Re: How to patch files in a package's debian directory

2014-01-13 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 14.01.2014 00:32, schrieb Gregory Nowak: > There may be a better way, but I've used apt-build in the past to do > something similar. I ran > > apt-build source pkg-name > > to download the sources. Then I modified them how I wanted, and then > ran > > apt-build install pkg-name > > This is f

Re: Installation

2014-01-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/13/2014 9:52 PM, Azeem Abdul Azeem wrote: > I want to install Debian on my vertual machine (windows 200 R2 Hyper-V). So > i need a bootable ISO. So kindly send me the link where i can download the > bootable iso and install in the system http://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/ -- Stan -- T

Re: Installation

2014-01-13 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2014/1/14 Azeem Abdul Azeem : > Hi > I want to install Debian on my vertual machine (windows 200 R2 Hyper-V). So > i need a bootable ISO. So kindly send me the link where i can download the > bootable iso and install in the system > Thanks > M A Azeem Here -> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.

Installation

2014-01-13 Thread Azeem Abdul Azeem
Hi I want to install Debian on my vertual machine (windows 200 R2 Hyper-V). So i need a bootable ISO. So kindly send me the link where i can download the bootable iso and install in the system Thanks M A Azeem

Re: Fresh Jessie Install VLC freezes

2014-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/01/14 14:31, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 14/01/14 11:50, Robert Crawford wrote: >> Group; >> >> My computer is Dell GX280 with 3 gb ram 500 gb hd, Dell x1300 dvi video >> card 128 mb memory running on a 23' HP LCD monitor. I've got a >> multi-boot system with Windows 7 Pro on sda1, Xubuntu 13.

Re: Fresh Jessie Install VLC freezes

2014-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/01/14 11:50, Robert Crawford wrote: > Group; > > My computer is Dell GX280 with 3 gb ram 500 gb hd, Dell x1300 dvi video > card 128 mb memory running on a 23' HP LCD monitor. I've got a > multi-boot system with Windows 7 Pro on sda1, Xubuntu 13.10 on sda6, > Kubuntu 13.10 on sda7 and Debian

Fresh Jessie Install VLC freezes

2014-01-13 Thread Robert Crawford
Group; My computer is Dell GX280 with 3 gb ram 500 gb hd, Dell x1300 dvi video card 128 mb memory running on a 23' HP LCD monitor. I've got a multi-boot system with Windows 7 Pro on sda1, Xubuntu 13.10 on sda6, Kubuntu 13.10 on sda7 and Debian Jessie Xfce on sda8. Running VLC on all distros, Debi

Re: permissions: can you force ACL to be effective over unix perms?

2014-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
I've followed the posts in this thread, dealing with the various tangents it's taken won't help you, probably the reason why it's received little attention. On 11/01/14 10:50, Bob Goldberg wrote: > running wheezy. > > I have a dir w/ unix perm = 750 > IE: > root@wheezy:/home/chtest/home# ls -l >

Re: How to patch files in a package's debian directory

2014-01-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 03:49:46PM +0100, Malte Forkel wrote: > Hello, > > I'm testing some changes to an existing package which is using format > 3.0 (quilt). I have split my changes into two patches: One modifies the > original source, one adapts files in the debian directory. > > This approach

Re: Should I be concerned that w/who reported 0 users?

2014-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/01/14 10:20, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi: > > I manage a virtual machine remotely, running Debian stable. Recently, > both 'w' and 'who' were reporting zero users. The machine had been up > for 141 days, so I did 'sudo shutdown -r now' and returned to it a few > minutes later, when 'w' and '

Should I be concerned that w/who reported 0 users?

2014-01-13 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi: I manage a virtual machine remotely, running Debian stable. Recently, both 'w' and 'who' were reporting zero users. The machine had been up for 141 days, so I did 'sudo shutdown -r now' and returned to it a few minutes later, when 'w' and 'who' reported appropriately. Is this any cause for con

Re: permissions: can you force ACL to be effective over unix perms?

2014-01-13 Thread Bob Goldberg
Joel; i'm confused by your comments, which i'll address individually; with apologies in advance to the group for length, and content: On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Bob Goldberg wrote: > > > > So - Is there a way to force ACL perms to dicta

conditional partitioning at install time

2014-01-13 Thread Leonardo Cuyar Morales
I'm making a custome debian squeeze installer iso, with unattended settings for locales, language, packages install and custome postinstall scripts, all of this in the preseed file. Is posible a configuration or a script to make posible to maintan a previous partition if it exists (without afec

Re: debian-live-7.2 doesn´t start

2014-01-13 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 18:18 +0100, peter.gierschner wrote: > Thx for the hint, but that doesn´t fix the problem. When go into edit > mode I can see that the parameter acpi=off is in "486 failsave" already > included, and in falsave mode it crashes, too. > > Meanwhile i tried other distributions:

Re: Install-time non-free issues

2014-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/01/14 02:05, tty7 wrote: >> >> Which documentation is that. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/i386/ch06s04.html.en Thanks > > > >>> >>> I've switched to tty2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and activated it, and created >>> /mnt/sdcard and /mnt/usb and mounted both filesystems, and verified >>>

Re: debian-live-7.2 doesn´t start

2014-01-13 Thread Bob Goldberg
many of the previous replies have touched on what i would have added. FWIW: i live on live-boots (no pun intended :) for all kinds of diagnostic work, and temp work env's. for this I use knoppix. it's one of the best (IMHO) live-boot linux dists out there. ironically, knoppix is debian based. s

Re: Installing several OSes from a single flash drive

2014-01-13 Thread Bob Goldberg
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:30 PM, wrote: > > I've been tinkering with the idea of installing different operating > systems, not necessarily Linux, from the same bootable flash drive. -- > David Griffith > David; when it comes to booting ANYTHING off a flash drive - for me - there's only 1 flas

Re: Install-time non-free issues

2014-01-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-01-13, tty7 wrote: > > Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The = > firmware can be loaded from removable media, such as a USB stick or = > floppy. > > The missing firmware files are: rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw > > If you have such media available now, insert it, and

Re: Install-time non-free issues

2014-01-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Jan 2014 at 11:29:02 -0500, tty7 wrote: > On Jan 13, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Brian wrote: > > > You shouldn't need this version of the installer. The only difference > > between it and what you have done is that the non-free firmware is on > > the CD, which is bound to get mounted. > > >

Re: Install-time non-free issues

2014-01-13 Thread tty7
On Jan 13, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 13 Jan 2014 at 10:05:50 -0500, tty7 wrote: > >> I made a CD from >> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso >> >> I booted my EeeBox. At some point the installer said : " >> [!] Detect Network ha

Re: Install-time non-free issues

2014-01-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Jan 2014 at 10:05:50 -0500, tty7 wrote: > I made a CD from > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > I booted my EeeBox. At some point the installer said : " > [!] Detect Network hardware > > Some of your hardware needs non-free firmwa

LogScape as a Splunk alternative?

2014-01-13 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All. I searched for a Splunk alternative and found LogScape. Have anyone worked with it? There is no documentation available only some very brief installation instructions and there is almost no information in google about successful deployments in linux environments. From my current perspectiv

Re: Install-time non-free issues

2014-01-13 Thread tty7
>> on / and on /firmware/ of both an SD card and a USB stick. I've >> extracted the files and placed the loose files it calls for by name >> (rtl_nic/etc) in both / and /firmware on both the SD card and USB >> stick. >> >> In short, I've followed with the documentation says to do, yet the >> ins

How to patch files in a package's debian directory

2014-01-13 Thread Malte Forkel
Hello, I'm testing some changes to an existing package which is using format 3.0 (quilt). I have split my changes into two patches: One modifies the original source, one adapts files in the debian directory. This approach fails when I build the package due to the way dpkg-source build the source

preseed raid->lvm->crypto

2014-01-13 Thread shawn wilson
I see how to create raid devices: d-i partman-auto-raid/recipe string \ 1 2 0 ext2 /boot /dev/sda1#/dev/sdb1 1 2 0 lvm - /dev/sda2#/dev/sdb2 And then making lvm or crypto devices seems easy enough. However, how do I create one on top of the other (I'd prefer luks inside lvm so that swa

Re: Daisy player applications that did not go out with the ark :-(

2014-01-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 13 January 2014 06:47:37 Kailash Kalyani wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:58 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have two separate but related problems. > > > > 1. I can find no up to date daisy playing software that will run > > on Linux. Suggestions, please? > > I'm not clear on which u

Re: xscreensaver-command -version is getting called every 30 seconds ?? (sid, xfce4)

2014-01-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/13/14, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 08:55:51PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> xscreensaver-command -version is getting called every 30 seconds. This >> causes my xscreensaver unlock/password dialog window to open up all >> the time... >> >> Any idea how I can find out wh

Re: Iceweasel weird behavior

2014-01-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/01/14 20:00, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 08 ian 14, 15:15:46, Alex S. wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Few days ago, I started having weird problems with my browser >> (freezing on pages, freezing on downloads, freezing on opening >> preferences even). After some tinkering that I did, I now have

Re: xscreensaver-command -version is getting called every 30 seconds ?? (sid, xfce4)

2014-01-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 08:55:51PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > xscreensaver-command -version is getting called every 30 seconds. This > causes my xscreensaver unlock/password dialog window to open up all > the time... > > Any idea how I can find out what's calling this command every 30 seconds

xscreensaver-command -version is getting called every 30 seconds ?? (sid, xfce4)

2014-01-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
xscreensaver-command -version is getting called every 30 seconds. This causes my xscreensaver unlock/password dialog window to open up all the time... Any idea how I can find out what's calling this command every 30 seconds? TIA Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: image download with jigdo

2014-01-13 Thread Klaus Jantzen
On 01/10/2014 11:56 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 10 Jan 2014 at 13:19:50 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:30:41AM +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: >>> On 01/09/2014 03:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: The images you have created are for use only alongside other discs in >

Re: image download with jigdo

2014-01-13 Thread Klaus Jantzen
On 01/10/2014 02:31 PM, Klaus wrote: > On 10/01/14 13:07, Brian wrote: >> On Fri 10 Jan 2014 at 10:30:41 +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: >> >>> On 01/09/2014 03:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> You've quite probably downloaded and burnt them correctly. It's just >> that neither of those i

Re: Iceweasel weird behavior

2014-01-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 ian 14, 15:15:46, Alex S. wrote: > Hello all, > > Few days ago, I started having weird problems with my browser > (freezing on pages, freezing on downloads, freezing on opening > preferences even). After some tinkering that I did, I now have one main > question. > > What is the differen

Re: image download with jigdo

2014-01-13 Thread Klaus Jantzen
On 01/10/2014 02:07 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 10 Jan 2014 at 10:30:41 +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > >> On 01/09/2014 03:41 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > You've quite probably downloaded and burnt them correctly. It's just > that neither of those images is *meant* to be bootable. That's