Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > I'm pretty sure that the crypt thing is not compatible with lvm. may be this > is the problem. I'm not 100% sure though. The problem could be related to > previous formatting and using lvm, or some cached information somewhere. > > what does sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda looks like

Re: cannot install all updates

Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do > but from the GUI (ncurses). The question I had was upgrading from > aptitude gui, does the 'U' key do full-upgrade or dist-upgrade? > > Thanks, > Amit full-upgrade is a synonym for dist-upgrade (se

Re: cannot install all updates

Rich Healey wrote: > > Will give you the info you're looking for, basically "upgrade" will do > minor updates, security fixes, {dist,full}-upgrade will upgrade > completely, potentially breaking everything. I'm using debian testing for 5 years now, and every week I run 'aptitude update && aptitud

Re: Encrypted partition perfomance

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > I intend to use encrypted partitions in my new system, probably > using dm-crypt with the suggested settings. I understand this will have > an impact on performance, but how big it is? I'm talking about a Core 2 > Duo E8400 (@ 3.0GHz) with 2Gb of RAM. Will it be re

Re: Share internet connection with Ad-hoc mode.

Semih Gokalp wrote: it took ip from apipa like 169.254. and i tried manual ip configuration but not worked.I can not ping to 192.168.0.1 Why can not I connnection to internet with ubuntu8.04 machine ? If you help me,i will be happy. Thanks all. Vista can ping

Re: LVM upgrade: Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open

Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:27:37PM +0300, ?? wrote: I have LVM setup on dm-crypt. After yesterday's upgrade of lvm (lenny), I am getting this message on boot: Found volume group evg using metadata type lvm2 Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open D

Re: Issue with VMware (2)

Damon L. Chesser wrote: What is this any-any patch I keep hearing about? I just run alien -c vmware.*.rpm and dpkg -i vmware*.deb. Not finding alot of info on this any-any patch. This any-any patch is needed if you are installing from the tar.gz, in order for vmware to compile the kernel m

Re: wpasupplicant in roaming mode

Andrei Popescu wrote: Hello everybody, I'm trying to configure the roaming mode for wpasupplicant but I don't seem to get it right. my 2 cents: If you are using KDE you may want to try using Knetworkmanager. I am the typing-on-black-screen type of guy, but on this I have to admit that

Canon EOS 400D and KDE

Hi all! I have a problem importing the photos from my Canon EOS 400D. It seems that the OS (debian lenny) does not recognize the camera as a simple external storage but instead it tries to import the photos via a so called 'USB imaging interface'. This is at least what konqueror says. The pro

Re: lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

Maximilian Gass wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this (hopefully) non-destructive problem: This problem is non-destructive and normal. Now, this 'Can't deactivate vo

lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

Hello everybody! I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this (hopefully) non-destructive problem: During shutdown I get: -- Αsking all remaining processes to terminate... done Killing all remaining processes... failed ... Deactivating swap... done Unmounting local

Re: cron time is not same as system time

Chris Buckley wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Is the system clock set to UTC? $ cat /etc/default/rcS >> >> You should see a line >> UTC=yes. > > A good point. It currently reads: > > UTC=no > >> I don't know if this matters, and with a tz of London it shouldn't >> account for 5 hrs. > > Agreed

Re: VMWare network setup (newbie)

Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, sorry if this is too basic or offtopic a question, > but i didnt see a debian-newbie list or anything. > > Im running Etch on an IBM ThinkPad T60. I need to run > a Windows application on it, so i installed VMWare > Server > following some detailed instructions i

searching for graphical torrent client

I tried google but can't seem to find something that both looks decent *and* is available for debian (testing) as a binary. For example I tried qtorrent, but it is so minimal that I don't like it... Or to put it in another way: Which client resembles most the windows utorrent? (I also tried ktorren