Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

2009-12-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dotan Cohen: > > A fellow student has Debian and Windows 7 on his laptop. I installed > Windows first so that the Debian installer could configure grub > properly, but after installing and setting up the system (which > required a trip to the faculty technical support to set up printing > and MatLa

Re: Will Debian accept a SATA to IDE hdd adapter?

2009-12-07 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Mark wrote: >>On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Stefan Monnier >>wrote: Agreed, in case you have a choice, go for >>the SATA controller. OTOH, I use one of those frankenstein adapters in a >>small box (wl700ge home router) where the SATA controller is not an >>option, and it works just great for tha

Re: How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

2009-12-07 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Dotan Cohen wrote: > A fellow student has Debian and Windows 7 on his laptop. I installed > Windows first so that the Debian installer could configure grub > properly, but after installing and setting up the system (which > required a trip to the faculty technical support to set up printing > and

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 09:31:56PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > If you're going for a USB DAC, how about this one: > http://www.usbdacs.com/ > :drooling: ... I own one of those... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Why CUPS?

2009-12-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
After my problems with CUPS --- discussed in a previous thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/07/msg01157.html --- I decided to move to LPRng for print job spooling. The shift itself was easy; it didn't take more than an hour to remove CUPS, install LPRng and configure it to work. But

Re: increasing screen resolution, nvidia xconf.org

2009-12-07 Thread Tomislav Butkovic
Hey everyone, I've realized that while the graphics card supports up to 1500x*, the actual LCD screen in the laptop only supports 1024x768. A Seiko screen. Thanks to everyone for the help! tomislav 2009/12/5 Alexander Kaphuk > Please see an email below for a solution to a similar problem I ha

Re: Kernel 2.6.31-1 and Broadcom Ethernet

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Monday, 07 December 2009 23:35:20 +0100, godo wrote: > >>does anybody have problem with 2.6.31-1-686 and eth0 (Broadcom > >>Corporation NetLink BCM5906M)? > >> > >>I have up to date Sid on Lenovo ideapad S10e and approximately every > >>20 min. eth0 break's and little Tux from kerneloops.org no

Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

2009-12-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:42, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi Kelly. > > On Monday, 07 December 2009 11:57:56 -0800, > Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> > After to have updated my installation of Debian GNU/Linux testing in >> > my worstation, whenever I want start KDE with startx, the screen >> > remains in b

Re: rkhunter errors

2009-12-07 Thread Dale
2009/12/6 Paul Cartwright : > I just got this error message back from my rkhunter cron job: > Warning: Application 'exim', version '4.69', is out of date, and possibly a > security risk. > Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.9', is out of date, and possibly a > security risk. > Warning: Applic

Re: Problem accessing some websites

2009-12-07 Thread Guillaume CHARDIN
Problem Solved tonight by adding this on startup : sysctl -w "net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables=0" So netfilter on dom0 is the source of the problem... But i don't know why just on some service/websites. -- Guillaume -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Kernel 2.6.31-1 and Broadcom Ethernet

2009-12-07 Thread godo
Daniel Bareiro wrote: On Monday, 07 December 2009 16:53:58 +0100, godo wrote: Hi folks, Hi, Goran. does anybody have problem with 2.6.31-1-686 and eth0 (Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M)? I have up to date Sid on Lenovo ideapad S10e and approximately every 20 min. eth0 break's and lit

Re: Will Debian accept a SATA to IDE hdd adapter?

2009-12-07 Thread Mark Allums
Mark wrote: >On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Stefan Monnier mailto:monn...@iro.umontreal.ca>> wrote: >Agreed, in case you have a choice, go for the SATA controller. >OTOH, I use one of those frankenstein adapters in a small box (wl700ge >home router) where the SATA controller is not an optio

Re: rkhunter errors

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5-12-2009 14:45, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I just got this error message back from my rkhunter cron job: > Warning: Application 'exim', version '4.69', is out of date, and possibly a > security risk. > Warning: Application 'gpg', version '1.4.9', is

Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi Kelly. On Monday, 07 December 2009 11:57:56 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > After to have updated my installation of Debian GNU/Linux testing in > > my worstation, whenever I want start KDE with startx, the screen > > remains in black. > > > > I've trying manually modifying the xorg.conf file

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:13:46PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:18 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > > > On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [... snip resolution to dns delays...]

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7-12-2009 21:13, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:18 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: >>> On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> [... snip resoluti

How to move an OS install from one primary partition to another?

2009-12-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
A fellow student has Debian and Windows 7 on his laptop. I installed Windows first so that the Debian installer could configure grub properly, but after installing and setting up the system (which required a trip to the faculty technical support to set up printing and MatLab in Windows, not somethi

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:18 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > > On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [... snip resolution to dns delays...] > > >> > > >> How did you go a

Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

2009-12-07 Thread David Claughton
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > After to have updated my installation of Debian GNU/Linux testing in my > worstation, whenever I want start KDE with startx, the screen remains in > black. Might be worth checking if you have compositing turned on - that has the same effect on my machine, thoug

Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

2009-12-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 02:05, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > After to have updated my installation of Debian GNU/Linux testing in my > worstation, whenever I want start KDE with startx, the screen remains in > black. > > I've trying manually modifying the xorg.conf file and using the > privat

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: >> On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [... snip resolution to dns delays...] How did you go about checking this? I use OpenDNS as dns server

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [... snip resolution to dns delays...] > >> > >> How did you go about checking this? I use OpenDNS as dns servers and no > >> other firewall than what comes with Debian by default. > > >

Re: Udev ATTR instead of SYSFS

2009-12-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dave Witbrodt: > > The error message is a warning: it only affects the 'hplip' package, > and a bug report has already been filed I had a few rules using the old syntax as well, so it pays off to look closely what files udev complains about. I still have to test whether my rules still work, th

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:41:35AM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: >> On 7-12-2009 1:15, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, De

debianinzing some source packages from a local mirror

2009-12-07 Thread Albretch Mueller
Often I need to make changes to Debian source files, so I was thinking of having my own partial source mirror I have been reading on how to do that and I have found some inconsistencies between the German version of Debian docs (6.11.2 "Partieller Spiegel", which I read and annotated some time a

Re: Kernel 2.6.31-1 and Broadcom Ethernet

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Monday, 07 December 2009 16:53:58 +0100, godo wrote: > Hi folks, Hi, Goran. > does anybody have problem with 2.6.31-1-686 and eth0 (Broadcom > Corporation NetLink BCM5906M)? > > I have up to date Sid on Lenovo ideapad S10e and approximately every > 20 min. eth0 break's and little Tux from k

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

2009-12-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Nick Douma wrote: > > Have you ever heard of any Windows AV that filters *outgoing* email? > > Actually, most that I know do. At work, NOD32 integrates with Outlook > and Thunderbird, and scans everything, even already delivered mail. I'm > not sure if that last feature is rea

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>> Of course, your linux server does not need an antivirus to protect >>> itself, but to prevent your users to be infected. And remember that by >>> centralizing the anti-malware checking in one point (your e-mail server) >>> you are saving not just r

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:41:35AM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > On 7-12-2009 1:15, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [..] > >>> > >>> This sounds like an ipv4/ipv

NOTICE: Debian is moving sieve to its IANA allocated port (4190)

2009-12-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
This is a general warning to those using Debian Squeeze, and Debian Sid. Debian Etch and Debian Lenny users are NOT affected. The IANA port allocated for ManageSieve is 4190/tcp, and the old port used by timsieved and other managesieve software in many distros (2000/tcp) is allocated for Cisco SC

Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi Thierry. On Monday, 07 December 2009 12:26:23 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > After to have updated my installation of Debian GNU/Linux testing in > > my worstation, whenever I want start KDE with startx, the screen > > remains in black. > > > >[.] > maybe unrelated, I had the proble

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

2009-12-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Sthu Deus wrote: > > I think ClamAV should run as "clamav" user, not "root" and the same > > remains for many other services that use their own user. > > I think the same. But! In Debian all/most the mail-related services are > run under the root user... I was asking here how

About getting videos from youtube

2009-12-07 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear users, I am the maintainer of the youtube-dl package and, unfortunately, due to a decision of the release team, it won't migrate to the testing distribution (and, as a consequence, it will not be part of a stable release). The package is, OTOH, quite stable, and I use it everyday, without an

HP Printer Troubles

2009-12-07 Thread David Baron
Low-end HP ink-jets are problematic since the mechanism is in the cartridge. After experimenting with hplip setup parameters to try to fix some color problems, I cannot get back to the former, default settings. While the GUI shows everything as default values, I am in some strange printing mode.

Re: Problem accessing some websites

2009-12-07 Thread Guillaume CHARDIN
So after some days of research I tough the problem come from xen I've just forgot to tell you the system was running on Xen. Really big mistake sorry :) I configure on my dom0 the pppoe connection and it works fine. All wget on all websites where i have access problem works fines. It looks l

Re: usb keyboard support?

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Should I expect it to work out of the box? Yes, always. If something doesn't work out of the box, it's usually one of 2 things: - a bug in GNU/Linux - a proprietary/crappy piece of junk Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

2009-12-07 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sthu Deus schreef: I think ClamAV should run as "clamav" user, not "root" and the same remains for many other services that use their own user. I think the same. But! In Debian all/most the mail-related services are run under the root user... I was asking here how I can change it - seems nobod

Kernel 2.6.31-1 and Broadcom Ethernet

2009-12-07 Thread godo
Hi folks, does anybody have problem with 2.6.31-1-686 and eth0 (Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M)? I have up to date Sid on Lenovo ideapad S10e and approximately every 20 min. eth0 break's and little Tux from kerneloops.org notice me that he will sent message about kernel problem. WiFi

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

2009-12-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:13:17 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >> I think ClamAV should run as "clamav" user, not "root" and the same >> remains for many other services that use their own user. > > I think the same. But! In Debian all/most the mail-related

Re: Udev ATTR instead of SYSFS

2009-12-07 Thread Dave Witbrodt
David Baron wrote: Getting a lot of warnings about this on recent udev upgrades. I tried substituting in some of the rules files but might have caused problems. Fact is that this was tested with the recent broken udev and problems were (also?) from udev itself. Should ATTR be simply substitut

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

2009-12-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > I think ClamAV should run as "clamav" user, not "root" and the same > remains for many other services that use their own user. I think the same. But! In Debian all/most the mail-related services are run under the root user... I was asking here how

Udev ATTR instead of SYSFS

2009-12-07 Thread David Baron
Getting a lot of warnings about this on recent udev upgrades. I tried substituting in some of the rules files but might have caused problems. Fact is that this was tested with the recent broken udev and problems were (also?) from udev itself. Should ATTR be simply substituted for SYSFS? Should

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 12:37:08PM -0800, Sergio Padrino wrote: > > Hi! > > I have Debian Unstable and sometimes there are some (typical) errors in my > partitions: > > /dev/sda7: Superblock last mount time is in the future > /dev/sda7: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY > > and I was

Re: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

2009-12-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, mess-mate wrote: Hi, suddently i get this message on startup: udev: deprecated sysfs layout; update the kernel or disable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; some udev features will not work correctly My.config looks like: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y Must it be commented (#) or s

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Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-07 Thread Sergio Padrino
I finally did it! Fix "Superblox last write time is in the future" error" Open "/etc/default/rcS" and make sure the following options are set: # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not. UTC=yes # Set FSCKFIX to "yes" if you want to add "-y" to the fsck at startup

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-07 Thread Sergio Padrino
It just happened! It wasn't random this time as there were electrical problems in my house and my computer shut down :-\ Here you have a picture: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1040020/SNC00056.jpg -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Running-fsck-automatically-on-boot-tp26668778p2

Re: Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

2009-12-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,07.Dec.09, 07:05:19, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > After to have updated my installation of Debian GNU/Linux testing in my > worstation, whenever I want start KDE with startx, the screen remains in > black. > > I've trying manually modifying the xorg.conf file and using the > privati

Re: [OT] Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Iceweasel

2009-12-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,06.Dec.09, 19:17:37, Celejar wrote: > > I keep seeing this mentioned, and I suppose I ought to finally look > into it. I have been using vi for years, but I haven't *really* learned > it, and I still don't feel all that comfortable with it. When you restart iceweasel after activating it (

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-07 Thread Sergio Padrino
First, thank you for all your answers :D My PC is dual-boot and I sometimes use Windows XP, but my sister's PC only has Debian Unstable installed. Both PCs suffer this problem, so it seems that it's not Windows related :-\ Klistvud wrote: > > Dne, 06. 12. 2009 23:02:46 je Sergio Padrino napisa

CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

2009-12-07 Thread mess-mate
Hi, suddently i get this message on startup: udev: deprecated sysfs layout; update the kernel or disable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED; some udev features will not work correctly My.config looks like: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y Must it be commented (#) or setted to "n" ? B.R.

Problems with Xorg in squeeze after update

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! After to have updated my installation of Debian GNU/Linux testing in my worstation, whenever I want start KDE with startx, the screen remains in black. I've trying manually modifying the xorg.conf file and using the privative driver of nvidia and I even reach the same result. This is my

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7-12-2009 1:15, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>>

Re: Upgrade to testing

2009-12-07 Thread SergeyNaumov
Try to use lenny-backports repository. I had that problem some days ago. Naumov Sergey kom...@uvt.cz пишет: Hi I have installed stable and i have to change to testing but i always get this error sysresccd:/# aptitude install mysql-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree R

SNMP V3 User not found

2009-12-07 Thread Ali Jawad
Hi All I have a x86 Lenny servers and amd64 Etch servers. I am setting up SNMP V3 on those servers I did run the following command on all servers: /etc/init.d/snmpd stop;net-snmp-config --create-snmpv3-user -ro -a MD5 -A XYZ ZXY;/etc/init.d/snmpd restart Then I run the following test: snmpget