Re: Purge Empathy messes up apt

2012-07-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello cortman, cortman c0rt...@gmail.com wrote: So I ran apt-get purge empathy from the command line, which uninstalled it just fine- but now when I run apt-get for any other reason it returns a long list of packages that were automatically installed and are no longer required. Below is a

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello lina, this is a rather strange name :) lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, why need allow ping? from outside? 59 # Allow ping 60 -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT It doesn’t help to block ICMP echo requests: - if you block them by dropping them, the other party

Re: Preventing APT from upgrading to wheezy/sid?

2012-07-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello nyuszika7h, nice name, btw. nyuszika7h litemininyusz...@gmail.com wrote: This unfortunately does not work though. How could I prevent APT from upgrading to wheezy/sid? Try something like APT::Default-Release squeeze; in

Re: How can I install an amd64 to my new bought Laptop/

2012-07-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Benimaur, Benimaur Gao benim...@gmail.com wrote: OK. 1. I dd the netinst iso to a flash disk boot the machine with it. 2. I try to rsync the whole system to my new machine by rsync -av /* --exclude={/home/user/*,/sys/*,/dev/*,/proc/*,/mnt/*} If you simply want to copy your old system

Re: (Some advances...) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-14 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Camaleón, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: init-+-exe |-rc---startpar---sendsigs---pstree |-rpcbind Could you, on a running system, check whether an ‘exe’ process is running and to whom it belongs? rpcbind belongs to NFS, IIRC (also a possible service to disable), and the

Re: apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and now system fails to boot

2012-07-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello David, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: The warning target sda2_crypt uses a key file, skipped doesn't make sense -- /dev/sda2 does not use a key file: 2012-07-10 17:18:38 root@i72600s ~ # cat /etc/crypttab sda2_crypt UUID=c020df80-6439-4e9e-a70e-0ff303d61180

Re: apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and now system fails to boot

2012-07-09 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello David, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: Loading Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 ... Loading initial ramdisk ... Loading, please wait... Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay=

Re: Reason to use a partition

2012-07-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Ramon, Ramon Hofer ramonho...@bluewin.ch wrote: /dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings /dev/sdk xfs1.9T 1.9T 3.3G 100% /mnt/recordings_temp Is there a reason why one should use a partition spanning the whole disk instead of creating the filesystem

Re: Reason to use a partition

2012-07-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Stan, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: As I replied on XFS, there's ZERO reason for putting one partition on a dedicated mythTV recording drive. And since this is an Advanced Format drive, you instantly misaligned XFS by creating that partition. None of the Squeeze

Re: startup script

2012-07-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Tony, Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: Hi, I have a script (non gui) which I want to run each time I log in. Which is the correct way to do this? Log in on a TTY/console or into a desktop environment? KDE, Xfce and GNOME all have autostart settings, other non-DE graphical

Re: startup script

2012-07-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Tony, Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: On 01/07/12 13:01, Claudius Hubig wrote: Thanks, Claudius. This is primarily for KDE, but I would expect it to work for a console login as well. Does KDE try to run ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile? I doubt that it runs .bashrc, but it may well

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Camaleón, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:45:08 +0200, Denis Witt wrote: I like how MacOS handle this, nearly every application designed for MacOS is using the built in Keychain. Of course, if the keychain tool isn't secure this is a big problem. That's

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello francis, francis picabia fpica...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 27 iun 12, 16:26:48, francis picabia wrote: I've just learned Filezilla is a security risk.  It stores saved passwords and the last used password

Re: What is the status of multiarch?

2012-06-27 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Camaleón, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:20:05 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: It works quite nicely over here on a testing/sid system with the ^^^ In the Spanish mailing list, a user reported a few days ago

Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

2012-06-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Nick, Nick Boyce n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk wrote: You can check with # cryptsetup luksDump device Hmm .. well thanks for that command (I'm a novice) ... which confirms what you say - my single encrypted raw disk partition (containing the LVM mapped system volumes) does indeed

Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

2012-06-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Nick, Nick Boyce n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 26 Jun 2012 10:47:50 Claudius Hubig wrote: If you do luksAddKey, you’ll have to enter one of the old passphrases. After that, you can try unlocking the volume with the new passphrase. If that succeeds, you can use

Re: What is the status of multiarch?

2012-06-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Hans-J., Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: On my 64-bit system I am using only very few applications, which are still 32- bit. For example wine, skype, x-plane and a few others. So, as my old configuration is still working fine, but I am always intending to improve my

Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

2012-06-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Nick, Nick Boyce n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk wrote: The installer uses 'dm-crypt' to encrypt the drive, rather than the full LUKS system - and 'dm-crypt' generates the encryption key directly from the pass- phrase, rather than storing the encryption key in an on-volume header protected

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Merciadri, that looks all quite good. You are using direct rendering, no errors show up in the log file and although the screen is quite large, that shouldn’t be the problem. But maybe you could try to install a newer nVidia-Driver, if

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-24 Thread Claudius Hubig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Merciadri, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: 1) scrolling a little bit in the page, 2) waiting 2 or 3 (!) seconds, then scrolling the rest. That is, scrolling is slow and freezes for 2-3 s after having scrolled a

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-24 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Merciadri, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 4053 2002 2050 0340832 - -/+ buffers/cache:829 3223 Swap: 5938

Re: /etc/bash.bashrc instead ~/.bashrc

2012-06-23 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello José, José Luis Segura Lucas josel.seg...@gmx.es wrote: In one (and only one) of then, when I open a terminal or connect by SSH, my bash load the default system configuration from /etc/bash.bashrc, instead of reading, as usual, ~/.bashrc. I can think that I don't really have a

Re: /etc/bash.bashrc instead ~/.bashrc

2012-06-23 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello José, José Luis Segura Lucas josel.seg...@gmx.es wrote: I don't remember to write or generate by hand this ~/.profile. Is it created automatically? It should be created automatically from the files in /etc/skel/ if you are using useradd or adduser (the former with the --create-home

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Gary, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: It doesn't help testing since the point of packages in sid is to get them to work with the current testing environment, not the current unstable environment. This is more or less obviously absolute bullshit. Running sid, testing applications

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

2012-06-22 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Gary, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: Again, the art of testing is to change one thing at a time. You can't do that when all the packages are in flux. Pulling particular packages from sid and testing them in the relative calm of testing is a much more easier way to isolate bugs.

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Artifex, Artifex Maximus artife...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Keith McKenzie km3...@gmail.com wrote: Those will get 2 separate lists of installed software names versions. # dpkg --list | wc -l 2481 Why don’t you use the output of dpkg -l? Also check man 1

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

2012-06-20 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Artifex, Artifex Maximus artife...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. dpkg -l writes out all installed packages but not the relations between them. I did similar comparison between systems but seeing the differences in a tree makes this process easier because I can cut leafs if I know there is

Re: Looking for wine-bin_1.4.1-1_amd64.deb.

2012-06-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Sthu, Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Claudius worte: You are, of course, right. I have to admit I didn’t check the content of the wine64-bin package and was unsure whether Multi-Arch wine was already in a working state :) So, am to wait? - Am I to move to 386 arch? You

Re: AppArmor or SELinux?

2012-06-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello ~Stack~, ~Stack~ i.am.st...@gmail.com wrote: We are using it for specific services but I don't see why it would be any different setting up pidgin or opera. I have only deployed SELinux to a single Debian system and that was under Lenny. I don't recall it being problematic or anything.

Re: Looking for wine-bin_1.4.1-1_amd64.deb.

2012-06-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Sthu, Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: I have read the discussion on the matter at the link that was provided here, though understood not much... could You please answer me in short, Will it be the near future for 64-bit arch - to install those i386 packages w/ its gazillion lib.s -

AppArmor or SELinux?

2012-06-17 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello, I am running Testing/Sid amd64 with Multi-Arch enabled (i. e. Acrobat Reader and Skype from i386) on a single-user machine and here’s what I want to achieve: - Programs that process data ‘from the internet’ are only allowed to access the files they strictly need to access, plus a

Re: Looking for wine-bin_1.4.1-1_amd64.deb.

2012-06-17 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Sthu, Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: What should I install - for amd64 arch then? http://packages.debian.org/sid/wine lists a package for amd64, and so does apt-cache show wine. Having a look at this package then gives you: Depends: wine-bin (= 1.4.1-1) | wine64-bin (= 1.4.1-1)

Re: AppArmor or SELinux?

2012-06-17 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Camaleón, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:14:03 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: And I share the same feeling for SELinux, I mean, a tool that can be very helpful when it is properly configured and you know well about its possibilities but its setting up

Re: AppArmor or SELinux?

2012-06-17 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Ralf, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Sorry, who exactly plans a conspiracy? Err, what? Regarding to the answer AppArmor might be helpful, if not, it just spam shutdown messages with crap, as it does for my self-build kernels. It works quite nicely over here. :) Joe

Re: Looking for wine-bin_1.4.1-1_amd64.deb.

2012-06-17 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Sven, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: The wine64-bin package is rather useless by itself, it only contains instructions how to enable multiarch and install the i386 wine-bin package. You are, of course, right. I have to admit I didn’t check the content of the wine64-bin package and

Re: AppArmor or SELinux?

2012-06-17 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Ralf, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 18:45 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: AppArmor doesn’t add a single thread to a running Linux system. So it's a voodoo-ghost and doesn't need resources? It runs directly in the kernel, where any access control

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-16 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Neal, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: Installed the https transport package to try https: in sources.list. But now I see a few Failed to connect to 2001:500:61:28::70: Network is unreachable (or address 2607:ea00:101:3c0b:207:e9ff:fe00:e595). Why are any IPV6 addrs

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Neal, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: Aptitude also reports W: GPG error on security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release: the following signatures were invalid: NODATA 2 So I give up. Next time I'm down there, I'm going to reinstall. Or maybe just install wheezy to keep

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Neal, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/non- free/i18n/Translation-en_US.gz Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) [IP: 128.31.0.36 80] Looks like a connection problem. Is your

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Miles, Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote: Or is entering a new key a manual process (type in the 50 hex digit key)? Something like that, yes. Either via an already-signed update at runtime or manually at something like the current BIOS interfaces. Can there be multiple keys (I vaguely

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Doug, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: I think you understand this INcorrectly! He does not. If _I_ understand it, You don’t. the machine will not boot anything that is not signed with the key, You can add any keys you want to that. UEFI is simply a framework, and because most

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Camaleón, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: IMO, Fedora did *the wrong thing* Why? They get their release to boot on most/all computers. That’s a good thing, isn’t it? (since when blindly following what Microsoft -or any other company- does is the correct way to achieve a

Re: Apache, mod_rewrite and directory context

2012-06-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Jimmy, Jimmy Thrasibule thrasibule.ji...@gmail.com wrote: VirtualHost *:80 Directory /var/www/test IfModule mod_rewrite.c RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Camaleón, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: For years, we've (the FLOSS community) been avoinding to be always Windows dependant and now it seems we are going back to the darkest ages. Repeat with me: we-don't-need-Windows-anymore. This does not depend on Windows but on something

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Doug, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: I read the referenced post. It looks to me like Fedora will boot without hassle, because they paid off Microsoft, and obtained a key, but everything else, not having a key, will not. Yes. More precisely, they want to get a small piece of

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Camaleón, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Microsoft (I can't tell for the rest of the hardware manufacturers because their position is not mentioned in detail in the blog post) is forcing a needing for something I (and I guess others) _don't need_, like TPM modules, using a

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Roger, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: This depends upon the hardware. You might not be able to disable it. In fact, Microsoft *require* that it can't be disabled on ARM hardware carrying a certified for Windows 8 (or whatever) badge. This hardware will only be capable of

Re: Finding files

2012-06-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Fred, Fred Zinsli fred.zin...@shooter.co.nz wrote: I am attempting to create a script (#!/bin/sh) that searches for files created on the first day of the week, then on the first day of the month, then the first day of the year. as seperate events. All the files are in one directory so

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Aubrey, Aubrey Raech aubreyra...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Not a proper server (http, ftp) 2. No usernames? (scp, rsync) 3. Preferably does not require a chat protocol (XMPP, IRC's DCC) - From what I can find it seems like XMPP would probably

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Brian, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 12:41:22 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: Do you have a have public IP address (either IPv4 or IPv6)? If that is not the case, you will need a third party in order to establish the connection. A third party is not required

Re: Flashpalyer poroblems on Lenny.

2012-06-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Lisi, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: file/folder/application libklashpart.so anywhere, so cannot delete it. Did you try something along the lines of # find /usr -name libklashpart.so # find /home -name libklashpart.so (the latter mostly because some browsers keep plugins in the user’s

Re: GPG Error: KEYEXPIRED 1338072862

2012-05-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Frank, Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: Am 30.05.2012 14:17, schrieb Csanyi Pal: Fetched 570 kB in 10mp (56,8 kB/s) W: GPG hiba: http://code.bitlbee.org ./ Release: Az alábbi aláírások érvénytelenek voltak: KEYEXPIRED 1338072862 Somewhere at bitlbee.org as it appers you

Re: wheezy: ext4 or ext3

2012-05-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Hans-J., Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: On my new drive I chose ext4 (with luks encryption) for as far as I read, most people are using ext4 instead of ext3 on ssd drives. Is this really recommended? ext4 provides shorter recovery/file system check times, which I really

Re: Dual head Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3

2012-05-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello David, I am a bit confused about your actual aim: Do you want both screens in clone mode all the time, or in clone mode during boot and span mode within Gnome? Frankly, I wouldn’t care about grub or early boot and then use David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: # cat

Re: Dual head Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3

2012-05-25 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello David, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: My goal is at least one monitor displaying during POST, GRUB, boot, and login, I think you already achieved that? and then span mode 2 x 1600x1200 on the desktop. The Nokia 445Xi can do 75 Hz and the 445XiPlus can do 87 Hz

Re: Calibre No Longer Loads, Segfault

2012-05-24 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Thomas, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: Ran a dist-upgrade, Wheezy, and now starting Calibre fails with a segmentation fault. Probably http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668314, try to install the version from unstable. Best regards, Claudius -- The absurd

Re: Verifying integrity of .deb file

2012-05-23 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Uttam, Uttam amit.ut...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am currently generating a custom deb file and distributing it over http. What are the options to verify the integrity of .deb files on the machine where I have installed the .deb? Do you want to verify the downloaded .deb or do you

Re: Dependency based boot sequencing and Canon printer

2012-05-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Rob, Rob Hurle rob1...@gmail.com wrote: Further experiments on printing on the Canon printer through CUPS:  The printer has stopped working!  I'm suspicious of the dependency-based sequencing since that was the only upgrade which mentioned the printer, but another one of the

Re: Sound on Lenny

2012-05-14 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Lisi, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I know. I shouldn't be using Lenny, and had in fact already tried to change to Squeeze, but had trouble with my mail, and reverted. But I am soon going to be installing on a new box, so am waiting until then. That's the excuses out of

Re: Instalation and kernel headers

2012-05-11 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Pedro, Pedro Alexi Perez ppe...@lets.es wrote: $ uname -a Linux linuxpc 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sat May 5 03:03:41 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20120128-12:53]/ squeeze contrib main You can have a 64 bit kernel

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Tony, Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: What is the benefit of such a signature? Those who know him now can verify the signature. In addition, if at any later stage someone else claims to have posted this message, the OP can prove that it was indeed him who posted it. Everybody

Re: fail2ban doesn't block (ssh)

2012-05-08 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Denis, Denis Witt denis.w...@concepts-and-training.de wrote: [fail2ban not banning] Is there any information in the fail2ban logfile, for example a line like: 2012-05-08 00:46:23,587 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [sasl] Ban 134.255.242.165 (though with ssh instead of sasl)? Is there any

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred.

2012-05-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Martin, Martin McCormick mar...@x.it.okstate.edu wrote: Is there any way to make safe-upgrade at least attempt to go to the next task or at least report why it is stuck? Your error description is a bit obscure, so I’ll have to ask for more information: Currently running jobs: -

Re: Safe-upgrade, My Worst Nightmare has Occurred.

2012-05-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Martin, It is usually appreciated not to format copied content at all (i. e. the output of dpkg etc.), since most people can do that themselves when necessary and forcibly formatting it might lead to even uglier things than lines longer than 80 characters :) Martin McCormick

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Stephen, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: It is my understanding that, assuming suspend/resume is supported, your swap partition should be AT LEAST as large as TWICE the amount of RAM. Suspend/resume will consume a RAM's worth right out of the starting gate. The rest is then

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Darac, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: If the swap space is available during normal usage, then it's entirely possible to have no space to suspend to. Yes. However, this is rather unlikely when the computer is used as a desktop/laptop, don’t you think? The only times when I

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Lisi, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 02 May 2012 12:12:31 Sian Mountbatten wrote: As a rule, your swap partition should be the same size as your RAM. We used to be taught it should be twice as big as your RAM - but even that wouldn't get you to 40GB!! And, of

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Muhammad, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: ata3.01 : status: { DRDY ERR } ata3.01 : error : { UNC } ata3.01 : exception emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata3.01 : BMDMA stat 0x64 ata3.01 : failed command : read DMA This looks as if either the hard drive or the

Re: *URGENT* plz need help system not booting after lvresize command

2012-05-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Muhammad, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: at least there should be a way to reach the command prompt. is there any way to ignore this error and reach the command prompt so i can just copy the necessary data. Probably not, because this error means that accessing whatever is

Re: Which partition is which

2012-04-18 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Jens, Jens Tobiska jtobi...@gmail.com wrote: C: 139.80 GB NTFS, logical, boot D: 139.65 GB NTFS, primary, system In debian installer they appear as: #2 primary 149.9 GB ntfs B #5 logical 150.1 GB ntfs I would guess that #2=D and #5=C based on relative size and logical/primary.

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Richard, Richard Owlett rowl...@pcnetinc.com wrote: I've browsed through debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.list. It appears to contains files of unlikely interest to me (C compiler and header files, firewire, traceroute, etc). The business card CD images contain even fewer packages, but you

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Richard, Richard Owlett rowl...@pcnetinc.com wrote: That led me to assume that the business card image would just go ahead and download the rest of the netinst image. I think it downloads less, but I cannot guarantee that. How much control does user have over what it downloads? You

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Jon, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: You don't have to install every package that is in the netinst image. Indeed if you do a basic install (including the 'standard system' task, which defaults to selected) you don't get GCC, for example, despite it being on the CD. Of course not,

Re: bash: halt: command not found

2012-04-08 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello J., J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: I checked and the is no more /sbin/shutdown :-( Did you remove sysvinit? This happens, for example, when you install upstart, as it conflicts sysvinit. To reinstall sysvinit, try # apt-get install --reinstall sysvinit This will also fix it if

Re: bash: halt: command not found

2012-04-08 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Brian, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 15:34:10 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: I checked and the is no more /sbin/shutdown :-( Did you remove sysvinit? This happens, for example, when you install upstart

Re: Aptitude update - http://dl.google.com?

2012-04-08 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Csanyi, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Get: 35 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [198 B] Get: 36 http://dl.google.com stable Release [1347 B] Get: 37 http://dl.google.com stable/main amd64 Packages [765 B] In my sources.list I have lines: Must I worry about of those

Re: Aptitude update - http://dl.google.com?

2012-04-08 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Csanyi, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, I find there a file: 'google-talkplugin.list'. APT also checks this directory. You will probably find dl.google.com listed in this file. If you don’t like that behaviour, remove the file :-) The functionality is meant to provide

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Vincent, Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2012-03-28 18:32:25 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: FYI, Firefox/Iceweasel uses /tmp for that. For instance, click on a link to a PDF file to view it with a PDF viewer; the file is stored in /tmp. It isn't even removed after the

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-03-31 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Mika, Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote: On 31.03.2012 12:04, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Especially when inline responding (bottom) and your loosy style is mixed? I already changed to bottom posting in Iceweasel and K9 mail. Thanks. Though one should also take

Re: [OT] Posting styles -- Top vs Bottom

2012-03-31 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Peter, PMA peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu wrote: Take a vote, That vote already happened many years ago. asking, Which is more important: seeing the current message immediately (Top), or keeping the flow in one-direction (Bottom)? Neither. Interleaved style is the way to go. Best

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-03-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Mika, Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote: Thank you for providing explaining to bottom post. I have now configured Icedove and K9 Mail to do bottom posting instead of top posting. Just to do some more nitpicking: You should also remove everything you are not referring

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-03-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Mika, Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote: 1. K9 Maill can only verify inline signatures. Hrm. Report a bug? :) 2. Inline signature is easier to verify when reading mailing list archives. Most archives have an option to download the ‘plain’ mail including all MIME

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-03-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Pierre, Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and as I saw in several places that aptitude should be preferred to apt-get, I first tried with it. My question: is it better to also revert to apt-get for package management, or is

Re: dir is not ls

2012-03-19 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Jochen, Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: apt-get install sl alias dir=sl Doesn't work for root because /usr/games/ is usually not in its path. Nothing stops you from providing the full path :-) Try $ which sl to get it. Best regards, Claudius -- Q: Why do WASPs

Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-16 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Baruch, please respond to the list rather than me personally. Please also don’t top-post (cf. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html ). I took the liberty to quote the relevant part of your answer in case someone else finds this thread: Baruch whatmeurg...@yahoo.com wrote: #

CC-ing gmane (was: Re: QuickCam Orbit AF Pan/Tilt Broken in Sid)

2012-03-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Camaleón, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:08:00 -0700, Mike Alborn wrote: Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list. I can't CC, sorry :-( At least Claws-Mail supports an additional To: Header when posting via Gmane. Best regards, Claudius --

Re: Advice for a bug report

2012-03-15 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Baruch, Baruch whatmeurg...@yahoo.com wrote: My guess is that this is a bug somewhere in the 'alternatives' system, and that it is (against my wishes) trying to force me to have a graphical browser installed. Probably not. Against what package should I file the bug? (FWIW - debian

Re: Expect script does not work on crontab

2012-03-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Bilal, Bilal mk bilalh...@gmail.com wrote: The following script is working fine executing from shell. But does not work running on crontab. How to fix this crontab issue? Check the output of $ env when run in the crontab and in the shell. Best regards, Claudius -- BOFH excuse

Re: Encrypted LVM and failed message

2012-03-08 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Daniele, Daniele Guerrieri d.guerri...@gmail.com wrote: Every time I START the system, just before the prompt for passphrase, there are some complaints about the / filesystem: something like Cannot find harpsiRoot volume and also mobprobe: unix module not found. So it The ‘modprobe:

Re: Timing a process

2012-03-07 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Sian, Sian Mountbatten poenik...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Hello All, AFAIK, there is a command which says how long a process takes to complete. Its invoked with the command to be timed as an argument. Does anybody know what it is? time for example # time dd if=/dev/urandom

Re: Latest update borks

2012-03-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Frank, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: sid:/home/frank# aptitude full-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-webkit-3.0 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-common

Re: Font intensity on desktop

2012-03-05 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Gary, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Hi I have two systems running Debian Squeeze and have essentially the same setup. I am running an ATI Radeon HD 5450 on my main system which has good readable print on both the desktop icons and on the bottom panel. My other system

Re: Can't purge wxdesigneru installed partially.

2012-03-04 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Csanyi, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I downloaded wxdesigneru from here: http://www.wxdesigner-software.de/wxdesigneru_2.20-2_amd64.deb and tried to install it but failed. Now I'm trying to purge this debian package with command: sudo dpkg -P wxdesigneru (Reading

Re: Changing processor

2012-03-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
rcb r...@beco.cc wrote: Simple stated, my question is: will my first machine that is runing Debian installed from scratch work smoothly after I simple change its processor from a DualCore to a Core2 Quad? If you are still using the default kernel, i. e. did not recompile your own and threw out

Re: Restrict a user to a set of binaries?

2012-03-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Abou Al Montacir wrote: Maybe create a new groups trusted and do the following cd /bin chown root.trusted * chmod 750 * for ff in $ {TRUSTED_BIN_LIST} ; do chmod o=rx $ff ; done With this users can still create files and copy the programs they want to run

Re: not in X. man command does not respect set bell-style visible

2012-03-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Mitchell Laks ml...@post.harvard.edu wrote: however putting PAGER=less -q alone seemed to set the variable (ie echo $PAGER responded less -q) but it did not change the behavior of say man pdl That’s because you only set this variable to your shell and did not export it. Observe:

Re: not in X. man command does not respect set bell-style visible

2012-03-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote: - #!/bin/sh /bin/less -q $* I've read somewhere that $@ (including the quotes) is safer in such situations. That’s also what keeps lingering in the back of my

Re: not in X. man command does not respect set bell-style visible

2012-03-01 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote: On 01/03/12 20:40, Claudius Hubig wrote: Andrei POPESCUandreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote: - #!/bin/sh /bin/less -q $* I've read somewhere that $@ (including the quotes) is safer

Re: [OT] GUI handler for executeable scripts.

2012-02-22 Thread Claudius Hubig
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: An executeable script /home/peter/Desktop/script.sh appears as an icon in the LXDE desktop. A double-click on it, starts it executing. In a Fedora system I use, a double -click on such an icon produces a dialogue offering choices: [Run in Terminal] [Display] [Cancel]

Re: quick and dirty backup

2012-02-20 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hey, Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl wrote: tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt --exclude /proc --exclude /sys Is there anything else I need to exclude? Using Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 it seems my backup is running forever I would suggest also excluding /dev,

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