Harry Putnam wrote:
> First the sources.list:
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
> # deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
> # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ whe
Camaleón wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Yes, an ARM machine. And I picked that one because there is no Adobe
> > Flash for ARM.
>
> (although it seems that ARM already supports Flash Player¹)
I did not know that ARM now had closed source proprietary binary blobs
for it. As you can see ARM truly
I'm not making much sense of this apt-get output but it looks like it
might be important:
Sorry to include the whole output but there were errors shown in a few
places. And also wondering what all the Hit/Ign Stuff is about.
First the sources.list:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy
Harry Putnam writes:
>> not sure, what you really mean.
>> Do you mean this ?:
>
> What is that?
Sorry I suddenly realized you must mean inside the ncurses aptitude.
I rarely use that... its very confusing to work with.
I mostly use the cmdline aspects of aptitude.
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Hi,
I have a machine with lvm as root that has not been rebooted for
long. I just rebooted it. And it cannot boot up.
The error was "cannot find root $UUID" specified in root bootflag.
I thought something wrong so the uuid of the root was changed. So in
busybox, I `ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid`, I
Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
> I read a text about bash that mentions a difference between "login
> shell" and "interactive shell".
>
> I'm affraid I don not know the difference. Can anyone enlighten me ?
>
> text I read was:
>
> "When Bash starts executes the commands in a variety of different
>
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 04:57:13PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:28:13 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
>
> > I'm running up to date Debian Sid with Sun's Java 6.26-3 installed.
>
> What's the output of "java -version"? Just to be sure you are using the
> Oracle one.
nick@phobos:~$
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:49:29 +0100
andy baxter wrote:
> On 13/10/11 20:20, Mike McGinn wrote:
> > I have experienced wireless network disconnects when connected to
> > remote machines. In my case this seemed to be a characteristic of
> > the wireless network, which my wife and son hammer relentle
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:49:24PM BST, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I read a text about bash that mentions a difference between "login
> shell" and "interactive shell".
>
> I'm affraid I don not know the difference. Can anyone enlighten me ?
Login shell is the shell executed at l
Carl-Valentin Schmitt writes:
> Hello Harry Putnam,
>
> not sure, what you really mean.
> Do you mean this ?:
What is that?
> lsb_release -a
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy)
Release:testing
Codename:
On 13/10/11 20:20, Mike McGinn wrote:
I have experienced wireless network disconnects when connected to remote
machines. In my case this seemed to be a characteristic of the wireless
network, which my wife and son hammer relentlessly. I now use a wired
connection when connecting remotely.
Try wi
On Thu 13 Oct 2011 at 19:38:54 +0100, andy baxter wrote:
> I've been getting an odd network error when trying to work on a remote
> computer over ssh. What happens is:
[Details of problem snipped]
> I don't really have much idea where to go from here, as what is
> happening is outside what I
Hello all,
I read a text about bash that mentions a difference between "login
shell" and "interactive shell".
I'm affraid I don not know the difference. Can anyone enlighten me ?
text I read was:
"When Bash starts executes the commands in a variety of different
scripts. When started as an inte
Hello Harry Putnam,
not sure, what you really mean.
Do you mean this ?:
lsb_release -a
as command ? Try it as user.
Happy Hacking.
Greetings.
dschinn
cv.deb...@gmail.com
2011/10/12 Harry Putnam
> How can I quickly get version information for packages I have
> installed. I mean the common
Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011 schrieb Alois Mahdal:
[...]
> Hi,
Hi Alois,
>I have a server from which I want to share files via multiple
> protocols--so far it's HTTP and SMB. The files do not reside
> on the server, they are mounted from other server via NFS. I was
> wondering: where to p
Hello Christopher,
I had similiar problems with apt-get install and -update and -upgrade
and with aptitude too.
Have you tried the update-DVD-iso-images ? Burn them on DVD (6.0.3),
then perform update with them. ( apt-cdrom add, apt-get update, apt-get
upgrade)
After it anything with apt-get and
Hi, all,
I recently updated my wheezy workstation, with no apparent errors.
Everything works, although there seems to be some degradation in the graphics
(nvidia) like some others have mentioned. I thought that it might help to run
aptitude -f install, and I discovered this apparent i
On 13 October 2011 21:56, Scott Damron wrote:
> While I understand your position, you should have tested very
> thoroughly before deploying any upgrades to a production system.
> Screeching about Debian being bad is not going to garner you any
> sympathy if you didn't test your patches in a lab or
While I understand your position, you should have tested very
thoroughly before deploying any upgrades to a production system.
Screeching about Debian being bad is not going to garner you any
sympathy if you didn't test your patches in a lab or QA environment
before upgrading your system.
That is
>
> For the desktop a mixed setup can make sense, since there is no need to
> store movie or music files onto an SSD usually. SSD excel at random I/O
> workloads with lots of small files.
>
> Seagate - possibly others - manufactures a harddisk with SSD cache. This
> might be an alternative for lapt
Hello, first of all sorry for my english.
Months ago I've installed a debian squeeze into two servers with a SAN storage.
I've installed the package xen-linux-system, xen started and I could
create various domUs, live migrate them from one node to another and
everything without any problem.
The deb
Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011 schrieb Dan Ritter:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 06:06:38PM +1000, yudi v wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am
> > building a new desktop and wondering what the best configuration to
> > get redundancy and speed.
> >
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 06:06:38PM +1000, yudi v wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am building a new
> desktop and wondering what the best configuration to get redundancy and
> speed.
> Some thing like ZFS RAID1 or RAIDz.
>
> I am not going with SSDs
Sorry for the duplicate messages - please reply in this thread.
Thanks. :-)
On 13/10/11 19:38, andy baxter wrote:
Hello,
I've been getting an odd network error when trying to work on a remote
computer over ssh. What happens is:
- I log in to the remote machine using ssh.
- Then su to the ro
Hello,
I've been getting an odd network error when trying to work on a remote
computer over ssh. What happens is:
- I log in to the remote machine using ssh.
- Then su to the root user.
- Then start midnight commander. (mc)
- Then navigate to the /etc directory using the arrow keys. (By going
Hello,
I've been getting an odd network error when trying to work on a remote
computer over ssh. What happens is:
- I log in to the remote machine using ssh.
- Then su to the root user.
- Then start midnight commander. (mc)
- Then navigate to the /etc directory using the arrow keys. (By going
Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011 schrieb yudi v:
> Hi all,
[...]
> from what I understand Btrfs is the closest to ZFS and this is not
> production ready yet. Also it does not offer the advanced features of
> ZFS like RAID, deduplication.
BTRFS supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10.
It is still mark
Wolfgang Karall wrote:
> Not that these scripts shouldn't be improved to at least search for
> ^0\.0\.0\.0 instead, which will still break since I suppose multiple
> default gateways get sorted in the "wrong" order now too...
IMO anyone relying on a sane result from having multiple default gatewa
Chris Davies writes:
[...]
>> What can I do to avoid this kind of silliness? What kind of
>> environment variable would even tell sudo about bash builtins?
>
> There isn't one. You can't use bash builtins like that in any
> command. Instead, you should consider a construct like this:
>
> su
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:28:13 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> I'm running up to date Debian Sid with Sun's Java 6.26-3 installed.
What's the output of "java -version"? Just to be sure you are using the
Oracle one.
(...)
> My issue is in trying to download music or a test track from the Channel
>
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:32:16 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote:
> I try to install Wheezy with latest install DVD snapshot (20111011) and
> when installer try to install grub it failed with "grub-pc package
> failed to install into /target/". I switch to terminal four and the log
> says:
>
> "Package
Harry Putnam wrote:
> I find sudo to be particularly ill informed at times.
> sudo for ii in 1 2 3;do echo $ii;done
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
> It doesn't know about bash builtins.
Why should it?
> Adding the -E flag (preserve environment) doe not help at all.
> sud
Alois Mahdal wrote:
> I have a server from which I want to share files via multiple
> protocols--so far it's HTTP and SMB. The files do not reside
> on the server, they are mounted from other server via NFS. I was
> wondering: where to put the files?
I tend to create apache vHosts under /home/
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:58:24PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > I find sudo to be particularly ill informed at times.
>
> > sudo for ii in 1 2 3;do echo $ii;done
> > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
I suspect the problem here is, perhaps not that sudo does
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:03:39 +0200, Wolfgang Karall wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 02:43:12PM +, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:57:56 +0200, Wolfgang Karall wrote:
>>
>> > I just noticed on my notebook running up-to-date sid that the output
>> > of route changed compared to what
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 02:43:12PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:57:56 +0200, Wolfgang Karall wrote:
>
> > I just noticed on my notebook running up-to-date sid that the output of
> > route changed compared to what I've been used to for ages, in that it
> > shows the default gatew
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:57:56 +0200, Wolfgang Karall wrote:
> I just noticed on my notebook running up-to-date sid that the output of
> route changed compared to what I've been used to for ages, in that it
> shows the default gateway as top-most line:
>
> x61s:/etc# /sbin/route -n
> Kernel IP rout
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:46:44 -0400, shuttah wrote:
> Hello again, and thanks again Camaleón for responding.
>
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:57:15 -0400, k s wrote:
>> >
>> > The one i am having a problem with is the WD My Book, also using a
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:07:04 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > Camaleón wrote:
>> >> Besides, I'm sure you know that flash player plugin can contact you
>> >> webcam and audio devices very easily.
>> >
>> > Is that true on an ARM based platform? Remember that D
On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 22:09:53 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> Took me a bit to figure out why "restart" worked by "shutdown" didn't,
> until I realized that I'm not "brian"...
Sorry - it was a copy and paste from a testing directory without too
much scrutinising.
> What is the overall view of
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:25:55 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote:
> I am having a PostScript (.ps) document that I am trying to convert to
> PDF. I am using ps2pdf for that, but the result looks bad: some glyphs
> are smaller than others, etc.
What fonts are used in the original PS file? And what fo
I find sudo to be particularly ill informed at times.
For example: Attempting to run a `for' loop
as user:
for ii in 1 2 3;do echo $ii;done
1
2
3
as sudoer:
sudo for ii in 1 2 3;do echo $ii;done
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
It doesn't know about bash builtins.
Adding t
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use IIUC;
use AFAIK;
use Knowledge::Newbie qw( learn );
my $question=<<'EOF';
Hi,
I have a server from which I want to share files via multiple
protocols--so far it's HTTP and SMB. The files do not reside
on the server, they are mounted from other server via NF
On 10/12/2011 10:09 PM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
...
What is the overall view of this issue? Is this a bug? Is your solution
the right one? Should it be fed back to the XFCE team? From my
perspective, this should Just Work, and the user shouldn't be expected
to figure out a solution like this
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 01:21:35PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> >> backlight, wifi, BT, hdd temperature sensors...) and maybe your dell
> >> needs something similar :-?
> >
> > module wl controls wifi... I had to install it manually.
>
> No, I did not mean that. "wl" is a generic module for broadcom
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:35:37 -0400
"Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:23:20 +0530
> "Sridhar M.A." wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:46:08PM -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr.
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> PCManFM Releases:
> >>
> >> 0.9.9 - August 2011 - this ve
Hello!
I try to install Wheezy with latest install DVD snapshot (20111011)
and when installer try to install grub it failed with "grub-pc package
failed to install into /target/". I switch to terminal four and the
log says:
"Package grub-pc is not available, but is referred to by another package.
On 10/13/2011 12:27 PM, yudi v wrote:
Can you please reference your source about ZFS being slow on FreeBSD - I
was seriously considering this option.
You can look at FreeBSD forums.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26254&highlight=zfs
--
Kind regards,
Yudi
Best regards
Georgi
Software RAID 1 with ext3(4) is a good choice.
Yes thats an option but ext4 is severely lacking in comparison to ZFS.
>
>> As far as I know ZFS is not available in Linux kernel, on other hand I've
> read that ZFS is slower than UFS on FreeBSD which is slower than ext3 on
> Linux.
>
>
I am awar
Hi,
I'm getting some error messages that weren't there in squeeze, they are not
stopping the application
from running, but I'd like to get rid of them.
I've use slocate to try and find the file which is being read, but I cant find
it.
Does anyone known the location and name off the offending file
On 10/13/2011 11:06 AM, yudi v wrote:
Hi all,
Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am building a
new desktop and wondering what the best configuration to get redundancy
and speed.
Some thing like ZFS RAID1 or RAIDz.
Software RAID 1 with ext3(4) is a good choice.
from
Hi all,
Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am building a new
desktop and wondering what the best configuration to get redundancy and
speed.
Some thing like ZFS RAID1 or RAIDz.
I am not going with SSDs as they are beyond my budget. I believe I can get
the required performan
Hello,
I just noticed on my notebook running up-to-date sid that the output of
route changed compared to what I've been used to for ages, in that it
shows the default gateway as top-most line:
x61s:/etc# /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags
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