false: plugging in a cable does not bring up the > interface with ifconfig. This would make the co

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:46:12 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/06/11 20:46, � wrote: (...) >>> I'm not convinced - I don't get the problem with other Pan users, >>> though it could be a combination of Pan and gmane. >> >> Yup. Maybe a combo with how Pan encodes and your MUA? >> >> (what puz

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-10 Thread Brian
On Fri 10 Jun 2011 at 23:40:35 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/06/11 22:20, Brian wrote: > > > > Remove cable. > > > >root@dektop3:~# dmesg | tail -n 1 > >[ 158.220270] via-rhine :00:12.0: eth0: link down > > > > > > > eth0 is not brought down > > Yes it is ---

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
10/06/2011 15:25, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to install squeeze with "/" being a partition dmcrypt'ed > with luks. Is Debian supposed to support that or not? For me the > debian installer failed to do it, so I sent mail to debian-boot about > it [1] and then since I didn't get a r

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 22:21, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal > wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: >>> To find a package I also frequently do something like this: >>> >>> yum list available |grep abr_package_name >> >> This is either "

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-10 Thread Brian
On Fri 10 Jun 2011 at 11:25:25 +, Camaleón wrote: > Now we have to extract some conclusions which is what I tried to do. The premise is false: plugging in a cable does not bring up the interface with ifconfig. This would make the conclusions suspect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 22:20, Brian wrote: > On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 21:24:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Brian wrote: >>> >>> Why would plugging or unplugging the ethernet cable be expected to >>> bring the interface up or down? >> >> That's the whole point of "allow-hotplug". >

Re: [OT] Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 09:10 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 08:21 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Mat

How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hi I'm trying to install squeeze with "/" being a partition dmcrypt'ed with luks. Is Debian supposed to support that or not? For me the debian installer failed to do it, so I sent mail to debian-boot about it [1] and then since I didn't get a reply reported a bug against initramfs-tools [2], where

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-10 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 08:21 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: >> >> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no e

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 08:21 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal > wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: > >> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. > >> Giving Debian a whirl now. > >> > > [cut] > >> >

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-10 Thread Brian
On Fri 10 Jun 2011 at 18:51:06 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > e100: eth0 NIC Link is Down > e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex Shows the cable was initially unplugged and then connected. The machine was booted/woke up before the connection was made? You're using dhcp? > And ifconfig

Re: Which sound card for my server rack?

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 12:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:03:22 +, alex.padoly wrote: > > > My server have several PCI 64 bits slots, I can put my PCI video card > > (ATI RADEON PCI) but I can't put my soundblaster PCI 128, I can put it > > a sounBlaster Live PCI but this

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 20:46, � wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:06:18 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 10/06/11 04:10, � wrote: >>> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:16:12 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 10/06/11 02:01, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> >>> Eureka! We have found the cul

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-10 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 21:24:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Brian wrote: >> > > Why would plugging or unplugging the ethernet cable be expected to > > bring the interface up or down? > > That's the whole point of "allow-hotplug". In which case it is not working here.

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-10 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: >> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. >> Giving Debian a whirl now. >> > [cut] >> >> yum update > > This becomes "apt-get update" in debian. No. It's not. This

Re: fopen when using apt-get

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:39:36 +1000, Rob Hurle wrote: (...) > Unpacking replacement [whatever the package is] ... Processing triggers > for man-db ... > fopen: Permission denied > Setting up [whatever the package is] ([version information]) ... > > This happens with all updates. Anyone know what

Re: Which sound card for my server rack?

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:03:22 +, alex.padoly wrote: > My server have several PCI 64 bits slots, I can put my PCI video card > (ATI RADEON PCI) but I can't put my soundblaster PCI 128, I can put it > a sounBlaster Live PCI but this card doesn't work with Linux! > > Which sound card I can pu

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-10 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:28:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/07/2011 01:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] >>> >>> I still see some disadvantages for laser or BlueTrack based mice: >>> >>> 1/ They do not work on crystal or clear surfaces >>> >>> >>

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-10 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 22:55:38 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > #allow-hotplug eth0 > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet static The device name changed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Proper Use of adduser.conf

2011-06-10 Thread Martin McCormick
Peter Wiersig writes: > What result is printed on "getent passwd testuser"? # getent passwd testuser testuser:x:28000:28000:a b c,,,:/srv/backups/testuser:/bin/bash > what's the result of "ls -ld ~testuser /srv/backups /srv /"? # ls -ld ~testuser /srv/backups/testuser drwxr-xr-x 2 testuser testu

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:01:34 +0100, David Sanders wrote: >> I suspect you don't want to get to run level 3, you just want to shut >> down your x server. >> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace - if that doesn't work, or it keeps restarting... # >> /etc/init.d/kdm stop (or gdm if gnome, or whatever you dm is) >> > I

Re: Which sound card for my server rack?

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:03 +, alex.padoly wrote: > Hi, > > My server have several PCI 64 bits slots, I can put my PCI video > card (ATI RADEON PCI) but I can't put my soundblaster PCI 128, I can > put it a sounBlaster Live PCI > but this card doesn't work with Linux! > > Which sound card I

gdmsetup can't unlock problem: any workaround?

2011-06-10 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
I seem to be facing a bug where gdmsetup can't be unlocked: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622234 Does anyone know of a workaround to turn on/off automatic login without gdmsetup? I'm often switching, leaving auto-login at home and turning it off when at work, travel etc. Thank

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:29:39 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 19:11:48 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> > The question remains - Why would plugging or unplugging the ethernet >> > cable be expected to bring the interface up or down? >> >> It does not have to be an isolated event. >>

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:03 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:18:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:51 +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Accustom yourself to run a login shell when launching GUI based > >> applications (i.e., "su -" instead "su") ;-) > >> > >

Which sound card for my server rack?

2011-06-10 Thread alex.padoly
Hi, My server have several PCI 64 bits slots, I can put my PCI video card (ATI RADEON PCI) but I can't put my soundblaster PCI 128, I can put it a sounBlaster Live PCI but this card doesn't work with Linux! Which sound card I can put in my server rack and it works with Linux. I need sound w

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:18:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:51 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Accustom yourself to run a login shell when launching GUI based >> applications (i.e., "su -" instead "su") ;-) >> > > Thank you :) > > that's better, still some GTK warnings > > ro

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:06:18 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/06/11 04:10, � wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:16:12 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >>> On 10/06/11 02:01, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >> Eureka! We have found the culprit! >> >> It seems to be my Pan ne

Re: unable to enumerate usb device on port 5

2011-06-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:04:00 +0530, Rohit Vaidya wrote: > I have just installed Debian Squeeze successfully. On boot up I get the > following message constantly dumped > on the console. Whenever I try to access the virtual terminal it gives > me the same message. > "Unable to enumerate usb device

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 19:25 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/06/11 18:27, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I'm guessing from the gedit that you're running Gnome? > Have you tried gksu and gksudo > eg:- > #gksu gedit (will work if installed) $ gksu gedit (gedit:13772): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to c

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 20:01, David Sanders wrote: >> I suspect you don't want to get to run level 3, you just want to shut >> down your x server. >> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace - if that doesn't work, or it keeps restarting... >> # /etc/init.d/kdm stop (or gdm if gnome, or whatever you dm is) >> > I'd definitely say

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:03 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 10 June 2011 09:47:43 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 18:41 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > I don't > > > know if it's your formal name, a nickname > > > > a nick, she wrote her real name > > Did I? I wonder why? And I wo

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Lisi
On Friday 10 June 2011 10:32:25 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/06/11 18:47, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 18:41 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> I don't > >> know if it's your formal name, a nickname > > > > a nick, she wrote her real name several mails before, pardon, I've > > forg

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Lisi
On Friday 10 June 2011 09:47:43 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 18:41 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > I don't > > know if it's your formal name, a nickname > > a nick, she wrote her real name Did I? I wonder why? And I wonder why I said that it was not my real name? Lisi is what I

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-10 Thread David Sanders
> I suspect you don't want to get to run level 3, you just want to shut > down your x server. > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace - if that doesn't work, or it keeps restarting... > # /etc/init.d/kdm stop (or gdm if gnome, or whatever you dm is) > I'd definitely say that using gdm or kdm is a better option - othe

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Lisi
On Friday 10 June 2011 09:41:22 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/06/11 08:30, Lisi wrote: > > On Thursday 09 June 2011 19:10:40 Camaleón wrote: > >> that Lisi bloke > > > > I hope that that is a joke Not that I find it funny, but I would > > hate to think that you were serious. :-) > > > > Lisi >

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-10 Thread Rohit Vaidya
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Scott Ferguson < prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: On 10/06/11 15:42, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi > > Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit > 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on > and i cannot insta

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 18:47, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 18:41 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> I don't >> know if it's your formal name, a nickname > > a nick, she wrote her real name several mails before, pardon, I've > forgotten her name, but it's in the archive > > Funnily enough I've

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 18:27, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 18:17 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 10/06/11 05:18, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:51 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:23:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >>> >>> root@debian:/home/spinymou

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Panen
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:05 AM, George Chelidze wrote: > On 06/10/2011 11:37 AM, Mark Panen wrote: >> >> why is X running at runlevel 2 and not 5? > > sysv-rc-conf is a handy tool to check/set which service is run per run > level. as you can notice, runlevels 2-5 are identical (in Debian) > > >

Re: X host will not connect

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Panen
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Peter Wiersig wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:11:09 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: >> >> "synaptic >> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. >> >> (synaptic:12730): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0" > > Try "ln -sf /home/mark/.Xauth

Re: how to get to runlevel 3 (to install nvidia drivers)

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 15:42, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi > > Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit > 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on > and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. > > Cheers > > Mark > > I suspect you don't want to get to run l

Re: X host will not connect

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:11:09 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > > "synaptic > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > > (synaptic:12730): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0" Try "ln -sf /home/mark/.Xauthority /root/" as root if mark is the user logged in via ssh -X.

Re: how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-10 Thread George Chelidze
On 06/10/2011 11:37 AM, Mark Panen wrote: why is X running at runlevel 2 and not 5? sysv-rc-conf is a handy tool to check/set which service is run per run level. as you can notice, runlevels 2-5 are identical (in Debian) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

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