Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/04/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > In the Debian 7 installation on the Acer V3-772G, for > System -> Settings -> Details -> Overview, it has > > " > Processor: Intel Core i&-4702MQ CPU @ 2.20GHz x 8 > Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x209) > " > > and, for > > System -> Settings -> D

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-15 Thread David Christensen
On 04/15/2015 08:54 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I finally found enough of a round tuit to burn the cd and try it. Seatools found and tested all 3 drives, no hits no runs no errors. ... 1. DON"T leave your cell phone plugged in ... 2. that solved & rebooted, with one of the 2T's in the sdb slot, gpart

vsftpd Chinese garbled

2015-04-15 Thread mudongliang
Is there anyone noticing Chinese garbled in vsftpd package ? I use the default configure after installing vsftpd by apt-get. But when I use filezilla to upload / download things , it will occur Chinese garbled! mudongliang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting August Karlstrom (fusionf...@gmail.com): > On 2015-04-14 17:10, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, August Karlstrom wrote: > >>What advantages do you see with adding your own udev rule compared > >>to simply starting a ConsoleKit session? > >> > >>exec ck-launch-session dbus-laun

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 April 2015 13:37:43 Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > I think I'll burn that cd of the seagate dos utils and see what it > says, which will entail a power down reboot if I put it on the spare > cables, or something along those lines that will force me to do a P.D. > reboot. Uptime is curr

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Patrick Bartek (nemomm...@gmail.com): > On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Patrick Bartek (nemomm...@gmail.com): > > > On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > i'll second the use of openbox. i use it with fbpanel. > > > > i too believe that gnome just pulls

Re: Book questions

2015-04-15 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 11:30:04 PM UTC+5:30, David Christensen wrote: > On 04/14/2015 11:11 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: > > I find the Friedman books better. http://www.amazon.com/Scheme-Art-Programming-George-Springer/dp/0262192888 http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-Programming-Languages-Daniel-F

Need help with a broken Jessie/Xfce4 desktop box

2015-04-15 Thread Paul E Condon
I was trying to get sound working again. It last worked many wks ago, but I hardly ever use it. So I don't know when it became broken (again). Current problem is that aptitude feels that it needs to install a libuuid-perl in order to install linux-base (which somehow became uninstalled, or needs to

Re: samba issue

2015-04-15 Thread Janis Hamme
I had a similar problem with samba (on jessie), but under slightly different conditions. Under full load the interface went down and it took several minutes to retrieve connectivity. I solved the problem by switching from the default driver (r8169) to the optional r8168 kernel module available thr

Re: Subject: network-console installation and ssh keys

2015-04-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-15, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150414_2134+, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> Put the following in ~/.ssh/config: >> >> Host desk >> UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null >> StrictHostKeyChecking no >> >> See the man page of ssh_config for details. > > I think this will silence the war

Re: samba issue

2015-04-15 Thread Pol Hallen
/etc/samba/smb.conf: socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 I've: socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 I tried change 8192 values and also comments socket options but same problem... thanks for help -- Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > 2. unmount filesystem and run e2fsck -D on it every so often. > > > > Every so often? That phrase roused my interest. Wouldn't exactly > > once be enough? > > Yes, as long as nobody ever creates

Re: Subject: network-console installation and ssh keys

2015-04-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150414_2134+, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-04-14, David Wright wrote: > > I like the new Network Console option in the installer. > > However, when I reinstall Debian onto a machine called, say, desk > > select the necessary options, type in the password for the > > installer session, an

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015, at 16:57, Bob Proulx wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > 2. unmount filesystem and run e2fsck -D on it every so often. > > Every so often? That phrase roused my interest. Wouldn't exactly > once be enough? Yes, as long as nobody ever creates a massive number of

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 2. unmount filesystem and run e2fsck -D on it every so often. Every so often? That phrase roused my interest. Wouldn't exactly once be enough? I think there are two issues under discussion. One is if dir_index has been applied. For that once would be enoug

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Filesystem created: Mon Jan 4 16:26:16 2010 > > My machine is old, but I've never changed anything concerning the > file system. 2010 isn't that old. Just a baby! :-) After a quick look on my network I located these. desolation: Filesystem created: Tue

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Cam Hutchison wrote: > I don't think dir_index has anything to do with it. An index speeds up > lookups. You are not doing lookups; you are traversing the entire data > structure. I think you might be right about Vincent's problem. It seems there is a large amount of uncached data that needs to b

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-13 15:50:40 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > That's staggering. My /var/lib/dpkg/info has ~8900 files and occupies > > 462848 bytes. So that would be over ½million files in your case. > > Does eftests stand for "excessive files tests"! > > I

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kushal Kumaran (kus...@locationd.net): > Bob Proulx writes: > > Petter Adsen wrote: > >> Can someone please enlighten me as to why the entry for this directory > >> is so large, even though it is empty? Since it's apparently obvious to > >> everyone else, I would very much like to know :)

Re: samba issue

2015-04-15 Thread deloptes
Pol Hallen wrote: > now: what should I do? /etc/samba/smb.conf: socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 do you have this in the smb.conf file? might help regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep

2015-04-15 Thread Bob Proulx
lukn555 wrote: > Sorry for the late reply, I suffered the same but I only just found out > how to fix this: I am glad you have something that works for you. However I read this and it feels like a workaround for a deeper problem. I applaud you sharing your solution with us. Thank you for doing

Re: Book questions

2015-04-15 Thread David Christensen
On 04/14/2015 11:11 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: I find the Friedman books better. Which books? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/552ea548.6040...@h

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 April 2015 11:36:38 David Wright wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > Greetings drive guru's; > > > > I have a 3 drive hot swap cage in my machine for a couple years now, > > and no it is NOT setup as a raid of any kind. > > > > It has had a triplet of 1T seagate d

.listadmin.ini and Mailman 2.1.14

2015-04-15 Thread Thomas Gramstad
Hi, I'm using listadmin ( https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=listadmin ) to manage my Mailman lists on several different Mailman installations. I'm having trouble with one of the Mailman installations, which is version 2.1.14 (it should work with listadmin). I suspect I have some s

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread David Christensen
On 04/15/2015 08:01 AM, ken wrote: What options or features does one get by putting the LUKS container in a partition rather than putting it on a raw drive? I am not aware of any technical advantages or disadvantages of LUKS on a raw drive vs. LUKS on a partition. For me, it's more a matter o

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread Ivanov, Konstantin
You can try this guide: http://kaivanov.blogspot.com/2015/03/block-device-encryption-with-cryptsetup.html On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a USB external HDD that I would like to encrypt with a > passphrase. After looking into filesystems, I deci

samba issue

2015-04-15 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks :-) on debian stable I've a default samba file sharing config. Everything works perfectly (almost...). From linux and windows clients (wired and wifi too) when I (i.e. listen musics) often (one time every 4/5 minutes) networks collapse (for less one second) and later goes up. So I'v

Re: wheezy drive recognition?

2015-04-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > Greetings drive guru's; > > I have a 3 drive hot swap cage in my machine for a couple years now, and no > it is NOT setup as a raid of any kind. > > It has had a triplet of 1T seagate drives in it since installing it. > > My main boot drive had a 10.0

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, August Karlstrom wrote: > On 2015-04-14 17:10, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, August Karlstrom wrote: > >> What advantages do you see with adding your own udev rule compared > >> to simply starting a ConsoleKit session? > >> > >> exec ck-launch-session dbus-lau

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread David Christensen
On 04/15/2015 05:17 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: I understand that filling the encrypted partition (/dev/mapper/backup2) with zeros is equivalent to filling the unencrypted partition (/dev/sdb1) with random data as explained by other procedures. I've found 'shred' to be the fastest way to fill a

Re: apt stuck at "Reading database"

2015-04-15 Thread Jape Person
On 04/14/2015 03:59 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 08:42:45AM -0400, Jape Person wrote: IIRC apt-listbugs or apt-listchanges (or both) don't work without the deb-src entries in /etc/apt/sources.list. Works fine for me. Did you *actually* try it? It works fine for me, too -

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread ken
On 04/15/2015 10:50 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 04/15/2015 05:04 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: http://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/howto-linux-hard-disk-encryption-with-luks-cryptsetup-command/ That article shows how to create a LUKS container on the raw drive. I prefer creating a partition tabl

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:50:50 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 04/15/2015 05:04 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/howto-linux-hard-disk-encryption-with-luks-cryptsetup-command/ > > That article shows how to create a LUKS container on the raw drive. > I prefer creati

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread David Christensen
On 04/15/2015 05:04 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: http://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/howto-linux-hard-disk-encryption-with-luks-cryptsetup-command/ That article shows how to create a LUKS container on the raw drive. I prefer creating a partition table, creating one large primary partition, and putt

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-15 09:32:24 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015, at 23:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Can't disk caching be as fast as tmpfs (or almost)? > > Never subestimate the needs of a persistent filesystem to care for > metadata and data safety, unless it has an "eat

Re: Can't isntall Debian on UEFI system

2015-04-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/15/2015 at 05:22 AM, German wrote: > Hi all, I am trying to install live image from USB stick, but my > comp's BIOS doesn't see the drive. I tried to dd .iso to stick, I > tried to copy it, still, BIOS doesn't see it. I also don't see any > efi folders on the stick when I look at it with a f

Re: Has the rescatux and supergrubdisk project been terminated

2015-04-15 Thread Curt
On 2015-04-15, Bret Busby wrote: > > What I actually want it for, is the functionality to reset passwords > on both Debian 5 and MS Win8. > > Does what you have, have that functionality? > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/rescatux/ Says it can "Clear Windows passwords" under "Features". For de

Re: FAQ's versus "Questions Newbies SHOULD Ask"?

2015-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Nate Bargmann wrote: On Tuesday 14 April 2015 17:03:48 Richard Owlett wrote {with restored context ;/} FAQ's may indicate questions others have asked. *BUT* is there any reference that would provoke investigating questions I have yet thought to ask? Can there be? This partially prompted by a

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015, at 23:18, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-04-14 13:26:16 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Yeah, that's a bad habit to have as it slows down way too many > > utilities (lots of stuff benefit for extremely lightweight > > ultra-fast tmpfs in /tmp and $TMPDIR, from

Re: Can't isntall Debian on UEFI system

2015-04-15 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Wednesday 15 April 2015 11:22:49, German wrote : > Hi all, I am trying to install live image from USB stick, but my comp's > BIOS doesn't see the drive. I tried to dd .iso to stick, I tried to copy > it, still, BIOS doesn't see it. I also don't see any efi folders on the > stick when I look at i

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Wednesday 15 April 2015 13:53:20, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote : > Hi list, > > I have a USB external HDD that I would like to encrypt with a > passphrase. After looking into filesystems, I decided to go with Ext4. > What's the recommended way of encrypting a drive? Do I partition it > first, then

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:53:20 -0400 Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a USB external HDD that I would like to encrypt with a > passphrase. After looking into filesystems, I decided to go with Ext4. > What's the recommended way of encrypting a drive? Do I partition it > first, then

Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi list, I have a USB external HDD that I would like to encrypt with a passphrase. After looking into filesystems, I decided to go with Ext4. What's the recommended way of encrypting a drive? Do I partition it first, then encrypt that partition? Internet searches lead me to LUKS & cryptsetup. How

Re: FAQ's versus "Questions Newbies SHOULD Ask"?

2015-04-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
Gene Heskett wrote: Of course someone will weigh in saying that all questions are ansered in the source... - Nate That is provided the source is written in something resembling ANSI C. Our gcc today has very little resemblance to ANSI C. And its the ANSI that has not kept up, those K&R #1 an

Re: OpenVPN doesn't restart after sleep

2015-04-15 Thread lukn555
Hi Tony Sorry for the late reply, I suffered the same but I only just found out how to fix this: Add the following script to /lib/systemd/system-sleep (in case you are using systemd): $ cat /lib/systemd/system-sleep/openvpn.sh #!/bin/bash case "$1" in post) /bin/systemc

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-15 12:29:49 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Moving entries around breaks ongoing readdir operations. If a readdir > has gone past the file being removed, and you moved the last entry > there, the entry being moved would be missed, despite *it* not being the > entry added or removed. Ind

Re: Has the rescatux and supergrubdisk project been terminated

2015-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
Bret Busby wrote: On 07/02/2015, Diogene Laerce wrote: You could give a try to Grub Rescue : http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Good luck ! Hello. I have just tried to find the Rescatux web site, to try to download a copy, and I found, at http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ "Website disabled

Can't isntall Debian on UEFI system

2015-04-15 Thread German
Hi all, I am trying to install live image from USB stick, but my comp's BIOS doesn't see the drive. I tried to dd .iso to stick, I tried to copy it, still, BIOS doesn't see it. I also don't see any efi folders on the stick when I look at it with a file manager. Any ideas? Thanks -- German -

Re: Debain Jessie two dictionary software

2015-04-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 05:05:27PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: > Can someone tell me why the newest Jessie version has two basic > dictionary software : goldendict and gnome dictionary? > Can maintainers delete one ? In a word, choice. Debian is not here to dictate to users "you must use this progra

Re: Debain Jessie two dictionary software

2015-04-15 Thread Erwan David
Le 15/04/2015 11:05, mudongliang a écrit : > Can someone tell me why the newest Jessie version has two basic > dictionary software : goldendict and gnome dictionary? > Can maintainers delete one ? > mudongliang > > Why should they ? gnome dictionary is a gnome app, and goldendict a qt one. Gnome us

Debain Jessie two dictionary software

2015-04-15 Thread mudongliang
Can someone tell me why the newest Jessie version has two basic dictionary software : goldendict and gnome dictionary? Can maintainers delete one ? mudongliang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: Has the rescatux and supergrubdisk project been terminated

2015-04-15 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 15. April 2015, 10:28:25 schrieb Petter Adsen: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:16:49 +0800 > > Bret Busby wrote: > > On 15/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > If you really need Rescatux, I have an image of v0.32b3. The > > > timestamp on it says 2014-12-21. Let me know if you need it. > >

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-15 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-04-14 17:10, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, August Karlstrom wrote: What advantages do you see with adding your own udev rule compared to simply starting a ConsoleKit session? exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch instead of exec None really, except to keep system overhea

Re: Has the rescatux and supergrubdisk project been terminated

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:16:49 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 15/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > If you really need Rescatux, I have an image of v0.32b3. The > > timestamp on it says 2014-12-21. Let me know if you need it. > > > > What I actually want it for, is the functionality to reset password

Flash update

2015-04-15 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there The most recent version is 11,2,202,457. For i386 that's: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.457/install_flash_player_11_linux.i386.tar.gz Regards, Rob -- Comet: A very large bouncy castle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Has the rescatux and supergrubdisk project been terminated

2015-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/04/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:37:49 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 07/02/2015, Diogene Laerce wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> > >> > You could give a try to Grub Rescue : http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ >> > >> > Good luck ! >> > >> > >> >> Hello. >> >> I have just tried

Re: Has the rescatux and supergrubdisk project been terminated

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:37:49 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 07/02/2015, Diogene Laerce wrote: > > > > > > > > > You could give a try to Grub Rescue : http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ > > > > Good luck ! > > > > > > Hello. > > I have just tried to find the Rescatux web site, to try to download a

Re: Jessie: No VGA signal after gdm3 login

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:10:11 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:22:24PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:50:45 +0200 > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:42:03 -0400 > > > "Thomas H. George" wrote: > > > > > > > Just returned

Re: Sharing LVM storage

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:55:10 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 08:41:07AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > I just want to try it out to see how it works, it's not > > > > something I need by any stretch of the imagination, so there's > > > > a limit to how far down that rabb

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:53:55 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > Patrick Bartek writes: > > > > > Of course, if you really want TOTAL control of your GUI, a window > > > manager is the way to go. That's what I did. Installed Openbox. > > > The same

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-15 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:35:12 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > bret@bret-Aspire-V3-772:~$ grep -B2 'Module class: X.Org Video Driver' > /var/log/Xorg.0.log > [26.440] (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > [26.440] compiled for 1.15.1, module version = 2.99.910 > [26.440] Module clas

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-15 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Bob Proulx writes: > Petter Adsen wrote: >> Can someone please enlighten me as to why the entry for this directory >> is so large, even though it is empty? Since it's apparently obvious to >> everyone else, I would very much like to know :) > > > > If a directory became full it was easy to exte