nfs-common failure

2011-09-24 Thread Alexander Petrov
Hi all, I have lenny with custom kernel running on old Intel celeron macine. I wanted to start NFS server and installed nfs-kernel-server. The installation completed ok but the server fails to start. The message in syslog is 'rpc.statd[2400]: unable to register (statd,1,udp) . I found some info

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/24/11 20:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm feeling really dumb right now. Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the information that I need at this time. I just installed a new SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive in my Lenny box with FVWM as my window manager. This is the first time that I have inst

Re: how stable is lenny

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Lisi wrote: On Saturday 24 September 2011 17:22:09 Andrew McGlashan wrote: Then you use debian foreports. How and where? Is it simply using a lenny stub [in apt source files] in place of squeeze or stable? I'm not quite sure which you are asking a question about, foreports or repositories.

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

2011-09-24 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:42:24 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: ... > I use youtube-dl all of the time. Works great. But as the youtube > site changes you need to keep the script updated. Since it is just a > script usually the latest one from Sid can be used on the old Stable > with no trouble. Works

New SATA drive installation question

2011-09-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I'm feeling really dumb right now. Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the information that I need at this time. I just installed a new SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive in my Lenny box with FVWM as my window manager. This is the first time that I have installed a SATA drive. How do I deter

create mountable image of installation dvds

2011-09-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
I purchased a Bible concordance program for the i386, and received the program on a set of DVDs. The problem is that I need to install the program on a laptop which has no optical drive, but only USB ports. So it appears to me that I need to find: (1) a procedure for creating a set of DVD

Re: a quick Q: iceweasle add on

2011-09-24 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/9/24 lina > > > > > is my laptop lack something? some module? > I tried the 'URL' and "URL" > > > Thanks, > > i had the same problem too, so i use keepvid.com for the mean time -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my

Re: what is xorg.conf equivalent of xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1920x1200 --pos 0x0 --output DVI-I-2 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 1920x0

2011-09-24 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 12:36 Sun 25 Sep , Scott Ferguson wrote: > A non-DE way of achieving the same thing is to create:- > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45custom_xrandr-settings > I tried it and put my xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1920x1200 --pos 0x0 --output DVI-I-2 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 1920x0 line in that fil

Re: what is xorg.conf equivalent of xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1920x1200 --pos 0x0 --output DVI-I-2 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 1920x0

2011-09-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/09/11 11:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: > i have switched to the noveau drivers from nvidia binary drivers > and therefore my old xorg.conf for the dual monitor setup > with different dimensions of the 2 monitors > wont work as the nvidia drivers used a "Twinhead" stanza. > > what should my xorg.

what is xorg.conf equivalent of xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1920x1200 --pos 0x0 --output DVI-I-2 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 1920x0

2011-09-24 Thread Mitchell Laks
i have switched to the noveau drivers from nvidia binary drivers and therefore my old xorg.conf for the dual monitor setup with different dimensions of the 2 monitors wont work as the nvidia drivers used a "Twinhead" stanza. what should my xorg.conf look like for my nouveau drivers. I am current

Re: Control panel

2011-09-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/09/11 09:24, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a control panel similar to Mandriva, openSUSE, etc in > Squeeze? other than Webmin. Google shows a lot of hosting control > panels for Debian but thats not what i am after. > > Cheers > > Mark > > Trick question - you don't mention which

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Rob Hurle
Dear Peter, On 25 September 2011 10:04, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I would like to migrate to firefox 6.0, but I'd like to do it using the > debian iceweasel distribution.  Can anyone tell me how to go about setting > that up? Try the following: http://mozilla.debian.net/ I used it and found it

iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I would like to migrate to firefox 6.0, but I'd like to do it using the debian iceweasel distribution. Can anyone tell me how to go about setting that up? Thanks in advance, -PT

Re: Control panel

2011-09-24 Thread Weaver
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:37:05 +0200 Frank Lanitz wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:24:55 +0200 > Mark Panen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is there a control panel similar to Mandriva, openSUSE, etc in > > Squeeze? other than Webmin. Google shows a lot of hosting control > > panels for Debian but thats

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:15:51 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > 5 hours? Did you say 5 hours? > > I have a 10 year old dual Mendocino 550 machine with only 384MB of PC100 > that takes about 30 minutes to compile my custom kernels using make -j2. > > I'd guess you're including the kitchen si

Re: Control panel

2011-09-24 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:24:55 +0200 Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a control panel similar to Mandriva, openSUSE, etc in > Squeeze? other than Webmin. Google shows a lot of hosting control > panels for Debian but thats not what i am after. Short answer: No. To reconfigure some packages yo

Control panel

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, Is there a control panel similar to Mandriva, openSUSE, etc in Squeeze? other than Webmin. Google shows a lot of hosting control panels for Debian but thats not what i am after. Cheers Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Panen
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:00:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> > Tom Furie writes: >>  > What's wrong with 'mv /mnt/deer/* /mnt/deer/zebra'? Sure, it'll >>  > complain about trying to move zebra to itself, but it works. >> >>       The ot

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:00:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Tom Furie writes: > > What's wrong with 'mv /mnt/deer/* /mnt/deer/zebra'? Sure, it'll > > complain about trying to move zebra to itself, but it works. > > The other catch is that it won't consider the filenames with a >

Re: What to do with a DVD-RW +VR disk? UDF file system

2011-09-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 Sep 2011 at 20:19:49 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd > No such file or directory > libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd > libdvdnav: vm: failed to open/read the DVD > libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access > libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd >

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

2011-09-24 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting The_Ace on 2011-09-14 03:08: > drop database Live_database; > > Restored the previous day's backup and blamed it on a bad power supply :P You coulda blamed it on any of the outputs of "fortune bofh-excuses" and most users would likely not know. My worst administration mistake? Forgetting

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Panen
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Mark Panen writes: >> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Mark Panen writes: > >  >>> Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my >  >>> /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer > >  >>> In /mn

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/24/2011 11:01 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:22:33 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: Intel's Atom N455 I'm not familiar with the capabilities of your hardware, but if you have multiple CPUs ("cores") The Atom 455 is a single core 64/32 bit CPU with HyperThreading, 1.66G

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 22:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 20:20 +, > debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 > > I didn't read the thread, just one mail. > > For my 2.1 GHz dual-core Athlon CONCURRENCY_LEVEL does minimal reduce > compili

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/24/2011 9:22 AM, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some debugging with my wifi drivers (from staging) and discovered that compilation took ~5 hours. That's much for testing purposes. Compilation takes place in a netbook governed by Intel's

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 September 2011 16:11:26 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Are you sure /var/cache went smaller directly after cleaning browser > caches? Maybe you did something else... No. In every case I looked immediately after I had cleared the browser cache, and the size of /var/cache went down all

Re: how stable is lenny

2011-09-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 September 2011 17:22:09 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Curt wrote: > > On 2011-09-24, Lisi wrote: > >> But say that e.g. the screen reading software is "better" in Lenny than > >> in Squeeze? > > > > Then you use debian foreports. > > How and where? Is it simply using a lenny stub [in a

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 20:20 +, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 I didn't read the thread, just one mail. For my 2.1 GHz dual-core Athlon CONCURRENCY_LEVEL does minimal reduce compiling time. I suspect that consequently reducing unneeded stuff would be m

Re: What to do with a DVD-RW +VR disk? UDF file system

2011-09-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:03:11 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:48:35 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On my Toshiba D-VR7KC2 DVD recorder I have recorded some video on a >> DVD- RW, using the +VR recording format. > > Is the disc finalized? Thanks. That was a ggod question. It i

Re: Boot loader installation failed.

2011-09-24 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. On Saturday 24 September 2011 18:11:33 Eneko Gotzon Ares wrote: > I'm a humble Mac user trying to start using Debian (Squeeze) on a 2.1 > GHz PowerPC G5. I did a Squeeze installation on my PowerMac G5 some weeks ago - no problem. Yaboot works fine - I have a dual boot installation Squeeze / M

Re: Boot loader installation failed.

2011-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > > Forwarded Message > > From: Eneko Gotzon Ares > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Boot loader installation failed. > > Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:11:33 +0200 > > yaboot Since I'm not using Apple, I googled and it seems to be possible to use GRUB, http://sowe

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1765

2011-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > Forwarded Message > > From: Johan Scheepers > > To: debian > > Subject: debian testing - questions > > Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:12:20 +0200 > > > > Good day, > > > > Please, Where should I ask questions about debian testing (wheezy). > > > > Thanks > > Johan S Welcome

OT: Re: How to lock packages to protect

2011-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > > Forwarded Message > > From: Lisi > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: How to lock packages to protect > > Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:03:57 +0100 > > > > On Saturday 24 September 2011 07:12:44 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Anyway, I couldn't understand your who

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:56:35 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > > CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) > although "getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN" on an atom's probably "1"; but > you never know... > > You can also pass "INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1" to make-kpkg so that the "make > modules_install" step st

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:18:47 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: > > What do you mean by "kernel-package"? Debian's vanilla kernel? "kernel-package" is the name of a Debian package, as in aptitude install kernel-package It is not a kernel. It is a collection of scripts, configuration files, etc. t

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:22:33 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: >> >> I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some >> debugging with my wifi drivers (from staging) and discovered that >> compilation took ~5 hours. >> >> That's

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:31:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Camaleón writes: > > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:40:48 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > > >> Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my > >> /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer > > >> In /mnt/deer i know

Re: Getting a large file onto DVD

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:15:09 -0400, Frank wrote: > On 24/09/11 05:55 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> I would try that but I don't have the file anymore...I burned it >>> to a >>> DVD using a trial version of NeroLinux. >> >> I told you so because by burning an ISO image usually enforces t

Re: Getting a large file onto DVD

2011-09-24 Thread Frank
On 24/09/11 05:55 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:53:22 -0400, Frank wrote: On 23/09/11 12:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:08:54 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I am having trouble getting a large (2.7 gigs) file onto a DVD. Brasero warns me that such a large file is o

Re: Boot loader installation failed.

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:11:33 +0200, Eneko Gotzon Ares wrote: > I'm a humble Mac user trying to start using Debian (Squeeze) on a 2.1 > GHz PowerPC G5. (...) There is a dedicated mailing list for the ppc arch, just in case you still have not done it I would also post this question there: http:/

clang compile problem with samefile

2011-09-24 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! I have a problem compiling samefile with clang on Wheezy. configure gives the following error: "checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details." config.log says: "configure:1683: checking for C

Re: how stable is lenny

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Curt wrote: On 2011-09-24, Lisi wrote: But say that e.g. the screen reading software is "better" in Lenny than in Squeeze? Then you use debian foreports. How and where? Is it simply using a lenny stub [in apt source files] in place of squeeze or stable? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andre

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-09-24 18:04 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:18:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Plug in any hardware that you intend to use with your netbook and then >> run "make localmodconfig". This works from Linux 2.6.32 onwards¹. > > I'll test that, it sounds very good :-) > > (I

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:01:07 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:22:33 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I don't need nothing special, just to be able to boot the system, test >> the staging drivers and then remove/compile a new kernel again so >> wasting the less time in t

Re: Partitions recovering on empty HDD.

2011-09-24 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: > Actually, I did not interpret its output like that: > > # testdisk /list /dev/sdb Testdisk is simply amazing. Try to read this pages: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Data_Recovery_Examples h

Boot loader installation failed.

2011-09-24 Thread Eneko Gotzon Ares
I'm a humble Mac user trying to start using Debian (Squeeze) on a 2.1 GHz PowerPC G5. The processor is a PowerPC 970fx "G5" with 64-bit data paths and registers, with native support for 32-bit application code. I have download powerpc netinst image and run install64 command. The installation

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:18:08 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-09-24 16:22 +0200, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I don't need nothing special, just to be able to boot the system, test >> the staging drivers and then remove/compile a new kernel again so >> wasting the less time in the process would

Re: debian sqeeze - k3b

2011-09-24 Thread Joe
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:38:00 +0200 Johan Scheepers wrote: > On 24/09/2011 14:24, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Saturday 24 September 2011 14:20:13 Johan Scheepers wrote: > > > >> Good day, > >> Installed k3b in the gnome desktop. > >> > >> Any ideas please. > >> Thanks > >> Johan S > >>

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:22:33 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: > > I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some > debugging with my wifi drivers (from staging) and discovered that > compilation took ~5 hours. > > That's much for testing purposes. > > Compilation takes place in a

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-09-24 16:22 +0200, Camaleón wrote: > I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some > debugging with my wifi drivers (from staging) and discovered that > compilation took ~5 hours. > > That's much for testing purposes. > > Compilation takes place in a netbook governed b

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > On Friday 23 September 2011 20:06:15 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I am pretty sure that browsers put the web cache into the home > > directory > > > of the user that uses it or /var/tmp. I.e.: > Mine were in /var/cache. At least, getting rid of the

Re: regards the /

2011-09-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 24. September 2011 schrieb lina: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: [...] > $ dpkg -l | grep linux- > ii doc-linux-text2008.08-1 > Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in ASCII format > ii linux-base3.3 > Linux image base

Re: regards the /

2011-09-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 24. September 2011 schrieb lina: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: [...] > $ uname -a > Linux debian 3.0.0-mbp82-lina #1 SMP Tue Jul 26 21:52:57 SGT 2011 > x86_64 GNU/Linux [...] > > cat /proc/version [.

Re: About alien command

2011-09-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu: > Hi Hi! > It may be a silly question but I'm following occurs ago > some time trying to install an ATI R200 BB [Radeon All in > Wonder 8500DV], I got the drivers-8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm fglrx64_4_3_0 and > 8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm fglrx64_6_8

Re: how stable is lenny

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:39:57 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 24 September 2011 15:12:59 Curt wrote: >> On 2011-09-24, Lisi wrote: >> > But say that e.g. the screen reading software is "better" in Lenny >> > than in Squeeze? >> >> Then you use debian foreports. > > Not everything will be availab

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:26:34 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I don't need nothing special, just to be able to boot the system, test >> the staging drivers and then remove/compile a new kernel again so >> wasting the less time in the pr

Re: how stable is lenny

2011-09-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 September 2011 15:12:59 Curt wrote: > On 2011-09-24, Lisi wrote: > > But say that e.g. the screen reading software is "better" in Lenny than > > in Squeeze? > > Then you use debian foreports. Not everything will be available in foreports. And anyway, why is it so terrible to use

Re: owner group question

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:05:59 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: (...) > I was going to do the following: > > $ chown mark:mark -r ~/* > > but before I did that, I thought that I would ask if there are any files > in a user's home directory that shouldn't have the user/group ownership > of the user. I

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Milos Negovanovic wrote: Ive dd-ed /dev/sdb3 and that did the trick! I was able to re-add the partition to RAID array. Great, but keep an eye on that disk. I would definitely be wanting to ensure it's integrity ... at the very least make sure you have good backups. I'm sure you know that si

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
I would build only the relevant kernel *module*, I want to play with (or imported from linux-next): http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage HTH On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some

Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I had to compile the latest upstream kernel sources to make some debugging with my wifi drivers (from staging) and discovered that compilation took ~5 hours. That's much for testing purposes. Compilation takes place in a netbook governed by Intel's Atom N455 with 2 GiB of RAM and I wou

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Milos Negovanovic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:46:21PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1305 > +0200]: > > > If the disk is failing as it appears from the smartctl message ... > > > then I also concur that you should look at replacing the disk ASAP. > > > > Ill try to fix th

Re: how stable is lenny

2011-09-24 Thread Curt
On 2011-09-24, Lisi wrote: > > But say that e.g. the screen reading software is "better" in Lenny than in > Squeeze? Then you use debian foreports. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

owner group question

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Neidorff
In backing up and restoring my filesystem while upgrading several times, I realized that I might have duplicate files in my home directory. I used fdupes and did find a bunch...that is not my question. fdupes did find that there were many files that could not be accessed. When I examined the

Re: debian wheezy weekly builds

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:34:48 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Downloaded dvd-1 from . > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/ (19 > Sept). > > Is it possible to install debian from dvd-1 only ?? Sure. > Installed it on an external usb drive..all went well untill... >

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/23/2011 4:12 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Mostly I would say that on my machine the biggest disk space use of /var/log use is email. So I guess I would say if you are concerned about disk space then you might want to unsubscribe from debian-user. :-) This is about you and explaining your deskto

Re: debian sqeeze - k3b

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:38:00 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > On 24/09/2011 14:24, Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> On Saturday 24 September 2011 14:20:13 Johan Scheepers wrote: >> >>> Good day, >>> Installed k3b in the gnome desktop. >>> >>> Any ideas please. >>> Thanks >>> Johan S >>> >> In k

Re: Partitions recovering on empty HDD.

2011-09-24 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Scott: >> My question is is there a tool/way that can gather info from the disk >> where are those start/end s of partitions - as I of course do not >> remember its numbers? But I remember the first was about 4.1 GB >> (being made w/ dd to put a bootable iso to

Re: debian wheezy weekly builds

2011-09-24 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 24/09/2011 14:49, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Saturday 24 September 2011 14:34:48 Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, Downloaded dvd-1 from . http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/ (19 Sept). Is it possible to install debian from dvd-1 only ?? Yes In

Re: how stable is lenny

2011-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/23/2011 9:00 AM, Long Wind wrote: even pressing power button on PC case can't shutdown lenny I have to unplug power cable to shutdown ACPI BIOS normally forces you to hold the power button in for at least 3-5 seconds to power off a system when the CPU is running in protected mode. Are

Re: debian wheezy weekly builds

2011-09-24 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 24 September 2011 14:34:48 Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > > Downloaded dvd-1 from . > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/ (19 Sept). > > Is it possible to install debian from dvd-1 only ?? Yes > Installed it on an external usb drive..all went wel

Re: debian sqeeze - k3b

2011-09-24 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 24/09/2011 14:24, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Saturday 24 September 2011 14:20:13 Johan Scheepers wrote: Good day, Installed k3b in the gnome desktop. Any ideas please. Thanks Johan S In kde k3b is under multimedia Thierry So in gnome it won't appear anywhere under "applicat

debian wheezy weekly builds

2011-09-24 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Downloaded dvd-1 from . http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/ (19 Sept). Is it possible to install debian from dvd-1 only ?? Installed it on an external usb drive..all went well untill... Near the beginning was told some non-free files required..(names p

Re: debian sqeeze - k3b

2011-09-24 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 24 September 2011 14:20:13 Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > Installed k3b in the gnome desktop. > > Any ideas please. > Thanks > Johan S In kde k3b is under multimedia Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

debian sqeeze - k3b

2011-09-24 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Installed k3b in the gnome desktop. Nothing in " Applications - Sound & video " It is available via command line and "create launcher" on the desk top. Any ideas please. Thanks Johan S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: debian testing - questions

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:12:20PM +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > > Please, Where should I ask questions about debian testing (wheezy). > > Thanks > Johan S > ---end quoted text--- If they're end user questions and not developer related, here is as good a place as any. ;) -- To

debian testing - questions

2011-09-24 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Please, Where should I ask questions about debian testing (wheezy). Thanks Johan S -- 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/4e7dc924.5050...@telkom

Re: How to lock packages to protect

2011-09-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 September 2011 07:12:44 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Anyway, I couldn't understand your whole reply, since I didn't like to > search for idioms translated from English to German ;). Oh dear! Mea culpa. :-( (my mistake, my fault) Herewith an attempt at translating. I don't know which p

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Milos Negovanovic wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 08:30:06PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Milos Negovanovic wrote: >>> >>> Where is blkid getting its info from? fdisk sees /dev/sdb3 as linux RAID >>> partition. >> >> I expect blkid gets its details from /dev

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1305 +0200]: > > If the disk is failing as it appears from the smartctl message ... > > then I also concur that you should look at replacing the disk ASAP. > > Ill try to fix the RAID first, Ive seen crappy drives going into > temporary spasm and everyth

Re: regards the /

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:24:37 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: >> The above experience I posted it happened on a VM I have to run testing >> for well... "testing" purposes. I wanted to try something (don't >> remember exactly what, either "hibe

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Mark Panen writes: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Mark Panen writes: >>> Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my >>> /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer >>> In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i >>> rsy

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Mark Panen wrote: Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i rsynced on 22/09/2011. I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in /mnt/deer/zebra. (cd /mnt/deer

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Milos Negovanovic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 08:30:06PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi Milos, > > Milos Negovanovic wrote: > >root@micro ~ # blkid > > Edited the following > > >/dev/sda3: UUID="9bca8a2b-2283-9bed-c8fe-9f89b0860cb2" > >LABEL="micro:2" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sdb3: LABEL="home" > >UUID=

Re: How to stop services from running in different init levels?

2011-09-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/09/11 16:15, Harshad Joshi wrote: > i want to stop privoxy and tor to starting automatically in runlevel 2. > please tell me the script location from where we can make modifications > to respective files? > > i dont want to type /etc/init.d/privoxy stop each time i log into gnome > desktop.

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Mark Panen
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Mark Panen writes: > >  > Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my >  > /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer > >  > In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i >  > rsynced on 22/09/2011. > >  > I

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:31:47 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Camaleón writes: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:40:48 > > Not a command line but Midnight Commander is very good for such > > day-to- day tasks. > > Following the suggestion of Victor Wagner (in news:fido7.ru.unix.linux, > I

Re: How to stop services from running in different init levels?

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:45:28 +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: > i want to stop privoxy and tor to starting automatically in runlevel 2. > please tell me the script location from where we can make modifications > to respective files? You should read how init scripts work and how to tweak them: http://

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Camaleón writes: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:40:48 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: >> Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my >> /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer >> In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i >> rsynced on 22/09/2011. >> I need

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Milos, Milos Negovanovic wrote: root@micro ~ # blkid Edited the following /dev/sda3: UUID="9bca8a2b-2283-9bed-c8fe-9f89b0860cb2" LABEL="micro:2" TYPE="linux_raid_member" /dev/sdb3: LABEL="home" UUID="4030e91a-c6fa-4640-81eb-654e2ad8c180" TYPE="ext4" root@micro ~ # mdadm --detail --

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1143 +0200]: > Hmmm this line looks suspicious: > /dev/sdb3: LABEL="home" UUID="4030e91a-c6fa-4640-81eb-654e2ad8c180" > TYPE="ext4" > > Where is blkid getting its info from? fdisk sees /dev/sdb3 as linux RAID > partition. From the partition. Is the par

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1134 +0200]: > For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/syslog). And? Please try to provide all relevant information up front. It takes a lot of effort of others if we have to pull all information out of your nose. -- .''`. martin f. krafft

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:40:48 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my > /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer > > In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i rsynced > on 22/09/2011. > > I need a command line option to put them al

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Tom Furie writes: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:40:48AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: >> In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i >> rsynced on 22/09/2011. >> I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in >> /mnt/deer/zebra. > What's wrong with 'mv /

Re: What to do with a DVD-RW +VR disk? UDF file system

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:48:35 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On my Toshiba D-VR7KC2 DVD recorder I have recorded some video on a DVD- > RW, using the +VR recording format. Is the disc finalized? Can it play in another DVD video reader? > But I'm unable to play it on my wheezy system in either VLC o

Re: Getting a large file onto DVD

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:53:22 -0400, Frank wrote: > On 23/09/11 12:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:08:54 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> >>> I am having trouble getting a large (2.7 gigs) file onto a DVD. >>> Brasero warns me that such a large file is only supported by the 3rd >>>

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Mark Panen writes: > Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my > /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer > In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i > rsynced on 22/09/2011. > I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in > /mnt/de

Re: command to mv files & folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:40:48AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i rsynced > on 22/09/2011. > > I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in /mnt/deer/zebra. What's wrong with 'mv /mnt/deer/* /mnt/deer/zebra'? Sure, it'll c

Re: nvidia binary drivers to get glx and xorg 1.11.0 on sid

2011-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:16:38 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I have been using the nvidia binary drivers > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.25-pkg2.run > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.30-pkg2.run > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.31-pkg2.run > > on my desktop running sid. Those are very old nvidia drivers :-?

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Milos Negovanovic
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 07:33:23PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > Milos Negovanovic wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 07:09:57PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >>Hi Milos, > >> > >>Milos Negovanovic wrote: > >>>root@micro ~ # mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 > >>>mdadm: add new device fa

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