Re: Iceweasel really slow

2011-12-29 Thread Alan Chandler
On 28/12/11 10:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/12/11 19:48, Alan Chandler wrote: I am finding that Iceweasel seems to be really slow at times loading a web site. Whilst it is being slow the user interface is locked solid. I am not talking the odd second - delays of 20/30 seconds are occuring.

Re: address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/12/11 19:21, Rick Thomas wrote: Please don't top-post. I'm lazy and likely to ignore emails that require effort to read. > Thanks! Sorry for the delay in answering - for some reason this had been flagged as spam. > > Can you provide some specific model numbers? No - sorry, not for tho

Re: Wake on lan, etc

2011-12-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/12/11 16:41, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Does Linux support wake on lan? > > My friend told me, in windows, you can send some magic packages over > internet to wake up box that is even in sleep mode. The same tool can > tell the box to reboot as well. Is such beast exist in Linux world as >

Re: bsd-mailx incompatibility?

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > When I don't want to send mail I simply don't send mail. I guess it > is a little bit more work but I have done it so many times that I > don't even think about it anymore. I save the output to a temporary > file and then check to see if the file is empty before sending it off

Re: Wake on lan, etc

2011-12-29 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 30 December 2011 06:41:55 T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Does Linux support wake on lan? > > My friend told me, in windows, you can send some magic packages over > internet to wake up box that is even in sleep mode. The same tool can > tell the box to reboot as well. Is such beast exist in Li

Re: something regards "find"

2011-12-29 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 12/29/11, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know how to find one file out, > > one file contains some numbers, like > > 7.9 2.4 4.2 12.2 and etc > > I can't remember the file name. I tried: > > $ grep -e "7.9" -e "2.4" -e "4.2" -e "12.2" */* > > $ grep -e "7.9" -e "2.4" -e "4.2" -e "12.2" */*/* > >

something regards "find"

2011-12-29 Thread lina
Hi, I don't know how to find one file out, one file contains some numbers, like 7.9 2.4 4.2 12.2 and etc I can't remember the file name. I tried: $ grep -e "7.9" -e "2.4" -e "4.2" -e "12.2" */* $ grep -e "7.9" -e "2.4" -e "4.2" -e "12.2" */*/* not work, Thanks with best regards, -- To UN

URW Bookman Font

2011-12-29 Thread Joseph Loo
I have just installed Debian Squeeze. I have replaced the open office package with Libre Office 3.4.3. I am trying to use the URW Bookman L font. I have the bold, italic, and the bold italic. The non-bold & non-italic are both missing. I have TeXLive: Recommended fonts installed -- Joseph Loo j..

Re: Debian Lenny 32

2011-12-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/29/2011 5:37 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:50:02 +0100 > Mohamed Daif wrote: >> What is the maximum RAM supported in Debian Lenny 32bit . > Doesn't the motherboard have something to do with that? No. It's a fixed 64GB limitation, due to Intel's PAE having 36 physi

Re: Debian Lenny 32

2011-12-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/29/2011 10:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:26:28 +0200, Mohamed Daif wrote: > >> What is the maximum RAM supported in Debian Lenny 32bit . > > It should be 64 GiB with a PAE enabled kernel (bigmem). 64GB max for the kernel, but userspace processes are still limited to a 4

RESOLVED - Re: help with Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless card, Ralink driver?

2011-12-29 Thread keitho
OK, sorry, I found out that my configuration was wrong, now that I have wpa_supplicant configured properly I am working with no such errors. I just didn't think I would get an error message like that with a configuration problem... Keith > Just after posting this I found these pages: > > http://

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/29/2011 10:39 AM, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > I have installed debian testing and then installed xen-linux-system > and boot from its kernel. Till now everything just works fine. What > kind of tests would you suggest me for high load activity with the > controller? Bonnie++, IOzone, FIO, etc.

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/29/2011 9:41 AM, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > 2011/12/29 Camaleón : >> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:31:28 -0300, Mauro Sánchez wrote: >> >>> Camaleon, the configuration with one disk uses JBOD. I have tried Debian >>> Stable with only one disk, RAID 1, RAID 5 and LVM. None of them worked. >> >> Did you t

Re: bsd-mailx incompatibility?

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Hector wrote: > Some time between lenny and squeeze (and before lucid, but I haven't > searched further), mail changed its arguments. > > lenny: -e Don't send empty mails. If the body is empty skip the mail. > squeeze/lucid: -E Don't send messages with an empty body. > > .. a

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/29/2011 9:49 AM, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > 2011/12/29 Stan Hoeppner : >> On 12/29/2011 8:39 AM, Mauro Sánchez wrote: >> >>> As I said before, in my opinion, there is a problem with the kernel >>> and the disks. But it's just my opinion based on all the tests I've >>> done. >> >> The problem is w

Re: help with Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless card, Ralink driver?

2011-12-29 Thread keitho
Just after posting this I found these pages: http://wiki.debian.org/rt2860sta http://wiki.debian.org/rt2800pci which explain that for wheezy rt2800pci is now used instead of rt2860sta. Still, I get this error message... Can anyone help? Thanks, Keith > I am attempting to install a Sabrent 802.

Re: help with Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless card, Ralink driver?

2011-12-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/12/11 08:57 PM, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: I am attempting to install a Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless adapter card into a fresh wheezy install. I guess I am confused about which firmware and driver to use. When I do a ifup wlan0 I get the follwing error mesage: phy0 -> rt2800pci_mcu_st

help with Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless card, Ralink driver?

2011-12-29 Thread keitho
I am attempting to install a Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless adapter card into a fresh wheezy install. I guess I am confused about which firmware and driver to use. When I do a ifup wlan0 I get the follwing error mesage: phy0 -> rt2800pci_mcu_status: Error - MCU request failed, no response from hard

Re: Radeon, KMS, OpenGL and black screens

2011-12-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:51:43 +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: > > As far as I can tell, enabling KMS causes the screen to go black shortly > > after "ib test succeeded in 0 usecs" and disabling it prevents hardware > > 3D acceleration. > > > > Any ideas ? Yes, drm

bsd-mailx incompatibility?

2011-12-29 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, Some time between lenny and squeeze (and before lucid, but I haven't searched further), mail changed its arguments. lenny: -e Don't send empty mails. If the body is empty skip the mail. squeeze/lucid: -E Don't send messages with an empty body. .. and -e is gone. I looked in

Re: Debian Lenny 32

2011-12-29 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:50:02 +0100 Mohamed Daif wrote: > Hello > > What is the maximum RAM supported in Debian Lenny 32bit . > > > > Doesn't the motherboard have something to do with that? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Need help: Rebooted and now /dev/hdx are /dev/sdx

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Dennis Wicks wrote: > The only unexplained thing now is that two of the swap partitions no > longer have UUID on them and the one that does has a different > one. And it is different from what anything was before (On > Lenny). Well that doesn't really effect anything so I won't worry > about it! Y

Re: apache2 fails w/ "could not open transfer log file"

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric d'Halibut wrote: > Aha! Copying those into place and then adding my custom stuff fixed > everything up. Good! Then it is time for you to look for other lint left elsewhere since the upgrade and deal with those similarly. Most of the time you can probably simply remove the old file. find

Re: Need help: Rebooted and now /dev/hdx are /dev/sdx

2011-12-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Bob Proulx wrote the following on 12/29/2011 04:08 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I rebooted and all 3 of my IDE hard drives were recognized as SCSI drives. Quite some time ago the Linux kernel changed so that all ide drives now use the scsi driver. What you are seeing is a normal change. But you s

Re: apache2 fails w/ "could not open transfer log file"

2011-12-29 Thread Eric d'Halibut
On 12/29/11, Bob Proulx wrote: > Look for files with a .dpkg ending. Aha! Copying those into place and then adding my custom stuff fixed everything up. Thank you! -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet l

Re: Mainboard for Debian stable

2011-12-29 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 29-12-11 22:24, Andrei Popescu schreef: > On Jo, 29 dec 11, 21:50:46, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> >> I see here: "I just *did* backport r8169 from 3.0 into squeeze." >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2011/11/msg00347.html > > You probably meant: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2011/1

Re: Need help: Rebooted and now /dev/hdx are /dev/sdx

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Dennis Wicks wrote: > I rebooted and all 3 of my IDE hard drives were recognized as SCSI > drives. Quite some time ago the Linux kernel changed so that all ide drives now use the scsi driver. What you are seeing is a normal change. But you should have seen it some years ago! Long enough ago tha

Need help: Rebooted and now /dev/hdx are /dev/sdx

2011-12-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings I rebooted and all 3 of my IDE hard drives were recognized as SCSI drives. I did a shutdown -h, pulled the power cord for about a minute, and booted again and same thing. It looks like everything is mounted alright except for my swapspace. They (swap space) are all defined by UUID=

Re: Mainboard for Debian stable

2011-12-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 29 dec 11, 21:50:46, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > I see here: "I just *did* backport r8169 from 3.0 into squeeze." > http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2011/11/msg00347.html You probably meant: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2011/11/msg00346.html (From: Ben Hutchings). > But where

Re: Installing security updates

2011-12-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 29 dec 11, 13:41:46, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I think the idea of Testing is incompatible with security upgrades > only. That is where Stable comes in. Yep > There is the testing updates security archive: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free > > But

Re: Procmail regular expression: word end boundary matching

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I think it is a bug in the \< expansion. > > OMG, I thought it would be very hard for anyone to find out the answer. > > THANKS A LOT. works like a charm. That seems to be an okay workaround but it still looks like a bug. Since I use procmail a lot it moti

Re: Mainboard for Debian stable

2011-12-29 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 29-12-11 20:22, Andrei Popescu schreef: > On Jo, 29 dec 11, 17:11:56, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am selling Debian pre-installed desktops, but I cannot get the >> mainboards I've used anymore. Can somebody advice me a mainboard what >> works fine with Debian stable? >> >> A backp

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-29 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:01:54 -0500 "edj...@gmail.com edj...@gmail.com" suggested this: >On Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:39:45 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> > >> > No, it wasn't a hardware problem. After much travail with udev, >> > modprobe, interrupts, etc. and leariing more about dmesg outp

Re: Installing security updates

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> My box maintaining strategy is, the least maintenance possible the > >> better. E.g., I only want to upgrade the minimum set of packages. So of > >> all the packages that I need to upgrade, I only want to upgrade those > >> security updates. How can I do that

Re: Problems with sudo PATH

2011-12-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Steve Kreyer wrote: > > after an update of my Debian system some time ago I've encountered some > problems with sudo. In particular sudo doesn't seem to recognize any > commands located in /sbin or /usr/sbin. For example the command useradd is > located in /usr/sb

Re: Mainboard for Debian stable

2011-12-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 29 dec 11, 17:11:56, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Hello, > > I am selling Debian pre-installed desktops, but I cannot get the > mainboards I've used anymore. Can somebody advice me a mainboard what > works fine with Debian stable? > > A backported kernel or CSS firmware is not a big problem,

Re: Problems with sudo PATH

2011-12-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 29 dec 11, 18:50:03, Steve Kreyer wrote: > Roger, > > thanks very much for your answer. Yes, the two lines solve the > problem. I was working with "sudo su" for days till I asked here. > Thanks for saving me further hard typing work. :-) Just for the archives: you can replace 'sudo su' wit

Re: display: unable to load font -microsoft-verdana...

2011-12-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 29 dec 11, 10:34:43, Curt wrote: > Running squeeze. The display command (ImageMagick) gives the following > warning (the app will not open at all): > > display: unable to load font > `-microsoft-verdana-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*': Resource temporarily > unavailable @ error/xwindow.c/XBestFon

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-29 Thread edjabr
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:39:45 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > No, it wasn't a hardware problem. After much travail with udev, > > modprobe, interrupts, etc. and leariing more about dmesg output than I > > care to know, I thought - well, no sr0? Then make one! > > > > touch /dev/sr0

Re: Problems with sudo PATH

2011-12-29 Thread Steve Kreyer
Roger, thanks very much for your answer. Yes, the two lines solve the problem. I was working with "sudo su" for days till I asked here. Thanks for saving me further hard typing work. :-) Steve On 29.12.2011 17:16, Roger Leigh wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 05:15:19PM +0100, Steve Kreyer wr

Re: Power notifications broken in Wheezy

2011-12-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:17:04 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with no low power notifications and > battery status icon not updating in Wheezy (Gnome 3, kernel 3.1) or > should I report it as a bug? Im using an HP Pavilion. Mmm... I think I don't have such a issue here.

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:39:18 -0300, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > 2011/12/29 Camaleón : (...) >> It can be then a bug in the megasas kernel module and Google finds >> *lots* of similar errors for that same driver, and curiously, xen >> kernels: >> >> http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en#hl=en&t

Re: Debian Lenny 32

2011-12-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:26:28 +0200, Mohamed Daif wrote: > What is the maximum RAM supported in Debian Lenny 32bit . It should be 64 GiB with a PAE enabled kernel (bigmem). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: AMD FX 6100 CPU problem

2011-12-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:46:51 +0100, Marcel Kurka wrote: > I would like to report problem with CPU AMD FX 6100, I tried it against > these versions > > - boot CD firmware-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso > - boot CD debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso with these CDs install hang > up without message (black s

Re: need git suggestion

2011-12-29 Thread Peter Beck
On 12/28/2011 02:50 PM, Andreas Weber wrote: git command line gitk git-gui "giggle" is another nice gui frontend -- 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/4e

Re: Debian Lenny 32

2011-12-29 Thread Mohamed Daif
Hello What is the maximum RAM supported in Debian Lenny 32bit . -- *Best Regards Mohamed Daif*

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-12-29 11:10:52 -0500, edj...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:37:15 PM Bill Marcum wrote: > > In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > > lshw output in my case has no *cdrom entry at all. I rebooted, opened > > > the tray manually, inserted a Knoppix disk and set the

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Mauro Sánchez
2011/12/29 Camaleón : > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:41:25 -0300, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > >> 2011/12/29 Camaleón : >>> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:31:28 -0300, Mauro Sánchez wrote: >>> Camaleon, the configuration with one disk uses JBOD. I have tried Debian Stable with only one disk, RAID 1, RAID 5 a

Debian Lenny 32

2011-12-29 Thread Mohamed Daif
Hello What is the maximum RAM supported in Debian Lenny . -- *Best Regards Mohamed Daif*

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:41:25 -0300, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > 2011/12/29 Camaleón : >> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:31:28 -0300, Mauro Sánchez wrote: >> >>> Camaleon, the configuration with one disk uses JBOD. I have tried >>> Debian Stable with only one disk, RAID 1, RAID 5 and LVM. None of them >>> worke

Mainboard for Debian stable

2011-12-29 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, I am selling Debian pre-installed desktops, but I cannot get the mainboards I've used anymore. Can somebody advice me a mainboard what works fine with Debian stable? A backported kernel or CSS firmware is not a big problem, but I don't like installing closed source drivers. I want a netwo

Re: Problems with sudo PATH

2011-12-29 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 05:15:19PM +0100, Steve Kreyer wrote: > after an update of my Debian system some time ago I've encountered > some problems with sudo. In particular sudo doesn't seem to > recognize any commands located in /sbin or /usr/sbin. […] > What could be wrong here? Can I somehow see

Problems with sudo PATH

2011-12-29 Thread Steve Kreyer
Hi all, after an update of my Debian system some time ago I've encountered some problems with sudo. In particular sudo doesn't seem to recognize any commands located in /sbin or /usr/sbin. For example the command useradd is located in /usr/sbin and sudo fails: redwing@platon:~$ sudo usera

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-29 Thread edjabr
On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:37:15 PM Bill Marcum wrote: > In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > lshw output in my case has no *cdrom entry at all. I rebooted, opened > > the tray manually, inserted a Knoppix disk and set the BIOS to boot off > > the cdrom drive. No luck - booted from

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Mauro Sánchez
2011/12/29 Stan Hoeppner : > On 12/29/2011 8:39 AM, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > >> As I said before, in my opinion, there is a problem with the kernel >> and the disks. But it's just my opinion based on all the tests I've >> done. > > The problem is with the kernels and modules you are using, and remote

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Mauro Sánchez
2011/12/29 Camaleón : > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:31:28 -0300, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > >> Camaleon, the configuration with one disk uses JBOD. I have tried Debian >> Stable with only one disk, RAID 1, RAID 5 and LVM. None of them worked. > > Did you try to partition and format the disks from Gparted? >

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/29/2011 8:39 AM, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > As I said before, in my opinion, there is a problem with the kernel > and the disks. But it's just my opinion based on all the tests I've > done. The problem is with the kernels and modules you are using, and remotely possibly teh 9240, not the disk d

Re: how to do something automatically at boot?

2011-12-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:51:57 -0900, Britton Kerin wrote: > If I understand right you make a script like this one: > > rhino:/etc/init.d# cat /etc/init.d/weird-at (...) Wouldn't be easier to schedule a new cron task that is run on every boot (that is, @reboot)? > Is there something I'm missi

Re: Weird behaviour with gnome-shell v3

2011-12-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:37:18 +, Richard wrote: > it's odd, a bit annoying but not a killer > > When I start up the first app I start is claws mail, not here's the > weird bit. click on activities, click on the claws icon on my panel, and > nothing. click back on activities and there is the cl

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Mauro Sánchez
2011/12/29 Camaleón : > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:31:28 -0300, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > >> Camaleon, the configuration with one disk uses JBOD. I have tried Debian >> Stable with only one disk, RAID 1, RAID 5 and LVM. None of them worked. > > Did you try to partition and format the disks from Gparted? >

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:31:28 -0300, Mauro Sánchez wrote: > Camaleon, the configuration with one disk uses JBOD. I have tried Debian > Stable with only one disk, RAID 1, RAID 5 and LVM. None of them worked. Did you try to partition and format the disks from Gparted? > But all of them worked with

Weird behaviour with gnome-shell v3

2011-12-29 Thread Richard
Hi it's odd, a bit annoying but not a killer When I start up the first app I start is claws mail, not here's the weird bit. click on activities, click on the claws icon on my panel, and nothing. click back on activities and there is the claws mail app semi minimised, which needs clicking on to re

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Mauro Sánchez
2011/12/29 Camaleón : > On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:08:04 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 12/28/2011 3:16 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On a completely side note, have you considered in using a different >>> RAID level (e.g., RAID 1)? I think it would be a better option for >>> holding the operating sy

Re: IBM x3550 M3 with Debian Squeeze not detecting disks on installation

2011-12-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:08:04 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 12/28/2011 3:16 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On a completely side note, have you considered in using a different >> RAID level (e.g., RAID 1)? I think it would be a better option for >> holding the operating system. > > The hardware RAID

Re: "python-support/ipython" no longer exists in Wheezy?

2011-12-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:08:46 -0500, Jonathan Williford wrote: > I'm looking to install the files that used to be in the ipython package > in Lenny: > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/all/ipython/filelist (It's one of the > files in "/usr/share/python-support/ipython/", specifically, > ipy_autorelo

Re: Etron EJ168 USB3 controller: wheezy?

2011-12-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:20:57 +0100, Dexter Filmore wrote: > Motherboard Gigabyte GA-H67MA-USB3-B3, H67 (B3) lists: > 03:00.0 USB Controller: Device 1b6f:7023 (rev 01) > > Current 2.6.39 on wheezy: "2.6.39"? Looks a bit outdated to me, it should be "3.1.x" :-? > no go, attached devices are not

display: unable to load font -microsoft-verdana...

2011-12-29 Thread Curt
Running squeeze. The display command (ImageMagick) gives the following warning (the app will not open at all): display: unable to load font `-microsoft-verdana-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*': Resource temporarily unavailable @ error/xwindow.c/XBestFont/825. xdpf says : Warning: Cannot convert string

Xen 4.0 restore result in freezed DomU (64 bits)

2011-12-29 Thread François TOURDE
Hi all I've a little issue with Xen VM. Here are the facts: On the Dom0, I've a process who save the VM (xm save ...), copy the system, then restore (xm restore ...). When it runs on Debian 5.0 32 bits all works good, but on Debian 6.0 64 bits, restore works but the DomU doesn't respond. No info

Re: workstation build -- Is btrfs viable?

2011-12-29 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks all. Between the comments on this thread and the review if Mint 12 I heard on DistroWatch Weekly this week, where the reviewer tried btrfs, I think I'll be sticking to ext4 for the time being. --b On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:21:23PM

how to do something automatically at boot?

2011-12-29 Thread Britton Kerin
If I understand right you make a script like this one: rhino:/etc/init.d# cat /etc/init.d/weird-at #!/bin/sh set -e touch /tmp/g echo 'touch /tmp/greeber' | at now + 3 minutes touch /tmp/fgg exit 0 rhino:/etc/init.d# rhino:/etc/init.d# ls -l weird-at -rwxr-xr-x 1 ro

Re: address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! Can you provide some specific model numbers? I'll need a box that can do IPv6 tunneling over IPv4, since none of the ISP's I have access to have native IPv6 or any plans for it in the foreseeable future. Of course, it will also need to be able to do basic stateful fire-wall stuf

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-29 Thread Claudius Hubig
lina wrote: >Thanks, I do notice the PDF printer and also unchecked the "Print page >headers" >but after click print, >I don't know which/where the newly-printed PDF? >sounds silly, I checked the currently working directory and also the >possible directories, but none. Try ~/PDF, that’s where t

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-29 Thread lina
On Thursday 29,December,2011 04:02 PM, Ashton Fagg wrote: On 29/12/11 17:19, lina wrote: Print to file is a cool choice. but how can I get rid of the head line: File: /home/lina/Desktop/.doc Page 1 of 4 in the output file. Very easily. In gedit, go to File->Print, select the CUPS PDF prin

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-29 Thread lina
On Thursday 29,December,2011 04:02 PM, Ashton Fagg wrote: On 29/12/11 17:19, lina wrote: Print to file is a cool choice. but how can I get rid of the head line: File: /home/lina/Desktop/.doc Page 1 of 4 in the output file. Very easily. In gedit, go to File->Print, select the CUPS PDF prin

Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-29 Thread Bill Marcum
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal):

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-29 Thread Bill Marcum
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > lshw output in my case has no *cdrom entry at all. I rebooted, opened the > tray manually, inserted a Knoppix disk and set the BIOS to boot off the cdrom > drive. No luck - booted from the hard drive. > That sounds like a hardware problem with the cd

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-29 Thread Ashton Fagg
On 29/12/11 17:19, lina wrote: Print to file is a cool choice. but how can I get rid of the head line: File: /home/lina/Desktop/.doc Page 1 of 4 in the output file. Very easily. In gedit, go to File->Print, select the CUPS PDF printer. Then go to the "Text Editor" tab. From there you can