Re: How to disable USB automounts

2011-09-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/09/11 20:59, Brian wrote: > On Wed 14 Sep 2011 at 10:46:44 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> With the greatest respects to the previous posters and there >> suggestions... this has nothing to do with membership of plugdev, custom >> udev rules to try and over-ride existing hal fdi, udev, and

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1691

2011-09-14 Thread Ian Martin
Hi, I bought myself a Dell L502X recently with Optimus technology (= dual graphics card).  After a lot of playing, I discovered the latest edition of Mint Debian Edition (the iso came out mid- August) will install and run on it without any hitches. There doesn't seem to be a lot of benefit buyin

Re: Non functioning D-Link Ethernet adapter card

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
John Foster wrote: > I installed a D-Link DGE-530T 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop PCI > Adapterethernet card. Based on the RTL8169xx chip. The thing is not > recognized by any flavor of linux. Mint, Ubuntu, or Debian > (squeeze). What does 'lspci' say? (Thinking it might not be a RTL8169 after all.)

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-14 Thread yudi v
Got a reply back from WD asking me to return the drive, I wiped the drive and tested the drive to see if it will throw up errors. Again, both the WD tool and the Debian disk utility do not report any bad sectors. Can anyone explain what's going on? -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: RAR/ apt-get Question

2011-09-14 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/9/15 Greg Madden > > > > It is in non-free. > > > aptitude install unrar -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my

Re: RAR/ apt-get Question

2011-09-14 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 06:00:53 pm RiverWind wrote: > Hey There, > > Whilst trying to get and install the rar file compression utility, > I encountered a bit of an interesting obstacle. It seems that this > file is either obsolete and hence no longer supported by Linux, or > something el

Re: RAR/ apt-get Question

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
RiverWind wrote: > Whilst trying to get and install the rar file compression utility, > I encountered a bit of an interesting obstacle. It seems that this > file is either obsolete and hence no longer supported by Linux, or > something else of that nature has made this application unavailable > vi

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Andrew Reid
> I had a case where it had snowed, and instead of driving 50 miles in snow > and ice with dodgy DC drivers, I'd work from home. Had my laptop, was doing > work. Well, they scheduled a meeting for that afternoon (at about lunch > time), so I got ready and headed in to the office. I typed halt in a

Re: Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
John Foster wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > John Foster wrote: > > > Any idea what I need to edit to get my system back to what I like. I > > > will probably figure it out sooner or later, but sooner will be > > > better. > > > > Probably. But please do tell us on the mailing list what it is that >

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex wrote: >* Since I am working from a partimage backup of the Debian system > partition (S.O.E. that can be transferred from one machine to > another in case of emergency), it is not a problem to restore that > and start again, if you think that would be the best course and >

RAR/ apt-get Question

2011-09-14 Thread RiverWind
Hey There, Whilst trying to get and install the rar file compression utility, I encountered a bit of an interesting obstacle. It seems that this file is either obsolete and hence no longer supported by Linux, or something else of that nature has made this application unavailable via mainstream

Non functioning D-Link Ethernet adapter card

2011-09-14 Thread John Foster
I installed a D-Link DGE-530T 10/100/1000 Gigabit Desktop PCI Adapterethernet card. Based on the RTL8169xx chip. The thing is not recognized by any flavor of linux. Mint, Ubuntu, or Debian (squeeze). Worked in Windows 7pro after installing the drivers from the setup disc. I want it to work on this

Re: Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-14 Thread John Foster
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > John Foster wrote: > > Well I use it as an application server for a lot of video content so > > I need the X-windows for editing and viewing. I also do both on > > this system and it is an intranet server as well. > > When you said production

Re: Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-14 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/14/2011 06:59 PM, John Foster wrote: I recently had to do a new installation of squeeze on a production server. Its been a LONG time since I did that and I see a few things are different since my last time. I can not access the consoles by hitting ctrl,alt, delete. I recall a couple of ye

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-14 Thread Alex
Hi Bob, Thank you very much for the prompt and very comprehensive reply. There are some questions and comments arising, please:- * Since I am working from a partimage backup of the Debian system partition (S.O.E. that can be transferred from one machine to another in case of emerge

Re: Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
John Foster wrote: > Well I use it as an application server for a lot of video content so > I need the X-windows for editing and viewing. I also do both on > this system and it is an intranet server as well. When you said production server it implied something like a rack mount data center server

Re: Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-14 Thread John Foster
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > John Foster wrote: > > I recently had to do a new installation of squeeze on a production > server. > > Excellent! > > > Its been a LONG time since I did that and I see a few things are > different > > since my last time. I can not access the c

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-14 Thread Dan
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:56:48 -0400, Dan wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:27:17 -0400, Dan wrote: >>> I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card AMD Rade

Re: Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
John Foster wrote: > I recently had to do a new installation of squeeze on a production server. Excellent! > Its been a LONG time since I did that and I see a few things are different > since my last time. I can not access the consoles by hitting ctrl,alt, > delete. You mean Control-Alt-F1 inste

Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-14 Thread John Foster
I recently had to do a new installation of squeeze on a production server. Its been a LONG time since I did that and I see a few things are different since my last time. I can not access the consoles by hitting ctrl,alt, delete. I recall a couple of years ago that I had to edit something somewhere

USB ACM vs USB memory device conflict

2011-09-14 Thread Thomas H. George
I purchased a Verizon Samsung SHU-u370 cell phone and installed a microSD card. When connected to a usb port the phone registers as an ACM device, specifically as ttyACM0. The settins on the phone allow a choice between Media Sync Mode and Modem modem and clearly the Debian kernel has chosen the

Re: 3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:04:35 +0700, Sthu wrote in message <4e70ecd6.925ee30a.6e29.6...@mx.google.com>: > Good time of the day. > > I have slow 3D rendering on ATI card after full upgrading to wheezy. > > Is there any strategy how I can investigate the bottle neck so that I > might file a bug re

Re: Bug in Debian installer

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
sppmg wrote: > 於 2011年09月14日 02:45, Bob Proulx 提到: > > spp mg wrote: > >> I install Debian(6.0.2.1 amd64) to a old HDD.This HDD has a lvm > >> partition,it's creat by Fedora installer. > >> I can't delete this lvm partition in intaller,it's display about "lvm > >> is busy..." ,even if I delete all

Re: Swap does not mount [swapon failed: Device or resource busy]

2011-09-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:54:29 -0400, Param wrote: Please post the outputs of: cat /etc/fstab sudo fdisk -l -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j4r6am$4r

Swap does not mount [swapon failed: Device or resource busy]

2011-09-14 Thread Param
Hi, The swap partition did not mount post-installation (Debian "Squeeze" (Xfce)). Created a 2nd swap partition, & planned to delete the earlier swap partition. The 2nd swap partition doesn't mount either. (Been using Debian (my 1st intro to Linux) for < 3 weeks. If a) I'm missing any blindingly o

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex wrote: > 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny (up to date as of 04 Spet. 2011) Too late now but before upgrading I think it is advisable to look at the output of apt-show-versions and clean up packages that are no longer available. Even though you were fully up to date with Lenny there were pro

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

2011-09-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Walter Hurry wrote: > I don't know what finnix is, but if it allows you to mount and access the > Debian filesystem, then here is one way: > > Boot into finnix. > Become finnix's root. > Mount the Debian partition containing /etc. > Edit Debian's /etc/inittab. > Look for the line under # What to

Re: linux-kbuild-3.1.0 ?

2011-09-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 04:14:31PM +, Camaleón wrote: > Well, then who/what is the target of "linux-headers-3.1.0-rc4-amd64" > package? I mean, if it is not installable -on purpose- because of the > broken dependency, what is it aimed for? Just curious :-? You can try out the kernel image,

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

2011-09-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:25:50 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > Since writing the last paragraph of my post earlier today: > >> Not only that, but also I after closing the computer and rebooting I >> was unable to install *any* operating system, whether finnix from the >> CD or Squeeze from the hard drive

Re: autodiscover of a samba share

2011-09-14 Thread tadziu
> When using "smb://" you don't "mount" the shares, you "access" the > shares. And you can bookmark your network shares for an easy access, they > will appear listed in the left side panel. > > yes i know, i've also experimented with adding shares to fstab through cifs, and static ip number. and it

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 9/13/11 3:15 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote: > Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst > administration mistake and how did you recover? Years ago on my main workstation back in my slackware days, I was upgrading samba from the source tarballs. I had everything compiled and instal

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

2011-09-14 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since writing the last paragraph of my post earlier today: > Not only that, but also I after closing the computer and rebooting I was > unable to install *any* operating system, whether finnix from the CD or > Squeeze from the hard drive. I am now con

Logitech K360 keyboard NumLock behavior gets turned on by Shift keys!

2011-09-14 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
When using a text editor like Geany I like to turn NumLock off and use the Alt, Ctrl, and Shift keys with the numeric keypad keys to select and move text and to move around through text. This is the first time I've encountered a keyboard that activates the NumLock when either Shift key is depr

Re: netbook, close, suspend: ACPI?

2011-09-14 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 07:34:01AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > I just noticed that if I "close" (or fold) it, after a while it goes > to suspend state (or hibernate I dont know exactly). I have to > "open" it and press the power button in order to make it. If you need to press power bu

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:22:14 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:51:50AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> Bryan Irvine wrote: >> >Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst >> >administration mistake and how did you recover? -Bryan >> > > > I've never administ

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Brad Alexander
I had a case where it had snowed, and instead of driving 50 miles in snow and ice with dodgy DC drivers, I'd work from home. Had my laptop, was doing work. Well, they scheduled a meeting for that afternoon (at about lunch time), so I got ready and headed in to the office. I typed halt in a window o

Re: Encoder for linux

2011-09-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:06:56 -0400, cosme wrote: > Hi > > I'm looking for something similar to Windows Media Encoder Series 9 ES > in Linux. > > I'm use Debian squeeze Can't help you, since I neither know nor care what "Windows Media Encoder Series 9 ES" is or does. Now if you were to actuall

3D.rendering became slow since moved to wheezy.

2011-09-14 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I have slow 3D rendering on ATI card after full upgrading to wheezy. Is there any strategy how I can investigate the bottle neck so that I might file a bug report against it? Thanks for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Encoder for linux

2011-09-14 Thread cosme
Hi I'm looking for something similar to Windows Media Encoder Series 9 ES in Linux. I'm use Debian squeeze Regards Cosme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.de

CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator

2011-09-14 Thread cosme
Hi i'm trying to get my sound card pci: 06:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) but is not possible the kernel dos not support i use Debian squeeze. How i could install and condigure this sound card??? Regards Co

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:51:50AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Bryan Irvine wrote: > >Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst > >administration mistake and how did you recover? -Bryan > I've never administered anyone elses system but my own but for several years was runn

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 03:15:13PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: >> Which brings me to another fun question.  What's your worst >> administration mistake and how did you recover? > > My worst administration mistake was rebooting a rack in our pr

Re: linux-kbuild-3.1.0 ?

2011-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:49:19 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:39:15 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> >>>   I would like to give linux 3.10~rc4 a try. For this I tried >>>   installing: >>> >>> $ sudo apt-get install li

Debian 6 iSCSI root boot problem

2011-09-14 Thread Andrés Durán
Hello to all, and sorry for may bad english, i'm Spanish. I'm trying to install Debian 6 on one server without internal disks, I have a Workstation running Debian 6 too that run as an iSCSI Target. This work station is configured as iSCSI target with the package iscsitarget, it is runni

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

2011-09-14 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Darac Marjal wrote: > Just to clarify things, you did change the password for the root on your > installation, didn't you? That is, you didn't just change the password > for root on the live CD, which was then lost as you rebooted? After examination

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:32:38PM +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:13 -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: > > > Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst > > administration mistake and how did you recover? > > The worst admin mistake is failure to secure proper bac

Re: linux-kbuild-3.1.0 ?

2011-09-14 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:39:15 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >>   I would like to give linux 3.10~rc4 a try. For this I tried >>   installing: >> >> $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.1.0-rc4-amd64 -t experimental The >> following packages

Re: Controling Process Memory Consumption

2011-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:31:25 -0400, Roman Gelfand wrote: > Is there a way, on os level or when executing, to limit the amount of > memory a specific executable can use? or control the amount of memory a > program sees for this machine. You may find useful this thread: http://help.lockergnome.com

Debian 6 iSCSI root boot problem

2011-09-14 Thread Andrés Durán
Hello to all, and sorry for may bad english, i'm Spanish. I'm trying to install Debian 6 on one server without internal disks, I have a Workstation running Debian 6 too that run as an iSCSI Target. This work station is configured as iSCSI target with the package iscsitarget, it is runni

Controling Process Memory Consumption

2011-09-14 Thread Roman Gelfand
Is there a way, on os level or when executing, to limit the amount of memory a specific executable can use? or control the amount of memory a program sees for this machine. Thanks in advance

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 09:55, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 09:02:42AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: >> On Sep 14, 2011 8:51 AM, "Robert Parker" wrote: >> > What's wrong with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX for SSDs? >> >> Well, I remember hearing that data is recoverable to some degre

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread yudi v
> I used an external USB/eSATA case hooked up via eSATA and then bootet > GRML. The BIOS did not protect the external drive and I was able to > transfer the ATA Secure Command via eSATA. I bet it might not work via USB > tough. > > Booted from ubuntu live USB, checked if the internal disk was froze

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011 schrieb yudi v: > > For SSDs or harddisk which do encryption internally - with or without > > encryption password in BIOS - an ATA Secure Erase should be enough: > > > > http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase > > > > Search "site:kernel.org secure er

Test

2011-09-14 Thread Andrés Durán
Test -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/59b77668-f2f8-40f9-921c-0ecf7f350...@tadium.es

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-14 Thread trouble daemon
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Because you used old fdisk (or new fdisk in dos mode), and it is paying > attention to CHS information. Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated. > The world has changed, and left CHS crap behind, as well as the hacks > fr

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread yudi v
> For SSDs or harddisk which do encryption internally - with or without > encryption password in BIOS - an ATA Secure Erase should be enough: > > http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase > > Search "site:kernel.org secure erase" on Google and use webcache as long > as kernel.org is dow

Re: Power Consumption - Testing

2011-09-14 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 14.09.2011 16:02, schrieb Camaleón: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:43:54 -0300, Chir0n wrote: > >> Someone more has been this issue? > > That would depend to who you ask :-) > >> Yesterday I got scared about the power consumption of my debian >> notebook. 2 hours. >> >> Normally it takes 2 hours t

Re: Power Consumption - Testing

2011-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:43:54 -0300, Chir0n wrote: > Someone more has been this issue? That would depend to who you ask :-) > Yesterday I got scared about the power consumption of my debian > notebook. 2 hours. > > Normally it takes 2 hours to finish the power. It takes the same time now and

Re: Power Consumption - Testing

2011-09-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:43:54AM -0300, Chir0n wrote: >Hello, > >Someone more has been this issue? > >Yesterday I got scared about the power consumption of my debian notebook. >2 hours. > >Normally it takes 2 hours to finish the power. There is some workround to >resolv

Re: autodiscover of a samba share

2011-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:39:42 +0200, tadziu wrote: > close, but not really. > > gnome nautilus discovers networks but not shares by which i mean > particular public folders shared through a certain network - accessible > with a single click from something that in gnome nautilus is called > shortcu

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, trouble daemon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, trouble daemon wrote: > >> So it would seem that the installers guided partitions are creating > >> broken partition tables that seem to mess with certain RAI

Power Consumption - Testing

2011-09-14 Thread Chir0n
Hello, Someone more has been this issue? Yesterday I got scared about the power consumption of my debian notebook. 2 hours. Normally it takes 2 hours to finish the power. There is some workround to resolve this uncomfortable problem?

Re: autodiscover of a samba share

2011-09-14 Thread tadziu
close, but not really. gnome nautilus discovers networks but not shares by which i mean particular public folders shared through a certain network - accessible with a single click from something that in gnome nautilus is called shortcuts. if you don't know what i mean here is a little article: ht

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-14 Thread trouble daemon
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, trouble daemon wrote: >> So it would seem that the installers guided partitions are creating >> broken partition tables that seem to mess with certain RAID > > No, it is creating perfectly fine LBA partition

libmcrypt-dev: char* function signatures

2011-09-14 Thread Ralph Schneider
(I have trouble finding the original author of mcrypt, so I'm hoping that Debian will be sufficiently upstream for this query.) Most of the libmcrypt functions that require a char-string take the string as a pointer to non-const char. I am wondering whether that is deliberate, or whether that i

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:13 -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: (...) > Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst > administration mistake and how did you recover? Hum, I don't recall of any... yet. But that's because I started administering linux boxes only a lustrum+3 years ago, so

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 14, 2011 8:51 AM, "Robert Parker" wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:39 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > > > On Sep 14, 2011 8:33 AM, "Eduardo M KALINOWSKI" < edua...@kalinowski.com.br> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Qua, 14 Set 2011, shawn wilson wrote: > >>> > >>> I don't get that warm and fuzzy f

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 03:15:13PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > jacques wrote: > >> by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( > > > > Everyone has made that mistake at some point.  I know I have! > > Not me! Me neither!

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bryan Irvine wrote: Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst administration mistake and how did you recover? -Bryan Discovered the hard way the symptoms of a failing drive in a RAID array, leading to completely rebuilding an O/S install and restoring from backup. Had a ser

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread Robert Parker
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:39 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Sep 14, 2011 8:33 AM, "Eduardo M KALINOWSKI" > wrote: >> >> On Qua, 14 Set 2011, shawn wilson wrote: >>> >>> I don't get that warm and fuzzy feeling by drilling an ssd. >>> >>> So, what is the best way for an individual to destroy an ssd

Re: debian-installer: Guided partitioning breaks PERC2 Raid controllers

2011-09-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, trouble daemon wrote: > So it would seem that the installers guided partitions are creating > broken partition tables that seem to mess with certain RAID No, it is creating perfectly fine LBA partition tables that are aligned to 1MiB boundaries. > controllers (google to get a

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 14, 2011 8:33 AM, "Eduardo M KALINOWSKI" wrote: > > On Qua, 14 Set 2011, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> I don't get that warm and fuzzy feeling by drilling an ssd. >> >> So, what is the best way for an individual to destroy an ssd? > > > I'd say that if you drill the memory chips in the SSD it i

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 14 Set 2011, shawn wilson wrote: I don't get that warm and fuzzy feeling by drilling an ssd. So, what is the best way for an individual to destroy an ssd? I'd say that if you drill the memory chips in the SSD it is destroyed beyond recovery. -- There are three things men can do w

'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

2011-09-14 Thread Alex
Hi, 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny (up to date as of 04 Spet. 2011) to Squeeze crashes with the following error:- E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libtext-iconv-perl Procedure used during upgrade to date:- 1) Downloaded and burned all .iso imag

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread shawn wilson
On Sep 13, 2011 10:05 AM, "yudi v" wrote: > > I just want to hear some opinions as to what precautions you take before parting with hard drives. I would be very interested to hear from SSD owners. > So, this is sort of an interesting question I haven't had to deal with yet (and I haven't really

Re: Rolling my own

2011-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:04:41 -0600, Dave Higgins wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to make my own Debian based distribution. > Either I'm asking the wrong question on Google or there is no > information. (...) No need to go that far away :-) http://wiki.debian.org/DebianCustomCD Besides, I

Re: Just a Quick Question

2011-09-14 Thread green
RiverWind wrote at 2011-09-13 18:53 -0500: > Subject: Just a Quick Question Please use meaningful subjects for your list messages. It makes it easier for people who can help you to notice your messages. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: netbook, close, suspend: ACPI?

2011-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:34:01 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > I have a small netbook that I broke the screen. > > I use it as a headless gateway now (the VGA port is still OK when > needed, I just have to plug a screen). > > I just noticed that if I "close" (or fold) it, after a while it

Re: How to disable USB automounts

2011-09-14 Thread Brian
On Wed 14 Sep 2011 at 10:46:44 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > With the greatest respects to the previous posters and there > suggestions... this has nothing to do with membership of plugdev, custom > udev rules to try and over-ride existing hal fdi, udev, and policykit > rules won't work. I'd agr

Re: autodiscover of a samba share

2011-09-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:04:21 +0200, tadziu wrote: > recently friend of mine visited me with his macbook in my home. i never > used macos before to often, but i was amazed that its default file > manager discovered automatically my public samba shares without > mounting. they are just visible and a

Re: Bug in Debian installer

2011-09-14 Thread sppmg
於 2011年09月14日 02:45, Bob Proulx 提到: > spp mg wrote: >> I install Debian(6.0.2.1 amd64) to a old HDD.This HDD has a lvm >> partition,it's creat by Fedora installer. >> I can't delete this lvm partition in intaller,it's display about "lvm >> is busy..." ,even if I delete all Logical Volume and restar

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 13. September 2011 schrieb yudi v: > I will be wiping partitions on my hard drive before sending it back to > the manufacturer for replacement. > > I usually prefer dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX# for the unencrypted > partitions and just over write the first few sectors on the LUKS

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread Aidan Gauland
On 14/09/11 02:10, yudi v wrote: > I will be wiping partitions on my hard drive before sending it back to > the manufacturer for replacement. > > I usually prefer dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX# for the unencrypted > partitions and just over write the first few sectors on the LUKS > partition to

Re: After upgrade to squeeze OS will not accept passphrase to unlock disk

2011-09-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:50:41PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > Further to the problem described in the first post to this thread, I > have progress of a sort to report. > [cut] > > At this point I entered the root password but it was not accepted. I > then -- as Gary Golden suggested -- rebooted u

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
With an SSD or modern HDD look for "secure erase", e.g., with hdparm or gparted. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j4pobh$

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread The_Ace
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Bryan Irvine wrote: > Which brings me to another fun question.  What's your worst > administration mistake and how did you recover? > > -Bryan drop database Live_database; Restored the previous day's backup and blamed it on a bad power supply :P -- The mysteri

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: > On 09/14/2011 01:15 AM, Bryan Irvine wrote: > > Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst > > administration mistake and how did you recover? > > On ext4 resizing > > - I did not put a swap partition on my laptop

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011 schrieb Andrew Reid: > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > jacques wrote: > > >> by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( > > > > > > Everyone has made that mistake at some point. I know I have! > > > > Not me! Thoug

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Hi, Martin, Martin Steigerwald wrote, on 09/14/11 09:35: > Hi Jörg! > > Am Dienstag, 13. September 2011 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: >> The status of the free radeon driver is available here: >> http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature >> >> A very recent kernel and additional firmware (firmware-linux-

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Jörg! Am Dienstag, 13. September 2011 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: > The status of the free radeon driver is available here: > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature > > A very recent kernel and additional firmware (firmware-linux-nonfree) > is needed for the discrete graphic adapter. A HP Pavilio

Re: Sandy bridge and kernel 3.1

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 13. September 2011 schrieb Rémi Marchal: > Hello! Hi Rémi, > I have bought the laptop N53SN-SZ126V from ASUS with the technology > Sandy Bridge. When I install the last stable version of Debian, I get > a black screen typical of the incompatibility of the kernel and Sandy > bridge. >