ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread darkestkhan
I created ext3 on sda1 (using mke2fs -j) and it worked for last 20 days. But after tiday reboot it stopped working - if it would be bad entry in fstab I would still be able to mount it by hand, but I can't. I have some data on it that I would rather not lose (I don't have enough space to make backu

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread xavi
I use Debian because Debian is like an old good car. Easy to open and see how it's mounted. Without too much customization. Without too much gurus and astronauts. And with a lot of support. I like it very much. Really. But if you prefer more customization and a distro very user friendly (and

Weird boot problem. How can this be?

2013-11-09 Thread Ray Dillinger
I have a strange problem where my computer does not recognize *ANY* boot device or boot medium other than one single hard drive where a badly configured debian linux is installed. I don't think the particulars of that messed-up install are relevant, but I've put a note about it at the bottom jus

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you have your original debian net-inst dvd, it's probably time to put the dvd into the drive then reboot the computer into rescue mode. Then run fsck.ext4 -c /dev/sda1 and watch the fun. This will use badblocks nondestructively and set off a repair operation which should end up with you h

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
So you feel more vanilla is better, is this? El 09/11/13 08:48, Itay escribió: On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Beco wrote: On 8 Nov 2013 14:15, "Alberto Salvia Novella" wrote: Summarizing: Which are the very important reasons why do you prefer Debian over Ubuntu? Why to use a Debian based OS if y

Re: Weird boot problem. How can this be?

2013-11-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Okay, your bios settings are messed up on that computer. You need to go into bios settings and give them some clues about what's actually on the computer in terms of hardware. The bios settings on your machine have lost their mind somehow. On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Ray Dillinger wrote: > > I have

Re: gschem for Debian 7?

2013-11-09 Thread Jean-Marc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/11/13 03:56, John Conover wrote: > Where is the .deb for gschem for Debian 7? Are you speaking about the electronics design software ? http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gschem > > Thanks, > > John > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread darkestkhan
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If you have your original debian net-inst dvd, it's probably time to > put the dvd into the drive then reboot the computer into rescue mode. Funny thing (actually not so) - my optic drive is dead. But why do I have to reboot into recovery mod

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Itay
On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: [propagated response to bottom] El 09/11/13 08:48, Itay escribió: On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Beco wrote: Which are the very important reasons why do you prefer Debian over Ubuntu? Why to use a Debian based OS if you can use Debian? My best, Beco

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread Curt
On 2013-11-09, darkestkhan wrote: > I created ext3 on sda1 (using mke2fs -j) and it worked for last 20 days. > But after tiday reboot it stopped working - if it would be bad entry in fstab > I would still be able to mount it by hand, but I can't. I have some data > on it that I would rather not l

Re: gschem for Debian 7?

2013-11-09 Thread Joe
On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 18:56:09 -0800 cono...@rahul.net (John Conover) wrote: > Where is the .deb for gschem for Debian 7? > Renamed: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/geda-gschem -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Thank you - was [Re: Permission issue]

2013-11-09 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: My dual boots Squeeze and Wheezy. I've created a partition whose function in life is to be essentially a scratch pad for all groups/users of both. How do I force all files to be written to that partition to be readable AND writable to everybody? Thank you Siard and David

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread D.E. Bil
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 05:40:06AM -0200, Beco wrote: > On 8 Nov 2013 14:15, "Alberto Salvia Novella" > wrote: > > Summarizing: > > > > Which are the very important reasons why do you prefer Debian over > > Ubuntu? > > > > Why to use a Debian based OS if you can use Debian? Exactly. Ubuntu has ch

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread legacy daily
I use Debian because it has stayed true to its principles and because its principles are sound. If innovation is what Ubuntu is after, let them contribute their innovation to Debian or upstream projects like the kernel or GNU or Gnome or XFCE or so many others. They want to be become RedHat alterna

Re: Weird boot problem. How can this be?

2013-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/11/2013 09:26, Ray Dillinger a écrit : [...] > I don't understand how it can possibly happen, because I have completely > unplugged > that hard drive, flashed the BIOS of the machine with the most recent > update [...] Asus website says that Bios rev <= 1203 needs to be converted by an utili

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Mike McGinn
I use debian because I used to use Kubuntu. I started with Mandrake, watched it become Mandriva, tried 'buntu with 7.04. I loved it. It worked great, the community was great. I was an LTS guy, don't like the six month upgrade cycle. I have other things to do with my system rather than install s

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread David F
On 11/09/2013 04:09 AM, darkestkhan wrote: > Funny thing (actually not so) - my optic drive is dead. But why do I > have to reboot > into recovery mode? System itself works correctly - /boot is on sda2 > and everything > else is on LVM at sda3 If I understand you correctly that you can boot and us

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Conrad Nelson
I left Ubuntu clear back in 2008 when I saw very clearly that their developers (Especially in Canonical.) were starting to care less and less and less about what their community actually wanted. I saw the disastrous integration of Pulseaudio and how the developers and various "authorities" on

libpam-cap not working

2013-11-09 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Hello, my first post to the debian user list for a quite vexing issue. I'm running debian squeeze. I'm trying to get capabilities working along the lines of blog.fpmurphy.com/2009/05/linux-security-capabilities.html. I installed libcap2 (1:2.22-1.2), libcap2-bin (1:2.22-1.2), and libpam-cap(1

Re: Weird boot problem. How can this be?

2013-11-09 Thread Ray Dillinger
On 11/09/2013 06:08 AM, didier gaumet wrote: The machine is an Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard, IA64 "Sandy Bridge" architecture, [...] On the Asus website, this is not an IA64 motherboard, but a X86-64 (amd64) one. Trying an amd64 version of Debian could help... On the ASUS website the boar

IPTables question

2013-11-09 Thread Bill.M
Hi folks, In IPTables one can specify multiple addresses, and multiple ports, but is there anyway to specify multiple interfaces. For example, -m multiport --destination-port 22,25,80 Or-s 1.2.3.4,1.2.3.5,1.2.3.7 or -s 1.2.3.4:1.2.3.10 But is there anyway to specify both eth0 an

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2013 09 Nov 10:49 -0600, Conrad Nelson wrote: > I like Debian. My only real beef with it is the DFSG. Debian > developers (And a lot of users.) operate a little too much under the > assumption end-users actually care about things such as source code > being available and I do think this is why

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread legacy daily
DFSG rocks! FOSS is the right way. I use Debian strictly because of its adherence to these principles. There is plenty of dogma and bending of rules elsewhere. If it changes its principles it will be something else maybe Ubuntu or something else but not Debian any longer. - ld On Nov 9, 2013,

Audio anomaly in Wheezy

2013-11-09 Thread L V Gandhi
I have Asus Vivobbok S400CA multibooting win8.1, debian KDE wheezy and mavericks. In Debian I have peculiar problem regarding Mic. Speaker works ok. But Mic does not work in skype even in full volume increase effected normal KDE mixer in task bar or pavucontrol. However after starting audacity, Mic

Re: IPTables question

2013-11-09 Thread David F
On 11/09/2013 12:47 PM, Bill.M wrote: > But is there anyway to specify both eth0 and wlan0 as equally valid > interfaces on my laptop depending on whether it's in my dock or on the road? > > For example, -i wlan0,eth0 or -o wlan0,eth0 > Is something like these possible? * You can avoid specifying

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Beco
On 9 November 2013 06:40, Itay wrote: > On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: >> So you feel more vanilla is better, is this? > > > I prefer chocolate... ;-) I second that. > But the good thing in Debian for me is: I feel that once Ilearn to do > something, the knowledge will stay wi

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 11:40:04AM +0200, Itay wrote: > Yes, I have to sweat on doing simple things, like configuring exim4 > to send out email to my public address. You'll have that problem no matter what distribution you choose. > But the good thing in Debian for me is: I feel that once Ilearn

Grub, Raid, LVM

2013-11-09 Thread PaulNM
Hi Folks, I've been dealing with a frustratingly vexing issue for a while, and am at a loss on where to go next. Basically, We have a 8x 3TB drive system that I'm trying to install Wheezy on. During the install each drive is partitioned with a 1MB BIOS Boot partition, followed by

Re: IPTables question

2013-11-09 Thread Shawn Wilson
Redhat has something called firewalld which generates rules based on zones. I don't use it because using dbus to help manage rules scares me. But it's there and could be what you want. David F wrote: >On 11/09/2013 12:47 PM, Bill.M wrote: >> But is there anyway to specify both eth0 and wlan0 a

Re: IPTables question

2013-11-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Bill.M a écrit : > > In IPTables one can specify multiple addresses, and multiple ports, but > is there anyway to specify multiple interfaces. > > For example, -m multiport --destination-port 22,25,80 > > Or -s 1.2.3.4,1.2.3.5,1.2.3.7 or -s 1.2.3.4:1.2.3.10 In addition to Dav

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

2013-11-09 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Bob Proulx writes: > Ken Heard wrote: > >> # dpkg --get-selections '*' > selection.dpkg > > That is definitely the old venerable way of doing this on Debian from > a decade of years ago. When working on the same version of Debian it > even worked relatively well. Then. But now we have extended

Re: Grub, Raid, LVM

2013-11-09 Thread PaulNM
On 11/09/2013 04:48 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 09/11/13 04:05 PM, PaulNM wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> I've been dealing with a frustratingly vexing issue for a while, >> and am >> at a loss on where to go next. >> >> Basically, We have a 8x 3TB drive system that I'm trying to install >> Wheez

Re: IPTables question

2013-11-09 Thread Shawn Wilson
Pascal Hambourg wrote: >Hello, > >Bill.M a écrit : >> >> In IPTables one can specify multiple addresses, and multiple ports, >but >> is there anyway to specify multiple interfaces. >> >> For example, -m multiport --destination-port 22,25,80 >> >> Or -s 1.2.3.4,1.2.3.5,1.2.3.7 or -s

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 08 November 2013 17:57:44 Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > Which are the very important reasons why do you prefer Debian over > Ubuntu? I know it will sound silly, but one of the reasons that I don't use Ubuntu is that I simply don't like it. This is much more at a gut level and insti

Re: IPTables question

2013-11-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Shawn Wilson a écrit : > > Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> >> Unless recent change I am not aware of, you cannot specify an address >> range in -s or -d. You must use the "iprange" match instead (or ipset if >> your kernel supports it). > > Also, idk any way to match interface with ipset I did not su

Re: Grub, Raid, LVM

2013-11-09 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 9:05 PM, PaulNM wrote: > > I've been dealing with a frustratingly vexing issue for a while, and > am > at a loss on where to go next. > > Basically, We have a 8x 3TB drive system that I'm trying to install > Wheezy on. During the install each drive is parti

Re: Grub, Raid, LVM

2013-11-09 Thread Tom H
> On 11/09/2013 04:48 PM, Gary Dale wrote: >> On 09/11/13 04:05 PM, PaulNM wrote: >> >> The lack of grub md names suggests that it doesn't know about your RAID >> setup. update-initramfs -u && update-grub may fix that. Also, make sure >> that grub is actually installed on the RAID array. > > Hmm, m

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

2013-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Ken Heard wrote: > > in APT supporting 'apt-get autoremove'. With regards to that the > > above no longer works well. For one problem it completely breaks the > > extended_states paradigm. > > > > The extended_states paradigm is to track for each pac

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread green
Alberto Salvia Novella wrote at 2013-11-08 11:57 -0600: > Which are the very important reasons why do you prefer Debian over Ubuntu? If other responses to this query are an indication, Debian is attractive to people who are interested in productivity and therefore want stable "set and forget" soft

Re: libpam-cap not working

2013-11-09 Thread Lukas Erlacher
Correction... On 09.11.2013 18:12, Lukas Erlacher wrote: > Hello, > > my first post to the debian user list for a quite vexing issue. I'm running > debian squeeze. > I'm running wheezy, of course. root@leda:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: