Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread yudi v
even for Linux-only systems, there really is no > satisfactory answer to the OP's question besides Samba/CIFS. > > Samba looks like the best option as I will be adding windows clients and a solaris file server. -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread Arno Schuring
Raf Czlonka (r...@linuxstuff.pl on 2011-10-23 15:39 +0100): > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:52:14PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I don't understand why a few people have passed over ssh as being > > overkill. > > SSH (Secure Shell) - you don't need security on home-only network. That depends. If you'

kvm and bonding

2011-10-23 Thread Jesus arteche
hey guys, do you know if it is possible to increase the bandwidth in a virtual machine running on kvm server with etehrnet bonding (LACP), or the bandwidth is limited by kvm per virtual machine and not for network adaptor??? thanks in advance

Re: bizarre look of libreoffice under KDE/compiz

2011-10-23 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On 23 October 2011 12:16, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:03:32 +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > > > Hello all, > > Hi, please, avoid using html formatted messages, they render very badly > in some e-mail readers :-) Sorry I forgot to disable html on gmail. > > > I am having a strange is

[SOLVED] Re: Sudo delays

2011-10-23 Thread Frank
On 23/10/11 03:11 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Frank wrote: Recently I have noticed that calling up a terminal using Sudo from a menu..i.e. sudo /usr/bin/rxvt sometimes results in a 4 to 5 second delay before the terminal opens up. At other times it's instantaneous. It happens whether the command is ru

Re: Sudo delays

2011-10-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Frank wrote: > Recently I have noticed that calling up a terminal using Sudo from a > menu..i.e. sudo /usr/bin/rxvt sometimes results in a 4 to 5 second > delay before the terminal opens up. At other times it's > instantaneous. > It happens whether the command is run from my launcher Wbar, or the >

Re: Debian Locked Up

2011-10-23 Thread chris dunn
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:07:47 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:26:47 -0500, chris dunn wrote: > > > > For a while I've been suffering mysterious crashes where the screen > > goes blank and the computer becomes completely unresponsive. Ctrl > > Alt F1 and the like do not work

Sudo delays

2011-10-23 Thread Frank
Recently I have noticed that calling up a terminal using Sudo from a menu..i.e. sudo /usr/bin/rxvt sometimes results in a 4 to 5 second delay before the terminal opens up. At other times it's instantaneous. It happens whether the command is run from my launcher Wbar, or the IceWm menu. Does a

Re: Gnome 3 crash with iceweasel and chromium

2011-10-23 Thread José Silva
On 23/10/11 15:04, Camaleón wrote: (...) (gnome-settings-daemon:7788): Gdk-WARNING **: gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0. (...) Ah, then this time it seems is not just gnome-shell that crashes but the whole X server... - What about the Xorg lo

Re: framebuffer resolution problem

2011-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 4:27 AM, daniel jimenez wrote: > > Thanks! It worked wonders, my ttys work at native resolution now :D > > My /etc/default grub has these lines now: > > GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800 > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=keep > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1280x800x32 "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD" no longer exists. It

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-23 Thread Sthu Deus
From, Walter: >It was crystal clear in the first place. Only a moron could have >thought that it referred to the GRUB timeout. Please, hold Your judgments about a person just within Yourself. Or even better - judge people not at all, for such judgments of Yours - do not lead to any good - for Yo

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread Claudius Hubig
Raf Czlonka wrote: >On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:52:14PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I don't understand why a few people have passed over ssh as being >> overkill. > >SSH (Secure Shell) - you don't need security on home-only network. That at least explains the millions of bots out there. Of course

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:38:30 +, Camaleón wrote: > Well, if nobody has more suggestions, I'll open a bug report for this. > It is still unclear whether direct it to GRUB2 or kernel package... Done. Finally went to GRUB2 (Bug#646363) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:27:46 +1000, yudi v wrote: > Both, samba and nfs can > >> be overkill for sharing a bunch of files and even harder to manage and >> setup. OTOH, SSH is just a matter of installing the corresponding >> package and that's all. > > >> SSH will not only help you to securely t

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:52:14PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote: > I don't understand why a few people have passed over ssh as being > overkill. SSH (Secure Shell) - you don't need security on home-only network. > Its easiest of all to setup. (well excepting the nautilus suggestion) IMHO, it's not -

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread yudi v
Both, samba and nfs can > be overkill for sharing a bunch of files and even harder to manage > and setup. OTOH, SSH is just a matter of installing the corresponding > package and that's all. > SSH will not only help you to securely transmit the files between the > two computers but will also he

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-10-23 a las 22:40 +1000, yudi v escribió: (sending back to the list) > Is Ubuntu using some sort of firewall preventing/rejecting/dropping > pingsover the local network? :-? > > Yes it was the firewall. Thanks Ah, great :-) > > Yes, for sharing files it is easier to open nautilus and o

Re: Gnome 3 crash with iceweasel and chromium

2011-10-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:07:28 +0100, José Silva wrote: > On 19/10/11 14:25, Camaleón wrote: >> If the crash is fully reproducible, that's something to take into >> account. > > It became random and less frequent. Maybe because some packages have been updated :-) > (...) >> Okay, you can grep th

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Raf Czlonka writes: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:25:16AM BST, yudi v wrote: >> I have a Debian PC connected to the Internet via mobile broadband and I have >> this Internet connection shared with an ubuntu pc via Ethernet connection. >> Internet connection works fine. > > Let me recap: > > Intern

Re: xinit xbmc-standalone on boot

2011-10-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
I'm now using openELEC on the Shuttle as it's a frontend without any other purpose I'm very happy with it. It boot's very fast, everything works out of the box and it updates itself automatically. Cheers Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Gnome 3 crash with iceweasel and chromium

2011-10-23 Thread José Silva
On 19/10/11 14:25, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:01:59 +0100, José Silva wrote: a few days ago, when it became available, and now I'm experiencing crashes (goes to login screen) with several web pages. Sometimes it repeats with the specific page, sometimes not. Happens both with icewea

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:25:16AM BST, yudi v wrote: > I have a Debian PC connected to the Internet via mobile broadband and I have > this Internet connection shared with an ubuntu pc via Ethernet connection. > Internet connection works fine. Let me recap: Internet over mobile <---> Debian PC <-

Re: no sound after upgrade to Gnome 3 (pulseaudio issue? consolekit issue?)

2011-10-23 Thread Richard
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:02:40 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:22:19 +0800, Zhao Difei wrote: > > > I found I have no sound after the upgrade to gnome 3. This issue seems > > related to pulseaudio. > > > > [snippet] > > ~$ aplay -l > > List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices *

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:25:16 +1000, yudi v wrote: > I have a Debian PC connected to the Internet via mobile broadband and I > have this Internet connection shared with an ubuntu pc via Ethernet > connection. Internet connection works fine. > > I can ping the Debian PC but cannot ping the Ubuntu P

Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread yudi v
I have a Debian PC connected to the Internet via mobile broadband and I have this Internet connection shared with an ubuntu pc via Ethernet connection. Internet connection works fine. I can ping the Debian PC but cannot ping the Ubuntu PC, how come? I would like to share files between these two s

Re: xz support in dpkg

2011-10-23 Thread Andreas Balser
Terrific, it seems to be working! Actually, I had tried manually upgrading dpkg yesterday; but failed. This time it worked, and now "apt-get upgrade" is busy. Thanks, Andreas > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:12:01 +0200, Andreas Balser wrote: > > (...) > >> PS: After some googling, I believe the probl

Re: bizarre look of libreoffice under KDE/compiz

2011-10-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:03:32 +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > Hello all, Hi, please, avoid using html formatted messages, they render very badly in some e-mail readers :-) > I am having a strange issue with Libreoffice under KDE with compiz > enabled. Αs an old Chinese proverb says, > here is pi

Re: Recent Sid Upgrade--Unbootable System

2011-10-23 Thread Dom
On 23/10/11 09:32, David Baron wrote: Recent Sid upgrade rendered the system unbootable. Probably lvm packages. I get put into an initramfs shell. I rebooted to the previous kernel which had its initramfs apparently untouched. Anyone else had this? No error was cited against lvm2. How do I fix

Re: xz support in dpkg

2011-10-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:12:01 +0200, Andreas Balser wrote: (...) > PS: After some googling, I believe the problem is that I am running a > version of dpkg that is too old (1.15.5.6, but I would need >1.15.6, I > think). Anyway, any workaround to make apt-get work again, incl. support > for data.t

xz support in dpkg

2011-10-23 Thread Andreas Balser
Hi, I am running debian unstable, but upgrading only occasionally. Now I have some packages which give an error message saying that dpkg cannot handle "data.tar.xz". apt-get does not do much else than complaining about this, whatever I try to do. Any ideas how I can fix this? Thanks a lot, Andr

Re: no sound after upgrade to Gnome 3 (pulseaudio issue? consolekit issue?)

2011-10-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:22:19 +0800, Zhao Difei wrote: > I found I have no sound after the upgrade to gnome 3. This issue seems > related to pulseaudio. > > [snippet] > ~$ aplay -l > List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices > card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analo

Re: suspend resume debugging

2011-10-23 Thread Max Tsepkov
It is Dell XPS M1530 laptop, with nvidia 8600M GT. I use vesa driver, because latest (testing) proprietary drivers causes horrible slowdown of gnome. Brightness doesn't have effect, to make it clear, the screen is not blank (you can see that it's powered on, but just black), it doesn't receive powe

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22/10/11 22:56, Walter Hurry wrote: It was crystal clear in the first place. Only a moron could have thought that it referred to the GRUB timeout. You really are a lovable character, Hasty. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Recent Sid Upgrade--Unbootable System

2011-10-23 Thread David Baron
Recent Sid upgrade rendered the system unbootable. Probably lvm packages. I get put into an initramfs shell. I rebooted to the previous kernel which had its initramfs apparently untouched. Anyone else had this? No error was cited against lvm2. How do I fix this? Wait for next upgrade and hope i

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

2011-10-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:56:02 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:31:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> I was talking about the kernel parameter "boot_delay" that you can pass >> to the kernel line of GRUB2 to slowdown the messages presented on the >> screen when your computer boots. >

Re: framebuffer resolution problem

2011-10-23 Thread daniel jimenez
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=792" > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1280x800x32 > > After every change remember to run "update-grub". > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón Thanks! It worked wonders, my ttys work at native resolution now :D My /etc/default grub has these lines now: GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800 GRUB_GFXPA