Re: how to boot a system with a broken but non-essential LVM VG

2013-05-15 Thread emmanuel segura
Look this http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/lost_PV_remove_from_VG.html 2013/5/16 Ross Boylan > One of the disks that was in an LVM Volume Group died, as a result of > which LVM reports an error when the system starts. I believe because of > the errors from lvm t

[SOLVED] Re: libvirt/kvm virtual hosts unbootable after upgrading hypervisor to wheezy from squeeze

2013-05-15 Thread Ari Epstein
Thanks Zenaan. Had a lucky break: I changed the virtual disks from SCSI to SATA using virt-manager and suddenly they were bootable again. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I can only give wild suggests: read errata; use (low-level) tools to > check disk availability; tr

Re: libvirt/kvm virtual hosts unbootable after upgrading hypervisor to wheezy from squeeze

2013-05-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I can only give wild suggests: read errata; use (low-level) tools to check disk availability; try running your vm on a test box - you did test a migration before deploying the upgrade, hint hint :) Good luck Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

how to boot a system with a broken but non-essential LVM VG

2013-05-15 Thread Ross Boylan
One of the disks that was in an LVM Volume Group died, as a result of which LVM reports an error when the system starts. I believe because of the errors from lvm the boot sequence stops. After several minutes it times out. At that point a shell prompt appears. The missing physical disk is

Re: SOLVED Re: after upgrade, cannot su or sudo

2013-05-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 09:51:26PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Check 'sudo -l' to list the user's sudo status dump? > > > > User rob may run the following commands on this host: > > (ALL) ALL > > That doesn't seem sufficient for Wheezy. I don't see secure_path in > that output for example.

git-buildpackage

2013-05-15 Thread Loyall, David
Hello. Originally I authored this message for the developer of git-buildpackage, but then I realized that I have no idea how many such inquiries he might receive, so I'd better not send one more. I am a huge fan of git, and debian, so I really like the idea of git-buildpackage. I've even used

Forcefed: The introduction of Grub2 submenus

2013-05-15 Thread Eike Lantzsch
I used to use grub-reboot to boot remotely into any OS, which is installed on one of my boxes. Since the introduction of submenus into grub2 that does not work anymore. Who had the bright idea to push submenus in Grub2 down our throats? I don't want them. I want something straight forward. Somebo

Re: libvirt/kvm virtual hosts unbootable after upgrading hypervisor to wheezy from squeeze

2013-05-15 Thread Ari Epstein
Belatedly realizing the VM configuration would probably be helpful in diagnosing: vm01 0026ba80-bdd4-ffb0-e120-3cc331bfaebb 1310720 1310720 2 hvm destroy restart restart /usr/bin/kvm

libvirt/kvm virtual hosts unbootable after upgrading hypervisor to wheezy from squeeze

2013-05-15 Thread Ari Epstein
Hi all, I have hardly had to touch libvirt/kvm since I set it up for a server several years ago, but need to learn fast after a wheezy upgrade has made them unbootable. I can connect to the virtual hosts through virt-manager and see that the virtual firmware is unable to find any bootable media.

nvi question

2013-05-15 Thread craig
Good afternoon, Using nvi as opposed to vim, the global command to delete all blank line is: :g/^$/d Would anyone happen to know how to replace all instances of two blank lines with a single blank line? The problem I'm running into is how to match the newline character. Since this is nvi, \n is

Re: stuck automating Wheezy install - can't find two options

2013-05-15 Thread Julian C. Dunn
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 15 May 2013 at 09:34:07 -0500, Julian C. Dunn wrote: > > > I'm trying to automate a Wheezy install, porting preseed.cfg from the > > previous release. Everything works great but I can't find the knobs to > > provide responses for the followi

[Fwd: Re: Procmail does not work]

2013-05-15 Thread cosme
Hi David I did exactly as you said but still not working with the line mailbox_command = procmai -a "$EXTENSION" in Postfix and the configuration file in /etc/promailrc check this out $ cat /etc/procmailrc SHELL=/bin/bash SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t" LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log MAI

Re: Too many emails

2013-05-15 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Valaki Valahol wrote: Since I have subscribed to Your email list I am getting any kind of emails, not only those concerning my question... Is this normal and how can I stop receiving all emails, only the answers to my question ? Use a mail to news gateway. EG Gmane; http://gmane.org

Doing last part of update

2013-05-15 Thread ken
Hey, group, A cron job on a system I was just handed does this: /usr/bin/apt-get dist-upgrade -d -y -o APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true So there are some packages downloaded which need to be finished up. I've been using the "other" linux distro for a long time and haven't used debian in a very lo

Re: zabbix in stable (wheezy)

2013-05-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 May 2013 at 11:05:25 -0300, Fred Maranhão wrote: > will zabbix skip wheezy? Bug #687916. -- 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/20130515171219.GI2

Re: stuck automating Wheezy install - can't find two options

2013-05-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 May 2013 at 09:34:07 -0500, Julian C. Dunn wrote: > I'm trying to automate a Wheezy install, porting preseed.cfg from the > previous release. Everything works great but I can't find the knobs to > provide responses for the following screens: > > http://imgur.com/L3QNhIg Package: apt-cd

Re: Procmail does not work

2013-05-15 Thread David Guntner
co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Hi > > Someone who has been running the procmail that could give a > hand, there is no way that I work with postfix, I know I'm doing > wrong. > > /etc/procmailrc? Because you must go to the configuration file? Here is what is in my /etc/pro

Procmail does not work

2013-05-15 Thread cosme
Hi Someone who has been running the procmail that could give a hand, there is no way that I work with postfix, I know I'm doing wrong. /etc/procmailrc? Because you must go to the configuration file? Example how to make incoming messages are not duplicated or triple, etc.. To work on cosets with

Re: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

2013-05-15 Thread Brad Alexander
In my case, possibly my upgrades from experimental. I think I have seen a couple of other threads where pulling previous updates from experimental has lead to problems once the freeze ended. I'm going to downgrade to the nvidia drivers in sid and try 3.8 again. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:46 AM, M

stuck automating Wheezy install - can't find two options

2013-05-15 Thread Julian C. Dunn
I'm trying to automate a Wheezy install, porting preseed.cfg from the previous release. Everything works great but I can't find the knobs to provide responses for the following screens: http://imgur.com/L3QNhIg and http://imgur.com/TfX8nd4 Can anyone give me a pointer in the right direction? - J

zabbix in stable (wheezy)

2013-05-15 Thread Fred Maranhão
When I make "apt-cache search zabbix" in a debian stable there is no results. My sources.list: # more /etc/apt/sources.list #deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free #deb http://linorg.usp.br/debian

Re: Should I trust SMART monitoring tools or the Linux kernel drivers?

2013-05-15 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ let me add to what I said, that I don't hear that drive making any weird noises and the data I keep there are just local copies of freely available data ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: apt-get upgraded kernel, zero bytes download?

2013-05-15 Thread Jochen Spieker
Joel Rees: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> Jochen Spieker wrote: >>> >>> # LANGUAGE=de apt-get update >> >> LANGUAGE=C is probably the better choice here, as it is ‘built-in’, >> i.e. doesn’t require the corresponding locales to be available and is >> the usual standar

Re: apt-get upgraded kernel, zero bytes download?

2013-05-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 15 May 2013 13:40:49 Joel Rees wrote: > >> (My system speaks to me in Japanese, so the messages below are my > >> translations.) > > > > that's a big issue :-) > > Nah, c'mon, my Japanese is perfect. Perhaps. But ours isn't. :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: apt-get upgraded kernel, zero bytes download?

2013-05-15 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/5/15 Joel Rees > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Raffaele Morelli < > raffaele.more...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2013/5/15 Joel Rees >> >>> (My system speaks to me in Japanese, so the messages below are my >>> translations.) >>> >> >> that's a big issue :-) >> > > Nah, c'mon, my Japanese is p

Re: apt-get upgraded kernel, zero bytes download?

2013-05-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Dear Jochen, > > Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Joel Rees: > > > (My system speaks to me in Japanese, so the messages below are my > > > translations.) > > > > You can prefix commands with something like 'LANGUAGE=en' in order to > > change the l

Re: Spurious letter appears in OpenOffice ...

2013-05-15 Thread George Langford, Sc.D.
Here's the URL for my OO posting: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=536651#536651 This may be related to a problem I had years ago with the page format for a No.10 envelope. Once I got the working combination of Landscape/Portrait and other factors in synch between the printer and

Re: apt-get upgraded kernel, zero bytes download?

2013-05-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Jochen, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Joel Rees: > > (My system speaks to me in Japanese, so the messages below are my > > translations.) > > You can prefix commands with something like 'LANGUAGE=en' in order to > change the language temporarily: > > # LANGUAGE=de apt-get update LANGUAGE=C is pr

Re: apt-get upgraded kernel, zero bytes download?

2013-05-15 Thread Jochen Spieker
Joel Rees: > (My system speaks to me in Japanese, so the messages below are my > translations.) You can prefix commands with something like 'LANGUAGE=en' in order to change the language temporarily: # LANGUAGE=de apt-get update … Es wurden 2,356 kB in 6 s geholt (391 kB/s). Paketlisten werden gel

Re: apt-get upgraded kernel, zero bytes download?

2013-05-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Raffaele Morelli < raffaele.more...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/5/15 Joel Rees > >> (My system speaks to me in Japanese, so the messages below are my >> translations.) >> > > that's a big issue :-) > Nah, c'mon, my Japanese is perfect. Kanpeki-tte-yuttoru yanka. :-

Re: facing problem "Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary"

2013-05-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 01:16:20PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >i have baught a new HD with same size and capacity. and trying to copy >partition via command "sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk --force /dev/sdb" > >above command work well. however one confusing part it   "fdisk -l >

Re: apache permission users

2013-05-15 Thread Lars Nooden
On Wed, 15 May 2013, Jean-Marc wrote: > Personally and just about permissions, I would be more strict, like > that: > chmod 750 /var/www/mywebserver{1..5} You have to leave read permissions for the web server to be able serve up the web pages. That means 775 or 755 for directories and 664 or 644

Re: apache permission users

2013-05-15 Thread Jean-Marc
On Wed, 15 May 2013 13:21:12 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks! Hi Pol, > > I installed apache2 web server on debian. > [SNIP] > > chmod 755 /var/www/mywebserver1? Personally and just about permissions, I would be more strict, like that: chmod 750 /var/www/mywebserver{1..5} > > and same f

Re: audit security

2013-05-15 Thread Terho Uotila
On Tue, 14 May 2013 20:22:08 +0200 Pol Hallen wrote: > What should be use to audit security (with email notification) for > debian? > > (with FreeBSD I've portaudit: check from external db security hole > from my packages installed and send an email) > As was already pointed out, apticron may be

Re: apt-get upgraded kernel, zero bytes download?

2013-05-15 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/5/15 Joel Rees > (My system speaks to me in Japanese, so the messages below are my > translations.) > that's a big issue :-) > > apt-get update pulled down its usual mix of stuff, then apt-get upgrade > tells me > > linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 linux-libc-dev > > will be upgraded,

apt-get upgraded kernel, zero bytes download?

2013-05-15 Thread Joel Rees
(My system speaks to me in Japanese, so the messages below are my translations.) apt-get update pulled down its usual mix of stuff, then apt-get upgrade tells me linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 linux-libc-dev will be upgraded, but, 3 packages to upgrade, 0 B of archive to download out of 28

Re: Another less woe

2013-05-15 Thread Mike Castle
I'm using i386. -- 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/ca+t9imx+mhum0+pgmucg9j3qbsb013t2keeczwiwqhmdajf...@mail.gmail.com

apache permission users

2013-05-15 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks! I installed apache2 web server on debian. I need use this web server to host several domains (friends's domains) I'm not sure how configure permission for each users. ie: user1 = mywebserver1 (has real domain) user2 = mywebserver2 (has real domain) user3 = mywebserver3 (has real doma

Re: Spurious letter appears in OpenOffice printed document

2013-05-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 May 2013 at 17:36:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:37:36PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 14 May 2013 at 11:03:14 -0400, George Langford, Sc.D. wrote: > > > > > Here's a crossover problem. > > > > > > Document prints with a spurious letter in upper left han

Re: audit security

2013-05-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:15 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 15 mai 13, 07:07:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > apt-get upgrade > > > > This command upgrades all installed packages. > > No, it doesn't. There are occasions (even on stable) Thank you, I wasn't aware about this, resp. I didn'

facing problem "Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary"

2013-05-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i have baught a new HD with same size and capacity. and trying to copy partition via command "sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk --force /dev/sdb" above command work well. however one confusing part it "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" is giving some information which i am worried about. i think it souldnt give me

Re: audit security

2013-05-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 mai 13, 07:07:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > apt-get upgrade > > This command upgrades all installed packages. No, it doesn't. There are occasions (even on stable) where one needs to additionally run 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. However, don't use it unless: - some packages have not been up

Re: grub confusion

2013-05-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
well i just simply installed Squeeze 6.0.7 like i use to do it. however in old days i was using windows XP CD to delete the partition however this time i decided to delete partition via FDISK during installation and i have used fdisk for very long so there are less chances of making mistakes. i sur

Re: grub confusion

2013-05-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 09:31 +0200, I wrote: > Assumed you're using a system with MBR, then GRUB is installed within > the first 512 bytes of the HDD It might be the first 446 bytes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

RE: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-15 Thread Mark Allums
have you tried adding the rootdelay=6 to your kernel command line? It works with rootdelay. I need it in my desktop while in the laptop there's no need of rootdelay. I will try this forthwith. Thanks for the tip. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: grub confusion

2013-05-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 12:12 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i had been using a 500GB disk with two kernels for boot up in two > different environment however last nigh i plug the harddrive in to new > server and deleted all the partition and installed fresh Debian 6.0.7 > on to it. > > when

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-15 Thread Mauro
On 13 May 2013 01:53, Dick Thomas wrote: > have you tried adding the > > rootdelay=6 > to your kernel command line? > > It works with rootdelay. I need it in my desktop while in the laptop there's no need of rootdelay.

grub confusion

2013-05-15 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i had been using a 500GB disk with two kernels for boot up in two different environment however last nigh i plug the harddrive in to new server and deleted all the partition and installed fresh Debian 6.0.7 on to it. when system is restarted after installation i observe that i could see the same gr