On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:30:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>Cannot open root UUID=blah-blah-fa6507 or unknown-block(0,0)
> The big difference between Now and Then is that I also moved from
> booting off of /dev/hda using lilo to /dev/sda using grub2.
> In my home-rolled kernel, I don't use
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:56:30PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> Anyway, I see that xmms is replaced by xmms2 and that qiv will upgrade
> with libglib1.2ldbl. My only remaining problem is multi-gnome-terminal,
> which is not in lenny.
If you really want to use old packages on modern debian distribu
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Eric Higgins wrote:
> files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename
the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/coreutils.list seems to be corrupted.
Check it (and possibly also the filesystem)
In case of dubt, you could try
mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/core
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:15:52PM -0500, Stephen Dewey wrote:
> this mess? I am tempted to simply install the new kernel as suggested
> (apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686) and then run apt-get
> dist-upgrade again to finish the process once that dependency is
> resolved, but I am worried about m
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:51:11PM -0200, André Neves wrote:
> I had always used apt-get in my system, doing autoremove
> whenever it suggested there were unneeded packages installed. One day
> I ran aptitude out of curiosity, and well, it suggested to uninstall
> almost 300 unneeded packages!
sin
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:21:53PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> André Neves wrote:
> >> The main difference is that aptitude is now prefered over apt-get.
> >
> > Sorry, preferred by who?
>
> By the debian developers. From
> /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README
>
> > What is this aptitude thing
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 12:27:20PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Strangely only "ftp.au.debian.org" got problem. Other mirrors which I
> tried, don't have problem.
if the other mirrors do not have a ipv6 dns record there is nothing
strange about this
> Neither I have glibc installed. libc6 is t
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:48:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun,04.Jan.09, 22:23:08, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > I think the cause of problem is on;
> > ftp.au.debian.org
>
> Good to hear that you found the problem,
quite possibly the problem was NOT correctly understood. Given that
ftp.au.d
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:14:50PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> ?? For a few years now, I've been able to read from and write to a USB
> medium which was HFS+ formatted with Mac's Disk Utility.
Non-journaled HFS+ filesystems are "fully" supported on linux systems,
now that there are hfsprogs p
First of all, since I have exausted for the moment my time to discuss
matters on debian-user, this answer will be sketcky and perhaps too
brutal (or even rude) and it is surely my last one for some weeks at
least. I am sorry and apologize.
Sincere thanks to _all_ people on the list.
On Fri, Nov
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:46:06AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> have to give in that I actually like to view the occasional Youtube
> video.
some months ago this list suggested me the excellent youtube-dl (there
is also clive). Then mplayer plays without problem the files (even on
powerpc, so wit
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:44:56PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> Mrxvt.xft:true
> Mrxvt.xftAntialias: true
> Mrxvt.xftAutoHint:true
> #Mrxvt.xftFont: bitstream vera sans mono
> Mrxvt.xftFont:dejavu sans mono
> Mrxvt.xftWeight: medium
> Mrxvt.xftWidth:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:49:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> The only thing that tells the two contexts apart (that I badly miss..)
> is that the linux console does not support 256 colors.
I am not able to understand your needs, but surely linux framebuffer
console supports 256 colors (but I nev
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:54:05PM -0500, H.S. wrote:
> video was being played in the console. Ascii art mode is where the video
> is showed as ascii characters, right?
yes. When you want to amuse yourself, try it. And look at the monitor
from a sufficiently big distance.
--
Chi usa software non
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:21:06PM -0500, H.S. wrote:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
> > Then you should try mplayer playing movies in ascii on the console. :)
> Just did, awesome!
>
> BTW, while playing an avi file in a console, trying to change to another
> console caused the computer to hang.
This is
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:02:24PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Firefox (which, incidentally, is the same application I absolutely need a
> mouse for)...
one can emulate mouse in X using the numeric pad of the keyboard. Many
years ago it was in "accessx", and then it got introduced in X proper,
a
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:48:39AM -0600, lee wrote:
> > I do not use spreadsheets but
> >
> > apt-cache show sc
>
> Well, have you tried sc?
As I said, I never used any spreadsheet (or word processor, for that
matter). I have seen once a person using excel, and I decided that the
use of anythi
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 03:21:34PM +0100, François Cerbelle wrote:
> You should try Tetrinet ;-) A Networked multiplayer Tetris ! ;-)
I am not so good at tetris, so the other players would be bored.
> >> and image processing software (like gimp)
> > i do not use it (but I have seen it), and I a
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:25:07AM -0600, lee wrote:
> Well, maybe I should learn more about using framebuffer stuff
why? If you are satisfied with X, you have no real reasons.
> > Clearly I am aware that there are some kind of applications which are
> > developed only for X (and my thanks go to
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 04:18:53PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by that reference to recycling. Do you mean
> that replacing the machine will produce more waste
yes, in almost all parts of the planet when one dismiss a tecnological
product one produces something bad f
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:37:10AM +, J M Cerqueira Esteves wrote:
> Part of TeX's beauty was that it nicely ran in a 286 machine :)
and also on 8088. Editing is/was perfectly nice, but not so nice the
half an hour of "compilation" to produce a 1 page .dvi
--
Chi usa software non libero avve
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:38:18PM -0600, lee wrote:
> Well, I never figured out what the framebuffer is for. If I want a GUI,
> I use X, if I want a console, I use a console --- or an X terminal.
that's an excellent way to look at the problem.
I do NOT want a GUI, since that interface concept i
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:20:36PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Stefan "Who doesn't understand why pople use such old systems
> given the availability of cheap replacements which are
> much smaller and consume less power."
* not everybody lives in regions
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:45:43PM -0600, lee wrote:
> Don't switch continuously between X and console ... X is useful: I find
> it easier to have 4x4 virtual desktops between which I can seemlessly
> switch by just moving the mouse pointer over, and because I can run
> console programs as well as
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:43:18AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote:
> Are you trying to use truetype fonts, or are you using fixed fonts?
I tried _every_ font I could find. When one is hopelessly tired, the
meaningless symbol fonts in a terminal have a refresching effect.
> I am using konsole with fixe
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:22:07AM -0600, lee wrote:
> Hm, the console font has changed over the years. I was thinking it has
> to do with which graphics card you are using, but I don't know.
I have only very limited experience with the output of graphic cards of
the last 7 years (ah, the power of
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:36:15PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Did you try terminus? It's available as console and X11 font and last
> time I tried it looked equally well in both modes.
yes, since their first apparence in debian stable. I agree that they
look very similar in X and in console (th
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:12:52AM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:23:27 +0100
> NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > My *HUGE* problem with X has always been, and very possibly will
> > always be, the readability of terminals.
> >
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:29:22AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Does it support autologin? The chooser of DMs (gdm, kdm, whatever) is a
> separate process that does not remain running when you have an extra
> session on. The daemon portion of gdm here seems to be:
>
> PID RSSSZ COMMAND
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 05:42:00PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:57:15AM +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> > Surprisingly, from a very limited test on beige G3 mac machines (the
> > above tests were instead on a pentium mmx 200 machine), I expect
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:40:20PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> down. At the time, OpenBSD was not UTF enabled and it ran much faster.
> I haven't checked the latest (4.4) which is UTF enabled to see if it has
> the same problem now.
my limited, un-scientific, console only, experience from
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:38:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/08/08 08:35, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 07:43:51AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >>Oh yes. Usually people who impose submission requirements are people
> >>who PAY
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 07:43:51AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Oh yes. Usually people who impose submission requirements are people
> who PAY you - employers, publishers, granting agencies - just the people
> you want to tick of by teaching them the folly of their ways.
Yes, this is an excel
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 06:49:54AM -0700, ghe wrote:
> How did you find all this?
upgrading from old udev-free distributions installed on old hardware, and
reading documentation.
One point not directly covered by the documentation: umount -l is useful
when you remove udev (or when on package ins
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:11:38PM -0700, ghe wrote:
> I have a hard time believing, though, that there wouldn't have been a
> lot of very loud wailing if it's not possible for us old server admins
> to set things up the way I want to...
No warranties, but:
* you can try a system where udev is NO
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:46:49AM +0300, Shachar Or wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 09:30, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> > >> http://debian.org.ua/debian-archive/dists/bo/main/disks-i386/1997-10-13/
> > what's wrong with the files *.bin
> In VirtualBox OSE 1
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:44:51AM +0300, Shachar Or wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 00:28, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
>> http://debian.org.ua/debian-archive/dists/bo/main/disks-i386/1997-10-13/install.txt
>> (use your nearest mirror of debian-archive instead of debian.org.ua)
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:33:05PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 23:21, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> > Try it yourself using archive.debian.net : 1.3.1 is quite similar to the
> > first release 1.1. Install that and upgrade to 2.0 then to 2.1 then ...
>
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:58:46PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote:
> I wonder if there's a system somewhere that was never re-installed, only
> upgraded from one of the earliest versions...
yes
but not on the disk where debian 1.1 was installed from floppy disks,
and not on the same cpu/motherboard. H
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:26:37AM +, T o n g wrote:
> I have a second thought, since checkinstall accept any install command,
> can I do
>
> checkinstall rsync -vua . /
>
> from the directory that I prepared to create a .deb file?
if the command
rsync -vua . /
is really what you want
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:13:06PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:11:24, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Wed,23.Jul.08, 10:46:02, Pavlos Parissis wrote:
> > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:35:11 + (UTC)
> > > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Is there an easy way to sca
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:16:20AM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> T o n g wrote:
> > Apart from using checkinstall, if I've prepared a directory of folders and
> > files, can I make the directory into a .deb file?
> As I know, no. In your case checkinstall is better.
customizing the script wh
> * From: "John O Laoi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So, I've decided to put vmware on etch and run XP from that.
> (I know about WINE, but I'd prefer to go the vmware route, as I want to get
> familiar with
> vmware.)
have you considered also virtualbox-ose (which ia available as debian
package; fo
> * From: Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote:
>>> Error: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have any
>>> corresponding BIOS dr
> * From: "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> if I print
> a few pages from gv by selecting them, that goes okay. However, if then
> deselect those
> pages and select another set and print them, thing go wrong and the output is
> odd
> characters here and there on the printouts.
at first look it se
> * From: "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> the auth_mysql module, while available in sarge, lenny, and sid, is not
> available in etch
> (and, this being a production server, I want it 'stable'). Is there a
> solution?
I have _not_ tried this, but etch has both libapache2-mod-auth-pa
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:02:04PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> every
> time I want to print I need the NON-FREE Acrobat since PS is not able to
> print two pages per side...
what about
apt-cache search psbook
page-crunch - GUI/frontend to psutils programs, like psnup, psbook
psutils - A co
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:43:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/09/08 07:33, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I use Linux because it is the most
> > stable and secure OS available in my opinion.
> I'm sure the {Free|Open}BSD crowds would more than quibble with you.
also the NetBSD ones
> And a workst
> * From: rihab84 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> how to create accounts to connect as for windows server (I
> believe that the active directory).
As it has already been said, your question is not copletely clear.
If you want that your debian machine be part of a windows active
directory domain, read
> * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem?
Linkname: Considerations when creating ext3 filesystems - Ext4
URL:
http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Considerations_when_creating_ext3_filesystems#Memory_n
> * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large filesystem?
some (rather old) information is contained in
Linkname: E2fsprogs Release Notes
URL: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-release.html
for example, it s
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote:
> Error: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have any
> corresponding BIOS drive.
is /etc/mtab correct ?
is /boot/grub/device.map (which might be created by grub-install by
reading /etc/mtab) correct ?
have you searched goo
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:04:45AM +, Oscar Corte wrote:
>I'm able to ping each machine from each other but by its IP address.
> However, I don't get any results if I ping by the use of host names.
> What am I missing?
a definition of the two "ip fqdn name" lines in /etc/hosts on both
machi
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:02:05PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> OK, I started a third instance by logging on a third
> linux user on a console (tty3) and running startx -- :2
> and there was no difference in the new session.
>
> I have two other instances(?) of x-session-manager
> running. Do
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:11:26AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/07/2008 09:46 AM:
> >less /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian
> >(this is a useful general rule)
>
> that is nowhere near intuitive!
many debian packages
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:55:22AM -0700, Bill wrote:
> Should there be a include/linux/version.h file in the
> 2.6.25 directory?
if you follow the documentation of kernel-package then make-kpkg will
create it.
If no commands were executed in the 2.6.25 directory tree after creating
it by u
> * From: Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Does the reportbug package in Debian really work?
yes. Check you exim configuration an your exim logs in /var/log/
(if needed, replace "exim" with your MTA)
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To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub
> * From: al davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>When I do "sudo apt-get install mailman" .. it gets as far as
>the language selection, and then loops.
>ideas?
[naive idea] try changing the debconf interface: for example, from
dialog to text or whatever
[too heavvy idea] run the apt command under star
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:18:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Does it help defining in /etc/hosts the http hosts of your sources.list ?
>
> I can try that, but I've never done that before.
well, try it, it is not difficoult. I am not assuring that this will
solve the problem, I am saying
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:41:40PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> (http://grub.enbug.org/LVMandRAID):
it says:
GRUB has support for LVM and RAID since version 1.95.
but this might apply to the debian package for grub2, not to the debian
package for grub (which is the default boot loader on i386 and amd
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 03:05:37PM -0700, Bill wrote:
> The UTS Release version in include/linux/version.h
> ""
> does not match current version:
> "2.6.25"
> Please correct this.
> Any pointers here would be helpful.
It might be a faq about kernel-package, and its documentation in
/u
> * From: Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If I have accidentally deleted a file that is still being used by some
> application (read or write mode), is it possible to recover such a file?
> Especially since
> the file is not really deleted until the descriptor is closed by the
> appli
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:48:57PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Truly, I don't know if you install grub onto a raid1 if it will install
> it onto the MBR of both physical HDs.
I have not done this recently, but I am sure that some yeras ago it was
not so. I had to install separately grub on t
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:58:08PM +, frits wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:12:26PM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> > > * From: frits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >The idea of different users is not really usable. I use my systems to
> > >work.
> &
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:50:10AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> Then aptitude install big-cursor
> Nothing changed
> Is there something else I need to do?
less /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian
(this is a useful general rule)
--
Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:03:39PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> Since the linux console can only display alphabetic characters, and
> Hebrew probably looks like a lot of "squiggles", then I very much doubt
> it is possible to see any Hebrew in the Linux console.
Some hits from
linux console
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:46:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 5/6/08, NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > strace -f -o /tmp/apt-get.log apt-get update
> http://wa9als.com/apt-get.log
In this strace I am not able to see any _obvious_ cause
> * From: Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
search this in google and see the results in the debian bug tracking system
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed - Google Search
http://www.google.com/search?q=invoke-rc.d%3A
> * From: Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
>What can I do to solve this problem?
>Any advices will be appreciated!
Linkname: The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly - Google Search
URL:
http://www.google.com/search?q=The+file+%2Fb
> * From: Don Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>there must be a way of starting the system in a way where I can look
>at a log or perform some tests to determine what has happened.
You can try "single user mode" or "recovery mode" o something like that
in the menu of your boot loader (grub, I supppose
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:13:05AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> I cannot otherwise see the point of generating a
> Reply-To header that is identical to the From address.
give the existence of evil muas and autoresponders (wich might wery well
be in use by some user, especially in large mailing l
> * From: Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>There's some insane key combination + right click for xterm that lets
>you configure it.
whatever I ctrl-right_click, ctrl-left_click, .Xresouces, command line
options I have used (and found with google) for xterm, my eyes find
linux console _infinit
> * From: Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Eterm sounds like what you're looking for... or xterm?
I have already tried all the debian x-terminal packages available since
debian 1.1 (evenb the "indecent" ones). For my eyes the are all _MUCH_
worse than the linux console (and in any case their l
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:20:32PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> The problem, if one exists, is what font the terminal is using
> sudo apt-get install xfonts-efont-unicode xfonts-efont-unicode-ib
What about the linux console?
I suspect that the answer will be that the linux console is right now
no
> * From: Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>/home/carlf# find /lib/modules/ -iname \*berry\*
>/lib/modules/2.6.22-2-k7/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/berry_charge.ko
>/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-k7/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/berry_charge.ko
>/home/carlf# modprobe
>/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-k7/kernel/drivers/usb/misc
> * From: Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
Linkname: invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed - Google
Search
URL:
http://www.google.com/search?q=invoke-rc.d%3A+initscript+exim4%2C+action+%22start%22+failed&num=1
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 05:10:20PM -0700, Tom Brown wrote:
> apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
> caused apt-get to want to uninstall grub
what happens with
apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 grub
?
At least, it should explain the dependenchy problem.
--
Chi usa software non liber
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:11:46PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > strace -f -o /tmp/apt-get.log apt-get update
> Any other ideas? - John
yes, post (or, better, make it avilable on a web server) the file
/tmp/apt-get.log where strace has put its debug information.
Moreover, what happened whe
> * From: frits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The idea of different users is not really usable. I use my systems to
>work.
this is interesting: it is the first time that I hear about unix
multiuser capabilities (to run applications side by side as different
users) being "not really usable". Can you el
> * From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On 5/5/08, NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> then check apt configuration files in /etc/apt/ and subdirectories
>> (proxy or other unusual configuration settings? corrupted files?)
&g
> * From: ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I have a 1Gb primary swap partition (/dev/sda1)
>and fdisk -l shows that.
fdisk read the partition table from the disk, but the kernel data can be
seen in /proc/partitions (it is read at boot time)
> # swapon /dev/sda1
>says that ..:/dev/sda1: is i
> * From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The problem seems to be specific to apt-get and aptitude.
then check apt configuration files in /etc/apt/ and subdirectories
(proxy or other unusual configuration settings? corrupted files?)
And post the complete and exact outpt of apt-get /
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 03:52:27PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> I was just trying to show another way of solving the problems.
and this is a good thing
> My presumption was that cron was part of the LSB.
it might wery well be so, but one can disable it (in my workstation it
is installed to satify
> * From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On a recently restored etch server, I can't apt-get update because it
>can't resolve anything in my sources.list, e.g. ftp.us.debian.org.
(1) check the correctness of /etc/resolv.conf
(2) correct /etc/resolv.conf and then try again
If you hav
> * From: Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:50:48AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
>> grep berry_charge /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep ; \
>> depmod -a ; \
>> grep berry_charge /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep ; \
>> mod
> * From: Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-k7/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/berry_charge.ko
>
>but 'modprobe berry_charge' returns
>
>FATAL: Module berry_charge not found.
ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.22-3-k7/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/berry_charge.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.22-3-k7/ker
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:37:21AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> why not have a script that is run by root at @reboot that starts X
if I understand correctly, you need cron for this (and, as you note,
this also can be used for users other than root).
Since init cannot be avoided (or, more exactly, a
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:20:57AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sun May 4 2008, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> > the login is automatically done.
> automatic with passwords?
see man login, option "-f"
If you do not want fully automatic logins, consider something in
/
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 07:36:02AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sun May 4 2008, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> > But you should also carefully consider: is it a really good idea to have
> > one (or more) automatically started X session ?
>
> when the computer boots, the f
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 08:29:31AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I did a fresh etch install, then restored some
> mondo backup files using mondorestore.
I do not use mondo; so I ask: are you sure that mondorestore does not
change the partition table? Are you sure that the files you restored ar
> * From: frits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>allowed to include the applications in the firewall rules.
man iptables in etch still shows
owner
This module attempts to match various characteristics of the packet
creator, for locally-
generated packets.
besides,
grep -i owner /
> * From: Daniel Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>How can I mount my external hard drive on boot up?
Is the external disk a usb one?
If it is, is usb-storage (and the module for you usb chipset) already
loaded when mount -a is executed by the scripts in /etc/init.d/ ?
(You could add the needed mod
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 05:23:46PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> hda2: rw=16, want=8, limit=2
> I/O error reading swsusp image.
one case where "access beyond end of device" can happen is this:
You delete a partition on a disk where also other partition
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:14:53AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Saturday 03 May 2008 02:17:30 am LÉVAI Dániel wrote:
> > Currently, I'm thinking of Samba,
> > because the win clients can only use that; is this correct?
> Why not use something real on the clients?
What does it mean "something r
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:06:22PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sat May 3 2008, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > alias startx='startx -- :0 vt07'
> > alias startx='startx -- :1 vt08'
> > alias startx='startx -- :2 vt09'
> so, you don't automagically start the X server on bootup,
if you RE
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:32:48PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:24:39AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> > Any non-flaming thoughts as to which distro to use for
> > workstations?
> What software do these workstations use?
> then OBSD either may not work at all, or be less e
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:49:24PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> - a supported usb to serial cable for linux that works with the kernel?
> - If the kernel supports it will a software daemon (brltty) support it?
I have never used such converters, but some info can be found in
Linkname: Device ca
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:36:01AM -0700, Bug wrote:
> I've never seen a Debian
> package name with
> an underscore in the name, so if that's the constraint,
yes
Linkname: Chapter 3. Debian package management
URL:
http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch03.en.html#thedebia
> * From: Bug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>But when I login in, I still get umask 022. What step am I missing?
I do not use pam_umask , but:
(1) /usr/share/doc/libpam-umask/README says:
If a user has a .pam_umask
in his home directory, the contents will be used to set the umask.
(2)Linkname: p
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:41:28AM +0200, Chris wrote:
> I did not know that Windows can access NSF, might have a look at that.
however, I would be surprised if the NFS implementation in windows works
better than the cifs implementation.
> simply pulling a file
> or directory over in Konquerer
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