Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/25/2012 3:08 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> agreed, KVM backup is is one of them. i am facing this problem most >> often so as a workaround i need to backup all the VMs locally and then >> i have to scp them to other network stora

Re: Marvell SATA/Raid problem

On Saturday 23 June 2012 05:28:17 Camaleón wrote: > > Are there any known problems with Marvell SATA and Wheezy 64-bit? > > (...) > > None that I'm aware of :-? > > Anyway, something that was working fine in Squeeze is expected to be > working in upcoming kernel versions. Unless you missed somet

Wheezy x86-64 inotifywait problem?

Would someone be kind enough to try: inotifywait -e unmount /home if /home is a separate FS? Or of any separately mounted non-FUSE FS. I'm getting: Setting up watches. Couldn't watch /home: Invalid argument Other aspects of inotifywait seem to work. It works on Squeeze. I'd like to verif

delta block backup

Hi, I want to backup my Documents folder using Areca Backup and I want to know if one full backup (once a month) and daily delta blocks backup to office's network folder would be enough for a successful restore if my laptop have a drive failure? >From what I understand, delta blocks backup is a m

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > And, BTW, Desktop LTS support lasts only for 3 years, not 5. It's been pushed up to 5 years with 12.04. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: Laptop wake-up issue

Hi Camaleon, Thanks for your response, I just resolved this issue last night by installing the proprietary drivers from nvidia. It now wakes up from sleeping fine as it should. Many thanks Nathan On 25/06/2012, at 1:20 AM, "Camaleón" wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:45:06 +1000, Nathan D'e

Re: Intermittent installation related problems

On Monday 18 June 2012 13:29:20 Richard Owlett wrote: > What I do not see is a method to force a 'new' install of > Debian to take over a specific existing partition. I always use the Debian installer to delete the partition(s) with the unwanted OS on it/them. Then recreate the partition(s) and

Re: How to find list of backports for Debian squeeze?

Thanks, Pelle, for both the command and the output. That's just what I needed. -- 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/can3v7brh155kkongbhj1oyqxtjt1ztp-bwq1w2

Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

On Monday 25 Jun 2012 09:16:23 Claudius Hubig wrote: > Nick Boyce wrote: > > > The installer uses 'dm-crypt' to encrypt the drive, rather than the full > > LUKS system - and 'dm-crypt' generates the encryption key directly from > > the pass- phrase, rather than storing the encryption key in an o

Re: How to find list of backports for Debian squeeze?

> How can I find a list of all available backports for Debian squeeze? For amd64: wget http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/dists/squeeze-backports/{main,contrib,non-free}/binary-amd64/Packages.gz -q -O - | zcat | awk '/^Package/ { p = $2 }; /^Version/ { printf "%-40s %s\n", p, $2 }' | s

How to find list of backports for Debian squeeze?

How can I find a list of all available backports for Debian squeeze? Google and DDG turn up nothing relevant. I searched this list's archives and also didn't find anything. Leaving the search field blank on http://backports-master.debian.org/Packages/ only returns an error. The backports FAQ doesn'

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 13:36 -0500, Emil Payne wrote: > On 06/25/2012 10:59 AM, John W. Foster wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:28:07 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > > > > > > I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the p

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On 06/25/2012 10:59 AM, John W. Foster wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:28:07 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: I want to have Synaptic automatically download& display the process of of the download of all the packages I have in the sources.list when

Re: alternatives with ad hoc installation

El 2012-06-25 a las 11:28 -0600, ChadDavis escribió: (back to the list) > >> I'm installing, by hand, a java7 distribution that doesn't exist in the > >> repositories.  Is it feasible to use the alternatives mechanism to work > >> with ad hoc installations like this?  In other words, I've "instal

problems with nautilus

This is debian amd-64 wheezy+some sid. I need to open mautilus with the system password, so am opening a terminal window and issuing: sudo nautilus & --- nothing happens, no nautilus, no error message. the issuing only nautilus & which opens nautilus, and gives an error message: "kjetil@kjeti

Re: [OT] Verbose replies... (was: Synaptic preferences question)

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 17:39 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:27:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 19:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > PS: I call one version of Ubuntu Oz, because I like Oz ... not really > >> > the old musical, but ... try a guess ;). > >

[OT] Verbose replies... (was: Synaptic preferences question)

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:27:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 19:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > PS: I call one version of Ubuntu Oz, because I like Oz ... not really >> > the old musical, but ... try a guess ;). >> >> A hint, no "little Myron's thumberland" (or the comic it'

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 19:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > PS: I call one version of Ubuntu Oz, because I like Oz ... not really > > the old musical, but ... try a guess ;). > > A hint, no "little Myron's thumberland" (or the comic it's based on, slumberlan

Re: Synaptic preferences question

> PS: I call one version of Ubuntu Oz, because I like Oz ... not really > the old musical, but ... try a guess ;). A hint, no "little Myron's thumberland" (or the comic it's based on, Nemo, Nemo) and no "Alice"-dsl ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:56 +, Camaleón wrote: > However, I don't know if this still remains true for the current > Debian version of Synaptic. I don't know, at least current version for AVLinux (theoretically Debian stable) and my dropped "real" Debian stable and testing installs's Synaptic d

Re: alternatives with ad hoc installation

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:04:37 -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > I'm installing, by hand, a java7 distribution that doesn't exist in the > repositories. Is it feasible to use the alternatives mechanism to work > with ad hoc installations like this? In other words, I've "installed" > the java 7 jdk into /u

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

On 6/25/2012 3:08 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > agreed, KVM backup is is one of them. i am facing this problem most > often so as a workaround i need to backup all the VMs locally and then > i have to scp them to other network storage. scp is not the proper application for this due to overhea

alternatives with ad hoc installation

I'm installing, by hand, a java7 distribution that doesn't exist in the repositories. Is it feasible to use the alternatives mechanism to work with ad hoc installations like this? In other words, I've "installed" the java 7 jdk into /usr/local/jdk1.7.0. I just want to check whether it's complete

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:31:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:21 +, Camaleón wrote: >> there still should be run, and that's why it takes a bit of time to get >> Synaptic available and ready to work. > > No, you're mistaken. Synaptic DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY UPGRADE REPOSIT

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:21 +, Camaleón wrote: > there still should be run, and that's > why it takes a bit of time to get Synaptic available and ready to work. No, you're mistaken. Synaptic DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY UPGRADE REPOSITORY INFORMATION. If Synaptic should do by default, I would go mo

Re: unstable web browsers

On 25/06/12 11:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 25 iun 12, 08:50:41, john gennard wrote: On 24/06/12 18:19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 24 iun 12, 16:49:43, john gennard wrote: I have eliminated problems with the mouse. Also, I've used a small partition on the drive and inst

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:59:35 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:28:07 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: >> >> > I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the process >> > of of the download of all the packages I ha

Re: unstable web browsers

On 25/06/12 16:09, Lisi wrote: On Monday 25 June 2012 11:36:06 Andrei POPESCU wrote: For single packages it is very easy, just apt-get install -t squeeze-backports Andrei - John will need to add backports to his sources.list, surely. Or has he already done so, and I have been

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 11:08 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I still do believe it would be a good idea to offer it in preferences. I don't need it, but I agree that such an option is good. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 10:48 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Is there any way to have synaptic do the package update automatically > when I execute the application. i.e run 'apt-get update'; AFAIK no. Since I used Suse package management GUIs, I prefer the .deb way not to upgrade the repository info

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 17:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > > I can be wrong but I thought the "reload" takes place automatically when > > Synaptic is open :-? > > No it doesn't and it's good that it doesn't. Thank you! This is the answer I need

Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:39 +0100, Terence wrote: > On 25 June 2012 16:31, Adrian Fita wrote: > > >>> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement > >>> > >> Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. > > > > I also can't sign up. > > > > > I tried pressing the "Save" butt

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:28:07 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > > I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the process of > > of the download of all the packages I have in the sources.list when it > > first is opened. I do not 'se

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > I can be wrong but I thought the "reload" takes place automatically when > Synaptic is open :-? No it doesn't and it's good that it doesn't. When using a GUI to manage packages, one of the reasons to do this, is to get information, without havi

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:56 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 09:28 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > > I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the process of > > of the download of all the packages I have in the sources.list when it > > first is opened. I do not 'se

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:28:07 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the process of > of the download of all the packages I have in the sources.list when it > first is opened. I do not 'see' this happening now. It may be doing it > but I don't know f

Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

On 25 June 2012 16:31, Adrian Fita wrote: >>> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement >>> >> Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. > > I also can't sign up. > > I tried pressing the "Save" button and also the "Enter" key. > I have just tried again by entering na

Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

On 25/06/12 12:13, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 25 Jun 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement >> > Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. I also can't sign up. If it's any help, I tried with Chromium 18 (latest in Wheezy as of now) and

Re: Re (5): Dying Iceweasel.

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:26:39 -0700, peasthope wrote: > From: > Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:38:23 + (UTC) >> That they stick to the default browser (e.g., Epiphany)? Side note: when I said "e.g., Epiphany" I meant the default browser that comes with your current installation, being Epiphany fo

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 17:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 09:49 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Lisi writes: > > > I am just sorry that they have changed it at all. Ubuntu now has 5 > > > year support for its long term supported version. Such a pity that > > > Debian is going t

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

Lisi: > > I am just sorry that they have changed it at all. Ubuntu now has 5 year > support for its long term supported version. Such a pity that Debian is > going the other way. :-( This comparison is a bit unfair since Ubuntu officially only supports its "main" repository which is, as far a

Re: Slowness problem

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:56:00 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> How about your ram? > I have 4.0 GiB and I'm using a max of 1500 MiB with firefox and youtube, > so there's really no problem over there, unfortunately. Okay, then no, ram should not be a issue here. >> When tha

Re: unstable web browsers

On Monday 25 June 2012 11:36:06 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > For single packages it is very easy, just > >     apt-get install -t squeeze-backports Andrei - John will need to add backports to his sources.list, surely. Or has he already done so, and I have been asleep? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 09:49 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: > > I am just sorry that they have changed it at all. Ubuntu now has 5 > > year support for its long term supported version. Such a pity that > > Debian is going the other way. > > Support beyond Stable is on a "best effort" ba

Re: Synaptic preferences question

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 09:28 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the process of > of the download of all the packages I have in the sources.list when it > first is opened. I do not 'see' this happening now. It may be doing it > but I don't know for

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

Lisi writes: > I am just sorry that they have changed it at all. Ubuntu now has 5 > year support for its long term supported version. Such a pity that > Debian is going the other way. Support beyond Stable is on a "best effort" basis. If enough people were willing to actually work on it I'm sur

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:29 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 05 June 2012 18:55:59 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > That's awkward, i was under the impression there was a change some > > years back so that the stable branch would change to a 6 months > > release schedule. Did that never go through or was i

Synaptic preferences question

I want to have Synaptic automatically download & display the process of of the download of all the packages I have in the sources.list when it first is opened. I do not 'see' this happening now. It may be doing it but I don't know for sure, since it only pops up the download window when I key it to

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

On Tuesday 05 June 2012 18:55:59 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > That's awkward, i was under the impression there was a change some > years back so that the stable branch would change to a 6 months > release schedule. Did that never go through or was it only temporary? It was cancelled, though they seem t

Re: Debian 5.0: Capturing audio from a web page?

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > For Lenny OSS already should be obsolete. The backend always should be > ALSA and not OSS. And please use ALSA directly or jackd only. Btw. Jack2 > seems to be more reliable on some machines. PS: I don't have Lenny installed anymore and the

Re: Debian 5.0: Capturing audio from a web page?

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 13:11 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > You can probably see what sound systems you have by playing a wav file > through "play" (OSS), "aplay" (ALSA), "artsplay" (aRts), "esdplay" > (ESounD) and "paplay" (Pulse). If any commands don't exist, or don't > play the wav, then you're not

Re: Debian 5.0: Capturing audio from a web page?

I don't use jack for stuff like this, but I suspect it will do this job too: http://jackaudio.org/routing_flash http://jackaudio.org/gstreamer_via_jack http://jackaudio.org/routing_phonon http://jackaudio.org/faq There indeed are several ways to get sound from flash, but I like to introduce jack ;

Re: Debian 5.0: Capturing audio from a web page?

On 25/06/12 08:11 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 01:28:37PM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: I'm (still) using Debian 5.0 (Lenny, iirc). I want to capture some audio from a web page. Is there an application typically installed in Debian 5.0 that will help me do that. (krec does not

[OT] Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

On 25/06/12 14:39, Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:13:56 -0400 (EDT), Anthony Campbell wrote: On 25 Jun 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. After typing your first name, last n

Re: Debian 5.0: Capturing audio from a web page?

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 01:28:37PM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > I'm (still) using Debian 5.0 (Lenny, iirc). > > I want to capture some audio from a web page. > > Is there an application typically installed in Debian 5.0 that will help me > do > that. (krec does not seem to work--maybe Debian

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Claudius, I just tested with a new driver, to no avail. I sometimes hear the fans in the computer running mad. Here is a quick video that I took with Istanbul: Istanbul seems to be sl

Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

On Lu, 25 iun 12, 11:26:27, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Yes, my latest mail didn't came through the list. Until now nobody knows > why some people can't sign up. Perhaps cookies must be allowed? IIRC > Java isn't needed. Would be quite ironic :p Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among D

Re: unstable web browsers

On Lu, 25 iun 12, 08:50:41, john gennard wrote: > On 24/06/12 18:19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Du, 24 iun 12, 16:49:43, john gennard wrote: > >>I have eliminated problems with the mouse. Also, I've used a small partition > >>on the drive and installed Win XP and this works perfectly thus eliminat

Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 10:13 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 25 Jun 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement > > > > > > > > Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. Yes, my latest mail didn't came through the list. Until now nobody

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Merciadri, that looks all quite good. You are using direct rendering, no errors show up in the log file and although the screen is quite large, that shouldn’t be the problem. But maybe you could try to install a newer nVidia-Driver, if availab

Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

On 25 Jun 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement > > > Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecours

Re: round-robin mx and nginx proxy

2012/6/25 Umarzuki Mochlis : > 2012/6/22 Richard Hector : > >> >> Wait - is this https or SMTP? MX records will only affect SMTP, and the >> question seemed to relate to https. I got the impression that the fact >> that the servers also ran MTAs was incidental. >> >> Still, the issue will relate to

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Claudius Hubig writes: > Hello Merciadri, > > Merciadri Luca wrote: >> $ free -m >> total used free sharedbuffers cached >> Mem: 4053 2002 2050 0340832 >> - -/+ buffe

Re: Slowness problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 15:58 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:40:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 15:33 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> But you can also run more tests, like disabling you

Re: round-robin mx and nginx proxy

2012/6/22 Richard Hector : > > Wait - is this https or SMTP? MX records will only affect SMTP, and the > question seemed to relate to https. I got the impression that the fact > that the servers also ran MTAs was incidental. > > Still, the issue will relate to what IP address comes back from a que

Re: Campaign against Secure Boot

Sorry for crossposting and that for some lists it becomes a new thread, but on different lists people reported issues when they tried to sign http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement I used Firefox 13.0.1 Ubuntu Precise x86_64, JavaScript is enabled and cookies are all

Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

Hello Nick, Nick Boyce wrote: > The installer uses 'dm-crypt' to encrypt the drive, rather than the full LUKS > system - and 'dm-crypt' generates the encryption key directly from the pass- > phrase, rather than storing the encryption key in an on-volume "header" > protected by the pass-phrase.

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/22/2012 5:45 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth >> [  5]  0.0-10.0 sec   744 MBytes   624 Mbits/sec >> [  4]  0.0-10.0 sec   876 MBytes   734 Mbits/sec > >> [ ID] Interval       Transfer    

Re: unstable web browsers

On 24/06/12 18:19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 24 iun 12, 16:49:43, john gennard wrote: I have eliminated problems with the mouse. Also, I've used a small partition on the drive and installed Win XP and this works perfectly thus eliminating problems with the graphic card. Would it be

Re: DHCP + DNS questions

On Lu, 25 iun 12, 01:09:36, Soare Catalin wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed > debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen to have a retarded > router from my ISP which is unable to hold reservations. > > I've installed both isc-dhcp-s