any tiny webcam viewer ?

2012-04-18 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, I have tested my webcam with guvcviwe and the cam is running fine. Now I like to place a tiny viewer on my desktop which simply sits at the corner of my desktop and whenever I like I can record the views. Is there any ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Weird warning from console-kit-daemon

2012-04-18 Thread Sébastien Kalt
Hello, I'm using Debian Sid on my laptop. I'm having tons of warnings from console-kit-daemon in /var/log/syslog : Apr 19 08:18:35 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNING: Failed to add monitor on '/dev/pts/1': No space left on device Apr 19 08:18:51 crapaud64 console-kit-daemon[2041]: WARNI

Information about Dongle

2012-04-18 Thread Kousik Maiti
Hi List, I want to know if any open source packages available for Dongle? Details about dongle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_protection_dongle Thanks in advanced. -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered Ubunt

Re: installing emacs on debian 6.0.4

2012-04-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Dan Hitt wrote: > (2) I put in all the lines you recommended, including the > optional ones (backports and mozilla). When i did >sudo apt-get update > i got an error linked to the backports: > W: GPG error: http://mozilla.debian.net squeeze-backports Release: The > following signatures couldn'

Re: installing emacs on debian 6.0.4

2012-04-18 Thread Dan Hitt
Thank you Bob! This works, now i have emacs, and i can leave vi alone until the next time i have to install something. Now, here are some more particular details in answer to your questions and advice (and also, in case somebody is doing a search and stumbles across this thread). (1) As to why i

RE: How do Install debian kernel without updating to latest kernel image

2012-04-18 Thread Sarveshwar.Bandi
Richard/Bob, I am new to debian. Here is how I seen things work in other distributions, it is common for customers to run different versions of the kernel. If they have issues with an older kernel, then there is a need to provide a driver with the fixes built against that version of the kernel.

Re: installing emacs on debian 6.0.4

2012-04-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Dan Hitt wrote: > I just installed debian 6.0.4 on a partition on my computer. > > I would like to install emacs on it, but so far have been quite unsuccessful. > > I imagine that something is missing from my /etc/apt/sources.list. Yes. You are missing the main archive. > My sources.list file

Re: How do Install debian kernel without updating to latest kernel image

2012-04-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Hector wrote: > sarveshwar.ba...@emulex.com wrote: > > I am trying to install different versions of Debian from Debian install > > CDs. For example Debian 6.0.0, 6.0.3 and 6.0.4. After installing any of > > CDs I see the debian_version is showing as 6.0.4. > Isn't there an option, during t

installing emacs on debian 6.0.4

2012-04-18 Thread Dan Hitt
I just installed debian 6.0.4 on a partition on my computer. I would like to install emacs on it, but so far have been quite unsuccessful. I imagine that something is missing from my /etc/apt/sources.list. My sources.list file is (omitting all comments): deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/u

Re: Me ajude a achar um lugar onde tirar a duvida - servidor caseiro com o debian

2012-04-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Please send your question to the debian-user-portugu...@debian.org mailing list instead. Por favor, envie sua pergunta para o debian-user-portugu...@debian.org lista de discussão. Bob Alexsander Talles Comercial wrote: > Estou com duvida e não sei onde procurar, por isso estou enviado para ca >

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm running a mix of wheezy/sid and aptitude update fails to download headers consistently tonight. Could it be a dos attack is happening against those servers?On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 01:58:57PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > >Does anyone know

Re: How do Install debian kernel without updating to latest kernel image

2012-04-18 Thread Richard Hector
On 19/04/12 15:27, sarveshwar.ba...@emulex.com wrote: I am trying to install different versions of Debian from Debian install CDs. For example Debian 6.0.0, 6.0.3 and 6.0.4. After installing any of CDs I see the debian_version is showing as 6.0.4. The uname –a shows the same after any of the inst

How do Install debian kernel without updating to latest kernel image

2012-04-18 Thread Sarveshwar.Bandi
I am trying to install different versions of Debian from Debian install CDs. For example Debian 6.0.0, 6.0.3 and 6.0.4. After installing any of CDs I see the debian_version is showing as 6.0.4. The uname -a shows the same after any of the installations. I want to install each of these versions a

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 01:58:57PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >Does anyone know how this whole ball of wax started ?? Why does it matter, one has to expect issues like this when running Sid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: DO A QCM

2012-04-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50, Alex Padoly wrote: > Hi, > > I want to do a QCM that run in any plateform (LINUX, WINDOWS,) > Which Debian packages I can install What is a QCM? Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: wheezy: / mounts readonly at boot, I can't figure out why

2012-04-18 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:19, Mike Linksvayer wrote: > http://gondwanaland.com/i/20120417-boot.png shows boot screen photo; > nothing is logged obviously > > fsck finds no problems http://gondwanaland.com/i/20120417-fsck.png > > mount -o remount,rw / works fine > > (but I have to restart network-

possible screw-up installing HP printer

2012-04-18 Thread John Lindsay
I just installed an HP Laserjet P1102w. I have the Hp status icon showing in the upper RH side of my toolbar. The printer icon shows up whenever I print something BUT I have the following folders and files residing in my Downloads folder and I want to know if I can just delete them or did I rea

which errors are critical for integrity of ext[234] file system?

2012-04-18 Thread Martin T
I was playing with dd "conv=noerror" option. It continues reading the input file(for example HDD/SSD partition) even in case there are read errors. Which errors are critical for integrity of ext[234] file system? As I understand, Linux views the file system as a common set of objects- superblock(ma

Re: Which partition is which

2012-04-18 Thread Keith
On 18/04/12 17:47, Jens Tobiska wrote: I have a computer with windows xp and two ntfs partitions. One of them (D:) is empty and I would like to use it for debian. My problem is to figure out which partition corresponds to the empty partition when installing debian, i.e. which partition I can modi

Re: ..when to scrap old junk, was: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-18 Thread Indulekha
Dom wrote: > On 17/04/12 21:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:10:38 +0100, Dom wrote in message >> <4f8d79de.20...@rpdom.net>: >> >>> >>> I realise that I'm not going to be able to keep these machines >>> running for much longer, but I'll keep trying for as long as I can. >> >> ..d

fsck forced when using /sbin/shutdown

2012-04-18 Thread Steven Post
Hi list, I have this really annoying problem when I shutdown the machine using sudo /sbin/shutdown -h +1 The machine seems to properly shutdown, but I always (at least I think) get the message that a filesystem contains errors and needs to be checked. When I use the shutdown option in Gnome, the s

Re: Sid upgrade problems

2012-04-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/04/12 02:42 PM, hvw59601 wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start wit

Re: Sid upgrade problems

2012-04-18 Thread hvw59601
Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit update-initramfs: Generating /b

Me ajude a achar um lugar onde tirar a duvida - servidor caseiro com o debian

2012-04-18 Thread Alexsander Talles Comercial
Estou com duvida e não sei onde procurar, por isso estou enviado para ca Estou montando uma especie de servidor caseiro com o debian e criando a imagem com live-helper. Duvidas: Onde posso colocar essa imagem pra os usuarios baixarem? pois meu servidor não deixa. Se eu quiser transformar em uma di

Re: ..when to scrap old junk, was: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Easthope
On Wed, April 18, 2012 10:35 am, Dom wrote: > These little machines take about 30W max, are only used for an average > of an hour a day. As for running costs? Peanuts. Heat output? Barely > noticable. > > My main laptop is slightly newer and about 10x the power. I have other > systems, but nothing

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/04/12 11:20 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: [ Please try to adopt the posting/quoting style that I use (interleaved responses with appropriate trimming). It is in everybody's interest if each individual message by itself is easily understandable, with the relevant part of its "history" i

Re: Which partition is which

2012-04-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Jens, Jens Tobiska wrote: > C: 139.80 GB NTFS, logical, boot > D: 139.65 GB NTFS, primary, system > > In debian installer they appear as: > > #2 primary 149.9 GB ntfs B > #5 logical 150.1 GB ntfs > > I would guess that #2=D and #5=C based on relative size and > "logical/primary". Yes.

Re: ..when to scrap old junk, was: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-18 Thread Dom
On 17/04/12 21:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:10:38 +0100, Dom wrote in message <4f8d79de.20...@rpdom.net>: I realise that I'm not going to be able to keep these machines running for much longer, but I'll keep trying for as long as I can. ..do the math on power, maintenance e

wheezy: / mounts readonly at boot, I can't figure out why

2012-04-18 Thread Mike Linksvayer
http://gondwanaland.com/i/20120417-boot.png shows boot screen photo; nothing is logged obviously fsck finds no problems http://gondwanaland.com/i/20120417-fsck.png mount -o remount,rw / works fine (but I have to restart network-manager and gdm3 to get a usable system; I'm not sure it is related,

Which partition is which

2012-04-18 Thread Jens Tobiska
I have a computer with windows xp and two ntfs partitions. One of them (D:) is empty and I would like to use it for debian. My problem is to figure out which partition corresponds to the empty partition when installing debian, i.e. which partition I can modify. The partitions appear as follows in

DO A QCM

2012-04-18 Thread Alex Padoly
Hi, I want to do a QCM that run in any plateform (LINUX, WINDOWS,) Which Debian packages I can install Regards Alex

..when to scrap old junk, was: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:10:38 +0100, Dom wrote in message <4f8d79de.20...@rpdom.net>: > On 16/04/12 21:34, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > > To anybody interested, debian wheezy can't run on 64MB RAM on i386. > > Or actually it can run but package management is unusable so all > > debian benefits a

Re: about DSA-2452-1 apache2 -- insecure default configuration

2012-04-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-04-17 15:39:48 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:25:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > IMHO, the real bug is in mod_php or mod_rivet, that shouldn't be active > > (at least concerning the scripting features) by default unless this is > > explicitly told with some "Options" f

Re: difficult to isolate problem - browser access to router has problems on on machine but not other

2012-04-18 Thread Arthur Marsh
Keith wrote, on 18/04/12 05:26: On 17/04/12 14:53, Arthur Marsh wrote: Thanks for your suggestions, but I've tried several browsers on the AMD64 machine and experience the same fault, so I'm tending towards an AMD64-specific bug that happens with the realtek 8169 chipset. Arthur. I haven't

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-18 Thread Indulekha
Amrish Purohit wrote: > I have repeated same with latest 6.0.4 kde live dvd, but getting the > saem result. > Hmmm. Did you run "apt-get update" after changing your sources.list? -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please try to adopt the posting/quoting style that I use (interleaved responses with appropriate trimming). It is in everybody's interest if each individual message by itself is easily understandable, with the relevant part of its "history" in chronological order. ] On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-04-18 Thread Valentin Guggiana
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:06:05 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). I had the same problem running CentOS 6 and Xvnc. Xvnc leads to load some Gnome apps and daemons. One of them is the udisks-daemon (/usr/libexec/udisks-daemon under CentOS

Re: RAID5 failure; possible to repair?

2012-04-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:03:04 +0200, Daniel Koch wrote: >- Zero all the superblocks on all the disks. (mdadm --zero-superblock >/dev/sd{b..d}) >- Recreate the array with the "--assume-clean" option. (mdadm >--create --verbose /dev/md0 --auto=yes --assume-clean --level=5 >--raid-

RE: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread mike
I am still new at this to a point what wood be the best way to go about fixing this sense apt and aptitude seam to have broken itself -Original Message- From: Florian Kulzer [mailto:debian-li...@florian-kulzer.eu] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:11 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Su

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Not all Debian mirrors work right ... On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:27:54AM +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: ... > >500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages > >N: Unable to locate package libvlccore4 Change mirror site from http://ftp.us.debian.org to and something else and tr

Re: RAID5 failure; possible to repair?

2012-04-18 Thread Daniel Koch
- Zero all the superblocks on all the disks. (mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sd{b..d}) - Recreate the array with the "--assume-clean" option. (mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --auto=yes --assume-clean --level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd) - Mark it possibly dirty

Apache2 "double free or corruption" error on PHP pages

2012-04-18 Thread Günter Ladwig
Hi all, we have just upgraded a server from lenny to squeeze and we're now having problems with Apache and PHP (presumably). We have a MediaWiki 1.18 installation (not from a Debian package) on this server. The usual pages work fine, however as soon as I navigate to a history view or special pa

Boot issues with cryptdisks and lvm2

2012-04-18 Thread Baxter Kylie
Hi, I recently took one of my machines up to Squeeze and found it no longer successfully boots (failing at disk check). It appears to be related to the order in which services are started. I'm hoping that someone here with more experience in the new rc system can offer a suggestion for how to

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid - SOLVED

2012-04-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Apr 2012, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > For the last few days apt-get upgrades in Sid always fail with this > > message: > > > > E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in > > SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i3

Re: wLAN interface recognised, wicd won't co-operate (plz CC!)

2012-04-18 Thread keith
Brian wrote: On Wed 18 Apr 2012 at 12:40:42 +0300, Jason Filippou wrote: [Tale about a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG snipped.] I have included "wlan0" under wicd preferences and installed firmware-ralink as suggested here: At http://wiki.debian.org/iwlegacy it suggests you want

[SOLVED]: Re: wLAN interface recognised, wicd won't co-operate (plz CC!)

2012-04-18 Thread Jason Filippou
And done. Marking this solved. Thanks a million Brian. Jason On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 18 Apr 2012 at 12:40:42 +0300, Jason Filippou wrote: > > [Tale about a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG snipped.] > >> I have included "wlan0" under wicd preferences and ins

Re: wLAN interface recognised, wicd won't co-operate (plz CC!)

2012-04-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Apr 2012 at 12:40:42 +0300, Jason Filippou wrote: [Tale about a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG snipped.] > I have included "wlan0" under wicd preferences and installed > firmware-ralink as suggested here: At http://wiki.debian.org/iwlegacy it suggests you want the firmware

RAID5 failure; possible to repair?

2012-04-18 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I have a home server with a raid5. After switching to a new case my graphics card died and I replaced it with an old but very powerful card just to try things. Unfortunately the PSU wasn't strong enough and there were some crashes. I could fix the problems of the other disks but I had no

wLAN interface recognised, wicd won't co-operate (plz CC!)

2012-04-18 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, I'm having trouble making wicd work on a debian squeeze 6.04 machine. First of all, the hardware specifics: jason@debian-laptop:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 6.0.4 jason@debian-laptop:~$ uname -r 2.6.32-5-686 Second, lspci recognises both wired and wireless interfaces: jason@debian-lap

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > For the last few days apt-get upgrades in Sid always fail with this > message: > > E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in > SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i386, aborting > > According to bug report 669060 t

Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
For the last few days apt-get upgrades in Sid always fail with this message: E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i386, aborting According to bug report 669060 this is supposed to be fiexd by the latest version of apt (0.9.1). I downloaded

Re: SELinux help

2012-04-18 Thread Brad Alexander
I don't know of such a list, but what I recommend is to run it in permissive mode for some period of time (days? A week?) and see what is captured in the logs, then use that to adjust your rules. Your logs should also tell you at this point at least some of what is subtly broken. --b On Tue, Apr