Re: ocfs2+drbd two-primary

2012-12-26 Thread Atif Ceylan
Yes I have encountered some issues on ocfs2 but these were not split-brain problems. Also my problems reasons were about the SPOF. So I want to use Drbd. I will join to drbd maillist and ask this subject on there again. Thanks, Igor Cicimov wrote: >On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Atıf CEYL

[APT::Clean-Installed "0";] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-26 Thread piruthiviraj natarajan
Is there any way to clean the apt cache for the packages that I am not currently using? I tried using this config root@localhost:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Clean-Installed "0"; // auto-remove breaks on meta packages APT::Get::AutomaticRemove "0"; APT::Get::HideAutoRemove "1"; // Recommends are

Re: how to restore grub boot manager

2012-12-26 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:26:15 +0800 Long Wind napísal: > I don't have a Debian CD now > (so I can't rescue) This can be done with mostly all of Linux live CDs ;-) > I have reinstalled squeeze This is no problem on new installations, but my box has a lot of customization (settings, etc.)

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-26 Thread berenger . morel
Le 26.12.2012 20:25, Steven Post a écrit : On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 03:44 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Thanks for your suggestion, I'm not sure mpd does what I'm looking > for > but it seems great for use in another project (some jukebox thing I'm > wanting to have a go at). I wi

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-26 Thread berenger . morel
Le 27.12.2012 03:05, Daniel Dalton a écrit : On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 02:14:35PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Maybe those softwares are using their own database? Rhythmbox yes, gmpc, would use mpd though? well, not my problem, since I do not intend to use such kind of software

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 02:14:35PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Maybe those softwares are using their own database? Rhythmbox yes, gmpc, would use mpd though? > well, not my problem, since I do not intend to use such kind of > softwares. I can avoid rhythmbox, but it'd be nice to

Re: ssh fails - SOLVED (was: Re: git pull fails with OpenSSL version mismatch error)

2012-12-26 Thread Joel Roth
Bob Proulx wrote: > Joel Roth wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Joel Roth wrote: > > > > I'm just so used to the dependencies being taken > > > > care of by APT, that I was surprised to have to > > > > lift my little pinkie. > > > > > > Uhm... An 'apt-get upgrade' should have offered those for up

Re: ocfs2+drbd two-primary

2012-12-26 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Atıf CEYLAN wrote: > ** > On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 23:12 +1100, Igor Cicimov wrote: > > Maybe try heartbeat if tou are after something simple. Using dual primary > though without fencing is asking for trouble, split brain and lost od data. > > Yes. maybe I will enc

Re: how to restore grub boot manager

2012-12-26 Thread Long Wind
I don't have a Debian CD now (so I can't rescue) I have reinstalled squeeze Thank Slavko and all that reply! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAB-gxZB

Re: gibberish in log files

2012-12-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Ross Boylan wrote: > *Dec 15 23:35:43 corn kernel: sf omt"."wt tnadjunl<>2851760]RieF:d-4 sn ree > aamd > *Dec 15 23:35:43 corn kernel: 5[544.113 esrS m4:junlprm:dvc m4,sz 12 ora is > lc 8 a rn e 04 a ac 0,mxcmi g 0 a rn g 0<>2851773]RieF:d-4 hcigtascinlg(m4)nr > aht otnms<5>[2584541.845130] R

Error booting after power outage

2012-12-26 Thread Parker Sikand
I had a server set up with Debian Squeeze using the encrypted LVM. It was running great and up for about 40 days. We had a power flicker and now the server fails to boot... it tells me that /run/udev is not writeable, and that it can't find any LVM groups... How do I recover from this? -- To UN

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-26 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/26/2012 10:45 AM, Worrier Poet wrote: On 12/26/2012 09:10 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Maybe you should live in the Washington, DC area like I do, and actually PARTICIPATE in the process. Have you ever spent any time in with the staff of either of your senators or your representative? Have y

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/12/12 02:25 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 26/12/12 01:39 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:56:28 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): On 26/12/12 12:41 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): What did you change. It's my understanding it should

Re: obsidianmusic alternative? (music library with streaming or download from webserver)

2012-12-26 Thread Steven Post
On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 03:44 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Thanks for your suggestion, I'm not sure mpd does what I'm looking > > for > > but it seems great for use in another project (some jukebox thing I'm > > wanting to have a go at). I will look further into it. > Yes, it's gr

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/12/12 01:39 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:56:28 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): On 26/12/12 12:41 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): What did you change. It's my understanding it should run "out of the box" Thanks -- Cheers Frank

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
You need to run this 'dpkg-reconfigure lightdm' and choose 'lightdm', and you can show this by 'leafpad /etc/X11/default-display-manager' which should also show 'lightdm'. Then amend 'leafpad /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf' to show ;- [LightDM] start-default-seat=true greeter-user=lightdm minimum-displa

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:56:28 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): On 26/12/12 12:41 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): What did you change. It's my understanding it should run "out of the box" Thanks -- Cheers Frank It should, but it doesnt, at least i

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/12/12 12:41 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): What did you change. It's my understanding it should run "out of the box" Thanks -- Cheers Frank It should, but it doesnt, at least in wheezy it doesn't. It gets stuck somehow. I guess the run

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
I changed virtually all of the [LightDM] section, and some of the [SeatDefaults], and I'm on wheezy too. Sharon. On 26 December 2012 17:41, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): > > >>What did you change. It's my understanding it should run "out of the

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): What did you change. It's my understanding it should run "out of the box" Thanks -- Cheers Frank It should, but it doesnt, at least in wheezy it doesn't. It gets stuck somehow. I guess the runlevel services get messed up, espe

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:45:57AM -0500, Worrier Poet wrote: > On 12/26/2012 09:10 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > Maybe you should live in the Washington, DC area like I do, and actually > > PARTICIPATE in the process. Have you ever spent any time in with the > > staff of either of your senators or

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/12/12 12:05 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: I installed lightdm last night, and got it working okay. Did you do anything with /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ? I suspect not, but that's where its configurations are set. And once they're set I rebooted to make sure it would work, and it did. Good luck S

Re: How do you read logs?

2012-12-26 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 26.12.2012 17:41, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2012/12/26 Hugo Vanwoerkom : >>> jug...@lavabit.com wrote: > > Hello. > > There are a lot of `possible break-in attempts' messages in > my logs. So it's hard to read them `by hand' (w

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
I installed lightdm last night, and got it working okay. Did you do anything with /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ? I suspect not, but that's where its configurations are set. And once they're set I rebooted to make sure it would work, and it did. Good luck Sharon. On 26 December 2012 16:39, Frank McC

Re: How do you read logs?

2012-12-26 Thread Marc Auslander
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > jug...@lavabit.com wrote: >> Hello. >> >> There are a lot of `possible break-in attempts' messages in my >> logs. So it's hard to read them `by hand' (with last or more). How do >> you read yours? Do you use any log analyzers? Which ones? I just read them with emacs, an

Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Frank McCormick
I thought I would try out lightdm today instead of GDM3...but after installation and telling the configure script to use lightdm, I end up with a blank screen and a cursor...no login facility. Am I missing something ? Aptitude installed light dm and the greeter. -- Cheers Frank -- To U

Re: Arrgghh! Libreoffice woes!

2012-12-26 Thread Kent West
On 12/26/12 6:03 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Yesterday i installed libreoffice 3.6.4.3 alongside Debian libreoffice > 3.5.4. today neither worked except via root, so i uninstalled both > libreoffices with synaptic, and then re-installed Debian libreoffice > with apt-get. but it does not open from th

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-26 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 26. 12. 2012 14:38:11 je Worrier Poet napisal(a): Sign, don't sign. Big deal. But just about everyone who's used the Internet for anything has "signed" in some way at even more "dangerous" sites -- and for less laudable causes. I don't think my point was that obtuse. People give their cr

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-26 Thread Worrier Poet
On 12/26/2012 09:10 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Maybe you should live in the Washington, DC area like I do, and actually > PARTICIPATE in the process. Have you ever spent any time in with the > staff of either of your senators or your representative? Have you > actually sat in the visitors' area d

Re: How do you read logs?

2012-12-26 Thread Eero Volotinen
2012/12/26 Hugo Vanwoerkom : > jug...@lavabit.com wrote: >> >> Hello. >> >> There are a lot of `possible break-in attempts' messages in my >> logs. So it's hard to read them `by hand' (with last or more). How do >> you read yours? Do you use any log analyzers? Which ones? >> >> >> >> > > http://pac

Re: How do you read logs?

2012-12-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
jug...@lavabit.com wrote: Hello. There are a lot of `possible break-in attempts' messages in my logs. So it's hard to read them `by hand' (with last or more). How do you read yours? Do you use any log analyzers? Which ones? http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/logtool Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Arrgghh! Libreoffice woes!

2012-12-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:03:52PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Yesterday i installed libreoffice 3.6.4.3 alongside Debian libreoffice > 3.5.4. today neither worked except via root, so i uninstalled both > libreoffices with synaptic, and then re-installed Debian libreoffice with > apt-get. but it

Re: Greeter with language selector for wheezy

2012-12-26 Thread Jaap Winius
On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:35:57 +, Jaap Winius wrote: > Does anyone know of a greeter with a language selector for wheezy? In case anyone was wondering, the solution for me was to use two packages from Debian experimental: lightdm_1.4.0-1_amd64.deb lightdm-gtk-greeter_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb Ac

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-26 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/26/2012 8:38 AM, Worrier Poet wrote: On 12/25/2012 08:40 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/25/2012 5:12 PM, Worrier Poet wrote: On 12/25/2012 04:06 PM, Go Linux wrote: --- On Tue, 12/25/12, Max Hyre wrote: From: Max Hyre Subject: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov To: "Debia

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-26 Thread John Hasler
Max Hyre writes: > Too bad signing requires registration with personal info. "Personal info"? Email, name, and zip code? You're being silly. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-26 Thread Worrier Poet
On 12/25/2012 08:40 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 12/25/2012 5:12 PM, Worrier Poet wrote: >> On 12/25/2012 04:06 PM, Go Linux wrote: >>> --- On Tue, 12/25/12, Max Hyre wrote: >>> From: Max Hyre Subject: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov To: "Debian User mailing list"

Re: Some applications freezing up

2012-12-26 Thread berenger . morel
Yes... I always use mpc and it works with no problem. Also control mpd from within emacs through emms is just fine also. huhu... sometimes I think that emacs is a really a full OS :D If you encounter the same problem with all of them, it is not the client, so probably the server. If you only

Re: How to check what ports are filtered on a public network?

2012-12-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
On Dec 26, 2012 6:58 AM, wrote: > > Hello. > > Some public networks don't allow to connect to port 25 or forbid > non-http traffic. How to check what ports are filtered/blocked? I > think it can be done with nmap, but I have never used it. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: ocfs2+drbd two-primary

2012-12-26 Thread Atıf CEYLAN
On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 23:12 +1100, Igor Cicimov wrote: > Maybe try heartbeat if tou are after something simple. Using dual > primary though without fencing is asking for trouble, split brain and > lost od data. > Yes. maybe I will encounter a split brain problem. I had asked the first question f

Re: Dead USB drive?

2012-12-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
Do you think that 'Disk utility 2.30.1' would be able to rescue a USB hard drive that has had Debian 6 accidentally installed on it, over the vital backups? The USB drive has just been sitting on the shelf for two years and not been used since the unfortunate incident. Thanks Sharon. On 25 Dece

Arrgghh! Libreoffice woes!

2012-12-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
Yesterday i installed libreoffice 3.6.4.3 alongside Debian libreoffice 3.5.4. today neither worked except via root, so i uninstalled both libreoffices with synaptic, and then re-installed Debian libreoffice with apt-get. but it does not open from the menu. how can i get it working again please? ri

Re: How to check what ports are filtered on a public network?

2012-12-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
jug...@lavabit.com a écrit : > > Some public networks don't allow to connect to port 25 or forbid > non-http traffic. How to check what ports are filtered/blocked? I > think it can be done with nmap, but I have never used it. Yes, but you need to have a remote host with the TCP ports your want to

Re: Laptop left in unusable state

2012-12-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 09:04:13AM -0500, Agbefia wrote: > > To whom it may concern: > I have a Dell laptop Studio that runs on Win7 operating system.i tried to > install Debian but something went wrong and my laptop cannot boot and it > seems all my data on the hard drive were erased and I cann

AA fonts "too wide" in X11 terminal emulators

2012-12-26 Thread iMil
Hi, I've recently upgraded my workstation from squeeze to wheezy, pretty much everything went fine, except a really annoying situation: from now on, all of the AntiAliased fonts I'll use in a terminal emulator under X11 will be too large, just like if letter spacing had increased with this upgra

Re: O.T.: An extremely Cruel Thing I just Read On The Internet.

2012-12-26 Thread Beco
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Weaver wrote: > "What many people don't understand about Linux development is that it's > truly a team effort: Red Hat develops the kernel, Novell develops the > applications, Debian does the packaging, and Ubuntu takes the credit! > —Joke found on a bathroom stal