Re: Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 09 January 2011 19:21:08 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: David Baron put forth on 1/9/2011 10:07 AM: I get: HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the SATA disk on my

Re: Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 09 January 2011 19:21:08 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: David Baron put forth on 1/9/2011 10:07 AM: I get: HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the SATA

Wayward crons and inits

2011-01-04 Thread David Baron
I have some cron job trying to run ntpdate which I no longer have on my system nor any of its configs. Have been unable to find it by fgrep-ing in the /etc or /root trees. I also have some init still looking for the no-longer extant /dev/hda, et al. Also unable to find it fgrep-ing the /etc

Bad Marshal Data Error

2010-12-02 Thread David Baron
Testing out an HP F2480 all-in-one. Attempts to scan get to the end and then it fails to save the file with a bad marshal data FIL error. What is this? How to fix it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Chromium addons

2010-11-23 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 23 November 2010 19:58:25 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Silverlight 3.0.4x works fine How did you get it installed? Their site only has for firefox and chromium does not pick it up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Conversion to Ext4 in LVM

2010-11-15 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 11 November 2010 19:44:36 David Baron wrote: The system-config-lvm UI offers the option to change filesystem type, i.e. currently ext3, change to ext4. Can one/should one do this? As requested by one responder: What is the advantage of ext4 over ext3 and what variety of files

To KVM or not to KVM

2010-11-11 Thread David Baron
I have a dual core intel processor with hyperthreading, etc. Virtualization options are set on in BIOS. I still get something like CPU does not have extensions, doing nothing when the KVM driver tries to load. I am using a stock 2.6.32 kernel from Sid. How do I activate KVM stuff? Need to

Conversion to Ext4 in LVM

2010-11-11 Thread David Baron
The system-config-lvm UI offers the option to change filesystem type, i.e. currently ext3, change to ext4. Can one/should one do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Moving LVM Volumes to New Disk

2010-10-18 Thread David Baron
What is the best way to do this? (If I simply cp -a, I might dispense with LVM altogether since it's services on a 1 terra disk are not critical any longer). I thought to simply add partitions on the new disk to the current volumes and sometime later remove some or all of the old disk

Re: NVidia Proprietary Driver

2010-10-17 Thread David Baron
As followup to my post on Nouveau, which I would prefer using, the installation of the gallium experimental driver involves too many experimental packages. I installed nvidia's driver (for newer 620GeForce 6200 TurboCache) without a hitch ... almost. AFTER X is up, the consoles

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #1662

2010-10-17 Thread David Baron
As followup to my post on Nouveau, which I would prefer using, the installation of the gallium experimental driver involves too many experimental packages. I installed nvidia's driver (for newer 620GeForce 6200 TurboCache) without a hitch ... almost. AFTER X is up, the consoles

Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread David Baron
I have had chromium browser (not Google's) suddenly eat all my system's memory (2G worth), step into swap, and the system is paralyzed. I can eventually kill it without a need to hit the big switch. This is only on certain sites. Anyone had this problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Nvidia Proprietary Driver

2010-10-16 Thread David Baron
As followup to my post on Nouveau, which I would prefer using, the installation of the gallium experimental driver involves too many experimental packages. I installed nvidia's driver (for newer 620GeForce 6200 TurboCache) without a hitch ... almost. AFTER X is up, the consoles

Re: Nvidia Proprietary Driver

2010-10-16 Thread David Baron
As followup to my post on Nouveau, which I would prefer using, the installation of the gallium experimental driver involves too many experimental packages. I installed nvidia's driver (for newer 620GeForce 6200 TurboCache) without a hitch ... almost. AFTER X is up, the consoles

Re:Nouveau

2010-10-13 Thread David Baron
As Sven points out, there is no current support for 3D in Nuvó driver (there is, but is very experimental and probably highly unstable¹). Should you want to play with 3D programs/applications, just install nvidia driver. ¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumHowto

Nouveau

2010-10-12 Thread David Baron
I am running a 2.6.32.5 kernel using Nouveau on an nvidia pci-express card. Seems to me games like penguin racer and such should run fine on this (even if not as well as with the proprietary nvidia drivers). They run, however, as if there were no direct rendering at all. Even chromium which ran

Re: lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-24 Thread David Baron
Try reinstalling your kernel, or if you compiled your own, install a recent linux-image-2.6.32.5 from Sid. The postinstall script will point /etc/fstab and lilo.conf to the newer UUID references and then it should play. The postinstall for home-brew kernels does not do this for you, I'm afraid

Re: No ALSA on 2.6.32-5

2010-09-06 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 05 September 2010 22:57:22 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: ALSA sound is not working after booting stock linux-image 2.6.32-5 (i386 from Do you get any errors from sound playing software or just no output. Did you try some console players (like asound or

SMART errors on new, unpartitioned disk

2010-09-05 Thread David Baron
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/syslog). You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation. No additional email messages about this problem will

No ALSA on 2.6.32-5

2010-09-05 Thread David Baron
ALSA sound is not working after booting stock linux-image 2.6.32-5 (i386 from Sid). Get error like the following trying to manually modprobe any of the drivers: [ 4445.110492] snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_iprintf [ 4445.110828] snd_timer: Unknown symbol snd_ecards_limit [ 4445.56]

Re: Now Lost Boot Dir/2.6.34 Will Not Boot

2010-09-04 Thread David Baron
Using the Debian rescue CD, I installed the linux-image-2.6.32-5 and linux- base from Sid. The install edited my fstab and lilo.conf files for me, putting in the UUID numbers for everything except lilo.conf boot=. I left that as-is /dev/sda but both variations, UUID and ata-ID had previously

Badly Formatted Emails

2010-09-04 Thread David Baron
I apologize for them. The provider's web-based mailer only supports Windows (cr/lf) and therefore, anything done in anything else, well, you've seen the results. I complained but they have no intention of fixing it. Anyway, now up and running and back in kmail so future postings should be

Now lost boot dir

2010-08-26 Thread David Baron
Dead in the water. What to do keeping data in lvm partitions? Best reply off list also. Thanks for any help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-23 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 22 August 2010 20:51:07 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: LVM Uses such a system quite nicely. Question is where I get the UUID's for the two items not in LVM, the /boot and the /root? (Got to get this right the first try ... ) blkid(8) in package util-linux

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-22 Thread David Baron
On Friday 20 August 2010 10:04:54 David Baron wrote: I built this kernel for first time with new PATA rather than the old deprecated drivers. These are compiled-in, no initrd. Get cannot find block error, [2,22] or something like that. Possibilities: 1. Need to compile in VIA's driver

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-22 Thread David Baron
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:39:15 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: Googling found the second alternative. The new sda names are for ALL hard disks, SATA, IDE, SCSI, no matter. So there seems to be no way to keep the two variations, i.e. kernels using the deprecated and the new PATA

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-21 Thread David Baron
On Friday 20 August 2010 12:18:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: I built this kernel for first time with new PATA rather than the old deprecated drivers. These are compiled-in, no initrd. Get cannot find block error, [2,22] or something like that.

2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-20 Thread David Baron
I built this kernel for first time with new PATA rather than the old deprecated drivers. These are compiled-in, no initrd. Get cannot find block error, [2,22] or something like that. Possibilities: 1. Need to compile in VIA's driver as well. Not doing this prevented DMA access using

Nouveau Kernel Module

2010-08-19 Thread David Baron
Kernels 2.6.33 and on apparently do support Nouveau. I see no option offered in make menuconfig to compile the module. How do I get it ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Subnet

2010-07-27 Thread David Baron
I have no subnet declared anywhere (that I know of). I have eth0 to a router on 10.100.101.100 dhcpd complains about lack of subnet declaration. 1. What would use? 2. Do I need it? 3. Do I need dhcpd (it fails to start and this effect nothing)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Winsonic Motherboards

2010-07-21 Thread David Baron
Anybody had experience with these? Have SATA, Giga NIC, everything. Intel chipset. Anything special needed in kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Spamassassin Cutoff

2010-07-11 Thread David Baron
Where might I set the cutoff number of points of spamassassin? Currently (defaults to) 5 and I get a lot of false alarms at 5.2, for example. Alternatively, where might I lower the points for its internal ruleset? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Linux PDA cell phones - Linux on Android compatible cell phones? ; jor Debia

2010-06-29 Thread David Baron
Anyone here have an Android cell phone that runs a some full capability linux distro? ie, making something like a linux pda with cell phone capability? Is there an Ubuntu, or Debian, or some other community based distro for the android phone hw? Android no, but Nokia's

Re: [OT] First computer

2010-06-20 Thread David Baron
I learned programming in 1963 (now that's OLD). My first computer was the IBM 1620. The first desktop, or should I say, desk (the whole thing). No OS. Used punched cards (OOO). Had a crippled FORTRAN compiler, assembler, little else, but had a unique variable word-length architecture

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-17 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 18:42:02 David Baron wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2010 23:02:11 David Baron wrote: I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. Period. This run works. The only

Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread David Baron
LVM is a dandy tool, especially after having juggled partitions trying to shoehorn stuff on my not-so-large HDs. Unfortunately, it is a layer between the usual data tools and the data. What is needed is a LVM data/directory mapping tool that can be niced away and croned. Some way of extracting

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-15 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 12 June 2010 23:02:11 David Baron wrote: I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. Period. This run works. The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-12 Thread David Baron
I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. Period. This run works. The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I have not run webmin for ages. This simply made cron

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-12 Thread David Baron
I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no ntpdate entry in anacrontab. I run it in an rc.local type script on bootup. Period. This run works. The only thing I can think of is an obsolete webmin entry but I have not run webmin for ages. This simply made cron

Dhclient Errors

2010-06-10 Thread David Baron
My logs are filling up with: Jun 10 15:16:14 dovidhalevi dhclient: send_packet: Operation not permitted I did not what is doing this, started happening after recent update of Sid but I did not notice exactly when. Network is being accessed by a static-IP'd router. I should not need any of this.

Fetchmail/SMTP Errors

2010-06-10 Thread David Baron
I am getting these every five minutes or so: FROM:jameswellington000@[71.121.223.194] SIZE=8814) 2010-06-10 19:00:32 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was MAIL And a series like this as well: Jun 10 15:26:03

Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-10 Thread David Baron
I get these periodically through the day: Cron r...@dovidhalevi /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) From: Cron Daemon r...@dovidhalevi.homelinux.net To: r...@dovidhalevi.homelinux.net command failed with exit status 1 I have no cron running ntpdate that I know of and there is no

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread David Baron
I sometimes get this. The disks click-clack. Those messages. Usually rebooting after jiggling the cables fixes it. Maybe replace them. Also check the power supply. Working? Adequate? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Chomium in Sid

2010-05-27 Thread David Baron
So I have both chromium from Sid and google-chrome from google installed, sharing the same .config directory. No problem with deleted extensions. Having both around does confuse the default browser and each will ask anew every single time. So with chromium running, I click a link on an email

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-27 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 21:13:03 David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 25 May 2010 20:06:29 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: | It is a spamer... | | | | It it is always the same IP, add it to the backlist | | How do I do this obvious task? In exim? I have

Re: Chromium Browser in Sid

2010-05-26 Thread David Baron
A poster rightly noted that chromium is NOT google chrome. Installed it (still in 5.). Looks like Google's. Taste's like it. I do believe it loads up noticeably faster (was not that the whole point of chromium in the first place?). Flash seems more reliable as well (I understand why Apple

LVM name warnings on bootup

2010-05-26 Thread David Baron
I do not get bootlogs. They error messages complain of the discrepancy between the names I assigned my LVM volumes and the /dev/dm-# names. Recommend using a SYMLINK+= (in a udev ruleset?) or changing the kernel so support my names. Instructions are very helpful. For next kernel config: What

Re:Chomium in Sid

2010-05-26 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 17:16:57 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: A poster rightly noted that chromium is NOT google chrome. Installed it (still in 5.). Looks like Google's. Taste's like it. I do believe it loads up noticeably faster (was not that the whole

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
On Monday 24 May 2010 22:57:12 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was

Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
Anyone with experience and Debian-related information on motherboards by DFI and by Winsonic? Apparently of the few which support modern CPU and memory and still sport as ISA slot or two. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
On Monday 24 May 2010 22:57:12 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-25 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 20:06:29 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: | It is a spamer... | | | | It it is always the same IP, add it to the backlist | | | | How do I do this obvious task? In exim? I have fail2ban as well but this | is not catching this one. Have

Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-24 Thread David Baron
I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was MAIL FROM:jameswellington000@[71.121.223.194] SIZE=8814) I am running exim4 heavy on

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-05-23 Thread David Baron
I second the vote to fix/keep lilo as a choice. Testing grub2 is not for the faint-at-heart because if you cannot boot, you may not be able to recover so easily using a knoppix CD or such because of newer options, LVM, etc. The kernels getting too big is a problem indeed! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Exim4 Administration

2010-05-18 Thread David Baron
I used to be able to do certain things like removing troublesome messages and such using webmin. Is there any other way? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

ntpdate cron error

2010-05-13 Thread David Baron
The initial ntpdate run from /etc/init.d succeeds. However, as of recent upgrades or site changes, a cron run of ntpdate fails: Cron ... /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s 216.200.93.8 (failed) ... command failed with exit status 1 I assume that the IP shown is not available. I cannot find where this cron

Email Errors from Spammers

2010-05-13 Thread David Baron
Recently, I have been getting a load of errors from fetchmail of the form: May 13 19:01:15 ... fetchmail[6102]: SMTP error: 501 fedexcouriercompany111.yahoo@[98.110.119.254]: domain literals not allowed. This email is spam. There are also loads of errors from a small number of senders like:

Re: Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-09 Thread David Baron
At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: process running pstree (or something like that) shutdown aborted At this point, the system (or at

Shutdown problem -- cron job related?

2010-05-08 Thread David Baron
At certain times, seems Friday noontime, I am unable to shutdown the system. Instead of the usual scripts to killing all processes, unmounting everything and will now halt, goodby, I get: process running pstree (or something like that) shutdown aborted At this point, the system (or at least

DIF G4E620-N MB

2010-05-06 Thread David Baron
Considering getting one of these because it has ISA slots (maybe the only P4/DDR board around that has them!). Businesses buy them to keep legacy HW. Are there any Debian issues with these boards? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Configuring mga-vid

2010-05-04 Thread David Baron
I have the mga card and also compiled the mga-vid driver. I can only get mplayer to play dvds using the (slowest) x11 back-end. Mga-vid is supposed to be better. How do I use it on a Debian Sid box? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Cannot Connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-22 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 16:04:39 David Baron wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2010 21:13:18 David Baron wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2010 15:58:19 Aioanei Rares wrote: On 04/18/2010 03:32 PM, David Baron wrote: Neither normal reportbug or the reportbug-ng can connect to debian bts right now

Re: Cannot Connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-20 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 18 April 2010 21:13:18 David Baron wrote: On Sunday 18 April 2010 15:58:19 Aioanei Rares wrote: On 04/18/2010 03:32 PM, David Baron wrote: Neither normal reportbug or the reportbug-ng can connect to debian bts right now. Is there something wrong there? Some recent Sid

Re: Cannot Connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-18 Thread David Baron
Neither normal reportbug or the reportbug-ng can connect to debian bts right now. Is there something wrong there? Some recent Sid upgrade zapped access? Cannot really keep system up-to-date without access to debian bts. If I attempt to access a bug report in a browser by :

Re: Cannot Connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-18 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 18 April 2010 15:58:19 Aioanei Rares wrote: On 04/18/2010 03:32 PM, David Baron wrote: Neither normal reportbug or the reportbug-ng can connect to debian bts right now. Is there something wrong there? Some recent Sid upgrade zapped access? Cannot really keep system up

Cannot Connect to Debian BTS

2010-04-15 Thread David Baron
Neither normal reportbug or the reportbug-ng can connect to debian bts right now. Is there something wrong there? Some recent Sid upgrade zapped access? Cannot really keep system up-to-date without access to debian bts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: New Clamav-daemon Error

2010-04-14 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 00:59:14 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number of arguments failed! After latest upgrade. Anyone have a quick fix? Which upgrade

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #630

2010-04-14 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 00:59:14 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number of arguments failed! After latest upgrade. Anyone have a quick fix? Yes :

Re: New Clamav-daemon Error

2010-04-14 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 00:59:14 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number of arguments failed! After latest upgrade. Anyone have a quick fix? Yes :

Reportbug-ng Cannot Retrieve Info

2010-04-14 Thread David Baron
On my Debian Sid box, get: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/reportbug-ng/rnggui.py, line 205, in lineedit_return_pressed buglist = bts.get_bugs(query) File /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/debianbts.py, line 184, in get_bugs reply = server.get_bugs(*key_value) File

New Clamav-daemon Error

2010-04-13 Thread David Baron
~$ sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start Starting ClamAV daemon: clamd ERROR: Unknown group 20 Incorrect number of arguments failed! After latest upgrade. Anyone have a quick fix? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Nouveau

2010-03-18 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 23:44:35 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: The time has come for the open source nvidia drivers to get full Debian support. Nvidia is still publishing purported upgraded legacy drivers that will only work on legacy Xorg with no warning. Do

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #470

2010-03-18 Thread David Baron
According to every story I've read, Nouveau is constantly improving. In fact, it was merged into 2.6.33. So it was. Now that was release notes I really should have read. I will go into make menuconfig and enable the module and maybe give the old card one more try. Need something

Re:git

2010-03-18 Thread David Baron
due to a discussion of git I would like to know which of the numerous git-packages I have to install on lenny when I want to use git in my local environment. Minimum: git-core Reasonable git-doc gitk If you use svn git-svn For more: $ aptitude search git I have

Nouveau

2010-03-17 Thread David Baron
The time has come for the open source nvidia drivers to get full Debian support. Nvidia is still publishing purported upgraded legacy drivers that will only work on legacy Xorg with no warning. Their installation should kick, the site should warn before download. This is an old story, royal

Untoward renicing of KDE processes

2010-03-15 Thread David Baron
On my Debian Sid with KDE SC4.4.1 from experimental snapshots (the problem predates this upgrade.), I find that soon after KDE startup, ALL kde stuff plus anything run from the menus is niced to 19! This renders things all but unusable. There may be things I want niced but that is MY choice.

Re: Controlling User Logins Using Pam

2010-02-24 Thread David Baron
The good old parental control problem. How might one control user login times and periods using pam (or polkit)? So I put an appropriate line in /etc/security/time.conf This had no effect. So I placed in /etc/pam.d/kdm session required pam_time.so This prevented ALL logins, likely

Controlling User Logins Using Pam

2010-02-21 Thread David Baron
The good old parental control problem. How might one control user login times and periods using pam (or polkit)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Controlling User Logins Using Pam

2010-02-17 Thread David Baron
The good old parental control problem. How might one control user login times and periods using pam (or polkit)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Asus MBs

2010-02-15 Thread David Baron
Does Debian plain vanilla kernel run well on Asus MBs (P!V 2.6ghz, etc)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201002152059.06328.d_ba...@012.net.il

Re: Asus MBs

2010-02-15 Thread David Baron
On Monday 15 February 2010 21:52:38 Aioanei Rares wrote: David Baron wrote: Does Debian plain vanilla kernel run well on Asus MBs (P!V 2.6ghz, etc)? Hi David, Please be more specific so someone can help : is there a certain type of ASUS motherboard that you want to buy/use? I gather

Re: Eth0 disconnects from router?

2010-02-14 Thread David Baron
Approximately every hour, I get log entries like: an 28 13:47:59 dovidhalevi pumpd[1819]: failed to renew lease for device eth0 Jan 28 13:48:29 dovidhalevi pumpd[1819]: failed to renew lease for device eth0 Jan 28 13:50:00 dovidhalevi pumpd[1819]: failed to renew lease for device eth0 As

Re: e2defrag

2010-02-03 Thread David Baron
I'm unable to identify which package contains e2defrag. Please advise. b...@monster:~% apt-file search e2defrag b...@monster:~% No such file in stable, backports, testing, unstable, or experimental. I've never heard of such a utility, either. It should be noted that fragmentation is

Re: Eth0 disconnects from router?

2010-01-30 Thread David Baron
Approximately every hour, I get log entries like: Jan 28 13:47:59 dovidhalevi pumpd[1819]: failed to renew lease for device eth0 ... Sometimes, it will stay disconnected (the above reconnected). I need to manually ifup eth0. I reinstated a cron job to check and do this like I had when I

Eth0 disconnects from router?

2010-01-28 Thread David Baron
Approximately every hour, I get log entries like: an 28 13:47:59 dovidhalevi pumpd[1819]: failed to renew lease for device eth0 Jan 28 13:48:29 dovidhalevi pumpd[1819]: failed to renew lease for device eth0 Jan 28 13:50:00 dovidhalevi pumpd[1819]: failed to renew lease for device eth0 Jan 28

New Router

2010-01-26 Thread David Baron
Made the switch from an old and slow ADSL modem running pptp to a router quite painlessly. Had to have ddclient use a web interface to get the IP number since this is now hidden inside the router. Works fine. I had the network disconnect. Using pptp, I had a cron job to reconnect if need be

Re: Wireless Mouse vs. Cell Phone ?? (Found source?)

2010-01-26 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 20 December 2009 22:56:06 David Baron wrote: I have had problems with zillions of mouse message errors choking my /var partitions with multi-gigabyte syslog and daemon.logs. This cripples Xorg paralyzing KDE, KDM, and the only way to get on is from ssh outside, delete those files

Warning: Illegal hostnames no longer work

2010-01-19 Thread David Baron
For ever, I was getting a bootup message that by hostname was illegal. After that, everything, I mean everything, worked with that hostname 100% As of the latest upgrades off Sid, the illegal hostname is no longer accepted by the system and there is then no hostname and many things do not like

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-30 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 23:21:21 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: 12.2 MB vs 12.5 MB? much much smaller? Why do you consider 300 KB to be much much smaller? My kernel.deb is 1.5 MB and my vmlinuz is 1.2 MB. That is much much smaller. ;) I've only done custom

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-30 Thread David Baron
Rerunning lilo did fix it. Time was that the postintall checked lilo.conf and ran as a matter of course. At least let me say no if I happen to prefer grub. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-29 Thread David Baron
Built kernel 2.6.32.3. Get 2.6.32EBDA too big, overlaps lilo 2nd stage image or something like that. This is a non-initrd kernel. Do I have to go back to an initrd (stopped using it because of all those yaird problems)? Or is there a lilo parameter I can increase to make room? -- To

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-29 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 18:12:37 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Built kernel 2.6.32.3. Get 2.6.32EBDA too big, overlaps lilo 2nd stage image or something like that. This is a non-initrd kernel. Do I have to go back to an initrd (stopped using it because of all

Re: New Iptables Errors

2009-12-29 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:54:58 bobik wrote: this might help in /etc/rc.firewall change LC_ALL=US to LC_ALL=en_US or delete US and leave only LC_all= restart firewall by ./rc.firewall BTW using guarddog again will undo the changes OK. Anyway to fix guarddog (this outdate,

Re: Best Keeps Getting Bigger

2009-12-29 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 19:14:39 Dave Witbrodt wrote: Just out of curiosity, what's the size of your kernel image file? I also use lilo and no initrd. I'm using 2.6.31.1 with Lenny and have not run into any boot problems yet. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12781374 Oct 29 18:11

Re: Monitor file system free space

2009-12-22 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 17:25:55 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org 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

Wireless Mouse vs. Cell Phone ??

2009-12-20 Thread David Baron
I have had problems with zillions of mouse message errors choking my /var partitions with multi-gigabyte syslog and daemon.logs. This cripples Xorg paralyzing KDE, KDM, and the only way to get on is from ssh outside, delete those files and reboot. I have succeeded in fixing things before it was

Restarting Barfed Xorg

2009-12-10 Thread David Baron
This sporadic mouse message onslaught fills up my /var partition and brings Xorg to a grinding halt. The system is still working. I can log in remotely, delete the multit-gigabyte syslog and daemon.log files. However, kdm cannot be restarted leaving reboot the only answer. How might I kill and

NFS in 2.6.32

2009-12-09 Thread David Baron
Get warning not supported in current kernel. I did nothing in making 2.6.32 to disable (or enable) this. Deprecated? Needed? Bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Udev ATTR instead of SYSFS

2009-12-07 Thread David Baron
Getting a lot of warnings about this on recent udev upgrades. I tried substituting in some of the rules files but might have caused problems. Fact is that this was tested with the recent broken udev and problems were (also?) from udev itself. Should ATTR be simply substituted for SYSFS?

HP Printer Troubles

2009-12-07 Thread David Baron
Low-end HP ink-jets are problematic since the mechanism is in the cartridge. After experimenting with hplip setup parameters to try to fix some color problems, I cannot get back to the former, default settings. While the GUI shows everything as default values, I am in some strange printing

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