Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread Kushal Kumaran
David Guntner writes: > Andreas Rönnquist grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>[I wrote]: >>> >>> It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or >>> any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type >>> "urpmf kross" it will list the package that provides /

Re: version question 32bit vs 64bit

2012-11-11 Thread berenger . morel
32 bits. There are many versions of intel processors, and they are usually called "x86" familly. When they are usual 32 bits, you will have things like i386, i486, i586 or i686 (i think the 'i' is for intel structure, the 86 for the family, and 3,4,5 or 6 the version). For 64 bits versions, I

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 02:22:34PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/11/12 13:48, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >Hmm...authorized_keys contain keys from the user who wants to login. I does > >not make sense to generate keys for the gpxrecorder account (?). > > I typically create user keys on both e

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:10:01PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Well, if you apply common sense to what you read, old instructions can > still be quite usable. The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is a good > example for that. If there was one common culture then "common sense" might act

Help netbooting a diskless, headless system

2012-11-11 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a computer that is not attached to a monitor or keyboard and has no disk/CD. I thought getting it to boot over the network would be easier than it has proven, and would appreciate any pointers. Searching turned up a lot of material, but none of it exactly on topic. My naive view was that

Re: version question 32bit vs 64bit

2012-11-11 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/11/12 17:29, Jim Pazarena wrote: does the following output from "uname -a" identify if this server has been loaded with 32 bit or 64 bit Debian? Linux netmon 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 10:27:25 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux 32-bit. 64-bit would be x86_64 amd64 --

Re: version question 32bit vs 64bit

2012-11-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 11 November 2012 23:29:34 Jim Pazarena wrote: > does the following output from "uname -a" identify if this server has > been loaded with 32 bit or 64 bit Debian? > > Linux netmon 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 10:27:25 UTC 2012 > i686 GNU/Linux > -- > Jim Pazarena deb...@pa

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread David Guntner
Andreas Rönnquist grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >[I wrote]: >> >> It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or >> any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type >> "urpmf kross" it will list the package that provides /usr/bin/kross, >> and will then

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Charles, On Nov 11, 2012, at 4:56 AM, Charles Blair wrote: Thanks again. I wish these issues had been addressed either by the installer itself or by the installation instructions. Tnere must be many other unsophisticated users that have encountered this problem. You're welcome, of cour

version question 32bit vs 64bit

2012-11-11 Thread Jim Pazarena
does the following output from "uname -a" identify if this server has been loaded with 32 bit or 64 bit Debian? Linux netmon 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 10:27:25 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux -- Jim Pazarena deb...@paz.bz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
> Hello, > > Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some > form of *NIX since 1986. - 8< - > It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or > any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type > "ur

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 04:59:34 PM David Guntner wrote: > Hello, > > Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some form > of *NIX since 1986. Have been a happy Mandriva user since the Mandrake > 7 days, but that new company that purchased it, resulting in them losing >

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Rainer, [ Removed useless crap from quote, cf. <20122039.14270...@bokomoko.de> for original ] Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Sunday 11 November 2012 schrieb Selim T. Erdogan: > > Rainer Dorsch, 11.11.2012: > > > bokomoko:~# ls -l ~rd/.ssh/authorized_keys > > > ~gpxrecorder/.ssh/authorized_

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-11 Thread Guido Martínez
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Gean Ceretta wrote: > > Thanks Neal and Charlie, I've tried: > > > # chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean > > but the ownership stays the same root, maybe its important to say that the > /home is an NTFS partition, mounted by /etc/fstab as: > > /dev/sda3 /home

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread David Christensen
Am Sunday 11 November 2012 schrieb Selim T. Erdogan: How come you're diffing authorized_keys for rd and authorized_hosts for gpxrecorder? Good eyes. I use only authorized_keys on my machines. I suggest renaming authorized_hosts to authorized_keys for gpxrecorder. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread David Christensen
On 11/11/12 13:48, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hmm...authorized_keys contain keys from the user who wants to login. I does not make sense to generate keys for the gpxrecorder account (?). I typically create user keys on both ends. The O/S installer and/or package manager typically create host keys o

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 04:08:47 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 11/11/12 12:54, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > Does Debian-kfreeBSD in fact have ext3fs support ? > > I dunno -- perhaps that's the problem. (I use Debian Squeeze i386 and > Debian Wheezy amd64.) > > > A console-only ins

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread staticsafe
On 11/11/2012 16:44, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Sunday 11 November 2012 schrieb staticsafe: >> On 11/11/2012 14:39, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user >>> rd, not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no differe

Re: Directory ownership [SOLVED]

2012-11-11 Thread Gean Ceretta
Thanks Charlie, Russell, Neal, Zind and Tom. As you say, the problem is the NTFS partition does not support ownership for individual folders (not POSIX compatible), just one ownership for the whole partition. Following this tutorial here: http://www.thetechrepo.com/main-articles/531-setting-

apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread David Guntner
Hello, Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some form of *NIX since 1986. Have been a happy Mandriva user since the Mandrake 7 days, but that new company that purchased it, resulting in them losing most of their talent, has finally caused me to leave; the last update to

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello David, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/11/12 09:50, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > crw-rw 1 root disk 0, 89 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad6s1 > > [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 594 # mount -t ext3 > > /dev/ad6s1 /mnt > > mount: /dev/ad6s1 : No such device > > [root@opty165a:/etc

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Sunday 11 November 2012 schrieb David Christensen: > On 11/11/12 11:39, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user > > rd, not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no difference in > > the accounts: > > bokomoko:~# diff ~rd/.ssh/

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Sunday 11 November 2012 schrieb Selim T. Erdogan: > Rainer Dorsch, 11.11.2012: > > Hello, > > > > I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user > > rd, not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no difference in > > the accounts: > > > > bokomoko:~# diff ~r

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 02:39:14 PM Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user > rd, not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no difference in > the accounts: I'll bet some key files in .ssh/ are readable by other th

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Sunday 11 November 2012 schrieb staticsafe: > On 11/11/2012 14:39, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user > > rd, not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no difference in > > the accounts: > > > > bokomoko:~

Is "APEI: Can not request iomem region ... for GARs" in dmesg a bug and should it be reported?

2012-11-11 Thread Max Mustermann
Dmesg output/boot console contains a line: "APEI: Can not request iomem region ... for GARs". Environment: - Super Micro X8I motherboard - Debian squeeze 6.0.6 - Backports kernel: Linux debian 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 07:41:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux Context: [1.172543] int

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-11 Thread David Christensen
On 11/11/12 12:54, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: Does Debian-kfreeBSD in fact have ext3fs support ? I dunno -- perhaps that's the problem. (I use Debian Squeeze i386 and Debian Wheezy amd64.) A console-only install of Debian Squeeze i386 can have a fairly small memory footprint (my CVS s

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-11 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/11/12 13:05, Jude DaShiell wrote: Slackware 14.0 is available and it also has a small footprint. If you choose not to install all the bloatware no g.u.i. you can probably end up with a full command line installation except for emacs in a little under a hundred meg. If you decide to ins

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread David Christensen
On 11/11/12 11:39, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user rd, not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no difference in the accounts: bokomoko:~# diff ~rd/.ssh/authorized_keys ~gpxrecorder/.ssh/authorized_hosts Have you generate

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Rainer Dorsch, 11.11.2012: > Hello, > > I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user rd, > not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no difference in the > accounts: > > bokomoko:~# diff ~rd/.ssh/authorized_keys ~gpxrecorder/.ssh/authorized_hosts > bokomok

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-11 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
On 11/11/12 13:13, David Christensen wrote: On 11/11/12 09:50, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 10:49 AM] 592 # ll /dev/ad* crw-rw 1 root disk 0, 78 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad0 crw-rw 1 root disk 0, 79 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad0s1 crw-rw 1 root disk 0, 82 Nov 10 0

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread staticsafe
On 11/11/2012 14:39, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user rd, > not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no difference in the > accounts: > > bokomoko:~# diff ~rd/.ssh/authorized_keys ~gpxrecorder/.ssh/authorized_

ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user rd, not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no difference in the accounts: bokomoko:~# diff ~rd/.ssh/authorized_keys ~gpxrecorder/.ssh/authorized_hosts bokomoko:~# ls -l ~rd/.ssh/authorized_keys ~gpxrec

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-11 Thread David Christensen
On 11/11/12 09:50, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: [root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 10:49 AM] 592 # ll /dev/ad* crw-rw 1 root disk 0, 78 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad0 crw-rw 1 root disk 0, 79 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad0s1 crw-rw 1 root disk 0, 82 Nov 10 08:34 /dev/ad4 crw-rw 1 root disk 0, 83 No

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Slackware 14.0 is available and it also has a small footprint. If you choose not to install all the bloatware no g.u.i. you can probably end up with a full command line installation except for emacs in a little under a hundred meg. If you decide to install emacs, I suggest you do it using sla

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012 schrieb Tom H: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:46:09 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >> Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > >>> I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. > >

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Stephen Powell: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:46:09 -0500 (EST), Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. > >> I have been shying away for too long. > >> > >> I am f

Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-11 Thread William A. Mahaffey III
I am brand new to Debian, have used RH's for about 10 years, SGI & SuSE before that, Mandrake before that, ConvexOS before that. I installed Squeeze-kfreeBSD on a Socket 939 Opteron server that I recently replaced the root drive (which had croaked) on. I like the small memory footprint

Re: Squeeze|Cups: pdftops and high CPU load

2012-11-11 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am 09.11.2012 um 16:32 schrieb Brian : > No, you will need Wheezy at least. The switching from Ghostscript to > Poppler is done via the cups-filters package, which does not exist in > Squeeze. phu … I'am unsure, but this machine is only a print server, so maybe I can Wheezy give a try … the

Re: testing install in acer aspire v5-571P with uefi/gpt

2012-11-11 Thread Brian
On Sun 11 Nov 2012 at 20:28:46 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Brian wrote: > > > See where you get by booting into Debian and doing 'update-grub' as > > root. > > > I did that. But could not get it. On the installed system run 'os-prober' and look at what gets outp

Re: restart problems monitor or GPU

2012-11-11 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:10:01 +0100 Anthony Campbell wrote: > if you have a video card in a > slot rather than integral in the MB, take it out and put it back. Thanks for this suggestion, it can't hurt. If it works I'll let you know. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: restart problems monitor or GPU

2012-11-11 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 03:00:01 +0100 Chris Bannister wrote: > or even a BIOS setting OK Chris, I have to eat humble pie here, it was a BIOS setting. Something about a setting in the plug-and-play versus the BIOS..this setting got changed to letting the BIOS decide what's what. I had to set it

Re: Printing on HPLaserJetP1102w

2012-11-11 Thread GEOFF BAGLEY
Thanks Brian. I had given up, and taken the machine back to my wife's desk. So I went there, and went to the site you quoted. My wife'nachine runs Ubuntu 12.04. The site installed the software- TWICE!, so I went to the print menu and there were two copies of the printer there. One (the first o

Re: testing install in acer aspire v5-571P with uefi/gpt

2012-11-11 Thread L V Gandhi
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 11 Nov 2012 at 05:44:00 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > > > However I have one more requirement, the boot menu has debian and ubuntu > > but not windows8 as used to be previously. > > I would like windows 8 also included in boot menu. > > See wher

Re: Printing on HPLaserJetP1102w

2012-11-11 Thread Brian
On Sun 11 Nov 2012 at 10:25:34 +, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote: > I tried the HP we site, and it eventually > said that the printer was not supported on > Debian squeeze. Not according to this: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_professional_p1102w.html CUPS in Squee

Re: testing install in acer aspire v5-571P with uefi/gpt

2012-11-11 Thread Brian
On Sun 11 Nov 2012 at 05:44:00 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > However I have one more requirement, the boot menu has debian and ubuntu > but not windows8 as used to be previously. > I would like windows 8 also included in boot menu. See where you get by booting into Debian and doing 'update-grub' as

Re: Debian Wheezy

2012-11-11 Thread Daniel Koch
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 12:50:33 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:23:49 +0100 > Mats Olofsson wrote: > > Hello Mats, > > >reportbug 6.3.4 > > > >There is no way to go back to correct incorrect entries. I can e.g. not > >correct e-mail settings and thus not use reportbug. >

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Gean Ceretta > wrote: >> >> Good night friends, I'll appreciate some help here: For some reason, I'm not >> owner of my home folder, that implicates in some problems for programs that >> have to create folders here,

Re: Debian Wheezy

2012-11-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:23:49 +0100 Mats Olofsson wrote: Hello Mats, >reportbug 6.3.4 > >There is no way to go back to correct incorrect entries. I can e.g. not >correct e-mail settings and thus not use reportbug. IDK where it's kept, but how about editing the config file directly? Not ideal p

Debian Wheezy

2012-11-11 Thread Mats Olofsson
reportbug 6.3.4 There is no way to go back to correct incorrect entries. I can e.g. not correct e-mail settings and thus not use reportbug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: Audio issue with Intel HDA driver

2012-11-11 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Gean Ceretta, 8.11.2012: > - Original Message - > From: Emmanuel Bourgerie > Sent: 11/08/12 08:43 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Audio issue with Intel HDA driver > > Hi everyone ! I'm having an issue with my new motherboard, I just installed > Debian sid and I don't h

Re: After updating wheezy, sound card not properly recognized anymore

2012-11-11 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Simon Hoerder, 9.11.2012: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA224 > > On 09/11/12 10:47, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Check your DE's Pulseaudio settings too. > > > > > > Hi, > > Using PulseAudio Volume control: > Nothing is muted, all volume settings are 100%. But it lists "Dummy > Ou

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:45:20 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:46:09 -0500 (EST), Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom > >> kernel. I have been shying away for too long. > >> >

Re: Printing on HPLaserJetP1102w

2012-11-11 Thread GEOFF BAGLEY
Dear Michael. I thought of another approach. Could I get the HPLaserJetP1102w to work as a network printer ? If the answer is yes, would the various printers connected to the network still face the same problem, or do they just see the network ? I tried the HP we site, and it eventually said

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Joe
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:09:36 -0600 Charles Blair wrote: >I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. > >The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, > presumably for windows7. > >I have been able to resize to create freespace. > As I understand it, / must be bootable,

Re: What professional PCIe audio cards do work with Linux?

2012-11-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:20:38 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > I already asked on some lists about my RME HDSPe AIO card. I > explicitly bought this for Linux usage only in 2011, but never needed > all available channels until now. Now I notice that the card can't be > used for serious audio

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 10, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Charles Blair wrote: Thank you very much for your reply. I think I will post a restatement of the question. I would have thought that a dual boot of windows 7 and debian would be a common enough problem that there should be something about it somewhere, perhaps

Re: restart problems monitor or GPU

2012-11-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Nov 2012, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 03:00:01 +0100 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > if someone has been "fiddling" with it. > > I'm the one who's fiddling with it and if you want to suggest something be > specific > like what BIOS setting did you have in mind? The bleedin

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Gean Ceretta [12 05:45]: > I've tried change the ownership of the directory with: I recently was unable to change ownership, permissions, etc., of a directory. Finally I discovered that I somehow had mounted the directory twice, and that the second mount was inhibiting changes. And in one

apt-mirror downloading issue

2012-11-11 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i just installed apt-mirror for creating a local mirror but regarding articles that i have been through told me that i may need 26 GB of space. however right now the download has exceeded 40GB and still downloading what i needed is a debian squeeze local repository i dont know what is going on beh

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 01:50:03 AM Gean Ceretta wrote: > Thanks Neal and Charlie, I've tried: > *# chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean* but the ownership stays the same root, > maybe its important to say that the /home is an NTFS partition, mounted by > /etc/fstab as: > > */dev/sda3 /home auto

New Dovecot and Kmail

2012-11-11 Thread David Baron
Every version upgrade of Dovecot causes config problems (running Sid). I hand edited the doveconf -n stuff in after choosing to keep my old .conf and not being able to get the choice again. Got it working, finally. KMail seems to be getting my imap stuff but get and error box each time: Error wh