Re: Ethernet connection weirdly not working mornings

Appologies for taking so long to follow up on this thread, life got busy. * Brian [110630 07:11]: > On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 21:09:18 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > > And now the ethernet-challenged machine is not connecting > > in the evening either [...] > > Can we discount the time of day factor?

Re: Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

This is just a shot in the dark, but, ... On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm using rsync on "normal" Debian (6.x), on two embedded systems that run > what look like Debian variations (DNS-321 by D-Link and Stora by Netgear) and > on OS X. Mac OS-X? hmm. May be a red her

Re: Apple iBook power management

Since I'll probably have the same issues if I get the graphics chip on mine soldered back in right, I decided to do a quick search: "ibook g4 battery linux". The module pmu_battery may need to be loaded. gpmudmon-app

Re: Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

[ I accidentally sent this only to Hal, I meant to send it to the list. It seems to be my day for rsync comments. ] On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm using rsync on "normal" Debian (6.x), on two embedded systems that run > what look like Debian variations (DNS-321 by D-L

Re (2): message threading

* From: lee * Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:59:40 +0200 > [References] go back to beginnings of subthreads at > least. > With only the In-Reply-To: header, threads would be broken ... In http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists I've added a section "Message Threading and Replying". Al

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > 4. use rsync to copy the files. eg.:- > # rsync -azr /media/source0/ /media/dest0 [rinse and repeat until all > partitions copied] Rsync does not replicate SELinux settings. And the way you are using it does not replicate hard links: you

Re: Looking for a package management GUI in KDE

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Ralf Jung wrote: > Hi, > >> I am a untity / gnome3 refugee, have installed KDE 4.4.5 on Debian 6 >> but am totally stumped looking for a package management GUI, something >> equivalent to synaptic for QT ? >> >> I am struggling with aptitude and would like somethin

Re: 2TB file system

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will > be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in > formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system? > > Any other considerations?

BASH completing directories like files

Hello, I'm not sure what I did, but BASH is completing directories with a space instead of a slash on the end; and that's slowing me down because I have to backspace and type a slash. I recently added an alias to my bashrc, but when I did a diff between it and my backup, that was the only diff

Re: 2TB file system

On 08/16/2011 07:11 PM, Eduard Bloch wrote: /snip/ Also, if you plan to host specifically multimedia files you could consider using XFS instead, I've been told is very good for such purpose ;-) I have been told many things, and some of them aren't something you should believe if you want to sta

Re: 2TB file system

#include * Camaleón [Tue, Aug 16 2011, 05:30:07PM]: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:31:53 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will > > be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in ^^

Re: EDAC errors: false positives or broken RAM? (i5000)

Hey, Am 16.08.2011 19:31, schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Jonas Meurer wrote: >> Now, the messages keep spamming my log and console for more than three >> weeks already. A some days I get more than 36000 errors a day. >> >> It's noteable, that every DRAM-Bank from 0 to

Re: DKMS and linux-image-3.0.0

On 08/16/2011 12:05 PM, Erwan David wrote: DO someone know what happened to dkms in 3.0 ? It does not work anymore (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637281 for the bug report) This breaks virtualbox or other packages... Hmm, works for me on Wheezy. $ dpkg -l virtualbox\*

DKMS and linux-image-3.0.0

DO someone know what happened to dkms in 3.0 ? It does not work anymore (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637281 for the bug report) This breaks virtualbox or other packages... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: 2TB file system

On Aug 16, 2011 2:31 PM, "Roger Leigh" wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:31:53PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will > > be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in > > formating the entire disk (no p

Is there a way to 'yoke' the 2 x monitors together so a different activity changes both monitors at once ?

Hi All, Setting up debian 6 with a dual monitor using Nvidia drivers, all is well apart from adding activities seems to be per monitor, and worse changing activities seems to change all possible activity screens through one monitor at a time, so 2 x activities gives four possible activities per mo

Re: 2TB file system

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:31:53PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will > be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in > formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system? > > Any other conside

Re: 2TB file system

Rick Pasotto: > > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will > be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in > formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system? Not a problem per se, but personally, I would use LVM. If you don'

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

you write: > Have you tried with "gparted" or "cfdisk"? The first it's a GUI based > tool which usually manages very well these situations and the latter is a > more convenient tool (text based) when it comes to manage partitions from > command line. I haven't tried cfdisk yet so I will give it a

Re: 2TB file system

On 2011-08-16 18:31 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will > be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in > formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system? That is certainly possible, but a b

Re: EDAC errors: false positives or broken RAM? (i5000)

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > /proc/sysrq-trigger' do stop the logging flood to console. Did I miss > > anything, or is it simply impossible to stop console logging for this > > kind of kernel error messages. That would be very unfortunate. > > dmesg -c can do it. So

Re: EDAC errors: false positives or broken RAM? (i5000)

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Now, the messages keep spamming my log and console for more than three > weeks already. A some days I get more than 36000 errors a day. > > It's noteable, that every DRAM-Bank from 0 to 7 is affected. > > Now I wonder, whether these are false positives (

Re: 2TB file system

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:31:53 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will > be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in > formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system? Well... there has to be at

2TB file system

I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system? Any other considerations? -- "Aided by a little sophistry on the words 'general welfare

Re: Setting up Email on A Linux Box Using Alpine

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:40:26 -0400, RiverWind wrote: > Hi There, Hi. You are hijacking a thread. Next time better open a new one for your problem instead of replying to the message of another user :-) > I would sincerely appreciate all the input I can get regarding setting > up email on my debi

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:21:05 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > You write: >> I'm not sure in what stage of the migration are you right now (I did >> not follow the full thread), but have you tried to boot from a LiveCD >> and work from there? > > I have been avoiding that. I don't know if th

Re: setting up a static IP address

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: > (...) > > NM calls -by default- "dhclient", so... is NM running? > > If so, stop NM ("/etc/init.d/network-manager stop") or kill "dhclient" > process and then restart the network service (also run ifdown/ifup, just to > be sure). After that run

Re: Setting up Email on A Linux Box Using Alpine

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 16 August 2011 16:40:26 RiverWind wrote: >> I would sincerely appreciate all the input I can get regarding >> setting up email on my debian system using alpine. At present, >> alpine is behaving very strangely, and it would require quite a

Re: Setting up Email on A Linux Box Using Alpine

On Tuesday 16 August 2011 16:40:26 RiverWind wrote: > I would sincerely appreciate all the input I can get regarding > setting up email on my debian system using alpine. At present, > alpine is behaving very strangely, and it would require quite a > lengthy email to this list in order to demonstrat

Setting up Email on A Linux Box Using Alpine

Hi There, I would sincerely appreciate all the input I can get regarding setting up email on my debian system using alpine. At present, alpine is behaving very strangely, and it would require quite a lengthy email to this list in order to demonstrate the problems. I am wondering if it wouldn't b

Re: setting up a static IP address

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:32:42 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > FYI, you can use Network Manager and /etc/network/interfaces together w/o > problems. ... Thanks. I'll look into this when I have some time. > (I also have dns-nameservers lines in my eth0 stanza in /e/n/i. > IIRC, when I didn't, usi

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

You write: > I'm not sure in what stage of the migration are you right now (I did not > follow the full thread), but have you tried to boot from a LiveCD and > work from there? I have been avoiding that. I don't know if this is peculiar to Dell mother boards, but every so often, my CMOS bo

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:30:41 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > After using dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=10M, I got a copy of a boot > drive's image on what will eventually be the new boot drive. Clonezilla does the migration job quite well. If the target disk/partition is bigger than the old f

Re: "gconf-editor" icon missing from menu? (wheezy)

El 2011-08-16 a las 09:40 +0200, Simon Chen escribió: (resending to the list) > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > > > I've just realized my wheezy has lost an icon from the menu: "gconf- > > editor" is not there anymore while the binary file is still present and > > can be

Re: Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert

Rob Owens writes: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 03:20:07AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi. I used to use Debian but recently have been using Ubuntu. For > various reasons (mainly hating the Unity interface) i now am back on > Debian. I have a clean install of Wheezy running under Xfce on

Re: "gconf-editor" icon missing from menu? (wheezy)

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:16:30 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > Camale?n, 15.08.2011: >> Well, I don't care about what to do nor how to restore it (I already >> know that), I was asking if this has been experienced by anyone else. >> If no, I will report it. > > When you say icon, you mean the who

Icedove 5.0 in mozilla.debian.net repo. Was: Icedove 5.0 - when?

Hi, I don't know for how long, but I just checked and discovered today that there is a similar directory for Icedove that it is for iceweasel on http://mozilla.debian.net/ called icedove-release. So if you already have iceweasel-release in your sources.list you just have to add icedove-rele

Re: Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert

2011-08-16 12:20, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum skrev: Where can i go for docs on how to set this up to Just Work? As I do not know how to do what you want with alsa, I would suggest trying pulse in debian. I have not found one authoritative guide to pulse on debian, but the method I had most suc

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:18:01 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > On 16 August 2011 05:51, Camaleón wrote: >> How about a simple "wget 192.168.1.254"? >> >> > weaver@Bandit:~$ su > Password: > Bandit:/home/weaver# wget 192.168.1.254 --2011-08-16 06:06:49-- > http://192.168.1.254/ Connecting to 192.168

EDAC errors: false positives or broken RAM? (i5000)

Hey, I'm getting tons of EDAC error messages from the kernel lately on a i5000 server with 16GB RAM (4 x 4GB modules). The server runs since about three years. The system is Debian Lenny with 2.6.26 kernel, selfcompiled from linux-source-2.6.26 2.6.26-26lenny3. It's not the first time, that thes

Re: Running a script on monitor connect/disconnect

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:11:28 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: >> Just a quick note here. Not sure if you have tried with "krandrtray" or >> better yet, as you are using the ATI closed drivers, you may test their >> catalyst control center utility to handle video screens (resolution/ >> position, etc...). >

Re: Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 03:20:07AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi. I used to use Debian but recently have been using Ubuntu. For various > reasons (mainly hating the Unity interface) i now am back on Debian. I have a > clean install of Wheezy running under Xfce on a basic desktop comput

Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

After using dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=10M, I got a copy of a boot drive's image on what will eventually be the new boot drive. The new drive is about half again as big as the old drive and research plus several previous answers from this list has lead me to try the following strategy: Use fdis

Re: sudoers tty defaults (Re: Changing Users in a script)

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:33:58 -0400, Tom H wrote: > "sudo -L" lists the full list of "Defaults". I'd be very surprised if > even one of these isn't set. Then prepare for a surprise. Vanilla /etc/sudoers in Squeeze: # /etc/sudoers # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # #

Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert

Hi. I used to use Debian but recently have been using Ubuntu. For various reasons (mainly hating the Unity interface) i now am back on Debian. I have a clean install of Wheezy running under Xfce on a basic desktop computer. I am looking to get audio working in a straightforward way, i dont want

Re: Changing Users in a script

Hal Vaughan wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > There are distinct advantages to a backup push system. Not proposing > > that you change away from it. But I tend to pull backups from /home > > to the backup server. This means that whatever is in /home comes over > > whether it is associated with a us

Re: disappeared hard disk space

Jochen Spieker wrote: > Simon Chen: > > > > I need your help to find out what happened to my hard disk. The problem I've > > met is according to the used space in my /dev/sda8, there should be 6G left. > > The difference is most probably the 5% of space that are reserved for > the root user by de

Re: disappeared hard disk space

On 16 August 2011 08:36, Simon Chen wrote: > Hi, all. > > I need your help to find out what happened to my hard disk. The problem I've > met is according to the used space in my /dev/sda8, there should be 6G left. > But there's only 1G now. I can't move a file larger to 1G to that partition. > Tri

Re: setting up a static IP address

Steve Kleene, 15.08.2011: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:14:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: > > > NM calls -by default- "dhclient", so... is NM running? > > Yes, it is running on each of the two machines. > > > If so, stop NM ("/etc/init.d/network-manager stop") or kill "dhclient" > > process and then

Re: disappeared hard disk space

On 16/08/11 17:36, Simon Chen wrote: Hi, all. I need your help to find out what happened to my hard disk. The problem I've met is according to the used space in my /dev/sda8, there should be 6G left. But there's only 1G now. I can't move a file larger to 1G to that partition. Tried, but failed.

Mojo Mail Error - Not Allowed To Post On oss

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Re: disappeared hard disk space

Simon Chen: > > I need your help to find out what happened to my hard disk. The problem I've > met is according to the used space in my /dev/sda8, there should be 6G left. The difference is most probably the 5% of space that are reserved for the root user by default. Run 'tune2fs -m0 /dev/sdg8' t

disappeared hard disk space

Hi, all. I need your help to find out what happened to my hard disk. The problem I've met is according to the used space in my /dev/sda8, there should be 6G left. But there's only 1G now. I can't move a file larger to 1G to that partition. Tried, but failed. I've also run some test and repairs. Un

Re: "gconf-editor" icon missing from menu? (wheezy)

Camale?n, 15.08.2011: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:52:42 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:41:11 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> I've just realized my wheezy has lost an icon from the menu: "gconf- > >> editor" is not there anymore while the binary file is still present and > >>