confusion on KVM virtualization (debian admin handbook)

2014-03-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i have been going through Administration handbook and got confused in KVM virtualization section. Book teaches us to create volume first then assign it to vm with Virt-install command however, we can also create image on runtime with virt-install command. we do not need volume to be set before cre

initialization package for a new server?

2014-03-23 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, I would like to automate the creation of a new web server as much as possible. It would seem ideal if I do not have to edit any files at all but rather only install packages. I have my own simple APT repository accessible via SSH but the new server must first be configured to know about that s

System freeze during boot with nvidia GPU on jessie

2014-03-23 Thread Christopher David Howie
Hello, I am not subscribed to this list so please CC me on replies (and quote this line so others know to as well). Also I was not sure if jessie issues belong here or on the debian-testing list, but the latter doesn't have very much activity at all and appears to be geared more towards inst

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-03-23 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> I'm using i3 on debian sid i686. > Simply I use a shortchut to show the system > power dailog by i3-nagbar and use mouse to choose the button. > Beacuse of systemd, when poweroff/suspend the machine, there is no need > to enter password for a normal user. > That works for me. Hi thanks for reply

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-23 Thread Mike McClain
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:14:03AM +, Ron Leach wrote: > I found some old notes from the time I had problems with dial-up > links resetting. My Wheezy system seems to use > /etc/ppp/options for various settings, including logging. > > I suggest you change the entry in /etc/ppp/options for log

Re: Downgrading packages (gthumb)

2014-03-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, quixote wrote: > *How* did you do the downgrade? I downloaded > gthumb_3.2.6-1_amd64.deb, tried to install with gdebi, and got the > error message: > > Dependency is not satisfiable: gthumb-data (= 3:3.2.6-1) > > So I downloaded that, put it in the same dir, and got the same

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-23 Thread Mike McClain
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:00:55PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Are you sure the line is OK? Check the Carrier Detect( CD) LED on the > modem. If it's off, it can't "see" the modem at the other end. Thanks for the thought Chris I'll check the light next time it happens. Mike -- When is it appr

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-23 Thread James Cloos
> "JN" == Jennifer Nussbaum writes: JN> That does, but requires me to know the answer already. I guess my JN> question is, "if i have a Twitter message with a rectangular box JN> with "01f 1e7" in it, how do i figure out what that is?" First, the hex strings are unicode code points. In this

Re: Downgrading packages (gthumb)

2014-03-23 Thread Frank McCormick
On 23/03/14 05:24 PM, quixote wrote: *How* did you do the downgrade? I downloaded gthumb_3.2.6-1_amd64.deb, tried to install with gdebi, and got the error message: Dependency is not satisfiable: gthumb-data (= 3:3.2.6-1) So I downloaded that, put it in the same dir, and got the same error messa

Re: Re: Downgrading packages (gthumb)

2014-03-23 Thread quixote
*How* did you do the downgrade? I downloaded gthumb_3.2.6-1_amd64.deb, tried to install with gdebi, and got the error message: Dependency is not satisfiable: gthumb-data (= 3:3.2.6-1) So I downloaded that, put it in the same dir, and got the same error message. The new interface is the absol

Re: cdimage.debian.org how-to? what gives? xxx

2014-03-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:31:29AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Debian has a tradition of valuing highly the idea of never having to do > a complete new install in order to move to the next release. The name > for this feature has drifted about but is currently 'dist-upgrade'. > To move to Jes

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Seems I'm a little bit old-fashioned ;-) According to the man-page Xsession(5) the system scripts take care of using a log-file, given that you indeed don't have ~/.xinitrc . So maybe the man-page of startx(1) has to be updated, since it only talks about ~/.xinitrc . Best regards, Jörg-Volker.

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-03-23 Thread iijima yoshino
于 Sun, 23 Mar 2014 19:14:13 +0530 Anubhav Yadav 写道: > Hi, I am using debian 64 bit. I use lightdm to start i3. I am trying > to get the reboot/suspend script work from i3 control mode as follows. > I have created a script called i3exit , and placed it in ~/bin/ > directory, this directory is my P

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-23 Thread Ron Leach
On 23/03/2014 00:43, Mike McClain wrote: In /etc/ppp/options lcp-echo-interval 30 and lcp-echo-failure is unset. I've got ppp error logging going to tty12 and /var/log/debug and often see entries such as this: Mar 22 16:03:23 playground pppd[20465]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0x8

Re: Which ISO image to download ?

2014-03-23 Thread Hans
> Please _don't_ suggest using Testing as someone's first experience with > Debian. Unless the hardware is less than six months old, it's unlikely that > any given Debian stable release won't work with it fairly well. The > exception is cuttiing edge CPU chipsets and packages which absolutely > re

Re: Which ISO image to download ?

2014-03-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 03:17:36PM +0100, Hans wrote: > > You might need to use testing images before stable images, as stable might be > too old for your computer. > Please _don't_ suggest using Testing as someone's first experience with Debian. Unless the hardware is less than six months old

Re: cdimage.debian.org how-to? what gives? [solved]

2014-03-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140322_181200, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Paul Condon wrote: > > > >Hello everyone, I'm OP and I'm still adamant about what I did, and > >what I saw. The URL, https://www.debian.org/CD/ does lead one to > >images of CDs as stated by John H. So, my initial problem is solved. > > > >But what is an

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-23 Thread Mike McClain
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 06:04:48PM +, Ron Leach wrote: > On 21/03/2014 23:10, Mike McClain wrote: > >I'm running Squeeze on a P3 board and dialup. > >My modem gets hungup after 2.5 minutes about 30% - 40% of the time I > >connect. Being idle, in the middle of fetching email or loading a > >webp

Re: Which ISO image to download ?

2014-03-23 Thread Hans
> > If you have good (relatively fast) internet access, you can install using > the smaller netinst .iso - but that relies on network access to do > everything thereafter. > > lxde CD1 will install a fairly basic system with an LXDE desktop > environment. > > [The other CDs would allow you to a

[i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-03-23 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Hi, I am using debian 64 bit. I use lightdm to start i3. I am trying to get the reboot/suspend script work from i3 control mode as follows. I have created a script called i3exit , and placed it in ~/bin/ directory, this directory is my PATH. Here are the contents of the script. #!/bin/sh

Re: Time Zone Questions

2014-03-23 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 3/22/2014 11:51 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:10:32PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/21/2014 10:08 PM, John Hasler wrote: Jerry Stuckle writes: The time needs to be accurate TAI is accurate. UTC is fudged. The Earth is not a clock. BTW GPS time ignores leap se

Re: firewire_ohci does not create devices in testing/jessie

2014-03-23 Thread Sietse Achterop
On 03/23/2014 11:49 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 23 Mar 2014 at 10:35:46 +0100, Sietse Achterop wrote: I am having trouble using my Sony camcorder with dvgrab. It is connected using a PCMCIA Firewire Notebook Adapter from Belkin. This is when using Testing/Jessie installed using the installer from

Re: Which ISO image to download ?

2014-03-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 02:25:51PM +0530, Mohan Sai wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam: > I am new to debian and wish to try the lightweight LXDE version of > debian stable. Going through the website, I've found that there are > several CD iso images like > [ ] debian-7.4.0-i386-CD-1.iso2014-02-08

Re: modem hangup problems continue

2014-03-23 Thread Ron Leach
On 22/03/2014 18:04, Ron Leach wrote: On 21/03/2014 23:10, Mike McClain wrote: I'm running Squeeze on a P3 board and dialup. My modem gets hungup after 2.5 minutes about 30% - 40% of the time I connect. Being idle, in the middle of fetching email or loading a webpage seems to make no difference.

Re: firewire_ohci does not create devices in testing/jessie

2014-03-23 Thread Brian
On Sun 23 Mar 2014 at 10:35:46 +0100, Sietse Achterop wrote: > I am having trouble using my Sony camcorder with dvgrab. It is connected > using a PCMCIA Firewire Notebook > Adapter from Belkin. > This is when using Testing/Jessie installed using the installer from March > 16-th, so just a few >

firewire_ohci does not create devices in testing/jessie

2014-03-23 Thread Sietse Achterop
Hello list, I am having trouble using my Sony camcorder with dvgrab. It is connected using a PCMCIA Firewire Notebook Adapter from Belkin. This is when using Testing/Jessie installed using the installer from March 16-th, so just a few days before the alfa release of the installer. The proble

Re: cdimage.debian.org how-to? what gives? [solved]

2014-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Hello everyone, I'm OP and I'm still adamant about what I did, and > what I saw. The URL, https://www.debian.org/CD/ does lead one to > images of CDs as stated by John H. So, my initial problem is solved. > > But what is an explanation of m