Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

> Assumptions cannot necessarily be proven wrong. > > Please prove your assumption is right. If you attempt to do this, you > will find your assumption is wrong. > > Also: How do you do upgrade on Debian? > Answer this, and you will also prove yourself wrong. > > So, the job of proving is for the s

Re: [Debian 7] my custom nofile limits.conf setting doesnt work with sudo.

Thanks it saved my day. all is working now. 2014-02-04 12:50, Reco skrev: Hi. On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 12:08:27PM +0100, Stefan Eriksson wrote: on a side not, this works ok, but it doesnt help me as I need the sudo command to see the correct limits aswell. Wheezy's version of /etc/pam.d/sudo

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> I used to use multiple partitions as you do. >> >> Nowadays, the only partitions I use are: >> /boot - about 1GiB >> / - root partition, the rest >> This way, it's really simple, and the old reasons (for most home users >> at least) for having multiple partitions

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

> I used to use multiple partitions as you do. > > Nowadays, the only partitions I use are: > /boot - about 1GiB > / - root partition, the rest > This way, it's really simple, and the old reasons (for most home users > at least) for having multiple partitions are no longer valid (separate > backups

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

On 2/5/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> I have an Asus laptop, with 720 gigs hardisk and i5 processor. >> 2) As you can see in the screenshot, gparted shows that the hdd is >> only 698 gb whereas when purchased it was 720 GB. Any ways to recover >> the lost sector

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Hello list, > > I have an Asus laptop, with 720 gigs hardisk and i5 processor. > Right now I have a dual boot of Windoze (only for playing fifa > and assassins creed) and debian wheezy 64 bit. > Here is the screenshot of my current partitions. > http://i.imgur.co

About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

Hello list, I have an Asus laptop, with 720 gigs hardisk and i5 processor. Right now I have a dual boot of Windoze (only for playing fifa and assassins creed) and debian wheezy 64 bit. Debian takes a lots of time for booting up and some folks on irc said that I should be trying systemd. I did tha

Re: PXE install, without internet?

> Indeed (easy), I had to look at that for a bit. That's 11 host bits, > not 3 (255.255.255.248) giving 2048 addresses - which 'may' make a > difference. From 1st coffee of the day memory (dodgy) that's a class B > instead of a C. > > Thanks for the pointer, a full refund is on it's way to the OP n

Re: PXE install, without internet?

> In case it's an issue with insufficient free dhcp leases, on the box > with the dhcp server try:- > (for isc-dhcp-server) cat /var/lib/dhcpd.leases and compare that against > the number available in your settings No such file or directory. Maybe because I am using isc-dhcp-server, not dhcp3? >

Re: todo list software

Siard wrote: Brad Alexander wrote: I was just wondering what others here might use. Due to the rise of smartphones, in 2007 the curtain fell for the PDA, with its Palm OS. Yet I haven't found an app that equals Palm OS, so I'm still using a PDA, a Sony Clié, still syncing fine with jpilot. But

Re: todo list software

On Tue, 2/4/14, Chris wrote: Subject: Re: todo list software To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 11:15 PM On 02/04/2014 01:17 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > I did a search for todo list on Debian this morning, and a

Re: todo list software

On 02/04/2014 01:17 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > I did a search for todo list on Debian this morning, and a lot of what I > came up with hasn't been developed since 2003 or 2006. I was just wondering > what others here might use. I'm using Task Coach. - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: todo list software

On 02/03/2014 04:17 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: At the risk of offending someone's tender sensibilities, can anyone recommend a good todo list software? Depending upon what sort of to do items and how you track them, remind and wyrd (or another front-end to remind) might work well for you. Remi

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:58:54 -0500 (EST), Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Still, I'd like to ask on the list here. Are there any issues with > switching to amd64? What about drivers? I've had nothing but trouble with my first amd64 system. The 3.12 kernel of jessie won't even boot for me. But my exp

HP_LaserJet_4_Plus printer

Script started on Tue 04 Feb 2014 06:06:23 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ hp-probe HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.1) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. T

Re: MythTV from deb-multimedia setup?

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 05:40:27PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > Thanks to all, I will be taking my questions to the deb-multimedia > list, I should have thought of that. Quickly, before I go, I did > clean up my 'hosts' file a little and took care of that problem, > although it didn't solve the basic pro

Re: fwsnort invalid hex char

On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 08:45 -0500, Michael Rash wrote: > > Hi, > > > I noticed that it looks like the bug was seen in fwsnort-1.6.2 (given > the "FWS:1.6.2" in the output you had attached). This issue has > already been fixed in fwsnort-1.6.3 - at least in my testing the > consecutive "-" chars

Re: akonadi pain + kmail2

On 05/02/14 08:58, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I do not know, if you have the same trouble like me, but after the change to > akonadi I get into some trouble. Yes, I had that problem. > > When I started KDE, and I want to start kmail2, it is telling me, that akondi > got not correctly starte

setting laserprinter as default destination help needed

Script started on Tue 04 Feb 2014 06:06:23 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ hp-probe HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.1) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. T

Re: Possibly failing disk and smartctl

Matus Valo wrote at 2014-02-04 15:13 -0600: > Feb 4 20:53:18 zsm-debian smartd[1868]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 3 > Currently unreadable (pending) sectors > I have read that important pre-failing parameters are > Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate and Reallocated_Sector_Ct but > still I can't dec

Re: MythTV from deb-multimedia setup?

Thanks to all, I will be taking my questions to the deb-multimedia list, I should have thought of that. Quickly, before I go, I did clean up my 'hosts' file a little and took care of that problem, although it didn't solve the basic problem. And ~/.mythtv/config.xml is valid also. I'll try to reme

akonadi pain + kmail2

Hi folks, I do not know, if you have the same trouble like me, but after the change to akonadi I get into some trouble. When I started KDE, and I want to start kmail2, it is telling me, that akondi got not correctly started. (Could not get connected to dbus) I suppose, you might know, what I

Re: todo list software

Brad Alexander wrote: > I was just wondering what others here might use. Due to the rise of smartphones, in 2007 the curtain fell for the PDA, with its Palm OS. Yet I haven't found an app that equals Palm OS, so I'm still using a PDA, a Sony Clié, still syncing fine with jpilot. But if you haven'

Re: PXE install, without internet?

On 05/02/14 01:03, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 05:35:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: iface eth0 inet static address 172.16.4.104 >> netmask 255.255.248.0 >> >> Just in case it makes a difference - that's a /29 network i.e. >> 192 possible hosts (32 subnets with 6 hosts

Re: Re^2: /dev/* and ALSA.

On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 11:08 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > * From: Ralf Mardorf > * Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:12:22 +0100 > > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ hdspmixer > > Card 0: ... > > ... > > peter@dalton:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012 >

Possibly failing disk and smartctl

Hi, I have debian Squeeze installed on my machine. Computer is deployed with hard drive MAXTOR STM3320613AS. Recently, smartd have printed to logs the following messages: Feb 4 20:53:18 zsm-debian smartd[1868]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Feb 4 20:53:18

Re: todo list software

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:53:55PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > >On Mon, 2/3/14, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > > Subject: todo list software > > To: "Debian-user List" > > Date: Monday, February 3, 2014, 6:17 PM > > At the risk of > > offend

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:25 AM, PaulNM wrote: > On 02/04/2014 01:53 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: >> >>> Mirrors were updating a couple of days ago and if you tried to use >>> one during the updating period you would get errors. Could be t

Re^2: /dev/* and ALSA.

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Re^2: /dev/* and ALSA.

* From: Ralf MardorfC-Media USB Headphone Set at usb-:00:08.0-3, full spee d 3 [Device ]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Audio Device C-Media USB Audio Device at usb-:00:03.2-1, full speed If card numbers are assigned randomly and the VoIP sends t

Re: Re^2: A persistent name for a sound device.

On my Debian desktop I created the following file: $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 options snd-emu10k1 index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0 options snd-intel8x0 index=1 The emu10k1 is a PCI sound card and the intel8x0 is the onboard sound. I have the emu10k1 connec

Re: Recovering data from an ext4 on LVM [solved]

Well, i got my data back. Rstudio did help, only the naming isn't intuitive. Once i spotted the partition i had to browse it's tree for the first awkwardly named directory (same size as the partition though) and scan it. Then i started seeing familiar names and had to browse another tree of weird n

Re^2: /dev/* and ALSA.

* From: Ralf Mardorf o set up a sound device > order. Exactly the problem. Udev is well established technology for several years but ALSA can not recognize a udev SYMLINK device. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 1234567

Re: Kicad and module files

Hi, Dňa Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:50:08 -0800 Jeremiah Mahler napísal: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Slavko wrote: > > Hi, > > > > some days ago the Kicad was updated in testing. Today i am trying to > > develop one PCB, but the module (*.mod) files are missing. After i > It is certain

Re^2: A persistent name for a sound device.

On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 08:57 -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Alan, > > * From: Alan Greenberger > * Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:34:42 -0500 > > When I plug in a Logitech C170 webcam, /proc/asound/cards shows: > > 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB > > HDA ATI

Re^2: A persistent name for a sound device.

Alan, * From: Alan Greenberger ine without changing the hardware. Does each device always retain its card number across the reboot? In my case no. Consequently I can reboot and find that the VoIP ring is being sent to the headset. Not acceptable. A persistent name remains associated wit

Re: todo list software

Brad Alexander wrote at 2014-02-03 18:17 -0600: > can anyone recommend a good todo list software? I like taskwarrior, packaged as `task` (but a rename to `taskwarrior` appears to be pending). See . signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 10:56 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: >> You will, especially on this mailing list, get a lot of people who act >> like running 64-bit if you don't have more than 4 GiB of RAM is some >> sort of apocalyptic disaster > > I "o

Re: PXE install, without internet?

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 05:35:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> iface eth0 inet static > >> address 172.16.4.104 > > >> netmask 255.255.248.0 > > Just in case it makes a difference - that's a /29 network > i.e. 192 possible hosts (32 subnets with 6 hosts each) unless that's not Easy

Re: getmail FAIL - lost email

On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 14:11:44 -0800 Mike Kupfer wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > Is there a better MRA / MDA the list recommends? Has > > anyone seen this sort of thing with either getmail or other MRAs / MDAs? > > FWIW, I've been using fetchmail, with maildrop as the MDA, for several > years. I'm

How to do proper PAM modul configuration? (was: Testing: Warning messages from su within cron)

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:11:24PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 03/02/14 22:55, Stephan Seitz wrote: I’m using Testing. For some time I’m getting warning messages from scripts started via cron, e.g.: /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: su: No module specific data is present /etc/cron.daily/sp

Re: [Debian 7] my custom nofile limits.conf setting doesnt work with sudo.

Hi. On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 12:08:27PM +0100, Stefan Eriksson wrote: > on a side not, this works ok, but it doesnt help me as I need the > sudo command to see the correct limits aswell. Wheezy's version of /etc/pam.d/sudo lacks this line: sessionrequired pam_limits.so So, every time you u

[Debian 7] my custom nofile limits.conf setting doesnt work with sudo.

Hi I'm trying to set custom number of open files with limits.conf for a user with Debian 7 but it doesnt work (have rebooted etc.): > debian7:/# cat /etc/issue > Debian GNU/Linux 7 \n \l > > ii libpam-modules:amd64 1.1.3-7.1 > ii libpam-modules-bin 1.1.3-7.1 > ii

Re: /dev/ACM, LG Arena phone, and tethering

On 04/02/14 21:17, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:37:09PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> I have an LG Arena KM900 mobile phone I'd like to be able to >> tether with Debian Wheezy boxes. >> >> >> I can't mount the fake CD-ROM it creates at /dev/sg2 (or >> /dev/sr0) > > Give

Re: /dev/ACM, LG Arena phone, and tethering

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 02:37:09PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > I have an LG Arena KM900 mobile phone I'd like to be able to tether with > Debian Wheezy boxes. The problem is that it's not doing this automagically. > I have usbmodeswitch installed:- > usb-modeswitch 1.2.3+repack0-1 > > Con

Re: MythTV from deb-multimedia setup?

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:07:22PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > Hi, > > I've built a new machine and installed 64bit Debian testing on it. I > also installed MythTV from the deb-multimedia repository. My old > computer has been used for MythTV (mostly recording/playback over the > air TV) for years, an

Re: Unable to Update

On 04/02/14 19:17, David Baron wrote: > Getting errors like: > Failed to fetch > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-amd64/PackagesIndex > Hash Sum mismatch > on every source so no packages can be updated! > > Running on i386 Sid box. How to fix? > > Wait (until the upda

stupid use of resources Was Re: grub efi does not find windows

Le 03.02.2014 19:54, Doug a écrit : On 02/03/2014 03:28 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: /snip/ No mention of any windows'efi file anywere. I just rechecked on the partition that I suspect to have it before my installation ( aka: sda1, a 1GB large partition con

cannot install libgnomeprint2.2-0_2.18.8-3_i386.deb on amd6/multiarch machine

Hello, I am using the system with multiarch enabled (i386/amd64). I am trying to install libgnomeprint2.2-0_2.18.8-3_i386.deb (needed for IBM Lotus Notes) It depends on libgnomeprint2.2-data package which is provided as all-arch. But dependency fails: dpkg -i libgnomeprint2.2-data_2.18.8-3_al

Re: no more dovecotpw?

2014-01-31 Reco : > Hi. > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:43:54 +0800 > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> when I was trying to run >> # dovecotpw -s SHA1 >> >> I found out that there's no dovecotpw anymore (searched with apt-file) > > doveadm pw -s SHA1 > > Reco thanks. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http:

Re: http.debian.net hash sum mismatch

On 02/04/2014 01:53 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > >> Mirrors were updating a couple of days ago and if you tried to use >> one during the updating period you would get errors. Could be the problem. > > What would it take to make a mirror

Unable to Update

Getting errors like: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-amd64/PackagesIndex Hash Sum mismatch on every source so no packages can be updated! Running on i386 Sid box. How to fix? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su