On 10/28/12 19:07, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I have run memtest86+ for over a day with no
errors, or lockups. I have asked questions here. I have done web
searches on various possibilities. The closest I could find to my
situation is the graphics driver problem referred to by Johan in the
thread "Debia
On 10/28/2012 3:14 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Du, 28 oct 12, 06:32:45, Mark Allums wrote:
My own opinion on i3 is that it;s a bit underpowered for a modern
system, even a Linux system. If i7 seems like overkill to you, then
the obvious compromise is i5, which is what i recommend to most
non-
On 10/28/2012 05:26 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 10/28/12 15:48, Marc Shapiro wrote:
If not, then I might have lockups anyway. If it continues to lockup
then I will retire the whole box.
It sounds like you need to figure out why it is locking up.
I have tried to do so. I have run memtest86
On 2012-10-25 13:27:33 -0200, Pedro Eugênio Rocha wrote:
> Maybe the file was opened by another user? Did you check lsof?
I didn't check with lsof, but did a "ls -la" to see whether there
were .nfs* files (usually created after removing a file that is
already open, and there wasn't any).
I would
On 10/28/12 15:48, Marc Shapiro wrote:
The question is not whether or not it can be used as a server. The
question is whether the problem I have with lockups is caused by the
graphics card, drivers, some other user software that is running, etc,
or not. If so, then the system will run fine as a s
Dear List -
Any Ideas??
I am having problems w/ Mondoarchive.
1] For some unknown reason the system thinks that the hard drive is
sda. Maybe, the file system was corrupted and I ran fsck with hard
drive unmounted.
2] My com
--- On Sun, 10/28/12, Russell Gadd wrote:
> From: Russell Gadd
> Subject: Is Wheezy going to be more stable than Squeeze?
> To: "Debian User"
> Date: Sunday, October 28, 2012, 1:43 PM
> Is Debian Wheezy going to be any
> better than Squeeze when it's
> released? I know this is a leading questio
Russell Gadd:
>
> I can't remember many details, but one issue stands out in my memory.
> When printing a second document to my HP Laserjet it would wait up to
> 4 seconds before the GUI panel to initiate the print would complete.
> This was reported as a bug but not solved at least for many weeks
On 10/28/12 13:40, Doug wrote:
If you build a powerful machine with 8 cores, can't you make it a
server, with two more terminals, so the wife and daughter can
log in and work while you do? I don't know how to do that, but there
must be some Unix maven here who cah=n tell you.
http://www.ltsp.or
On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>
>> Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact you'll
>> never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend a dual core
>> AthlonII X2 @ 3.4GHz. I have the 3GHz model and
On 10/28/2012 03:12 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 10/28/12 11:46, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Is there anything that speaks against keeping it?
What is the make and model number of the 1 TB HDD?
> ... there are three of us here. Myself, my wife and daughter.
... if the old box stays up as a server
On 10/28/12 11:46, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Is there anything that speaks against keeping it?
What is the make and model number of the 1 TB HDD?
> ... there are three of us here. Myself, my wife and daughter.
... if the old box stays up as a server. If it does not, then the 1 TB drive
goes into
I wrote:
> "apt-get build-dep" should establish the required environment.
Andrei writes:
> Assuming a pure Debian environment. As it turns out the OP does have
> foreign libraries installed.
I don't.
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On Sunday 28 October 2012 18:43:14 Russell Gadd wrote:
> Really I'm just looking for personal views not necessarily with any
> particularly well-reasoned justification.
My personal view? I love Debian and dislike Ubuntu. I loved KDE 3.x.x and
strongly dislike KDE4. I run Squeeze and Trinity, b
On 10/28/12 04:54, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
SSD might still be good bet. They are like switching from floppy disk to
harddisk for me.
+1
On 10/28/12 11:11, Mark Allums wrote:
> The principle is sound, but the prices are 10x too much.
Intel 520 series 60 GB SSD -- $91.93
http://www.amazon.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
>
> ext4 has been found to be dangerous right now in kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6,
> due to a data loss bug. They are working on the patch as we speak, of
> course, but in the meantime, minimize the number of times you mount the ext4
> filesystem.
On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 23:19 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 28 oct 12, 18:43:14, Russell Gadd wrote:
> >
> > I'm just looking for a desktop PC OS which is a practical workhorse
> > for everyday needs. Any mainstream modern Linux would probably suit in
> > terms of facilities. Of course the c
On Du, 28 oct 12, 18:43:14, Russell Gadd wrote:
>
> I'm just looking for a desktop PC OS which is a practical workhorse
> for everyday needs. Any mainstream modern Linux would probably suit in
> terms of facilities. Of course the choice of desktop will be material
> and comments on that will be we
On Du, 28 oct 12, 07:51:17, John Hasler wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU writes:
> > Yes, but only if you can prove it is not due to a problem in your
> > build environment. You could post console output here.
>
> "apt-get build-dep" should establish the required environment.
Assuming a pure Debian enviro
Marc Shapiro wrote:
On 10/28/2012 01:40 PM, Doug wrote:
On 10/28/2012 03:49 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
/snip/
Marc Shapiro wrote:
OI don't know if this makes a difference, but... While this is a
home machine there are three of us here. Myself, my wife and
daughter. We are all logged in all th
On 10/28/2012 01:40 PM, Doug wrote:
On 10/28/2012 03:49 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
/snip/
Marc Shapiro wrote:
OI don't know if this makes a difference, but... While this is a
home machine there are three of us here. Myself, my wife and
daughter. We are all logged in all the time and we are all
On 10/28/2012 12:49 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
On 10/27/2012 08:27 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 10/27/2012 7:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I'm really getting annoyed by my random system lockups, so I have been
looking at new motherboards, new systems, etc.
...
I saw a Fry's a
On 10/28/2012 03:49 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
/snip/
Marc Shapiro wrote:
OI don't know if this makes a difference, but... While this is a home
machine there are three of us here. Myself, my wife and daughter. We
are all logged in all the time and we are all running separate X
sessions all the
On Du, 28 oct 12, 06:32:45, Mark Allums wrote:
>
> My own opinion on i3 is that it;s a bit underpowered for a modern
> system, even a Linux system. If i7 seems like overkill to you, then
> the obvious compromise is i5, which is what i recommend to most
> non-technical people. But yeah. Go Ivy b
Marc Shapiro wrote:
On 10/27/2012 08:27 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 10/27/2012 7:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I'm really getting annoyed by my random system lockups, so I have been
looking at new motherboards, new systems, etc.
...
I saw a Fry's add for a motherboard, an AMD 8 Core CPU and memo
On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 08:31 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Checking for ALSA audio ... no
You don't need the source code to compile another version of ALSA, you
need the headers from the package libasound2-dev to compile mplayer.
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On 28/10/12 02:43 PM, Russell Gadd wrote:
Is Debian Wheezy going to be any better than Squeeze when it's
released? I know this is a leading question since many of you may
think Squeeze couldn't be faulted.
Better in what way I hear you ask. Well really my main focus is
stability. My experience w
On 10/27/2012 08:27 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 10/27/2012 7:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I'm really getting annoyed by my random system lockups, so I have been
looking at new motherboards, new systems, etc.
...
I saw a Fry's add for a motherboard, an AMD 8 Core CPU and memory for
That's a 125
On 10/28/2012 12:36 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 10/27/12 23:10, David Christensen wrote:
> I finally settled on Wheezy OOTB as much as possible with LUKS, ext4,
> and VirtualBox,
Correction: And Intel HD 2000 graphics support, single head.
On 10/28/12 04:32, Mark Allums wrote:
I don't
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> since some time my logs are flooded with the folowwing message:
>
> Oct 28 11:45:09 localhost kernel: [ 3395.992226] option:
> option_instat_callback: error -2
> Oct 28 11:45:14 localhost kernel: [ 3401.009057] option:
> option_insta
On 10/27/12 23:10, David Christensen wrote:
> I finally settled on Wheezy OOTB as much as possible with LUKS, ext4,
> and VirtualBox,
Correction: And Intel HD 2000 graphics support, single head.
On 10/28/12 04:32, Mark Allums wrote:
I don't bother with SSDs on Linux machines for personal use.
lee writes:
> Do you have packages from dmo installed?
No. I have no need for them. I just compiled dvbcut to check out the
bug. I've already deleted it.
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John Hasler writes:
> lee writes:
>> is it a bug that should be reported when a source package doesn't
>> compile?
>
> Yes.
>
>> And how come that there is a binary package though it cannot be
>> compiled?
>
> It compiled on the developer's machine and on the buildds. Most likely
> one or more o
On 10/28/2012 5:49 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Hi Folks,
since some time my logs are flooded with the folowwing message:
Oct 28 11:45:09 localhost kernel: [ 3395.992226] option:
option_instat_callback: error -2
Oct 28 11:45:14 localhost kernel: [ 3401.009057] option:
option_instat_callback: erro
Hi Folks,
since some time my logs are flooded with the folowwing message:
Oct 28 11:45:09 localhost kernel: [ 3395.992226] option:
option_instat_callback: error -2
Oct 28 11:45:14 localhost kernel: [ 3401.009057] option:
option_instat_callback: error -2
Oct 28 11:45:19 localhost kernel: [ 3406
On 28/10/12 11:39, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 28 October 2012 09:38:58 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> [snip]
>> Andrei
>> P.S. your hardware prices make me drool. Here we have higher numbers and
>> in EUR for the same stuff :(
>
> You needn't rub it
lee writes:
> is it a bug that should be reported when a source package doesn't
> compile?
Yes.
> And how come that there is a binary package though it cannot be
> compiled?
It compiled on the developer's machine and on the buildds. Most likely
one or more of the dependencies is not sufficientl
Andrei POPESCU writes:
> Yes, but only if you can prove it is not due to a problem in your
> build environment. You could post console output here.
"apt-get build-dep" should establish the required environment.
> Debian packages are built in controlled minimal environments that may
> be very diff
Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Marc Shapiro:
> My main worry is the hard drive. I currently have what I think is its
> older cousin, a 1 TB SATA II drive. It works perfectly and I have
> always liked Seagate drives. I know that there are people out there
> who have had trouble with Seag
Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Mark Allums:
> On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> >> Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact
> >> you'll never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend
> >> a d
On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact you'll
never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend a dual core
AthlonII X2 @ 3.4GHz. I have the 3GHz model and the 2nd c
On Sunday 28 October 2012 09:38:58 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
[snip]
> Andrei
> P.S. your hardware prices make me drool. Here we have higher numbers and
> in EUR for the same stuff :(
You needn't rub it in!! You at least still pay in Euros. We pay bi
On Du, 28 oct 12, 11:44:57, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> Yes, but only if you can prove it is not due to a problem in your build
> environment. You could post console output here.
I meant "more". For example the output of the 'configure' step could be
useful.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Du, 28 oct 12, 05:18:14, lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it a bug that should be reported when a source package doesn't
> compile?
Yes, but only if you can prove it is not due to a problem in your build
environment. You could post console output here.
> And how come that there is a binary package th
On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
> Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact you'll
> never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend a dual core
> AthlonII X2 @ 3.4GHz. I have the 3GHz model and the 2nd core is pretty
> much always idle, with p
On Sb, 27 oct 12, 09:55:44, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> But the problem with using that is that you are stuck with the
> volume that the mixer is set at. There ought to be a way to check
> those settings, adjust for loudness, play the sound, and reset back
> to what the settings were. ;-)
That's n
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