Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 11:20:12AM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2014-02-05 Andrei POPESCU : > > > On Du, 02 feb 14, 13:58:54, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > > > > > > What about running 32 bit windows and apps in wine or VMWare? > > > > I've had issues with *sid* amd64 and skype. Would apreciat

Re: Difference between apt and apt-get

2014-02-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/14 16:43, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > Hi, > I want to know what is the basic difference between *apt*, as in /apt > update/ and *apt-get*, as in /apt-get update/. > Thanks, > Muntasim-Ul-Haque >From the man pages:- APT is a *management system* for software packages. For normal day to day

Difference between apt and apt-get

2014-02-05 Thread Muntasim-Ul-Haque
Hi, I want to know what is the basic difference between *apt*, as in /apt update/ and *apt-get*, as in /apt-get update/. Thanks, Muntasim-Ul-Haque

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-02-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/14 14:54, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> Please post:- >> /etc/dhcpd.conf >> /etc/default/dhcp3-server > > Like I said, these files are not there on my box! > Sorry, I haven't been monitoring the list. (I don't currently have access to a pxe server, so you'll need to check my memory). Try:-

Re: PXE install, without internet?

2014-02-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Please post:- > /etc/dhcpd.conf > /etc/default/dhcp3-server Like I said, these files are not there on my box! -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-05 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 07:13:20 -0500 (EST), berenger morel wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> I've had nothing but trouble with my first amd64 system. The 3.12 >> kernel >> of jessie won't even boot for me. But my experience appears to be >> atypical. The general public isn't having such proble

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/6/14, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 02/05/2014 07:13 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>> I've had nothing but trouble with my first amd64 system. The 3.12 >>> kernel >>> of jessie won't even boot for me. But my experience appears to be >>> atypical. The general public isn't having s

Re: Disk partitioning/encryption wizard

2014-02-05 Thread David Christensen
On 02/05/2014 01:23 PM, Tino Sino wrote: Can I invoke the CLI disk partitioning/encryption wizard I used to install the OS to configure a new external USB drive? How? I use the cryptsetup(8) program from the command line. Here's a HOWTO: http://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/howto-linux-hard-dis

Re: Handbrake crashing

2014-02-05 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:42 AM, wrote: > You said that you had no message, even when started in a terminal? Not > even "segmentation fault"? That's strange and nobody but the author could > help you at this point I guess. > That is correct. Not so much as a "by your leave." :) Nothing in

Build binary package from debian sources.New format 3.Errors.

2014-02-05 Thread Luis Suzuki
When I needed to build a package from debian sources I used to: bzcat ../debianpackage.diff.gz | patch -p1 from within the original source.Then: debuild.And everything went smoothly. Now I do (and does not work): >From within the original package sources directory tree: tar xfz ../debianpackage.

Re: Advice sought for Squeeze to Wheezy upgrade

2014-02-05 Thread Joe
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:20:48 +0100 JK4 wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > I would like to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and I'd read this > should be easy... Mine is an email ( postfix dovecot. > ) and apache server with mysql from DotDeb. > > Why should I upgrade? My only reason for upgra

Re: upgrade problem

2014-02-05 Thread PaulNM
On 02/05/2014 04:16 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > When I did today apt-get dist-upgrade it fails with this message : > > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 146026 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-3.12-1-amd64_3.12.9-1_amd64.deb ...

Disk partitioning/encryption wizard

2014-02-05 Thread Tino Sino
Can I invoke the CLI disk partitioning/encryption wizard I used to install the OS to configure a new external USB drive? How? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.de

upgrade problem

2014-02-05 Thread Roelof Wobben
When I did today apt-get dist-upgrade it fails with this message : Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 146026 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-3.12-1-amd64_3.12.9-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking linux-image-3.12-1-amd64 (3.12.9-1) over (3.12.

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/05/2014 03:00 PM, David Christensen wrote: > I liked Gnome 2 on Debian 5 and 6. When I upgraded to Debian 7, I > disliked Gnome 3. So, I settled for Xfce. Since then, I've > discovered MATE -- a fork of Gnome 2 with packages available for > Debian (and others): > > http://mate-desktop

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread David Christensen
On 02/04/2014 11:16 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: ... when my computer boots up, it takes like 25 seconds more to get started after entering the username and password. That is 25 seconds of more wait after logging in. That's a symptom of misconfigured and/or conflicting software packages. Another

Re: Advice sought for Squeeze to Wheezy upgrade

2014-02-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Feb 2014 at 20:33:50 +0100, J4K wrote: > Hi Brian, thanks for your reply, and I have been looking into > converting my dovecot configs for at least a week. I got caught out by dovecot; it was easy enough to fix, With mysql (if it gives you problems) I don't know; it might be a case of t

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread David Christensen
On 02/05/2014 12:43 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: It's GDM. I haven't tried any other on this laptop, I can install lightDM. But then after formatting I am going to ditch gnome and switch to awesome. I liked Gnome 2 on Debian 5 and 6. When I upgraded to Debian 7, I disliked Gnome 3. So, I settled

Re: Advice sought for Squeeze to Wheezy upgrade

2014-02-05 Thread J4K
Hi Brian, thanks for your reply, and I have been looking into converting my dovecot configs for at least a week. Thanks, jk On February 5, 2014 8:17:10 PM CET, Brian wrote: >On Wed 05 Feb 2014 at 16:20:48 +0100, JK4 wrote: > >> I would like to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and I'd read this

Re: Advice sought for Squeeze to Wheezy upgrade

2014-02-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Feb 2014 at 16:20:48 +0100, JK4 wrote: > I would like to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and I'd read this > should be easy... Mine is an email ( postfix dovecot. > ) and apache server with mysql from DotDeb. The definitive advice is: read and reread the Release Notes. > Why should

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread John Hasler
yaro wrote: > Separate /usr is unneeded and actually complicates boot for little benefit. It allows you to mount it read-only (or not at all when there's a problem). It only complicates boot due to the practice of putting stuff that belongs under / under /usr. > Most Linux distributions rely o

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread David Guntner
y...@marupa.net grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 08:27:15 AM David Guntner wrote: >> Can't speak for him, but for me it's a segmenting issue. If I have to >> wipe / for example, I'm not wiping things in /usr or /usr/local (where >> my locally-installed programs go) u

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I prefer to have everything in /, even /home, but OTOH data for audio productions always gets to another HDD than to the HDD where the Linux is installed. The advantage of having everything in / is that HDD space automatically is allocated as needed, OTOH regarding to performance I use a second HDD

Re: "cloning" a debian installation

2014-02-05 Thread Roland Müller
Hello again, On 02/05/2014 05:16 PM, Roland Mueller wrote: Hello, 2014-02-05 Kruppt : On 2014-01-31, Kruppt wrote: On 2014-01-31, Fabrice Vaillant wrote: Hi I'm using debian 7.3 on my laptop (Dell E5530) and it runs perfectly fine. I'm considering remplacing the hdd by a ssd. The thing is

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread yaro
On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 08:27:15 AM David Guntner wrote: > Zenaan Harkness grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > >>[...] > >> > > Nowadays, the only partitions I use are: > > /boot - about 1GiB > > Unless you're planning on having a lot of different kernels i

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread David Guntner
Zenaan Harkness grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >>[...] > Nowadays, the only partitions I use are: > /boot - about 1GiB Unless you're planning on having a lot of different kernels installed, you really don't need a full gig for /boot (it doesn't hurt anything, thou

Advice sought for Squeeze to Wheezy upgrade

2014-02-05 Thread JK4
Hi everybody, I would like to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and I'd read this should be easy... Mine is an email ( postfix dovecot. ) and apache server with mysql from DotDeb. Why should I upgrade? My only reason for upgrading is for OpenSSL version 1, if I were to be honest. I would l

Re: "cloning" a debian installation

2014-02-05 Thread Roland Mueller
Hello, 2014-02-05 Kruppt : > On 2014-01-31, Kruppt wrote: > > On 2014-01-31, Fabrice Vaillant wrote: > >> Hi > >> I'm using debian 7.3 on my laptop (Dell E5530) and it runs perfectly > >> fine. I'm considering remplacing the hdd by a ssd. > >> The thing is I'd rather not go through the hassle o

Re: debian installer

2014-02-05 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
SvechnikovSV writes: > Hi guys. I have a problem with the latest version of Debian > here. I had installed wheezy 7.2 system with utilities package only > (console and framebuffer). I can't make it work in graphic > mode 0x31A. Instead I got 0x31B mode loaded. My video card > Intel 92945G seem

Re: getmail FAIL - lost email

2014-02-05 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:03:09 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 03 feb 14, 09:34:13, Celejar wrote: > > > > Is there anything I can do to recover them? getmail is set to delete > > messages on the server after successful retrieval, and it's apparently > > doing so here, *even though the deliver

Re: Re^2: A persistent name for a sound device.

2014-02-05 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2014-02-04, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Alan, > > * From: Alan Greenberger > *Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:34:42 -0500 >> When I plug in a Logitech C170 webcam, /proc/asound/cards shows: >> 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB >> HDA ATI SB at 0xfbdf4000 ir

Re: "cloning" a debian installation

2014-02-05 Thread Kruppt
On 2014-01-31, Kruppt wrote: > On 2014-01-31, Fabrice Vaillant wrote: >> Hi >> I'm using debian 7.3 on my laptop (Dell E5530) and it runs perfectly >> fine. I'm considering remplacing the hdd by a ssd. >> The thing is I'd rather not go through the hassle of setting up debian >> to suit my compu

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> I do not know for awesome, but for i3, the reason could be to avoid learning > a new way of thinking. I3 is not only efficient in a memory and CPU point of > view, but also in term of user's time, if you learn how to use it. Tiling Wm > are different from the standard ones. > I don't really get

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Brian
On Wed 05 Feb 2014 at 18:29:01 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > Network Manager isn't good, it's bad, however if you like it, you can > > use it with Xfce too and don't worry about installing GNOME > > dependencies, since Xfce is based on much GNOME stuff. Regarding to > > Thunar vs Nautlius, note

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread berenger . morel
Le 05.02.2014 13:59, Anubhav Yadav a écrit : Network Manager isn't good, it's bad, however if you like it, you can use it with Xfce too and don't worry about installing GNOME dependencies, since Xfce is based on much GNOME stuff. Regarding to Thunar vs Nautlius, note that if you install all th

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-05 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 02/05/2014 07:13 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >> I've had nothing but trouble with my first amd64 system. The 3.12 >> kernel >> of jessie won't even boot for me. But my experience appears to be >> atypical. The general public isn't having such problems, it seems. >> >> -- >>

debian installer

2014-02-05 Thread SvechnikovSV
Hi guys. I have a problem with the latest version of Debian here. I had installed wheezy 7.2 system with utilities package only (console and framebuffer). I can't make it work in graphic mode 0x31A. Instead I got 0x31B mode loaded. My video card Intel 92945G seem to support both modes but I need

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-05 Thread berenger . morel
Le 05.02.2014 13:53, Tom H a écrit : On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:28 AM, wrote: Le 02.02.2014 23:27, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Le 02.02.2014 21:46, Tom H a écrit : Have you checked that "/boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi" exists? (It might be "Bootmgfw.efi".) I'm not at

Re: setting laserprinter as default destination help needed

2014-02-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 04 Feb 2014 at 17:58:47 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Using connection type: par You have told the HP software you have a printer attached to a parallel port. > Device URI Model > > -

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Network Manager isn't good, it's bad, however if you like it, you can > use it with Xfce too and don't worry about installing GNOME > dependencies, since Xfce is based on much GNOME stuff. Regarding to > Thunar vs Nautlius, note that if you install all that automatic crap, > than Thunar anyway wi

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:28 AM, wrote: > Le 02.02.2014 23:27, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : >> Le 02.02.2014 21:46, Tom H a écrit : >>> >>> Have you checked that "/boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi" >>> exists? (It might be "Bootmgfw.efi".) >> >> I'm not at work currently, but I'l

Re: Re^2: /dev/* and ALSA.

2014-02-05 Thread Klaus
On 04/02/14 19:08, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: peter@dalton:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012 SiS SI7012 with ALC655 at irq 18 1 [NX6000 ]: USB-Audio - MicrosoftB. LifeCam NX-6000 Microsoft MicrosoftB. LifeCam N

Re: Handbrake crashing

2014-02-05 Thread berenger . morel
Le 05.02.2014 13:15, Brad Alexander a écrit : Has anyone seen this behavior in handbrake? I fired it up on both my sid workstation and my sid laptop, and as soon as I click the source and select the cdrom (or sr0 or dvd), it begins scanning the DVD, then the entire app crashes. No errors in th

Re: grub efi does not find windows

2014-02-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 5:27 PM, wrote: > Le 02.02.2014 21:46, Tom H a écrit : >> Have you tried to switch to "bootmgfw.efi" through your firmware? > > Which firmware? Pressing the appropriate F-key at boot; or, if you have a recent version of grub, typing "fwsetup" at the grub commandline. >

Re: postfix: maildir-style delivery with external MDA?

2014-02-05 Thread Markus Schönhaber
05.02.2014 12:16, Andrei POPESCU: > The setup > - > I am running postfix on my laptop mostly for sending, but also local > mail (cron, r2e, etc.), maildrop for sorting/filtering to Maildirs and > notmuch for indexing (via a cron job). > > The problem > --- > Since version 2.7.1-

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 17:49 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > I have tried xfce and I believe that its a great great desktop environment, > However I am restricted in using that for a couple of reasons. > 1) It does not seem to have a good network manager. > the network manager in gnome lets us define

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> The slowness you've been > noticing, as people have pointed out, may be due do GNOME and > whichever start-up proggies it has. I'd recommend LXDE, XFCE or > fluxbox instead of awesome though. > I have tried xfce and I believe that its a great great desktop environment, However I am restricted in

Handbrake crashing

2014-02-05 Thread Brad Alexander
Has anyone seen this behavior in handbrake? I fired it up on both my sid workstation and my sid laptop, and as soon as I click the source and select the cdrom (or sr0 or dvd), it begins scanning the DVD, then the entire app crashes. No errors in the logs, and even when I started from the command li

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-05 Thread berenger . morel
Le 05.02.2014 04:46, Stephen Powell a écrit : On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:58:54 -0500 (EST), Rick Macdonald wrote: Still, I'd like to ask on the list here. Are there any issues with switching to amd64? What about drivers? I've had nothing but trouble with my first amd64 system. The 3.12 kernel

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I stay with MBR and recommend before switching to LVM, to test the usage in a virtual machine. As long as the maximum size of your HDDs is <= 2 TB MBR doesn't cause issues and it definitively is easier to use MBR than LVM, including resizing partitions. The advantage that you can enlarge a "partiti

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > 2) As you can see in the screenshot, gparted shows that the hdd is > only 698 gb whereas when purchased it was 720 GB. Any ways to recover > the lost sectors back? As people pointed out, GB and GiB are different[1]. However, 720GB is 670

postfix: maildir-style delivery with external MDA?

2014-02-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Hi all, I'm aware this is a bit off-topic, but as far as I can tell there are lots of Postfix users on this list and I thought I should try my luck here before the Postfix lists :) The setup - I am running postfix on my laptop mostly for sending, but also local mail (cron, r2e, etc.),

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-05 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-02-05 Andrei POPESCU : > On Du, 02 feb 14, 13:58:54, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > > > What about running 32 bit windows and apps in wine or VMWare? > > I've had issues with *sid* amd64 and skype. Would apreciate comments on > this from others as I plan to test a cross-grade Real Soon Now (tm

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 05 February 2014 08:43:15 Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > Also, does it just wait as though it is checking your > > credentials, or do you actually login, but get a spinning cursor > > or something else? > > Yes, spinning cursor! Exactly! As you suggest yourself, ditch GNOME 3. Lisi -- T

Re: getmail FAIL - lost email

2014-02-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 feb 14, 09:34:13, Celejar wrote: > > Is there anything I can do to recover them? getmail is set to delete > messages on the server after successful retrieval, and it's apparently > doing so here, *even though the delivery is failing*! That has not been my experience. > This behavior i

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 05 February 2014 06:33:35 Anubhav Yadav wrote: > 2) As you can see in the screenshot, gparted shows that the hdd is > only 698 gb whereas when purchased it was 720 GB. Any ways to > recover the lost sectors back? No, it does not say that you have 698 Gigabytes (decimal), it says that

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 feb 14, 13:58:54, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > What about running 32 bit windows and apps in wine or VMWare? I've had issues with *sid* amd64 and skype. Would apreciate comments on this from others as I plan to test a cross-grade Real Soon Now (tm). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wik

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread berenger . morel
Le 05.02.2014 07:46, Zenaan Harkness a écrit : On 2/5/14, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Hello list, I have an Asus laptop, with 720 gigs hardisk and i5 processor. Right now I have a dual boot of Windoze (only for playing fifa and assassins creed) and debian wheezy 64 bit. Here is the screenshot of

Re: Any reason not to run amd64 these days?

2014-02-05 Thread berenger . morel
Le 04.02.2014 15:16, darkestkhan a écrit : On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 10:56 -0600, y...@marupa.net wrote: You will, especially on this mailing list, get a lot of people who act like running 64-bit if you don't have more than 4 GiB of RAM is som

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: >> >> Because when my computer boots up, it takes like 25 seconds more >> to get started after entering the username and password. That is 25 seconds >> of more wait after loggin

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > Because when my computer boots up, it takes like 25 seconds more > to get started after entering the username and password. That is 25 seconds > of more wait after logging in. Is that logging in at the tty prompt or through a GDM,

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread David Christensen
On 02/04/2014 11:00 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: The HDD I have in my laptop has somewhat low rpms, maybe that's the issue? Its a sata HDD with 5400 rpms! 5400 vs. 7200 RPM is measurable, but HDD vs. SSD is amazing -- ~10 ms seek time vs. ~100 us latency (2 orders of magnitude!). This is most no

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread David Christensen
On 02/04/2014 10:33 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: I have an Asus laptop, with 720 gigs hardisk and i5 processor. Right now I have a dual boot of Windoze ... and debian wheezy 64 bit. Debian takes a lots of time for booting up ... There was a tool which gave the read-write speeds of my hdd, that was me