RE: ssh user@ipv6 address, connect: Network is unreachable

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Viau
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:57:27 +0200 debian_1...@chubig.net wrote: Dear basti, basti wrote: ssh: connect to host ipv6_address port 22: Network is unreachable if ipv6_address is not in your local network, you will either need a tunnel or connectivity from your ISP to get IPv6. So this:

RE: Bind wildcard and DNSsec

2012-10-24 Thread Mike Viau
On Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:44:03 +0200 r...@sput.nl wrote: Hi there Rob van der Putten wrote: I filed a bug report; http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690569 Bind refers to this bug as 'RT #26200' Bind fixed this in January. I don't expect Debian to implement this

RE: Initramfs-tools forcefully stars md arrays. How to disable it?

2012-08-06 Thread Mike Viau
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 22:01:49 -0700 blac1...@gmail.com wrote: initramfs-tools (0.98.8, the one in squeeze) uses the command below to start up the array for the root filesystem (from line 91 of /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/mdadm): $MDADM --assemble --scan --run --auto=yes

RE: radeon+ opencl+ non-free-: HOWTO?

2012-07-03 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 00:56:20 +0700 oneing...@gmail.com wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:08:57 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Somehow, I've got the impression that OpenCL is supported by some free development tools (Clang?) Now, I wonder, if I'm right

RE: US Weather Bureau video displays have stopped working

2012-03-24 Thread Mike Viau
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:11:40 -0400 edcjo...@comcast.net wrote: My PC has up-to-date Debian stable on it. Although the CPU chip is Intel, the kernel is AMD64. This is okay, and not a CPU problem Here is an URL for a U. S. Weather Bureau radar site:

RE: Network-manager woes (wifi)

2012-03-01 Thread Mike Viau
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:33:11 + noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, After a recent set of updates in wheezy (it could be the kernel package that was updated to 3.2.6 but I'm not sure) network-manager is going crazy asking for the AP password every five minutes (disconnects-asks-

RE: hi, how to set gnome3 in fallback mode?

2012-01-21 Thread Mike Viau
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:38:26 + noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:35:04 -0500, Mike Viau wrote: (please, no html, thanks) On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:42:49 + noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:44:10 +0800, shiyao.ma wrote: On 2012年01月20日 15

RE: hi, how to set gnome3 in fallback mode?

2012-01-20 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:42:49 + noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:44:10 +0800, shiyao.ma wrote: On 2012年01月20日 15:34, shiyao.ma wrote: I did a fresh installation of debian tesing on my laptop. After first login, the gnome3 told me that due to hardware problem,

RE: hi, how to set gnome3 in fallback mode?

2012-01-20 Thread Mike Viau
*Please* don't do that. My apologizes, this is the first time someone has mentioned that my mail appears like it was in HTML formatting from my email client, but I can tell you the email was sent as Rich Text message. Perhaps your email client is interpreting emails from me as HTML

RE: Happy Christmas

2011-12-25 Thread Mike Viau
Ditto :) On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:04:50 +0200 lolinux.so...@gmail.com wrote Thank you, Richard, I also want to thank everyone on this list, for asking questions I might have asked, and also for answering those questions. I really feel happy to be part of this community. Thank you, everyone no

RE: debian 6 support Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 Wireless Network Adapter?

2011-12-12 Thread Mike Viau
My Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 (like the 6205, but with bluetooth) seems to work with the iwlagn -- see http://wiki.debian.org/iwlagn As for your videocard, the generic plain Jane vesa driver 'should' always work. I would also look at http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers to setup the

RE: alternatives to aircrack-ng

2011-11-16 Thread Mike Viau
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:58:32 + marcus9...@gmail.com wrote: Celejar celejar at gmail.com writes: On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:02:48 +0100 Brian ad44 at cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 17 Oct 2011 at 15:22:57 -0400, Celejar wrote: aircrack-ng has been removed from Debian,

RE: debian hangs after grub

2011-04-27 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:00:40 +0300 ibo...@yahoo.gr wrote: On 04/26/2011 05:29 PM, Vangelis Katsikaros wrote: Hello I just installed debian 6.0.1.a amd64 with net install, with a clean install (before I had 5). The system goes to grub and when I select the non-recovery mode

RE: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

2011-04-27 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:50:07 -0400 kjetil1...@gmail.com wrote: I ran this command on my laptop, and the returned list includes: gdb-doc - The GNU Debugger Documentation ?Why the hell is gdb-doc not free? I was wondering the same thing about the gcc-doc package. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011

RE: debian hangs after grub

2011-04-27 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:40:42 +0300 ibo...@yahoo.gr wrote: On 04/27/2011 04:50 PM, Mike Viau wrote: Hi again I also installed an ubuntu on the same machine, the ubuntu works fine, the debian issue still remains. So, I started playing with editing grub commands. In the debian non

RE: Tell firefox to quit from a shell script

2011-04-09 Thread Mike Viau
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 16:06:13 -0400 tyler.sm...@eku.edu wrote: Tyler Smith writes: Is there a way I can politely ask firefox to quit, less traumatically than pkill? Hi again, I think I answered my own question: wmctrl -c firefox appears to do what I need. Sorry for the noise,

RE: Xen-hypervisor doesn't boot

2011-04-01 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:34:30 +0300 arts...@ya.ru wrote: Hello, Xen hypervisor doesn't boot after upgrade following packages: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 2.6.32-32 linux-libc-dev 2.6.32-32 linux-base 2.6.32-32 But boots ok after downgrade to: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64

RE: xen hypervisor on sid, no xen kernel

2011-03-08 Thread Mike Viau
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 13:39:34 -0600 hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Hi, In looking at Xen I see that the hypervisor is on Sid but no Xen kernel. Anyone venture a guess as to why? Just a guess, perhaps the 2.6.38 pv-ops kernel is in the works :) -M --

RE: How do you use TCPDump?

2011-03-02 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:00:41 -0600 jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com wrote: I have it installed, and I can look up the parameters in the command. What I don't understand is how I use it to investigate intrusions. Can someone shed some light on this? What kind of intrusions are you looking for?

Removed drive from mdadm raid 5 array after reboot

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Viau
Hello, I was wondering if anyone had come across an issue where after rebooting the system, mdadm is failing to reassemble the entire raid 5 array with all the drives. I am getting the array up with just /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, but the array is degraded as a consequence to missing

removed drive from mdadm raid 5 array after reboot

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Viau
Hello, I was wondering if anyone had come across an issue where after rebooting the system, mdadm is failing to reassemble the entire raid 5 array with all the drives. I am getting the array up with just /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, but the array is degraded as a consequence to missing /dev/sdd

RE: Autorun is VERY bad

2011-02-07 Thread Mike Viau
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:21:48 -0800 kellyr...@zoho.com wrote: How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a standard Debian install?? http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx In the gnome desktop manager open up the

RE: Autorun is VERY bad

2011-02-07 Thread Mike Viau
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:50:32 -0500 deb...@pcartwright.com wrote: On 02/07/2011 01:36 PM, Mike Viau wrote: In the gnome desktop manager open up the file manager, or run nautilus Then, Edit Preferences Media Never Prompt or start programs on media insertion Hope that helps

RE: Squeeze Beta 2 upgrade

2011-02-02 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:36:05 + russ.mail.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hopefully a simple question to answer. I installed Squeeze beta 2 AMD64 a few weeks ago and have accepted all updates. If I continue to take the updates will it morph into the release version when that is released or is it

RE: Critical Xen bug on Debian Squeeze, suspecting package xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64

2011-02-01 Thread Mike Viau
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:47:30 +0100 lambert.oliv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, First, I will explain quickly the problem : on updated version Squeeze, I can't boot **any** DomU's, it hangs. Two cases: 1) HVM DomU's : xm create sends a command to qemu, the parameter '-vcpu_avail'. But on

RE: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-31 Thread Mike Viau
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:50:17 -0500 tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: $ sudo apt-get install bind9 Then ensure that 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' exists in /etc/resolv.conf and you should be set. By ensure I mean that you should

RE: networking

2011-01-14 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:54:49 -0700 b...@proulx.com wrote: Mihira Fernando wrote: Bonno Bloksma wrote: I have been wondering about this and have not seen any definitive documentation, or if there is, I have not understood it. Does auto imply allow-hotplug? If not, should I have both

RE: Is squeeze compatible woth WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2010-12-13 Thread Mike Viau
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:46:59 +0100 m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: I'm planning to surprise my unsuspecting self with the above hard drive for Christmas, but have read some alarming reports about incompatibilities with GNU/Linux partitioning. Apparently, there are no less than two

RE: Towards a working initrd.img file

2010-12-03 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 07:15:38 -0500 tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: I've been having a problem since migrating my file system to RAID-1, which is that when I run update-initramfs, it produces an initrd.img file which doesn't work

RE: hdparm - dpkg error on update

2010-12-01 Thread Mike Viau
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:37:47 -0700 b...@proulx.com wrote: That reads like a similar problem to one reported in this (old) bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558478 Has anyone else gotten this issue and did you come across a fix for this version or the dpkg

hdparm - dpkg error on update

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Viau
Hello, This morning I discovered an update for the hdparm package on my debian squeeze system. Update have been perfect for numerous other packages. When I tried to update this package I got errors and now the package is in a broken state. I am not too sure where I should be fiddling to

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-23 Thread Mike Viau
OnTue, 23 Nov 2010 10:11:29 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: I see the problem now. And John Robinson was nearly there. The problem is that after assembling the container /dev/md/imsm, mdadm needs to assemble the RAID1, but doesn't find the container /dev/md/imsm to assemble it from. That is

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-22 Thread Mike Viau
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:38:49 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:17:18 +1100 wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:47 +1100 wrote: ./mdadm -Ss mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 ./mdadm -Asvvv mdadm: looking for devices for further

RE: Release file expired

2010-11-22 Thread Mike Viau
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:51:09 -0500 ckro...@frankensteinface.com worte: I've not seen this before, what does it mean? [attempt to hand format for easier reading] r...@mundo:/home/charles# apt-get update Get:1 http://mirror.rit.edu sid Release.gpg [835 B] Ign http://mirror.rit.edu/debian/

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:15:14 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: This looks wrong. mdadm should be looking for the container as listed in mdadm.conf and it should find a matching uuid on sda and sdb, but it doesn't. Can you: mdadm -E /dev/sda /dev/sdb ; cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf so I can compare

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Viau
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:11:49 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:36:23 -0500 Mike Viau wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:15:14 +1100 This looks wrong. mdadm should be looking for the container as listed in mdadm.conf and it should find a matching uuid on sda and sdb

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Viau
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:28:47 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: I am running the same version, from a Debian Squeeze package which I presume is the same. mdadm -V mdadm - v3.1.4 - 31st August 2010 Yes, should be identical to what I am running. and see how that works. Just

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Viau
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:47 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: ./mdadm -Ss mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 ./mdadm -Asvvv mdadm: looking for devices for further assembly mdadm: no RAID superblock on /dev/dm-3 mdadm: /dev/dm-3 has wrong uuid. want

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Viau
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:17:18 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:47 +1100 wrote: ./mdadm -Ss mdadm: stopped /dev/md127 ./mdadm -Asvvv mdadm: looking for devices for further assembly mdadm: no RAID superblock on /dev/dm-3 mdadm:

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Viau
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:18:13 +1000 gcsgcatl...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi, I am just starting to use RAID on my systems and it was suggested that I make sure my drives were set to raid by: fdisk -l This should say that the relavent drives are set to raid auto-detect. Gerald Where do you

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Viau
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:21:22 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:50:42 -0500 Mike wrote: How does one fix the problem of not having the array not starting at boot? To be able to answer that one would need to know exactly what is in the initramfs. And unfortunately all

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:53:37 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:39:39 + John Robinson wrote: On 17/11/2010 01:26, Neil Brown wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:02:17 -0500 Mike Viau wrote: [...] DEVICE partitions HOMEHOST ARRAY metadata=imsm UUID=084b969a

RE: How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:26:47 +1100 wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:21:22 +1100 wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:50:42 -0500 Mike wrote: How does one fix the problem of not having the array not starting at boot? To be able to answer that one would need to know exactly what is in the

How to recreate a dmraid RAID array with mdadm (was: no subject)

2010-11-13 Thread Mike Viau
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:36:00 +1100 ne...@suse.de wrote: cat /proc/mdstat (showing what mdadm shows/discovers) Personalities : md127 : inactive sda[1](S) sdb[0](S) 4514 blocks super external:imsm unused devices: As imsm can have several arrays described by one set of metadata, mdadm

RE: how to resetup fake-raid

2010-11-12 Thread Mike Viau
So it looks like I can not even access the md device the system created on boot. Does anyone have a guide or tips to migrating from the older dmraid to mdadm for fake-raid? fdisk -uc /dev/md127  (showing the block device is inaccessible) Unable to read /dev/md127 dmesg (pieces of

RE: how to resetup fake-raid

2010-11-12 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:48:48 -0500 tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Mike V. wrote: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:55 -0500 I am trying to re-setup my fake-raid (RAID1) volume with LVM2 like setup previously. I had been using

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2010-11-12 Thread Mike Viau
Hello, I am trying to re-setup my fake-raid (RAID1) volume with LVM2 like setup previously. I had been using dmraid on a Lenny installation which gave me (from memory) a block device like /dev/mapper/isw_xxx_ and also a /dev/One1TB, but have discovered that the mdadm has replaced the

how to resetup fake-raid

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Viau
mdadm: cannot open /dev/md/OneTB-RAID1-PV: No such file or directory Thanks for any ones help :) -Mike Viau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

RE: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-13 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:04:37 +0200 sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl wrote: A question about Wicid. * ability to connect to (and maintain profiles for) both wired and wireless networks; So does this mean that wicid can _not_ control/setup network bridges (e.g: with brctl)? Not sure. Try the

RE: Nouveau

2010-10-12 Thread Mike Viau
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:27:39 +0200 wrote: I am running a 2.6.32.5 kernel using Nouveau on an nvidia pci-express card. Seems to me games like penguin racer and such should run fine on this (even if not as well as with the proprietary nvidia drivers). They run, however, as if there were no

RE: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread Mike Viau
OnTue, 12 Oct 2010 14:11:13 -0700 hol...@cox.net wrote: 3. This is not the first time I am having problems with NetworkManager here on Debian, so I think I will get rid of it. The question is how to switch between available WiFi connections without NetworkManager. Wicd from the repos.

RE: nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 vs nvidia-kernel-dkms method

2010-09-28 Thread Mike Viau
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:45:01 -0500 m...@allums.com wrote: Has the nouveau code been stripped from the nvidia-kernel-2.6 packages so that it only used the NVIDIA driver module? They were still in staging, last I looked. That means that you have to enable staging drivers in the kernel

RE: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-28 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:20:12 -0500 m...@allums.com On Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:15:27 +0100 wrote: I dont know, they are normally pretty quick, but if you cant wait, purge any other flash plugins, and download the .so and drop it into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and it should be picked up by

nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 vs nvidia-kernel-dkms method

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Viau
Hello, I was just wondering what the advantages of using the nvidia-kernel-2.6 packages were in contrast to what I am/have been using which is the nvidia-glx package which depends on nvidia-kernel-dkms to compile the NVIDIA driver module (with the kernel headers) into

RE: Problem installing mount in Sid amd64!

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Viau
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:53:40 +0200 smu...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Long time on again off again, user. Have a sid-box up and running, last time i did a apt-get update apt-get -u upgrade it got stuck when it was trying to install 'mount' Preparing to replace mount 2.17.2-3.1 (using

RE: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Viau
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:49:47 +0400 mark.goldsht...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, list! Lenovo Y450-3M laptop with: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 240M] (rev a2) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 38fd Kernel driver in use: nvidia Would you, please, to explain

RE: Release File Expired on: csclub.uwaterloo.ca

2010-09-24 Thread Mike Viau
On Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:49:36 -0400 pgalla...@gmail.com wrote: I emailed the KWLUG (Kitchener-Waterloo LUG) and some of the U. Waterloo CS Club members are also members of the KWLUG. Anyway, here's what Kyle had to say about it: Last week there was a power outage which forced us to

Release File Expired on: csclub.uwaterloo.ca

2010-09-22 Thread Mike Viau
Hello, I am not really sure to whom I should inform, but it is my understanding that mirror.csclub.waterloo.ca is (or at least was) an official Debian mirror in Canada. I am in no way affiliated with the Waterloo university or aware of a contact for the mirror. It appears as if their

FW: [Xen-devel] xen 4 only seeing one keyboard and mouse, fixed in xen 4.0.2-rc-pre

2010-09-20 Thread Mike Viau
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:05:06 +0300 pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:51:52AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:49:02PM +0100, M A Young wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: Compared this to how Xen works it is pretty much exactly

RE: Viewing Office 2007 files

2010-09-19 Thread Mike Viau
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:02:27 + noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:41:40 +, T o n g wrote: It's so annoying that Ms changes its file format again and people started to jumping ships. I can't view any of the Office 2007 files that people sent me. What's your solution to

RE: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-19 Thread Mike Viau
On Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:15:42 -0400 jstuc...@attglobal.net This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically took the defaults, with a couple of changes to get it to install and get gnome's display correct. I still have several problems, which may be related. The

RE: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:05:40 + noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? I've only seen such advanced options in Adobe

RE: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:07:52 +1000 prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: While it's not Adobe Professional I like flpsed - it'll do most of what you require. Generally I find it easier to just do everything as a document and export the pdf. Foomatic-rip is useful too.

RE: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Viau
On Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:15:27 +0100 demide...@gmail.com wrote: I dont know, they are normally pretty quick, but if you cant wait, purge any other flash plugins, and download the .so and drop it into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and it should be picked up by pretty much everything! +1

RE: make-kpkg (from kernel-package) does not build xen patched kernel

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Viau
Going to try a make-file patch when I get some time. The patch was offered from a user on the Xen-user mailing list. [1] http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-09/msg00396.html -M Subject: make-kpkg (from kernel-package) does not build xen

make-kpkg (from kernel-package) does not build xen patched kernel

2010-09-14 Thread Mike Viau
Hello list, I cannot get make-kpkg to build a Xenlinux type kernel into a Debian kernel binary on my Debian Squeeze x86_64 system. I am using GNU/Linux kernel sources tree (2.6.34.4) with Xen patches for this custom kernel. I am trying to use the make-kpkg command to build a working

RE: NetworkManager Bridging devices

2010-09-10 Thread Mike Viau
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:14:41 +0200 nfs_2...@chubig.net wrote: Good evening, I’m using NetworkManager to automatically connect to a number of wifi networks as well as to ethernet networks at home and in university. I’m also using the dispatcher to run custom scripts depending on the network

RE: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-10 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:43:35 +0200 ed3lt...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 09/07/2010 03:16 PM, schrob B. Alexander: This morning, after idling all weekend, iceweasel on my work system was chewing up between 70 and 100% of my cpus, and scrolling pages were hesitating for several seconds.

RE: Upgrade of squeeze hangs on apt (0.7.26~exp3)

2010-09-05 Thread Mike Viau
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:52:29 -0400 bro...@historicalmaterialism.info wrote: With a brand new installation of squeeze, one of my first steps was to do a package update and a safe-upgrade. The former went well, but when I tried to upgrade the 22 updated packages, the upgrade proceedure

RE: uPnP state in debian ?

2010-09-05 Thread Mike Viau
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 13:35:10 -0500 greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: Mathieu Malaterre wrote at 2010-09-05 07:38 -0500: I would like to know if anyone has setup a uPnP server on a debian box ? I am looking at the following ITP: #469397 #450520 but it seems they have not been integrated

RE: What is the best way to migrate a server to new hardware?

2010-09-01 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:18:38 -0500 rac...@makeworld.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: I like the dpkg method myself. Of course this won't help if you have lots of custom conf file in etc. In that case, creating a tarball of etc would

RE: building 2.6.35

2010-08-10 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:45:04 +0800 a...@samad.com.au wrote: [snip] I did trying using the packages for 2.6.35, but you can't install the headers because the linux-kbuild-2.6.35 is there Why do you want to install the headers if you already have the whole kernel source code? What

RE: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mike Viau
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:24:52 -0700 Subject: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny From: mamar...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I am curious how others on this list manage their laptop batteries while using Debian. From doing some research, there doesn't appear to be

RE: Trouble compiling generic kernel

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Viau
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:22:29 -0500 s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Setting CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 in your user environment should fix this, at least, it used to. From the bash command line, for the current session only: export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=4 To make it permanent you need to edit

Debian way to essentially call block phone number

2010-07-17 Thread Mike Viau
Hello list, I was wondering if anyone runs a system that essentially blocks unwanted calls from a list of programmed phone numbers. I have the caller display option on my phones service that returns the phone number of most incoming calls. I came across this idea after reading: If you want

RE: Debian Network install disk doesn't find NIC

2010-07-09 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 20:14:07 -0400 From: titan8...@gmail.com wrote: Try the kmuto[1] installers. They have up-to-date kernels that are more likely to support new hardware. If that is the case, just install the lenny-backports kernel after installation is complete. [1]

RE: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-03 Thread Mike Viau
Does this mkfs work around work to preserve the performance of the drive? By using the -b 4096 (to signify the 4k sectors) when creating partitions such as: mkfs -t ext4 -b 4096 /dev/sda1 Is there any implication for mounting a partition formatted with the above command (e.g: mounting in

RE: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-03 Thread Mike Viau
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:01:40 -0500 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: I think that the partitioning tool (fdisk, cfdisk, parted, ...) is what is really important. That is because filesystems already use 4KB block sizes. Possibly also fsck. There was a recent IBM DeveloperWorks article on

FW: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-03 Thread Mike Viau
On the link http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/index.html [snip] Tip: If you want to dual-boot between Linux and an older operating system that requires cylinder alignment, try aligning the starts of all your partitions on multiples of eight cylinders. This

RE: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-03 Thread Mike Viau
On the link http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/index.html [snip] Tip: If you want to dual-boot between Linux and an older operating system that requires cylinder alignment, try aligning the starts of all your partitions on multiples of eight cylinders. This

Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Viau
Hello List, I was just wondering what some of the debian community users has been experiencing in regards to the new Western Digital 4K Advanced format drives? Has any one tried using one of these drives on the 2.6.26 (64/32 bit) kernel shipped with Lenny stable? How about with the

RE: Xen on Squeeze won't start

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Viau
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:51:14 -0700 Subject: Re: Xen on Squeeze won't start From: rip...@woodlandschools.org To: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: wa...@debian.org Well just in case someone else hits this... once my colleague suggested I look closer at what grub2 was doing, and after

RE: pygrub is failing to boot centos domu on Debian lenny dom0

2010-05-28 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 28 May 2010 21:42:33 +0200 d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: In case you are still reading this list, you might want to try this¹ tool. It is used to bootstrap RPM-based distros in Debian+Xen. CentOS 5 is listed as supported. Maybe you reconsider your decision, and give Squeeze a

Any file details on an executable binary file?

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Viau
Hello list, I was wondering if anyone could suggest a package or means to look at any or all of the information from a given executable binary file: - What compiler compiled it - What (source) language was it compiled from - What computer architecture the file was compiled for - How many

RE: Any file details on an executable binary file?

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, 14 May 2010 22:22:01 +0530 aspn...@gmail.com wrote: Also you could try and analyze the output of the following readelf -a executable ldd executable strings executable For example most of the files compiled with g++ has a dependability on libstdc++.so.6 Wow the output of

RE: adding 192.x with static IP

2010-05-03 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 3 May 2010 22:11:59 -0400 net...@gmail.com wrote: I have a static IP setup, I wish to add a router and it has a web interface, I can get to it if I start a DHCP server and then 192.168.1.1 is setup, but I'd really prefer to not do this. Why might DHCP be unacceptable in your setup?

RE: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Mike Viau
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram aspn...@gmail.com wrote: You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system by apt-show-versions | grep unstable Or aptitude

RE: Aptitude Error

2010-04-30 Thread Mike Viau
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:10:56 -0700 dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:04:07AM -0400, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com was heard to say: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand

RE: xen

2010-04-16 Thread Mike Viau
Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:55:32 +0800 john...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello there, Ny name is Ian, from Perth Australia. I have a question to be answered please. I'm a linux user, so I use suse, debian, ubuntu and gentoo, and fedora.I'm interested in exploring the capabilities of xen and have

RE: C programming question

2010-04-13 Thread Mike Viau
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:29:51 -0500 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 2010-04-13 17:16, Stephen Powell wrote: I realize that this is not a C forum, per se, but this is a Debian-specific C question. I am trying to add support to the parted utility for CMS-formatted [snip] I know how to

RE: Debian Lenny + Grub2 + kernel message log capturing

2010-04-12 Thread Mike Viau
Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:20:54 -0400 Hello, I was hoping to get some feedback or tips on how to setup a PCI serial card (not onboard) for kernel message log capturing. I am using Debian Lenny x64 with the grub2 bootloader. This might sound like an easy question, but does the Linux

Debian Lenny + Grub2 + kernel message log capturing

2010-04-10 Thread Mike Viau
Hello, I was hoping to get some feedback or tips on how to setup a PCI serial card (not onboard) for kernel message log capturing. I am using Debian Lenny x64 with the grub2 bootloader. This might sound like an easy question, but does the Linux kernel module have to be compiled with the

RE: silverlight

2010-04-07 Thread Mike Viau
Wed, 7 Apr 2010 08:11:21 -0700 jerjoz.for...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Robin Krahl ro...@rkrahl.de wrote: On 07.04.2010 16:26, steef wrote: somebody out there knows of an linux_equivalent for MS's siverlight?? Moonlight [1] is a Open Source version of Silverlight, working

How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-05 Thread Mike Viau
Hello, I have used aptitude show $(package_name) to list the details of a given package. In the output of the vlan package for example one gets output like: [snip] Priority: extra Section: misc [/snip] How might one determine all packages (installed or not) that fall under a particular

RE: How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-05 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:47:36 -0400 tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: I have used aptitude show $(package_name) to list the details of a given package. In the output of the vlan package for example one gets output like

RE: [SOLVED] How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-05 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:25:53 -0500 b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Monday 05 April 2010 17:14:42 Mike Viau wrote: Both aptitude search ~pextra ~smisc and aptitude search ~pextra search ~smisc resulted in a list of package which did not necessarily meet both the search patterns specified

[SOLVED] Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-04-01 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:47:40 +1100 a...@samad.com.au wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: Could there be an issue with MTU size? don't thing so [snip] My findings. # dig @10.254.2.254 google.com ; DiG 9.4.3-P2 @10.254.2.254

RE: Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-28 Thread Mike Viau
Could there be an issue with MTU size? Also has anyone witnessed a similar problem where a network is able to ping as well as lease an IP from a dchp server, but can not query the DNS service from the same server as the DHCP (no firewalling or ACLs in place) ? -M Fri, 26 Mar 2010

RE: [UPDATE] Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-26 Thread Mike Viau
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:00:51 -0400 tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Why not add a dns-nameservers to iface br200? Updated my /etc/network/interfaces with: # INTERNAL LAN VLAN/BRIDGE iface eth1.200 inet manual auto br200 iface br200 inet static dns-nameservers 10.254.2.254 address

Working network connectivity, not working DNS resolutions

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Viau
Hello debian-users, I have run into an interesting issue with the DNS resolution on only one of my debian lenny systems on my network. I have confirmed that this system has working network connectivity but I would like to restore the ability to query DNS records from my local DNS server

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