Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 29 March 2012 17:21:48 Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Lisi wrote: >> > On Tuesday 27 March 2012 19:00:18 Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: >> >> I want it fast! >> > >> > Then use Ubuntu. >> >> You must mean "use non-LTS

Re: Xen vs KVM

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:32 PM, francis picabia wrote: > > Xen requires a patched kernel.  It is unstable.  It crashed on > me randomly before I got as far as configuring any VM stuff. > The system which experienced this returned to a standard > Debian kernel and never had a problem again. > > K

Re: Xen vs KVM

On my job we using KVM+Proxmox, This is pretty. 2012/3/30 Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) > On 28/03/2012 16:36, Jon Dowland wrote: > >> On 28/03/12 01:32, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: >> >>> I am also in favor of Xen. >>> >> >> You have just said, not two messages ago, that you've never even tr

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

On 28/03/2012 17:11, Richard Hector wrote: On 27/03/12 19:38, Johan Grönqvist wrote: Debian 7 is expected to be frozen this summer, And here was me thinking it would be this winter. Hint: This is an international list. Seasons aren't good for international representation of dates :-) Richard

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

On 28/03/2012 16:41, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2012 01:37:48 you wrote: I prize bleeding edge technology above stability and reliability. But of course I still want stability and reliability. You can't have both, they are self-contradictory. If you prize bleeding edge technology above

Re: Xen vs KVM

On 28/03/2012 16:36, Jon Dowland wrote: On 28/03/12 01:32, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: I am also in favor of Xen. You have just said, not two messages ago, that you've never even tried KVM. I always prefer to base my opinions on evidence, personally. Yes, I have never tried Linux

Re: Xen vs KVM

On 28/03/2012 16:35, Jon Dowland wrote: On 27/03/12 14:32, Aaron Toponce wrote: IMO, Xen isn't "yesterday's virtualization technology". It's very current, stable, flexible, supported and very much "today's virtualization technology". For me, it became yesterday's technology when it became appa

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

On 28/03/2012 16:34, Jon Dowland wrote: On 27/03/12 11:55, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: libvirt and virt-manager are not virtualization solutions/hypervisors. They are virtualization management tools. I am of course absolutely aware of that. I could have simply said that Debian 6.0 suppo

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

On 28/03/2012 16:04, Keith McKenzie wrote: On 28/03/12 01:37, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: I prize bleeding edge technology above stability and reliability. But of course I still want stability and reliability. The two are incompatible! Who says so. -- Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Mi

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 20120329_095413, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 28 mar 12, 16:58:03, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > > You could have also considered uncompressing the tarball somewhere else, > > > like $HOME/tmp or $HOME/src, but it sure is a valid solution, especially > >^^ > >

Re: Upgrade to wheezy possible?

Sharon Kimble wrote: > Is it possible to upgrade to wheezy from squeeze with only 670.9mb > available in my /usr partition please? Or do I need to repartition and > reinstall squeeze and then upgrade to wheezy? If I were in that mode I would consider removing everything that wasn't absolutely requ

Re: 2nd try: reboot hangs

Miles Fidelman wrote: > ... since "shutdown" works fine, reboot is the issue I recently had a very similar problem on a new Intel Atom motherboard. An update of the BIOS fixed it. Reboot issues were listed in the changes for that particular model. Perhaps that is also the problem that you are h

Re: Lilo not recognizing keyboard SOLVED)

On 03/27/12 03:59, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:43:45 -0500, Stan wrote in message ..one thing lilo will do, is hop back to the old disk if you make that a menu option. Found that out trying to boot /dev/md0 rather than dance between /dev/hd{a,b}0. ;o) Absolutely! I left the men

Re: Preseed not pulling in file from network with wget

Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I've got the following snippet in a Debian preseed.cfg file: > > d-i preseed/late_command string \ > in-target mkdir --mode=700 /home/vagrant/.ssh; \ > in-target chown vagrant:vagrant /home/vagrant/.ssh; \ > in-target wget --no-check-certificate > --output-document=/home/va

Re: Lilo not recognizing keyboard SOLVED)

Stephen, I apologize for not posting this sooner, but this was the first chance that I had to reboot and go into the BIOS Setup. To answer your questions... AMI BIOS v02.54 4/22/2005 Features Setup USB Function For DOSEnabled (Default was Disabled) Marc

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:34:52PM +, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 24 March 2012 15:09:57 Ken Heard wrote: > >  Nouns and adjectives have gender, but people have sex. > > The latest strident feminist PC requires "gender". (It came up recently on > Debian Women.) I share your objection. But th

Some KDE apps depend on kdebase-runtime, which is transitional

Dear Debian: I tried to remove the transitional package kdebase-runtime, and got a shock when it proposed removing a number of packages, some important [1]. I checked the bugs for a few of them, and no report has been filed. I should do so, but really don't look forward to doing th

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

On Thursday 29 March 2012 20:21:46 wlan wrote: > I think, you may use backports. Or use archive of mirrors. If you can't > update you system. There are no updates for Lenny now. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

On Jo, 29 mar 12, 15:38:04, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Could it be, that currently the GRUB from the Linux side is used? Or maybe that grub in the MBR is trying to use the modules from the Linux side? That might explain the errors (version mismatch, since the Linux side is squeeze not sid).

Re: set nameserver on boot in /etc/network/interfaces

> i could not find documentation about which package to enable setting > nameserver ip (dns client) upon boot from /etc/network/interfaces > > can anyone point me to the right direction? > I set a local nameserver in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (provided by the dhcp3-client package):

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On Jo, 29 mar 12, 14:21:58, Camaleón wrote: > > I don't usually pay much attention to what "NEWS.Debian" says Do you have apt-listchanges installed? It's Priority: standard now. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailm

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

> ,[ man fstab ] > | noauto do not mount when "mount -a" is given (e.g., at boot time) > ` > > Hope this explains, > Andrei ahh... man fstab -- Thanks, CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 29/03/12 18:26, Dom wrote: Disclaimer: I've never used Midnight Commander Give it a go, you may fall in love with it, like many have. :) Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

Re: apt-listbugs misses #665959 in Sid dist-upgrade

On 2012-03-29 21:38 +0200, hvw59601 wrote: > Just did an aptitude full-upgrade on Sid and it upgraded all sorts of > stuff, also ncurses-base. > > That is affected by bug #665959 which messes up all the dpkg dialogs > and also mc. Yes, sorry about that. > But it gives a fix: copy /lib/terminfo/l

Re: Upgrade to wheezy possible?

I ended up reinstalling debian 6 in one big partition as /usr had just 7.5mbs left and it was totally unusable. And when I rebooted I couldnt gain access to it at all, so I was forced to do a reinstall. I've tried installing wheezy by upgrading from squeeze and have fallen foul of this bug ..

apt-listbugs misses #665959 in Sid dist-upgrade

Hi, Just did an aptitude full-upgrade on Sid and it upgraded all sorts of stuff, also ncurses-base. That is affected by bug #665959 which messes up all the dpkg dialogs and also mc. But it gives a fix: copy /lib/terminfo/l/linux from the previous version. But apt-listbugs did not list that

Re: Iceweasel connection reset

Hi, Camaleon sometimes I can't load some web-pages. Pages are different always. For example I can't load search-page from google, sometimes i can do it, but i have error when i do search-request. Sometimes i have error when i click link from search-result of google, sometimes i can't load my googl

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

I think, you may use backports. Or use archive of mirrors. If you can't update you system. 2012/3/29 Tony Baldwin > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > Hi Jochen, > > > > Can you advice what repository I can use instead for systems with lenny, > > please? > > Cha

Re: set nameserver on boot in /etc/network/interfaces

Hi, nameservers could be into /etc/resolv.conf, if you have dhcp-server into local you could dns-servers from this server. Regards. 2012/3/29 Umarzuki Mochlis > hi, > > i could not find documentation about which package to enable setting > nameserver ip (dns client) upon boot from /etc/network/

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

On Thursday 29 March 2012 17:21:48 Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 March 2012 19:00:18 Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > >> I want it fast! > > > > Then use Ubuntu. > > You must mean "use non-LTS." That's up to him, but Debian is patently not what h

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:26:15 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 29/03/12 17:22, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:52:07 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> On Jo, 29 mar 12, 14:09:29, Camaleón wrote: That's the problem, Andrei. The nebook has 2 GiB of RAM, enough for not having to care

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 29/03/12 17:22, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:52:07 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 29 mar 12, 14:09:29, Camaleón wrote: That's the problem, Andrei. The nebook has 2 GiB of RAM, enough for not having to care about this and the operation I was performing was browsing a 75 MiB t

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:56:51, David Banks wrote: > > [snip no obvious problem] > > Sorry, I'm out of ideas. I would suggest, if you don't get any more > suggestions in a few days (say over the weekend) you contact the > kFreeBSD port maintaine

Re: Xen vs KVM

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 28 March 2012 06:43, Aaron Toponce wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:35:25AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: >>> For me, it became yesterday's technology when it became apparent that >>> the hypervisor model (putting an entirely new kernel

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:56:51, David Banks wrote: > > [snip no obvious problem] > > Sorry, I'm out of ideas. I would suggest, if you don't get any more > suggestions in a few days (say over the weekend) you contact the > kFreeBSD port maintaine

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:52:07 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 29 mar 12, 14:09:29, Camaleón wrote: >> >> That's the problem, Andrei. The nebook has 2 GiB of RAM, enough for not >> having to care about this and the operation I was performing was >> browsing a 75 MiB tar.gz file with Midnight

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 27 March 2012 19:00:18 Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: >> >> I want it fast! > > Then use Ubuntu. You must mean "use non-LTS." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: update-alternatives vs. dpkg-divert [was: Re: rt kernel and nouveau]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 28 mar 12, 11:08:13, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >> > On Ma, 27 mar 12, 16:45:39, Tom H wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Andrei POPESCU >> >> wrote: >> >>> On Jo, 22 mar 1

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:27:55 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:15:02 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message > : > >> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:24:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: (...) >> > As you can see, the permissions of the mount point have no influence >> > on the permission

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On Jo, 29 mar 12, 14:09:29, Camaleón wrote: > > That's the problem, Andrei. The nebook has 2 GiB of RAM, enough for not > having to care about this and the operation I was performing was browsing > a 75 MiB tar.gz file with Midnight Commander. That's simply what flooded > tpmfs and made MC to a

Re: I accidentally installed lenny's linux-image/linux-header packages and I'm running Squeeze. What to do?

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:15:51 +1100, Alex wrote in message : > So it would seem that it is safe to have Lenny repositories in the > sources.list below the Squeeze ones. I've commented them out anyway, > as I can't recall any specific packages that are from Lenny. ..a wee 'aptitude update &&aptitu

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:59:39 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message : > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:41:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Sb, 24 mar 12, 16:41:00, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> But if you feel better having sex than gender I'm not going to > >> object to that. > > > > Mmm... no, I

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:15:02 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message : > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:24:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 21 mar 12, 16:29:45, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> For static mount points, this is usually done/set in "/etc/fstab". > >> You basically need two things: >

Re: How to monitor the internet bandwidth eater ?

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:47:10 +0530, J. wrote in message <20120326104710.2d336...@shiva.selfip.org>: > > Hello, > > This is an office environment where client's PC are connected with a > hub ..really? A box that behaves like a properly set up coax wire? And therefore, _not_ a switch? > and

Re: Lilo not recognizing keyboard SOLVED)

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:43:45 -0500, Stan wrote in message <4f704861.1040...@hardwarefreak.com>: > On 3/25/2012 10:58 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > I should have googled before posting. Aparently lilo is not > > capable of recognizing USB keyboards, but the BIOS can. All I > > needed to do was

Re: Monitor remains in Standby after Suspend

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:58:26 +0200, Leonard Le-Rey wrote: > I have the following problem: > > I use Debian/Wheezy (Testing) and have a NVIDIA Geforce Graphic Card, an > Eizo EV2335W monitor. If I use the option "Suspend" in GNOME 3, > everything works and the computer shuts down. If I start the c

Re: set nameserver on boot in /etc/network/interfaces

> hi, > > i could not find documentation about which package to enable setting > nameserver ip (dns client) upon boot from /etc/network/interfaces > > can anyone point me to the right direction? The package is resolvconf and the parameters in /etc/network/interfaces are dns-nameservers, dns-doma

Re: set nameserver on boot in /etc/network/interfaces

Pada 29 Mac 2012 10:49 PTG, Camaleón menulis: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:32:53 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> i could not find documentation about which package to enable setting >> nameserver ip (dns client) upon boot from /etc/network/interfaces >> >> can anyone point me to the right directio

Re: Question about make-kpkg and versions

On 3/28/12, Stephen Powell wrote: > (I.e. is this a bug or a feature?) Haha, indeed! It seems M$ is haunting us, haha... Regards, Panayiotis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: set nameserver on boot in /etc/network/interfaces

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:32:53 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > i could not find documentation about which package to enable setting > nameserver ip (dns client) upon boot from /etc/network/interfaces > > can anyone point me to the right direction? What's what you understand for "nameserver ip (dn

Re: What is happening to tex in debian?

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:23:43 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > *Now, a few of the livetex packages have new 2011 versions, many not. > The one without > includes amstex, which I am using. Anybody knows what is happening, and > when the new tex will be complete? Have you checked if ther

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

On 29/03/12 14:38, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> grub> search --file /boot/grub/core.img >> hd1,msdos1 > > Thats strange. I thought GRUB was installed on the kFreeBSD hd0. Yeah, I confirmed that these files are definitely present on the kFreeBSD partition, so I have no idea why GRUB can't see the

set nameserver on boot in /etc/network/interfaces

hi, i could not find documentation about which package to enable setting nameserver ip (dns client) upon boot from /etc/network/interfaces can anyone point me to the right direction? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:36:36 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 28 mar 12, 19:57:34, Camaleón wrote: >> >> - The upgrade routine asks the user for this change so this is not >> being applied silently but consciously. > > IMVHO an entry in the release notes and NEWS.Debian would be necessary,

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > Hi Jochen, > > Can you advice what repository I can use instead for systems with lenny, > please? Change references to lenny in /etc/apt/sources.list to Stable or Squeeze, and follow the instructions here: http://www.debian.org/r

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:10:19 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 28 mar 12, 20:47:45, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> > You expected to be able to uncompress an archive of unspecified size >> > to /tmp on a testing system. >> >> "Unspecified size"? > > If you did mention a size I must have missed i

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb David Banks: > On 29/03/12 12:57, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >> However, when I boot this I get this error three times: > >> error: file not found. > > > > What is before the file not found? Does it give a hint as to which > > file it did not found? Or what

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

Hi Martin, On 29/03/12 12:57, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> However, when I boot this I get this error three times: >> >> error: file not found. > > What is before the file not found? Does it give a hint as to which file it > did not found? Or what it was trying to do before printing the error

Re: Upgrade to wheezy possible?

Am Mittwoch, 28. März 2012 schrieb Sharon Kimble: > Is it possible to upgrade to wheezy from squeeze with only 670.9mb > available in my /usr partition please? Or do I need to repartition and > reinstall squeeze and then upgrade to wheezy? See here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/rele

Re: Upgrade to wheezy possible?

Am Mittwoch, 28. März 2012 schrieb Sharon Kimble: > Is it possible to upgrade to wheezy from squeeze with only 670.9mb > available in my /usr partition please? Or do I need to repartition and > reinstall squeeze and then upgrade to wheezy? Should be. Depends on the amount of packages you upgrade

Re: repository signing keys update HOW?

Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb Per Carlson: > Hi Paul > > > And thanks for mentioning (debian-keyring at a minimum) The > > descriptive phrase confirmed my guess that this was the one I needed > > the contents of. I need an alternative method of getting the contents > > since aptitude is in

Re: repository signing keys update HOW?

Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb Paul E Condon: > On 20120329_123755, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 29/03/12 12:12, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I have forgotten how to install the latest official signing keys > > > for the package repositories, and I can't even remember search > > > terms that ta

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb David Banks: > menuentry 'squeeze' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu > --class os { > insmod part_msdos > insmod ext2 > set root='(hd1,msdos1)' > linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet > initrd /boot

Re: Apt-pinning confusion

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:36:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:01:12 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:23:25 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> On Ma, 27 mar 12, 12:07:08, Ramon Hofer wrote: Thanks for the explanation! So why didn't they "just"

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:56:51, David Banks wrote: [snip no obvious problem] Sorry, I'm out of ideas. I would suggest, if you don't get any more suggestions in a few days (say over the weekend) you contact the kFreeBSD port maintainers (debian-bsd?) or file a bug against grub. Kind regards, Andrei

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

On 29/03/12 11:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Does the ext2 module exist on the kFreeBSD partition (wherever the other > grub modules are, presumably /boot/grub/)? ls -l /boot/grub/ext2.mod shows that the file is there, with a size of 5892 bytes. > Is the MBR grub image in sync with the modules (do

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:14:00, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > Hi Jochen, > > Can you advice what repository I can use instead for systems with lenny, > please? squeeze :) By this I mean you should prepare to upgrade as soon as possible: 1. prepare to have the computer unusable for at least a few hours (

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:19:23, David Banks wrote: > > menuentry 'Squeeze' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { > insmod part_msdos > insmod ext2 > set root='(hd1,msdos1)' > linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

On Jo, 29 mar 12, 12:34:10, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > I have used both Ubuntu and Debian Sid and according to my experience, > Sid is usually more stable than Ubuntu. The only expection in > stabiliness was that "Problematic upgrade" (name of thread on this > list) of libpcsomething3. It seems

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

On 29/03/12 10:16, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Please attach your full /boot/grub/grub.cfg Here is the /boot/grub/grub.cfg. I am installing it with "grub-install /dev/ad0" in kFreeBSD, which completes successfully. Correction: I only get the "file not found" error repeated twice now. Cheers, David

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

Hi Jochen, Can you advice what repository I can use instead for systems with lenny, please? Thanks a lot, Yuriy On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Yuriy Kuznetsov: > > > > Was lenny removed from repository updates I wonder? > > Yes. > > J. > -- > If I was Mark Chapman I w

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

On Thursday 29 March 2012 06:51:30 Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Lisi wrote: > >On Tuesday 27 March 2012 19:00:18 Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > >> I want it fast! > > > >Then use Ubuntu. > > Why not Sid? I thought it possible that Ubuntu was nearer to the stability also required. Since I have

udev rules files [was Re: Impressora brother dcp 115C]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:23:57PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > If you want to use the inbuilt scanner, you have to edit > /etc/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules manually and make it only readable, to > avoid a change by an update. > > Just add this two lines: > # Brother DCP115C > ATTR{idVend

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

Yuriy Kuznetsov: > > Was lenny removed from repository updates I wonder? Yes. J. -- If I was Mark Chapman I would have shot John Lennon with a water pistol. [Agree] [Disagree] signature.asc Description: Digital signatu

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

On 29/03/12 10:38, Jon Dowland wrote: > Do you have your kernel and initramfs inside the directory /boot on the > root filesystem, or do you have a separate boot partition? The kernel and initrd are inside /boot on the root filesystem, no separate boot partition. Cheers, David -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems that you sent this email directly to me and not to the list. I presume that this happened by accident. I have used both Ubuntu and Debian Sid and according to my experience, Sid is usually more stable than Ubuntu. The only expection in stabil

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

Hi, I'm getting the following errors in logs from Debian servers for last 3-4 days already: Mar 29 04:34:51 cron-apt: W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 2001:xxx:x:x:xxx::: 80] Was lenny removed from reposi

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:24:30AM +0100, David Banks wrote: > menuentry 'squeeze' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu > --class os { > insmod part_msdos > insmod ext2 > set root='(hd1,msdos1)' > linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet > i

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 01:29:32AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 28.03.2012 20:27, Dom wrote: > > This change has caused me a number of (admittedly not too serious) > > problems. > > To get a better feeling for what kind of problems users with > tmpfs-on-tmp run into, I think filing bugs again

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

On Jo, 29 mar 12, 09:24:30, David Banks wrote: ... > I tried to manually add a menu entry for squeeze as such, within > /etc/grub.d/40_custom: Please attach your full /boot/grub/grub.cfg Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.or

Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

Hey all, I am trying to set up a dual-boot machine with Debian kFreeBSD (sid) and Debian Linux (squeeze). The machine has two hard disks, the first disk has kFreeBSD on it and I want to use this disk to boot both OSs. Squeeze is on the second disk. The kFreeBSD partition is UFS and the Squeeze p

Re: repository signing keys update HOW?

Hi Paul > And thanks for mentioning (debian-keyring at a minimum) The > descriptive phrase confirmed my guess that this was the one I needed > the contents of. I need an alternative method of getting the contents > since aptitude is in need of new keys to start working again. The latest debian-ar

Re: Do a DIGITALFRAMES with DEBIAN

On 29/03/12 18:09, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:57:05, Bob wrote: >> I was thinking this would be a great project for a raspberry PI and >> a nice little 17" samsung 172x 1280x1024 lcd screen I no longer use. For extra points you could use Dmitry Grinberg's project and do it with a

Re: Do a DIGITALFRAMES with DEBIAN

On Jo, 29 mar 12, 11:57:05, Bob wrote: > I was thinking this would be a great project for a raspberry PI and > a nice little 17" samsung 172x 1280x1024 lcd screen I no longer use. > > It wouldn't use much more power than a Digiframe, the screen in > nicer, it can access the photos directly of my g

Re: repository signing keys update HOW?

On 29/03/12 17:32, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 29 mar 12, 12:37:55, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> "apt-cache search keyring" and choose according to your needs >> (debian-keyring at a minimum) > > Did you mean debian-archive-keyring? Yes! Thanks for the correction. > debian-keyring contains th

Re: repository signing keys update HOW?

On 29/03/12 13:08, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20120329_123755, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 29/03/12 12:12, Paul E Condon wrote: >>> I have forgotten how to install the latest official signing keys for >>> the package repositories, > > I am getting error messages when attempting to update releas