reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Using Debian 6.0. reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing except announcing the shutdown and halt the ssh session that issued the command. But beyond that it really did nothing. Among the things it did not do are: - no process are killed or terminated. None of mysql, apache, cron daemons are shut d

Re: chroot jail problem

2014-02-17 Thread Antonio Fernández Pérez
Thanks for your answer. Regards, Antonio.

Re: chroot jail problem

2014-02-17 Thread Antonio Fernández Pérez
Hi Reci, Do not be mean ...;) True, maybe not I contributed much information as possible: ( Thanks. Regards, Antonio.

Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Hello list, I have a laptop with gt 630M 2GB graphics card. I installed the linux headers and the drivers using this command: aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') nvidia-kernel-dkms [I referred this wiki : https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers ] I also cre

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Joe
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:29:17 +0800 (CST) Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Using Debian 6.0. reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing except announcing > the shutdown and halt the ssh session that issued the command. > > But beyond that it really did nothing. Among the things it did not do > are: > > - no process

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 02:14:59PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > I also created the Xorg.conf file as mentioned in the wiki. But when I > rebooted my system Xorg failed to start. So i figured that I am having > a GPU with optimus support and I do not need the Xorg.conf file but > instead I need the

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Joe wrote: Do you by any chance have pulseaudio installed? I ask because my sid workstation started doing almost exactly this a few days ago. No. It was a server box. What you said does hint me that if I can access the physical machine there may be some clue on the scre

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:01:25AM +, Joe wrote: > > Eventually a few more clues confirmed that it was an audio problem, and > suggested pulseaudio, which I had installed a couple of months earlier > for a particular experiment. I ripped it out, and sound no longer > worked of course, but my c

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Right, which one? > root@tal:~# apt-cache search bumblebee > bumblebee-nvidia - NVIDIA Optimus support using the proprietary NVIDIA Yes, this one. > root@tal:~# lsmod | grep video > Output: uvcvideo 57744 0 videodev 70889 1 uvcvideo v4l2_compat_ioctl3216655

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 22:01 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > root@tal:~# lsmod | grep video I would search directly for the driver name, but even if the module should be loaded, I would search the kernel ring buffer log and the X log files for error messages. I wonder why many of my messages don't

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> $ lsmod | grep nvidia > if there's no output, you aren't using the nvidia driver. > Run > $ grep nvidia /var/log/dmesg No output > $ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log Only output here is (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [19.290] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 10:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote another mail that didn't come through the list: > > $ grep nvidia /var/log/dmesg > > A typo, it should be > > $ sudo grep nvidia /var/log/dmesg Perhaps also useful to check $ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log even if there are no EE (errors). --

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Perhaps also useful to check > > $ less /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > even if there are no EE (errors). I could find anything even close to nvidia. Here is the complete output: http://paste.debian.net/82488/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:13:21AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 22:01 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > root@tal:~# lsmod | grep video > > I would search directly for the driver name ... And if it's not listed? Then you are probably going to have to do a lsmod anyway to see

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> And if it's not listed? Then you are probably going to have to do a > lsmod anyway to see what is listed. I think my way solves the problem in > one hit. IOW, don't search for what you *think* should be there, but > search for what actually *is* there. What is the conclusion in my case? Is nvidi

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 02:39:11PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > Right, which one? > > root@tal:~# apt-cache search bumblebee > > bumblebee-nvidia - NVIDIA Optimus support using the proprietary NVIDIA > > Yes, this one. > > > root@tal:~# lsmod | grep video > > > > Output: > > uvcvideo

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Joe
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:08:34 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:01:25AM +, Joe wrote: > > > > Eventually a few more clues confirmed that it was an audio problem, > > and suggested pulseaudio, which I had installed a couple of months > > earlier for a particular experim

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Anubhav Yadav, please reply to the list only, don't Cc. Many mails I sent to the list didn't came through, anybody expiring the same issue? A reply to Chris that didn't came through the list From: Ralf Mardorf To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Need to make sure I hav

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:55:30AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > For Arch there isn't an entry "video" and running it as quasi chroot, > > the Arch X anyway will be the used X, so I can't see the Debian's output > > yet. Perhaps it's different for Debian and there are always "video" > > entries.

Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-17 Thread Richard Owlett
I've been purchasing the multiple DVD sets as I am limited to a dial-up connection. As 64GB flash drives are readily available I would find it convenient to have a complete distro on a single device. I've queried the company I've been buying the DVDs from with no response. TIA -- To UNSU

Re: Losing '_b00jdlb8_default' from a files name?

2014-02-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 07:38:24PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I am using this script to convert radio programmes downloaded with > 'get-iplayer' from '*.m4a' to '*.mp3', and it works very well. > > for i in *.m4a; > do faad "$i" > x=`echo "$i

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Brian
On Mon 17 Feb 2014 at 16:29:17 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Using Debian 6.0. reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing except > announcing the shutdown and halt the ssh session that issued the > command. Possibly of help: http://askubuntu.com/questions/7114/why-cant-i-restart-shutdown -- To UNSUBS

Re: Bombono DVD

2014-02-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 01:46:48PM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > On Sunday, February 16, 2014 06:24:10 PM LM--- wrote: > > Dear developers, > > > > I WANT BOMBONO DVD > > for the next Debian release > > > > ;-)) > > > > It's simply working great here! > > > > ludo > > What is a "Bombono DVD?

Re: Bombono DVD

2014-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2014-02-16, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >> What is a "Bombono DVD?" >> >> Conrad > > I guess it's a DVD which loves other DVDs everytime, like some great > apes. > You're thinking of Bonobo DVD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, One of my 4 SATA HDDs is constantly making "write noise", as if it was under heavy load. However, the system is idle (and recently installed). I can't see any activity on iotop and this starts immediately when i turn on the box. The HDD activiy LED doesn't blink on this activity. All d

video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Thomas H. George
Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but have not had much success so far. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> OK, thats the driver for the Intel graphics chip. > So you have an embedded Intel graphics in the motherboard *and* a > plugged in NVIDIA Corporation GF108 card? Yes! But the docs wont help. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Anubhav Yadav, please reply to the list only, don't Cc. I am using gmail and it has two options, reply and reply to all. If I hit reply your name is there as the sender, if I hit reply to all then debian user list is there in cc and your name in senders list. I will now manually delete the cc co

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Dan Purgert
On 17/02/2014 08:09, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings, > > [...] > > Short of unplugging the drives one by one, is there a way i can a) > discover/confirm which one is thrashing about? and b) make it stop? > I've seen hdparm -s is not recommended, and i'm not sure if whichever > drive it is it s

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Markos
On 17-02-2014 05:44, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Hello list, I have a laptop with gt 630M 2GB graphics card. I installed the linux headers and the drivers using this command: aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') nvidia-kernel-dkms [I referred this wiki : https://wiki.de

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-02-17 14:23 GMT+01:00 Thomas H. George : > Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send > them by email? > "enough" it's quite vague when referring to audio/video stuff... (eg. what about email attachments size limit of your ISP?) You can compress everything to every

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Thomas H. George wrote: Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but have not had much success so far. They are both good, but even if you can get the video do

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > You can try using smartctl to check the status of the drive(s) in question > (e.g. > "smartctl -H /dev/sda", though this is just a real quick check - check the man > page for all options) . There is (IIRC) also a monitoring daemon that c

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> And besides the command: > > bumblebeed service restart > > Do not restart the program. [ 4558.021580] [ERROR]Daemon already running, pid 2798 Neither it would stop. This was my output > > If you find a solution, please share with the list. We will find a solution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Brian wrote: Possibly of help: http://askubuntu.com/questions/7114/why-cant-i-restart-shutdown Thanks for the link but I am pretty sure they are talking about a different problem. The link you provided is among the 100+ search result I found on google that does not

Re: Monitor Resolution Problems

2014-02-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/16/2014 01:35 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.02.2014 20:09, Marc Shapiro a écrit : I purchased a new monitor and I am having problems with the resolution. It is a Samsung SyncMaster S24B150 with an optimal resolution of 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz. The highest resolution that I

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
For each drive $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sd... now and a few minutes later, then compare the RAW_VALUE for ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes This will show you if a drive does spin up and down. Some softwa

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: For each drive $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sd... now and a few minutes later, then compare the RAW_VALUE for ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes This will

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 17 February 2014 13:34:36 Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > Anubhav Yadav, please reply to the list only, don't Cc. > > I am using gmail and it has two options, reply and reply to all. > If I hit reply your name is there as the sender, if I hit reply to > all then debian user list is there in cc a

Re: Bombono DVD

2014-02-17 Thread Go Linux
On Mon, 2/17/14, Darac Marjal wrote: Subject: Re: Bombono DVD To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 17, 2014, 6:46 AM On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 01:46:48PM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > On Sunday, February 16, 2014 06:24:10 PM LM--- wrote: > > Dear developers, > > >

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Go Linux
On Mon, 2/17/14, Thomas H. George wrote: Subject: video compression? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 17, 2014, 7:23 AM Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send them by email? I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread yaro
On Monday, February 17, 2014 04:55:48 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > For each drive > $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sd... > now and a few minutes later, then compare the RAW_VALUE for > ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count. > > https://e

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 10:50 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > On Monday, February 17, 2014 04:55:48 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > For each drive > > $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sd... > > now and a few minutes later, then compare the RAW_VALUE for >

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 01:09:35PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings, > > One of my 4 SATA HDDs is constantly making "write noise", as if it was > under heavy load. However, the system is idle (and recently > installed). > I can't see any activity on iotop and this starts immediately wh

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> One of my 4 SATA HDDs is constantly making "write noise" "write noise" is different to spin up and spin down noise, so spins unlikely are the issue, but sometimes long write/read processes happen for some Linux installs. However, it's indeed fishy that > The HDD activiy LED doesn't blink on th

Re: Bombono DVD

2014-02-17 Thread Dom
On 17/02/14 16:26, Go Linux wrote: On Mon, 2/17/14, Darac Marjal wrote: Subject: Re: Bombono DVD To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 17, 2014, 6:46 AM On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 01:46:48PM -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: > On Sunday, February 16, 2014 06:24:10 PM

Re: Bombono DVD

2014-02-17 Thread Go Linux
On Mon, 2/17/14, Dom wrote: Subject: Re: Bombono DVD To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 17, 2014, 11:31 AM I know the repo is frowned upon by many, bombono-dvd is available for wheezy on the deb-multimedia site. I haven't tried dvdstyler. --

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

2014-02-17 Thread yaro
On Monday, February 17, 2014 12:00:23 PM y...@marupa.net wrote: > On Monday, February 17, 2014 06:02:47 PM Erwan David wrote: > > Le 17/02/2014 17:27, y...@marupa.net a écrit : > > > On Monday, February 17, 2014 04:13:11 PM Nick Boyce wrote: > > >> Sorry - this isn't strictly a Debian KDE question,

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

2014-02-17 Thread Erwan David
Le 17/02/2014 19:02, y...@marupa.net a écrit : > On Monday, February 17, 2014 12:00:23 PM y...@marupa.net wrote: >> On Monday, February 17, 2014 06:02:47 PM Erwan David wrote: >>> Le 17/02/2014 17:27, y...@marupa.net a écrit : On Monday, February 17, 2014 04:13:11 PM Nick Boyce wrote: > So

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

2014-02-17 Thread yaro
On Monday, February 17, 2014 07:18:40 PM Erwan David wrote: > Le 17/02/2014 19:02, y...@marupa.net a écrit : > > On Monday, February 17, 2014 12:00:23 PM y...@marupa.net wrote: > >> On Monday, February 17, 2014 06:02:47 PM Erwan David wrote: > >>> Le 17/02/2014 17:27, y...@marupa.net a écrit : > >>

Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

2014-02-17 Thread Muntasim-Ul-Haque
Hi, How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC address or Hardware Address? What is the most convenient way? -Muntasim Ul Haque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

2014-02-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 17 February 2014 18:18:40 Erwan David wrote: > But I need remote display. I use it every day, and saying "is not > yuseful" will not make the need disapear. If the feature disapears > it is a REGRESSION. Nothing else Give Trinity a chance - it still has kdm-trinity. Lisi -- To UNSUBS

Re: Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

2014-02-17 Thread Fabrice Vaillant
You can't, it's two different thing. As you said the MAC address, is linked to your hardware, whereas the IP is given by the network, it will change if you change network. fabrice On 02/17/2014 07:36 PM, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: Hi, How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC

Re: Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

2014-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:36:08AM +0600, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > Hi, > How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC address > or Hardware Address? What is the most convenient way? I know of no "easy" way - but there *are* two ways I can think of. Both assume that you have a

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:29:17PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Using Debian 6.0. reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing except > announcing the shutdown and halt the ssh session that issued the > command. > > But beyond that it really did nothing. Among the things it did not do are: > > - no proce

Make aptitude's limit function list installed packages from testing

2014-02-17 Thread Peter Schott
Hello all, on a system I operate, Debian Squeeze 6.09 has been installed. At one point, it was necessary to install a more recent version of roundcube (web-mail client) out of the testing release. This of course caused some other packages to be updated to testing, too. My objective is as fol

Re: Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

2014-02-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Muntasim-Ul-Haque writes: > Hi, > How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC address > or Hardware Address? What is the most convenient way? > > -Muntasim Ul Haque The fact that you already have the MAC address doesn't matter in finding out your IP address. ifconfig will give

Re: Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

2014-02-17 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:36:08 +0600 Muntasim-Ul-Haque napísal: > Hi, > How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC address > or Hardware Address? What is the most convenient way? The simplest way is look into (as root): arp -a I you are happy man, it will be there ;-)

Re: Make aptitude's limit function list installed packages from testing

2014-02-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Peter Schott wrote: > > What is the correct filter to: > - list all installed packages coming from testing release; > - while *not* listing installed packages from other releases (e.g. stable) > for which an alternative version from testing is available? aptitude

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-17 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Joey Hess wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> Adding this to the kernel's cmcline is one of the simplest changes >> when upgrading from wheezy to jessie whether you have one or many >> servers. > > Any existing Debian system with udev installed has a file > /etc/udev/rules

Re: Determine IP Adrress from MAC Address

2014-02-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joe Pfeiffer writes: > Muntasim-Ul-Haque writes: > >> Hi, >> How can I determine the IP address if I already have the MAC address >> or Hardware Address? What is the most convenient way? >> >> -Muntasim Ul Haque > > The fact that you already have the MAC address doesn't matter in finding > out y

additional info on pkgs of Debian 7 Install

2014-02-17 Thread W. Anderson
I have just recently installed Debian 7.3 via Net Install. There was /"no"/ problem with the install, however I could find "pkg install" info on the : /*Standard Systems Utilities*//* *//*Web server *//* *//*File server*/ Where exactly are applications installed for Web Server, including for

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi I was in the process of setting up smartd when i noticed the head noise (although it's not the first time i've noticed it). smartd is enabled now. I don't even have X installed yet (i'm trying to keep the system minimal while i figure out all the issues), so KDE and other DE's is out of the equ

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
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Start pacat on boot (or after xbmc)

2014-02-17 Thread Steven Post
Hi, I have a script that starts and kills pacat (pulseaudio cat) in order to get my USB turntable to work. It is a rather simple script, reproduced below for reference. I want to run this script at boot, but whatever I try, it doesn't seem to work. When started at boot (using an init script, or r

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread David Glover-Aoki
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:23:26 -0500 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send > them by email? Unless your video is less than a minute long, your video file will be too big to send by email no matter how much you compress it, unless you comp

Re: video compression?

2014-02-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:23:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Is there a best debian program to compress avi videos enough to send > them by email? > > I have found ffmpeg and avidemux and am trying to learn to use them but > have not had much success so far. > I like avidemux, but handbrak

Last update and Pulse

2014-02-17 Thread Ric Moore
I thought I had it licked, by using a USB port direct instead of using a USB hub, for my headphones, but I'm still getting hit and miss from Pulseaudio. Worked perfectly before. Anyone else seeing high CPU usage? Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the

Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-17 Thread Bill Wood
Do the protocols used for automatic check for updates and for updates require specific ports to be available? I recently switched my cable modem to a Comcast Internet Gateway 1with the firewall set to high security and subsequently a couple of update check icons appeared indicating an error condit

Re: Check Update, Update and Port Blocking

2014-02-17 Thread PaulNM
On 02/17/2014 09:28 PM, Bill Wood wrote: > Do the protocols used for automatic check for updates and for updates > require specific ports to be available? I recently switched my cable > modem to a Comcast Internet Gateway 1with the firewall set to high > security and subsequently a couple of upd

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: So init knows that you want to shut down/reboot.. My guess is that one of the "early" init scripts are hanging. Thank you for the hint. I followed your test method and the test result show this problem has nothing to do with a hanging service.

Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Thank you for the hint. I followed your test method and the test result show this problem has nothing to do with a hanging service. I have exclude another possibility. I am thinking: 1) perhaps the message in /var/log/messages is not produc

Run a small script at shutdown/reboot

2014-02-17 Thread Jon Danniken
Hello list, I have a small script (foobar.sh) which I would like to run at shutdown or reboot: __ #!/bin/bash if [ -a /test/foo.bar ]; then mv /test/foo.bar /test/foo.foo fi _ I placed the script into /etc/init.d/, made it executable

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/17/14, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've been purchasing the multiple DVD sets as I am limited to a > dial-up connection. It is great to support suppliers who service our "libre community" markets! > As 64GB flash drives are readily available I would find it > convenient to have a complete dist

(toughed out) Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-17 Thread Zhang Weiwu
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Zhang Weiwu wrote: I have exclude another possibility. I am thinking: 1) perhaps the message in /var/log/messages is not produced by init, but by reboot/halt/shutdown, and 2) perhaps init is not invoked at all. So I run 'init 6' as root. This ti

Re: Need to make sure I have the nvidia proprietary driver running.

2014-02-17 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> First thing I did, when I built a new Desktop machine, and inserted my > nVidia card in, was to disable the onboard GPU in the bios setup. That keeps > it all nice and clean, with regards to video detection. No need to have two > dissimilar GPU's contending for display rights. You just wind up wi

Re: Last update and Pulse

2014-02-17 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Ric Moore wrote: > I thought I had it licked, by using a USB port direct instead of > using a USB hub, for my headphones, but I'm still getting hit and > miss from Pulseaudio. Worked perfectly before. Anyone else seeing > high CPU usage? Ric Not specifically high CPU usage.