Re: Thoughts on Ansible? [was: Thoughts on Anible?]

2017-08-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 02:32:45PM -0400, RavenLX wrote: > ... > > > I think use of ansible or any similar tool is not prerequisite of > > "development". It's a configuration management system. It's a nice > > and interesting tool I am thinking to learn but I don't use it yet. > > The bi

Re: Thoughts on Anible?

2017-08-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 07:01:03PM -0400, RavenLX wrote: > Please forgive my goofy questions. I am not really that well versed in CM > (Configuration Management) and this post is really going to show it. > > Because this will more than likely be tltr (too long to read), I'll try to > make i

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

2016-06-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 08:50:28AM -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > I'd like to make a live wheezy USB dongle. I followed the instructions on Why wheezy ... it's old. >https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb > > to make a live USB from > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cd

Re: Extundelete

2016-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 08:49:33AM -0500, Susan Cragin wrote: > Fooling around, lost "susan" folder. Want folder back. May have > recursively deleted everything in it. Want txt org and a couple other > extensions. (I've got days-old backup but want to try recovering > files.) So, extundelete

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:27:25AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-23 at 09:55, Udyant Wig wrote: > > > On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > > > >> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the > >> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is

Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

2015-12-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, This fixes error in my previous post. On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:27:25AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-12-23 at 09:55, Udyant Wig wrote: > > # To prevent these packages from getting installed later: ... > If that's been changed, or if there's a mechanism which avoids it and > does wo

Re: discuss debian 's attitude to ppa

2015-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 01:58:16PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: > Yesterday I installed the LMDE(Linux Mint based Debian Jessie),which is a > rolling release issued by Linux Mint! LMDE is based on Debian but not exactly a Debian. It's Linux Mint. > The installation is of no question! But when

Re: Wifi Problem

2015-03-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:35:13PM +0400, Gajadur Dwijesh wrote: > Hello..i have Debian wheezy 7.8 KDE installed on my laptop..i am not able > to get wifi connection..can someone help please? > Thank you Debian does not install non-free things in its default installation. Unfortunately, many

Re: fakeroot to build a package?

2015-02-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 08:53:14AM +0200, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > Hi Osamu, > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 02:10:57PM +0200, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I came across this building tutor

Re: fakeroot to build a package?

2015-02-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 02:10:57PM +0200, Eugene Zhukov wrote: > Hello, > > I came across this building tutorial [1]. It advertises using > fakeroot debian/rules binary > command to build a package. Needless to say it doesn't work for all packages. > I find this tutorial confusing. I know of two o

Re: apt-get source download has files not in git repository

2014-11-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:05:08PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 08:03:58AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 20 nov 14, 12:29:32, Joel Roth wrote: ... > Yes, they are. I'm curious at which step they get generated. Your original post should have "dbus" in the command

Re: ifupdown -- it ain't so bad

2014-09-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 09:00:01PM -0400, Podrigal, Aron wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 04 Sep 2014 at 14:06:28 -0400, Podrigal, Aron wrote: > > > > > I had experienced some difficulties using ifupdown in the past, I than > > came > > > across this while s

Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 08:31:50PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed LXDE on a no-X, no-desktop virgin network Wheezy 64bit > install with non-free software allowed, and on the next boot it went > into lightdm. The only thing I could find that installed and required > lightdm

Re: Listing packages installed from experimental

2014-06-10 Thread David Glover-Aoki
that it's "newer". Is there a way of explicitly listing packages from experimental? -- David Glover-Aoki | https://david.gloveraoki.net/contact PGP key 5518C7DE | Amateur Radio KJ6TLX signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Listing packages installed from experimental

2014-06-09 Thread David Glover-Aoki
I'm running wheezy but have some packages installed from experimental. How can I list all the packages currently installed from experimental? -- David Glover-Aoki | https://david.gloveraoki.net/contact PGP key 5518C7DE | Amateur Radio KJ6TLX signature.asc Description: Message signed

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 11:28:22PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have added to my sources.list the following line: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main > > But according to http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/, that won't > make the backport appear in interac

Re: sudo in X-environment -- polkit solution

2014-05-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am wondering why you even need to use wrapper explicitly? On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 12:43:17PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 06:29 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > Thanks. As I said earlier, I consider this a bug. What's the point of > > using gksu/gksudo if you have do use a wrap

Re: dist-upgrade installs new package, lists it as autoremove candidate

2014-04-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 03:29:49PM +0200, Carlo wrote: > I would tell you a my tip: > > - if you want go from stable to testing/unstable before you must > change your channel in repository's file located in > /etc/apt/sources.list. > > - after this edit, these are the right sequence of comma

Re: Systemd

2014-04-25 Thread David Glover-Aoki
On 25 Apr 2014, at 03:04 pm, Dale Harris wrote: > Soon systemd will just become the OS, there will be no Linux... I am genuinely convinced that this is the ultimate goal of the systemd devs. -- David Glover-Aoki | https://david.gloveraoki.net/contact PGP key 5518C7DE | Amateur Radio KJ6

Re: netcat usage.

2014-02-23 Thread David Glover-Aoki
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:15:59 -0800 "Peter Easthope" wrote: > Ncat: bind to :::25: Permission denied. QUITTING. Only the superuser can bind to ports below 1024. -- David Glover-Aoki http://david.gloveraoki.net/contact signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread David Glover-Aoki
s it, unless you compress it so much that it becomes illegible. You'd be better off hosting the video on the web and including the URL in an email. -- David Glover-Aoki http://david.gloveraoki.net/contact signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Vertical sync in GNOME 3

2014-02-08 Thread David Glover-Aoki
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:00:12 + David Glover-Aoki wrote: > I'm having problems with tearing. When you drag windows around quickly, or > play any video, severe vertical tearing is obvious. I have significantly improved, if not solved, the problem. I created the directory /etc/X11/

Vertical sync in GNOME 3

2014-02-07 Thread David Glover-Aoki
and found documentation suggesting it can only be set to dri or glx, but neither of those made any difference either.) Is there anything I can do to fix/enable vertical sync to stop the tearing, or is this a bug? Happy to provide more information if required. -- David Glover

Re: Re (2): POP3 softwares.

2014-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 05:42:29AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:18:29 +0900 > From: Osamu Aoki > > ??? Why bother with qpopper. It is a local mbox. > > Ideally the one mbox should work, but I'm not sure that the MUA and > getmail w

Re: Debianly Correct place to add ~/bin to $PATH ? a new problem

2014-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 04:05:55PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Most display managers don't source ~/.profile (or /etc/profile). I tried > > > to discuss this with developers, but there was hardly any interest so I > > > settled for sourcing

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:25:01AM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 11:54:12 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > The recommended way is specific to each release and thoroughly > > documented in the Release Notes. > > Which is where I got what I wrote from: I bet it was only for t

Re: POP3 softwares.

2014-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:46:15PM -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: > Problem > Given a remote POP3 server which provides SSL. Also a MUA on a > local host, which retrieves by POP3 when activated by the user and > lacks SSL. Try to move messages from the server to the MUA. > > Candidate Solutio

Re: Installing several OSes from a single flash drive

2014-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:30:50AM +, d...@661.org wrote: > > I've been tinkering with the idea of installing different operating ... > This tinkering exposed a problem with Debian's hd-install boot > images. As is pointed out in Miron's article, an hd-install image > will check the boot medi

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:17:24AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-01-02, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On 01/01/2014 08:01 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >> man select-editor > > man select-editor > > No manual entry for select-editor > > I think you need to install 'sensible-utils', which provides > > /us

Re: Shutdown computer after a specific command has been executed

2013-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 02:38:45PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > One way would be to use a script that runs e.g. apt-get and then the > shutdown command. > > #!/bin/sh > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > shutdown -h now # or poweroff or halt > > >> If you want it shut down regardless of the

Re: Installing TrueType Fonts (TTF)

2013-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 07:53:20PM +0600, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > Hi, > I was a GNOME user and recently I switched to XFCE in Debian to see > how things works here after reading that XFCE would be the default > DE in the upcoming Debian Jessie. BTW, TrueType Fonts (TTF) would > open in GNOM

Re: Reporting missing package during install

2013-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 09:09:53PM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Sunday, December 08, 2013 07:27:41 PM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 08 dec 13, 19:14:49, Neal Murphy wrote: > > > For me, I usually set up 'sudo su' > > > > sudo has the '-s' and '-i' switches, why mix with 'su'? > > > > Kind re

Re: Toshiba Satellite U940

2013-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:19:32AM +0100, ha wrote: > Anybody tried installing Debian on Toshiba Satellite U940? > Any know issues? > I cannot find much information on the net. > I can see that some Toshiba laptops are not very Deban-frendly > (https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Toshiba), s

Re: Update of kde-window-manager wants to remove kde-standard

2013-11-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 03:04:02PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi, > > I think that will get eventually resolved, but I am just curious how I can > find > the root cause of this upgrade issue. Hmmm.. root cause seems to be aptitude package dependency resolver. This is so typical ... I

Re: Jessie Minimum Kernel Requirement

2013-10-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:21:35AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Darac Marjal > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 03:54:06PM +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:46:40 +0200 > >> Florian Lindner wrote: > >>> > >>> What is the minimum kernel ve

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, There used to be a very similar discussion on the Debian Devel mailing list... On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:46:41AM +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > Tom H writes: > > >> Oh I have fond memories of aptitude breaking my system. Once it > >> suggested me to remove most of my system, including apt,

Re: Hibernate/resume fails after adding SSD to debian 7

2013-09-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:31:01AM -0400, Len Berman wrote: > I moved my SSD from SATA 1 -> SATA 5 and reran update-initramfs. The > resume now works. Don't understand why this should be the case since all > disks are referenced by their UUIDs. All tools might not support UUID on your syste

Re: Should I build a nmu for stable or a backport for wheezy-backports?

2013-08-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 08:17:03PM +0100, Rui Miguel P. Bernardo wrote: > Hello list, > > let's say there is a bug in a stable package and that bug breaks the > program functionality. Later the fix was uploaded to unstable/testing > but never got in time for stable. For reference I'm talking

Re: Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:14:20PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > I'm not sure that this ever got to the list, so I am resending. > > Dear list - > > I apologize for having to revisit this, but I can't get it to work, > which I cannot understand. I followed the instruc

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:11:45AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Jo, 06 iun 13, 14:11:21, atar wrote: > >>Hi there!! > >> > >>I wanted to know please where can I enrich my knowledge about Linux > >>at general and especially about Debian regarding variety of topics

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 05:05:12AM +0800, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/SSDoptimization > > > This page, as you pointed out, is more than a guideline. Can someone please > polish this up a little bit? That would be a

Re: admin password?

2012-12-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:50:20AM +0200, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember > my Admin password, what is the best way to recover it? If you did not lock system with grub password, you can always login as root without pa

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, [headless] system [solved/tips]

2012-12-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:33:15PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I got things working and made some discoveries along the way. Maybe I > should put this material on a wiki; any suggestions where? Create account at wiki.debian.org and think about putting it there under appropriate location. Y

Re: Implementing a personalized repository

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 03:44:18PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:50:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>I routinely work without a viable network connection of any kind. My > >>response was to purchase a eight DVD set

Re: Implementing a personalized repository

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:50:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I routinely work without a viable network connection of any kind. My > response was to purchase a eight DVD set of "squeeze". Using the DVD > directory structure as an example I have copied the contents of > /pool to a 64GB flash dri

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 01:23:47PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: ... > PS: Even if you make a backup first, by all means mount the drive or > partition read only, before you access it. Hmmm... Maybe I was too short on explanation. The best practice is "NOT TO MOUNT AT ALL". If your desktop sys

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 01:19:21PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 12:50 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > I have heard good things of PhotoRec: > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec > > > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec > > > > > > But I

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:17:56PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Ok, first, sorry to ask two questions at a time: dead drives and > deleted partitions are different things, I know that. ... > (2), I've more hopes, IF the user stopped the destructive process > before the disk w

Re: something about cups-pdf

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:54:31AM +0800, lina wrote: > :/var/spool# ls -lrt cups-pdf/ > total 8 > drwxrwxrwt 2 root lpadmin 4096 Dec 27 2011 ANONYMOUS > drwxr-x--x 2 root lpadmin 4096 May 12 2012 SPOOL Same here: root@*:/var/spool/cups-pdf# ls -l total 8 drwxrwxrwt 2 root lpadmin 4096

Re: ssh fails - SOLVED (was: Re: git pull fails with OpenSSL version mismatch error)

2012-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:48:00AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 23 dec 12, 20:15:19, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > Ah, I didn't even think to try an apt-get upgrade. > > I usually just upgrade apps individually as I need to... > > an attitude based on (possibly) outdated fears of > > getting

Re: Proofreading of Debian documentation - was [Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue]

2012-12-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >But the underlying problem is lack of manpower. How do you[1] expect to > >solve it without getting involved? > > > >[1] and I mean you personally, the Debian

Re: Locale issue

2012-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:17:20AM -0800, ML mail wrote: > Hello, > > Since now already a few weeks I noticed that my locale settings on various > Debian 6.0 servers got by some mysterious way broken... For example any > tool/command using PERL will issue the following warning: > > perl: warnin

Re: partition table not sticky

2012-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:06:17PM +0530, J. B wrote: ... > I have repeatedly do the same but no luck. no luck with cfdisk. Changes are > not stored !!! This part I do not know. > only gparted is successful but it makes my 320 GB HDD to 280 GB. 40GB lost !!! This is most likely because of

Re: Dual boot with OS X and Wheezy.

2012-12-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 12:49:20PM -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: > Trying to dual boot OSX and Wheezy on a late 2008 Macbook running > Mountain Lion. Following steps found on the web, I first created an Quite unclear here what exactly are you doing ... normal bootcamp or EFI ... > empty partiti

Re: Kobo desktop (native)

2012-11-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:02:18PM -0300, Beco wrote: > (1) Native > # dpkg -i kobo-desktop.deb > (Reading database ... 308087 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace kobo-desktop 2.1.3-1 (using kobo-desktop.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement kobo-desktop ... > dpkg: depend

Re: vim -- adduser vs useradd/usermod

2012-11-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 07:56:24AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 23 Nov 06:14 -0600, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Vi, 16 nov 12, 16:33:17, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > * On 2012 16 Nov 14:02 -0600, james gray wrote: > > > > i am using vim to add the one and only name in a usr account t

Re: Can;t fix doc-base installation problem

2012-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:49:03AM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi everyone: > > I've had to restore one of my systems from cold iron. Aptitude seems I guerss you are using unstable. > to be hanging up when trying to install / purge / update doc-base. > I've tried Aptitude, dpkg and apt-get includ

Re: Thunar, USB-sticks and big files

2012-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:43:54PM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > Try 'sync' after the write is supposedly complete; see what happens > > when the system actually tries to write to the device. Open a shell > > and 'tail -f /var/log/messages' to see if anything is griping about > > the device d

Re: Thunar, USB-sticks and big files

2012-11-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:58:29AM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > Hi guys! > > I have a problem copying big files to an USB-stick using thunar in ... > I do this to copy ripped DVD's to USB memory for viewing in a TV with ... > Nothing extremely serious, I can still copy the files using t

Re: debmirror failing to download sources (*.orig.*)

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 08:20:57PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Gday, here's my debmirror cmd: > > /usr/bin/debmirror --source --i18n --exclude='/Translation-.*\.bz2$' > --include/Translation-(en).*\.bz2$' --exclude-deb-section=games > --exclude-deb-section=debug --exclude-deb-section=news

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi,I thought about different approach ... Since On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:46:38AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:31:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > ... > > I've been a "computer user" since before Mr. Torvalds was born. I

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:31:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: ... > I've been a "computer user" since before Mr. Torvalds was born. I > just never had reason to have contact with *nix. Even when working > for DEC I was much more into analog than digital. I see. I guess you were a VMS or so

Re: jigdo + approx + netinstall -- need for a coherent system

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:38:04PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Have I missed something? maybe ... many iso images are there for people without good network access. ... first think about what you really wish to do. Let me assume your objective is to install the current testing system t

Re: Squeeze on a EEE PC 901, trackpad problems

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 09:05:04PM -0600, zxcvbob wrote: > I just installed Debian with the Xfce desktop on a EEE PC model 901. > I've got things working pretty well, but I can't enable tap-to-click on > the trackpad. I go to Settings->Mouse in the Xfce menu, and there is no > tab or checkbox

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 01:53:47PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Terho Uotila wrote: > >Unless you want to try very minimal system you probably want shadow > >passwords. > > I do not understand. > Going by text displayed during the installation I had the > impression that shadow passwords w

Re: Number of Debian packages available.

2012-10-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 02:36:43PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 16 oct 12, 14:00:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > $ aptitude search ~Astable | wc -l > > 43004 > > $ aptitude search ~Astable~scontrib | wc -l > > 271 > > $ aptitude search ~Astable~snon-free | wc -l > > 583 > > Oups, 'stabl

Re: Number of Debian packages available.

2012-10-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:30:41AM +0100, Lisi wrote: > Hello, all! > I have searched Wikipedia and the Debian wiki. I have Googled. I am clearly > using the wrong search terms, although I tried rewording in sundry different > ways. > > Approximately, in round terms, how may packages are avail

Re: [LAU] OnDemand-performance was(OT: klang)

2012-08-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 04:18:23PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 00:22 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:34:03AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > every email address in the mail is shown as is, so at least respect > > > the privacy of others and remov

Re: Not getting mailing list response in my inbox

2012-06-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:52:10PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:20:46 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:32:27PM +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: > >> Hello to admins and mailing list managers... > >> > >> I am not

Re: Not getting mailing list response in my inbox

2012-06-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:32:27PM +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: > Hello to admins and mailing list managers... > > I am not able to receive responses posted to my topics i mailed to the > list..Can someone help to sort out this issue? Is it gmail that is > preventing mails from getting in? #he

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:45:12PM -0700, John Magolske wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the reply. > > * Osamu Aoki [120602 09:53]: > > Where is your /tmp mounted. > > Under the main filesystem. Are you thinking of suggesting I mount > /tmp as a ramdisk? Since y

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Where is your /tmp mounted. Please post "mount" output. On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 09:11:42AM -0700, John Magolske wrote: > * John Magolske [120525 17:13]: > > For a while now I've been experiencing a strange behavior where there > > are frequent and regular "freezes" when typing or issuing co

Re: chroot or virtual machine

2012-05-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:33:21AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:15:26AM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > > Roger Leigh wrote: > > > http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot.pdf This is schroot(8) in PDF :-) ... > Arguably, we should probably document the setup procedur

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 03:11:36AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: ... > > I think with skill and knowledge you presented, if you are successful > > doing this with help of shell etc., you should present specific > > procedure needed to do this to d-i BTS as wishlist bug. That should get > > it sup

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:11:58PM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 13:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:24:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I'm testing o

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:24:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into > a single btrfs volume (raid10) (using subvolumes for /, /home, etc). I > understand that it is now possible to also have /boot on btrfs > (p

Re: ..when to scrap old junk, was: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:18:16PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:10:38 +0100, Dom wrote in message > <4f8d79de.20...@rpdom.net>: > > > On 16/04/12 21:34, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > > > To anybody interested, debian wheezy can't run on 64MB RAM on i386. > > > Or actu

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Not all Debian mirrors work right ... On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:27:54AM +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: ... > >500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages > >N: Unable to locate package libvlccore4 Change mirror site from http://ftp.us.debian.org to and something else and tr

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:29:47PM +0800, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > I am not putting pressure on Debian to change. Sorry... I do not feel pressure from your postings. Debian practically release new system every 6 hours :-) See "Life with eternal upgrades": http://www.debian.org/d

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-03-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:01:38AM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I wanted to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and as I saw in several places > that aptitude should be preferred to apt-get, I first tried with it. > I started with only 1 line in sources.list: > deb http://ftp.fr.debi

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-03-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I join too late but ... (I do not use tmpfs for /tmp) On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:13:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:07:43 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little > > problematic. > > (...) > > > Okay, so /tmp is full

Re: Not getting mails in inbox

2012-02-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:17:12AM +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: > I am not getting replies to mails i am sending on this list. i have to > manually check or refer google to get answers.. > > can someone look in this matter? As someone already mentioned, this is Gmail feature. My solution is

Re: Re(2): POP3 in Debian

2012-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:49:24AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > * From: Osamu Aoki > * Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:10:34 +0900 > > Both getmail4 and fetchmail can handle this task well ... > > According to the Wikipedia, fetchmail can not deliver to mbox.

Re: POP3 in Debian

2012-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Both getmail4 and fetchmail can handle this task well (Though I like the getmail4 package as being its maintainer.) On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:49:22PM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Hi, > > Since the weekend my MUA POP3 connection has failed to receive > messages with this appearing in t

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:56:09PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I > would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would > be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any

Re: pure debian testing or a distro based on debian testing

2012-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:53:35PM +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:11:58 +0530 > Amrish Purohit wrote: > > >Hi Osamu, > >Thanks for your reply. I will definitely try installing testing over > >stable version. I make my system dual boot so I have a backup. Here is > >the way I

Re: Squeeze64: LD_LIBRARY_PATH / ignored or overwritten under X *SOLVED*

2012-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 09:05:48AM +0100, Denny Schierz wrote: > hi, > > Am 12.01.2012 um 23:11 schrieb Andrei Popescu: > > > On Jo, 12 ian 12, 12:58:42, Denny Schierz wrote: > >> > >> What could be the problem? > > > > Your display manager doesn't source the system shell configuration > > fil

Re: pure debian testing or a distro based on debian testing

2012-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:02:01PM +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: > Hi all, > I am using debian stable as my primary OS. I want to involve in > debian and as a first step I would like to install debian testing. I > have tried to install debian testing with various snapshot of weekly > build,

Re: resolving dependencies in aptitude

2012-01-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:02:30PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: ... > Painfully aware. I fled to xfce. I may go back when it stabilizes. In > the meantime, it's getting in the way of smooth upgrades. I guess I > could uninstall gnome, but that seems drastic. Hey, same here ... a refugeee

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 04:26:20AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On 12/27/11 22:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >It "sounds" like you are running two DHCP servers - in which case you > >have four options (none of which involve preseeding). > > > >If you have multiple DHCP servers the problem is *

Re: qemu KVM: can't boot a qemu machine with liveCD (system rescue)

2012-01-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 11:09:06AM +0100, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: > Hi, > > there is no special forum/mailinglist existing for qemu-KVM, right? I do not know the answer but have you read: http://wiki.debian.org/KVM http://wiki.debian.org/QEMU and links from there. Good luck. Osamu --

Re: lenny hosting wheezy chroot

2012-01-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:15:29PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I am looking for advice on how to run a wheezy chroot from a lenny host, > in particular how to handle dev, udev, and X. > > BACKGROUND > > My system is running lenny and I wanted to use python 2.7. I upgraded > debootstrap fro

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:10:48PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default > language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows > (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in > Japanese, but the Japan

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

2011-12-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:06:04PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 20 dec 11, 20:56:11, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:29:01AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > The point is what the Debian Policy says. > > > > Anyway, if you feel s

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

2011-12-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:29:01AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The point is what the Debian Policy says. Anyway, if you feel strong to enforce this ipart of policy, most effective thing to do is file a wishlist bug with patch to lintian to enforce for both init.d script and default file. I

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

2011-12-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:02:22AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-12-18 13:18:02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > The namespace is defined by Debian Policy. The filename should be > > named after the package name. Since the package names must be > > different the file name derived from

Re: Safety while network install.

2011-11-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 04:34:26PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2011-11-21, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > But seriously, Debian is configured as a quite secure system at any time > > unless you make stupid configuration yourself. So it is quite safe. > > > > Would you be

Re: Safety while network install.

2011-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:13:41AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > I'm concerned on safety of install over network (the netinst) - what > techniques are used to protect the installed system during the very > process of installation? instalation data is transmitted via

Re: gnome 3 refugee: obstructive panel in xfce

2011-11-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 08:52:46PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I've fled from gnome 3 and am mostly happy with xfce. But there's the > panel with six icons at the bottom of the screen that obscures the bottom > of a lot of windows. How can I get rid of it, or move it elsewhere? Is > it poss

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 04:45:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: > > Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer > for PDF files is now GIMP: > I would rather expect acrobat or evince. > > Where is the place to fix this ? Install epdfview. Please chec

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