Re: VirtualBox 4 fails building kernel module (the same with nvidia module)

2011-01-25 Thread Cameron Hutchison
MRH misiek_s...@o2.pl writes: On 23/01/11 04:53, Cameron Hutchison wrote: and I had to revert two commits to fix it: 7b8ea53d7f1865cd8f05dfb8f706a4ff5a72abcf (makefile: not need to regenerate kernel.release file when make kernelrelease) 01ab17887f4cdcb8bb5a5d1bc3b160d186e6e99b (Makefile

Re: VirtualBox 4 fails building kernel module (the same with nvidia module)

2011-01-22 Thread Cameron Hutchison
tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com writes: The problem with extraversion and 2.6.37 is known, it's been reported here if I remember, look for a message starting with kernel-package: 2.6.37 in the archives. But since it seems to affect only proprietary software I guess they'll have

kernel-package: 2.6.37 kernelrelease target no longer works

2011-01-17 Thread Cameron Hutchison
I've built a new 2.6.37 kernel with kernel-package where I use an --append-to-version option to add a hostname a build number. Due to a change in the kernel Makefile, make kernelrelease no longer gets the kernel release from include/config/kernel.release , but instead uses scripts/setlocalversion

Re: permissions all zero when using 'cp'

2010-12-31 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Martin Lorenz mar...@lorenz.priv.at writes: r...@vs152058:~# ( env -i date -R testfile1 ls -ldog testfile1 echo rm -f testfile2 echo cp testfile1 testfile2 ls -ldog testfile2 ) - -r-Sr-x--- 1 32 30. Dez 20:22 testfile1 This is really wierd. Your testfile1 should not have been created

Re: how to kill a process that is defunct?

2010-11-22 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Robert Brockway rob...@timetraveller.org writes: On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, François TOURDE wrote: The zombie process don't use any resources in general. No need to reboot at this point, because nothing is wrong. Right. I can't see how the OP's process is a zombie as a zombie won't consume CPU

Re: map '-' to '_' and '_' to '-'

2010-11-14 Thread Cameron Hutchison
) and keymaps(5) will probably be necessary reading. From: Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Subject: Re: map '-' to '_' and '_' to '-' References: ibis8b$4d...@dough.gmane.org 20101112133310.ga26...@aurora.owens.net 5b5d.4cddb78d.c6...@getafix.xdna.net ibmvp2$v9

Re: map '-' to '_' and '_' to '-'

2010-11-12 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:02:00AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: While working on my Debian box (which btw is a mix of Lenny and Squeeze), I find that I type the underscore character ('_') more often than the dash character ('-'). It could be file

Re: SNMP and MIBs

2010-10-31 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Mark Kamichoff p...@prolixium.com writes: Ever since the snmp package stopped shipping MIBs due to licensing problems, I've been unable to get snmpwalk and friends to correctly resolve OIDs to names (and vice versa), at all. [...] I've got the following in my snmp.conf, which I believe adds the

Re: Fascinating problem with bash

2010-08-23 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Oliver Schneider borba...@gmxpro.net writes: Both cases can occur in several places (outer while loop). Since the paths can contain blanks, I resorted to a while read loop because for simply would tokenize the file names more than desirable. As soon as I read this paragraph I saw the problem. I

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net writes: In 20100815190053.ga4...@gandalf.home.lxtec.de, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: How do I set up mdadm to create the root array witout an initramfs? You can't. When did this change? I have a box (my NAS) that is running Debian stable (lenny) with a

Re: Shell Expansion in Bourne Shell Script Question

2010-07-28 Thread Cameron Hutchison
vogelke+deb...@pobox.com (Karl Vogel) writes: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:58:11 +0200, Mart Frauenlob mart.frauen...@chello.at said: M One might be better of with some like this: M find /DIR -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.*\.(zip|ZIP)' -exec \ M some_command {} + If the filelist is

Re: Restarting network

2010-07-06 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Johann Spies jsp...@sun.ac.za writes: Apparently '/etc/init.d/networking restart' is depricated. It is not doing the job any more on squeeze. '/etc/init.d/ifplugd restart' ignores virtual interfaces defined in /etc/network/interfaces. So how do I get my virtual interfaces active after a

Re: problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-31 Thread Cameron Hutchison
H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com writes: Here are the grub.cfg stanzas for the current running kernel and for my compiled kernel respectively: #the default debian kernel initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 #kernel compiled by me the Debian way initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-100528-firewire

Automatic partial archive mirroring

2010-05-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
I have a few debian unstable boxes that I like to keep up-to-date. Currently, I run apt-cacher-ng (a proxy for apt-get which stores packages so they don't need to be downloaded again) on my gateway box (lenny 32-bit), so I don't double download from my couple of other boxes (sid 64-bit). This

Re: How do I fsck an XFS file system in Squeeze

2010-05-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
lrhorer lrho...@satx.rr.com writes: lrhorer put forth on 5/20/2010 6:09 PM: How can I obtain the XFS file utilities - particularly xfs-repair - under Squeeze? The simple answer to my original question was, xfsprogs. Doing a synaptic search for xfs returns far, far too many results

Re: Automatic partial archive mirroring

2010-05-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net wrote: Is there some way to do an intelligent partial mirror of the archive of what is installed on other boxes, without too much overhead of managing a package list? (i.e. I dont want to have to manually update some package

Re: Automatic partial archive mirroring

2010-05-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net wrote: and then have the gateway box get those packages. hmmm. How? Is there an existing tool that will do this? Doing it manually (in a script) would require too much work (essentially implementing apt-get -d dist

Re: problem running kernel compiled on different machine

2010-05-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com writes: I am testing a patch for the Debian kernel (regarding the firewire bug I reported earlier in this list). I have been sent the patch and I followed the Debian way of compiling the kernel after patching the source. ( Here's is the installation error -- ) Hmm.

Re: How to run a script when pppoe connection comes up?

2010-05-16 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com writes: I have a script that runs at boot time. It should really be rerun every time my pppoe connection has come up and has created device ppp0 for me. Evidently I have to invoke this script from someplace different from what I'm doing now. Where? After

Re: cannot type power of 1 or 2, 4-9 are typeable.

2010-04-12 Thread Cameron Hutchison
jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com writes: im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope paste from that page, the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a dpkg-reconfigure locales issue? how can i gain the ability to

Re: Making make-kpkg quieter

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Mart Frauenlob mart.frauen...@chello.at writes: On 08.04.2010 01:59, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Is there any way to make make-kpkg (kernel-package 12.033) quieter? When I run a make-kpkg clean it spits out lots of lines about unlinking files in debian/... On a slow link, this is very annoying

Re: Making make-kpkg quieter

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@ieee.org writes: On Wed, Apr 07 2010, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Is there any way to make make-kpkg (kernel-package 12.033) quieter? When I run a make-kpkg clean it spits out lots of lines about unlinking files in debian/... Please file a wishlist bug. I have

Re: Need help installing an alternative

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: # update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ /usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 update-alternatives: error: alternative link is not absolute as it should be: x-www-browser What am I doing wrong? The easiest

Re: Making make-kpkg quieter

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Mart Frauenlob mart.frauen...@chello.at writes: You want to see the output of the build, but the clean process is too much? The build output will be multiple times greater anyways. This is not a problem over the slow link? Ok. It looks like you haven't run the latest make-kpkg. I just did a

Re: Need help installing an alternative

2010-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk writes: On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: # update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \ /usr/local/firefox/firefox 3 update-alternatives

Making make-kpkg quieter

2010-04-07 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Is there any way to make make-kpkg (kernel-package 12.033) quieter? When I run a make-kpkg clean it spits out lots of lines about unlinking files in debian/... On a slow link, this is very annoying (if I forget to run screen) I have RTFM but I cannot see anything about making make-kpkg less

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-09 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Clive McBarton clivemcbar...@web.de writes: Stephen Powell wrote: For example, the boot loader may be updating the mount count or updating the last referenced date/time, if there is such a field in the filesystem, for the kernel image or the initial RAM disk image. I assume you mean atime,

Re: Bluetooth A2DP

2009-12-22 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Mark Kamichoff p...@prolixium.com writes: It's got me wondering, do folks out there who have the appropriate headsets actually use Bluetooth hi-fi audio on Linux? Perhaps there is a workaround for this problem that everybody's using, that doesn't appear on any Google searches? I have been using

Re: Trouble with flash player plugin

2009-12-15 Thread Cameron Hutchison
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com writes: I am having trouble installing flash player plugin package from debian-multimedia. First, there is no version suitable for my Debian Testing. $ apt-cache policy flashplayer-mozilla Try flashplugin-nonfree instead. That's what I have installed and have

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net writes: Tyler Smith tyler.sm...@eku.edu writes: Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net writes: Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? Yes, I'm having the same problem you described (below

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net writes: Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? On some sites, the flash videos load but the plugin seems to ignore my mouse clicks so I can't start the video playing. This does not happen

Re: Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Tyler Smith tyler.sm...@eku.edu writes: Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net writes: Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? Yes, I'm having the same problem you described (below) on testing on a 32 bit machine. We're not alone

Flash plugin problem - cant click - amd64 unstable

2009-11-28 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Is anyone else having problems with the flash plugin (flashplugin-nonfree) on unstable on a 64-bit platform? On some sites, the flash videos load but the plugin seems to ignore my mouse clicks so I can't start the video playing. This does not happen on all sites - snotr.com works ok, but the

Re: Can't tweak anything about synaptics touchpad

2009-11-20 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Matteo Riva mura...@gmail.com writes: After the full-upgrade of my testing system (with kernel 2.6.30) I can't do anything about my touchpad anymore, with the main problem being that I can't disable it. Neither synclient nor xinput have any effect on it, [...] From

Re: How to replicate the behaviour of /usr/local

2009-10-16 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr writes: I have a shared directory on my system; what I'd like to achieve is making every newly created (or copied from elsewhere) file belong to the group owner users. # chgrp users /path/to/shared/directory # chmod g+s /path/to/shared/directory The

Re: How to replicate the behaviour of /usr/local

2009-10-16 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr writes: Dne, 16. 10. 2009 12:19:03 je Cameron Hutchison napisal(a): Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr writes: I have a shared directory on my system; what I'd like to achieve is making every newly created (or copied from elsewhere) file belong to the group

Re: bi-directional file-synchronization tool

2009-09-17 Thread Cameron Hutchison
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com writes: Anyone knows a good bi-directional file-synchronization tool that can synchronize changes to files and directories in both directions on different hosts, propagating the changes between them? syrep is too limited, unison seems to be the exact tool that

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-14 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@ieee.org writes: On Thu, Sep 10 2009, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Version 3 (below) is properly written, in a functional style. It's much longer, but much easier to read. The main() function is very simple, as is each individual function. It's written in such a way

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-12 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net wrote: /proc/pid/cmdline usually has ASCII NUL separated fields, which awk does not split, so usually you have to use xargs -0. I noticed some cases where the args were space

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Israel Garcia igalva...@gmail.com writes: On 9/9/09, Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net wrote: Israel Garcia igalva...@gmail.com writes: I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find a way to know remotely on every server: 1. Name of running daemons and ports (tcp/udp

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net writes: Ok. Here's version 2. Fixes are: One more iteration before I go to bed. Version 2 was the quickly knocked together script that looks ugly and hard to read, but is nice and compact. Maybe nice isn't the right word. Version 3 (below) is properly written

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com writes: is this xargs: echo: terminated by signal 13 the output it should be? Probably, substituting: bin=$(xargs -n 1 -0 echo /proc/$pid/cmdline | awk '{print $1 ; exit}') with bin=$(awk '{print $1; exit}' /proc/$pid/cmdline) will solved the issue But

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Israel Garcia igalva...@gmail.com writes: On 9/10/09, Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net wrote: Version 3 (below) is properly written, in a functional style. [...] Well, in version 3 I see no output when I run the script...I double check but I dont know where the problem is. Hmmm, work for me

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net writes: Israel Garcia igalva...@gmail.com writes: On 9/10/09, Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net wrote: Version 3 (below) is properly written, in a functional style. [...] Well, in version 3 I see no output when I run the script...I double check but I dont know

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Israel Garcia igalva...@gmail.com writes: [...] it seems when the script found duplicate lines, like named/tcp and named/udp it only show one, se below: vps204:/usr/local/bin# netstat -lntup tcp0 0 67.212.94.125:530.0.0.0:* LISTEN 23874/named tcp0 0

Re: looking for packages versions of running daemons

2009-09-09 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Israel Garcia igalva...@gmail.com writes: I have more than 10 debian (etch and lenny) servers and I want to find a way to know remotely on every server: 1. Name of running daemons and ports (tcp/udp) they're using. 2. Version of the package (installed by APT) used by these daemons. 3. Version of

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 06:53:41PM EDT, ghe wrote: :0Hfhw * ^Return-Path: bounce-debian-user=ghe=slsware@lists.debian.org | $FORMAIL -i Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Thanks for the idea. I will take a look at my .procmailrc and see how I

Re: Post to this list delayed over 15 hours

2009-08-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
John Magolske listm...@b79.net writes: * John Magolske listm...@b79.net [090830 11:25]: My last post to this list took over 15 hours to get through, looks like the issue has to do with greylisting. I seem to recall having this problem a while back where after a few posts the response time

GNOME: How to automount pluggable drives?

2009-08-26 Thread Cameron Hutchison
How to I get drives to be auto-mounted in GNOME, without having a nautilus window open? I am using sid. It used to be that gnome-volume-manager would auto-mount media devices and auto-run specified programs for specific media types (ipod, CDs, DVDs, etc). This functionality of g-v-m has been

Re: usb hsdpa modem only detected after using it on windows

2009-08-15 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com writes: the modem is Huawei E1762 which is provided by local ISP when registering for their wireless broadband service. this modem, weirdly, can only be detected when i used it recently from windows xp, while the device still connected into the usb port,

Re: APT configuration file

2009-07-22 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Kc9EYE kc9...@gmail.com writes: Following the thread on apt defaulting to install recommends, I would like to turn this option off. A previous poster stated to add this line to the /etc/apt/apt.conf file: APT::Install-Recommends 0; . I would love to do that but I am unable as yet to find a file

Reliable remote logging with rsyslog on lenny

2009-07-19 Thread Cameron Hutchison
I'm trying to set up a couple of boxes that both run lenny (stable) for remote logging. I have installed rsyslog on both boxes. One is to be the log server, the other I want to log remotely to the log server. According to the package description of rsyslog, it does reliable syslog over TCP.

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-09 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Thomas Anderson andersontho...@gmail.com writes: OK, so I guess it should be sed 's/^/ /'. However I noticed another problem. When I quote a text that is already quoted, the result gets the characters moved around. I would like to get orfor text that is quoted twice. What do you mean

Re: sed/awk/fmt question hijacked from Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Tony Baldwin photodha...@gmail.com writes: Why is it that with sed, stuff like sed -e /searchterm/d I have to do sed -e /searchterm/d infile outfile, and can't just do sed -e /searchterm/d file, without having to generate another file? GNU sed (which is what you are most likely running) has

gnome-panel: Major breakage in unstable

2009-05-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
A heads-up to those running unstable/sid. The latest gnome-panel that has just entered unstable is severely broken. It is the first revision of GNOME 2.26. When logging in, you get an infinite number of Starting File Manager entries on the panel, and CPU usage runs very high, continuously. It

Re: executing udev rules on _un_plug

2009-05-18 Thread Cameron Hutchison
cr...@got.net (i'll teach you to turn away.) writes: Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net wrote: CH How can I write a udev rule to be run/matched when a device is CH unplugged? CH CH I have a 3G modem that I wrote a rule for to run ifup ppp0 when the CH modem is plugged in. I would like to have

executing udev rules on _un_plug

2009-05-17 Thread Cameron Hutchison
How can I write a udev rule to be run/matched when a device is unplugged? I have a 3G modem that I wrote a rule for to run ifup ppp0 when the modem is plugged in. I would like to have ifdown ppp0 be automatically run when the modem is unplugged. Without a rule to run ifdown ppp0, the network

Re: tar up a symbolic linked directory

2009-05-03 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes: On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 09:04:38PM +, T o n g wrote: Hi, I want to tar up a symbolic linked directory as if it is a real directory. Is there any easy way to do it? Let me explain with an example (that you can try): mkdir d1 touch

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

2009-04-11 Thread Cameron Hutchison
James Youngman j...@gnu.org writes: (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. What are good solutions for doing (2)? (Please only recommend software

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com writes: Thanks, then maybe 10x20 is just small for me... To verify that the correct resources are being used, run xterm -fn 10x20. This will start an xterm with that font, or display an error that it cannot find the font. If this gives you a different

Re: Unison not syncing files under ~/.kde

2009-03-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
A. F. Cano a...@shibaya.lonestar.org writes: Hi, I've been using unison to keep home directories syncronized for quite a while now, but this little bit is starting to aggravate me. It appears that, unless I'm missing something in the configuration below, files under a .directory are ignored.

Re: ifconfig data

2009-02-20 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il writes: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Tanco . wrote: Hi Hugo, this will give you the IP :) ifconfig ppp0 | grep inet addr: | awk '{ print $2}' | tail -c14 ifconfig ppp0 | awk '/inet addr:/{ print $2}' | cut -d: -f2 ifconfig ppp0 | awk

Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

2009-01-15 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il writes: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:16:57PM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: I don't think .bash_profile gets sourced when you log in via an XDM/GDM type session. (After all, when would it, since you don't really have a login shell.) Possible fix: echo 'if [

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Travis Crump pretz...@techhouse.org writes: I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was added. While X has flaked in the past, I've never had a hard crash before. I have no other evidence they were related, but I wasn't doing anything unusual at the time. Any

Re: vi -- Turn off Line Number Colors and Screen Buffering

2008-11-03 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2008-11-04 06:28 +0100, Matt Miller wrote: Also, I don't want the editor to do whatever special screen buffer swapping, or whatever it is, that prevents me from scrolling back in my terminal history when the editor is open, and then clears away

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-07-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (i'll teach you to turn away.) writes: right, i tried putting exactly that in ~/.lynx/colors, but it ignored me. only editing /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.lss changes the colors - they're laid out ENTIRELY differently from my old lynx color entries, which match what you've

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-07-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (i'll teach you to turn away.) writes: ok, so i added the directory ~/.lynx i dumped the color settings into ~/.lynx/colors but it's still green. however, i did find that /etc/lynx-cur has a .lss file in it which apparently controls color in a totally different layout

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-07-28 Thread Cameron Hutchison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (i'll teach you to turn away.) writes: so in fixing my pine issue (see pine thread), i reinstalled/upgraded lynx. the new lynx removed lynx-ssl installed lynx-cur. the problem there is that it completely ignores my color preferences, which are fairly important

apt-get/aptitude bustage with gnucash

2008-07-20 Thread Cameron Hutchison
I have just attempted a dist-upgrade with bost apt-get and aptitude, and both of them want to remove gnucash from my system (sid). This seems to be busted. At the moment there is a new gnucash-common (2.2.4-2) but no new gnucash package to match. Normally that's ok and apt will not upgrade

Re: apt-get/aptitude bustage with gnucash

2008-07-20 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Eugene V. Lyubimkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cameron Hutchison wrote: At the moment there is a new gnucash-common (2.2.4-2) but no new gnucash package to match. Normally that's ok and apt will not upgrade gnucash-common, but for some reason, this time it wants to upgrade gnucash-common

Why isn't Gnome 2.22 in sid yet?

2008-07-16 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Why isn't all of Gnome 2.22 in sid yet? I'm most interested in the panel and the applets which are still at 2.20.3. 2.22 is in experimental but has not yet gone into sid? What's holding it up? What needs to be done to get it into sid and is there anything I can do to help it along? -- To

Gnome international clock in sid

2008-07-15 Thread Cameron Hutchison
In Gnome 2.22 released a few months ago, a new clock applet was introduced where you can set it up with multiple timezones. The About dialog box for the clock in sid shows the version is 2.20.3. I assume that I need version 2.22 of this applet. Where can I get this for sid? -- To

Re: Gnome international clock in sid

2008-07-15 Thread Cameron Hutchison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am 15.07.2008 um Uhr haben Sie geschrieben: Where can I get this for sid? you can get the gnomepanel 2.22 from experimental the nautilus 2.22 is there, too Last time I tried something from experimental I borked my system. Any idea when it will make it to sid? Or

Re: Bash: pipe once more

2008-07-13 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Stefan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, if I pipe the output of a cd command the working directory doesn't change. That's because all elements of a pipeline except the last are run in different processes to the main shell that starts the pipeline. As such, the cd command is running in a

Re: Bash: pipe once more

2008-07-13 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Stefan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if I pipe the output of a cd command the working directory doesn't change. That's because all elements of a pipeline except the last are run in different processes to the main shell that starts the pipeline. As such, the cd command is running in a

Re: Building an i386 kernel on amd64 host with make-kpkg

2008-07-13 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat Jul 12, 2008 at 04:12:56 -, Cameron Hutchison wrote: I just needed to add that --cross-compile - argument and it worked. I spoke too soon. It does not quite work. It builds an amd64 arch package, so I cannot install it on an i386 arch. I

Building an i386 kernel on amd64 host with make-kpkg

2008-07-11 Thread Cameron Hutchison
I am trying to build a kernel for my i386 box on my amd64 host. I want to do this because the amd64 box build at least 10 times faster than the target box. I am using make-kpkg to build the kernel package. I am having the following problem: $ make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --arch i386 kernel_image

Re: Building an i386 kernel on amd64 host with make-kpkg

2008-07-11 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Cameron Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to build a kernel for my i386 box on my amd64 host. I want to do this because the amd64 box build at least 10 times faster than the target box. I am using make-kpkg to build the kernel package. I am having the following problem: $ make-kpkg

Re: Building an i386 kernel on amd64 host with make-kpkg

2008-07-11 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Cameron Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cameron Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to build a kernel for my i386 box on my amd64 host. I want to do this because the amd64 box build at least 10 times faster than the target box. I am using make-kpkg to build the kernel package. I

Re: X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Eric d'Alibut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I then start an xterm and attempt to launch an X app, such as gqview, or evince, from the command prompt in that xterm, no app launches; this is what I get: --snip-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gqview (gqview:26337): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Re: OpenOffice.org Quick Start

2008-06-18 Thread Cameron Hutchison
David Staer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cameron Hutchison wrote: How do you use the OpenOffice.org quick start functionality? I have installed the package openoffice.org-gtk [...] You need to enable it in OpenOffice. Tools Options OpenOffice.org Memory - then check Enable systray

OpenOffice.org Quick Start

2008-06-17 Thread Cameron Hutchison
How do you use the OpenOffice.org quick start functionality? I have installed the package openoffice.org-gtk which says in its description: It also contains a QuickStarter for the notification area. How do I make this QuickStarter work? I could not see any reference to it in the README files

Re: script makes kernel panic

2008-06-10 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Dexter Filmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Got a laptop here (Samsung X22), WinXP Pro and data partition in /dev/sda[23]. Wrote this script to backup both partitions 1:1 to an external USB disk. Teh script itself works absolutely as intended. BUT: I added an entry to GRUB's menu.lst like that:

Re: changing xterm colors

2008-05-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jamie Griffin wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home directory (or create it if it does not exist). Put the following lines in the file: xterm*VT100*foreground: green xterm*VT100*background:

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-07 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Cameron Hutchison wrote: When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me with Debian. On my systems

Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Cameron Hutchison
When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me with Debian. On my systems with Ubuntu, google maps works as expected. Does anyone

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Rich Healey wrote: Cameron Hutchison wrote: When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me with Debian. On my systems

Re: ip forwarding woes

2008-03-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
David Zelinsky wrote: With this setup, I expect to be able to ping 10.0.0.2 from 192.168.0.2 (and vice versa), with packets routed through the firewall, but it doesn't work. What am I overlooking? It looks like that 10.0.0.2 does not have a route to 192.168.0.0/24 or that 192.168.0.2 does not

Re: chown all files on a data drive

2008-01-05 Thread Cameron Hutchison
dave N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to run Fedora and now all the files on my data drives are uid 500 and gid 500. Now under Debian the same user name and password I'd previously had are uid 1000 and gid 1000. Though I can access the files on the drive I can't do anything with them except as

Re: Correct way to add multiple secondary IPsto one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Adrian Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK ip, route et al are called my ifconfig to do the work. This is not right. ifconfig uses the old ioctl interface to control the network interfaces. ip uses the new netlink protocol. Creating an alias in the interfaces file is the correct way to do it.

Re: Correct way to add multiple secondary IPsto one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Orig-To: Jonathan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's the most important example from the original post. It works as-is. If I uncomment the commented up and down lines, everything breaks. Can you describe in more detail what everything breaks means? The internet still works for me, so it cannot

Re: Correct way to add multiple secondary IPsto one dev/interface in /etc/network/interfaces?

2007-12-21 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Jonathan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you describe in more detail what everything breaks means? The internet still works for me, so it cannot be everything :-) But it is everything, ... I was trying to make my point in a funny way. I'm assuming your fridge still works and your cat

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2007-12-12 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Bob wrote: Bob wrote: Is there such a thing? When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to requests. Is the silence because it's a stupid question or because there isn't a preferred work around for this? How does your

Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

2007-11-25 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Daniel B. wrote: Are there any instructions for proceeding from having downloaded the source package files and _not_ having unpacked things? (I think my current state is as if I had done apt-get source --download-only xfree86 (I didn't actually do --download-only, but from cleaning up after

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-04 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you run cdck to check the quality of the DVD? I installed cdck from the deb repo and ran it. A lot of errors. There are a lot: ! unable to read sector 195007, reason: Input/output error ! unable to read sector 195008, reason:

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

2007-08-26 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also notice a number of directories I've never heard of before under root: command, package, service Still, it was late and I was panicking rather unnecessarily. After sleeping on it, I am tending to the view they must be from that tinydns

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Cameron Hutchison
David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions. Is that a myth? Not a myth, just old information. It used to be the case that swap files were slower than swap partitions, but this stopped being true sometime around kernel 2.4 Also, is

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the output of ls -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l * ---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko What is the output of lsattr ? It could be that it has the immutable bit set. To fix

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-13 Thread Cameron Hutchison
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 6/13/07, Keith Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 files with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find out which files differ more than say 5 lines. I use

Re: delete lines that contain duplicated column items

2007-04-03 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Jeff Zhang wrote: On 4/3/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/03/07 07:39, Jeff Zhang wrote: [snip] I just care about duplicated ones in column 2, if so, to delete the line. Does it matter which line is deleted? no, have a unique column 2 and keep undeleted lines to its

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