Re: switch window/session manager with gdm3

2011-10-12 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 02:43:44AM BST, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > How do you switch window/session managers with gdm3? > You get lots of hits with googling 'switching window manager' but it > is all outdated. Non-DM specific % update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Regards, -- Ra

Re: Wheezy - External HDD Not Mounting

2011-10-12 Thread shuttah
Also, i just wanted to add along with dmesg, /var/logs have some interesting entries. I've posted them on pastebin if it is any help - output of - root@desktop:/# cat /var/log/syslog http://pastebin.com/r5M1ERLW -- output of - root@desktop:/# cat /var/log/messages http://pastebin.com/ZJNBF

Re: Wheezy - External HDD Not Mounting

2011-10-12 Thread shuttah
Hello again, and thanks again Camaleón for responding. > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:57:15 -0400, k s wrote: > > > > The one i am having a problem with is the WD My Book, also using a NTFS > > filesystem, and has AC Power. It holds 2TB. I just w

Re: isc-dhcp quibble

2011-10-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Marc Auslander wrote: > This is the sort of thing that drives non-experts crazy. I consider myself well versed and it drives me crazy too. I find the isc-dhcp-server name to be inconvenient for my fingers to type at the keyboard. > init.d entry is called isc-dhcp-server, as it the /etc/default e

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > >> Besides, I'm sure you know that flash player plugin can contact you > >> webcam and audio devices very easily. > > > > Is that true on an ARM based platform? Remember that Debian supports a > > large number of architectures. AFAIK ther

Re: OT: string manipulation. sed? gawk? other? how?

2011-10-12 Thread Alexey Salmin
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Kent West wrote: > On 10/11/2011 05:27 PM, Chris Davies wrote: >> >> On 10/11/2011 03:20 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote: >>> >>> johnc@infotech:~$ cat lazydog.awk >>> /^The lazy dog/{ >>>          if ( count<   1 ){ >>>                  print "The lazy dog is my favo

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: > When pvdisplay says > april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/md0 > VG Name VG1 > PV Size 673.62 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB > Allocatabl

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:51:15PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 08:10:09 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > (I assume this was meant to be "pam_loginuid.so") > > Yes. > > > I'm afraid I need Plan B. Making this change and rebooting had no effect > > on USB-device mounting or on

switch window/session manager with gdm3

2011-10-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, How do you switch window/session managers with gdm3? You get lots of hits with googling 'switching window manager' but it is all outdated. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Trouble with java and music store www.channelclassic.com

2011-10-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 07:52:39PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > So you have to download the download loader. OK. How do you get > files to show up in the download list? > > They must be popular with this complexity. I don't know. I just tried using my wife's Mac and the download app would not

Re: Trouble with java and music store www.channelclassic.com

2011-10-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nick Lidakis wrote: I'm running up to date Debian Sid with Sun's Java 6.26-3 installed. The list was able to figure out my previous problem concerning Java and another online music store: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg00072.html So I made sure that wasn't the issue as I was able

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > Solution to your problem: mark the packages as having been manually > installed. I don't use aptitude but believe it is capable of doing it. That looks promising and yes aptitude has that capability as I see it in the man page. Thanks for the handy tip. That should get it squar

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Wayne Topa
On 10/12/2011 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: Darac Marjal writes: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I quickly get version information for packages I have installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux. If you want the version informatio

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 15:52:48 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Does it require a complete start over? > > Here is the kind of confusing mess I run into: > > sudo aptitude remove xserver-xorg-video-all > The following packages will be REMOVED: > xserver-xorg-video-all [Snip] > Looks prett

Trouble with java and music store www.channelclassic.com

2011-10-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
I'm running up to date Debian Sid with Sun's Java 6.26-3 installed. The list was able to figure out my previous problem concerning Java and another online music store: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg00072.html So I made sure that wasn't the issue as I was able to buy music from HDTr

ps2pdf: font problem

2011-10-12 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi I am having a PostScript (.ps) document that I am trying to convert to PDF. I am using ps2pdf for that, but the result looks bad: some glyphs are smaller than others, etc. How to fix this? -- http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/ http://www.eisenbits.com/ OpenPGP: E3D9 C030 88F5 D254 434C 6683

Re: Password Problem - Solved

2011-10-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > When the gnome desktop signs me out due to inactivity it shows a screen > with my name on it and asks for a password. It wont accept my password, > the same password I used to start gnome. > > I can get around this by clicking th

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Raf Czlonka writes: > Answering your previous question, there's no way of automating the process > of auto-discovery of graphic card, therefore if you'd like to run > a desktop system and install 'task-desktop' (itself not a real package > but a virtual one, a task which installs other packages)

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:41:17 +0100 Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:30:08PM BST, Celejar wrote: > > At the bash prompt (user@new-host). For a while I thought there was > > something messed up in my bash profile, until I finally realised that > > typing 'hostname' was yielding the w

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Sven Joachim writes: [...] >> i task-desktop Depends xserver-xorg-video-all >> ihA xserver-xorg-video-all Depends xserver-xorg-video-ati >> i A xserver-xorg-video-ati Depends xserver-xorg-video-mach64 >> >> Note that the output shows `Depends' rather than `Recommends', s

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:50:16PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm still managing to confuse myself. > > When I look at some of the drivers that nearly positive I do not need > with `aptitude why' It appears to be saying they are needed: > >aptitude why xserver-xorg-video-mach64 > i task

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-12 21:50 +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > Raf Czlonka writes: > >> You can remove most of the video drivers, leaving only the one(s) >> corresponding to your graphic card. The same goes with input drivers. >> > > I'm still managing to confuse myself. > > When I look at some of the driver

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Raf Czlonka writes: > You can remove most of the video drivers, leaving only the one(s) > corresponding to your graphic card. The same goes with input drivers. > I'm still managing to confuse myself. When I look at some of the drivers that nearly positive I do not need with `aptitude why' It

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-12 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 12/10/2011 20:51, Joey L a écrit : On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le mercredi 12 octobre, Joey L écrivit : [...] Package: redhat-cluster-suite [...] Do I have to buy Red hat for this ??? No, RedHat had opened up the sources. It's free software. [...] I used re

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:30:08PM BST, Celejar wrote: > At the bash prompt (user@new-host). For a while I thought there was > something messed up in my bash profile, until I finally realised that > typing 'hostname' was yielding the wrong result ... OK, since it's not the 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:14:36 -0400 Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:27:42 -0400 > > Tom H wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Celejar wrote: > > > >> > Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to > >> > 'new-host

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Kurt Flex
Tom H writes: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Kurt Flex wrote: >> Currently I guess the real bootloader is not on the raid at all. Maybe >> it's some other device they are hiding from me. (There is also a rescue >> system I can boot, but i can't find it in normal state). > > It sounds like it'

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:27:42 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Celejar wrote: >> > Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to >> > 'new-host' (/etc/hostname still contains the correct hostname). Anybody >>

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Joey Hess writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm not sure what you mean there, but for example.. if you search a >> pkg at: >> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xorg-dev >> >> It will show up with a version notation. So I'm thinking the OS must >> have that information somewhere. > > dpkg-quer

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Raf Czlonka writes: > You can remove most of the video drivers, leaving only the one(s) > corresponding to your graphic card. The same goes with input > drivers. Is the only way to tell which correspond with Video card, just picking them out of /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Or is there some trick way to

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Tom H writes: > aptitude search -F '%p %v' xorg > > or for all installed packages > > aptitude search -F '%p %v' '?installed' Man, I'm really sorry for having just skated right over all that information in man aptitude showing how the % operator can be used. Thanks for point it out -- To UNS

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-12 Thread Joey L
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le mercredi 12 octobre, Joey L écrivit : > [...] >> > Package: redhat-cluster-suite > [...] >> Do I have to buy Red hat for this ??? > > No, RedHat had opened up the sources. It's free software. > > [...] > > I used redhat-cluster-suite in

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Joey Hess writes: [...] > dpkg-query can display the information in whatever form you want. For > example: > > dpkg-query --show --showformat '${Package} ${Version}\n' > > (package-version is rarely used in Debian because it's ambiguous; > is foo-9-1 version 9-1 or foo, or version 1.2 of foo-9?

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > grub2 could use a blocklist (as lilo did), but thats unsafe. You can use blocklists with grub2 by passing "--force" as a "grub-install" argument but I would check first whether it's a VM booted through pvgrub or through whatever mecha

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Raf Czlonka writes: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:45:19PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote: >> And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It >> appears the original installation routine has installed a heard of >> them. 37 in fact. > > These are not different xservers - they're xserver-

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:45:19PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote: > And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It appears > the original installation routine has installed a heard of them. 37 in > fact. These are not different xservers - they're xserver-related (the main X.org one) pa

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Clive Standbridge
> How can I quickly get version information for packages I have > installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux. > > Not the unusual non standard notation one gets with `apt-get > versions', > which is not suitable for copy/paste: > > , > |aptitude versions xorg > |

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-12 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le mercredi 12 octobre, Joey L écrivit : [...] > > Package: redhat-cluster-suite [...] > Do I have to buy Red hat for this ??? No, RedHat had opened up the sources. It's free software. [...] I used redhat-cluster-suite in etch, adn was not really satisfied. I had to manage all my storage by scri

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-12 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Tom De Vylder wrote: > On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:48, Joey L wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Tom De Vylder wrote: >>> On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:39, Joey L wrote: >>> > >> Can i do failover over of asterisk,apache,mysql,postfix ??? > > Yes, you can. > >> -- can

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:02:39 -0500 > Harry Putnam wrote: > > Hello Harry, > > > Oh boy, I guess there is not much doubt that I need new glasses. > > Nah, just set the font a couple of point sizes bigger. :-) Bah, forget about this. I bette

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:02:39 -0500 > Harry Putnam wrote: > > Hello Harry, > > > Oh boy, I guess there is not much doubt that I need new glasses. > > Nah, just set the font a couple of point sizes bigger. :-) When you use Konsole Ctrl and +

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Kurt Flex: > Tom H writes: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Kurt Flex wrote: > >># grub-install /dev/sda > >>/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has > >> no post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible!. > >> /usr/sbin/grub-s

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Darac Marjal: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:58:52PM +0200, Kurt Flex wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've done a safe-upgrade today which upgraded grub: > > upgrade grub-pc 1.98+20100804-14 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 > > > > The same for grub-common. > > > > A dial

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ad L.: > Regardless of the possibility to use the space, I ALWAYS leave the > first cylinder of a disk unused (aligning partitions to cylinder > boundaries). I find the idea of using the first cylinder for "optimal" > space usage a bit ridiculous, to be honest.

isc-dhcp quibble

2011-10-12 Thread Marc Auslander
This is the sort of thing that drives non-experts crazy. init.d entry is called isc-dhcp-server, as it the /etc/default entry the /var/lib directry is called dhcp the /etc directory for the config files is called dhcp the files in /etc/dhcp and /var/lib/dhcp all start with dhcp -- -- To UNSUBS

Re: permissions on /dev/nvidia*

2011-10-12 Thread Giorgio Ruffa
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:32:34AM -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote: > (Your mail was in my gmail spam folder -- which is why I noticed it :) > > > to solve the problem i tried to edit the init.d/nvidia-kernel script and > > replaced the line > >        mknod -m 0660 dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 > > with

Re: Wheezy - External HDD Not Mounting

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:57:15 -0400, k s wrote: > Camaleón, hope you're having a good day, and thank you so much for > responding. Sorry about the formatting. You say "sorry" but still using html? ;-) > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Errors are very important so it is alw

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Darac Marjal writes: >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> >>> How can I quickly get version information for packages I have >>> installed.  I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux. >> >> If you

Re: Password Problem

2011-10-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:30:11PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:50:15PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 05:35:28PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > When the gnome desktop

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay >  --- Physical volume --- >  PV Name               /dev/md0 >  VG Name               VG1 >  PV Size               673.62 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB >  Allocatable           yes >  PE Size               4.00

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:33:06 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:53:30 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> does that mean that /dev/md0 still has 59037*4.00 = 236148 mebibytes >>> of free space left to be allocated to logical volumes? >> >> Mmm... I've been reading the man page for

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Joey Hess
Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean there, but for example.. if you search a > pkg at: > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xorg-dev > > It will show up with a version notation. So I'm thinking the OS must > have that information somewhere. dpkg-query can display the information i

Re: Wheezy - External HDD Not Mounting

2011-10-12 Thread k s
Camaleón, hope you're having a good day, and thank you so much for responding. Sorry about the formatting. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: Errors are very important so it is always desiderable to take a print > screen or a photo if you got pop-up window with a warning message. >

Re: [OT] Yet Another Language Issue (wa: imap with claws mail problem)

2011-10-12 Thread Curt
On 2011-10-11, Al Eridani wrote: > > I'll stop here, as it seems to be a waste of time to try to answer your > original > question, because "no hay peor sordo que el que no quiere o'ir" It is a waste of time because this person's horse is so high no reason or principle can attain her saddle posi

Re: mrtg config

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:08:30 +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote: (..) > 1) > Can I simply run a new cfgmaker command restart mrtg and be done? If so, > there is no mrtg script in /etc/init.d/ so how do I restart mrtg. If the package has been already configured and setup I'd say you only will have to ge

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:27:42 -0400 Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Celejar wrote: > > > > Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to > > 'new-host' (/etc/hostname still contains the correct hostname). Anybody > > seeing this, or understand why? > > What's the outpu

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:23:23 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:13:59 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to 'new-host' > > (/etc/hostname still contains the correct hostname). Anybody seeing > > this, or understand why? > > You mea

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:47:24 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Celejar writes: > > >> > Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to > >> > 'new-host' (/etc/hostname still contains the correct hostname). Anybody > >> > seeing this, or understand why? > >> > >> What is in /etc/hosts > > >

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:53:30 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:26:09 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: >> >> When pvdisplay says >> >> april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay >> --- Physical volume --- >> PV Name

Re: HD Data Recovery

2011-10-12 Thread Richard
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:26:01 + (UTC) Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:21:54 +0100, Ad L. wrote: > > > Silently seconded. But I guess it's human nature to simply not listen > > until it turns out that was a wrong choice. And plenty never learn > > afterwards either. > > > > > >

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Darac Marjal writes: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> How can I quickly get version information for packages I have >> installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux. > > If you want the version information for PACKAGES, try "dpkg -l|grep > '

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:26:09 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: > > When pvdisplay says > > april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/md0 > VG Name VG1 > PV Size

Metronamica training course fall 2011

2011-10-12 Thread Hedwig van Delden
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Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 09:45:19 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It appears >> the original installation routine has installed a heard of them. 37 in >> fact. > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log will tell you. > >> The list is post

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > How can I quickly get version information for packages I have > installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux. If you want the version information for PACKAGES, try "dpkg -l|grep '^i'", though I'm not entirely ce

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Celejar wrote: > > Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to > 'new-host' (/etc/hostname still contains the correct hostname). Anybody > seeing this, or understand why? What's the output of "sysctl kernel.hostname"? Could now be getting your hostna

Re: HD Data Recovery

2011-10-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:21:54 +0100, Ad L. wrote: > Silently seconded. But I guess it's human nature to simply not listen > until it turns out that was a wrong choice. And plenty never learn > afterwards either. > > > Anyway, on topic: > > Most tools allow you to tell the Linux kernel the amount

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:13:59 -0400, Celejar wrote: > Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to 'new-host' > (/etc/hostname still contains the correct hostname). Anybody seeing > this, or understand why? You mean your terminal displays "user@new-host:~$" while "cat hostname" returns

Re: How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 09:45:19 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It appears > the original installation routine has installed a heard of them. 37 in > fact. /var/log/Xorg.0.log will tell you. > The list is posted at the end. And how can

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Celejar writes: >> > Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to >> > 'new-host' (/etc/hostname still contains the correct hostname). Anybody >> > seeing this, or understand why? >> >> What is in /etc/hosts > > Nothing that seems particularly relevant - is there anything I should > l

How to get version information in common notation

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I quickly get version information for packages I have installed. I mean the common kind of notion used throughout linux. Not the unusual non standard notation one gets with `apt-get versions', which is not suitable for copy/paste: , |aptitude versions xorg | ihA 1:7.6+9

Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
This is starting to enter an area where I can't say too much with full certainty. Below I'll give a few hints that may or may not work. After that, I'll probably withdraw, as I won't have much more useful info to add right right now. In addition, using the capitaI i for normaI L, as this stupid wi

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:18:23 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to > > 'new-host' (/etc/hostname still contains the correct hostname). Anybody > > seeing this, or understand why? > > What is in /etc/hosts Nothing

stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: When pvdisplay says april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md0 VG Name VG1 PV Size 673.62 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB Allocatable yes

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Kurt Flex wrote: > Tom H writes: >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Kurt Flex wrote: >>> >>>    # grub-install /dev/sda >>>    /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has no >>> post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible!. >>>    /usr/sbin/g

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-12 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:37:17 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:57:50 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:15:46 + (UTC) Camaleón > > wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:50:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> > >> > Camaleón wrote: > >> >> Darac Marjal wrot

Re: hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Celejar writes: > Hi, > > Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to > 'new-host' (/etc/hostname still contains the correct hostname). Anybody > seeing this, or understand why? What is in /etc/hosts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

hostname set to "new-host"

2011-10-12 Thread Celejar
Hi, Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to 'new-host' (/etc/hostname still contains the correct hostname). Anybody seeing this, or understand why? Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure

Re: Password Problem

2011-10-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:37:27PM -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 17:35 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Now that I think about it, I don't really want the desktop to timeout at > > > all. I am the only user

Re: Re: How to install Debian 6 sparc with RAID 1 at installation

2011-10-12 Thread ML mail
Well what I now did is to create a dummy unused partition of 100 MB at the beginning of my hard disk and then create a root and a swap partition which both are in a RAID 1 set. For that I followed these instructions: http://www.unix.com/linux/141253-sparc-linux-raid1-silo.html Unfortunately, wh

Re: How to kill a dead loop program?

2011-10-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:17:26 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >> >>>   rred coming from apt lost itself in my box. The apt package version >>> is 0.8.15.8. The process in ps axfl i

Maling list posting strategies (was: rkhunter database update - which method is recommended?)

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:13:03 +0100, Ad L. wrote: > These days, when replying, I reply through the first link under "Reply > To" below a message. You mean you are clicking the bottom links provided by the mailing list archive? Why? Aren't you getting the messages through your Gmail account or a

Re: How to kill a dead loop program?

2011-10-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:17:26 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > >>   rred coming from apt lost itself in my box. The apt package version >> is 0.8.15.8. The process in ps axfl is: 0     0 10270     1  20   0 >> 58428   620 ?      R    ?        3

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:12:30 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 10:30:53 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:58:27 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >> > Quite likely. But it doesn't bolster your case and has absolutely >> > nothing to do with bugzilla shenanagins. >> >> Since when

Re: Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 10:30:53 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:58:27 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > Quite likely. But it doesn't bolster your case and has absolutely > > nothing to do with bugzilla shenanagins. > > Since when having options is something bad? An http gateway would be a

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Kurt Flex
Tom H writes: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Kurt Flex wrote: >> >>    # grub-install /dev/sda >>    /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has no >> post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible!. >>    /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is >

Re: Re: rkhunter database update - which method is recommended?

2011-10-12 Thread Ad L.
These days, when replying, I reply through the first link under "Reply To" below a message. I am then taken to gmail, where I compose my reply and send it. Then I simply click the Back button to get back to the original message. This time, I used the second option to reply to you directly, on-list

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 08:10:09 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > (I assume this was meant to be "pam_loginuid.so") Yes. > I'm afraid I need Plan B. Making this change and rebooting had no effect > on USB-device mounting or on the restart/shutdown display. Create /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-l

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-12 Thread Tom De Vylder
On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:48, Joey L wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Tom De Vylder wrote: >> On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:39, Joey L wrote: >> And that can be had here (Squeeze): Package: redhat-cluster-suite State: not installed Version: 3.0.12-2 Priority: optional

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-12 Thread Joey L
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Joey L wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Tom De Vylder wrote: >> On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:39, Joey L wrote: >> And that can be had here (Squeeze): Package: redhat-cluster-suite State: not installed Version: 3.0.12-2 Priority: opt

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/12/2011 05:53 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: ... usability of the system, and it's getting very frustrating; I'd think that the ability of a regular user to hotplug removable media should be an important thing to have working. ... I thought I'd add an additional comment about having regular

[Proc] wierd behavior of /proc

2011-10-12 Thread Jeremy MAURO
Hi everyone, Quick question for all of you: Here is the weird behavior: -- [root@]:~ # ls -al /proc/2574* ls: cannot access /proc/2574*: No such file or directory [root@]:~ # ls -ald /proc/25740 dr-xr-xr-x 7 mysql mysql 0 Oct 12 10:40 /proc/25740 [root@]:~ # cd /proc/25740 [root@XXX

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-12 Thread Joey L
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Tom De Vylder wrote: > On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:39, Joey L wrote: > >>> And that can be had here (Squeeze): >>> >>> Package: redhat-cluster-suite >>> State: not installed >>> Version: 3.0.12-2 >>> Priority: optional >>> Section: admin >>> Maintainer: Debian HA Maintai

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-12 Thread Tom De Vylder
On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:39, Joey L wrote: >> And that can be had here (Squeeze): >> >> Package: redhat-cluster-suite >> State: not installed >> Version: 3.0.12-2 >> Priority: optional >> Section: admin >> Maintainer: Debian HA Maintainers >> >> Uncompressed Size: 61.4 k >> Depends: cman (>= 3.0.12

Doradzamy z pasją

2011-10-12 Thread Justyna Zauscinska
Szanowna/y Pani/Panie, W związku z wymogami ustawy z dnia 18 lipca 2002 roku o świadczeniu usług drogą elektroniczną (Dz. U. Nr 144 z 9 września 2002 r., poz. 1204), chciałabym uzyskać Pana/Pani zgodę na przesłanie informacji dotyczącej oferty finansowej a w szczególności kredytu gotówkowego, do

Re: router for loadbalancing..anyone know a low cost solution ??

2011-10-12 Thread Joey L
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski > wrote: >> >> On 10/11/11 13:15, Joey L wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:23 PM, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> Thanks for the reply - sorry for not specifying much.

Re: XFCE--can't mount USB devices

2011-10-12 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/12/2011 05:53 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Debian Testing, with everything up to date; I'm using xdm as my display manager. Any attempt by a non-root user to mount a USB device in Thunar fails with the message "Mount Failed: Failed to mount "[device]" Not Authorized"

Re: How to kill a dead loop program?

2011-10-12 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:17:26 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > rred coming from apt lost itself in my box. The apt package version > is 0.8.15.8. The process in ps axfl is: 0 0 10270 1 20 0 > 58428 620 ? R?3821:44 /usr/lib/apt/methods/rred > Now I cannot kill

Re: debian vs. wide-dhcpv6-client

2011-10-12 Thread Wawrzek Niewodniczanski
On 10/11/11 15:28, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:37:40PM +0100, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: Hello, I wonder if you have any expirence how to set up a interface in /etc/network/interfaces to pick up IPv6 address using wide dhcpv6 client. It seems that I can ha

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

2011-10-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Kurt Flex wrote: > > I've done a safe-upgrade today which upgraded grub: > >    upgrade grub-pc 1.98+20100804-14 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 > > The same for grub-common. > > A dialog appeared which asked me to run grub-install. But that > failed. So i told the dialo

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