Re: Building computer

On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 23:52 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > 2. Choice of integrated GPU As you already pointed out the price point is important too, so NVIDIA and ATI are still good recommendations. Intel might be better, I don't know, since I'm one of those, who don't own a Gold-[censored, referri

Re: Building computer

On 9/24/2013 10:11 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:10:01 +0200 > Catherine Gramze wrote: > >> there was no option in the BIOS to boot to the hard drive, or even to the EFI > partition > > It surprises me to think you cannot select in your own BIOS the choice of > booting > f

Re: Long delays caused by rpcinfo

And for the sake of completeness, yes, NFS clients were able to mount the exported volume on this server once the nfs-kernel-server startup completed. And that makes a lot of sense to me now, because the entire issue was in rpcbind's attempt to verify that it could connect to 127.0.0.1, which does

Re: any utility to change ip

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 9/20/2013 4:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Mi, 17 iul 13, 18:43:22, Gary Dale wrote: >>> >>> ifconfig can be used to both query and change the ip addresses of >>> network interfaces on your machine. Used with no arguments, it lists >>>

Re: Long delays caused by rpcinfo

Hello, Thanks for the suggestions. The combination of checking /etc/network/interfaces and verifying that rpcbind was listening on 127.0.0.1 led me in the right direction, and boy do I feel silly... Somehow, my interfaces file was missing the loopback entry, so the loopback interface showed in t

Re: Building computer

On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:10:01 +0200 Catherine Gramze wrote: > there was no option in the BIOS to boot to the hard drive, or even to the EFI partition It surprises me to think you cannot select in your own BIOS the choice of booting from a CD. What kind of BIOS is that? With the latest testing ve

Re: Building computer

Hi Catherine, This is regarding the question of what computer hardware to buy that will work with debian, given that store-bought computers were a problem this latest time. First, what is the name of the computer you actually bought? What the other posters are saying about UEFI is probably true,

Re: Re: Building computer

Hi Catherine Gramze, Recently one of my friend's brother bought a Lenova laptop. My friend asked me to install Ubuntu in that laptop but that machine was not detecting Ubuntu and directly booting into Windows 8. Then after bit of struggle, we went into the bios and changed the boot mode from '

Re: Long delays caused by rpcinfo

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > David Parker wrote: >> >> I have confirmed that rpc.statd is running, which I believe is the port >> mapper in newer distributions. > > AFAIK rpc.statd is not a portmapper replacement. The two portmapper > equivalents that I am aware of are: >

Re: Long delays caused by rpcinfo

David Parker wrote: > root@test-vm-1:~# cat /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1localhostlocalhost > 192.168.25.200 testbed.utica.edu testbed > 192.168.25.201 test-vm-1.utica.edu test-vm-1 > 192.168.25.202 test-vm-2.utica.edu test-vm-2 > 192.168.25.203 test-vm-3.utica.edu test-vm-3

Re: Wheezy with Linux 3.10 from Backports

On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:43:32 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > But I still have problems with the timeout of beacons: > > [...] > > After installing the kernel, I installed the suggested firmware: > firmware-iwlwifi_0.40_all.deb. It would be a problem with the > configuration of the AP? I

Re: Building computer

On 09/24/13 13:03, Catherine Gramze wrote: I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running Debian. So, I am looking for recommendations on hardware, particularly motherboards, known to play nicely with Debian and boot consistently. I've had the best results with Intel deskt

Re: Building computer

Catherine Gramze wrote: > I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running > Debian. I have had a bad experience with a store-bought computer, > which seemed to be wholly unable to boot to anything but Windows 8 - > there was no option in the BIOS to boot to the hard drive, or even

Re: Wheezy with Linux 3.10 from Backports

On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 18:34:51 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Below I copy tests I was doing in a virtual machine with Wheezy: > > --- > root@notebook:~# aptitude install linux-image-3.10-0.bpo.2-amd64 > The following NEW

Re: Building computer

I haven't had any issues getting a variety of distributions (currently running Gentoo, CentOS, Debian, and a Ubuntu box in oil) on a tons of different hardware from laptops and desktops and servers of quite a few brands. Most desktops and servers are SuperMicro. I highly recommend them. However

Re: Long delays caused by rpcinfo

I missed asking the obvious question. Does the NFS server work? Are you able to NFS mount it onto clients? Because this is the difference between some runtime functionality problem and a boot time functionality problem. David Parker wrote: > root@test-vm-1:~# cat /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1local

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:22:39PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Ah, a fellow vim user! > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 07:54:30PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > I have my ~/.muttrc as followqs: > > > > set editor="vim +':set textwidth=72'" > > Does vi(m) correctly detect the filetype of email

Re: Wheezy with Linux 3.10 from Backports

On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 17:51:05 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > Just to rectify (never write any email before drinking a coffee), I have > > this problem with all the 3.11 kernels and not with the 3.10. > > 3.10 works fine. > I do not think it's a problem with the keyboard, because it res

Re: Long delays caused by rpcinfo

root@test-vm-1:~# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1localhostlocalhost 192.168.25.200 testbed.utica.edu testbed 192.168.25.201 test-vm-1.utica.edu test-vm-1 192.168.25.202 test-vm-2.utica.edu test-vm-2 192.168.25.203 test-vm-3.utica.edu test-vm-3 192.168.25.204 test-vm-4.utica.

Re: Wheezy with Linux 3.10 from Backports

Hi, Pier. On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:36:44 +0100, Pier wrote: > > > After entering the passphare, I get no error message. Simply the > > > cursor stays in the same position and nothing happens. If I press > > > the keyboard, the cursor moves, but there is not start the > > > operating syste

Re: Long delays caused by rpcinfo

David Parker wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, it looks like rpcbind is not the > culprit. I verified that rpcbind installed and running: > > > Anything else I can look into? FWIW, an strace shows that rpcbind gets > stuck when trying to connect to a socket on the loopback interfac

Building computer

I intend to build a computer for the specific purpose of running Debian. I have had a bad experience with a store-bought computer, which seemed to be wholly unable to boot to anything but Windows 8 - there was no option in the BIOS to boot to the hard drive, or even to the EFI partition, but onl

Re: Long delays caused by rpcinfo

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, it looks like rpcbind is not the culprit. I verified that rpcbind installed and running: root@test-vm-1:~# ps -ef | grep bind root 1538 1 0 11:23 ?00:00:00 /sbin/rpcbind -w root 28002 2289 0 15:17 pts/000:00:00 grep bind I restart

Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:08:14AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS > > > would be > > > a good solution for it. The elep

Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:08:14AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS would > > be > > a good solution for it. The elephant in the room, with regards your use > > case, > > is backups,

Re: Long delays caused by rpcinfo

David Parker wrote: > I have confirmed that rpc.statd is running, which I believe is the port > mapper in newer distributions. AFAIK rpc.statd is not a portmapper replacement. The two portmapper equivalents that I am aware of are: portmap - RPC port mapper rpcbind - converts RPC program numb

Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

On 24/09/13 10:08, Jonathan Dowland wrote: It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS would be a good solution for it. The elephant in the room, with regards your use case, is backups, IMHO. That said: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:07:57PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: With

Re: Wheezy with Linux 3.10 from Backports

On 24/09/13 10:30, Pier wrote: > > Daniel Bareiro wrote: >> After entering the passphare, I get no error message. Simply the cursor >> stays in the same position and nothing happens. If I press the >> keyboard, >> the cursor moves, but there is not start the operating system >> bootstrap > I got t

Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:08:14AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS would be > a good solution for it. The elephant in the room, with regards your use case, > is backups, IMHO. That said: Long term integrity of the data, i.e.

FAUmachine keyboard doesn't work

Hi all, i recently discovered the FAUmachine software. I install it, created the VM without problems. I am able to add the CD-ROM ISO with some installations, and boot from it. But i am not able to use keyboard. When the VM runs, and i use keyboard, all what i get is WARNING in console: WARNING:

Long delays caused by rpcinfo

Hello, I recently set up a VM running Debian Wheezy (amd64) to be used as an NFS server. I noticed that running "/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start" would hang for about 60 seconds while starting nfsd, but if I started nfsd directly, there was no problem. After a lot of strace adventures and Go

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

On 09/23/2013 10:59 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 409

Re: Mailing list organization

Hi Josef, Josef Bailey writes: > So yes .. im using gmail and its an imap account > > Since you are saying i need to organize it myself does that mean i have to > use the programs you said below ? > > 1. Porocmail > > 2. Mailfilter program > > 3. mapfilter and sieve I don't think you need thes

Re: Thank you - was [Re: Wine under Squeeze (6.0.5) - Wheere does it get put by Synaptic?]

On 2013-09-24, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> /usr/share/doc/wine-doc/ ... >> >> for the package 'wine-doc' >> > > The latter is what I was looking for. I'm still getting used to > where Debian puts things. I gave you a fish; the other two posters taught you to fish, which is better. Unless you do

Thank you - was [Re: Wine under Squeeze (6.0.5) - Wheere does it get put by Synaptic?]

Curt wrote: On 2013-09-23, Richard Owlett wrote: [I do have *DO* have Wheezy, but that machine no work - unrelated problems] I just installed Wine including (so Synaptic verifies) the documentation. Can't find it. Where should it have been put? /usr/share/doc-base/winedev-guide /usr/share/do

SOLVED was Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade THANK YOU

On Tuesday 24 September 2013 01:24:09 Gregory Nowak wrote: > firmware-linux-nonfree installed, and that doesn't seem to have > helped. So, I would try a newer kernel from debian backports as > someone else in that thread suggests. HTH. I already had the firmwqare. So backport kernel installed, ma

Re: Wine under Squeeze (6.0.5) - Wheere does it get put by Synaptic?

Alex Mestiashvili wrote: On 09/23/2013 10:46 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [I do have *DO* have Wheezy, but that machine no work - unrelated problems] I just installed Wine including (so Synaptic verifies) the documentation. Can't find it. Where should it have been put? Only half of of the Window

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 14:22 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I regularly re-wrap text that I'm quoting from others. +1 -- 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.or

Re: Wine under Squeeze (6.0.5) - Wheere does it get put by Synaptic?

On 09/23/2013 10:46 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [I do have *DO* have Wheezy, but that machine no work - unrelated problems] I just installed Wine including (so Synaptic verifies) the documentation. Can't find it. Where should it have been put? Only half of of the Windows programs I tested even b

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

Ah, a fellow vim user! On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 07:54:30PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > I have my ~/.muttrc as followqs: > > set editor="vim +':set textwidth=72'" Does vi(m) correctly detect the filetype of emails as 'mail'? I added the following to ~/.vimrc au BufRead,BufNewFile /tmp/mut

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

On 9/23/13, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:46:51AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 9/23/13, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > _Please_ people. The idea is that we should help each other and that >> > that >> > help should be available in the archive for searchers to find. We need

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

On 2013-09-23, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > > I'm ashamed to say that I hadn't, but I had in fact found most of it > one way or another anyway. There was one suggestion that seemed just > possibly relevant, and hey! I'm getting desperate. I tried it, but > s

Re: Volunteer in need of a mentor

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Beco wrote: > Dear fellows, > > Its time! After some years using Debian and contributing to it with > bugs, discussions, configurations, and spreading the word, now I want > to do another step. > > I'm newbie in the world of packaging, documenting, and so on... so

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 07:01:55PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I recently got back from holiday. I have found catching up on the list > really > difficult because so many people now break threads and don't trim quotes, or, > even worse, do not quote at all. Read (and/or help) those who make doi

Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS would be a good solution for it. The elephant in the room, with regards your use case, is backups, IMHO. That said: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:07:57PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > With one user reading one FLAC file at a time f

Re: Wheezy with Linux 3.10 from Backports

Daniel Bareiro wrote: >After entering the passphare, I get no error message. Simply the cursor >stays in the same position and nothing happens. If I press the >keyboard, >the cursor moves, but there is not start the operating system >bootstrap I got the same issue with Sid and any of the 3.10 k

Re: Wine under Squeeze (6.0.5) - Wheere does it get put by Synaptic?

On 2013-09-23, Richard Owlett wrote: > [I do have *DO* have Wheezy, but that machine no work - unrelated > problems] > > I just installed Wine including (so Synaptic verifies) the > documentation. > Can't find it. Where should it have been put? /usr/share/doc-base/winedev-guide /usr/share/doc-b