Re: How upstart-job is performing in debian system ?

2012-08-29 Thread J. B
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:35:20 -0400 Tom H wrote: > > >From a sysadmin point of view, unless you want to write upstart jobs, > there nothing much to learn. You can use sysvinit's "service > {stop|start|restart}" - or upstart's "{stop|start|restart} ". > I have found that upstart is helpful for

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: Bret Busby wrote: opera web browser. Each window of it shows as using 14GB of virtual memory. Yowsa! So if you exit Opera as a test then suddenly a lot of memory is freed up and the system is suddenly back to its normal speedy state? Any other process

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: > opera web browser. > Each window of it shows as using 14GB of virtual memory. Yowsa! So if you exit Opera as a test then suddenly a lot of memory is freed up and the system is suddenly back to its normal speedy state? Any other processes hiding behind it that are the second t

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 29 August 2012 21:15:01 Claudius Hubig wrote: > > A problem that I (appear to) have found, is that the malware named > > javascript appears to cause havoc in continually increasing usage of > > RAM. > > Javascript is a programming language, not a malware. He knows that. He is express

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Bret, Bret Busby wrote: > opera web browser. > > Each window of it shows as using 14GB of virtual memory. Nice. Opera usually uses as much memory as it sees fit, but you can set the memory cache manually (Preferences → Advanced → History). A very wild guess would be that due to your extre

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: Bret Busby wrote: The problem is that the computer runs out of RAM. The tool I like the best is 'htop'. Install it. It is nice and I think you will like it. # apt-get install htop Then run it: $ htop Then press F6 to change the sort functio

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 01:01:28PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > To the list... Does anyone have any nice 'ps' recipies for doing the > same thing? ps STUFF --sort vsize -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

system-wide association between MIME types and applications

2012-08-29 Thread ROGERIO DE CARVALHO BASTOS
Hi guys, I'm using XFCE4 in Debian Wheezy and need a way to set system-wide association between MIME types and applications. According to [1], /usr/share/applications/defaults.list do this, but it can't works with and I don't find any documentation. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/MIME -- Ro

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:16:23AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:23:47 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) /sbin/swapon -s will show you what partitions or files you are using, and how big they

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: > The problem is that the computer runs out of RAM. > > The RAM usage increases, until it runs out of RAM, then, as at > present, the system becomes morbidly slow, and takes a few seconds > to respond to key presses or mouse moves, then, after a while, it > just crashes. What yo

Re: insserv: script clamd: service clamav-daemon already provided!

2012-08-29 Thread Roman Gelfand
Please, ignore this post. I figured out the answer. As it turns out, the dependency is in the script. I used another script and didn't change this info. Sorry On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Roman Gelfand wrote: > How can I edit the service dependency info? > > Thanks in advance -- To UN

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:16:23AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: > > >On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:23:47 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > > >(...) > > > >>So, my query is this; is the inability of 64 bit Debian 6, to swap > >>properly, instead using increasing amounts of RA

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:23:47 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) So, my query is this; is the inability of 64 bit Debian 6, to swap properly, instead using increasing amounts of RAM until it runs out of RAM, then crashing, while having 40GB of unused swap part

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > exec x-session-manager > > >The 'x-session-manager' is a Debian package specific symlink handle that > >always points to the currently configured window manager. > > Isn't that 'x-window-manager'? > > At least, I don't have an 'x-session-manager' on m

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 29 August 2012 18:08:58 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: > > It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed > > "oldstable") because even the current stable release (Squeeze) neither > > get kernel upgrades (for kernel upgrades I mean g

Re: How upstart-job is performing in debian system ?

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:27:20 +0530, bakshi12 wrote: > > I have gone through some online docs on ubuntu derived upstar-job > > mechanism and its simplicity has drawn my attention. Same time the > > apparent incompatibility with sysv-init is also there

insserv: script clamd: service clamav-daemon already provided!

2012-08-29 Thread Roman Gelfand
How can I edit the service dependency info? Thanks in advance -- 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/CAJbW+rmb0RdXxHQyJu-RHMgbTbv-R=W=VshhDja=+r40-tm...@mai

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:08:58 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: >> It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed >> "oldstable") because even the current stable release (Squeeze) neither >> get kernel upgrades (for kernel upgrades I mean goin

Re: sux: "cannot open display: :0".

2012-08-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Camaleón. Thank You for Your time and answer! You wrote: > I suggested because you seemed to have many X related packages > udpated and it could be that Xorg needed to be power-cycled. And that's why I did it. :o) > > But I have already solved the problem for me - removin

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 08/29/2012 12:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Nelson Green wrote: So, my final question is, where is my X11 start-up file? There are several different ways to start up X11. Probably the simplest for you is to create a $HOME/.xsession file. The xdm/gdm/kdm/lightdm processes will use it if the f

Re: where to report bug: Wheezy installer failed on a RTL8169 network card

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Yuwen Dai: > Dear all, > > I downloaded the latest Wheezy AMD64 version DVD iso image, trying to > install it on a HP notebook with a RTL8169 NIC. When the installer > detects network, it hangs. I could switch to other ttys and open a > busybox shell, but it

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: > It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed > "oldstable") because even the current stable release (Squeeze) neither > get kernel upgrades (for kernel upgrades I mean going from 2.6.26 to > 2.6.32 or 3.x branch, for instance). Kernel u

Re: debian on soneview notebook

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:37:52 -0300, ozkar wrote: > I have a Soneview N1405 notebook, I'm currently installing Debian, > with a 2.6.x kernel works fine, but with a 3.2.x the boot fails, the > video crash and the notebook hang out. I need some advices... best > regards Try to append "nomodeset" a

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/29/2012 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:21:30 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: (snip) In the second link, someone told that the problem may solved in the kernel 2.6.30. I tried to upgrade to the latest kernel via: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny ma

debian on soneview notebook

2012-08-29 Thread ozkar
Hello everyone: I have a Soneview N1405 notebook, I'm currently installing Debian, with a 2.6.x kernel works fine, but with a 3.2.x the boot fails, the video crash and the notebook hang out. I need some advices... best regards

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Nelson Green wrote: > So, my final question is, where is my X11 start-up file? There are several different ways to start up X11. Probably the simplest for you is to create a $HOME/.xsession file. The xdm/gdm/kdm/lightdm processes will use it if the file exists. Create it with the following cont

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:21:30 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: > (snip) >>> In the second link, someone told that the problem may solved in the >>> kernel 2.6.30. >>> >>> I tried to upgrade to the latest kernel via: >>> >>> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny main deb-src >>> http:

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
(snip) In the second link, someone told that the problem may solved in the kernel 2.6.30. I tried to upgrade to the latest kernel via: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny main deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny main and aptitude update aptitude

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:33:49 +0200, Meike Stone wrote: > I've running an Debian Lenny and can't upgrade to Squeeze for the moment > because of special software ... > > Now the Server crashed two times. > The error message is every time (taken from the console): > > "Filesystem "dm-2": XFS intern

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:23:47 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) > So, my query is this; is the inability of 64 bit Debian 6, to swap > properly, instead using increasing amounts of RAM until it runs out of > RAM, then crashing, while having 40GB of unused swap partition allocated > and "swappiness" s

Re: Alsa-Base breaks Linux-Sound-Base

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-08-27 a las 20:14 -0500, Peter Murdoch escribió: (resending to the list) > Greetings, > > I am running Debian wheezy and have noticed the latest update introduces > the issue described in > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg01566.html. > > I have not performed the upgrade a

Re: How upstart-job is performing in debian system ?

2012-08-29 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 12:27 +0530, baksh...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I have gone through some online docs on ubuntu derived upstar-job mechanism >> and >> its simplicity has drawn my attention. Same time the apparent >> incompatibility with >>

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:17:25 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: (...) >> >> But regardless this I think that "cpuinfo" is about CPU and not BIOS >> >> capabilities; from here you can't really know what to expect. >> > >> > May dmidecode be able to

Re: Networking for kvm virtual machines

2012-08-29 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:16 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > On 28/08/2012, Bob Proulx wrote: >> James Allsopp wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to learn more about networking and set up BIND, LDAP and >>> Nagios on a KVM virtual machine. The VM works great and I can ssh into >>> it from the host, and view th

Re: IPSec Point to Point Tunnel Has Double Latency in One Direction

2012-08-29 Thread Tom Grace
On 28/08/12 16:19, Chris Dos wrote: > > I can find no reason why this is occurring. Anyone have any ideas why this > is happening? > Do you get anything helpful from traceroute/mtr ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: How to mount .ccd image under GNOME?

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:07:46 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) >> If the content of the original CCD file was protected then ccd2iso may >> have problems for doing the conversion. >> >>> With the proposed .img files, I have for example $ file >>> debian-live-6.0.4-i386-stand

RE: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-29 Thread Nelson Green
> Then for batch mode automated startup I have the following in my X1< > startup file. > > if xrandr --query | grep -q HDMI;; then > xrandr --auto --output HDMI --right-of HDMI< > fi Hi Bob, I've almost gotten everything working, but one question remains. First, I ended up removing the two Qu

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 29.08.2012 17:45, Lisi wrote: > but I don't know what happened to Lenny backports when Lenny was > archived. They were archived too. http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian-backports/ has folder "dists", which seems to contain lenny-backpo

Re: How upstart-job is performing in debian system ?

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:27:20 +0530, bakshi12 wrote: > I have gone through some online docs on ubuntu derived upstar-job > mechanism and its simplicity has drawn my attention. Same time the > apparent incompatibility with sysv-init is also there. Has anyone is > using that in running debian system.

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 29 August 2012 13:33:49 Meike Stone wrote: > Hello dear list, > > I've running an Debian Lenny and can't upgrade to Squeeze for the > moment because of special software ... > > Now the Server crashed two times. > The error message is every time (taken from the console): > > "Filesystem

Re: How to find the lost 'installed application' - OpenOffice.org Impress

2012-08-29 Thread Ryan Duan
I said > I don't have any idea why the "Hidden=true" entry was generated, but it > doesn't matter now. I guess the reason is: maybe after I reinstalled Debian, I copied all the user files to the new system, something that contained configurations of LibreOffice disturbed newly installed OpenOffic

Re: Sawfish wm won't start from gdm3

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:02:39 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > I recently (finally) upgraded from lenny to squeeze. All seems well > except if I choose the sawfish window manager from the gdm3 greeter, the > dialog goes away and it just sits with the debian logo and the stars > background. I can't fi

Re: How to find the lost 'installed application' - OpenOffice.org Impress

2012-08-29 Thread Ryan Duan
2012/8/29, Camaleón : > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:41:52 +0800, Ryan Duan wrote: > >> Thank you, Camaleón! > > You're welcome but please, keep your replies at the bottom :-) > >> 2012/8/29 Camaleón : >>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:43:25 +0800, Ryan Duan wrote: >>> I use Debian squeeze, now it cann

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:01:41 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:47:34 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> > Camaleón wrote: > >> >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:26:19 +0200, Sven Hartg

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 8/28/2012 2:01 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hi Stan, > > > > Am Montag, 27. August 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > >> For a desktop user workload, there will be no noticeable performance > >> difference, because such applications don't do

Re: sux: "cannot open display: :0".

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:37:17 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: >> This can sound a bit odd but have you tried with a system restart? > > It happened right after restart! :o) Ouch! I suggested because you seemed to have many X related packages udpated and it could be that Xorg needed to be power-cycled.

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:01:41 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:47:34 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> > Camaleón wrote: >> >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:26:19 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> >>> Hmm. Could you post the output of >> >>>

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/28/2012 3:11 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:48:27 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> What I meant was that I may buy the new mobo, processor, and RAM >> that you suggested and put it in this second machine I'm talking about. > > Well, I've looked into it, and that's

Re: How to find the lost 'installed application' - OpenOffice.org Impress

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:41:52 +0800, Ryan Duan wrote: > Thank you, Camaleón! You're welcome but please, keep your replies at the bottom :-) > 2012/8/29 Camaleón : >> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:43:25 +0800, Ryan Duan wrote: >> >>> I use Debian squeeze, now it cannot find OpenOffice.org-Impress to

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/28/2012 2:01 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Stan, > > Am Montag, 27. August 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: >> For a desktop user workload, there will be no noticeable performance >> difference, because such applications don't do parallel IO. > > Are you sure about 1) desktop applications I

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 02:33:49PM +0200, Meike Stone wrote: > Hello dear list, > > I've running an Debian Lenny and can't upgrade to Squeeze for the > moment because of special software ... > [cut] > > The Server is going to migrate to new software (and Debian) in three > month, but until then

need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Meike Stone
Hello dear list, I've running an Debian Lenny and can't upgrade to Squeeze for the moment because of special software ... Now the Server crashed two times. The error message is every time (taken from the console): "Filesystem "dm-2": XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1163 of fs/xfs/xfs

Re: How to find the lost 'installed application' - OpenOffice.org Impress

2012-08-29 Thread Ryan Duan
Thank you, Camaleón! To manually create file association or create menu entry is not my goal. I know it can solve the cannot-open-problem, but what I really want to know is where GNOME configures the file associations and menu entries, why it cannot list OOo Impress in the "installed applicati

[OT] tuxonice patch for the kernel 3.5.x ?

2012-08-29 Thread J. B
Hello, Could anyone suggest the tuxonice patch for the latest kernel 3.5.x ? At tuxonice they still have patch for 3.0.x for general and 3.2.x for ubuntu kernel. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. In the ongoing saga of the inability of the 64 bit version of Debian 6 to swap properly, so that an i3 CPU with 8GB of RAM and a 40GB swap partition, runs about as fast as an 8086 trying to run MS Windows 3, a possible cause has occurred to me. I have found that the file manager, desp

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 10:47 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 29 aug 12, 01:31:03, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > PS: It seems to be, that it's possible to "play" this game without > > paying for it, but I can't see anything that teaches me how to use vim. > > Just because you don't see it, it d

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 aug 12, 01:31:03, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > PS: It seems to be, that it's possible to "play" this game without > paying for it, but I can't see anything that teaches me how to use vim. Just because you don't see it, it doesn't mean it's not there. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discus

Re: How upstart-job is performing in debian system ?

2012-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 12:27 +0530, baksh...@gmail.com wrote: > Dear list, > > I have gone through some online docs on ubuntu derived upstar-job mechanism > and > its simplicity has drawn my attention. Same time the apparent incompatibility > with > sysv-init is also there. Has anyone is using th

Re: How to mount .ccd image under GNOME?

2012-08-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:14:38 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > > (...) > What's happening? The image file should not be corrupted! >>> >>> file fv.ccd >>> >>> What kind of program created the CCD file? Mayb