On Tue 2020-02-25 17:31, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Grub needs the passphrase for /boot, and then Linux needs it
> separately. Unfortunately there isn't a way for Grub to pass the
> passphrase to Linux so it has to ask you again. People are looking at
> ways to make this work better...
One way to d
On 2017-10-12 11:44:29 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not all, the
the rx buttons for wireless keyboards/mice, actually mean?
I took that to mean that it could work for both their (logitech's)
keyboards or mice, possibly at the same time so t
On 2016-03-28 11:46:46 PM, Sergei Petrunin wrote:
During the system boot I get the following message:
Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... lvmetad is not active yet
sysinit
Volume group "strog-vg" not found
Cannot process volume group strog-vg
done.
--- several times message like this ---
-
On 2015-08-29 08:23:25 PM, Hans wrote:
> > > It would be nice, if someone could give me a clue, how to initialise the
> > > crypt related configurations.
> >
> > How did you set up your partitions? Do you use cryptsetup? Did you fill
> > out the relevant entries in /etc/cryptab? What happens if yo
On 2015-08-03 12:24:07 AM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> On Sun, August 2, 2015 10:16 pm, sp113438 wrote:
> > mutt-patched:
> > This package adds the following patches:
> >
> > * sidebar: list mailboxes (with new mail) in a separate column on
> > screen
> > * nntp: NNTP support for mutt
> > * multip
On 2015-02-22 07:24:31 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> I notice that you can run something called kodi on linux that allows TV
> channel shows to be downloaded and watched on your PC.
Last time I looked at this, which was admittedly awhile ago, it was
downloading these shows from a TV torrent site
On 2014-06-27 04:11:41 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Reco writes:
[...]
> The mtp protocol/file system is very problematic and doesn't appear to
> be handled well by linux at the moment, but I return to it every few
> months in the hope that it has progressed!
This has been my recent experience as w
On 2014-04-11 11:02:54 AM, Michael Torres wrote:
> I am trying to install debian on my mid 2012 macbook pro and have a dual
> boot system. I have downloaded the live CD amd64 7.4 gnome iso and have
> tried to boot from it. My processor is a core i7. It boots, but only a
> black screen with a line c
On 2013-07-08, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:55 AM, ha wrote:
> > Thanks Ralph, I guess it would do it.
> > But I didn't plan to separate the conf files completely, I was hoping for a
> > solution more alike Wilko's (if it works).
> > After all we all have .config file in our hom
On Thu 2012-07-12 10:29:32 AM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> Currently I'm interested to try xmonad. Wikipedia tells
> that it is a window manager. The xmonad metapackage is
> installed. /usr/share/doc/xmonad/README has
> Running xmonad:
> Add:
> $HOME/bin/xmonad
> to the last line
On Sunday 31 July 2011 1:19:44 AM Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I've been using KDE for several years now and much prefer kmail over
> other email programs, however, the newest kmail has one glaring
> problem for me! It separates each days emails and puts a horizontal
> grey bar between the days. For me I
On Tuesday July 26 2011 1:27:29 PM Itay wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, AG wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Sorry for the OT, but does anyone know of a way to stitch 2 separate pdf
> > files together to make one large one?
>
> Check the pdfjam package.
Or pdftk.
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On Friday September 10 2010 10:11:36 am Kevin Anderson wrote:
> I can "fix" this problem by
> pulling out the battery and holding down the power button to release
> static.
This sounds something a BOFH would tell you to do.
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On Sunday August 1 2010 10:06:15 pm T o n g wrote:
> Is it possible to switch to console (tty1~6) when the kvm guest is in X?
IIRC, there is a way to send ctrl-alt to the guest. Also, there is an option
to use an alternative key combination to escape the guest (see qemu doc); I
think that it is
On Monday July 26 2010 4:29:01 pm Gary Roach wrote:
> I have 2 identical Debian Linux setups, one on an old system and the
> other on a brand new system. The desktop themes for the new system are
> listed as:
> Air
> Aya
> Blend
> Elegance
>
On Tuesday July 6 2010 3:02:10 pm Gary L. Roach wrote:
> I tried moving the .mozilla file. It didn't change the behavior. I might
> add that I have 2 computers running Linux, one with Debian stable and
> one with Debian testing (sqeeze). One is using the Gnome desktop and the
> other KDE. Neither s
On Sunday July 4 2010 9:15:09 am Rob Owens wrote:
> All of my music contains tags for vorbisgain/replaygain. MythTV's Myth
> Music player, however, doesn't have provisions to use replaygain. Is there
> a way I can pipe my audio output to another program which will raise/lower
> the volume, effect
On Thursday 10 June 2010 9:04:52 pm ABSDoug wrote:
> --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Neal Hogan wrote:
> Now that I know Mr. Hogan here doesn't have anything intelligent to
add,
> off to the kill file with him!
It is not necessary to let us know when you are going to ignore someone.
Surely a personal emai
On Wednesday 05 May 2010 8:52:45 am Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p6 #0: Wed Jan 6
> 00:43:01 UTC 2010 that works as an NFS server, with the following line in
> /etc/exports:
[...]
> Both these servers mount the local /srv/data directory to the one e
On Monday April 26 2010 11:28:36 am rudu wrote:
> Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get
> my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6).
> Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of
> my graphic session's screen except that
On Thursday April 15 2010 6:21:27 am Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-04-15 06:38, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > That is what I did. No ping answer, whatever the IP or DNS. Just as if I
> > was not connected. But my router is still connected to the WAN, and the
> > router is still connected to
On Monday April 5 2010 7:59:59 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-04-05 16:42, Thilo Six wrote:
> > but still
> > it's unix style to use the right tool for the right task.
>
> You're correct: bash is the right tool for the job.
Heresy! zsh is *always* the right tool for the job. As a corollary, if z
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 7:49:56 am Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200
> Micha Feigin wrote:
> > Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input
> > device) settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again.
> >
> > How do I enable tapping and circular
On Monday March 8 2010 3:11:05 pm Clive McBarton wrote:
> When I reboot, the partition /boot (it is a separate partition, not a
> directory) changes. It is not supposed to. None of the files on it have
> changed or can change, since it is mounted with option "ro". But the
> checksum of the partitio
On Monday 01 March 2010 7:17:04 am Celejar wrote:
> Anyone know what happened to w32codecs in debian-multimedia.org? It's
> gone from Unstable and Stable, and I only see it in Oldstable.
> Searching both the site and the general 'net doesn't turn up anything
> here.
They were moved into the recen
On Friday February 26 2010 9:42:09 am wishi wrote:
> Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad:
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen.
> >> However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made
> >> it recen
On Wednesday February 24 2010 11:14:19 pm Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Mark Allums put forth on 2/25/2010 12:04 AM:
> > On 2/23/2010 11:20 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> >> OK, you've convinced me to go with the Intel motherboard. Thanks for
> >> all the tips!
> >>
> >> -PT
> >
> > Don't go with the Intel
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 4:27:51 am Jason Heeris wrote:
> I'd go so far as to say that it's so undocumented as to be almost
> completely unusable, but wading through the source gives me a hint as
> to why it won't work — I *suspect* that it requires a partitioned
> block device.
IIRC not so lon
On Monday 15 February 2010 11:00:36 am Ogya Chief wrote:
> I need a basic statistical tool such as the Data Analysis Add-in in MS
> Excel. I have installed MS Office 2007 on Debian Sid but the add-in
> installation fails. I know Gnumeric has similar functions to Excel's but
> it lacks some featu
On Saturday February 6 2010 2:36:02 pm Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> So I removed vga=791 and problems with getting a console were resolved.
>
> In order to have a good resolution for my console while the pc is
> booting, I used the
> GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900 directive in the grub2 config, but while it sta
On Tuesday February 2 2010 3:21:33 pm Kent West wrote:
> Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96
> Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96
> Sending on Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
>
On Tuesday February 2 2010 1:28:21 pm Chance Platt wrote:
> Step Three - don't worry about the plumbing. Use either NetworkManager
> or WICD. These take care of the plumbing, and they work. If they don't
> work with your particular network, try connecting to an unsecured
> network first to check
On Sunday January 31 2010 11:39:31 am Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Matthew Moore writes:
> > You can add multiple "path =" settings. For example, your profile would
> > look something like
> >
> > root =
> > root =
> >
> > path = /home/myself/
On Sunday January 31 2010 3:58:10 am Merciadri Luca wrote:
> For example, if I have a profile `Docs', I would like to synchronize
> /home/myself/Docs
>
> _and_
>
> /home/Docs.txt
>
> Is it possible? I tried modifying the related .prf in ~/.unison/, but
> it did not work out.
You can add multipl
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 7:58:30 pm Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:21:54 -0500
>
> Rob Owens wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:12:05PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:05:15 -0500
> > > Rob Owens wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > Another benefit of maildir is
On Monday 11 January 2010 4:42:50 pm S. Fishpaste wrote:
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 22b8:4902 Motorola PCS Triplet GSM Phone (AT)
I think that this device is listed under /dev/bus/usb/...
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On Friday January 8 2010 4:41:54 am Sjors van der Pluijm wrote:
> Just found out that /boot should not be in LVM because bootloaders might
> not understand it. /boot unencrypted does not seem to be the end of the
> world. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/benefitsoflvmsmall.html
Since we are being
On Wednesday January 6 2010 1:52:11 pm Brent Clark wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 22:28, Vasco Costa wrote:
> > I'm planning to stay forever this time. :)
> >
> > To be really honest I've never really quit Debian since I kept using
> > stable in servers. I've only switched from Debian testing/unstable to
>
On Saturday November 21 2009 7:16:51 pm AG wrote:
> Celejar wrote:
> > Curious - why is use of sidux over sid associated with "uber-coolness"?
> >
> > Celejar
>
> Primarily because of its integrated scripts that keep the system
> updated, its reasonably small user group and its admittedly quite ne
On Friday November 20 2009 9:33:41 am drz wrote:
> gzip: stdout: No space left on device
> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-powerpc
> dpkg: Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den
> Fehlerwert 1 zurück
>
> No space left on device? Which device and how can
On Thursday October 29 2009 5:14:44 pm lrhorer wrote:
> 1. Back up to removable hard drives
> 2. Span multiple target volumes
> 3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so all snapshots look like a single
> backup to the user.
> 4. Maintain an easily monitored index so the user can see which drive
> will
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:13:10 pm Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> Is there a setting in xorg.conf or elsewhere that will give me the
> standard white cursor?
You can change the cursor theme with
update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
I am not sure that this is what you are looking for, but I ho
On Friday October 16 2009 10:56:29 am Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Friday 16 October 2009 11:03:13 Matthew Moore wrote:
> > On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote:
> > > And you are adding to it in order to shorten it?
> >
> > This thread is much
On Friday October 16 2009 10:39:23 am you wrote:
> > This thread is much like any infinite set. Adding a finite number of
> > elements to it does not change it's size.
>
> Good point. But I think there's a reasonable quibble about the
> difference between unbounded and infinite (in the cantorian
On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote:
> wrote:
> > This thread *has* to stop!
>
> And you are adding to it in order to shorten it?
This thread is much like any infinite set. Adding a finite number of elements
to
it does not change it's size.
> > Every time someone replys to t
On Sunday October 11 2009 6:50:25 am Alan Chandler wrote:
> I am not sure where to go next. I can roll back the image to pre sp2
> upgrade (I took a copy just prior to doing the upgrade) and that works
> fine, but as soon as I do the remote update from microsoft the image is
> corrupted and I am s
On Wednesday September 30 2009 9:45:19 am Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> Matthew Moore wrote:
> > On Saturday September 26 2009 9:39:43 am Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> >> Does this happen to anybody else? Should I report it as a bug?
> >> I googled it and found several references o
On Saturday September 26 2009 9:39:43 am Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> Does this happen to anybody else? Should I report it as a bug?
> I googled it and found several references of the problem, although old
> (around April 2009).
Are you using an intel graphics chip? This was happening on my laptop abou
Hello,
I rebooted today and noticed a font issue with the kdm login screen. The
greeting and fail messages use the correct font, but the font for everything
else is some ugly default font.
I have tried changing the configuration in systemsettings as well as in the
file
/etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc. kd
On Friday July 31 2009 12:18:28 am Timothy Wu wrote:
> It seems to me that every time I do some upgrade via apt-get, maybe it's
> kernel upgrades, my menu.lst entries changes from /dev/sda1 to /dev/hda1.
> As a result, the system don't find the disk. It occurs to me like three
> times already. Why
On Sunday 26 July 2009 7:44:43 pm T o n g wrote:
> Vmware, qemu, kvm, etc all can create file systems in an image file which
> is initially small, but grow bigger as required. I want to do that too,
Have you seen [1]? I haven't used it, but it looks like it will do exactly
what you want.
[1] htt
On Saturday July 25 2009 3:14:38 pm lee wrote:
> > Are you purposely being dense, or just trolling?
>
> What do you mean? Putting a disclaimer into a mail *is* under human
> control. If it's not, what then?
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On Saturday July 25 2009 7:41:23 am lee wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:43:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > What part of "not under human control" don't you understand??
>
> You mean a machine has made these posts? Maybe --- that might explain
> why there aren't any answers from the OP --
On Friday July 24 2009 9:49:38 am Micha Feigin wrote:
> try looking
> for a uuid option under /etc/default/grub2 or /etc/grub2 or something
> similar (not sure where the settings are, try looking at the comment at the
> start of /boot/grub/grub.cfg or find my earlier mail in this thread)
The optio
On Sunday July 12 2009 2:34:24 pm T o n g wrote:
> Hmm... I didn't find it...
>
> $ man sudoers | grep /var/run
>
> $ man sudo | grep /var/run
>
> Where did you find it?
There should be a "sudo" directory in /var/run. In any case, it seems like
adding "lecture never" to /etc/sudoers would fix t
On Saturday 11 July 2009 3:40:40 pm T o n g wrote:
> How can I disable the sudo warning?
From the sudoers manpage,
lecture This option controls when a short lecture will be printed along
with the password prompt. It has the following possible values:
always Always lectu
On Saturday 11 July 2009 3:40:40 pm T o n g wrote:
> How can I disable the sudo warning?
From the sudoers manpage,
lecture This option controls when a short lecture will be printed along
with the password prompt. It has the following possible values:
always Always lectu
On Saturday 20 June 2009 11:29:14 pm Suno Ano wrote:
> Tzafrir> If you want to follow that route, you can use rsync as well.
> Tzafrir> Or even go a bit further and use hard-links (-H) to make
> Tzafrir> yourself a "wayback machine".
>
> Unison basically is a bidirectional rsync (the rsync algor
On Tuesday June 16 2009 12:41:31 am AG wrote:
> Yes - it loads data disks just fine and also DVD disks that I have burnt
> myself. When testing it using k3b to burn a DVD, k3b locates the disk
> immediately and burns successfully. All other USB drives show up fine.
> As the sole user, I have perm
On Monday June 15 2009 2:32:18 pm AG wrote:
> Default DVD/CD-drive that plays media. Sorry - my poor wording. I mean
> the device doesn't seem to be automounted when I load an optical disk.
>
> The applications that play DVD (mplayer, kmplayer, totem) and audio CDs
> (kscd, goobox) cannot find the
On Monday June 15 2009 1:29:16 pm AG wrote:
> now sit with a system that (still) does not recognise the sata DVD/CD-RW
> as the default media player.
What do you mean by "default media player"?
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On Monday 25 May 2009 11:55:53 am ZephyrQ wrote:
> What is the best way to do this? I would prefer a CLI option that I can
> run in the background, but I want to save as much sound quality as I can
> with the transfer...
You should write a script that does the following:
-) decodes the ogg files
On Friday May 22 2009 4:30:02 am Sthu Deus wrote:
> Is it possible to mount the raw images - the ones used by qemu?
Yes. Use mount -o loop,offset=32256 .
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On Sunday May 17 2009 3:56:23 pm Michael M. Moore wrote:
> It says for Lenny you have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to load "glx"
> module and remove "dri" or "GLCore" modules, under the
"Module" section;
> and that you need to change the driver (from "nv" to "nvidia")
under the
> "Device" section.
On Thursday 23 April 2009 09:53:08 Klistvud wrote:
> is there any guru out there who can instruct me how to temporarily
> disable
> passwords (or allow zero-length passwords), so that I can create two
> passwordless accounts for my pre-school kids?
I haven't tried this, but man passwd seems to sug
On Sunday 29 March 2009 05:31:23 pm Long Wind wrote:
> I want a image viewer
> It should be small (use less disk space)
> It does not depend on KDE or GNOME because I use neither
> It can show image in full size by default (thumbnail isn't important)
> It can let me delete image file that I don't l
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 02:44:14 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
> This looks reasonable.
> # lvdisplay
> Logging initialised at Tue Feb 24 15:42:45 2009
> Set umask to 0077
> lvdisplayFinding all logical volumes
> lvdisplay --- Logical volume ---
> lvdisplay LV Name/dev/m
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:49:26 am Ron Johnson wrote:
> Though, are there any commands which would indicate whether my LV or
> VGs are screwed up? (Fixing them might allow me to get my data back.)
Do you think that your volume descriptors got hosed? The main LVM diagnostic
commands are:
pv
On Monday 23 February 2009 03:19:40 am Vadim Kolchev wrote:
> Got a slight problem with vlc - just installed it and it doesn't play
> videos - when I open avi file there is only audio from it and no
> picture. Why is it so?
Are you using debian-multimedia? IIRC there was some conflict between the
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 10:08:54 pm s. keeling wrote:
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf_2009-01-21-21:19:20 (0) newmil [root] /root_
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> md5sum: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
>
> As I say, I've been here before. It's a simple problem, but I can't
> remember wh
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 09:13:07 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
> If I have lots of existing data in JBODs, would I create a PV and VG
> on the new drive, mv all the data from the existing drives to the
> new VG, then add my existing drives (while also enlarging the fs) to
> the one-drive VG, thus maki
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 08:43:02 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
> 1. Since sdX device names are non-deterministic, can I use it with
> devices specified as UUIDs? Or does lvm handle that for me on boot?
lvm stores volume identifiers in a header at the start of the physical
volumes, so the device nam
Hello,
You might try running
$ exportfs -r
on the host computer.
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On Saturday 03 May 2008 04:44:16 am Jan Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to sync my Pocket PC with etch, and I have all data on a storage
> card. So I want to run an ftp-server an the Pocket PC (I use a
> network-card) or simply sync via cardreader, because this is more
> "universal", easier and mor
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