Re: systemd

2012-08-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 03 aug 12, 16:28:30, Joel Rees wrote: > > systemd is far too disruptive to have been stuffed into the main > branch of Fedora the way it was. Good engineering would have been to > have set up two concurrent forks of Fedora, to keep reference points > available when working on the integratio

BD-RE mount problem

2012-08-06 Thread Gary Dale
I've been using BD-RE discs for backups on a Debian/Squeeze server for a couple of years now. In the last week or so the backups have been failing. I haven't modified my backup script so I thought about possible hardware issues. - I tried changing the BluRay writer but got the same problem. -

iptables: Protocol wrong type for socket.

2012-08-06 Thread hvw59601
Hi, I guess if this is [OT] I will hear about it :-) Anyway, I installed Firehol on a sid system that runs a kernel that I have configured myself. However, I get lots of errors when Firehol tries to start, like: ... ERROR : # 1. WHAT: A runtime command failed to execute (returned error

Re: dirvish banks empty

2012-08-06 Thread Fred Zinsli
> Fred Zinsli wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I have installed and configured dirvish, but the banks on the backup >> server don't contain any files from the production server. >> >> My configuration. >> >> /etc/dirvish/master.conf >> >> bank: >> /var/backup >> index: text >> >>

Re: Burning an audio CD fails, despite burning a DVD works!

2012-08-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Go Linux writes: > --- On Mon, 8/6/12, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> From: Merciadri Luca >> Subject: Burning an audio CD fails, despite burning a DVD works! >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Date: Monday, August 6, 2012, 10:23 AM >> >> >> What

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 06 Aug 2012, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > I prefer the alternative. tcpdump is a much smaller package. :) > > So, I did this for several minutes and looked at the log. Doesn't > look like it needs much technical expertise to interpret. The > content of the packets is printed in plain text and

Re: dirvish banks empty

2012-08-06 Thread Mark Neyhart
Fred Zinsli wrote: > Hi All > > I have installed and configured dirvish, but the banks on the backup > server don't contain any files from the production server. > > My configuration. > > /etc/dirvish/master.conf > > bank: > /var/backup > index:text > > exclude: > lost+foun

Re: Help with KVM/libvirt/win2008r2. Guest loosing time.

2012-08-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/6/2012 2:46 PM, Chris Davies wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> This would be much simpler if the Windows scheduler had more >> granularity. You can only schedule per day or greater. AFAIK you can't >> schedule events every X minutes as with cron. > > In the Advanced settings there's an opti

Re: Help with KVM/libvirt/win2008r2. Guest loosing time.

2012-08-06 Thread Chris Davies
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > This would be much simpler if the Windows scheduler had more > granularity. You can only schedule per day or greater. AFAIK you can't > schedule events every X minutes as with cron. In the Advanced settings there's an option to repeat the job every N hours or minutes. Ch

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-06 Thread Paul Zimmerman
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: >Alternatively you may use 'tcpdump' instead of wireshark. >Run "tcpdump -s 1600 -i any -w /tmp/output.tcpdump.bin >host 239.255.255.250", and stop it with ^C after 5-10s. >It will save the packet dump to /tmp/output.tcpdump.bin, >which you should gzip or xz

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

2012-08-06 Thread Richard Owlett
Keith McKenzie wrote: On 6 August 2012 14:46, Richard Owlett wrote: I have two objectives: 1. Define, by experimentation, optimal installation parameters to meet my idiosyncratic concept of a "minimal install". 2. Determine if there are bugs in Debian Installer, the instructions

Re: Burning an audio CD fails, despite burning a DVD works!

2012-08-06 Thread Go Linux
--- On Mon, 8/6/12, Merciadri Luca wrote: > From: Merciadri Luca > Subject: Burning an audio CD fails, despite burning a DVD works! > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, August 6, 2012, 10:23 AM > > > What's the problem? Is it due to the HOME env. var.? > > Thanks! > - -- > Merc

Re: Something about netiquette Re: systemd

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:15 -0400, Tom H wrote: > Somehow, I find your claim that neither OpenSUSE nor Ubuntu will start > being installed "on most machines" difficult to believe... > > My personal experience is that Ubuntu boots and performs well, > including PA, on the three laptops (mine and my

Re: Burning an audio CD fails, despite burning a DVD works!

2012-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:23:15 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > As stated in the title, I'm encountering an error when burning a new > audio CD, despite the fact that burning a DVD works like a charm. > > I've tried on my two CD/DVD writers; it results in the same error. In > the two cases (1 is audi

Re: find -printf ' %TT

2012-08-06 Thread Mike McClain
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:31:08AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > ext3 has second resolution. > > XFS, BTRFS and Ext4 have higher resolutions. Example: > > martin@merkaba:~> LANG=C stat /etc/fstab > File: `/etc/fstab' > Size: 1733Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular f

Re: Installer and GPT partitons

2012-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:29:34PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> Both the squeeze and wheezy installers allow you to create a biosboot >> partition. I think that it's called "Reserved ...". > > True, thank you. My mistake and no installer bug. ;-)

Re: [fossil-users] [OT] Who's interested in project management & collaboration tools? And...

2012-08-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
Folks, I hope you don't mind some interactive responses - this really is helping clarify a lot of my thinking Michael, thanks! Michal Suchanek wrote: Hello, On 5 August 2012 03:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: where are they and how do I get their attention? Hi Folks, Open source softwa

Re: dd command can't get the same uuid

2012-08-06 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-08-05 a las 17:47 -0700, Fnzh Xx escribió: (sending back to the list) > On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 02:28:22 -0700, Fnzh Xx wrote: > > (please, no html posts, thanks) > > > root@debian:/home/tiger# dd  if=/dev/sda  of=/dev/sdb  bs=10240k > > 11447+1 records in > > 11447+1 records out > > 12003

Re: dd command can't get the same uuid

2012-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Fnzh Xx wrote: >> >> root@debian:/home/tiger# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=10240k >> 11447+1 records in >> 11447+1 records out >> 120034123776 bytes (120 GB) copied, 4729.59 s, 25.4 MB/s >> root@debian:/home/tiger# blkid >> ... >> why /dev/s

Re: Something about netiquette Re: systemd

2012-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 20:13 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> >> I have one computer running Debian Sid + systemd + pulseaudio without >> any problems. > > In Germany it was common to test Linux with Suse, today most > people in Germany use Ubu

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Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 17:24:24 -0400, H.S. wrote: (...) > I am trying to access a USB device from with the guest OS, XP, after > connecting it to a USB port on the machine. > > I have listed the USB device in the VBox's USB settings and checked it > to make it available to the guest OS. (...) Be

Burning an audio CD fails, despite burning a DVD works!

2012-08-06 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, As stated in the title, I'm encountering an error when burning a new audio CD, despite the fact that burning a DVD works like a charm. I've tried on my two CD/DVD writers; it results in the same error. In the two cases (1 is audio CD, 2 is DVD),

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 03/08/12 01:15 PM, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> Interesting stuff. You can have 3-4-5 X sessions each with a different >>> window manager. It works when run from a TTY but I can't get it working >>> from >>> a terminal in an existing session, des

Re: GRUB no long gives menu on boot

2012-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: >>> >>> I have the following setup which worked well after performing a squeeze >>> install: >>> >>> /boot -> Software RAID5 >>> / ->

Re: Help with KVM/libvirt/win2008r2. Guest loosing time.

2012-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 09:11:10 -0400, William Thompson wrote: > Keep me in CC, I'm not on the list Sorry, I can't (can't define an additional To:/CC: from my newsreaders) :- ( >>> I have a Win 2008 R2 guest running under KVM controlled by libvirt. >>> The guest is loosing time. I have the clock

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

2012-08-06 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 6 August 2012 14:46, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have two objectives: >1. Define, by experimentation, optimal installation parameters to meet my > idiosyncratic concept of a "minimal install". >2. Determine if there are bugs in Debian Installer, the instructions for > the inst

Re: Microphone does not work on wheezy laptop.

2012-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:50:48 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: >> Run these command and put here the ouput: > > OK, here it comes: > >> cat /proc/asound/cards > > 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB > HDA ATI SB at 0xc000 irq 16 > >> head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec

RE: Initramfs-tools forcefully stars md arrays. How to disable it?

2012-08-06 Thread Mike Viau
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 22:01:49 -0700 wrote: > > initramfs-tools (0.98.8, the one in squeeze) uses the command below to > start up the array for the root filesystem (from line 91 of > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm): > > $MDADM --assemble --scan --run --auto=yes $dev > > This s

Re: GRUB no long gives menu on boot

2012-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:31 PM, hvw59601 wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> What's the output of >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/files/bootinfoscript/ > > That's a nifty little script! Thanks! You're welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: systemd

2012-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > On 8/1/12, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >>> On 7/30/12, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> I don't know what brings Tom H here, but I am becoming more active

Re: Help with KVM/libvirt/win2008r2. Guest loosing time.

2012-08-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/6/2012 8:11 AM, William Thompson wrote: > Keep me in CC, I'm not on the list > >>> I have a Win 2008 R2 guest running under KVM controlled by libvirt. The >>> guest is loosing time. I have the clock open on the guest and the >>> seconds change once every 2-5 seconds. The guest was started

Re: bug report to icedove or iceweasel??

2012-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:51:59 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > On 08/03/2012 11:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Have you tried any of these? >> >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/07/msg02133.html (...) >> With no more tests on your side, report it against the MUA (Icedove) >> which is that fails.

Re: How to setup Java Platform Plugin for Iceweasel 10.0.6

2012-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 20:23:46 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Camaleón writes: >>> I did so: >>> $ sudo update-alternatives --config java >>> >>> http://alexander.holbreich.org/2011/11/java-7-on-debian/ >> >> That was indeed the way to go. >> >> Strange is that after having installed openjdk v7 in la

Re: Strange network activity after updates

2012-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:04:59 -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 03:20:01PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:51:53 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > On Sun, 05 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: >> >> First, a server is usually managed by people that know

Re: installing source packages from snapshot.debian.org with apt-get source

2012-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:46:18 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 03:23:04PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> I don't recall Hugo has said what he tried (exactly) and what was the >> result. > > Really? > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg00310.html Really. The post yo

Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

2012-08-06 Thread Richard Owlett
I have two objectives: 1. Define, by experimentation, optimal installation parameters to meet my idiosyncratic concept of a "minimal install". 2. Determine if there are bugs in Debian Installer, the instructions for the installer, or MY reading of those instructions. I've bo

Re: Help with KVM/libvirt/win2008r2. Guest loosing time.

2012-08-06 Thread William Thompson
Keep me in CC, I'm not on the list >> I have a Win 2008 R2 guest running under KVM controlled by libvirt. The >> guest is loosing time. I have the clock open on the guest and the >> seconds change once every 2-5 seconds. The guest was started at >> 11:45:58. As of 13:10:30 the guest's time is

Problem with Xen blktap in Squeeze

2012-08-06 Thread Mozafar Roshany
Hi all. I had the same exact problem in Debian Lenny, which I asked about in Xen mailing list. It was solved simply by loading xenblktap and creating a symlink to tapdisk binary. Anyway also now with Xen 4 and Debian Squeeze (6.0.5), I cann't get a DomU working with tap:aio or tap:tapdisk:aio (or

Re: [LAU] OnDemand-performance was (OT: klang)

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:40 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Montag, 6. August 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Why don´t you just look? > > > > I already answered to Martin off-list, I guess the list should at least > > getting

Re: [LAU] OnDemand-performance was (OT: klang)

2012-08-06 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 6. August 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Why don´t you just look? > > I already answered to Martin off-list, I guess the list should at least > getting informed, that I had a "default" Debian install in November > 2012 and I

Re: [LAU] OnDemand-performance was (OT: klang)

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Why don´t you just look? I already answered to Martin off-list, I guess the list should at least getting informed, that I had a "default" Debian install in November 2012 and I'm not sure what exactly was/is default. I'm nearly sure th

Re: [LAU] OnDemand-performance was (OT: klang)

2012-08-06 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 6. August 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Hi Debian and LAU list, Hi, > sorry for the cross-posting, but I want to verify if Debian still is > using and not using some CPU frequency scaling script: Why don´t you just look? > On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:42:02 +0200, Jeremy wrote: > > On 08/05

Re: Something about netiquette Re: systemd

2012-08-06 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 5. August 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 21:00 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > But I do use systemd, cause it works nicely for me. > > > > So what? > > And the technical fact that Poettering's stuff does cause issues for > most computer users is unimportant? Y

Re: [LAU] OnDemand-performance was(OT: klang)

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Debian and LAU list, sorry for the cross-posting, but I want to verify if Debian still is using and not using some CPU frequency scaling script: On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:42:02 +0200, Jeremy wrote: On 08/05/12 22:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Last time I used Debian there was a script /etc/init.

Re: find -printf ' %TT

2012-08-06 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 5. August 2012 schrieb Sven Joachim: > On 2012-08-05 18:33 +0200, Mike McClain wrote: > > Thanks Sven. > > > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 08:33:54AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2012-08-05 07:57 +0200, Mike McClain wrote: > > > > > >> > Given "find / -type f -printf '%TT %p\n'

Re: dd command can't get the same uuid

2012-08-06 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 6. August 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Fnzh Xx wrote: > > root@debian:/home/tiger# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=10240k > > 11447+1 records in > > 11447+1 records out > > 120034123776 bytes (120 GB) copied, 4729.59 s, 25.4 MB/s > > root@debian:/home/tiger# blkid > > ... > > why /dev/sda

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Good morning :) On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:10:26 +0200, H.S. wrote: On 08/05/2012 07:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 19:16 -0400, H.S. wrote: The Tomtom device makes itself a network device, not sure why. Ok. Did you test if this software runs on wine, before you used VBox?

Re: Installer and GPT partitons

2012-08-06 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:29:34PM -0400, Tom H wrote: Both the squeeze and wheezy installers allow you to create a biosboot partition. I think that it's called "Reserved ...". True, thank you. My mistake and no installer bug. ;-) Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing