RE: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-06 Thread Arno Schuring
(yes, I know, old post, and offtopic. Still, pet peeve...) > Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:25:55 -0800 > From: jr...@salford-systems.com > > [..] combined with a general contempt for women > (beautiful or not) as weaklings and inferiors. Thus, while removing > sexually provacative pictures from colle

RE: systemd alternative for Jessie?

2015-10-14 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:26:53 +0200 > From: geo...@nsup.org > > Le tridi 23 vendémiaire, an CCXXIV, Arno Schuring a écrit : >> It's been years since I've seen a system where the OS boot took longer >> than the BIOS boot. Linux or Windows alike. > >

RE: systemd alternative for Jessie?

2015-10-14 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 17:05:16 +0300 > From: moonsh...@openmailbox.org > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:49:08 -0500 > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> What has the end-user, with a single machine, gained today from >> the adoption of systemd? > > Speaking for myself: > 1. It took me an hour of googling to

RE: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-17 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:16:55 +0200 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org [..] > > You can't install gnome without the pulseaudio libraries, but it runs > perfectly fine without the daemon. > On Debian? $ aptitude why gnome-core pulseaudio p   gnome-core Depends pulseaudio This to me suggests t

RE: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

2015-08-17 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:37:37 -0700 > From: bri...@aracnet.com > [..snip list of PA inadequacies..] > > so soliciting opinions on whether or not getting rid of pulse audio is a good > idea. It's a good thing you're asking for opinions, because that's what you're gonna get. A lot of it, proba

RE: Encrypted swap with cryptsetup won't mount at startup

2015-08-11 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: somebody.mo...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:08:05 +0200 > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 11/08/2015 09:38, Arno Schuring wrote: >> On one of my machines I've gotten this (kinda) working by removing >> the sys

RE: Encrypted swap with cryptsetup won't mount at startup

2015-08-11 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: somebody.mo...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:07:11 +0200 > > Hi, > > I'm trying to encrypt my swap partition, /dev/sda7. [..] > > At boot, it seems like systemd tries to mount /dev/sda7 as a non > encrypted swap partition, and fails. Then it tries to mount cryptswap1 > following my

RE: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-07-30 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 21:43:25 +0100 > From: aw...@comms.org.uk > > Ive got a Jessie machine acting as a router with eth0 being the WAN > connection to the internet and eth1 being the LAN connection with 2 > VLANS on it (VLAN1 has addresses 192.168.10.x and VLAN2 192.168.100.x) Your /e/n/interf

RE: kde fully broken in debian/testing

2015-07-30 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: hans.ullr...@loop.de > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 22:18:18 +0200 > > Hi folks, > > it looks like kde is fully broken in testing and unstable, due to a big > version mismatch in the repo. Yes. It was announced/explained a few days ago: http://perezmeyer.blogspot.nl/2015/07/plasmakf5-testing-sit

RE: nano needs curses.h?

2015-07-23 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:06:09 -0400 > From: lee.j.i.win...@gmail.com > [..] > apt-get source nano apt-get build-dep nano > ./configure > make > [..] > nano.h:92:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory > > Should the nano package include curses.h or is some other package a > prere

RE: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

2015-07-19 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: embe8...@student.uu.se > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 01:05:08 +0200 > > At this point, I don't know if I even have arrays. > It is nothing I put there or ever mucked around with, > for sure. > Assuming all your disks are online, just run blkid (as root). If you have any (software) raid partiti

RE: cp output format

2015-07-17 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 20:54:16 +1000 > > for filex in $(ls); [..] No. Just no. Regards, Arno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

RE: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

2015-07-11 Thread Arno Schuring
I know I shouldn't, but... > From: jhas...@newsguy.com > Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 15:58:03 -0500 > > Paul E Condon writes: >> Just "Hi," has the benefit of fewer key strokes. (;-) And it's >> suitable even for an email addressed to single potted plant. > > I've given up emailing them. They never ans

RE: Initrd and USB Keyboard

2015-07-10 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: deb...@alexkretschmer.de > Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:44:14 +0200 > > Hello, > I have a system running raid1, dmcrypt and lvm2. > Debian Version is jessie / stable > My disks have a small partition for boot, the rest ist encrypted incl. the > system. > Therefore I'm forced to work with an

RE: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-06 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi. > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: mron...@alumni.upenn.edu > > > I am working toward teaching a free introductory class to teens on > GNU/Linux and the philosophy of free software at the Newton Free > Library in MA this coming September. > > For the class, the participants will need a

RE: Installing glibc-2.21 on debian-8

2015-07-06 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 08:41:44 +0100 > From: zen75...@zen.co.uk > > On 06/07/15 06:07, Dhiraj Bhor wrote: >> Also wanted to know which are security bugs reported for glibc-2.19-18. >> Thanks for being patient. > > Information about current bugs in Debian packages can be found through > the Bug Tr

RE: clock losing time after a reboot with HP ZBook G2

2015-07-03 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 15:38:02 +0200 > From: bi...@debian.org > > Am 03.07.2015 um 15:18 schrieb Arno Schuring: >> >>> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 15:07:34 +0200 >>> From: vinc...@vinc17.net >>> >>> When I run "hwclock --systohc" manual

RE: clock losing time after a reboot with HP ZBook G2

2015-07-03 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 15:07:34 +0200 > From: vinc...@vinc17.net > > When I run "hwclock --systohc" manually before the reboot, the clock > is OK after reboot. So, this seems to be a systemd bug. I've reported: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790974 Michael, since I've seen

RE: Installing glibc-2.21 on debian-8

2015-07-03 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 15:37:03 +0530 > From: dhirajbho...@gmail.com > On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:31 PM, claude juif > mailto:claude.j...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi, > > If you really need latest development tools, i suggest you to switch to > Fedora 22. (glibc-2.21-5 and gcc 5.1.1). It will

RE: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-07-01 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 18:41:35 -0400 > From: garyd...@torfree.net > > On 01/07/15 03:24 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Wed, 01 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: >>> The size of the RAID array is set by the smallest partition so if you >>> want to be able to boot from either drive, then putting the ef0

RE: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi again, > Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:58:36 +0500 > From: sir...@gmail.com > > but there are few confusions. actually in my old drive. there was a > extended partition for SWAP. however when i copy the partition table > with gdisk "x" and "u" option it created the file successfully however

RE: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: lisi.re...@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:52:59 +0100 > > On Monday 29 June 2015 17:50:13 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >> Our IT infra came up to me > > Please - put me out of my misery. I have googled, honest. _What_, when he > she or it is at home, is an IT "infra". I simply can't fi

RE: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-29 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, > Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:52:32 +0500 > From: sir...@gmail.com > > I have been using RAID1 b/w two 1.5 TB drives which worked great with > fdisk. now one of the drive is failed and there is no more 1.5 TB > available in the market. the least available drive is 2TB. Which means >

RE: aptitude full-upgrade bug?

2015-06-27 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 12:38:36 -0400 > From: garyd...@torfree.net > > I've upgraded two machines [..] they failed to > upgrade the kernel. [..] > > I suspect this could be because the meta-package linux-image-amd64 > wasn't installed, but even that doesn't make a lot of sense. Shouldn't > a fu

RE: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-26 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: svenj...@gmx.de > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:28:37 +0200 > > On 2015-06-26 18:38 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: >>> >>> # systemctl status var-vmail.mount >>> ● var-vmail.mount - /var/vmail >>> Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab) >>> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2015-06-26 16:29:02 >>>

RE: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, > Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:46:33 -0600 > From: b...@proulx.com > > The Wanderer wrote: >> In which case I return to my original comment on that point: although >> there might be situations where this setup could make sense, they would >> _not_ be for the casual user. As a setup for a sole com

RE: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-15 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, > From: cu...@free.fr > Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:39:44 + > > On 2015-06-14, Arno Schuring wrote: >> >> $ wget >> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/list-dvd/debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-{1..13}.list.gz >> [..] >> $ zgrep -E '^(st

RE: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-14 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: cu...@free.fr > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:12:11 + > On 2015-06-14, John Hasler wrote: >> arnuld uttre writes: >>> Well, I need many packages which normal users don't use, like stumpwm, >>> ppcre, sbcl, clisp, gcc, mpd, gmpc, feh, theora etc. I have used >>> Debian Sarge (and in those

RE: cdda2wav missing

2015-06-09 Thread Arno Schuring
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: rodolfo.med...@gmail.com > > In Sid, trying to install cdda2wav that I've always used, the package is no > more available. Why, and how to replace it in command line? I could not work > it out with Google. It has been missing for a long time. Since 201

RE: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-08 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 11:24:20 +0200 > From: geo...@nsup.org > > More precisely: a conforming UEFI firmware MUST be able to read FAT32 > partitions. It CAN be able to read other types: apple's implementation can > read apple's proprietary filesystem. > > If you KNOW that YOUR firmware suppo

RE: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-08 Thread Arno Schuring
> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 23:23:26 -0400 > From: garyd...@torfree.net > >> >> On top of that, grub installs its stage2 bootloader in the unclaimed >> space between the MBR and the first partition. That space is not unused >> in the GPT disk format, so when you simply convert your existing >> partit

RE: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-07 Thread Arno Schuring
(sending again through hotmail's web interface -- apologies for anything my MUA may do to the content) > Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 14:23:40 -0500 > From: deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk > > Quoting Gary Dale: >> Arno Schuring said: >>> "reconfigure grub" i

RE: changing from BIOS to GPT

2015-06-05 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 14:45:04 -0400 > From: garyd...@torfree.net > > I have a computer that was set up with an the older style partition > table and wanted to convert it to GPT. Since the first partition started > at 2048, I figured this wouldn't be a problem. Just use gdisk to write a

RE: Old Computers

2015-06-02 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: lisi.re...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:46:17 +0100 > On Tuesday 02 June 2015 16:28:30 lostson wrote: >> On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Tuesday 02 June 2015 14:55:51 Sven Arvidsson wrote: >>> >>> I thought of DSL. But it needs an i486. :-( >>> http://w

RE: How to boot without GUI

2015-05-29 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: cu...@free.fr > Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 20:16:15 + > > That seems to ring a bell, now that you mention it (seems I do remember > intentionally installing gdm3 at some point on this machine). Except the > name of the previous package was gdm (version 2.20.11-4) not gdm2. > > So Squeeze

RE: Strange problem with *.local / avahi / zeroconf

2015-05-29 Thread Arno Schuring
(apologies in advance for any mangling caused by hotmail's web interface) > From: b-m...@gmx.ch > Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 21:19:48 +0200 > > On Friday 29 May 2015 18.11:29 Arno Schuring wrote: [..] > > Sorry, forgot to mention, ping with ip does work, only ping with &

RE: Strange problem with *.local / avahi / zeroconf

2015-05-29 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, > One machine runs apache2 with services like owncloud as well as avahi-daemon. > Other machines (clients) connect to it, e.g. with the owncloud client, using > .local as URL. > > After some time, maybe 2 or 3 minutes or so, the other machines loose the > connection. In a browser I cannot

RE: strange booting behavior

2015-05-20 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, > On 5/19/15, Arno Schuring wrote: > > > > Note that you can add break=premount to the kernel cmdline > > to force an initramfs shell, then use sh -x /scripts/$phase/$script > > to manually step through the initramfs procedure. > > > > You can use

RE: strange booting behavior

2015-05-19 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, > i am still trying to get something to boot and will be grateful for > any suggestions, including other places to ask. [..] > > grub comes up, i select the default debian version. the > kernel loads and starts doing things for 7 seconds. [..] Note that you can add break=premount to the ker

Re: Found problem source - BUG or undocumented "feature"? - was[Re: Mounting of USB flash drives - observed strangeness]

2012-11-14 Thread Arno Schuring
Richard Owlett (rowl...@cloud85.net on 2012-11-14 13:05 -0600): > > The source of the discrepancy is whether or not a USB flash > drive is present (for whatever reason) during Debian > installation. > > If there has been no USB flash drive present during install, > then a labeled device shows

Re: OT: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Arno Schuring
Ralf Mardorf (ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net on 2012-11-14 19:41 +0100): > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:30 -0500, Tom H wrote: > > And if for Debian udev still should be available as an > independent package, then because Debian maintainers extract it from > systemd, "In April 2012, udev's source tree was

Re: debian 6.0.5 ISO installation issue. GRUB .. file not found

2012-08-09 Thread Arno Schuring
Muhammad Yousuf Khan (sir...@gmail.com on 2012-08-09 16:55 +0500): > i just installed debian from 6.0.5 amd64 net CD. with basic options. > > installation went fine but in first boot. shows me this > > Welcome to GRUB > error : file not found > grub rescue> If memory serves me right, you need to

Re: [OT] what is the correct way of setting up lvm

2012-03-18 Thread Arno Schuring
Umarzuki Mochlis (umarz...@gmail.com on 2012-03-18 21:08 +0800): > this not a debian issue but a general linux issue > > i had set a LUN (e.g.: /dev/sdb) that can be seen from a server but > after some time (rsync to this logical volume) it got remounted > read-only and there's "unlinked-inode" fr

Re: [OT] how to take care of hand

2012-02-04 Thread Arno Schuring
lina (lina.lastn...@gmail.com on 2012-02-04 00:57 +0800): > Hi, > > are there some suggestions about how to take care of hand? > > for weeks, I felt the hand especially the thumb get strengh-less in > typing, and kinda of stiff, I've never hand problems with my hands, it's always been wrist or

Re: ext4 extends implementation question

2012-01-23 Thread Arno Schuring
Alberto Fuentes (alberto.fuen...@qindel.com on 2012-01-23 09:24 +0100): > On 01/10/2012 11:31 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: > > afuentes (alberto.fuen...@qindel.com on 2012-01-10 10:33 +0100): > >> What happens when you run out of space to allocate new extends in > >> ex

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-15 Thread Arno Schuring
John Hasler (jhas...@newsguy.com on 2012-01-14 12:25 -0600): > Panayiotis writes: > > I have another computer running Wheezy with lvm and it's working > > fine. Maybe it's the sum of the md driver + lvm driver that is too > > big to fit in the gap? > > Use Lilo. It doesn't use the "gap" at all. T

Re: network / nat / port forward -- problem

2012-01-12 Thread Arno Schuring
YR (zha...@videotron.ca on 2012-01-12 16:34 -0500): > > The system has 2 network cards. Debian accesses the internet via eth0 > without problems. (typical dhcp getting IP from ISP) > the internet connection is shared, and the xp machine connected to > eth1 connects to the internet also without pr

Re: No sound after purged some gnome packages

2012-01-10 Thread Arno Schuring
Csanyi Pal (csanyi...@gmail.com on 2012-01-10 18:05 +0100): > Hi, > > I have problem with sound. Can't hear anything except PC speaker's > beep. This PC Speaker is in the PC Box and is small. :) > [..] > Aplay can't find any soundcard. > aplay -l > aplay: device_list:242: no soundcards found... [

Re: ext4 extends implementation question

2012-01-10 Thread Arno Schuring
afuentes (alberto.fuen...@qindel.com on 2012-01-10 10:33 +0100): > What happens when you run out of space to allocate new extends in > ext4? is not allowed to write anymore even tho there are tons of > blocks available? I'm unsure what you mean. Extents is only an optimization strategy for allocat

Re: SATA disk errors

2012-01-02 Thread Arno Schuring
Tony van der Hoff (t...@vanderhoff.org on 2011-12-31 18:21 +): > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count0x003e 200 199 000Old_age > Always - 455 This is your problem (well, symptom). The disk isn't failing hardware-wise, but it is seeing a lot of transmission errors. The ATA bus errors in

Re: Rkhunter warning

2011-12-27 Thread Arno Schuring
David Baron (d_ba...@012.net.il on 2011-12-27 12:12 +0200): > Warning: Network TCP port 13000 is being used by /sbin/rpc.statd. > Possible rootkit: Possible Universal Rootkit (URK) SSH server > Use the 'lsof -i' or 'netstat -an' command to check this. > > rpc.statd is started by nfs-commo

RE: which is the best command to use

2011-12-23 Thread Arno Schuring
> > well, I have two files: > > File_a.txt > a > a > a > > File_b.txt > b > b > b > > I wish to get a file_ab.txt as > a b > a b > a b > man 1 paste Regards,Arno

Re: which command I should use to extract the matching part out

2011-12-19 Thread Arno Schuring
lina (lina.lastn...@gmail.com on 2011-12-19 23:53 +0800): > >  sed -n '/^model 1/q;/^model 0/,$p' > > Just realize the sed -n '/model 0/,/model 1/'p can also do that. (so > newbie I was/am). > > just still don't understand above sentence. sed -n '/^model > 1/q;/^model 0/,$p' The semicolon separa

Re: How can I find the BusID?

2011-12-11 Thread Arno Schuring
lina (lina.lastn...@gmail.com on 2011-12-11 00:33 +0800): > Hi, > > I don't know how to find the BusID for: > > xorg.conf > > Section "Device" > Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" > Driver "fglrx" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > > (Here the one seems not correct) cause there

Re: where to get patched older kernel for example 2.6.39

2011-12-06 Thread Arno Schuring
Jim Green (student.northwest...@gmail.com on 2011-12-06 05:17 +): > On 6 December 2011 05:07, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Do you have any examples of something in the Linux 3.x kernel that > > isn't in the 2.6.38 kernel that is likely to cause trouble? > > Actually I don't :) I haven't got the chan

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-06 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-12-06 01:18 +0700): > Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: > > > a) locking the root account (passwd -l root), which will give you > > "sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell" > > That's the point - sudo is used on the system and the root

Re: relocation error: and segmentation fault

2011-12-03 Thread Arno Schuring
Dennis Wicks (w...@mgssub.com on 2011-12-03 13:38 -0600): > It looks like I am going to have to restore some libraries > at the least. > > Is there any way that I can refresh or reinstall my system > without wiping out all the other things I have on the same > disk? eg /home and other user dire

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-03 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-12-03 17:53 +0700): > >[..] A standard Debian config > >should not offer a passwordless root shell unless you explicitly ask > >for it, > > Oh, no! I didn't! :) > > Do You have an idea where to look for that? - I have no ideas, > absolutely. Just as a point

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-02 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-12-02 15:17 +0700): > > >From here it's all guesswork. You'd need to provide a full bootlog up > >to the point where the shell is started to get any meaningful > >answers. > > Hmm. I thought everybody has the same OS behavior in such condition... > And the p

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-01 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-12-01 23:54 +0700): > > >fsck errors should drop into a sulogin shell, which asks for the > >password. The only way you could get a root shell is if your root > >device cannot be found. In that case, there is no way to ask for a > >password because there is n

Re: Trouble with remote rsyslog

2011-11-30 Thread Arno Schuring
Summarizing the other comments and adding my own... vr (debian-u...@iotk.net on 2011-11-30 00:03 -0500): > I'm having trouble getting remote rsyslog to work. > Can anyone look over my config and offer clues what I've done wrong > please? > > > SENDING SERVER (99.30.25.3, Squeeze, up to date) >

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-11-28 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-28 13:47 +0700): > Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even > asking for password... How I can change the behavior (to ask for > password before granting root shell)? > Do you get a message 'root account locked, starting shell

Linux 3.1 and r300

2011-11-27 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi all, Since the upgrade to the 3.1 kernel, I'm seeing display flickers on two machines with an older ATI card (a 9600 and X1500). One machine is very vocal about EDID errors and blinks the display roughly every ten seconds, making it impossible to work with. The other logs no EDID errors and onl

Re: reduce crypt partition

2011-11-27 Thread Arno Schuring
scar (s...@drigon.com on 2011-11-25 13:56 -0700): > i need a little help reducing my crypt partition. when i first > installed debian, i used a rather standard /boot on /dev/hda1 and > crypt on /dev/hda2, using LVM for the rest of the partitions. [..] > > $ sudo fdisk -l Advice: use fdisk -u. It

RE: Documentation -- gcc?

2011-11-25 Thread Arno Schuring
> OK, so gcc documentation is "unfree". I have no dog in that fight. > > Save an old man a few days of reading the GFDL flame wars from > seven years ago, and someone (one) just kindly say where this "non-free" > documentation is. http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gcc-doc-base and http://package

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

2011-11-24 Thread Arno Schuring
lrhorer (lrho...@satx.rr.com on 2011-11-24 03:38 -0600): > OK, so here's the deal. I compiled and installed ncid on one of my > Debian servers Everything seems to be working just fine. There's > one small item, though. When I took the init scripts and ran > update-rc.d, it gave me a warning sa

Re: Disabling NFSv4 on Debian Squeeze

2011-11-20 Thread Arno Schuring
Israel Bravo (bravo...@gmail.com on 2011-11-20 15:42 +0200): > How can I disable the NFSv4 on Debian Squeeze (without recompiling the > kernel)? man 5 nfs will tell you that you can force a specific nfs version by adding -o nfsvers=X on the mount command line (or in /etc/fstab). > > Or - another

Re: sources.list best practices

2011-11-16 Thread Arno Schuring
Brad Alexander (stor...@gmail.com on 2011-11-16 10:07 -0500): > Actually, Andrei, that will fit puppet well. I was just looking for > methodologies, and I think that you and Tong pointed out a couple of > important points. First, never cross the streams on stable. I'm > guessing here that both of y

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-16 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-15 20:12 +0700): > $ /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot -boot c > -hda da -net nic,macaddr=$(printf > 'DE:AD:BE:EF:%02X:%02X\n' $((RANDOM%256)) $((RANDOM%256))) -net tap > > kvm: -net tap: could not configure /dev/net/tun (tap%d): Operation not > pe

Re: error when configuring the Kerberos NFSv4 on Debian 6.0.3 (in testing no error)

2011-11-16 Thread Arno Schuring
Kramarenko A. Maksim (mc@k-max.name on 2011-11-15 09:51 +0400): > Arno Schuring писал(а) в своём письме Tue, > 15 Nov 2011 03:30:54 +0400: > > > Kramarenko A. Maksim (mc@k-max.name on 2011-11-14 13:02 +0400): > >> Hello, All! > >> Tired of "fighting&

Re: error when configuring the Kerberos NFSv4 on Debian 6.0.3 (in testing no error)

2011-11-14 Thread Arno Schuring
Kramarenko A. Maksim (mc@k-max.name on 2011-11-14 13:02 +0400): > Hello, All! > Tired of "fighting" with Kreberos. > The second week I can not properly configure the server NFSv4 and > domain on Win 2k8 R2 via kerberos. Kinit command, etc. work properly > and get tickets from the KDC: > =

Re: GNOME 3 Alt-Tab takes two hands now?

2011-11-14 Thread Arno Schuring
Kevin Ross (ke...@familyross.net on 2011-11-13 19:38 -0800): > If you have two windows open for the same application, the Alt-Tab > popup combines them into a single icon. To switch between windows of > the same application, you have to hit the down arrow while the popup > is up. So you have to h

Re: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-13 Thread Arno Schuring
Camaleón (noela...@gmail.com on 2011-11-13 17:59 +): > > > and how many people are whining because GNOME 2 is gone? > > We all miss the good job that GNOME2 did. IMO, there is nothing wrong > about users whining or complaining because of the change, that's a > normal reaction that express t

Re: GNOME 3 - Help needed - Testing upgraded from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3

2011-11-13 Thread Arno Schuring
Selim T. Erdogan (se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu on 2011-11-13 05:32 -0600): > Arno Schuring, 12.11.2011: > > > > Ralf Mardorf (ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net on 2011-11-11 23:51 +0100): > > > > > > Before I run the upgrade I saved a backup of my GNOME 2 Debian. Is >

Re: GNOME 3 - Help needed - Testing upgraded from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
Allow me to join the choir :) I actually had high hopes for some of the stuff. Integrating IM account control in the top right menu is a great idea, and I like the way notifications are presented. But empathy is possibly even worse than Evolution, it won't connect to half of my accounts and "invis

Re: Removing evolution but leave gnome intact?

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
kei...@strucktower.com (kei...@strucktower.com on 2011-11-10 19:24 -0800): > I realize it is not necessary, but if possible I'd like to remove > evolution. > > This is what I have tried so far: > > # aptitude unmarkauto gnome-control-center evolution-data-server > # aptitude unmarkauto libedatase

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com on 2011-11-12 05:31 -0600): > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > I would suggest you run 'aptitude safe-upgrade' first and then try > > 'aptitude full-upgrade'. Don't worry, aptitude will present all > > changes to you before applying. If you don't like or understand >

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-11 23:23 +0700): > >Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-08 14:44 +0700): > >> 1. The bridges take the Internet connections for itself - thus > >> leaving the host app.s w/o Internet access, probably routing needed > >> here - but they do not make any

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-11 23:41 +0700): > > I have included more options to network script: > > /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot -boot c -hda da > -net nic -net tap,ifname=$(sudo /usr/sbin/tunctl -b -u $(whoami); > sudo /sbin/ifconfig tap0 192.168.1.1 up; sudo /sbin/ro

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-09 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-08 14:44 +0700): > > >> /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot > >> -cdrom ./debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso > >> -boot d -hda ./da -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no > >> > >> kvm: -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no: cou

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-07 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-07 02:18 +0700): > > I try to run KVM network w/o under normal user w/ the following > result: > > /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot > -cdrom ./debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso > -boot d -hda ./da -net nic -net tap,ifn

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-29 Thread Arno Schuring
Charlie (aries...@skymesh.com.au on 2011-10-30 00:12 +1100): > On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:01:16 +0200 "Arno Schuring > aelschur...@hotmail.com" suggested this: > > >DMO? > > Sorry, silly question, but. what is DMO? Have been googling it > and not getting

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-29 Thread Arno Schuring
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Charlie > wrote: > >  On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:25:18 +0200 "Arno Schuring > >  aelschur...@hotmail.com" suggested this: > > > >>Charlie (aries...@skymesh.com.au on 2011-10-27 16:35 +1100): > >>> > >>

RE: Fetchmail certificate problem

2011-10-28 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: jsp...@sun.ac.za [..] > fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate > fetchmail: This means that the root signing certificate (issued for > /C=US/ST=Someprovince/L=Sometown/O=none/OU=none/CN=localhost/emailAddress=webaster@localhost) > is not in the trusted

Re: Broken packages............

2011-10-27 Thread Arno Schuring
Charlie (aries...@skymesh.com.au on 2011-10-27 16:35 +1100): > > libavcodec52: > Depends: libavutil50 (<4:0.6.2-99) but 5:0.7.1-0.1 is to be > installed or libavutil-extra-50 (<4:0.6.2-99) but it is not > installable Do you have debian-multimedia in your sources.list by any chance? Or have had

RE: ubuntu.

2011-10-25 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: mailingl...@darac.org.uk > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:41:34AM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On 25/10/11 11:23, Luca Cappelletti wrote: > > >2011/10/25 Mauro > > >... > > > > I appear to have subscribed to the wrong mail list. Can anyone here > > point me at the ENGLISH DEBIAN list,

Re: Sharing files on a local network

2011-10-23 Thread Arno Schuring
Raf Czlonka (r...@linuxstuff.pl on 2011-10-23 15:39 +0100): > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:52:14PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I don't understand why a few people have passed over ssh as being > > overkill. > > SSH (Secure Shell) - you don't need security on home-only network. That depends. If you'

Re: how to get pkg names not upgraded

2011-10-22 Thread Arno Schuring
Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com on 2011-10-21 19:19 -0500): > When I run `aptitude full upgrade' Sometimes I see something in the > output saying some number of packages will not be upgraded. > > Something like [...] 40 pkgs to upgrade 8 pkgs not upgraded. [...] > > (That is not verbatim... jus

Re: bash command

2011-10-20 Thread Arno Schuring
kuLa (deb...@kulisz.net on 2011-10-20 09:37 +0100): > On 20/10/11 09:29, Jesus arteche wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I want to create a script to change some words in some sonf files > > at the start up of the system...do you know the command in bash for > > search the word and replace it?? > > W

Re: OT: harddrive addition for RAID

2011-10-17 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, firstly: this is only offtopic if you're not running Debian. Richard (richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk on 2011-10-17 17:39 +0100): > Hi, > I'm thinking about adding another 500 GB HD to use RAID. > 2 questions:- > > 1. does the HD need to be exactly the same as the one its being > paired with ?

Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

2011-10-17 Thread Arno Schuring
yudi v (yudi@gmail.com on 2011-10-18 00:09 +1000): > > But the drive in question was 600GB (iirc). Too large for an SSD and > > too small for advanced format... > > > It's an Advance format, check the fdisk output posted above. I stand corrected. Then your sector alignment should be a multiple

Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

2011-10-17 Thread Arno Schuring
Virgo Pärna (virgo.pa...@mail.ee on 2011-10-17 08:50 +): > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:16:02 +0200, Arno Schuring > wrote: > > yudi v (yudi@gmail.com on 2011-10-16 15:20 +1000): > >> Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries > > This is not necessary.

NFSv4: rpc.gssd hangs indefinitely

2011-10-16 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, Any NFSv4 experts on this list? I'm trying to get my fileserver to incorporate Kerberos security but the mounts fail in the most annoying way: no error or syslog message, not even a timeout. They just hang. I've already spent a few hours trying to set it up and debug it, and I believe I've ma

Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

2011-10-16 Thread Arno Schuring
yudi v (yudi@gmail.com on 2011-10-16 15:20 +1000): > Could someone using GPT on a BIOS system confirm if I got the GPT > partitioning right on a BIOS system > [..] > Partition table scan: > MBR: protective > BSD: not present > APM: not present > GPT: present > > Found valid GPT with p

Re: how much time do I need to run badblocks

2011-09-23 Thread Arno Schuring
Long Wind (longwind2...@gmail.com on 2011-09-23 20:07 +0800): > I bought a 60G disk and test it with badblocks > > badblocks -vws /dev/hdb > > 6 hours has passed and it's still running That can happen. My last disk was a 2TB low-rpm disk. It took badblocks over 50 hours to complete the check. >

Re: 2TB file system

2011-08-17 Thread Arno Schuring
Rick Pasotto (r...@niof.net on 2011-08-16 12:31 -0400): > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It > will be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any > problems in formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file > system? > > Any other considerati

Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-17 Thread Arno Schuring
Martin McCormick (mar...@x.it.okstate.edu on 2011-08-16 06:30 -0500): > > Is there a way to convince fdisk that hdb1 is not > mounted? There might be. Try umount -f The information about current mounts is recorded in /etc/mtab (basically an old relic, but sadly still not put down). The real

Re: how/where to ask questions about dpkg/APT and tools?

2011-08-15 Thread Arno Schuring
Tom Roche (tom_ro...@pobox.com on 2011-08-15 12:35 -0400): > > My dpkg/APT knowledge/skills need to go from near-beginner to at least > intermediate-level fairly quickly, but I have lots questions. Where > to go (e.g., what forums, lists, IRCs, other sites) to ask them? > Why I ask: > [..] > Howe

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi Martin, As luck would have it, I did just that this weekend. Except that my system used lvm for all partitions, which massively simplified the procedure for me. Martin McCormick (mar...@x.it.okstate.edu on 2011-08-14 21:32 -0500): > I have a 10-gigabyte hard drive that sounds like a 747

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-15 Thread Arno Schuring
Robert Blair Mason Jr. (r...@verizon.net on 2011-08-10 10:07 -0400): > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 > > Is it possible for me to just kill the PulseAudio server when I'm > starting certain applications, or force them to use ALSA? Better late than never: take a look at pasuspender Regards, A

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