Re: rkhunter report
Paul Cartwright [2010.11.20 1528 -0500]: On 11/20/2010 03:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.10', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'openssl', version '0.9.8n', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. Warning: Application 'sshd', version '5.5p1', is out of date, and possibly a security risk. I does look like gnupg and openssl have received some updates since the Lenny release, and openssl got some from the security team specifically. openssh-server hasn't been updated since the Lenny release, AFAIK. If there is a specific vulnerability you are concerned about, asking on debian-security for the status of a fix might be appropriate. As far as unknown threats go, there may be security flaws in the Lenny versions that are fixed upstream, but there may also be new flaws introduced upstream and are not in the Lenny versions. I am not so much concerned about about vulnerability as I am rkhunter giving me a warning about up-2-date apps.. openssl might concern me, because I use ssl.. same with ssh.. since MOST of what I do is behind my router, I am not very public internet facing.. I just don't like getting messages that tell me something is NOT uptodate, when I am ALWAYS up to date.. If I recall correctly from a previous thread on this list, rkhunter simply tests whether you have the most recent version of these applications installed and warns you if you don't. I simply ignored these warnings when I got them. If I understand the documentation of rkhunter (which is very sparse) correctly, you can eliminate these warnings by adding ATTRWHITELIST=path to gpg and the same for anything else you get these warnings for to /etc/rkhunter.conf. Again, if I understand correctly, this will also turn off other attribute checks for these programs, including uid/gid, etc. Since these may be useful checks to detect malicious modifications on your system, you may not want to do this. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101120205740.gd3...@cs.dal.ca
Re: [TexLive] This math formula work a few month a go, but nowadays it didn't work anymore
Marcelo Laia [2010.04.29 1321 -0300]: Hi, I have opened this thread http://tinyurl.com/2amjquj Could you help there or here? Thank you very much! Hmm, there's something weird here. You are missing the font file fmex8.pfb. If I search for it using apt-file, apt-file claims that this file is part of texlive-base. I have this package installed, but the whole directory where this file is supposed to live does not exist. Something wrong with the texlive-base package? - Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100429174059.gd22...@cs.dal.ca
Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?
Norbert Zeh [2010.04.15 1517 -0300]: Mark [2010.04.13 1542 -0700]: Hi, I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm4310. I've used b43-fwcutter with great results on older dell bcm43xx cards in Lenny but bcm4310 is not listed here http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_chip_types. I'm also curious about the video card (intel graphics media accelerator x4500hd) but that appears to be supported based on what I've read. I don't know about this particular card, but I got a Dell 1505 (BCM 4323) to work with the Linux driver available from Broadcom (Google Broadcom STA linux). This is not an open-source driver. Some part of it is, another part is a binary blob, but it worked beautifully for me. A follow-up: The README of the Broadcom STA driver says that the Dell 1490 is supported, but it says it's a bcm4311. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100416080837.gf22...@cs.dal.ca
Re: Does bcm4310 work with Debian Lenny?
Mark [2010.04.13 1542 -0700]: Hi, I'm considering purchasing a new laptop like this one http://www.thelinuxlaptop.com/viper-linux-laptop.php which uses a Dell Wireless 1490 card a.k.a. bcm4310. I've used b43-fwcutter with great results on older dell bcm43xx cards in Lenny but bcm4310 is not listed here http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_chip_types. I'm also curious about the video card (intel graphics media accelerator x4500hd) but that appears to be supported based on what I've read. I don't know about this particular card, but I got a Dell 1505 (BCM 4323) to work with the Linux driver available from Broadcom (Google Broadcom STA linux). This is not an open-source driver. Some part of it is, another part is a binary blob, but it worked beautifully for me. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100415181732.gz22...@cs.dal.ca
Re: Does everything depend on everything?
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:46:34AM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 10/31/2009 09:06 AM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: [snip some talk about testing and unstable] For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which. Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some time and it works great. YMMV, of course. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. As long as you don't need any new features or programs there is no need to ever upgrade. That is generally my situation. My wife however, is always discovering something new that she wants to do. The latest is video creation and editing and at least two of the programs she wanted to try out required versions of libraries, etc., only available in Squeeze and newer. My solution to this situation is to run a mixed system. It gives me the the stability of tried and tested software that Lenny provides but allows me to upgrade to a new version from testing/sid for applications where I really feel I need it. All the dependencies are then pulled in. BTW: I wholeheartedly second that Lenny is great as desktop system. Comparing this to Win98 is more than ridiculous because we're not talking about an OS version from a different era, only about packages that are a few minor version numbers back. In most cases, the functionality is nearly where the testing/sid versions are. When there's a huge gap, that's when I may decide to pull in the latter. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 07:56:26AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I make use of the external memory stick for Debian installation ? Please be informed that my server doesn't come with internal CDROM drive so I need to make use of the external memory stick for this purpose . I have downloaded the *.iso files and so I need to find a way for writing to external USB memory stick and try to install right from there . I will change the BIOS settings to boot from the external devices then . Thank you in advance Regards H.Motamedi There's an excellent how-to here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en Just replace i386 and en with your favourite architecture and language and then follow it to the point. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?
Indeed, all you do is copy whichever .iso image you want alongside the other files. While I have very little understanding of the internal workings of the boot process that results from that how-to, all I could tell when I used the method was that the initial boot files copied onto the USB stick check for the presence of an .iso image on the USB stick and then use it for the subsequent installation steps. It worked flawlessly for me with the businesscard .iso. Cheers, Norbert On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:00:41AM +0200, Johan Gr?nqvist wrote: hadi motamedi skrev: Excuse me , the link you provided me is for zcat *.gz but my case relates to how to *.iso . Can you please let me how to copy *.iso files onto USB memory sticks as bootable ones ? It seems to me that he link provided covers the iso-case. Read the last 2 lines of section 4.3.1 again. Hope it helps. / johan On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Norbert Zeh n...@cs.dal.ca mailto:n...@cs.dal.ca wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 07:56:26AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I make use of the external memory stick for Debian installation ? Please be informed that my server doesn't come with internal CDROM drive so I need to make use of the external memory stick for this purpose . I have downloaded the *.iso files and so I need to find a way for writing to external USB memory stick and try to install right from there . I will change the BIOS settings to boot from the external devices then . Thank you in advance Regards H.Motamedi There's an excellent how-to here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en Just replace i386 and en with your favourite architecture and language and then follow it to the point. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org mailto:debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org mailto:listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all. -- Neal Stephenson, Anathem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: system taking ages to resolve dns
Your nameserver does not handle IPv6 queries correctly (as Norbert and Alan have already surmised in their recent messages in this thread). Debian waits for the IPv6 request to time out before it sends an IPv4 request, causing the delays you are experiencing. I would try this (elaborating on what the others have already suggested): dig -t NS iinet.net.au will tell you the IP addresses of the nameservers of your provider. Using any of these namserves should give you a fast response on the iPv6 query: dig @XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -t debian.org when you replace the Xs with one of the nameserver IP addresses. If the documentation of your provider recommends any other nameservers then you should try those addresses as well. Once you have found two nameservers that work, put them into your /etc/resolv.conf before the IP address of your router. If you find that resolv.conf gets overwritten at every boot then you should have a look at the resolvconf package; it allows you to add a permanent header to that file. Yes, that did work for me indeed. I did prefer to keep my router as my local name server, though. Hence, the route of changing /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf I proposed in an earlier post. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: system taking ages to resolve dns
Are you behind a router that serves as your local DNS server? If that's the case, then you may have a similar situation as I had before. What happened in my case was that the dhcp client set the domain to search to the domain of my ISP and somehow through the router this didn't work well. The way I fixed this was to remove the entries domain-name and search-domain (? - I forgot the exact name, something with search) from /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. After this change, my /etc/resolv.conf did not contain any more domain or search entries, and all my IP lookups were blindingly fast. Cheers, Norbert On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 05:25:24PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 22:03:39 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of resolving dns taking a long time. Basically the issue is: If I want to access a dns such as google, or debian.org, it takes for ever to resolve the dns. Whether I'm using firefox or lynx to browse the web or msmtp to send email, the resolving of dns is over 30 seconds. If I use the ip address though, access is almost instant. So what can I do to solve this problem? Only occuring on my debian system, windows vista on the same system works fine, and no one else on the network seems to have issues like these. The issue started happening when I got my new dsl2 modem (netgear, nb5). As I said I did a reinstall, and with the base system and testing with lynx, I found the problem pretty much the same. So how can I speed up dns resolution? Do you see any difference in the response time for the following two queries? dig -t A debian.org dig -t debian.org Florian, I get the following (edited) results: h...@debian:~$ dig -t debian.org Query time: 130 msec h...@debian:~$ dig -t debian.org Query time: 127 msec h...@debian:~$ dig -t debian.org Query time: 129 msec h...@debian:~$ dig -t debian.org Query time: 147 msec h...@debian:~$ dig -t debian.org Query time: 135 msec h...@debian:~$ dig -t debian.org Query time: 129 msec h...@debian:~$ dig -t debian.org Query time: 145 msec average 134.5 h...@debian:~$ dig -t A debian.org Query time: 151 msec h...@debian:~$ dig -t A debian.org Query time: 177 msec h...@debian:~$ dig -t A debian.org Query time: 150 msec h...@debian:~$ dig -t A debian.org Query time: 152 msec average 157.5 so dig -t debian.org is on the average 157.5-134.5=23 ms faster. What does that mean? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all. -- Neal Stephenson, Anathem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: problem with nvidia module and kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64
'aptitude search nvidia' showed the following packages as installed: nvidia-settings nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-xconfig nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-amd64 I'm just guessing, but shouldn't you install nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-amd64 if you run linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64? At least an aptitude search nvidia showed me this package as installable. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: any substitute for x window system?
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:22:36AM +0800, 明覺 wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Douglas A. Tuttydtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:58:22AM +0800, 明覺 wrote: I'm looking for a pure c/c++ programmed desktop manager, while the xorg is depandent on perl, so i do not like it, is there any graphics system which depands only on c/c++ to replace x window system? thanks I think that you'll find that you need to start writing things from scratch yourself. Since debian requires perl (e.g for debconf), you'll be better off with NetBSD. Then, write a program in C that looks at every non-binary file to see if what language its in. Can you tolerate shell scripts? If not, you'll have to write a C-based initscript. This may be easier on BSD since it doesn't use SysVinit. Take away the ideological furvor. It would be an excellent learning experience to rewrite, from scratch, everything in NetBSD that is not C. It would be very hard with Debian since every time you update, you'll have to do it all over again. thanks, I got a better choice, the assembly language programmed OS - MikeOS, I prefer assembly to C/C++. So, to summarize some of your earlier posts: you want to recreate an entire OS in C/C++ or preferably assembly, including a replication of GUI functionality such as the one provided by X11-based desktop systems, and you'll probably want to do this alone because you won't accept help from somebody who says that languages that have built-in garbage collection, powerful string processing facilities, and ways to express high-level concepts more succinctly than C/C++ may be the better tool for some (major) parts of the job. Well, I happily expect the release of its first beta by 2050, by which time most of us will have spent our lives making *meaningful* contributions in our jobs (apart from other even more enjoyable things). Your statement that One Microsoft Way would be okay if it was free software just underlines that you don't understand what many posters before have been trying to tell you. There are different tools for different jobs. Some of my colleagues love Windows and everything else that comes from M$. I hate it an love Linux because the latter gives me more choice in the tools I use and allows me to be more productive. (Of course, there's the whole stability thing and the idealism of free software, too ;) .) Are my colleagues right? Am I right? The answer is: both. They chose Windows because it works for them, I chose linux because it works for me. The goal is productivity and using your time wisely. I know you've claimed before that all programming languages you learned so far do the same thing. So I feel I need to put some effort into preventing you from springing this one on me. At a low level, you are right. They all somehow translate into native machine code. But that's the only degree to which your statement is correct. Does C have garbage collection? Does it have regular expressions built into the language? Does it allow you to pass unnamed code blocks as function arguments such as Ruby? Does it support Common Lisp's notion of a closure? Does it support partial function application as in Haskell? The answer to all these questions is no. Is there something you can do in these languages that you can't do in C? No - exactly because C and many other languages are Turing-complete. However, many things are much easier to express, in a fraction of the lines of code, in higher-level languages than in C/C++. And that saves time. On that happy note, I won't waste more time on this and can only hope that you'll wake up before you waste your entire life. -N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The thing looks mysterious to me. Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy? What paper format does the file use? I've had printers refuse to print files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files). If the paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size, even though I don't remember how. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Error while installing nvidia driver
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 07:25:52PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: On Sunday 19 April 2009, a dehqan wrote: In The name of God I'll be thankfull if you guide to fix this problem ; This is nvidia installer log : regards dehqan It seems to me you should link the compiler that matches your kernel headers. This would be: 'ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/gcc' This would be overkill. Invoking the NVIDIA installer as CC=gcc-4.1 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.29-pkg2.run or whatever the installer is called that you are trying to run does the trick. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: boot failure diagnostics
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:36:29AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. Did it complain about some file system inconsistency? fsck can help only in these cases. Some details of the failure would help here. Using debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso I mounted the root partition / dev/hda1. If you want to run fsck, you shouldn't mount the partition you want to run fsck on. That's why fsck gives you the complaint: WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted file system may cause SEVERE file system damage. Apart from that, fsck will inform you about all things it finds to be amiss with your partition, and it will ask you whether it should correct them. -N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: getmail vs fetchmail, WAS: Re: fetchmail and DNS resolution
AFAIK fetchmail defaults to delivering your mail by using a local SMTP. This is a Bad Thing (tm), because it can create a lot of problems, YMMV I don't know getmail, but what I like about fetchmail's delivery through the local SMTP server is that I can use procmail to filter my messages. Can getmail do this? - Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: getmail vs fetchmail, WAS: Re: fetchmail and DNS resolution
I don't know getmail, but what I like about fetchmail's delivery through the local SMTP server is that I can use procmail to filter my messages. Can getmail do this? Yes it can. Have a look at: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-integrating-procmail It basically boils down to the following settings in your getmailrc: --- snip --- [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/bin/procmail unixfrom = True --- snip --- Cool. Thanks for the answers, guys. - Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software
@ftc-p01:~$ aptitude search region p regionset - view and modify the region code of DVD dri This may not help much if he also wants to play Australian DVD's, as they would then have the wrong region code, and I am not sure whether you can switch region codes at will. (The Mac OS DVD player informs the user that the switch can be performed only 5 times, and I'm not sure whether this is done in software or hardware, whether this applies to all drives, etc.) Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Illogical drives?
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0600, postid wrote: Greetings: Thank you all for your explanations and patience. I've done some more reading, though I'm not sure that I completely understand. Here's what I think I'm hearing: When I look at a directory I'm looking at a file system, not necessarily a list of physical locations. But on the other hand, the partitions are specific-sized containers where parts of the file system reside. The file system directory is a like an address book listing the members of a family in a genealogical tree and indicating how they're tied into the system in a heirarchically connected telephone conference call. The partitions are their actual locations (the homes where they reside at a physical address). Am I understanding that correctly or am I still not getting it? I think you're complicating things too much. Let's go back to what's common between Windows and linux, and let's assume that your partitions are formatted (ie, have a file system on them). If you look at a single partition, Linux and Windows have the same view on it: it's a tree. There is the top-level directory (the root), which has directories and files as children. Each such directory child can have further children, which in turn may be files or directories, and so on. There is no difference between Windows and linux here. The difference comes with how it is all tied together. In Windows, once you have a collection of partitions, each with its own tree, there is no way really to make this forest into a single tree. Windows explicitly keeps track of the set of roots of these trees, namely C:\, D:\, ... In linux, on the other hand, the system really can only work with one big tree. If you have multiple partitions, you get this tree by gluing the trees of the different partitions together. This is what mounting does. You have your tree corresponding to your / partition. Then you identify a directory node in this tree, say the one representing /usr and attach the root of the tree representing your /usr partition to it, and so on until you have assembled all the trees living on the different partitions into one big tree. (Technically, you are not attaching the root to the /usr node, but you identify them, but this may only add to the confusion here.) In principle, you have complete freedom to choose where to mount the different partitions, but of course you have to make sure that system files live where they should (eg, binaries in /bin, /usr/bin, etc.) Now, once you've assembled your tree in this fashion, you can essentially forget about the fact that it is in fact built from smaller subtrees that live on different partitions. The only reason why this isn't entirely true is that adding a file in a directory that belongs to a node on a given partition creates that file on that partition, and you better have enough space to do this. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:34:50PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. Thierry And your DVD drive does not complain if you switch back and forth? - Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: skype lenny amd64
I want to install Skype on Debian Lenny amd64 I am running skype on Debian Lenny amd64 and am using the AMD64 build for Ubuntu. Works without problems. I don't remember the hoops any more I had to jump through, but they were very, very few. I don't remember, though, how I found the hint to use the Ubuntu build. Google? Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: skype lenny amd64
I am running skype on Debian Lenny amd64 and am using the AMD64 build for Ubuntu. Works without problems. I don't remember the hoops any more I had to jump through, but they were very, very few. I don't remember, though, how I found the hint to use the Ubuntu build. Google? maybe from there : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg02155.html Very likely ;) , as it was a hint concerning Debian. -- Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Buffer I/O Error ... End_request
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 358650 End_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1434600 ... This seems like a disk failure. Try booting with a live cd, mount the disk in read-only and backup anything that you can. It doesn't, at least not one you should worry about too much. The sr0 gives you the clue. There's a sector on your CD/DVD that cannot be read. -N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking
xset -s noblank I believe what you want here is xset s off. At least that's what I do, and if I understand the manpage correctly, xset s (no)blank does not affect the activation of the screensaver, only what it does when it activates. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Upgraded to Lenny can't Disable Screen Blanking
xset s off does not seem to have worked either. What do you use as your screensaver? If it's nothing, the above should work (and does for me on Lenny). If it's xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver or other, they already do what xset s off would achieve and control blanking the screen themselves. -N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: SMART -d ata or -d sat
Thanks, guys. Just wanted to make sure. -N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
SMART -d ata or -d sat
Hi Debianites, I have just installed smartmontools on my Lenny box and am using smartd to monitor two SATA IDE drives. I've read on the web that the right option to use for such a drive is -d ata to force smartd to treat it as an ATA drive. On the other hand, when starting smartd without any -d switch for the two drives in smartd.conf, smartd reported that it is automatically using -d sat for ATA disk behind SAT layer. smartd does not complain with either, -d sat or -d ata. The only difference is that, in the first case, it reports to be monitoring two SCSI drives, while in the latter it says they're ATA drives. So I'm a bit confused about which of the two switches, sat or ata, is the correct one to use. Or maybe it doesn't matter. Any pointers are appreciated. Cheers, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
