Re: How to reduce number of loaded kernel modules?

Darac Marjal writes: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:39:41PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> I have a rather impressive list of loaded modules. I'm not shure whether >> are they really needed? >> >> How can I know which modules I don't need so I can have those >> blacklisted? > > Generally speaking, t

Re: How to reduce number of loaded kernel modules?

Camaleón writes: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:39:41 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> I have a rather impressive list of loaded modules. > > How many, how many? :-) > > sm01@stt008:~$ lsmod| wc -l 155 -- Best Regards, Pál -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

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Re: Dual Boot.

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Re: Dual Boot.

On 1 September 2011 13:09, Lennart Sorensen wrote: If your windows install uses the entire drive for one partition, then > there isn't really anything the installer can do for you other than to > wipe out windows. > > If on the other hand you have windows on a partition that does not use > the en

Re: atfptd in squeeze won't do anything

On 01/09/11 00:38, Isaac Freeman wrote: Thanks for the reply. Yes, I'm looking to set up a PXE server. The permissions on the directory provided to atftpd are 777 as specified in the usage. I don't see how host.{allow,deny} make any difference with whether or not the server starts. They don't a

Re: Nook Reader on Debian PC?

If the mac version is for osx and debian has a dmg extractor, you may be able either to run the mac version under debian or build the debian version if source code is available then run it. Mac isn't Linux, but it's lots closer to Linux than anything Microsoft ever wrote. Something close to d

Re: Nook Reader on Debian PC?

On 01/09/11 00:11, Thomas H. George wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:12:15PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/08/11 06:06, Thomas H. George wrote: I have a pdf text which is hard to read. Okular is better for plain pdfs. Apologies for any confusion - Okular is a very good utility - if

Solved: Re: debmirror starts works stops on error

To be accurate, I haven't figured out specifically the issue. I switched from method: ftp to http in debmirror. Possibilities are firewall, ftp configuration. On Tuesday 23 August 2011 03:27:42 pm Greg Madden wrote: > I have a partial local amd64/i386 mirror, been using debmirror & my mirror >

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

On 31/08/2011, D G Teed wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Andrew McGlashan >> >> >> I cannot believe this thread is still going -- it is way beyond funny now >> it's ludicrous to say the least >> >> Your Ethernet device is broken and if it is not broken, then get someone >> else to fi

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

On Wed 31 Aug 2011 at 21:39:35 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > At the risk of butting in, in case it helps. my notes say: > > See > and > You are hardly butting in. This is

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:37:10 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 21:48:47 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> The simplest solution I have found is to override the default >> consolekit permissions. In the case of suspend and hibernate, these are >> specified in the file >> /usr/share/polkit-

Re: missing modules

- Original Message - From: Bob Proulx To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 8/31/2011 7:48:53 PM Subject: Re: missing modules ow...@netptc.net wrote: > This is probably an Apache issue but with so much expertise on this > list I thought I'd try here first. The debian-user list

Re: SOLVED: can't get GRUB to install from netinstall cd's - THANKS!

On Wed 31 Aug 2011 at 09:47:53 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > So, the netinstall image finally installed Grub, but left me with a very > minimal system. I had to learn to manually configure the network and > install the desktop. But I was able to do these things and I am glad I > did- this

Re: What is the right way to use consolekit with startx?

On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 21:48:47 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > The simplest solution I have found is to override the default consolekit > permissions. In the case of suspend and hibernate, these are specified > in the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.policy. > To override, crea

Re: missing modules

ow...@netptc.net wrote: > This is probably an Apache issue but with so much expertise on this > list I thought I'd try here first. The debian-user list is available for all questions about using Debian. This question seems perfectly on topic here. :-) > The problem is on my system these modules

missing modules

List This is probably an Apache issue but with so much expertise on this list I thought I'd try here first. I am running an up-to date Debian Stable System for my own use as well as a central backup (using backuppc and samba) for my family. I also use the Apache home page to keep system info

Re: SOLVED: can't get GRUB to install from netinstall cd's - THANKS!

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:47:53 -0700, keitho wrote: (...) > Camaleón said: "For GRUB2, you can leave it uninstalled and boot the > installed system from a LiveCD/LiveUSB or SGD. Once you're in, install > GRUB2 as usual." I had tried this with no luck. For a beginner, > installing Grub manually is a

SOLVED: can't get GRUB to install from netinstall cd's - THANKS!

Thanks so much to all those who took the time to respond to my anguished plea for help trying to get Wheezy installed from a netinstall cd image but the install kept failing to install GRUB. Evidently, this is a common problem with netinstall images. Thanks to Pelle Carlson,rlharris, David Christe

Re: mailto links not working in Iceweasel 5

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:54:18 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> There is a package (gnome-gmail) that automates this, but I see it only >> available for wheezy/sid. > > It's available to me on my testing (which I guess is wheezy) system. >

MTU and Postfix

Hello, I've been busy on these days trying to solve a problem with Postfix that drove me nuts. Sporadically (let's say one in hundred e-mails) my Postfix had problems for delivering messages with ~3 MiB of attachment to some e-mail hosts. DSN service returned the final notice of delivery to th

Re: mailto links not working in Iceweasel 5

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:31:41 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> Although I have mailto set to use Gmail in the Preferences, nothing >> happens when I click on a mailto link.  Any ideas? > > What's your DE? GNOME? It is GNOME, but Iceweasel/Firefo

Re: Rsync fails on copying large file [SOLVED]

On 31/08/11 12:29, Alan Chandler wrote: After several failed attempts I replaced the :: method with a single colon one (ie uses ssh) and it works perfectly. So either there is a setting I need in rsyncd.conf or there is a bug in this form of the protocol? It turns out to be a timeout problem

Re: Nook Reader on Debian PC?

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:12:15PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 31/08/11 06:06, Thomas H. George wrote: > >I have a pdf text which is hard to read. It occurred to me to try > >installing the Nook reader to see if it would improve visibility. The > >Barnes& Noble web site has downloads for W

Re: atfptd in squeeze won't do anything

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I'm looking to set up a PXE server. The permissions on the directory provided to atftpd are 777 as specified in the usage. I don't see how host.{allow,deny} make any difference with whether or not the server starts. I'll give tftp-hpa a try, and I'll look in to gpxe. Tha

Re: How to reduce number of loaded kernel modules?

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:39:41PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I have a rather impressive list of loaded modules. I'm not shure whether > are they really needed? > > How can I know which modules I don't need so I can have those > blacklisted? Generally speaking, the kernel only loads mod

Re: How to reduce number of loaded kernel modules?

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:39:41 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I have a rather impressive list of loaded modules. How many, how many? :-) sm01@stt008:~$ lsmod| wc -l 67 > I'm not shure whether are they really needed? Some modules are automatically loaded on demand or as a requirement for another mo

Re: Eclipse-pydev: how?

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:42:18 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I am new to eclipse and have installed eclipse and eclipse-pydev. How > do I get eclipse to use this plugin without referring it to the > pydev-site? > > I did not see any documentation with eclipse-pydev on how to get eclipse > to use th

Re: Serial port with Lenny

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:07:56 +0200, alex.padoly wrote: > How I can know if the serial port is active, gphoto2 doent find my > camera (OLYMPUS C-2000Z), this camera is supported by ghphoto2. Hum... check if it is listed: dmesg | grep -i tty And then review gphoto's FAQ: http://www.gphoto.org/

Re: Serial port with Lenny

> alex padoly writes: > How I can know if the serial port is active, gphoto2 doent find my > camera (OLYMPUS C-2000Z), this camera is supported by ghphoto2. Use statserial(8) to monitor the serial port state in real time. Try connecting and disconnecting the device to (from

Re: Audio problem on G62-B70SP

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:03:49 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:41:07 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote: (...) >> > Have anyone experienced this before? >> >> Hum... there is a bug opened for that exact device: >> >> http://bugs.

Re: Package removal dependencies

On 01/09/11 00:00, Bruno Martins wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Scott Ferguson mailto:prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello mate. Thanks for your quick response. So, to avoid this dependency "problems" in the future, I should make a clean installation of Debian, without

Serial port with Lenny

Hi, How I can know if the serial port is active, gphoto2 doent find my camera (OLYMPUS C-2000Z), this camera is supported by ghphoto2. Thanks you. Regards. Alex PADOLY

Re: Can you help me figure out why I can't get Grub to install from netinstall cd's?

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:54:18 -0700, keitho wrote: > For the last several days I have been attempting to install Wheezy from > one of the daily builds. I have tried four different builds (different > days)- and they all fail in the same two spots- they won't recognize my > removable medium (usb thu

Re: Package removal dependencies

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:02:39 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote: > Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the > evolution package. (...) This topic comes from time to time :-) http://www.google.es/search?q=Form+wizard&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&c

Re: Audio problem on G62-B70SP

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:41:07 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote: > > > I am running Debian Squeeze on the following notebook: > > > http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02511383&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=4315442

Re: Package removal dependencies

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Scott Ferguson < prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31/08/11 21:02, Bruno Martins wrote: > >> Hello guys. >> >> Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the >> evolution package. >> >> root@sputnik:/home/joe# apt-get remove ev

How to reduce number of loaded kernel modules?

Hi, I have a rather impressive list of loaded modules. I'm not shure whether are they really needed? How can I know which modules I don't need so I can have those blacklisted? -- Best Regards, Pál -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Problems updating security update packages.

On 31/08/11 22:43, Luis Suzuki wrote: For several weeks below is the warning I receive when I do apt-get update. Get:1 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B] Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/update

Problems updating security update packages.

For several weeks below is the warning I receive when I do apt-get update. Get:1 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836 B]Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-enIgn http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_USHit http://sec

Re: error from Klamav

On 31/08/11 12:17, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/08/11 19:38, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 31/08/11 10:29, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/08/11 17:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Thanks for your help, Scott. On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/0

Re: Running a script on monitor connect/disconnect

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:08:03 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > Hi, > >> > Editing xorg.conf requires an X-server restart after each setup >> > change, which is ridiculous. >> >> Why ridiculous? :-? >> >> Xorg is running and you need it to re-read the configuration file again >> like any other service :

Re: Audio problem on G62-B70SP

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:41:07 +0100, Bruno Martins wrote: > I am running Debian Squeeze on the following notebook: > http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02511383&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=4315442 > > I can hear no sound from the speakers, but it plays we

Re: Package removal dependencies

On 31/08/11 21:02, Bruno Martins wrote: Hello guys. Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the evolution package. root@sputnik:/home/joe# apt-get remove evolution Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree�� Reading state information... Done The fol

Re: Can you help me figure out why I can't get Grub to install from netinstall cd's?

On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 18:54:18 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > For the last several days I have been attempting to install Wheezy from > one of the daily builds. I have tried four different builds (different > days)- and they all fail in the same two spots- they won't recognize my > removab

Re: mailto links not working in Iceweasel 5

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:31:41 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Although I have mailto set to use Gmail in the Preferences, nothing > happens when I click on a mailto link. Any ideas? What's your DE? GNOME? I would check if the url handler is set it right in Gconf: /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mai

Re: [OT] SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

On 31/08/11 20:08, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 31 August 2011 06:54:11 Scott Ferguson wrote: There is no compatibility or other reason I know of that would force one to stay on Lenny KDE 3.5.10. Actually ^^ Lisi(?) that's not a restriction - it can be be run on Squeeze How? :-) :-D Well...

Re: Rsync fails on copying large file

On 30/08/11 09:56, Alan Chandler wrote: I use Rsync between two of my machines to facilitate regular backups. In the case I have a problem with I am attempting to copy a file using the double colon (::) method to talk to the rsync daemon on the receiving end. I have been having regular failures

Re: error from Klamav

On 31/08/11 19:38, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 31/08/11 10:29, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/08/11 17:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Thanks for your help, Scott. On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 3

Re: Can you help me figure out why I can't get Grub to install from netinstall cd's?

On Tue 30 Aug 2011 at 18:54:18 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > "grub-installer: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove grub-legacy > which isn't installed." Not a problem. > "in-target: E: Package 'grub-pc' has no installation candidate." > "grub-installer: info: Calling 'apt-install g

Package removal dependencies

Hello guys. Is there any way to avoid this? Imagine that I simply want to remove the evolution package. root@sputnik:/home/joe# apt-get remove evolution Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and

Eclipse-pydev: how?

I am new to eclipse and have installed eclipse and eclipse-pydev. How do I get eclipse to use this plugin without referring it to the pydev-site? I did not see any documentation with eclipse-pydev on how to get eclipse to use this package? Efforts to convince eclipse to use the stuff in /usr/l

Re: [OT] SATA 3TB: unsupported sector size -1548812288.

On Wednesday 31 August 2011 06:54:11 Scott Ferguson wrote: > > There is no > > compatibility or other reason I know of that would force one to > > stay on > > Lenny > > KDE 3.5.10. > > Actually ^^ Lisi(?) that's not a restriction - it can be be run on > Squeeze How? >

Re: error from Klamav

On 31/08/11 10:29, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/08/11 17:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Thanks for your help, Scott. On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/0

Re: error from Klamav

On 31/08/11 17:43, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Thanks for your help, Scott. On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I am

Re: Pixel garbage when opening context menus

Hi, I don't have another VGA card available, but as I said this is already happening on two (counting Steve, three) completely independent machines, so I'd say we can rule the hardware out ;-) Indeed I can not see the garbage in Firefox, but I will have to test again when the system is under lo

Re: Running a script on monitor connect/disconnect

Hi, > > Editing xorg.conf requires an X-server restart after each setup change, > > which is ridiculous. > > Why ridiculous? :-? > > Xorg is running and you need it to re-read the configuration file again > like any other service :-) Sorry, I should have boon more clear: It is of course not ridi

Re: Building the kernel myself

Hi, thanks for that very informative link. I can confirm however that with current Debian testing, "make deb-pkg" works like a charm. It is a good idea to disable debug symbols though (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO) to keep the size of the modules reasonably. Kind regards, Ralf On Saturday 27 August 2011

Re: error from Klamav

On 30/08/11 12:41, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Thanks for your help, Scott. On 30/08/11 11:14, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 19:18, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 30/08/11 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 30/08/11 18:09, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I am getting an error after the nightly scan by K

Re: /dev/xen/evtchn disappears, HVM fails, xen 4.0.1-1 Debian Squeeze

This problem still exists for me, I still have to downgrade to run kernel linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64_2.6.32-18_amd64.deb (from july 2010) for it to work. The discussion not leading to a solution can be found here: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-09/msg00488.html In o

Re: Sun Java plugin invalid in Iceweasel? (sid)

31/08/2011 02:37, Todd Pytel wrote: > After doing a rather lengthy sid upgrade (it's been a few months, at > least), my Sun java plugin is no longer working in Iceweasel. > Alternatives is set correctly and Iceweasel sees the plugin, but it's > marked INVALID in pluginreg.dat and never loads. I Goo