Re: DNS lookups in Sid
* Old Crankbuster crankbus...@gmail.com [2009-05-14 19:25:48 +0700]: * Old Crankbuster crankbus...@gmail.com [2009-05-14 19:22:14 +0700]: $ nslookup security.debian.org Server: 127.0.0.1 Address:127.0.0.1#53 Oops wrong output, should read: Server: 192.168.1.1 Address: 192.168.1.1#53 This doesn't look like a problem with DNS. But what could it be? -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG
* Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com [2009-05-09 11:14:14 +0100]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering if anyone knew of a way, perhaps using /etc/aliases, so that all incoming mail addressed to my username (hrickards) is encrypted with *my* public key, so that when I read it only I can read it using *my* private key. If the mail was signed or encrypted beforehand, it could then be decrypted with my private key as usual. Hmm. So, we're looking at encrypting mails as they come in, prior to disk write, in a format that you, and only you, can later decrypt them, preferably using gpg. I don't care why, it's an intereѕting problem. Local storage remains secure. At least that's what I think is the intention. Outside of using some disk encryption system like this: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/15244 I'd try to pipe the mail fetchmail, procmail (pipe to encryptionscrypt,write-encrypted-email-to-disk) Remembering procmail only functions as a gate, and does not write the mail to disk until told to, and neither does fetchmail (or getmail or retchmail). script should be very simple: gpg -e -r yourusergpgidhere themessage Build from that command. Trick is to not write to disk prior to encryption. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG
* Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com [2009-05-09 18:24:37 +0100]: When piping stuff to it from the command line it works fine, but when sending a test email to gpm...@l33tmyst.com I get a blank email in response. I think this is because /usr/bin/gpmail is being executed as the 'nobody' user (I setup a whoami script), and I've setup the GPG keys for the 'mail' user. nobody can't use GPG, as it doesn't have a home directory, so is there a way to change the user that Postfix pipes things to with (to mail or any other user with a home directory)? Thanks for all the help. Curious, why are you trying to do the thing with postfix? Seems like an overly complicated parent for the script. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG
* Dave Patterson sdpa...@gmail.com [2009-05-10 01:34:46 +0700]: Curious, why are you trying to do the thing with postfix? Seems like an overly complicated parent for the script. Postfix won't write the thing to disk either. You can configure postfix to use procmail for delivery, and procmail will push the mail through the script to the user. I don't see the fussing with aliases, but I don't use tbird :-/ -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood
* Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net [2009-05-01 09:52:58 -0400]: As much as I'm a proponent for good manuals, vs. google... you can always add -ubuntu to your search query Good point. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Nvidia driver and second screen
* Sjoerd Hardeman sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl [2009-05-01 15:40:22 +0200]: Probably no Nvidia for me next time. I'm going crazy with fglrx over here, so I don't know if you'd have better luck on ATI. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: kernel-package??
* Randy Patterson t...@patterson-pcc.com [2009-04-30 10:28:00 -0500]: I guess I assumed that kernel-package was to build the kernel from the source used by the current Debian distro installed. So if that's not the case and I decided to use the latest stable from kernel.org, is it advantageous to use kernel-package or find a good howto and learn to build and install using a more low level approach. I'm mainly looking at just optimizing the config file for a particular systems to building a leaner meaner kernel. I have some older systems that don't do anything but grid computing. I thought if I removed a lot of the stuff that wasn't being used in the kernel I could speed these up a little. Yup, I do that, and I use kernel-package to do it. It's a very versatile wrapper script that calls the necessary commands to do the actual compiling of the kernel and and then builds a debian package which you can then install with 'dpkg -i'. the configuration of the kernel you do prior to using kernel-package, usually thru an ncurseѕ, qt, or gtk interface. Good tutorial here: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html -- Cheers¸ Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2009-04-30 08:41:14 -0700]: If I wanted Ubuntu answers, 1) I'd be special in the head to start with Agreed. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Desktop Search Engines
* Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org [2009-04-30 08:56:38 -0700]: I just recently switched from Google Desktop for Linux to beagle for that task. Lenny or Sid? -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: kernel-package??
* Randy Patterson t...@patterson-pcc.com [2009-04-30 11:29:33 -0500]: Dave, with a last name like yours I must assume that this is excellent advice! :-) Thanks for everyone's input. I will now travel down the kernel-package road. The tutorial's old, but it stands the test of time ;-) And don't assume anything about the name. We got some pirates in our branch... -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Grub2 question
* Curt Howland howl...@priss.com [2009-04-03 11:08:03 -0400]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= in /etc/default/grub where I put vga=791 to get the same function in grub2 that I had putting vga=791 into /boot/grub/menu.lst in grub1? Just want confirmation before I try it, just in case. Yup, and that's about all I know about it. Documentation? We don't need no steenking documentation... -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Grub2 question
* Curt Howland howl...@priss.com [2009-04-03 16:03:12 -0400]: I gladly admit that it wasn't until his RTFM screed that I found out about /usr/share/doc. I think /usr/share/doc should get a LOT more mention than it does. (and a lot more data, such as on grub2) GRUB2 looks pretty, and has lots of switches and stuff in it, but I get the feeling that upstream doesn't even know what they all do. I'd play with it, if anybody could figure out how to password protect it. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: problem with apt
* Michael Ekstrand mich...@elehack.net [2009-03-31 21:20:51 -0500]: Do be careful, though, that you don't let it remove important things that you use :). Like, all of gnome. I've done that before... -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting
* Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net [2009-03-22 16:06:06 -0500]: Except that Our arguments are Right, and Theirs are Eeeevil. Here we go. I can imagine the hearings now: Are you now, or have you ever been, a top poster? -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting
* Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com [2009-03-22 16:24:52 -0500]: I remember the days before 1994 and the Great AOL Floodgates opening... A 286 accelerator card in an 8086 IBM with a 20 Mg hard drive and 5 1/4 floppy drive. 56k modem. Hotrod machine for the day. I don't miss it. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting
* Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net [2009-03-22 21:20:30 -0500]: You must have missed the Editor Wars... Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy? Because we use vi, son. They use emacs. Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping EMACS Makes Any Computer Slow Hoo, boy. Can a participant apply for PTSD benefits as a veteran of that one? How about the border skirmishes: vi/vim, emacs/xemacs, nano's ongoing insurgency -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting
* Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net [2009-03-22 20:34:50 -0500]: That's hyperbole, at the very least. The original Pentium was released on March 22, 1993. 3 1/2 disks had been available for a while. While the first GB disk wouldn't be seen until 1995, 100MB drives were available. Not in '87. I recalled the modem wrong, though. Memory serves a V.22 complient USR, and it was slower. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: which package can display chart?
* Long Wind longwind2...@gmail.com [2009-03-23 00:40:55 -0400]: I have never seen crash or attack in Linux Then you should read this and think about it: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/07/msg3.html -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: concern about the state of Debian
* ghe g...@slsware.com [2009-03-21 13:35:03 -0600]: Oops! While I was trying to get my mail server back online, the Debian MTA was trying to send me mail saying this bug had been closed... Long day? -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: concern about the state of Debian
* ghe g...@slsware.com [2009-03-21 13:42:04 -0600]: All morning :-( Was it the recent kernel upgrade, or something else, you think? -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected
* John Wesley Cooper jwesleycoo...@cox.net [2009-03-12 19:41:34 -0700]: I haven't quite gotten it fixed, but I have managed to successfully set up a ndiswrapper kernel! Now all would appear to need is a driver... I thought I pointed you to a driver that you wouldn't have to install from a softpac first. Hence the instruction to download the Dell driver. It doesn't need to be prior installed by Windows or Wine. You just move it to a working directory and unzip it, then move to the resulting DRIVER directory, and ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf Like so: download from here: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.exe and copy that file into your home directory and do: unzip R151517.exe which will decompress the file. If it doesn't work, you need the unzip utility: apt-get install unzip after you have that file unpacked, a new directory will have been created: DRIVER move into that directory: cd DRIVER and as root, do ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf you can see what's in any directory you're in with with the 'ls' command as so: d...@gecko:~/Downloads/DRIVER$ ls bcm43xx64.cat bcm43xx.cat bcmwl564.sys bcmwl5.inf bcmwl5.sys Installing wine to get a simple driver to work seems IMHO to bit of overkill, and the Dell drivers seem to be a bit more complete in my experience, unless you really need the Compaq/HP stuff (I never have, but some machines can hiccup). -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, A manual fsck must be performed
* Star Liu minxinjian...@gmail.com [2009-03-09 21:20:59 +0800]: i have fixed it, just exe fsck /dev/sda4 and press enters :) Sid's a mess right now... Heh. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, A manual fsck must be performed
* Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de [2009-03-09 14:50:57 +0100]: Sid's a mess right now... And nothing for untrained Debian users IMHO. Yup, happens every time a new release goes out. We try lotsa new stuff, and it's not quite coordinated. reportbug gets lots of exercise, and upstream gets spanked. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, A manual fsck must be performed
* Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de [2009-03-09 14:58:57 +0100]: But it's cool to see all the stuff comes in and help testing the packages. We do. When I have time to play, I love to see what can be done with my favorite stuff. My road lappy is running Lenny - and is quite happy with it. I'll keep it there, for now. Misery is a borked wifi connection in a strange hotel. With business pending. At home, now, the monster box with all the new hardware is running pure-dee Sid, and code is playing catch-up at the moment - it's fun. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: running gedit as su brings error
* Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com [2009-03-02 04:02:38 -0500]: Try running it with sux or gksu rather than just plain su; that should pass X privileges to any account you switch to Hmm, it seems gksu is being used with Synaptic, but why the error when calling Gnome's system log monitor? I get a root password challenge, and then the application loads with this error. -- Regards, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: running gedit as su brings error
Also, running Gedit with sudo works fine. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
running gedit as su brings error
Hello * Recently I've been getting an error I've not seen before in Gnome: when I run Gedit from a terminal as su, I get the following: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply.) gnome.org explanations relate to redhat, with no guidance for Debian based systems. I get the same thing when calling gnome's system log monitor, but not when I call Synaptic. Any clues out there? -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 06:35:10PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:42:51PM EST, Dotan Cohen wrote: My C experience began and ended in a one-semester course. There is such a thing as fundamentals .. fluency in C is one major tool in your toolbox.. and one sure way to ensure that nobody messes with you on mailing lists. Depends on the mailing list. This is 'user', not 'devel' -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: application like iPhoto on Debian GNU/Linux Etch?
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:58:14PM +, kj wrote: I missed the earlier posts in this thread, so excuse my ignorance. Are you aiming to share one photo repository between thee machines? In that case Picasa would really be your only option. Mixing DAM applications on the same data is really only going to cause trouble. I second that. I prefer F-Spot on my Linux machines, though. Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Lenny-Sid upgrade causes(?) loss of connectivity
Hey all... Just got a shiny new cheap laptop, did a Lenny netinstall AMD64. The thing's an HP dv7 with Turion chipset. Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02) Lenny runs fine, had to bring in a newer kernel and ath9k compiled from pristine sources to get wifi up - but that is not the issue. Something in Sid prevents apt from talking to repositories after upgrade to sid. Can call up Google with browser from the desktop, but most links out of Google don't work. Fedora 10 Live does the same thing. With the ethernet. Why, I wonder? Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:23:18AM +0800, Nelson Castillo wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Dean Chester dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com wrote: Fedora can hurt your brain. Try LFS. Makes your brain seriously sore, but you learn a lot... The key word is laptop. I'd try booting the thing with a live disc from each distro, and see which performs best - use Knoppix for Debian. Decide from there. Personally, I've found it much easier to deal with oddball machines (laptops) with Debian than with any othe distro *because* of the mishmash - it's more readily reconfigured. My two cents. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Upgrading flashplayer?
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:56:12AM -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi. Im running...well, I guess Sid. Im using testing for my /etc/apt/sources.list file. A few days ago flashplugin-nonfree went away, or something, and i can no longer get flash to work. I installed flashplayer-mozilla but it doesnt work. I looked at the Adobe site and they do have a Linux download for Flash 10, but i thought there has to be a version already packaged. Is there a way to install the flashplugin-nonfree package from unstable, or something? Or any other way to get flash to work again until testing is back in order? I'm using the plugins from debian-multimedia.org Google debian-multimedia, and enjoy. Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:52:32PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2009 17:44:06 Dave Patterson wrote: use Knoppix for Debian. Why? What's wrong with Debian Live? http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ Lisi Oops, I forgot. I'm getting old :( Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Copy entire /usr
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:15:04AM +0200, Raven wrote: Hi all. I am in a sticky situation. I run remotely a server and one of the disks is starting to fail. Sticky indeed. Every couple days (or more, depends on the www traffic level) scsi drive sdc fails (with rejecting I/O to device bla bla bla). This a BIG problem because my /usr resides on sdc1, and everytime it happens I have to send somebody to kill the server and restart it. You can do this without rebooting, I think. I figured, since I do not have physical access to the server, that the best choice would be copying the whole /usr to another drive and (hoping there are no problems while copying) change the required stuff in fstab. Before starting blindly cp'ing files, I would like to hear your advice on the process and if I have any chance of succeeding (or if you have another method that would work better) Example: assume /usr is the only thing on /dev/sdc1, /dev/sdd1 (or some partition on another disk) has enough space available for the /usr directory, and is formatted. Do: ~# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt ~# mkdir /mnt/usr ~# cp -ax /usr/* /mnt/usr/ ~# umount /dev/sdd1 Edit your /etc/fstab to reflect the new location of /usr, i.e.: /dev/sdc1 /usrext3defaults,nodev 0 2 would now read: /dev/sdd1 /usrext3defaults,nodev 0 2 Then do: ~# mount -o remount /usr Then check the transition with: ~# cat /proc/mounts You should see the new partition mounted at /usr. Then you can retire your faulty disc. Regards, Dave -- Thasai, Ampoe Meuang | Linux is addictive, I'm hooked! Nonthaburi | -- MaDsen Wikholm's .sig Thailand | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Copy entire /usr
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:05:14AM +0200, François Cerbelle wrote: to do the copy, but as your disk will probably fail during the process, rsync is a better choice as it can resume the copy. Good point. Regards, Dave -- Because I don't need to worry about finances I can ignore Microsoft and take over the (computing) world from the grassroots. -- Linus Torvalds Nonthaburi, Thailand signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Copy entire /usr
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:36:58AM +0100, Paulo Silva wrote: You can umount the old /usr and move the new directory to it's place: # rsync -av /usr/ /newusr/ # umount /usr # rmdir /usr # mv /newusr /usr Or more quickly, after changing /etc/fstab, deleting the /usr mount: # rsync -av /usr/ /newuser/ next, on one line: # umount /usr rmdir /usr mv /newuser /usr Regards, Dave -- Nonthaburi, Thailand People disagree with me. I just ignore them. -- Linus Torvalds, regarding the use of C++ for the Linux kernel signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Copy entire /usr
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:41:30AM +0200, François Cerbelle wrote: But this solution SHOULD work IN THEORY !!! I never tried it. someone might have a better idea. I just tried it on a small system here, and it works. You do need to do the reboot at the end, however, or init won't point to the right place for /usr. Regards, Dave -- Nonthaburi, Thailand echo ICK, NOTHING WORKED!!! You may have to diddle the includes.;; -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Copy entire /usr
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:30:12AM +0200, François Cerbelle wrote: Le Ven 12 septembre 2008 10:08, Raven a écrit : [...] It worked! Thank you all for your help and especially Francois for providing a very fast solution :D ;-) ;-) Regards, Dave -- Thasai, Ampoe Meuang | Make it idiot-proof, and someone Nonthaburi | will breed a better idiot. Thailand | -- Oliver Elphick signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [OT] Debian Sig
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:01:22PM +0200, giglio robbo' d'acciaio wrote: Which package contains jp2a? jp2a Regards, Dave -- Nonthaburi, Thailand if (instr(buf,sys_errlist[errno])) /* you don't see this */ -- Larry Wall in eval.c from the perl source code signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: BUSY BOX after boot attempt..
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:28:04AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Care to explain the benefits of UUID as opposed to label? They're already there, and unique. Labels tend to range in the more common ranges, so can be more readily reproduced. In terms of removable devices, more secure. In the context of mounting partitions on the permanent hard drive, no difference. http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/07/08/label-vs-uuid-vs-device/ Regards, Dave -- Thasai, Ampoe Meuang | Computers are useless. They can Nonthaburi | only give you answers. Thailand | -- Pablo Picasso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone using ftp.de.debian.org?
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:17:34AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I generally use ftp.de.debian.org for upgrades to Sid. For the last couple of days it has been saying that there are no new unpgrades. I therefore tried ftp.uk.debian.org and got 29 packages. Does this just mean that the German site has been slow to mirror upgrades or is it experiencing problems? I use it, and today upgraded fine, as I did yesterday. Three days ago had problems with a bad connection and shifted to the nl.debian.org - but that was telecom problem. Regards, Dave -- Thasai, Ampoe Meuang |But what can you do with it? Nonthaburi |-- ubiquitous cry from Thailand | Linux-user partner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BUSY BOX after boot attempt..
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:04:09AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Ah ok, I thought there was something else. OTOH, the non uniqueness of the labels can be an advantage. Imagine you are using only one device at a time (for whatever reason): you will always have the device mounted in the same place, with only one fstab line. Sure. I'd want my crypto keys on a unique filesystem though. Regards, Dave -- Thasai, Ampoe Meuang | Not only Guinness - Linux is good Nonthaburi |for you, too. Thailand | -- Banzai on IRC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] was Re: diff display
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:08:40AM +0200, Tim Edwards wrote: ..., or Australia armed with nuclear powered Kangaroos and sharks with laser beams :) (we could do it you know - don't try and stop us!) I thought the Kiwis did all the development stuff Dave -- ... (I tried to get some documentation out of Digital on this, but as far as I can tell even _they_ don't have it ;-) -- Linus Torvalds, in an article on a dnserver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Way OT: OpenDNS
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:52:38AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: I wonder why your packets have such a longer trip than mine do. And what's the story with hop #13? As we say here, TIT (This Is Thailand) - you get weird hops as you cross borders and such. Gummint tries to intrude as well, but their main machines were cracked long ago and never fixed. I saw a desktop running Win 98 in the immigration offices last week! One has to be very proactive about security in these parts... Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Way OT: OpenDNS
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:01:38AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: and how come when I do that I only get: HOST: debian Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev and zip. My firewall? Hugo More'n likely. What are you using? Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Way OT: OpenDNS
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:17:12AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Firehol You may be blocking some outgoing traffic with the wall, which is perfectly sane, or you may have a permission issue with traceroute or ping that doesn't allow a non-administrator to get results from mtr. Again, that would be perfectly sane. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Way OT: OpenDNS
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: What's this? guessing australia - us undersea cable I'm surprised that Google doesn't have a data center there in Oz. Anyway, the solution is obvious: move to the US! Hah! Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Way OT: OpenDNS
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:57:39AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: :) I am allergic to guns, plus I love it down under That won't be the last time an American suggests that a solution is to be an American, I'll wager.. but that's okay, we'll just route around them until they grow up... http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/30/1413243 -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BUSY BOX after boot attempt..
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:23:55PM -0400, abel wrote: Hope the attached file helps. Commentary is appreciated, even expected ;-) Another method that can be more robust in a security context is to mount the partition with the filesystem's UUID as a specifier, instead of the label. This is particularly helpful when setting up automounting of specific removable filesystems, say a boot partition on usbstick. -- Cheers, Dave If puns were deli meat, this would be the wurst. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Way OT: OpenDNS
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:41:13AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Guns? There's no law mandating you must own a gun in the US. Although, visions of Angelina Jolie packing heat are quite interesting... Indeed. No, I take that back. Kennesaw, Georgia and Geuda Springs, Kansas mandate that all households (with certain exceptions) maintain firearms and ammunition. Don't the Swiss do the same thing? I seem to remember an article somewhere... something to do with national defense... Regards, Dave -- Thasai, Ampoe Meuang | It's computer hardware, of course Nonthaburi |it's worth having g Thailand | -- Espy on #Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] was Re: diff display
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:52:47AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: There was a time when he commanded a huge army... Not just (a) huge army, but LOTS of huge armies. He commanded kings. Regards, Dave -- Thasai, Ampoe Meuang | Linux - Das System fuer schlaue Nonthaburi | Maedchen ;) Thailand | -- banshee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Way OT: OpenDNS
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:26:07AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: My Internet access has been getting slower and slower and my ISP is a joke: $ ping google.com PING google.com (64.233.167.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=180 ms 64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=185 ms 64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=3 ttl=243 time=191 ms 64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=4 ttl=243 time=182 ms 64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=5 ttl=243 time=189 ms 64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=6 ttl=243 time=189 ms See also this mtr output: http://pastebin.com/m36bd850f Are there any known problems / gotchas with OpenDNS? I do know that they redirect google queries through their own servers and return ads in place of unregistered domains, but those 'features' can be turned off. Anything else that I should be aware of? Thanks in advance. Erm, your connection's a LOT quicker than mine. Regards, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Way OT: OpenDNS
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: My Internet access has been getting slower and slower and my ISP is a joke: $ ping google.com PING google.com (64.233.167.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=180 ms What seems to be the problem here? It's 1/3 slower than my 12Mbps cable modem connection. Heck, I envy him: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mtr -c30 --report -n www.google.com HOST: davescrunch Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. 192.168.1.1 0.0%301.0 0.9 0.8 1.3 0.1 2. 124.122.205.1 0.0%30 20.0 19.5 18.7 20.3 0.4 3. 210.86.189.53 0.0%30 19.4 19.4 18.9 20.0 0.3 4. 10.169.53.1 0.0%30 21.9 22.5 21.2 27.8 1.2 5. 61.90.132.86 0.0%30 21.4 23.6 20.6 82.3 11.1 6. 61.90.133.237 0.0%30 21.4 24.1 20.2 106.2 15.5 7. 61.90.254.89 0.0%30 20.9 20.6 19.8 21.3 0.4 8. 203.144.144.270.0%30 20.4 20.4 19.6 21.4 0.5 9. 61.91.210.1 0.0%30 21.0 26.5 20.3 113.7 20.4 10. 61.19.10.25 0.0%30 20.3 21.0 20.0 21.8 0.4 11. 202.47.253.1460.0%30 20.9 21.1 20.3 21.9 0.4 12. 61.19.9.2 0.0%30 35.5 40.3 34.6 75.0 10.7 13. 72.14.196.217 0.0%30 135.9 136.3 135.3 137.2 0.4 14. 209.85.254.1660.0%30 136.0 139.8 135.3 213.3 14.6 15. 209.85.241.2210.0%30 135.9 137.9 134.7 208.1 13.3 16. 209.85.250.1010.0%30 136.4 137.2 135.6 151.3 3.2 17. 209.85.252.65 3.3%30 146.3 141.5 136.3 149.4 4.4 18. 209.85.175.99 3.3%30 136.8 136.7 136.1 137.5 0.4 Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Clamav-deamon Bug
* David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-19 22:51:26 +0300]: Known and submitted bug. Recently started happening on my box: On bootup, the daemon fails to start. A little later on I can manually run the /etc/init.d/clamav-daeamon start and it does work. Is there a proper work around for now? Not really. The only way I could get it to start at boot was to configure using dpkg-reconfigure clamav-base and set it to run as root. Ugly, Ugly... Regards, Dave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the mysql postgresql question.
Hi all - is it possible to go with one database system for all package dependencies? Package foo depends on mysql for install, Package bar allows postgresql or mysql but requires one or the other. Package umpty-scratch prefers postgresql. Is it necessary to have both database systems installed in order to have foo,bar, and umptyscratch; Or can I pipe a dependancy somehow? Cluebricks welcome. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the mysql postgresql question.
* Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-25 11:19:05 -0700]: But if you want/require PostgreSQL for those two, you'll still need mysql for the first. As I suspected, alas. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)
Michael Pobega wrote: As for the newbie documentation, we should definitely get something together. Everyone who is interested email me at my personal emailing just to say Aie!. Drop me an AIM/MSN/Jabber contact so I can reach you beyond email if possible. I'm in. Ciao, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: SpamAssassin/ProcMail Questions
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Now if only we could get people to spell, as well. Whut? Spel? Keeboords is hard ennuf! Ciao, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)
Michael Pobega wrote: I don't mind not getting geek creds. C'mon, Mutt's fun! Ciao, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!
yea, verily, Angelo Bertolli sayith: No, I mean a non-free firefox package in addition to iceweasel. I know it sounds redundant, but I bet someone will start doing it eventually since all it takes is using Mozilla's Linux binary and putting it in deb format. I've done this already for two clients, to sooth ruffled feathers - it's not difficult at all (or I wouldn't have done :P). Perhaps something along the lines of java-package? Ciao, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!
yea, verily, Paul Johnson sayith: ..trivial changes to the name and artwork makes it free? It's still a fork. The differences will grow. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?
yea, verily, John Hasler sayith: Well, Debian silently includes the non-free archive in the default apt-sources so that new users can easily install non-free software without realizing that it is non-free. Really? That was an option on the last install I did - etch businesscard - but the default was main. Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: SMTP server
on Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:11:22AM + Clive Menzies mumbled: In short, I share Greg's enthusiasm for exim4 I have a fondness for exim4 as well, but now I'm playing with SELinux in Debian, and exim4 does not want to play nice there. Postfix has been a pleasant surprise to me in it's flexibility, though it's been a learning curve. Ciao, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List
on Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:46:04PM -0500 Grok Mogger mumbled: This sounds like if I know for a fact that the device I'm interested in uses Chipset Awesome 100c, then I could start grep'ing through the kernel source for parts and permutations of the chipset name hoping to find some matches that indicate that there's a driver for it. Is that accurate? Yes... and no. F'rinstance my spankin' new Toshiba P105 awesome whiz-bang laptop took a little doing -- dual core intel on a 32 bit bus with 64 bit addressable audio memory, intel High def sound, ipw3964 wireless AND a fingerprint reading biometric device - all in one sock. Running a custom kernel - 2.6.20rc4, that's been patched a little to get everything working well. In this case, I looked around at what was available at Linux Kernel Archives and did a little picking and choosing there, along with googling for directions that developers are taking. When buying hardware, it's a good idea to leave hardware alone that the developers aren't interested in. Patience will win the day, here. Don't run out and buy snake oil. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure
on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 06:47:41AM -0800 Herb Howe mumbled: I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using Debian, kernel 2.6.8. Here's the setup: Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ec:0008 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Line in fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick vfat user,noauto,rw 0 0 Mount command: mount /mnt/memstick Error message from mount command: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or other error Output from dmesg | tail Buffer I/O error on device sda1, ... (several such messages) FAT: invalid media value (0xb9) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1. This occurs with both a Memorex Traveldrive and a Compact Flashcard in a Flashcard-to-USB adapter. Both devices work fine with Windows XP which also verifies that a FAT filesystem is on these devices. The only advice I've found online is to reformat the USB devices. But these are devices from other people that I cannot reformat. Is there something I can add to the fstab line or the mount command to recognize the vfat file system on the USB devices? The problem with the TravelDrive is the proprietary format Memorex uses for their idiot software. They've basically built a little static filesystem within a filesystem there that behaves like a live CD when it loads on a windows box - this is marketing bs for selling proprietary software. You might try mountint that little portion of the drive first to get it accounted for, then mounting the data portion in another location. I bought two of the damn things without realizing, and played hell for awhile until I found this out. But they were mine, so I zero'd 'em and slapped ext2 on. Great ever since. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kde, guarddog, and hotel wifi...
In this hotel, using the Guarddog firewall tool on KDE, I can't perform Browser login to hotel wireless until I've turned the firewall off. Once I've authenticated the login I can turn the firewall back on and things operate normally. How can I tell which port to open? Regards, Dave. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: kde, guarddog, and hotel wifi...
* Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-22 09:31:38 -0700]: Dave Patterson wrote: In this hotel, using the Guarddog firewall tool on KDE, I can't perform Browser login to hotel wireless until I've turned the firewall off. Once I've authenticated the login I can turn the firewall back on and things operate normally. How can I tell which port to open? Regards, Dave. /var/log/messages should show you firewall hits. The entries are a bit cryptic, but you'll see descriptions of inbound and outbound rejected packets, including their IP addresses, ports, protocols, etc. Ah. Gottit. Thanks. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup
* Dave Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 21:31:19 +0700]: A how-to here: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/1074 Has been changed to: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/1116 -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 12:02:42 -]: Do I need to make an extra, unused partition when I install Debian on a new computer, before I try to use cryptsetup to add an encrypted filesystem? It depends on how you want to do this. If you want a completely encrypted filesystem with swap, yes. A how-to here: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/1074 This one takes GRUB completely off the hard drive, and you boot Debian with a USB key. Modify it according to your tastes. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 22:54:31 +0800]: As I recall, this broke for me in going from 2.6.15 to 2.6.16. Clayton Yup, it did - my solution was to install a stock kernel, and used it's .config as the basis for my custom kernel's config, then remove the stock kernel. It saved a little heartache looking through the new directory structure, and was faster, too. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup
* Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 15:58:19 +0100]: In my opinion it is more secure to keep confidential data in a dedicated encrypted partition which is only initialised and mounted when really needed. If you are really paranoid, you can remove your network connection whenever the secred data is mounted. If you have the entire system encrypted and mount everything at boot, then your data is only safe with the computer is turned off. A hacker who gains root has everything... The flipside to that is the cracker that searches journals on journalled filesystems for sensitive data (keys for encrypted partitions, even the sensitive document itself). A healthy dose of paranoia is in order here. Look at how you plan to manage your encrypted data. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: USB Key Drive
* Patrick Ester [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 19:11:10 -0400]: I find that I am alone in this problem. Does anybody have any suggestions? Do you need some more information? Open a terminal and run (as root): tail -f /var/log/messages Insert and extract the key. You should see something being registered in that message log (you can exit tail by pressing ctrl-c). Check the format of the usb key. It can't be mounted if it's not formatted. (FAT and FAT32 will work fine). Check that the normal user is part of the plugdev group for pmount to work. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?
* Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-12 16:54:21 -0500]: I use a 12 piece of 2x4 wood to prop up the rear of my never-moves, always-on work laptop. That gives room to circulate air underneath, and the fan hardly ever comes on. Once or twice a week for a a few minutes. I've done the same here, because of the high ambient heat in Bangkok. Built a little rack to set the slab on, and heat problems went away. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Why not?
* Cybe R. Wizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-12 17:50:02 -0500]: I'm with Steve here; why should I care about GTK vs. Qt when an app 'Just Works' for me? I switch about with impunity based on what I like. Me three. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Orinoco Silver wireless works w/2.6.15 but not 2.6.17
Modprobe should do the trick... -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Orinoco Silver wireless works w/2.6.15 but not 2.6.17
* Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-12 16:01:39 -0700]: Any ideas why I can't get an Orinoco Silver card: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Version 01.01 manfid 0x0156, 0x0002 works with a stock 2.6.15 kernel but not with a 2.6.17? Something to do with device names and udev? Using madwifi, I had to reboot to register all modules. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: system heavy load
* Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-11 21:34:53 -0400]: I would start simpler than that. Make sure that DMA is enabled on your hard drive(s). It is: # hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 195371568, start = 0 And still, occaisionally I see the same style system loading as the original poster mentioned. I've been curious about this for a while. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: encrypted filesystem that can be mounted remotely?
* Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-11 17:00:56 -]: I'd like to keep some of the data on my computer's hard drive encrypted, but not necessarily all of it. But I also need to be able to reboot the computer remotely and log into by SSH without the encrypted FS mounted, then mount the encrypted partition in the SSH session (from a trusted machine, of course) presumably by giving a sort of mount command and entering the passphrase. I've never used an encrypted FS before. Is what I want possible? What encrypted FS supports this? Look at cryptsetup and device-mapper. -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Why?
* John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-11 13:29:35 -0500]: The reason is that there is no reason to change. One or the other has to be the default: should we toss a coin? Maybe battlebots to the death... -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system heavy load
* Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-11 18:01:24 -0400]: Top is quite reliable. The load average represents how many processes are ready to run. If everything is trying to access the disk, your CPU utilization will be low (at least less than 100%) and yet you will have a high load average since many processes will be stuck waiting for the disk. Would it improve performance in this case to run a kernel with a different preemption model, or would it make more sense to try different i/o schedulers (anticipatory, deadline, or cfq) ? -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: E-mail Failing in weird ways
* Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-26 09:05:42 -0500]: Yeah, I shoulda mentioned that those had both been checked. I've sent her an e-mail asking for what (if any) error messages she gets, but I'm going to give her a phone call, as well. Is she on a dialup? If so, have her check the output of ifconfig (as root). Check the value of MTU in the ppp connection. You may have to reduce to a value less than 600 in /etc/ppp/options: mru 552 mtu 552 -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multiple identities with mutt
* Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-25 17:01:43 -0700]: Besides, the answer isn't always write one. Excellent point. However, sometimes it is. So there. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replying to list
* Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-24 05:00:28 -0500]: What problem do you see with Tbird? Nothing, really, for quick basic setup, it's terrific, and using imap mailboxes does indeed let you switch between mua's at will.. Tbird out of the box, though, does not let me sort mailboxes the way I want them sorted (emphasis on the 'I' here), and I'm enough of an individual to demand my own idiosyncratic way of doing things. Hence 'to each his own'. There are certain things I do in Mutt with the keyboard that I simply did not want to relearn with Tbird (I must be getting old). Mutt is much faster for me. -- Cheers, Dave Bangkok, Thailand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Replying to list
* Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-23 13:13:50 -0700]: On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:30:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: yes. bring on the brick-bats! Hear, here. I've used Mutt/Getmail/Exim/Procmail for a long time. Tried T-bird about two months ago, freaked out and scurried back to Mutt. T-bird just wouldn't do what I wanted it to do. To each his own, I guess... -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multiple identities with mutt (was: Replying to list)
* s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-24 01:35:42 +]: For Steve Lamb? Essentially the moon. Heh,heh... -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing on usb thumb drive,
* Chuck Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-22 02:28:31 -0400]: Hey, Can some one tell me how to get grub to install only on the usb thumbdrive? I tried to install and over wrote my other os installer. Debain see my thumb drive sba2 Most thumb drives are sda, sdb, sdc, etc. If that's the case with you, grub-install --recheck /dev/sda which writes to the MBR of the thumb drive. what are you trying to do? Dual-boot from thumb drive? -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian testing netinstall via pppoe?
* Urs Thuermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-18 09:17:29 +0200]: Is it possible to use the etch netinstall CD to install a debian testing system via pppoe? I have tried but didn't succeed. The installer only lets me choose between the two ethernet network cards and then asks me for IP configuration for the selected NIC. But I'd need to configure ppp parameters, i.e. username and password for my provider. urs This works for the testing distribution, not sure about Sarge: Using the netinstall ISO (not the businesscard), do a normal installation, leaving the network unconfigured. This will be a base install only, but the package pppoeconf is on that cd. Once you have the base install in, simply apt-get install pppoeconf, and use that to get your connection going. From there, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list, and install whatever else you need from there. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Google Earth display problem
* Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-17 11:55:35 +0200]: I'm using a Radeon 9200 SE with the Linux (open-source) DRI drivers (have to, because ATI does not seem to have a proprietary driver for xorg 7.0). Try the proprietary ATI Driver. They claim it builds packages for xorg 7.0 if you build packages for Debian Sid from their installer. You have dri, but only 2D. Sadly, ATI has been rather brutish of late as to which chips their stuff really does support (they lie), so imho it might be best to dump it for an nvidia card. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading x11-common_7.0.22
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-17 07:00:54 +0300]: trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package xgl apt-get remove --purge xgl apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install xgl -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange cdrw behavior
Erm, The drive was toast. Apt-get install new drive fixed the problem. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: price of the 3 debian cds much more expensive than what it is told on the website
* bruno doutriaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 09:18:34 +0200]: what is the gui of debian sarge ? (graphical user interface) What do you want? You can have Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, Blackbox (to name a few), all of the preceding or none. By default, if 'desktop environment' is chosen during an install, BOTH KDE and Gnome are installed, going to a Gnome boot first time around. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed
* Charles Hallenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 05:42:43 -0400]: Try: apt-get remove --purge X11-common apt-get dist-upgrade -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed
Ok, it looks like x11-common can't do anything because somethings hosed with debconf. Try apt-get -f install debconf, or dpkg-reconfigure debconf, and see what happens there. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed
* Simone Soldateschi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 12:36:47 +0200]: A debian user suggested me to fix the problem using synaptic and filtering defective packages.. it did the job. Sorry. Here, he can't do that because he isn't even running X, only some components of it are needed for his console. So Synaptic won't work in this situation. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed
* Charles Hallenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 06:50:32 -0400]: Do I dare try to remove debconf? I better do a backup first, this is getting serious smile 'Eek!' said I, and yes, do a backup. Then, yank it out. Then, pull debconf from the testing repository manually and install with dpkg -i (full packagename.deb) from the directory you put it in. Or, do this: add the testing repository to you /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get remove --purge debconf apt-get -t testing install debconf -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed
* Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 13:58:57 +0200]: one more note, in case you have aptitude installed, you may try using that, too, as it is known to be handle conflicts and brakage slightly different from apt-get; The interactive interface can show what is broken and such Good idea - aptitude's installed by default in most systems... My wife's calling... back in a bit. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed
* Charles Hallenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 07:43:57 -0400]: Yeah, but I can't yank it out! It is not fully installed, and nothing in my arsenal can yank it out. Ok,then: Look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst and see what's in that file-perhaps we can hack a fix from there. The postinstall script is what messed it up, and it's a hard hang. Once we get that sorted out, we'll file a bug report with the maintainer, but s/he has to know what the problem is... I think I will rummage around some more before pulling the plug. I like rummaging. I sometimes find pretty girls and free beer that way... remember, it's only a bug, not a system-wide disaster. -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (91% of Full) Get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh and remember, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 12:21:32 -0400]: : set -e Then re-run this apt-get -f install and we should be able to figure out what's really wrong. This will tell you where in the script it's exiting... -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)
* Charles Hallenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-14 14:51:22 -0400]: The strange problem of the not fully installed or removed packages I have been reporting has been resolved... Hooray! It seems that a short while ago I have switched shells from bash to zsh to explore its new features. I did it gradually, first doing a usermod for each of my accounts to make /bin/zsh the login shell, then after hammering out an agreeable configuration, changing the symbolic link /bin/sh to point to /bin/zsh instead of /bin/bash. After looking at those files in /var/lib/dpkg/info mentioned by Dave and Joey, I changed the link to point to /bin/bash again, re-ran apt-get -f install successfully, then ran apt-get upgrade also successfully, and I have a resolved system. But why? I do upgrades at least once a day, and they usually went without a hitch using zsh. But evidently this was somehow the cause of the current problem. Hmm... It's a little vague to report it as a zsh bug just yet, I think. Agreed. I think it's more of a problem with APT. It should call bash if it wants to use it. So what do I do? give up zsh? Nah. Figure out how to make APT point to BASH and file the bug there. Be interesting to see what the APT people have to say. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange cdrw behavior
SID laptop:
Running KDE on a HP Compaq nx7010 with a TEAC DW-244E-A DVDR/CDRW Drive.
I get this error during boot:
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: hdc: packet command error:
status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: hdc: packet command error:
error=0x34 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x03 }
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: Error: Medium error -- (Sense
key=0x03)
Jun 15 10:13:17 davescrunch kernel: (reserved error code) --
(asc=0x57, ascq=0x00)
On an empty drive. The drive light constantly flashes, and opening and
reclosing the drive (empty) results in hal calling it a blank cd. How
do I get hal to stop this strange stuff? Same behavior with Gnome.
X
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Dave
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