need help debugging my email in squeeze and/or testing (both) not merely old squeeze from before the release

2011-02-27 Thread
Some background information:I have used mutt/fetchmail/exim4 for several years without much problem. I keep backup copies of /etc so I am confident that my exim4 configuration is the same as it was whenit last worked a few days ago. I have looked at the config file that is causing a problem and it

Re: Suspend to disk fails after Squeeze upgrade

2011-02-27 Thread Richard Lawrence
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Well, no kernel oops is good but if you can reproduce this kernel bug every time you trigger the hibernation from GNOME when resuming the system, at least you can open a bug for this in Debian BTS. You are clearly having some sort of problem with the

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Tynan wrote: One of the things I've never understood about Debian is why the wiki is so inactive when compared to other distributions, the simple fact of life is that nine times out of ten I find the information I'm looking for on the Arch or Gentoo wikis - not the Debian wiki. I am

Re: Suspend to disk fails after Squeeze upgrade

2011-02-27 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi Jeffrin, Thanks for the advice. I think some module which help in the suspend/resume process has failed to complete initialization. EDAC(Error Correction And Detection) module might have found error in a device or may be the module needs a patch. You can do dmesg | grep edac and see

Re: Reading later boot files failed

2011-02-27 Thread waterloo
Yes , I install readahead-fedora . How to make readahead-fedora work correctly ? Thanks a lot ! 2011/2/28 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:02:16 +0800, waterloo wrote: Below is my /var/log/boot file . Thanks Keeping the interesting data and removing the rest of the logs:

How to manage iPod and keep it in sync

2011-02-27 Thread Simon Brandmair
Hi group, I am looking for a program to properly manage my iPod. I am aware of some programs to add and delete songs (like amarok), but I am looking for a program which * displays missing files on iPod, which are in local music collection * syncs by prompting to add them to iPod or delete

Re: need help debugging my email in squeeze and/or testing (both) not merely old squeeze from before the release

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20110227105102.36f21...@resin14.mta.everyone.net, pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: DIV style=font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;FONT size=2SPAN style=font-family: Arial,sans-serif;Some background [...] file, /SPAN/FONTFONT size=2SPAN style=font-family: I can't understand you though

Re: Reading later boot files failed

2011-02-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:08:39 +0800, waterloo wrote: 2011/2/28 Camaleón On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:02:16 +0800, waterloo wrote: Mon Feb 28 01:57:45 2011: Reading early boot files A quick Google search returns that this message can be related to readahead (or readahead-fedora) package.

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:01:00 +0100 David Jardine da...@jardine.de wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:40:55PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: I don't consider a debian-user subscriber a typical desktop / laptop user :) A typical debian-user subscriber may not be a typical desktop/laptop

Re: opened OpenSSL port

2011-02-27 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 01:50:24AM -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote: Main question: is it safe, to open a port for an openssl server? It may be safe not to open a port because it can cause attacks. It may not be safe to close a port because you may not be able to run the service. So it may be safe

Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
Having tired of Fedora's short support life (13 months)--I've been using it since FC3, but have only been upgrading every 3rd release since 6--and wanting a distro where longevity and stability are paramount, and SELinux is an option, not the default, I've settled on Debian 6. However, my

Re: Apt Crippled

2011-02-27 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 20 February 2011 21:42:29 David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2011 22:56:40 David Baron wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:54:16 David Baron wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: For several days

Re: [OT] programming Dbus

2011-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:25:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Anybody tried using dbus as root non-gui like Hal does? Following link may be helpful for you... 1. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-dbus.html Try using the following files in root mode. 1.

Re: Sid still wants to remove nvidia-glx (was Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages)

2011-02-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-27 09:04 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/07/2011 12:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-07 19:33 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: The problem for me is that dist-upgrade wants to install libdrm-nouveau1, which blasts nvidia-glx. No, nvidia-glx is broken by the xserver-xorg-core

Re: Squeeze: can Bluetooth headset work without pulseaudio???

2011-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:55:42 -0500 John nesre...@gmail.com wrote: I have used pulseaudio in the past, and it was horrible to install and understand. But for a while, I had it working on some machine or other, with Etch or Lenny (I think). Sinks, sources, wonderful. That machine is long

How do I tel SSL to trust a certificate?

2011-02-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am trying to access my work computer from home using the Citrix client. First, I connect to the companies web-site and log in. I navigate from there to a link for remote login. On selecting that, I should be presented with a login for my computer at work. This has worked in the past, but

Re (2): Sound lost - SOLVED

2011-02-27 Thread peasthope
Anthony, From: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:29:30 + Well, in the end it was the sound card. I replaced it with a new one and sound is now working again. If the new card uses a driver different from the previous, another possibility is a bug related

Re: need help debugging my email in squeeze and/or testing (both) not merely old squeeze from before the release

2011-02-27 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/02/11 18:51, pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: Some background information: sic 2011-02-27 09:04:28 1Ptj6i-0004BD-8e failed to expand ; ${if exists{/etc/exim4/passwd.client}

Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?

2011-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:49:51 +0200 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 16:22, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: [Please don't cc me on replies.] Sorry. The Open Office list is just the opposite (we _must_ cc as one need not be subscribed to post, and lots of

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2011 02:05 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: Having tired of Fedora's short support life (13 months)--I've been using it since FC3, but have only been upgrading every 3rd release since 6--and wanting a distro where longevity and stability are paramount, and SELinux is an option, not the

Intermittent internet since upgrading to squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread George
Ever since I upgraded to squeeze I have intermittent internet. It works for about 30-45 seconds, then it stops. I have to do ifdown -a ifup -a which brings it back, only for it to go down again. The strange part is that no such problems occur when booting into recovery mode. I tried disabling

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 10:49:28, Brian wrote: The same thing came into my mind at the time but I moved on. Perhaps it has been fixed in a daily build. I don't like reporting as bugs something which I'm not sure about so I'll have a closer look at it today. Which package would I report the bug

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-27 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In 4d685bbb.2010...@gmail.com, Aaron Toponce wrote: More garbage. There are _many_ good reasons to reboot a UNIX or GNU/Linux server: * Forcing applications to use the new libraries. Poor reason; I've

Re: Sid still wants to remove nvidia-glx (was Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages)

2011-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2011 02:41 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-27 09:04 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/07/2011 12:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-07 19:33 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: The problem for me is that dist-upgrade wants to install libdrm-nouveau1, which blasts nvidia-glx. No,

Re: apt-setup

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 16:27:49, Lisi wrote: I am a little confused about this. I had never heard of it, so have been looking it up. There is no man entry, and the man apt entry, which mentions and gives hyperlinks to toher apt applications (apt-cache etc.) does nto mention it. Googling

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 12:05:11, Patrick Bartek wrote: My system: Abit KN9 motherboard, built-in audio and ethernet Watch for firmware errors in dmesg and install the apropiate package from non-free if needed AMD Athlon64 X2 2.9 GHZ EVGA GeForce 8400GS graphics card, fanless (by design) If

disabling irq assigned to sata hard drives

2011-02-27 Thread Mark Copper
Hi All, In the last week, my desktop has been disabled by disabling an IRQ several times. Feb 20 14:46:05 rigel kernel: [17358.879005] irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option) Feb 20 14:46:05 rigel kernel: [17358.879011] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-5-686 #1 Feb 20

havp package missing in squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Edward C. Lang
Hi, Does anyone know the status of the package havp for squeeze? The package seems to be abandoned by the maintainer as the last two updates were NMUs: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/h/havp/havp_0.91-1.2/changelog

squeeze and touchpad

2011-02-27 Thread Atif CEYLAN
Hi all, I bought a new packard bell easynote lm98 laptop. synaptics and related packages are installed on my squeeze but my touchpad's name is shown as Macintosh mouse button emulation and my keyboard's name is shown as AT Translated Set 2 keyboard in the dmesg | egrep -i 'input|touch|track

Re: apt-setup

2011-02-27 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 27 February 2011 23:08:17 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 27 feb 11, 16:27:49, Lisi wrote: I am a little confused about this. I had never heard of it, so have been looking it up. There is no man entry, and the man apt entry, which mentions and gives hyperlinks to toher apt

need help debugging my email in squeeze and/or testing (both) not merely old squeeze from before the release

2011-02-27 Thread
Please excuse an earlier email in HTML. I was and am still now using the web mail system of my ISP, which I do not know, and which has very muddled descriptions of what the various buttons do. I think (and sincerely hope) that I have turned off the 'helpful' feature of automatic HTML. I have

Re: apt-setup

2011-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 27 feb 11, 23:34:45, Lisi wrote: If you need some interface to change sources.list try synaptic ;) Ouch!! ;-) Give me Kwrite or another good editor and sources.list itself! Not for you personally! :) Regards, -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers:

Re: ssd / smart question

2011-02-27 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Paul Berry on 2011-02-14 01:47: There is only one problem. The firmware update does not have a Linux installer. You need to install Windows 7 or Vista on a separate boot drive, then boot from it to use the firmware tool. I did a temporary And THIS is why I mourn the loss of the

Re: How long has your Lenny - Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-27 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Clive Standbridge on 2011-02-18 03:35: Also if you rely on the system for anything important, you need to allow time to diagnose and fix the fallout i.e. breakages that aren't covered in the release notes. It happens unfortunately. And time to research whether said breakages are known,

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2011 04:56 PM, shawn wilson wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In4d685bbb.2010...@gmail.com, Aaron Toponce wrote: More garbage. There are _many_ good reasons to reboot a UNIX or GNU/Linux server: * Forcing applications to

Re: disabling irq assigned to sata hard drives

2011-02-27 Thread Wayne Topa
On 02/27/2011 06:16 PM, Mark Copper wrote: Hi All, In the last week, my desktop has been disabled by disabling an IRQ several times. --SNIP-- uname -a Linux rigel 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux How can I narrow the problem down? For example, the box

Re: xinetd UDP vs. TCP Output

2011-02-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
Short answer: It's not possible. Long answer: After the research it took me, I'm just too damned lazy to write it up. Just trust me, can't be done. Hal On Feb 24, 2011, at 3:49 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm using a small program that's started by xinetd. The incoming signal to it would

Runaway process detection.

2011-02-27 Thread Dan Serban
I've run into a bit of a problem that I'd like to tackle: I'm running lenny in an appserver setup with ltsp. Everything works dandy, and until I have tested the upgrade path to squeeze (possible x.org issues) I'd like to tackle an annoying problem I keep running into. Because of a bug in gtk,

Re: Debian Wiki participation..?

2011-02-27 Thread Dan Serban
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:31:56 + Peter Tynan peter.ty...@gmail.com wrote: One of the things I've never understood about Debian is why the wiki is so inactive when compared to other distributions, the simple fact ... [snip] ... netizen I do not register, I do not make my suggestion and I

Re: bash variables

2011-02-27 Thread Mike McClain
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:45:27PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20110225222127.GA1996@playground, Mike McClain wrote: This only bites me once in a while but when it does it can be very frustrating so any hints / tips are welcome. FOO=stuff 'with' qu\otes echo $FOO echo stuff

Re: Debian stable vs. testing for Swift Linux (antiX derivative)

2011-02-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:52:22PM -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: I recently started a new Linux distro called Swift Linux (www.swiftlinux.org). I wonder if you ever considered creating a Debian Pure Blend instead of a standalone distro. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends I think some

Re: How long has your Lenny - Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-27 Thread Yuwen Dai
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what some of the people on this list have experienced for how much time it took to do the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, (assuming a fully up-to-date Lenny system). I

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In AANLkTiki5q8pN=k0mg-ng96vykmqk7w-9skxq4f2m...@mail.gmail.com, shawn wilson wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In 4d685bbb.2010...@gmail.com, Aaron Toponce wrote: More garbage. There are _many_ good reasons to reboot a UNIX or

Re: bash variables

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20110228004108.GA3922@playground, Mike McClain wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:45:27PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20110225222127.GA1996@playground, Mike McClain wrote: This only bites me once in a while but when it does it can be very frustrating so any hints / tips are

Re: How do I tel SSL to trust a certificate?

2011-02-27 Thread Michael Tsang
On Monday 28 February 2011 05:51:21 Marc Shapiro wrote: I am trying to access my work computer from home using the Citrix client. First, I connect to the companies web-site and log in. I navigate from there to a link for remote login. On selecting that, I should be presented with a login

Re: How do I tel SSL to trust a certificate?

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4d6ac759.1000...@gmail.com, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am trying to access my work computer from home using the Citrix client. First, I connect to the companies web-site and log in. I navigate from there to a link for remote login. On selecting that, I should be presented with a login for my

Re: need help debugging my email in squeeze and/or testing (both) not merely old squeeze from before the release

2011-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20110227153610.36fdb...@resin17.mta.everyone.net, pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: 2011-02-27 09:04:28 1Ptj6i-0004BD-8e failed to expand ; ${if exists{/etc/exim4/passwd.client}{${lookup{$host}nwildlsearch{/e tc/exim/passwd.client{$host_address}}}{}}while check ing a list:

How do you avoid server/firewall downtime?

2011-02-27 Thread Jason Hsu
I have successfully installed a firewall and DHCP server with a minimal Debian Lenny installation. I successfully upgraded Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze. Of course, it helps that I upgraded immediately after completing the fresh installation of Debian Lenny. Now I'm trying to get the

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 02/27/2011 02:05 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: Having tired of Fedora's short support life (13 [snip] My system: Abit KN9 motherboard, built-in audio and ethernet AMD Athlon64 X2 2.9 GHZ EVGA GeForce 8400GS graphics

Re: How do I tel SSL to trust a certificate?

2011-02-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/27/11 21:02, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In4d6ac759.1000...@gmail.com, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am trying to access my work computer from home using the Citrix client. First, I connect to the companies web-site and log in. I navigate from there to a link for remote login. On selecting

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sun, 2/27/11, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 27 feb 11, 12:05:11, Patrick Bartek wrote: My system: Abit KN9 motherboard, built-in audio and ethernet Watch for firmware errors in dmesg and install the apropiate package from non-free if needed I'll

Can you recommend a audio/video package?

2011-02-27 Thread Long Wind
Currently I use helix producer 9. It meets my three requirements: 1) It works on slow PC. It can run on my P3/550. (I have another PC that runs P4/1.6G) 2) It use compression. For video size 384x288, it take about 100 M for one hour of TV recording 3) It can be played on Windows and Linux (by

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lQtGui

2011-02-27 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I try to compile a program w/ the help of qmake and make and on make running stage I get: $ make g++ -c -pipe -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4

free jewel case insert: Debian 6.0.0 Squeeze Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2011-02-27 Thread Eric De Mund
All, Made for myself; perhaps also useful to others. I made it so I'd have ready access to the disc's SHA512 checksum. Available at: http://ixian.com/ead/debian/debian-6.0.0-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1.odt http://ixian.com/ead/debian/debian-6.0.0-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1.pdf Text reads:

Debian vs. other firewall/server operating systems

2011-02-27 Thread Jason Hsu
I can't comment on other distros as servers, as my experience at the server level has so far been with a minimal command-line only Debian Stable installation. (When I'm given the option of installing packages for the graphical desktop, web server, mail server, etc., I don't select any of

Re: ssd / smart question

2011-02-27 Thread Doug
On 02/21/2011 09:06 AM, Brian Ryans wrote: Quoting Paul Berry on 2011-02-14 01:47: There is only one problem. The firmware update does not have a Linux installer. You need to install Windows 7 or Vista on a separate boot drive, then boot from it to use the firmware tool. I did a temporary

Re: Reading later boot files failed

2011-02-27 Thread waterloo
Thanks a lot ! 2011/2/27 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:08:39 +0800, waterloo wrote: 2011/2/28 Camaleón On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:02:16 +0800, waterloo wrote: Mon Feb 28 01:57:45 2011: Reading early boot files A quick Google search returns that this message

Re: Debian vs. other firewall/server operating systems

2011-02-27 Thread Eero Volotinen
Why do people use Ubuntu on the server given that Debian is more stable?  Why do people use RedHat given that it has proprietary features in it?  (While it's not Windows, it sounds like a step in the wrong direction.)  I've heard that CentOS is RHEL is supported seven to ten years on each

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