Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

On 2011-08-12 23:54 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> If you don't want to do that, use a bind mount rather than a symlink for >> /usr/src. Then the /usr/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 symlink will work (but >> /usr/local/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 will not). >> > > In other words, the issue remains. > > Is the

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

On 2011-08-12 09:29 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > On 12/08/11 08:08, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-08-11 21:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> >>> On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src , >>> /usr and /usr/local being mounted on different partitions. >>> I guess it i

Re: Unidentified subject! (wireless installation problem)

It makes me feel a little better if its not just my hardware with this issue. I hope wireless support gets improved though, I think with wireless being so popular and telco/cable companies being so cheap they'll eventually remove wired connections from consumer grade routers. Its the sort of wi

Re: Wireless problem with Thinkpad X220

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 02:56:02PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > 1. Turn every service (wicd, network-manager, rf stuff, etc.) that is >associated with wifi off. > > 2. Does "iwlist wlan0 scan" still return nothing? Unfortunately, even these didn't help. However, upgrading the kernel to 3.0.0

Re: Unidentified subject! (wireless installation problem)

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:30:40 -0700 (PDT) "gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com" suggested this: >From Camaleón's comment, it sounds like using a wireless network to do >an install is generally a problem, has anyone had success with a >wireless install? I'm worried if I

cdrom-detect udeb package in netinstall CD of Lenny

Hi, I am using netinstall 5.0.4 of Lenny and I wonder if somone can throw some light on cdrom-detect udeb package which is part of debian installer. I can not find cdrom-detect.udeb in debian netinstall CD of lenny. Reason to ask this is to understand that what is the flow of CD/DVD-Rom detection

How do you change file associations in Thunar?

OS: antiX Linux M11 (based on MEPIS) File managers: Thunar and ROX-Filer Window manager: IceWM I know that the file associations in the Rox-Filer file manager are in the ~/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/MIME-types directory. These scripts control what application opens up when I click on a file in

Re: [maybe OT] unicode control characters in filenames

On Wednesday 10 August 2011 19:04:57 Mike McClain wrote: > > > > myuser@mysytem:~/path-name-of-unicode-files$ rename -n 's/\x{202A}//' * > > > > I get no output although x{202A} is definitely the first char in the > > filename. This definitely needs more than a cursory view into perl - > > exact

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

My advice would be to delete the symlink and move any files belonging to Debian packages to /usr/src. Use "dpkg -S usr/src" to find out which files belong to packages. If you don't want to do that, use a bind mount rather than a symlink for /usr/src. Then the /usr/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 syml

Re: Unidentified subject! (wireless installation problem)

I started another install, had the same problem not detecting my WPA network. It still couldn't detect either of the two unprotected networks, even when I specified their ESSIDs. Pulled from the syslog, here you see it finding the firmware: Aug 12 20:49:41 check-missing-firmware: missing firmw

Re: restoring GRUB after windows 7 install along side Debian set-up with LUKS+LVM

> W7 does not mangle the mbr any longer. After install, go to debian and run > update-grub to get a bootable W7. > Thierry > > This is incorrect. Win 7 will definitely wipe out GRUB. There are several ways to restore GRUB. It really depends on how one configured his setup. I had the following con

Re: jigdo-bd

Dne 12.8.2011 21:26, piše Paul E Condon: I am looking into downloading some iso images of squeeze. I have not done this in quite a while and I see that things have changed a lot while I wasn't looking. I think I need jigdo-cd. But what is jigdo-bd? Under what conditions is it the proper choice?

squeeze freeze while copying from camera mem card (via USB)

After upgrading to squeeze from lenny I cannot copy photos from the 8GB memory card. Worse: the computer freezes, I lose the mouse and the keyboard (attached via USB) and have to make hard-shutdown. I can mount the file-system, but very quickly it will appear as if it was never mounted: cd, l

Re: Unidentified subject! (wireless installation problem)

Sorry, you're right that was the wired interface, I must have cut n pasted the wrong line, my wireless is: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) I'm sorry to hear the installer only supports WEP. That would make it hard for anyo

jigdo-bd

I am looking into downloading some iso images of squeeze. I have not done this in quite a while and I see that things have changed a lot while I wasn't looking. I think I need jigdo-cd. But what is jigdo-bd? Under what conditions is it the proper choice? "bd" must be mnemonic for something, but I

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

On Tue 09 Aug 2011 at 16:14:38 -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Hello > > This is not the first time I'm struggling trying to make a bootable > USB flashdrive. . . . . . . . [Rather a large snip] > Could you help me in any of these attempts? Of course I don't expect > you to help me debug prob

Re: Backup Software

Paul E Condon wrote: > writing the include/exclude filter for the underlying rsync is > non-trivial --- should I write an exclude for the private key in .ssh/ > ? Etc. I make a backup of my (work) laptop both to a system at the office (which in turn gets backed up to tape) and to a big drive on a

Re: autoinstalled packages

> Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-08-12 17:25 +0200, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: […] >> Also there's the APT::Get::AutomaticRemove option, which, if set >> to false, I expect to prevent APT from removing the >> automatically installed packages. > Well, apt-get and

Re: autoinstalled packages

> Scott Ferguson writes: > On 13/08/11 01:25, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: […] >> Also there's the APT::Get::AutomaticRemove option, which, if set >> to false, I expect to prevent APT from removing the >> automatically installed packages. > I'm not sure that works

Re: Unidentified subject!

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:13:12 -0700, gnubayonne-debian...@yahoo.com wrote: > I'm trying to do a fresh install of 6.0.2.1, but there is a glitch > bringing up the wireless network on my 1420N Inspiron laptop. It uses > the iwl3945 driver: > > 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLin

Re: autoinstalled packages

On 13/08/11 02:13, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-12 17:25 +0200, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Sven Joachim writes: > "aptitude unmarkauto isc-dhcp-client" does the trick. I guess that # apt-get install isc-dhcp-client may do the same (provided that there's no newer version of the

Re: autoinstalled packages

On 2011-08-12 17:25 +0200, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Sven Joachim writes: > > > "aptitude unmarkauto isc-dhcp-client" does the trick. > > I guess that # apt-get install isc-dhcp-client may do the same > (provided that there's no newer version of the package in the > repositori

Re: autoinstalled packages

On 13/08/11 01:25, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Sven Joachim writes: On 2011-08-12 15:51 +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote: I guess that # apt-get install isc-dhcp-client may do the same (provided that there's no newer version of the package in the repositories.) As of a few hour

Re: System crash when swithing to text-console

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:58:14 +0200, Martin Lorenz wrote: > Am 10.08.2011 16:07, schrieb Camaleón: (..) >>> I had some tail -f's running in ssh-sessions on >>> /var/log/{debug|messages|Xorg.0.log} >>> All I see is the "shutdown" Broadcast message and Log-entries. Nothing >>> more. >> >> Then it

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:51:25 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > On 11 August 2011 00:01, Camaleón wrote: > >> >> then point your web browser to "http://192.168.1.254";. >> > >> > >> > With two separate browsers, the same message - "Network is >> > unreachable" Restarted the modem, same result. >> >>

Re: removing dummy package

On 13/08/11 01:00, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, [] After upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze I have some dhcp3 dummy packages. I wouldn't remove the dummy package ('cause I'm lazy) - but if you want to, the following will work. The reason I want to remove some dummy packages is because I

autoinstalled packages

> Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-08-12 15:51 +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote: […] >> When I want to remove the dummy dhcp3 package, the real isc package also >> gets removed. > This is general problem with dummy transitional packages. The > package they pull in gets marked as "automatic

Re: Doc for configuration RAID

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:09:40 +0200, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > *I want to add to my working system, disks using RAID. You mean "software raid" (md), "fake raid" (dm) or "hardware-based raid"? > I found doc for Fedora , the packages used are not the same in debian > ( it seems to me, for ex

Re: Problem with preseed

On 08/12/11 15:50, Tom H wrote: d-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true I think it was the point!!! Thanks a lot, Wawrzek -- Wawrzyniec (Wawrzek) Niewodniczan'ski - (niewod @ LinkedIn ) System Admin

Re: Kernel messages during startup

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:44:15 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: >> On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:26:46 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: >> > every time I boot my laptop (HP Compaq 615) into Debian testing, some >> > kernel messages are printed on the boot console: [0.470960] >> > pci_root PNP0A03:00: address space colli

Re: network devices have vanished on Dell D600

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:26:03 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > I think I've figured out a possible solution to my issues. I noticed a > bunch of errors when running dmesg, and I centred on these errors with > the command "dmesg | grep BAR". From this, I searched the internet, and > found a site whe

RE: removing dummy package

Hi, >[] >> After upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze I have some dhcp3 dummy packages. >> >> --- >> linbobo:~# aptitude show dhcp3-client >> Package: dhcp3-client >> State: installed >> Automatically installed: no >[...] >> This is a dummy package to a

Re: network devices have vanished on Dell D600

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:06:25 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:20:00 + (UTC) > debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > >> Try by powering off the computer and leave it so for a while. Then >> engage it and wait for a miracle... if no miracle comes to you I wou

Re: Problem with preseed

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: > On 08/11/11 16:09, Tom H wrote: > > Thanks Tom for your suggestion. After some tries I figured out a bit > embarrassing fact - I were using a slightly different receipt that I posted > to the list. > > I post the proper one below. T

Re: cups on wheezy problem

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:36:04 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 08/10/2011 02:09 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: > This thread has taught me something. I should not have depended on > apt-listbugs! > > http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/debian/all.html shows that > Total number of release-critical bugs:

Re: cups on wheezy problem

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:09:16 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 08/10/2011 01:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: And "ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/" shows what available backends? >>> >>> As of this mornings upgrade shows the same as below but includes usb >>> now. >> >> How voluble is this USB thingy. >

Re: Wheezy kernel bug

Dne 12.8.2011 15:57, piše Tony Gallagher: Hi, This is my first time reporting a bug, so bear with me. I installed Debian Squeeze and performed a dist-upgrade once. From there, I changed my sources.list to point at Wheezy and have regularly performed a dist-upgrade. Everything is reasonably

Re: removing dummy package

On 12/08/11 23:51, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, After upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze I have some dhcp3 dummy packages. --- linbobo:~# aptitude show dhcp3-client Package: dhcp3-client State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 4.1.1-P1-15+squee

Wheezy kernel bug

Hi, This is my first time reporting a bug, so bear with me. I installed Debian Squeeze and performed a dist-upgrade once. From there, I changed my sources.list to point at Wheezy and have regularly performed a dist-upgrade. Everything is reasonably stable, with the exception of the kernel.

Re: removing dummy package

On 2011-08-12 15:51 +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > So I wanted to remove the dummy package but > > --- > linbobo:~# aptitude remove dhcp3-client > The following packages will be REMOVED: > dhcp3-client isc-dhcp-client{u} > 0 packages upgraded, 0 new

removing dummy package

Hi, After upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze I have some dhcp3 dummy packages. --- linbobo:~# aptitude show dhcp3-client Package: dhcp3-client State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze3 Priority: extra Section: oldlibs Maint

Re: Problem with preseed

On 08/11/11 16:09, Tom H wrote: [...] Thanks Tom for your suggestion. After some tries I figured out a bit embarrassing fact - I were using a slightly different receipt that I posted to the list. I post the proper one below. The problem I presented in my original message has gone away, but t

Re: restoring GRUB after windows 7 install along side Debian set-up with LUKS+LVM

> W7 does not mangle the mbr any longer. After install, go to debian and run > update-grub to get a bootable W7. > Thierry > > This is incorrect. Win 7 will definitely wipe out GRUB. There are several ways to restore GRUB. It really depends on how one configured his setup. I had the following con

Re: Wireless problem with Thinkpad X220

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:05:26 -0500, Kumar Appaiah writes: > I've been trying to help a friend out with wireless on his Thinkpad > X220. The identifier is: > > 03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE > 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) > > Now, according to http://wiki

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

On 12/08/11 17:50, Christian Jaeger wrote: I run Squeeze on the computer where I prepare the usb flashdrive, and Lenny on the computer where I want to install mythbuntu (the T61). Thank you for the clarification. I did spend some time trying to work out which computer and OS you were referring

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Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

Christian Jaeger, 11.08.2011: > 2011/8/9 Wolodja Wentland : > > Why don't you follow the method > > outlined in the installation guide? > > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en > > I'm trying to follow "4.3.3. Manually copying files to the USB stick ? > the flexible way"

Re: Unable to create either bootable USB flashdrive or CD/DVDrom

I run Squeeze on the computer where I prepare the usb flashdrive, and Lenny on the computer where I want to install mythbuntu (the T61). I don't think asking fellow Debian users about compiling software on Debian is offtopic. I have checked Arnt advice by setting the boot flag on the partition "b

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

Hello List: On 12/08/11 08:08, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-11 21:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src , /usr and /usr/local being mounted on different partitions. I guess it is a common practice. It might be common, but it is