Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 04:08:31PM -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Hi, > I still haven't found a good explanation for the umask option- nothing in > man pages under "umask", very little under pam_umask or pam ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask man 2 umask is in manpages-dev in case tha

KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
With the problems I seem to be having with Gnome3 (not the problem that most people have with the shell, which I like - but other applications which seem to have become flakey - Gedit crashes on closing a tab, Nautilus FTP doesn't seem to work half the time, issues I have been discussing here a

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 26 nov 11, 18:20:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I'm not certain, but I THINK that these lines are all referring to > packages that were removed by the update, but whose config files > were not purged. There are 47 such files according to 'dpkg -l | > grep ^rc' and I recall apt-get saying that

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 26/11/11 21:18, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, try this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/82652/file-association-to-unlisted-application It basically says that you have to append a trailing "%U" at "/usr/share/ applications/freemind.deskop" file, at the "Exec" stanza, that is: *** Exec=/usr/bin/fre

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-27 Thread Olivier BATARD
Envoyé de mon iPhone Le 26 nov. 2011 à 18:43, Stephen Allen a écrit : > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 04:21:52PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Olivier BATARD wrote: >>> I'm just interested on how, after googling for a long time, on a >>> debian, can we manage users's passwords. I mean how can we manage

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/11 20:00, Alan Chandler wrote: > With the problems I seem to be having with Gnome3 (not the problem > that most people have with the shell, which I like - but other > applications which seem to have become flakey - Gedit crashes on > closing a tab, Nautilus FTP doesn't seem to work half th

Brightness after screensaver start - genome 3

2011-11-27 Thread Marcelo Luiz de Laia
After a few time screensaver start and lock my notebook screen. When I unlosck it, I need to manually set the screen Brightness with Fn + Up arrow. In gnome 2 the Brightness was setted automatically after unlock screen. What I need to do to get my screen Brightness adjusted automatically after un

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Alan! Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011 schrieb Alan Chandler: > With the problems I seem to be having with Gnome3 (not the problem that […] > ...) I decided to give KDE 4 another try (I had switched to Gnome from > KDE when KDE 4 was first introduced). > > I am struggling with the concepts behind

Re: reduce crypt partition

2011-11-27 Thread Arno Schuring
scar (s...@drigon.com on 2011-11-25 13:56 -0700): > i need a little help reducing my crypt partition. when i first > installed debian, i used a rather standard /boot on /dev/hda1 and > crypt on /dev/hda2, using LVM for the rest of the partitions. [..] > > $ sudo fdisk -l Advice: use fdisk -u. It

How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Cam Hutchison
I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components. I don't like any of it. What I like is the setup I had. I had GNOME 2 set up just the way I wanted it, and there was nothing wrong with it. Is there any w

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011 schrieb Alan Chandler: > With the problems I seem to be having with Gnome3 (not the problem that > most people have with the shell, which I like - but other applications > which seem to have become flakey - Gedit crashes on closing a tab, > Nautilus FTP doesn't seem to

Linux 3.1 and r300

2011-11-27 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi all, Since the upgrade to the 3.1 kernel, I'm seeing display flickers on two machines with an older ATI card (a 9600 and X1500). One machine is very vocal about EDID errors and blinks the display roughly every ten seconds, making it impossible to work with. The other logs no EDID errors and onl

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/11 10:43, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/11/11 20:00, Alan Chandler wrote: With the problems I seem to be having with Gnome3 (not the problem that most people have with the shell, which I like - but other applications which seem to have become flakey - Gedit crashes on closing a tab, Nauti

Re: Linux 3.1 and r300

2011-11-27 Thread Richard
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:17:21 +0100 Arno Schuring wrote: > Hi all, > > Since the upgrade to the 3.1 kernel, I'm seeing display flickers on > two machines with an older ATI card (a 9600 and X1500). One machine is > very vocal about EDID errors and blinks the display roughly every ten > seconds, ma

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-26, Brad Alexander wrote: > > That is the reason I encrypt the entire banana rather than trying to > encrypt the peel. Makes sense to me (I guess). I don't need to encrypt anything but my home directory (certain folders). I think I could do all I need to do with ccrypt, but I haven't

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/11 23:21, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 27/11/11 10:43, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 27/11/11 20:00, Alan Chandler wrote: >>> With the problems I seem to be having with Gnome3 (not the problem >>> that most people have with the shell, which I like - but other >>> applications which seem to have

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread J. Bakshi
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:11:14 -0500 Andrew Reid wrote: > I've had an LVM/luks-encrypted root partition (includes everything > except /boot, on various logical volumes) for several years on two > different Lenovo Thinkpads, and while I've never done any benchmarks, > I haven't noticed any perfor

Re: why does mplayer sound bad and flashplugin-nonfree sound good?

2011-11-27 Thread Curt
On 2011-11-26, Brian wrote: > On Sat 26 Nov 2011 at 18:51:20 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > >> For http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyovCNUDvpU&list=PLDE211ADDDB800FD2 >> why when I download it with clive -f best then listen via mplayer, I >> hear crackles like my headphones can't handle the be

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 11/27/2011 09:04 AM, Cam Hutchison wrote: > Are the debian patches for the last of the GNOME 2 releases still > available? Can I build my own packages? You can find packages here: http://snapshot.debian.org/ But if they are not uninstallable already because of dependency problems, they soon wil

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Cam Hutchison wrote: >I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried >xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components. > >I don't like any of it. > >What I like is the setup I had. I had GNOME 2 set up just the way I >wanted it, and there was nothing w

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-27 Thread Ramon Hofer
Thanks alot for all the infos. Very helpful! I'll try that this evening :-) On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:57:03 +0100, Lou wrote: > Maybe you can choose a solution where you unmount the array before you > put them to sleep, just to be on the save side? I never used this, since > I prefer to shutdown a

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 11/27/2011 09:04 AM, Cam Hutchison wrote: Are the debian patches for the last of the GNOME 2 releases still available? Can I build my own packages? You can find packages here: http://snapshot.debian.org/ But if they are not uninstallable already because of depend

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/11 09:00, Alan Chandler wrote: ... This shows I have two activities both named "New Activity". I should then right click on a desktop and select "Desktop Settings" I should see a window with the left pane having three options "Wallpaper", "Activity" and "Mouse Actions". Instead I see a w

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-27 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:39:16 +0100, Lou wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:14:31 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >> Maybe this is important: >> I use Squeeze, 2.6.32-5-amd64, hdparm v9.32, the drive sdc is a WDC >> WD20EARS-00MVWB0 and the mainboard an ASUS P7P55D. >> >> >> > It's very good you menti

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Brad Alexander
What about your /etc/shadow file and other config files in /etc? As I said, I have been running LUKS + cryptsetup on a number of machines for years: my laptop, a C2D P9600 - Built Nov 2010 my desktop, a C2D E4500 - (Re)built 2007 backup server, a 2GHz P4 - (Re)built 2008 etc... Nothing has faile

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Brad Alexander
You need your windows in an unencrypted partition. At that point, grub should detect it. You should have at least two unencrypted partitions -- Your windows dual-boot and /boot...And optionally swap, but that would be separately encrypted. --b On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:18 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: >

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011 schrieb Alan Chandler: > On 27/11/11 09:00, Alan Chandler wrote: > ... > > > This shows I have two activities both named "New Activity". I should > > then right click on a desktop and select "Desktop Settings" I should > > see a window with the left pane having three

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread J. Bakshi
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:53:21 -0500 Brad Alexander wrote: > You need your windows in an unencrypted partition. At that point, grub > should detect it. You should have at least two unencrypted partitions -- > Your windows dual-boot and /boot...And optionally swap, but that would be > separately enc

Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?

2011-11-27 Thread Paul Isambert
Hello, I've installed gVim with Xfce. My shortcuts made of Ctrl-F1 to Ctrl-F12 and Alt-F1 to Alt-F12 doesn't work. Instead, they seem to be executed for Xfce: I've noticed that because Alt-F2 launches an app in Xfce, and that's what happens in gVim too. So is it possible to give control to a

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread keitho
Thank you Sven- The wikipedia article was just what I needed :-) Keith > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 04:08:31PM -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > > Hi, > >> I still haven't found a good explanation for the umask option- nothing >> in >> man pages under "umask", very little under pam_umask or pa

Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?

2011-11-27 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
Hi, Yes, Xfce does still some shortcuts (never came acroos problems with F1 to F12). you can define Xfce specific shortcuts in settings -> keyboard so that they wont interfere with yours. Regards - Roman On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Paul Isambert wrote: > Hello, > > I've instal

Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?

2011-11-27 Thread Paul Isambert
Thank you Roman. Removing Alt-F2 in the shortcut settings did give me some Alt-shortcuts back, but Ctrl-shortcuts still won't work, even when I remove everything in the settings. Any idea? Paul On 27/11/2011 16:41, Roman Khomasuridze wrote: Hi, Yes, Xfce does still some shortcuts (never ca

Re: SATA disc spindown

2011-11-27 Thread Lou
Hello Ramon, Please check the wdc link [1] I gave you again, WD20EARS is on the list. The wiki article can't keep up all the time with newer green series coming out. [1] http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5357 Regards Lou Ramon Hofer wrote: Sorry, one more question to the wd

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Nigel W wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Raf Czlonka wrote: > >> Sthu hadn't mentioned even once that he tries to run those as root. > > > > Uhm... What? But he did! You must have missed that he said he > > wanted to run them from gksu. If you are not familiar with it that is > > the entire purpo

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Nov 2011 at 16:07:20 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > Thanks to Camaleon, John Lindsay, and Chris Brennan for responding. > > This statement put into my /etc/fstab seems to have worked, and auto mount > as well: > > UUID=9419-5112/usbvfatuid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,uma

installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Francesco Pietra
Installer debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded Nov27 2011 fails to configure DHCP either automatically, with hostname, or manually. Otherwise, the Realtek card works perfectly on this machine (I just wanted to reinstall in order to reshape partitions). Then, I noticed that this is a standing

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:00:13 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > Sthu Deus wrote: >> >> I can not run two applications w/ gksu: >> >> >> >> chromium and >> >> qbittorrent >> > >> > Why do you want to run those applications as root? You should not do >> > this.

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:07:20 -0800, keitho wrote: > Thanks to Camaleon, John Lindsay, and Chris Brennan for responding. > > This statement put into my /etc/fstab seems to have worked, and auto > mount as well: > > UUID=9419-5112/usbvfatuid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,umask= 0 0 > > T

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:43:15 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 26/11/11 21:18, Camaleón wrote: > >> Anyway, try this: >> >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/82652/file-association-to-unlisted-application >> >> It basically says that you have to append a trailing "%U" at >> "/usr/share/ applications/

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +, Cam Hutchison wrote: > I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried > xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components. > > I don't like any of it. > > What I like is the setup I had. I had GNOME 2 set up just the

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: Envoyé de mon iPhone > > Le 26 nov. 2011 à 18:43, Stephen Allen a > écrit : > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 04:21:52PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Olivier BATARD wrote: > >>> I'm just interested on how, after googling for a long time, on a >

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread SM
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 04:07:32PM +, Brian wrote: > The usual Debian way of dealing with that situation is > to give users permission to mount removable devices by putting them in > the plugdev group. Or just install pmount. Plug the device in, do "dmesg | tail" to check the device and "pmoun

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Also fails to configure automatically without host name. I think what's really happening here is a configuration is attempted and the system fails to check for success or failure status of that configuration and just assumes the configuration has happened as it moves along to the next step. W

Re: Xfce steals keyboard shortcuts?

2011-11-27 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
Sorry, forgot to mention that in previous post..see settings -> window manager -> keyboard. there are bunch of related shortcuts there. remove them and you'll be all set up. Regards - roman On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Paul Isambert wrote: > ** > Thank you Roman. > > Removing A

Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-27 Thread Tim Heckman
John Hasler writes: Ok. Is the idea to image all the machines identically and then configure them automatically via dhcp? If so why do they need locally configured hostnames at all? By default all of our distribution templates set the hostname of the system, via DHCP, to match the default PT

Re: Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-27 Thread Tim Heckman
Bob Proulx wrote: Tim Heckman wrote: Luckily the two of these issues won't come in to play here. This is going to be used on a system that does not have X installed and will have a static IP address. We use DHCP to assign the address as it is easier to deploy a new distribution for our custome

.deb / dpkg for dummies

2011-11-27 Thread Rogelio
Is there a good overview on how to really use these tools? I simply copy/paste commands all the time, and I'm hoping for some sort of primer or tutorial that helps be able to do this from scratch without a cheat sheet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:22:37 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. In a typical Debian boot, there are three separate mountings of a root file system. The first stage is the initial RAM file system, which is mounted as the r

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:20:59 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I'm not certain, but I THINK that these lines are all referring to > packages that were removed by the update, but whose config files were > not purged. There are 47 such files according to 'dpkg -l | grep ^rc' > and I recall ap

Re: .deb / dpkg for dummies

2011-11-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Nov 2011 at 10:53:25 -0800, Rogelio wrote: > Is there a good overview on how to really use these tools? A search with 'dpkg cheat sheet' should get you something useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Nov 2011 at 19:49:53 +0200, SM wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 04:07:32PM +, Brian wrote: > > The usual Debian way of dealing with that situation is > > to give users permission to mount removable devices by putting them in > > the plugdev group. > > Or just install pmount. Plug th

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:22:51 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:43:15 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > >> On 26/11/11 21:18, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> Anyway, try this: >>> >>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/82652/file-association-to-unlisted- application >>> >>> It basically says that yo

Re: reduce crypt partition

2011-11-27 Thread scar
Arno Schuring @ 11/27/2011 04:59 AM: > Advice: use fdisk -u. > [..] > Total sectors = 5119*8192 = 41934848 thank you!! i added an extra 5120 sectors just to be safe and used +41939968 in fdisk. all seems to be working well and i now have ~18G free space. i'm surprised and pleased it's so simpl

Re: .deb / dpkg for dummies

2011-11-27 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
Hi There is also great (freely available) chapter from debian administrators handbook [1]. it is more in-depth i guess, but it gives great overview of whole package management process. recommended. 1. http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/11/15/20-things-to-learn-with-the-free-chapter-of-the-debian-admi

Re: .deb / dpkg for dummies

2011-11-27 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
and also, debian reference card. Regards - Roman On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > Hi > > There is also great (freely available) chapter from debian administrators > handbook [1]. it is more in-depth i guess, but it gives great overview of > whole package

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 27 November 2011 8:29:19 am Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +, Cam Hutchison wrote: > > I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried > > xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components. > > > > I don't like any of it. >

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 11:11, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:22:37 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. The specifications for the root file system in /etc/lilo.conf and in /etc/fstab do not match. In /etc/lilo.conf, you

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Vasileios Karaklioumis
DNS is a big problem for me as well(DHCP mostly works), maybe just use static ips for that? On Nov 27, 2011 8:23 PM, "Jude DaShiell" wrote: > Also fails to configure automatically without host name. I think what's > really happening here is a configuration is attempted and the system fails > to

Re: KDE activities

2011-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/11 11:11, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Its a bit difficult to grasp the concepts and differences between virtual desktops versus activies. I found the excellent blog of Chani, who develops on KDE activities as well, very help ful in understand activities. For example: {December 26, 2010}

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:36:27 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Let me know how that works out for you. I didn't see any obvious >> problems in your /etc/apt/sources.list. > > Well, that didn't work, but I purged all of the packages with conffiles > (manually, as I did i

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +, Cam Hutchison wrote: > I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried > xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components. > > I don't like any of it. > > What I like is the setup I had. I had GNOME 2 set up just the

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 12:36, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/11 11:11, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:22:37 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. The specifications for the root file system in /etc/lilo.conf and in /etc/fsta

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 13:30, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:36:27 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Let me know how that works out for you. I didn't see any obvious problems in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Well, that didn't work, but I purged all of the packages with

Re: Linux 3.1 and r300

2011-11-27 Thread Siard
Arno Schuring: > Since the upgrade to the 3.1 kernel, I'm seeing display flickers on > two machines with an older ATI card (a 9600 and X1500). One machine is > very vocal about EDID errors and blinks the display roughly every ten > seconds, making it impossible to work with. The other logs no EDID

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Those are available but you have to take a 30 year fixed mortgage on your house to pay for them. Those would help out with bittorrent too if they were economical.On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Vasileios Karaklioumis wrote: > DNS is a big problem for me as well(DHCP mostly works), maybe just use > static

Re: Linux 3.1 and r300

2011-11-27 Thread Siard
Arno Schuring: > Since the upgrade to the 3.1 kernel, I'm seeing display flickers on > two machines with an older ATI card (a 9600 and X1500). One machine is > very vocal about EDID errors and blinks the display roughly every ten > seconds, making it impossible to work with. The other logs no EDID

Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Robert S
I recently rebooted my server and mysql didn't start - it reported password problems. I have reset the root password but there are other errors: # /etc/init.d/mysql start Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables.. ERROR 1045 (28

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Rob Andrews
On 27 Nov 2011, at 16:40, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Installer debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded Nov27 2011 fails > to configure DHCP either automatically, with hostname, or manually. > Otherwise, the Realtek card works perfectly on this machine (I just > wanted to reinstall in order to res

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Richard
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:40:34 +0200 Vasileios Karaklioumis wrote: > DNS is a big problem for me as well(DHCP mostly works), maybe just use > static ips for that? > On Nov 27, 2011 8:23 PM, "Jude DaShiell" wrote: > > > Also fails to configure automatically without host name. I think what's > > r

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:38:20 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I reran lilo and rebooted, but the problems remained. I found that by > changing the last column in /etc/fstab from '2' to '0' on the removable > flash drives eliminated those errors. I hadn't noticed that, but yes, the "pass" o

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
This happens on an amd athelon k8 using wheezy not squeeze. On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Richard wrote: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:40:34 +0200 > Vasileios Karaklioumis wrote: > > > DNS is a big problem for me as well(DHCP mostly works), maybe just use > > static ips for that? > > On Nov 27, 2011 8:23 PM,

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:26:52 +1100, Robert S wrote: > I recently rebooted my server and mysql didn't start - it reported > password problems. I have reset the root password but there are other > errors: > > # /etc/init.d/mysql start Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. > Checking for corrupt,

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Vasileios Karaklioumis
Oh, sorry. I meant define a fixed ip for the device on your network not the external one. When you configure settings, try to used a fixed ip address and define a google dns (4.4.4.4 8.8.8.8 are the ones and are much faster than my provider). BTW it iwas 5€/month here in Greece for a static.

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Norval Watson
> > > Installer debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded Nov27 2011 fails > > > to configure DHCP either automatically, with hostname, or manually. Possible workaround is once the DHCP config fails, hit Continue, select auto config step again, and then it may well succeed. Not very elegant, but

Re: Re: Re: Getty is spawning to early

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Heckman wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Tim Heckman wrote: > > > The last time dhclient was attempted with this would have been on > > > Debian 5.0. In our most recent Debian 6.0 template someone decided > > > to use dhcpcd, > > >What were they using before? > > In Debian 5.0 dhcp3-client was t

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:38:19PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: > > Envoyé de mon iPhone > > > > Anyone knows an offline tool like lastpass ? > > > LastPass is online and KeePass is offline. Honestly, I would trust KeePass > over LastPass.

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Norval Watson wrote: > > > > Installer debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded Nov27 2011 fails > > > > to configure DHCP either automatically, with hostname, or manually. > > Possible workaround is once the DHCP config fails, hit Continue, select > auto config step again, and then it may well

Re: Chromium in Sid not working

2011-11-27 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 05:37:26PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Allen wrote: > > > The linux Chrome binary from Google appears to work fine on both machines. > > > > I don't use the Debian Chromium as it's too old. > > I think you must be thinking of the Chromium in Stable Squeeze which >

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert S wrote: > Subject: Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table > I recently rebooted my server and mysql didn't start - it reported > password problems. I have reset the root password but there are > other errors: > > # /etc/init.d/mysql start > Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. > Checking for c

Re: Chromium in Sid not working

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen Allen wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Stephen Allen wrote: > > > I don't use the Debian Chromium as it's too old. > > > > I think you must be thinking of the Chromium in Stable Squeeze which > > released with version 6. That isn't the one under discussion. Stable > > is stable and so that

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

2011-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/11 03:40, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Installer debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso ^ > downloaded Nov27 2011 fails > to configure DHCP either automatically, with hostname, or manually. > Otherwise, the Realtek card works perfectly on this machine (I just > wanted to r

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:13:33 -0500, Carl wrote in message <2026131333.ga5...@panix.com>: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:06:00PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..are you using the "radeon" driver? > > Yes. > > > (2 more alternatives to try, "radeonhd" and > > "fglrx", I have no experienc

Re: why does mplayer sound bad and flashplugin-nonfree sound good?

2011-11-27 Thread jidanni
> "C" == Camaleón writes: C> What happens when ypu open the file with another media player? It sounds great! OK I filed http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=2019 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 05:26:52PM -0500, Robert S wrote: > I recently rebooted my server and mysql didn't start - it reported password > problems. I have reset the root password but there are other errors: > > # /etc/init.d/mysql start > Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. > Checking for co

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Robert S
Thanks. After backing up the entire system here's what I get when I try to reconfigure mysql: # dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.1 Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld. 28 12:43:41 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 28 12:43:41 InnoDB: Star

Re: Wifi card Realtek 8192SEvB not working on a Lenovo Thinkpad T500 on Debian testing

2011-11-27 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 07:37:43PM +0100, Eric Veiras Galisson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Eric Veiras Galisson < > eric.veirasgalis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > i recently upgraded my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T500) from squeeze to > > testing and the PCMCIA Wifi card I was

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Robert S
As Bob mentioned, this is most likely because you deleted the debian-sys-maint user. Set up the user e.g. with: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'xx'; and make sure that the password mentioned in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf is valid. Unfortunatel

Re: Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

2011-11-27 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:49:53 +0200 SM wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 04:07:32PM +, Brian wrote: > > The usual Debian way of dealing with that situation is > > to give users permission to mount removable devices by putting them in > > the plugdev group. > > Or just install pmount. Plug the

Booting into DOS

2011-11-27 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear list - My hard drive has Linux and DOS partitions. If I try to boot into DOS from the start-up screen I receive the messages: "no argument specified" adn "no such partition". How do i fix this. Thanks. Ethan Debian 6.0.1a squeeze(sid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:51:58 -0500 Brad Alexander wrote: > What about your /etc/shadow file and other config files in /etc? > > As I said, I have been running LUKS + cryptsetup on a number of machines > for years: > > my laptop, a C2D P9600 - Built Nov 2010 > my desktop, a C2D E4500 - (Re)built

Some shell query

2011-11-27 Thread Kousik Maiti
Hi LIst, I have a text file like this 34 RADIO 2 RADWIN 1 RAGE 1 RAIL 1 RAU 3 RAU2 2 RE 2 RECEIVERS 13 RECEPTION 1 RECORDING 1 RECTIFIER 4 REF 3 REFURBISHED 4 REPEATER I want to sort this by first word(here it is number). Output should be like this 34 RADIO 13 RECEPTION 4 REF 4 REPEATER 3 RAU2

Re: Some shell query

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Kousik Maiti wrote: > I want to sort this by first word(here it is number). > Output should be like this > > 34 RADIO > 13 RECEPTION > 4 REF > 4 REPEATER > 3 RAU2 > 3 REFURBISHED > 2 RADWIN > 2 RE > 2 RECEIVERS > 1 RAGE > 1 RAIL > 1 RAU > 1 RECORDING > 1 RECTIFIER > > How can I do this? Please an

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Oops! I sent my reply directly to Stephen, again. On 11/27/11 15:10, Stephen Powell wrote: Since your permanent root file system is not a logical volume, chances are there is no LVM stuff in your initial RAM file system. Therefore, it is trying to access the SUSPEND/RESUME device before it is a

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 26, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: The way I like to set up the system is to set up /boot in its own partition on /dev/sda1. Then set up the rest of the disk in /dev/sda5 as a logical partition for an encrypted partition. Then use that encrypted partition for one large LVM volume.

Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-11-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even asking for password... How I can change the behavior (to ask for password before granting root shell)? Thanks for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >> For a new user it works too, but for the old one - all work except >> these two. I have searched through dir.s and files that were created >> for the new user (its home dir. was empty and did remove the >> appropriate dir.s in the home dir. of the p

X app.s in full mode do not cover whole the screen.

2011-11-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. For some reason X app.s in full mode do not cover whole the screen - but just bigger part of it than in window mode. I have xorg.conf and I did not change it for a while, having no problem w/ full screen mode. Also I have installed only the drivers I need for my video card

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:01:15AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and pick or verify you have picked > all your relevant UTF-8 locales, you may want to toss out your > "ISO-8859-*" locales. Next, run aptitude and trawl 'n haul in > "all" UTF-8 fonts, and make those

Re: .deb / dpkg for dummies

2011-11-27 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 11/27/2011 07:53 PM, Rogelio wrote: > Is there a good overview on how to really use these tools? > > I simply copy/paste commands all the time, and I'm hoping for some > sort of primer or tutorial that helps be able to do this from scratch > without a cheat sheet. > > Hi , I think the simplest

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Rick Thomas wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >The way I like to set up the system is to set up /boot in its own > >partition on /dev/sda1. Then set up the rest of the disk in /dev/sda5 > >as a logical partition for an encrypted partition. Then use that > >encrypted partition for one large LVM volume.

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