Re: Regarding language display issues

2015-10-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/22/15, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > As you say, get the fonts. > > Pointer: > lisi@Tux-II:~$ aptitude search ttf | grep gujarati > i A ttf-gujarati-fonts - transitional dummy package > lisi@Tux-II:~$ aptitude search ttf | grep hindi > lisi@Tux-II:~$ aptitude search ttf | grep tamil > i

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

2015-10-22 Thread David Christensen
On 10/22/2015 02:41 PM, Anton Bizzarri wrote: Hello, we had lost a drive in a LVM on Debian Squeeze. I pulled the drive and replaced it and then tried to repair it but then when I tried to recover the LVM it turned out it was a striped volume. (Its not my server! Never thought they put the data o

Re: Regarding language display issues

2015-10-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 October 2015 15:03:57 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I am having trouble viewing webpages and text written in regional > languages. Possibly, I need the right fonts but have no idea how to get the > thing implemented. > > Details: > Browser : Chromium, Iceweasel, and Google Chrome Stable

Re: Thread dorked. (was: Re: System Dorked -- Help!)

2015-10-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 October 2015 18:39:45 d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > Please confirm this is plain text :-) :-) I can read it now. Your OP was totally incomprehensible here too. KMail-Trinity. Combined with partial sight. Lisi

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

2015-10-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Brian a écrit : > On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 20:51:03 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> Brian a écrit : >>> >>> deb ftp://149.20.20.6/debian-security jessie/updates main > >> - It does not work with HTTP, so you have to use FTP which is harder to >> manage by firewalls. > > I could not get http to

Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

2015-10-22 Thread Anton Bizzarri
Hello, we had lost a drive in a LVM on Debian Squeeze. I pulled the drive and replaced it and then tried to repair it but then when I tried to recover the LVM it turned out it was a striped volume. (Its not my server! Never thought they put the data on a striped volume). So I returned the original

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Piyavkin
On 22.10.2015 17:03, Brian wrote: On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 16:15:27 +0300, Piyavkin wrote: On 22.10.2015 10:18, Ondřej Grover wrote: Hello Adrian, could you please be more specific about a few points? - what installer ISO did you use - did you use the text or graphical installer - what was the e

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

2015-10-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 20:51:03 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Brian a écrit : > > On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 11:44:41 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > > > >> Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >>> Greencopper a écrit : > >> > Most likely OpenDNS has some load balancing of their own perhaps > forwarding

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

2015-10-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Cindy-Sue Causey a écrit : > > Was only a couple months ago that I found out that update-grub was at > least one thing about the boot flag that *appeared* to matter, at > least *IN MY CASE* *that day*. After a very long afternoon of not > understanding why GRUB kept reverting to its old config set

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Adrian O'Dell
I'm well versed in bash. It just never occurred to me to escape the apostrophe in the real name field since it is supposed to be a string variable. Mint treats my input correctly, creating my user account as it should. Debian does not. I'll try escaping the apostrophe one of these days, but

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

2015-10-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Brian a écrit : > On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 11:44:41 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>> Greencopper a écrit : >> Most likely OpenDNS has some load balancing of their own perhaps forwarding the request to different internal servers. Perhaps the only solutio

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 18:53 +0100, Brian wrote: > There is no need to use GMail, a mailserver on the machine or an SMTP > host. The novice operating mode of 'reportbug' has in its prompts: > >Do you have a "mail transport agent" (MTA) like Exim, >Postfix or SSMTP configured on this compute

kde5 programs crash

2015-10-22 Thread Ariel Molinuevo
Hello, I'm writing this mail following the instructions of reportbug, since I do not know which package has the bug. I use debian sid, and after this series of updates [UPGRADE] libsidplayfp4:amd64 1.8.1-1 -> 1.8.2-1 [UPGRADE] libsigc++-2.0-0v5:amd64 2.6.1-2 -> 2.6.1-3 [UPGRADE] libsqlite3-0:amd

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 16:19:49 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 01:15 -0500, Adrian O'Dell wrote: > > There appears to be a bug which has Plagued me for years. Oddly I > > don't have the bug in Linux Mint. Did they edit this part of the > > installer? > > > > My name contains

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

2015-10-22 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 05:46:55PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 21/10/15 17:35, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > >El 21/10/15 a las 11:11, erdal daghan escribió: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have a problem with install debian. When I trying to install the Debian > >>8.2 with RAID1 configuration it does

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

2015-10-22 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 20, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Ondřej Grover wrote: > I'm looking for recommendations for backup solutions that don't reinvent the > wheel and are reliable and used. Have you considered Amanda? It's been around for quite a long time, it's worked very reliably for me for the past 15 or so years

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

2015-10-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Marc Shapiro (marcns...@gmail.com): > On 10/20/2015 11:33 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52: > > > >>Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but... > >>I > >>can exit all programs and all instances of X, leaving only a singl

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-22 Thread Nicolas George
Le primidi 1er brumaire, an CCXXIV, Marc Shapiro a écrit : > Google was my friend and showed me how to free up that memory ('free && sync > && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free' as root) and all is now good > with the world. I hope you realize this is only useful for debugging purposes. T

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-22 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/20/2015 11:33 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52: Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but... I can exit all programs and all instances of X, leaving only a single console running. Top will show itself and bash, nothing els

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

2015-10-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/21/15, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > El 21/10/15 a las 11:11, erdal daghan escribió: >> Hi, >> >> I have a problem with install debian. When I trying to install the Debian >> 8.2 with RAID1 configuration it does NOT add bootable flag in guided >> partitioning mode. It Doesn't on option. > >

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 01:15 -0500, Adrian O'Dell wrote: > There appears to be a bug which has Plagued me for years. Oddly I > don't > have the bug in Linux Mint. Did they edit this part of the installer? > > My name contains an apostrophe, which causes the Debian installer to > not > create my u

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

2015-10-22 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
On 10/22/2015 02:47 AM, Ondřej Grover wrote: > Thank you Sarunas for the graphs, it is most illuminating. That's pretty > much how I imagine a storage server should behave. > Atomic snapshots are very appealing indeed. In my case cp -lr or > --link-dest solutions would take a long time as the FS hi

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 16:15:27 +0300, Piyavkin wrote: > On 22.10.2015 10:18, Ondřej Grover wrote: > >Hello Adrian, > > > >could you please be more specific about a few points? > >- what installer ISO did you use > >- did you use the text or graphical installer > >- what was the error message or wh

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Piyavkin
On 22.10.2015 10:18, Ondřej Grover wrote: Hello Adrian, could you please be more specific about a few points? - what installer ISO did you use - did you use the text or graphical installer - what was the error message or what failed or happened exactly that stopped the installation I wasn't a

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 October 2015 14:03:34 Richard Owlett wrote: > 2. A. set system for autologin >       B. start browser, go to desired page >       C. save session in Xfce >       D. on next power up, system would go to desired page Just for the record, and not because I think taht it would be of an

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 09:18:24 +0200, Ondřej Grover wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Adrian O'Dell > wrote: > > > There appears to be a bug which has Plagued me for years. Oddly I don't > > have the bug in Linux Mint. Did they edit this part of the installer? > > > > My name contains an

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

2015-10-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Oct 2015 at 11:44:41 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Greencopper a écrit : > > >> Most likely OpenDNS has some load balancing of their own perhaps > >> forwarding the request to different internal servers. > >> > >> Perhaps the only solution is to fix a specifi

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

2015-10-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Greencopper a écrit : >> Most likely OpenDNS has some load balancing of their own perhaps >> forwarding the request to different internal servers. >> >> Perhaps the only solution is to fix a specific IP address for >> security.debian.org in my local DNS server and then

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

2015-10-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > From mount of root partition in Debian live session, moun --bind /dev to > root partition's dev, Do i get it right that are trying to start your hard disk installed Linux from a running LiveCD Linux ? Interesting stunt. But far from being standard. > On booting, get errors. Can get to con

Re: No monitor in GNOME Control Center - Color

2015-10-22 Thread Pascal Obry
I've just filed a bug for this on the Debian bug tracker: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802655 Cheers, -- Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) The best way to travel is by means of imagination http://v2p.fr.eu.org http://www.obry.net gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

2015-10-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 05:46:55PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 21/10/15 17:35, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: El 21/10/15 a las 11:11, erdal daghan escribió: [cut] El 21/10/15 a las 11:11, erdal daghan escribió: Please help me.. I have two ssd disks(240gb). I want to make RAID1 conf

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

2015-10-22 Thread d_baron
- Original Message - From: Joel Rees Date: Thursday, October 22, 2015 2:34 am Subject: Re: System Dorked -- Help! To: d_ba...@012.net.il Cc: debian-user > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:32 PM,  wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: d_ba...@012.net.il > > Date: Wednesday, O

Re: Virtual box

2015-10-22 Thread Catalin Soare
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Mitch Nuss wrote: > I am wanting to install Debian into a pic tower I have and want to use it > as a headless server and use a tight VNC so I can access it anywhere. Do > you have any advice for me and will I need to install virtual box? Amy info > you have for me

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

2015-10-22 Thread d_baron
- Original Message - From: Thomas Schmitt Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 11:53 pm Subject: Re: System Dorked -- Help! To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Hi, > > > Hope all those >'s do not foul this up. > > No danger. > The only problem with ">" is the dreaded ">From" mailbox escap

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

2015-10-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Greencopper a écrit : > > Most likely OpenDNS has some load balancing of their own perhaps forwarding > the request to different internal servers. > > Perhaps the only solution is to fix a specific IP address for > security.debian.org in my local DNS server and then only use that! Or don't use O

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Ondřej Grover
Hello Adrian, could you please be more specific about a few points? - what installer ISO did you use - did you use the text or graphical installer - what was the error message or what failed or happened exactly that stopped the installation I wasn't able to reproduce your problem in VirtualBox us

Re: Reporting Bug

2015-10-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
Normally I would put a backslash character in front of that apostrophe since it's a special character to bash at least and I suspect several other shell envioonments. Perhaps try O\'Dell by way of an example. I suspect mint hasn't been modified at all and that you haven't interacted so far wi