Re: network unrachable problem

2013-04-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I have a (headless) SBC (actually a raspberry pi, but I think that's > unimportant) running wheezy, with both wireless and wired networking > interfaces, each with ipv4 and ipv6 addresses. Me too. Well... Only IPv4. I haven't set up IPv6. I am using wpa_supplicant dir

Re: Will unix ever get out of dependency hell

2013-04-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > Why on earth does so much of the default desktops depend on polkit > > when very little breaks when it is disabled! > > > > Because "very little" is not "nothing at all." But 99% of the code would work just fine without it and does if you remove it's suid. On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:39:30 -040

Re: NEWBIE question Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Richard Owlett writes: > Roger Leigh wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:42:32AM -0700, sting wing wrote: >>> Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev > >> >> % findmnt /dev >> TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS >> /dev devtmpfs devtmpfs rw,size=249844k,nr_inode

Re: Will unix ever get out of dependency hell

2013-04-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 20:59 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Why on earth does so much of the default desktops depend on polkit when > very little breaks when it is disabled! > > I think some important principles have been forgotten...or never > learnt in the first place in these 'modern' times. T

Re: Will unix ever get out of dependency hell

2013-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > Why on earth does so much of the default desktops depend on polkit when > very little breaks when it is disabled! > Because "very little" is not "nothing at all."

Will unix ever get out of dependency hell

2013-04-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Why on earth does so much of the default desktops depend on polkit when very little breaks when it is disabled! I think some important principles have been forgotten...or never learnt in the first place in these 'modern' times. --

Re: NEWBIE question Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> What does it mean when /dev is said to be static? dynamic? > What should I be reading about? On Linux, static tends to be used on embedded systems for speed and sanity when you know about all the hardware that will be connected and don't want anything interfering. OpenBSD has a Makedev script wh

Re: Squeeze X86 with 4GByte RAM?

2013-04-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> If I run grub with "linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (Recovery Mode)" it > starts fine and I have all the 4GByte of RAM - but when I run the same > without Recovery Mode it shows me black screen with blinking cursor and > wait forever. > > I think it was because when I give more memory to the com

Fw: Sound Problem -- More Information

2013-04-05 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 11:22:48 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Molnar" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Sound Problem 64 bit Debian Wheezy/Testing. I had to reinstall the OS duer to a HD failure. Sound worked prior to that. computation@abnormal:~$ aplay -l Li

NEWBIE question Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:42:32AM -0700, sting wing wrote: Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev What does it mean when /dev is said to be static? dynamic? What should I be reading about? % findmnt /dev TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIO

Re: HELP: debian installer preseed network configuration.

2013-04-05 Thread Sam Su
Thank you so much for your suggestion, Bob. Yes, I am using Ubuntu, I asked a similar question at ubuntu community but nobody response, it looks like few of active Ubuntu users are interesting for this topic. I also noticed that most of great posts about how to preseed an ubuntu system are based o

Sound Problem

2013-04-05 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
64 bit Debian Wheezy/Testing. I had to reinstall the OS duer to a HD failure. Sound worked prior to that. computation@abnormal:~$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: Solo1 [ESS ES1938 (Solo-1)], device 0: es-1938-1946 [ESS Solo-1] Subdevices: 2/2 Subdevice #0: subdev

Re: network unrachable problem

2013-04-05 Thread basti
OT: Thats important that is is a Raspi. Look at the Raspberry forum you can found many posts about the wifi problem. I also try to run the Raspi with wifi and give up. On my system there are problems with wpa_supplicant, somthink like: http://azitech.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/deauthenticating-reas

network unrachable problem

2013-04-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
I have a (headless) SBC (actually a raspberry pi, but I think that's unimportant) running wheezy, with both wireless and wired networking interfaces, each with ipv4 and ipv6 addresses. When both are configured, all is well, and I can ping anywhere with both address families. If I now unplug the et

Re: static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 05:42:32AM -0700, sting wing wrote: > Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev % findmnt /dev TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS /dev devtmpfs devtmpfs rw,size=249844k,nr_inodes=62461,mode=755 Unless you have taken very special steps to av

static or dynamic /dev

2013-04-05 Thread sting wing
Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev i am reading an how to article at http://www.debian-administration.org/article/327/Monitoring_your_hardware's_temperature and their are two instructs one for dynamic /dev and the other for dynamic /dev and i personally do

ircd-hybrid

2013-04-05 Thread Lázaro
Hi all, I'm trying to run a ircd-hybrid listening in the 443 port but it fail the binding because have not permission. My question... how could I give permission 443 port binding's permission to the irc user? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Xen Domain0 keep rebooting on IBMx346

2013-04-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
G'day Alan, On 5/04/2013 5:57 PM, alan04 wrote: > I saw your email > :http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/03/msg00504.html, and hope to > learn some infomation from you. > > I have similar problem of IBM x346, with Xen 4.1.2(on Ubuntu 12.04), or > Xen 4.1.3 (on Ubuntu 12.10). > The domain0 a