Re: apt pining iceweasel και icedove απο experimental

2013-04-19 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 19/04/2013 09:04 πμ, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote: επειδή θέλω να έχω τον τελαυταια εκδοση αυτων των προγραμματών απο το experimental τι πρέπει να βάλω στο /etc/apt/preferences ? ευχαριστώ εκ των προτέρων Με μια επιφύλαξη για το θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο: Δεν χρειάζεται να φτιάξεις

Re: Ανακοινωση ελληνικης κοινοτητας KDE και 3 KDE SC 4.8 Release Parties

2012-01-25 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 25/01/2012 08:06 μμ, Thomas Kapoulas wrote: Τι είναι το KDE; Eίναι Windows for Linux. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: bug στον installer για RAID partitions;

2012-01-17 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 17/01/2012 02:01 μμ, Gregory Potamianos wrote: 2012/1/16 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr: Καλησπέρα! Έχω το εξής πρόβλημα που μοιάζει λίγο με bug. [...] Το πρόβλημα είναι ότι δεν καταφέρνω να φτιάξω τα partitions που θέλω: Αν πατήσω στο RAID5 device #0 ... δεν γίνεται

iSCSI + LUKS over insecure network

2011-06-09 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
A tough one (for me)! I use iSCSI (with CHAP authentication) to get a remote device over an insecure network, then I unlock the LUKS volume and finally I mount the ext4 FS. How (in)secure is that? Data I miss: 1. CHAP encrypts the iSCSI authentication password, but the actual iSCSI data go over

iSCSI + LUKS

2011-04-15 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hi to all! I searched the web for finding an answer but with no luck. Anyone got an idea about how to first make iSCSI see a remote disk, then LUKS open the LUKS device and finally the filesystem on LUKS gets mounted. The problem now is that first LUKS noearly tries to create the /dev/mapper

keyboard (almost) stops working

2011-03-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hi to all! I'm using squeeze with KDE, fully updated, on a i386, and since about six months a strange thing happens, at least once a day: The keyboard stops functioning. I thought it gets kind of completely disconnected, but then I noticed that if I press continuously a key, the repeat mode

sum two disks using RAID or LVM?

2011-03-18 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hi all! A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two approaches better? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: sum two disks using RAID or LVM?

2011-03-18 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 18/03/2011 10:30 πμ, Michael Thompson wrote: 2011/3/18 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr: Hi all! A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard to data safety? If one of them malfunctions

AC adapter state

2011-02-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to all! I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop, I can check that using the info in the file /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state, but such file does not exist on the DELL laptop. But KDE shows me correctly the

AC adapter state

2011-02-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to all! I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop, I can check that using the info in the file /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state, but such file does not exist on the DELL laptop. But KDE shows me correctly the

Re: AC adapter state

2011-02-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 21/02/2011 03:32 μμ, Martin Kraus wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:40:19PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Hello to all! I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop, I can check that using the info

current state of DFS support for cifs ??

2010-12-09 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hi! I'm running debian squeeze, fully updated. I can't seem to find how to mount a cifs share which has DFS enabled. I read that after 2.6.26, DFS support for cifs was streamlined into the kernel, yet I can't get it to work: //myserver/dfs/media/shares/dfs cifs

Re: current state of DFS support for cifs ??

2010-12-09 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 09/12/2010 01:00 μμ, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:39:05AM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: mount a cifs share which has DFS enabled. I read that after 2.6.26, DFS support for cifs was streamlined into the kernel, yet I can't get it to work: Do you have installed the package

Virtualbox crashes X server after update

2010-10-20 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Good morning! After today's regular update of my debian squeeze box where kernel was updated (2.6.32-5-amd), if I open up the Virtualbox console and just click on Settings, it crashes the X server and I get the login prompt! Anybody with something similar? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: Virtualbox crashes X server after update

2010-10-20 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 10/20/2010 09:24 AM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Good morning! After today's regular update of my debian squeeze box where kernel was updated (2.6.32-5-amd), if I open up the Virtualbox console and just click on Settings, it crashes the X server and I get the login prompt! Anybody

X server crashes after update of squeeze (was Re: Virtualbox crashes X server after update)

2010-10-20 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 20/10/2010 10:45 πμ, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: On 10/20/2010 09:24 AM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Good morning! After today's regular update of my debian squeeze box where kernel was updated (2.6.32-5-amd), if I open up the Virtualbox console and just click on Settings, it crashes the X server

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-14 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 14/10/2010 08:54 πμ, Tom H wrote: 2010/10/14 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr: On 14/10/2010 04:43 πμ, Tom H wrote: You can mess with the registry to make another set of recovery disks if the first set is damaged or unduplicated This is really unneeded. What I do

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 13/10/2010 02:07 μμ, steef wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας schreef: On 13/10/2010 01:24 πμ, Ogya Chief wrote: If you care about Windows 7 at all (e.g., for playing games) you should back up the Win 7 installation completely before starting. How you go about it depends on your new machine

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 14/10/2010 04:43 πμ, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington preston.li...@gmail.com wrote: Ogya Chief wrote: At this stage there is

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-12 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 13/10/2010 01:24 πμ, Ogya Chief wrote: If you care about Windows 7 at all (e.g., for playing games) you should back up the Win 7 installation completely before starting. How you go about it depends on your new machine. If it came with recovery options, you should investigate them.

how to convert ext3/4 system to btrfs

2010-10-11 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Ένα mini-howto για όποιον ενδιαφέρεται να μετατρέψει το σύστημά του σε BTRFS που για experimental παίζει αξιοσημείωτα σταθερά! Εμένα πάντως δυο συστήματα που τα τρέχω σε btrfs παίζουν μια χαρά εδώ και κάτι μήνες. -- Υποτίθεται ότι πρέπει το /boot να είναι ξεχωριστό partition 1. Βοοτάρεις το

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 10/06/2010 09:52 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/10/6 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr: On 10/06/2010 06:50 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: //myserver/myData/data1 /media/cifs-shares/dat1 cifs defaults,user,auto,noserverino,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/gpall/Do cuments

Re: creation of encrypted lvm, suggestions please

2010-10-06 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 10/06/2010 08:17 AM, vishnu vardhan wrote: [3] volume group volume group name not found. eventhough i am able to access the partitions, at the boot time it is showing the above message. can i assume the partition scheme is correct ? You mean that you see that as the very first message

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-06 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 10/06/2010 08:51 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/10/6 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr: On 10/05/2010 05:11 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 05. 10. 2010 13:51:39 je Eero Volotinen napisal(a): try mount using ip address ? Are you sure that network is available that time? or add

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-06 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 10/06/2010 06:50 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: //myserver/myData/data1 /media/cifs-shares/dat1 cifs defaults,user,auto,noserverino,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/gpall/Do cuments/samba_credentials.txt 0 3 mount by shell with these options is success? Pol

cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-05 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to all! I have this cif share in my /etc/fstab which is not mounted during boot and I can't figure out why: //myserver/myData/data1 /media/cifs-shares/dat1 cifs defaults,user,auto,noserverino,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/home/gpall/Documents/samba_credentials.txt

Re: cifs share is not mounted during boot

2010-10-05 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 10/05/2010 05:11 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 05. 10. 2010 13:51:39 je Eero Volotinen napisal(a): try mount using ip address ? Are you sure that network is available that time? or add @reboot mount -a on cron crontab ? -- Eero Actually, Eero's answer got me thinking that, at least in

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
snip At least this new x64 flashplugin is more stable than the 32bit one under nsplugins, thats all I ask of the stupid thing. Works fine with chrome v7-dev/ff3.6.9 both x64, still pegs a core or so playing videos, sigh! Any idea when it will make it into the multimedia

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-07 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 09/06/2010 11:01 PM, John Lindsay wrote: Hi Celejar I tried 'mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt' as /sda1 returned drive does not exist. Using 'tail -F /var/log/syslog' when I try the mount command using /sdb1 returns - Sep 6 15:40:38 tux-net kernel: [119018.389495] sdb: sdb1 Sep 6

Re: best way to backup a full encrypted LUKS system

2010-07-27 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 07/27/2010 04:17 AM, David Christensen wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: I have a system running off a fully encrypted 160GB HD using LVM over LUKS. Obviously, taking an image of the disk clonezilla-style is very inefficient as I need 160GB per backup. So, regularly, I take a full tar

Re: Depreciated warning I can't quite read

2010-07-27 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 07/27/2010 10:26 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: Seeing someone else ask a question about where boot messages are logged, reminds me of an issue I have been wondering about for a few weeks During bootup of my system, very early in the process, I am getting some messages appear on the screen very

best way to backup a full encrypted LUKS system

2010-07-26 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to everybody! I have a system running off a fully encrypted 160GB HD using LVM over LUKS. Obviously, taking an image of the disk clonezilla-style is very inefficient as I need 160GB per backup. So, regularly, I take a full tar of the system while the system is live. This way, data will not

Re: how to make iceweasel icedove look as pretty as in gnome?

2010-07-19 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 07/15/2010 05:15 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:12:45 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: On 07/14/2010 11:10 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 21:53:36 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Is there a way? I tried by installing kde-config-gtk-style

Re: how to make iceweasel icedove look as pretty as in gnome?

2010-07-15 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 07/14/2010 11:10 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 21:53:36 +0300, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Is there a way? I tried by installing kde-config-gtk-style but both apps look terrible and they also don't exit properly. Which themes did you try? I use Clearlooks from

how to make iceweasel icedove look as pretty as in gnome?

2010-07-14 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Is there a way? I tried by installing kde-config-gtk-style but both apps look terrible and they also don't exit properly. All the related messages I googled, are dated from 2008... Thanks, Giorgos smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: advice on amd64

2010-07-14 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 07/06/2010 09:07 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 7/5/2010 5:40 PM, Jim McCloskey wrote: I recently acquired a new Dell Studio 15 laptop and mean to install Debian (squeeze) on it. The machine has a 1.6GHz Intel Quad Core processor and 6GB of RAM. The GPU is an ATI Mobility Radeon (HD 5470)

virtuoso consuming too many resources + bug(?)

2010-06-09 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to everyone! I opened a bug on virtuoso this morning (which doesn't already show up on the bug list) about not being able to stop the virtuoso file indexing. If any of you has the same problem please reply to the bug for extra feedback. Thanks! PS. The bug: I can't seem to be able to

Re: nepomuk indexer in systray

2010-05-23 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
AG wrote: On 21/05/10 12:37, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Hello to all! I just upgraded my debian testing, installing nepomuk search. My problem is that the indexer every now and then appears in the systray for a second or so, and then disappears, which is very distracting (or am I very sensitive

nepomuk indexer in systray

2010-05-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to all! I just upgraded my debian testing, installing nepomuk search. My problem is that the indexer every now and then appears in the systray for a second or so, and then disappears, which is very distracting (or am I very sensitive? :-) )... Anyone knows how to stop the icon from

Re: δίσκος PATA WD και stock kern el 2.6.32-3 (SOLVED with 2.6.32-4 from sid)

2010-05-03 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 05/02/2010 10:08 PM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: On 05/02/2010 09:57 PM, George Kiagiadakis wrote: 2010/5/2 Γιώργος Πάλλαςgp...@ccf.auth.gr: On 05/01/2010 09:54 AM, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote: On 21:51 Wed 28 Apr , Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: χελόου! Αναβάθμισα ένα debian squeeze box σε

Re: 2.6.32-3 does not recognize PATA WD disk... (SOLVED with 2.6.32-4 from sid)

2010-05-03 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 04/28/2010 09:30 PM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: please don't top post! :-) Answer at the end: Anand Sivaram wrote: This is not a kernel bug, but the way debian uses drivers. There are two different drivers in the kernel now. Old ide drivers and newer pata drivers. Old ide drivers

Re: δίσκος PATA WD και stock kern el 2.6.32-3

2010-05-02 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 05/01/2010 09:54 AM, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote: On 21:51 Wed 28 Apr , Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: χελόου! Αναβάθμισα ένα debian squeeze box σε 2.6.32 από 2.6.30 και σταμάτησα να βλέπω έναν WD κλασσικό pata δίσκο. Επ' ευκαιρία, ψάχνοντάς το, σκέφτηκα ότι καλό θα ήταν να μάθω μερικά

Re: δίσκος PATA WD και stock kern el 2.6.32-3

2010-05-02 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 05/02/2010 09:57 PM, George Kiagiadakis wrote: 2010/5/2 Γιώργος Πάλλαςgp...@ccf.auth.gr: On 05/01/2010 09:54 AM, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote: On 21:51 Wed 28 Apr , Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: χελόου! Αναβάθμισα ένα debian squeeze box σε 2.6.32 από 2.6.30 και σταμάτησα να

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-02 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 05/02/2010 09:24 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am running an up to date Squeeze system using LXDE. I use wicd as my network manager. Since doing a full upgrade on Monday I have been unable to connect to my home wireless network. I can connect to various unsecured networks at work, at local

2.6.32-3 does not recognize PATA WD disk...

2010-04-28 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hi to everybody! I just got a WD caviar blue, with the classic IDE interface and tried to connect it to my debian squeeze pc which already has a WD SATA device, where the OS lives. The problem is that 2.6.32-3 does not recognize the disk and although I'm not an expert, I tend to think that

Re: 2.6.32-3 does not recognize PATA WD disk...

2010-04-28 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
with the debian stock kernel. What I did was to compile a custom kernel by including only the pata drivers. Now with this custom kernel everything is fine and consistent. 2010/4/28 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr: Hi to everybody! I just got a WD caviar blue, with the classic IDE interface

Re: Different ways of creating a USB-install stick

2010-04-26 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
James Stuckey wrote: Hello, I'm curious as to the different ways one can create a USB install stick, for the purpose of installing Debian. It is possible to do it by a) acquiring (where?) a boot.img.gz file, and then doing zcat boot.img.gz /dev/sdc. Then load a netboot iso to the disc. b)

Re: Can't read DVD

2010-04-23 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
James Stuckey wrote: I'm not able to read DVDs in squeeze. I burned this disc on the same drive in squeeze. Thereafter it worked fine until a week or so ago (the disc is less than a month old). I tested the disc last week on a windoze and mac osx and it worked without a problem. When I try to

Re: crypt question/server hotel

2010-04-20 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:49:20AM +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: I want to put my server in a server hotel. But: I don't trust my server hotel owner. What can I do? I am no expert on this issue but this is my common sense. Do not use such untrusted servers for

Re: Error: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

2010-04-12 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
vikram wrote: Hi, This is the output of scp -vv $ scp -vv files.tar.gz r...@192.168.1.11:/root/Desktop Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host 192.168.1.11, user root, command scp -v -t /root/Desktop OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 debug1: Reading configuration data

Re: Error: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

2010-04-09 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
vikram wrote: Hi, I get this while trying to scp onto a local machine(on the same subnet, both machines running Lenny). Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer lost connection I am able to ping the machine fine. How can this be fixed? Thanks Vikram It starts copying and then

Re: unable to connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-09 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-08 06:40, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: The last few days, when using reportbug, I get (from two machines, on two different networks): Querying Debian BTS for reports on linux-2.6 (source)... Unable to connect to Debian BTS; continue [y|N|?]? except some very rare cases

unable to connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
The last few days, when using reportbug, I get (from two machines, on two different networks): Querying Debian BTS for reports on linux-2.6 (source)... Unable to connect to Debian BTS; continue [y|N|?]? except some very rare cases. Anybody else having the same problem? smime.p7s

Re: host trying to connect using IPv6 without having IPv6 global address

2010-03-03 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Mark Kamichoff wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:50:09PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: It sits behind an ordinary adsl router, with no IPv6 capabilities, it gets its private 192.168.x.x address etc. Now the problem is that it tries to connect to hosts returning quad-A records using IPv6

host trying to connect using IPv6 without having IPv6 global address

2010-03-02 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to all! I am having the following strange problem on a fully updated squeeze. It sits behind an ordinary adsl router, with no IPv6 capabilities, it gets its private 192.168.x.x address etc. Now the problem is that it tries to connect to hosts returning quad-A records using IPv6, but it

προσπάθεια σύνδεσης με IPv6

2010-02-24 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Καλησπέρα σε όλους! Τις τελευταίες μέρες, σε ένα fully updated debian squeeze, πάνω σε siemens adsl router με forthnet ISP, έχω το πρόβλημα ότι προσπαθεί να μιλήσει με IPv6 σε IPv6 enabled sites. Ουσιαστικά δηλαδή, σε sites των οποίων το DNS επιστρέφει record. Φυσικά, ο ISP δεν δίνει IPv6,

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Michal wrote: Well, we 're not Google or Facebook, and we would like to stick with linux... I'm not 100% sure what that has to do with anything...I'm taking a a guess at maybe your thinking of high performance web sites in which case it has a lot of uses over just that, if that's what

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr : (it is, isn't it? :-) ) So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo What reasons have you collected to decide to move from Gentoo? I want 'x' program installed, and I want it *now* to solve

how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-22 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
(it is, isn't it? :-) ) So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo, and are searching for our new environment. From my personal experience I would say debian stable - any hard evidence to support the claim? Server OS statistics? Statistics for stableness? Bugs? Any white

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-22 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Tim Clewlow wrote: On 22/02/2010 13:01, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: (it is, isn't it? :-) ) So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo, and are searching for our new environment. From my personal experience I would say debian stable - any hard evidence to

Re: Bug in file command magic

2010-02-10 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Giovanni Funchal wrote: Hi, I've just noticed that the file command returns wrong mime for a file. In fact, if a LaTeX file uses the command \bibligraphystyle somewhere in the beginning, file will return mime text/vnd.graphviz instead of text/x-tex. I took a look at /usr/share/file/magic (on

knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

2010-02-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any network, wireless or not. Related bug: 567354 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

2010-02-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any network, wireless or not. Related bug: 567354 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354 And by the way, I have a question: I have seen on a kubuntu machine, a nice network

Re: knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

2010-02-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any network, wireless or not. Related bug: 567354 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354

Re: KMS, vga=791 and intel xorg driver

2010-02-07 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Matthew Moore wrote: On Saturday February 6 2010 2:36:02 pm Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: So I removed vga=791 and problems with getting a console were resolved. In order to have a good resolution for my console while the pc is booting, I used the GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900 directive in the grub2

KMS, vga=791 and intel xorg driver

2010-02-06 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hi to all! After I upgraded last week to latest xorg drivers my squeeze box, I had problem getting a console: the X session just froze. I searched a bit and found bug #567563. So I discovered that the problem was the 'vga=791' setting that I used to boot with, so that I have a decent resolution

το επίπεδο αφαίρεσης υ λισμικού βαίνει προς το τέ λος του;

2010-02-02 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
...ή στα ελληνικά: ο HAL πάει να γίνει obsolete; Έχει εδώ και μήνες κάποιο περίεργο bug που έχει αναφερθεί από πολύ κόσμο, το οποίο προκαλεί ένα segmentation fault όταν κάνεις τον hal restart, καθώς και όταν ξεκινάει η υπηρεσία, αλλά δεν λέει να διορθωθεί - κανείς δεν ασχολείται; Άκουσα δε,

Re: problem installing nvidia-glx on a debian testing with 2.6.32 kernel

2010-01-29 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Hello to everybody! I'm trying to install nvidia-glx in order to make my GeForce FX 5200 play, but I bump on this curious situation: What is this irrelevant 2.6.26-2-686 kernel that is mentioned? My system runs 2.6.32-trunk-686... any ideas? thanks to everybody who

Re: shutdown after kernel upgrade

2010-01-28 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Márcio H. Parreiras wrote: Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 5315 laptop, Intel GMA965 chipset, with Debian Testing installed. Today morning I've made an system upgrade. Since then, when kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686 is loaded, the laptop is powering off suddenly, few minutes after boot. If I choose the

Re: shutdown after kernel upgrade

2010-01-28 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
John wrote: On 28/01/10, ?? (gp...@ccf.auth.gr) wrote: | Márcio H. Parreiras wrote: | ... Acer Aspire 5315 laptop ... kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686 ... | powering off suddenly, few minutes after boot. If I | choose the old kernel the symptom do not happen ... | same

hangs with 2.6.32 on debian squeeze?

2010-01-27 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
I'm experiencing strange system hangs after squeeze was upgraded from 2.6.30-2 to 2.6.32. That happens on two systems, where one is 686 and the other is amd64. Anybody else with overall strange behaviour with the new kernel? So, I reinstalled the 2.6.30-2 kernel which prematurely I admit, I

Re: Problem with tty when debian testing(2.6.32-trunk kernel) starts up

2010-01-27 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Jeffrey Cao wrote: When I upgraded to 2.6.32-trunk kernel in debian testing, I got a problem with tty on startup. After power on, it jumpts to tty4 or tty5(one time to tty4, and another time to tty5) before printing the following message: INIT: Entering runlevel 2 Why does it jumpt to tty4/tty5

Re: hangs with 2.6.32 on debian squeeze?

2010-01-27 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
godo wrote: Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: ... So, I reinstalled the 2.6.30-2 kernel which prematurely I admit, I purged. Now for a couple of modules which I need, I need also to install the headers but it doesn't seem to work. It says: linux-headers-2.6.30-2-686: Depends: linux-kbuild-2.6.30

Re: boot hangs on pass phrase to unlock encrypted root

2010-01-26 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
k b wrote: hello, i can no longer boot my computer due to the problem in the subject line. i´ve looked in the initramfs-tools bug reports, but can not find anything exactly like this. but im not completly sure what package i should look for the problem in. the problem is the boot hangs on

problem installing nvidia-glx on a debian testing with 2.6.32 kernel

2010-01-25 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello to everybody! I'm trying to install nvidia-glx in order to make my GeForce FX 5200 play, but I bump on this curious situation: What is this irrelevant 2.6.26-2-686 kernel that is mentioned? My system runs 2.6.32-trunk-686... any ideas? aris:/home/encmp/gpall# aptitude install

Re: problem installing nvidia-glx on a debian testing with 2.6.32 kernel

2010-01-25 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Jerome BENOIT wrote: In Sid, there is a package ready to be built to do so. thanks for the answers! I guess you mean the nvidia-kernel-source package. Well, I installed it, and then: # module-assistant auto-install nvidia That fails, and I cant understand why... Again any ideas would be

Re: problem installing nvidia-glx on a debian testing with 2.6.32 kernel

2010-01-25 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hi, On 2010-01-25 14:26:56 +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: I guess you mean the nvidia-kernel-source package. Well, I installed it, and then: # module-assistant auto-install nvidia That fails, and I cant understand why... Again any ideas would be very appreciated

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM: 3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM? Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I doubt even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt swap partitions on workstations. I've never tried

KDE auto-login not working after kernel upgrade (2.6.30-2 - 2.6.32)

2010-01-03 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
A strange problem is occuring: After a kernel upgrade from 2.6.30-2 to 2.6.32 on an updated debian testing system, the user auto-login feature of KDE stopped working - instead I am presented with the kdm login screen. If I reboot with the old kernel, kde auto-logins the user fine. The problem is

chattr to a file after converting to ext4 gives scary trace in syslog

2009-12-27 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Hello all! I just converted a data partition from ext3 to ext4, and after that I tried to convert a file to use extents: mordor:/home/gpall# lsattr file --- file mordor:/home/gpall# chattr +e file mordor:/home/gpall# lsattr file -e- file I calculated the md5 of

debian mirroring πρόβλημα

2009-12-24 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Καλησπέρα σε όλους και χρόνια πολλά! Τις τελευταίες μέρες (3-4) παίρνω το εξής στα logs από το script που ενημερώνει το mirror μου από κάποιο άλλο. rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (250 bytes received so far) [generator] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at

Re: debian mirroring πρόβλημα

2009-12-24 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Καλησπέρα σε όλους και χρόνια πολλά! Τις τελευταίες μέρες (3-4) παίρνω το εξής στα logs από το script που ενημερώνει το mirror μου από κάποιο άλλο. rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (250 bytes received so far) [generator] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data

Re: debian mirroring πρόβλημα

2009-12-24 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Christos Ricudis wrote: Giwrgo, elpizw na peirakses to ftpsync script tou debian wste na pairneis mirror *mono* apo to branch pou se endiaferei kai *mono* gia tis arxitektonikes pou se endiaferei, giati alliws katebazei to sympan... προφανώς... τα 250G του i386 και του amd64 είναι αρκετά

Re: Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
m...@neidorff.com wrote: I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h' and look for a % full that is greater than 97% and send me an e-mail if the % is greater than 97. I run the script daily from

merging LVM snapshots back to origin

2009-12-10 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Does anybody know the status of this wish item? For the time being, on a squeeze server, I see that lvconvert can only convert a linear volume to a snapshot and not vice versa. G. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: eth1 disappears after kernel upgrade

2009-11-11 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Nov 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Nov 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: When I installed kernel 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem my eth1 disappeared, so no wireless. Not a problem in practice because I

Re: packages cannot be authenticated

2009-11-11 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I think after $ sudo apt-get update i have got a message on $ sudo -t stable apt-get upgrade stating that some packages can not be authenticated. Before - all was all right: i was updating and upgrading - no problems, but now I have the problem. Sometimes

Re: eth1 disappears after kernel upgrade

2009-11-10 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Anthony Campbell wrote: When I installed kernel 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem my eth1 disappeared, so no wireless. Not a problem in practice because I simply revert to 2.6.30-1-686-bigmem and it's back, but I'd like to understand what is happening. Does it need a bug report or is it a feature? Anthony

Re: eth1 disappears after kernel upgrade

2009-11-10 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Nov 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: When I installed kernel 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem my eth1 disappeared, so no wireless. Not a problem in practice because I simply revert to 2.6.30-1-686-bigmem and it's back, but I'd like to understand what

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-06 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Kevin Buhr wrote: Kamil Kułaga teodoz...@gmail.com writes: After init of soundcard and before swap activation i have 90 seconds hole. Is it normal? Can I configure kernel to somewhat avoid this? Unfortunately, I think adding a large swap partition (yours is 6GB) can be a slow

Re: 2.6.31 kernels

2009-11-04 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Colin wrote: Alex Samad wrote: isn't there some issue with the broadcom-sta drivers and .31 ? The broadcom-sta source code that was included in non-free Debian would no longer compile with kernel 2.6.31. That's why they've been working on the b43 driver extensively in the 2.6.32 kernel so

Re: Squeeze: Sub - Process rred received segmentation fault

2009-11-04 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Jason Filippou wrote: Hello, I was executing aptitude update and noticed the followin output after a sequence of 'hit's, 'ign's and 'get's: Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main 2009-11-02-1520.49.pdiff [18.3kB] Get:3

Re: Tgz Backups

2009-11-03 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I often backup everything of my Debian systems with the tgz utility. Is it possible to boot a LiveCD, to put the whole content of the tgz (assuming it is complete) on the partition (assuming there is enough free space),

Re: Tgz Backups

2009-11-03 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr writes: Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I often backup everything of my Debian systems with the tgz utility. Is it possible to boot a LiveCD

Re: reportbug reportbug?

2009-10-30 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
jagginess wrote: Is there a way to determine if reportbug is misbehaving? I dont like having to copy and paste the template made from console everytime to my icedove thunderbird.. are there any alternatives? I'm at a lost.. I had reportbug working and now i only get smtp-auth.. I have no

Re: Debian 5

2009-10-22 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Tanco wrote: Hi, I am writing to report that the ia64 dvd image is broken, somehow after about 3-4 separate downloads none of the images was bootable, you put the DVD in / mount it to vbox , the power on and nothing happends , then the system hangs.. after that i downloaded the i386 img and

Re: Regular high load peaks on servers

2009-10-21 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Julien wrote: Hi, Since quite a long time now, we observe the same phenomenon on three web servers we have on two different places. They regularly have high load peaks, until 20 to 50. These peaks append very regularly (from once a day to several an hour), and we can't explain why. It doesn't

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-16 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Matthew Moore wrote: On Friday October 16 2009 10:56:29 am Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 16 October 2009 11:03:13 Matthew Moore wrote: On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote: And you are adding to it in order to shorten it? This thread is

Re: How to REALLY restart networking?

2009-10-14 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Klistvud wrote: Howdie, fellow Debianites! I'm running Lenny with Gnome on two boxes, both connected wirelessly via network-manager to my home router. Problem: about once to thrice a day, one or both of the boxes randomly disconnect (they are using the proprietary Broadcom wl.ko and

Re: How to REALLY restart networking?

2009-10-14 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Klistvud wrote: No wonder I'm afraid to touch anything in my Debian config files ... At least until I get to know my OS a little better ... Don't be afraid! # tar cf /root/etc_bckp.tar /etc and then change /etc/ files as you please! (it also helps to remember which was the change that

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