On 14 Jan, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm experiencing a problem where during an X session the machine
inexplicably freezes up... networking along with mouse keyboard etc.
No access is then possible via ssh or any other way other than a hard
reboot.
I've attempted to debug the problem by first
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:38:27 + (UTC), James wrote:
Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for
8 months.
It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu
You need to give a better description. By the KDE menu, do you mean the
kdm login screen? What happens when you
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:19:56 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
I wasn't thinking that at all. You use sshfs to mount the remote
directory locally, then mount that with encfs. All the remote host
needs is ssh.
I'm not sure what is going wrong here, if neither of us is listening
to the other
ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com wrote:
http://tobias.rautenkranz.ch/libdvdread_ifo.html.en
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460400
Might help to upgrade to a newer version of libdvdread (you don't say
which version you have installed)?
I am wondering if you
pk wrote:
John H. Moe wrote:
play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and
AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem:
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3362902
libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 18 (VTS_18_0.IFO).
Not sure if this is the solution but
James wrote:
Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for
8 months.
It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu
ssh works fine and all packages are current.
Any suggestions on how to get this fixed?
Sorry, my psychic powers are not functioning today. You
John H. Moe wrote:
pk wrote:
John H. Moe wrote:
play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and
AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem:
libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3362902
libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 18 (VTS_18_0.IFO).
Some time ago, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:21:26 Alex Schuster wrote:
I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full
~x86 system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while
going from x86 to ~x86 is easy, the other way is quite
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:38:27 + (UTC), James wrote:
Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for
8 months.
It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu
You need to give a better description. By the KDE menu, do you mean the
kdm login
John H. Moe wrote:
Any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
libdvdread is part of the mplayer project so I would try mplayer mail
list. Other than that you could try what Ubiquitous1980 or Joerg
suggests. Sorry, I don't have any other ideas, but I think mplayer mail
list is the safest
On Friday 15 January 2010 15:04:12 Alex Schuster wrote:
Some time ago, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:21:26 Alex Schuster wrote:
I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full
~x86 system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes:
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:38:27 + (UTC), James wrote:
Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for
8 months.
It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu
You need to give a better description. By the KDE menu,
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:10 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/14/2010 01:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
An old machine hadn't been turned on in a few months. I decided I
try getting it up to date so I went through an emerge cycle to see if
I could get things going. It was a little
On 15 Jan, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:10 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/14/2010 01:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
An old machine hadn't been turned on in a few months. I decided I
try getting it up to date so I went through an emerge cycle to see if
I could get
Hi, I'm facing this problem:
I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger
one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point
permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive
to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course,
I'd like to
Tar is your friend and ally.
1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point.
2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR
3. remove old drive, configure the new one as your primary.
4. get a drink.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jarry
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes:
To exclude a software problem, try booting from a
SystemRescue-CD
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
It's Gentoo based and sports an X-Server.
Thanks for the recue disk tip.
That are the problems that makes one crazy!
Well put...
remember to use --exclude to exclude your new drive's mounted point. \
and to use a pipe
so your command would look like:
r...@yoursystem #cd /
r...@yoursystem #tar -cvpzf - -–exclude=/- --exclude=/mnt/newdrive | cd
/mnt/newdrive (tar -xvpf -)
If all else fails!
# man tar
Regards,
Hazen.
On
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of
anything better.
I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall
So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when
I test what all gets installed with:
emerge -vp xfce4-meta
I notice that xorg-x11 is
Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote:
Tar is your friend and ally.
1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point.
2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR
3. remove old drive, configure the new one as your primary.
4. get a drink.
On Fri, Jan
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes:
Does the machine run well enough that you can reinstall both glibc
and udev again?
Not right now. After the boot complains that the super block isn't
right the disk is getting mounted read only. I cannot even edit a file
with vi.
Try
cp -a works, i just like pipes.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote:
Tar is your friend and ally.
1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point.
2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose
Jarry wrote:
Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else?
Boot a live CD, mount a source partition to /mnt/src, a destination
partition to /mnt/dst (with the right options, e.g. acl and
user_xattr if you use them), then:
rsync -avHAX /mnt/src/ /mnt/dst
(The slash after src is
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Em 15-01-2010 15:33, Jarry escreveu:
Hi, I'm facing this problem:
I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger
one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point
permanently, I just want to copy everything from
[Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have
made it to the mail/news server]
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of
anything better.
I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall
So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did
On Friday 15 January 2010 20:43:32 Harry Putnam wrote:
[Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have
made it to the mail/news server]
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of
anything better.
I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full
And what about dd?
Not the fastest solution, but it is copy the mbr, the boot loader, the
partition table and all partitions. After it you should use the parted
or the gparted to move/resize the necesarry partitions.
--
Szénási István
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of
anything better.
I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall
So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when
I test what all gets
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
On Friday 15 January 2010 20:43:32 Harry Putnam wrote:
[Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have
made it to the mail/news server]
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of
anything
I'm probably way behind the eightball asking something like this,
but I'm wondering what role `dev-libs/boost' plays with encfs.
The home page indicates its something of a helper application for
using cpp++ programming language and applications.
The reason I ask is that it appears to be up there
On 15 Jan 2010, at 20:12, Szénási István wrote:
And what about dd?
Not the fastest solution, but it is copy the mbr, the boot loader, the
partition table and all partitions. After it you should use the parted
or the gparted to move/resize the necesarry partitions.
It should be mentioned that
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 16:13:38 Arnau Bria wrote:
Hi all,
I'm moving from amarok to exaile.
Now I'm trying to configure my global shortcuts on XFCE. I've read
somewhere (forums+google) that I should have some exaile plugin called
keyboard shortcut, but I don't have it when I open
On Friday 15 January 2010 23:31:52 you wrote:
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 16:13:38 Arnau Bria wrote:
Hi all,
I'm moving from amarok to exaile.
Now I'm trying to configure my global shortcuts on XFCE. I've read
somewhere (forums+google) that I should have some exaile plugin called
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 23:11 +, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm probably way behind the eightball asking something like this,
but I'm wondering what role `dev-libs/boost' plays with encfs.
Boost is a C++ library. It provides facilities for such things as
handling XML, abstracting filesystems,
Hi all,
For a long time I've been using nvidia's twinview for two 1920x1200
displays (laptop and external LCD).
Whenever I dock / undock I have to run nvidia-settings to change the
resolution from the virtual 3840x1200 to 1920x1200 or vice versa. Also
since two screens is the Default I have to
Hi again,
just when I think I'm solving problems here's another one:
my laptop mpci wireless card is detected by lspci as:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or
AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
with 2.6.31 everything works fine (network manager, wpa
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