Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/01/2012 06:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 12/1/2012 5:34 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm calling this case settled... Good to hear it's all working now. Curious, the pair of Patriot sticks with the problem: did that package show signs of being opened before you bought it? Unscrupulous peo

Re: Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

2012-12-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:55:22AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install >> In Section B.4.7 says >> "The examples below only provide basic information on the use of >> recipes. For detailed in

GRUB setup for multi-boot ISO from memory stick

2012-12-01 Thread Intense Red
I've been trying to set up Testing/Wheezy's DVD ISO to boot from a memory card/USB thumb drive, as outlined at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot- multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/ I have the *.iso file renamed "debian.iso" and put in the root directory of the USB drive/memory ca

Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-12-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/11/12 06:53, Carl Fink wrote: I don't mean Android, a proprietary OS build on the Linux kernel just as MacOS is built on the BSD kernel. Are there any phones or tablets people are aware of that use actual, FOSS, Linux as their OS? Linux _is_ the kernel. Perhaps what you're after is a dev

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 12/1/2012 5:34 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I'm calling this case settled. I went back to Fry's today and returned > the second kit of Patriot Memory. I got a store creidit and went back > to pick out new memory. Fry's does not carry Micron memory, and only > occasionally has Crucial. They wer

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > today, I tried to upgrade from squeeze to wheezzy: Okay. > - in source.list, I only left: > deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free Okay. Don't completely forget about security upgrades. But okay to upgrade without to keep thing simple. B

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-01 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 20:00:02 +0100 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Is there a way to fix this dependency problem? I found nothing > useful (at least for me) via Google, or debian forums. Try this: #dpkg --configure -a -- CK p.s. this is an old one: #apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-u

Re: Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:55:22AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install > In Section B.4.7 says > "The examples below only provide basic information on the use of > recipes. For detailed information see the files > partman-auto-recipe.txt and partman-

(SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/01/2012 01:11 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/29/2012 10:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/28/2012 9:14 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM The DIMMS

Re: [OT] End of the world

2012-12-01 Thread Wolf Halton
On Dec 1, 2012 4:24 PM, "Beco" wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 5:24 PM, darkestkhan wrote: > > > > Isn't this a bit too fast ? Wasn't End of the World scheduled in > > crontab for 21.12.2012 ? ;) > > > > -- > > darkestkhan > > > I wrote earlier because I'll be busy these last 20 days travelling

Re: time zone and UTC issue

2012-12-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 02:19:50PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:55:16PM +0530, J. B wrote: > > > > If I need my hwclock to UTC then what should be the right way to do that ? > > I have followed "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" and found it has changed the > > local time to > >

Re: [OT] End of the world

2012-12-01 Thread Beco
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 5:24 PM, darkestkhan wrote: > > Isn't this a bit too fast ? Wasn't End of the World scheduled in > crontab for 21.12.2012 ? ;) > > -- > darkestkhan I wrote earlier because I'll be busy these last 20 days travelling and spending money in installments. Bye! Have a nice last

Re: Dying hard drive?

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:53:30PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Does > Main Menu -> Settings -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts > not work for Ctrl-Alt-Del? No. Not everyone has Main Menu -> Settings -> etc. but everyone has an /etc/inittab file. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers

Re: how many users is enough?

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 02:34:12PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 01.12.2012 07:50, Chris Bannister a écrit : > >On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:35:41PM +0100, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > >>If I am not wrong, .NET have documented specifications, and I > >>~think~ they > >>are also doing

Re: [OT] End of the world

2012-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Howard Lee Harkness wrote: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Beco mailto:r...@beco.cc>> wrote: Hi guys, I just want to say thank you all for being such a great guys. To all gurus, and to those who doesn't understand that much, but when someone asks what they do, are willing t

Re: [OT] End of the world

2012-12-01 Thread Howard Lee Harkness
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Beco wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just want to say thank you all for being such a great guys. To all > gurus, and to those who doesn't understand that much, but when someone > asks what they do, > are willing to help anybody. > > You made a great Debian community, and y

Re: [OT] End of the world

2012-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
darkestkhan wrote: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Beco wrote: Hi guys, I just want to say thank you all for being such a great guys. To all gurus, and to those who doesn't understand that much, but when someone asks what they do, are willing to help anybody. You made a great Debian community

Re: [OT] End of the world

2012-12-01 Thread darkestkhan
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Beco wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just want to say thank you all for being such a great guys. To all > gurus, and to those who doesn't understand that much, but when someone > asks what they do, > are willing to help anybody. > > You made a great Debian community, and yo

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-01 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Tom H wrote: The versions that apt's trying to install are squeeze ones. not exactly: "5.1.6-1 is to be installed", curiously actually means: "5.1.6-1 is installed" What's the output of "apt-cache policy"? ==> apt-cache policy Package files:

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > today, I tried to upgrade from squeeze to wheezzy: > - in source.list, I only left: > deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > > - then, apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade > up to now, no problem, a lot of pa

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread David Christensen
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg01468.html From: Marc Shapiro > Last weekend I put together a new box to replace the one that has been locking up repeatedly. The components are: > Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB > 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM When I purchase memory, I *always* use

upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-01 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, today, I tried to upgrade from squeeze to wheezzy: - in source.list, I only left: deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free - then, apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade up to now, no problem, a lot of packages were upgraded - but after reboot,running "apt-get dist-up

Re: how many users is enough?

2012-12-01 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:01 PM, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > And the subject was the number of users needed to keep a distro alive ;) One. Of course it would take ages for a release. :) The power of GNU/Linux distros (and other *nixes) lies - IMHO obviously - in the community of volunteers who kee

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/2012 10:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/28/2012 9:14 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM The DIMMS are 1600. According to the BIOS the CPU Tim

Dual boot with OS X and Wheezy.

2012-12-01 Thread Ed Jabbour
Trying to dual boot OSX and Wheezy on a late 2008 Macbook running Mountain Lion. Following steps found on the web, I first created an empty partition using OSX's Disk Utility - 80 GB for OSX and 80GB free for Wheezy. However, when I reached the partitioning step in the Wheezy install, it id'd

KDE4 - way to add to "k" menu for *all* users?

2012-12-01 Thread David Guntner
Hi, all. I could have sworn that once upon a time, running kmenuedit as root would let you set the menu items for all users on the system. Now, unfortunately, it only seems to edit the menu for the root user. Is there a way under KDE4 to edit the menu entries, and then have it save the new/chang

Re: Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

2012-12-01 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:00:03 +0100 Richard Owlett wrote: > multiple Linuxes present. Is there a way to > tell the installer to use an existing SWAP partition? I have such a system, and 'any' swap partition cut out of any other (Linux) partition on your computer will be used by whatever version

Re: Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

2012-12-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Dec 2012 at 09:55:22 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm looking for a more complete list of preseedable > questions/answers than given by the example preseed.cfg files found > on various sites. Methods revolving around debconf-get-selections > aren't satisfactory as I'm not interested in

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/2012 10:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/28/2012 9:14 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM The DIMMS are 1600. According to the BIOS the CPU Tim

Fwd: Re: No sound on new Wheezy system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ooops! Sorry Andrei. I ment to reply to the list, not directly to you. Marc Original Message On 12/01/2012 02:44 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 01 dec 12, 00:47:03, Marc Shapiro wrote: cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument Let's start with 'aplay -l' and 'ls

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > my apologies for cross-posting this to several Linux mailing lists. What you have done is referred to as multiposting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting "This is distinct from multiposting, which is the posting of

Re: how to make my installation of Debian as live CD

2012-12-01 Thread Linux-Fan
On 12/01/2012 04:23 PM, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: > I want to give how I configuarate my system to other person with same > computer but I dont want to configurate again and again ... Is that > possibble ? Try remastersys: http://remastersys.geekconnection.org/debian.html -- To UNSUBSC

Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

2012-12-01 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm looking for a more complete list of preseedable questions/answers than given by the example preseed.cfg files found on various sites. Methods revolving around debconf-get-selections aren't satisfactory as I'm not interested in duplicating and existing system. I'm doing a number of installs

Re: Linux vs BSD (was Re: how many users is enough?)

2012-12-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
David Guntner wrote: If I recall correctly, in an earlier posting you made here you asked about the difference between BSD and Linux. If that wasn't you, I apologize, and hope that the person who asked will see the subject line and find this just the same. :-) I stumbled upon the following wri

how to make my installation of Debian as live CD

2012-12-01 Thread Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras
I want to give how I configuarate my system to other person with same computer but I dont want to configurate again and again ... Is that possibble ? -- Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras http://jemaduxblog.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

[OT] End of the world

2012-12-01 Thread Beco
Hi guys, I just want to say thank you all for being such a great guys. To all gurus, and to those who doesn't understand that much, but when someone asks what they do, are willing to help anybody. You made a great Debian community, and you set the standards to the whole world regarding sharing, c

Re: time zone and UTC issue

2012-12-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:55:16PM +0530, J. B wrote: > > My box is configured to the local time zone from beginning, both hwclock and > system time. Firstly, to clarify, there are two clocks: - hardware clock (UTC or local) - system clock (UTC) The system clock is *always* UTC. Even if you, th

Linux vs BSD (was Re: how many users is enough?)

2012-12-01 Thread David Guntner
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Le 01.12.2012 07:50, Chris Bannister a écrit : >> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:35:41PM +0100, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: >>> If I am not wrong, .NET have documented specifications, and I ~think~ >>> they are also doing some free softwares. >>

Re: apache2 problem with name based vhost

2012-12-01 Thread Jerry Stuckle
It has nothing to do with the directory not being owned by root - in fact, directories and files for the webserver should NOT be owned by root (neither should most other files and directories). It sounds like Apache is loading the default page. Did you add a symlink to the file in /etc/apac

Re: how many users is enough?

2012-12-01 Thread berenger . morel
Le 01.12.2012 07:50, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:35:41PM +0100, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: If I am not wrong, .NET have documented specifications, and I ~think~ they are also doing some free softwares. $ apt-cache show mono-complete I was speaking about microsoft :)

Re: Dying hard drive?

2012-12-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 12/1/12, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 01:38:33PM -0600, Nelson Green wrote: >> with XScreenSaver. Under the old system I could hit Ctrl+Del+Alt and that >> would invoke the screensaver and lock the screen. That functionality is >> missing now. >> get the same functionality w

Re: No sound on new Wheezy system

2012-12-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 dec 12, 00:47:03, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument Let's start with 'aplay -l' and 'lsmod | grep snd'. Anything interesting in 'dmesg' and/or /var/log/syslog? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http:

Re: [EVOLUTION] Issue with mistakenly rejected SSL certificate

2012-12-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 30 nov 12, 13:16:30, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > > i have a similar problem with Mutt/Labavit certificates; does someone > know, where the Mutt's certificates are? The thread is very prominently about Evolution, you could have at least changed the subject to mention mutt (I read your messa

Re: Ubuntu one login @ Win7

2012-12-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[Just for the archive, the OP already realised his mistake] On Vi, 30 nov 12, 14:47:48, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > > I could install Ubuntu one on my win7 but cannot ^ > > login to my account with it. It says: Login failed. > > You are installing another operating sy

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-12-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 30 nov 12, 22:21:01, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 10:45 -0800, Weaver wrote: > > GAG > > Being able to boot only 9 kernels isn't enough. You snipped too much, Weaver wrote about 9 *different* OSs. I don't understand that to mean you can not boot 10 Linux kernels ;) Kind re

Re: No sound on new Wheezy system

2012-12-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 00:57 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 12/01/2012 12:47 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I have a newly installed Wheezy system on a freshly built AMD64 system > > with a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 motherboard with built-in sound. Aptitude > > shows that alsa-utils is installed. Jack a

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/2012 10:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/28/2012 9:14 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM The DIMMS are 1600. According to the BIOS the CPU Tim

Re: OT : BSD vs Linux was Re : Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-12-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 01:07 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I have questions about why are you needing so much kernels. My apologies, I'm short in time, so my off-list mail also is short and slightly OT. On the quick: I need that much kernels, because I've got issues with audio lat

Re: No sound on new Wheezy system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/01/2012 12:47 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have a newly installed Wheezy system on a freshly built AMD64 system with a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 motherboard with built-in sound. Aptitude shows that alsa-utils is installed. Jack and pulseaudio are not installed. I also just installed sox. If I

No sound on new Wheezy system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have a newly installed Wheezy system on a freshly built AMD64 system with a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 motherboard with built-in sound. Aptitude shows that alsa-utils is installed. Jack and pulseaudio are not installed. I also just installed sox. If I run 'play filename' then play runs and disp