Re: Shell prompt

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Bannister wrote: > Asking on list, as others may be interested also. > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > martin@merkaba:~#1> > > martin@merkaba:~#130> > ^^^ > > I am wondering what is the significance of the "#1>" and the "#130>" in > your shell prompt, is that a function

Shell prompt (was ... Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!)

2012-12-09 Thread Chris Bannister
Asking on list, as others may be interested also. On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 03:52:51PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > martin@merkaba:~> dpkg -l | grep ia32-libs > martin@merkaba:~#1> ^ > > martin@merkaba:~#130> dpkg -l | grep i386 | cut -c1-72 | grep -v lib

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 09 dec 12, 16:01:05, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Exactly the opposite is true: Once Google puts out a multi arch aware > Google Earth package like Skype did and you have nothing else requiring > ia32-libs you can git rid of it and possibly some of the 32-bit packages > that have not been

Icedove hangs on opening in Squeeze -- problem installing packages with apt-get?

2012-12-09 Thread kenslists
I have a Lenovo R61 laptop with Squeeze newly installed. The version of Icedove installed is 10.0.11-1, which is apparently the latest available in Squeeze. When I open Icedove -- or try to -- the main window opens, followed by a smaller window asking for the password for one of my e-mail acco

Re: Squeeze freeze

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Harris wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > Sorry, no idea about the freezes except maybe to try a newer kernel > > (backports has 3.2). > > Thanks. I see that now. I'll think about it (and research what I'd > have to do in addition to installing it). I've been staying mostly with > Stable

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > This nfs startup part is a part that seems to have suffered from the > > transition from boot time scripts to event driven scripts. This kind > > of thing use to work in the previous init script way. I don't know > > the best design to make this work in

Re: Squeeze freeze

2012-12-09 Thread Bill Harris
Andrei POPESCU writes: > Have you tried unplugging and pulling out the battery after the (forced) > shutdown? Andrei, Yep. I left it out for 30-60 seconds, which has worked on other laptops in the past, and it wasn't successful. > Sorry, no idea about the freezes except maybe to try a newer

Re: Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Dennis, I would try to mount it in a livefile system. Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) comes there in my mind. It has some tools, which might save and restore data. You might also take a look at Recobery-is-possible (RIP), another fine rescue system. If ypur harddrive is Windows FAT or NTFS take a

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-09 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 14:11 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_basic_network_configuration_with_ifupdown_legacy > > P.P.S. Unanswered Question: Since the PXE boot used dhcp to obtain an > address that means there is a limited lease t

Re: Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/12/12 03:42 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; One of my hard drives quit working, and as luck would have it, just before the scheduled backup! So I need to recover some info that has been updated/added since the last backup. First, is there any thing I can do to get the system to moun

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have a theory that the mounts are supposed to happen when the network > > device comes up; the regular network up routines are not triggered to > > avoid screwing up the root fs. /etc/network/interfaces has > > > > # The primary network interface > > #

Re: NFS automount not happening [solution confirmed]

2012-12-09 Thread Ross Boylan
The solution is to run mount -a -t nfs in /etc/rc.local. Depending on your aesthetics, this might be considered a work-around. More details below. On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 01:19 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have a theory that the mounts are supposed to happen when the network

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > I don't think using dhcp is correct because the network is already up > and assigned. But perhaps it is because that would allow the system > to migrate to a different address after the lease expires. I don't > know. I didn't do any testing of that configuration. (Maybe late

Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; One of my hard drives quit working, and as luck would have it, just before the scheduled backup! So I need to recover some info that has been updated/added since the last backup. First, is there any thing I can do to get the system to mount that drive even with errors? As it is ri

Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; One of my hard drives quit working, and as luck would have it, just before the scheduled backup! So I need to recover some info that has been updated/added since the last backup. First, is there any thing I can do to get the system to mount that drive even with errors? As it is ri

Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; One of my hard drives quit working, and as luck would have it, just before the scheduled backup! So I need to recover some info that has been updated/added since the last backup. First, is there any thing I can do to get the system to mount that drive even with errors? As it is ri

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Martin, > > We had it in debian-user-german to an almost unbearable extent. Please > read some of the recent threads there. > > Thus please forgive me when this starts getting on my nerves. > > I may better try to stay away from this thread from now on. > > Thanks for your long answer. Wel

Re: uvesafb Debian Squeeze with custom built kernel 3.6.6

2012-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas Fazekas wrote: I have debian squeze on which I'm trying to get uvesafb running with custom built kernel 3.6.6 (hardware is an HP Elitebook 8540w) I've compiled the uvesa (uvesafb.ko) and the Connector - unified userspace (cn.ko) as a module which are loaded via initramfs. As far as I can

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2012 schrieb CaT: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 03:18:32PM +1100, CaT wrote: > > Felt that was a bit too many packages (182 new i386 packages) to be > > installed so: > > > > apt-get purge ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk > > > > For you this will get rid of more packages than you may

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: > > > > > Current Wheezy: > > - i386 packages can be directly installed as Architecture:i386 and > > directly depend on X:i386 etc. as needed > > - ia32-libs:amd64 is empty and depends on X:i386, Y:i386, Z:i386 to > > ensure that if you up

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Hans, Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: > Maybe I described my problem not exactly enough. My English might be better. > Let me try again. > > 1. I have a running amd64 system, which is running 32-bit applications > perfectly (due to ia32-libs) > > 2. aptitude upgrade wan

uvesafb Debian Squeeze with custom built kernel 3.6.6

2012-12-09 Thread Thomas Fazekas
I have debian squeze on which I'm trying to get uvesafb running with custom built kernel 3.6.6 (hardware is an HP Elitebook 8540w) I've compiled the uvesa (uvesafb.ko) and the Connector - unified userspace (cn.ko) as a module which are loaded via initramfs. As far as I can see everything loads cor

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a theory that the mounts are supposed to happen when the network > device comes up; the regular network up routines are not triggered to > avoid screwing up the root fs. /etc/network/interfaces has > > # The primary network interface > # do not bring up interface twice