After finally understanding the exim4 authentication setup - as root I
am able to send email to my other mail box - I tried to send mail as tom
and from mutt. No go.
First, there were messages that exim4 could not write to the files
/var/log/exim4/mainlog and paniclog - permission denied.
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue,07.Oct.08, 10:22:18, Thomas H. George wrote:
[snip security concerns]
Should I worry about this?
The SMTP (used by exim) and POP (used by fetchmail) protocols are not
very secure by default, which is probably one of the reasons we now have
such a huge
Chris Davies wrote:
Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = true|
|AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS=yes|
Chris Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What you've done there is to enable TLS (encryption), but then
immediately say that you're happy not to use encryption
Osamu Aoki wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:10:53PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
Chris Davies wrote:
Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wiped the hard drive, did a clean installation of etch, configured
exim4, put the user:password in /etc/exim4
P. Lane wrote:
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:56:35PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
Tried *:my-user-name:my-password with the same result: Authentication
Required.
Poured through the /usr/share/doc/exim4 documentation (also exim4-base
and exim4-config) which insist there is a file exim4-conf
Thomas H. George wrote:
P. Lane wrote:
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:56:35PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
Tried *:my-user-name:my-password with the same result:
Authentication Required.
Poured through the /usr/share/doc/exim4 documentation (also
exim4-base and exim4-config) which insist
I wiped the hard drive, did a clean installation of etch, configured
exim4, put the user:password in /etc/exim4/passwd.client and tried to
send a message. The entry in /var/log/exim4/mainlog showed
authentication required. I had saved a debian users posting from Jan
2006 explaining how to
Chris Davies wrote:
Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wiped the hard drive, did a clean installation of etch, configured
exim4, put the user:password in /etc/exim4/passwd.client and tried to
send a message. [...]
man exim4_passwd_client says
The file should contain
Chris Davies wrote:
Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The line I put in passwd.client is,
outgoing.verizon.net:my-user-name:my-password, which is my
understanding of the man page instructions.
Yes, that's the correct format. But it's not what you wrote first time.
2008
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:10:54AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:34:21 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote:
With BUSYBOX=n the initrd.img file size is reduced to 6683876 but
bootup still fails.
Maybe yaird can help. Install the yaird package and then add
ramdisk
The latest version of galrey fails. Using strace I find it tries to open
'.' and finds there is no such file or directory. Of course I invoked
galrey when in a directory containing .jpg files and ls . lists them
with no problem.
Tom
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 05:10:13PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
Thomas H. George wrote:
The latest version of galrey fails. Using strace I find it tries to open
'.' and finds there is no such file or directory. Of course I invoked
galrey when in a directory containing .jpg files
Last month when lilo could not boot a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 debian system
it was pointed out to me that the initrd.img was too big and that the
solution was to edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and change
MODULES=most to MODULES=dep. This indeed reduced the size of the
initrd.img from about
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:57:49PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:08:24 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote:
Last month when lilo could not boot a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 debian
system it was pointed out to me that the initrd.img was too big and
that the solution was to edit
The installation end in Error 2 as shown in the captured output included
below.
My system is Lenney with a 2.6.26-1-amd64 stock kernel. I installed the
debian glibc-source_2.7-13.all.deb package, unpacked
glibc-2.7ds1.tar.bz2 into /usr/src/gnu/glibc-2.7, created
/usr/src/gnu/glibc-build and from
iceape can play youtube videos but stalls at the start of NYTimes
videos.
My setup is lenney with a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel. From
iceape/help/about plugins/plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux (x86 64) I have
downloaded:
nspluginwrapper-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:35:05PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
Dear Thomas,
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:42:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
ia32-libs-gtk did the trick. Youtube video's run fine. NYTimes
video's now try to start but stall loading. NYTimes problem?
It does work for me
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 09:09:02AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:35:05PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
Dear Thomas,
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:42:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
ia32-libs-gtk did the trick. Youtube video's run fine. NYTimes
video's now
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:40:32AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:54:16AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
I too have 9.0 r124 but also 9.0 r100 and Flash Movie Player compatable
with Shockwave Flash 4.0 are also installed. I'm working on
uninstalling the latter
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:03:17PM +0200, Tim Edwards wrote:
Tim Edwards wrote:
Thomas H. George wrote:
Running nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
fails when libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 is not found. Apt-cache search
libgtk-x11 finds nothing. Is it part of some other
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:12:33PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 09/11/08 09:45, Thomas H. George wrote:
Running nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
fails when libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 is not found. Apt-cache
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:16:29AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:
There may be no good reason for the 32-bit chroot. I was influenced by
the following quote, If you're going to point out nspluginwrapper,
please also tell me how to make
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:53:24AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:
I used debootstap to create an chroot ia32 etch system and have set it to
start
at F8 and start gnome on F9. All works well except playing video's
(Youtube, NYTimes
Running nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
fails when libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 is not found. Apt-cache search
libgtk-x11 finds nothing. Is it part of some other package?
Tom
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I used debootstap to create an chroot ia32 etch system and have set it to start
at F8 and start gnome on F9. All works well except playing video's
(Youtube, NYTimes, etc.) The video's fail with a message that
Macromedia Flash 9 must be installed. I can't do this because the
system is booted
Again sending from iceape.
I tried Florian's suggestion to set
smtp_url=smtp[s]://USER:[EMAIL PROTECTED] both with and
without the entries for USER and PASSWORD and also without the portion
smtp[s]://. Regardless of which form I used mutt responded not a valid
url and displayed everything
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:38:19PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon,08.Sep.08, 10:39:04, Thomas H. George wrote:
[...]
In response to Andrei's question muttrc contains:
set use_from=yes
set [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is no entry in muttrc for envelope_from.
You could try
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 06:00:12PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:39:04 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
Again sending from iceape.
I tried Florian's suggestion to set
smtp_url=smtp[s]://USER:[EMAIL PROTECTED] both with and
without the entries for USER
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:00:06PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon,08.Sep.08, 14:23:42, Thomas H. George wrote:
[...]
You could try:
set [EMAIL PROTECTED]
set use_envelope_from
Made the suggested additions to muttrc and am sending this from mutt
Great! After reading
this message from iceape.
Tom
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Sep 6 09:31:11 2008
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:31:11 -0400
From: Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: LiloCan't Boot vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64 - Resolved
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail-Followup-To: Thomas
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun,31.Aug.08, 15:12:14, Thomas H. George wrote:
[...]
The attached listing of initrd.img file sizes shows only a slight increase
from kernel to kernel.
Tom
Script started on Sun 31 Aug 2008 11:20:06 AM EDT
Phoenix:/var/state# ls -l /boot/initrd
As the attached script shows saslauthd tries to write to a file that it
has never opened.
Tom
Script started on Sun 31 Aug 2008 10:25:45 AM EDT
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strace -e trace=open,close,read,write -f testsaslauthd -u
tom -p 7
73915
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3
close(3)
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,29.Aug.08, 21:24:21, Thomas H. George wrote:
Indeed the problem appears to be with kernels as kernel panic occurs
after a message that no ramdisk is found at 0. During the dist-upgrade
mkinitrd is automatically run for each of the three kernel images
mentioned
dist-upgrade installed vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64, ran mkinitrd and lilo which
reported two warnings (mbr on different harddrive, assuming LBA32 addressing)
but no fatal problems. When the upgrade was complete I rebooted and the new
kernel was loaded immediately. The boot up subsequently failed
dist-upgrade installed vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64, ran mkinitrd and lilo
which reported two warnings (mbr on different harddrive, assuming LBA32
addressing) but no fatal problems. Attempted boot to new kernel ended
in kernel panic.
I confess the same was true of vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-amd64 so I
Replying from Mutt has failed - damn nuisance - so I have patched
together the messages and reposted from iceape. The new problem is not
Mutt but something related to Postfix. I'll try to track it down tomorrow.
Tom
On 08/29/2008 02:03 PM, Thomas H. George wrote:
dist-upgrade installed
When a harddrive was failing I managed to copy the contents of
/home/tom. This includes a file
/home/tom/.mozilla/tom/Mail/mail.tomgeorge.info/Inbox containing three
years of email - mostly junk, but containing a few gems I would like to
recover. I reinstalled lenny and iceape and created a
Objective: 32 bit chroot Etch on a system with an AMD 64 bit processor.
Problem: Incorrect video driver for nVidia G70 card.
To start I copied xorg.conf from the primary system - Lenny with an
x86_64 linux kernel image. The display works fine on the primary
system using the nv driver.
When I open a terminal from an X-Window it does not accept entries and
after a minute displays a message, There was an error creating a child
process for this terminal. In some cases there was a message like
failed to create child process x-terminal-emulator. There is in fact a
soft link
I created a chroot etch with xorg, gdm and gnome as described in Debian
Reference - Debian Tips sections 8.6.35.1 through 8.6.38.4. Everything
I've tested seems to work except when I open a terminal window its dead
and the xorg.conf I use with my wacom tablet works only with the
stylus, not
The man page and a google search gave minimum info except for the link
to www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tip.en.html. Following by
rote the prompts in 8.6.35.1 I think I succeeded in installing a minimal
Etch installation though the prompt never changed to chroot # when I
entered
This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor
instead of the usual Lilo choice of boot options. At first I thought a
hard drive had died but after booting up from a Grml cd I found both ide
hard drives accessible and ok. I re-ran lilo but this did not correct
the
no usb devices and lsusb returns nothing. Everything worked after
yesterday's apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. This morning a
startup problem (see posting _Update Modified BIOS ???)_ and when it was
solved no usb devices and lsusb returns nothing.
Tom
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On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 08:15:55PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 13:48:27 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
no usb devices and lsusb returns nothing. Everything worked after
yesterday's apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. This morning a
startup problem (see
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:34:14PM +0100, Bob Cox wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:03:59 -0400, Thomas H. George ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor
instead of the usual Lilo choice of boot options. At first I thought
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:29:18PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. I am new to Linux, and I wish to use my Bamboo Tablet in Linux and
have WINE set up for quick access to Windows. However, I can't really make
heads or tails of the instructions. Any help would be appreciated.
I have
Question: Is there an MP3 player that plays Ogg files right out of the box?
I'm considering converting to Ogg the audio tapes I play on a clunky
cassette player during workouts. A review of an iRiver T30 noted that
initially it worked only with XP but a download from the manufacturer
could
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:00:50PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:44:40PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:57:35AM -0500, W Paul Mills wrote:
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[snip]
The network
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:31:30AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:00:50PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 01:44:40PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 09:02:39PM -0300, Marcos José Sant'Anna Magalhães
wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Can't you just use /etc/init.d/networking restart ?
Marcos
It doesn't work. That is if I edit ifstate to set eth0=eth0
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:04:42PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:19:45PM -0400, Will Murnane wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 19:32, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When the bootup
is complete I replace the interfaces file with a copy of the parent
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:57:35AM -0500, W Paul Mills wrote:
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| Some Progress. The ifconfig shows that eth0 has been given the address
| 169.254.122.180 and will not allow it to be changed or deleted. However
| ifconfig
is
still unreachable (I tried pinging another computer on the lan) and
ifconfig shows the settings of eth0 are unchanged, are still the
settings from bootup during which the system looked for a DHCP
connection and found none.
Tom
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED
I built a Debian Live CD with lh_config -a i386 -d lenny --packages 'gdm
openoffice . . .' plus copies of several of my configuration files
including /etc/network/interfaces. All the packages work fine but the
system can't connect to our lan which uses static ip addresses. During
bootup
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:19:45PM -0400, Will Murnane wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 19:32, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When the bootup
is complete I replace the interfaces file with a copy of the parent
machine's interfaces file and run /etc/init.d/networking restart
I have built a very nice Debian Live CD but with two problems.
One, I can't switch to the static IP addressed used by my lan. I
included a copy of my interfaces file in chroot_local-includes. When I
boot from the CD I can substitute this file in /etc/network but I can't
find a way to
The college is offering packages starting at $1,399 (Dell Latitude D630)
and $1,499 (Lenoveo ThinkPad T61) all with 2GB memory, 10/100/1000
Ethernet, Wireless, 1394 Port, Bluetooth, Vista 32Bit Business OS,
SmartCare/4in1 Media Card Reader and Microsoft Office 2007 Professional
pre-installed
When an old cpu died I upgraded to a new motherboard and an AMD Athlon
64 Processor 3800+. I am running the current version of Lenny with a
2.6.24-1-amd64 kernel. I can no longer listen to the audio streams from
my favorite radio stations, play the NY Times videos and sundry links
suggested
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 03:30:01PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
On 06/01/2008 01:20 PM, Thomas H. George wrote:
No menu bar, no tool bar.
I have been using icewm with no problems but decided to check out
gnome. If I log out, change the session to gnome and log in I get a
blue screen
No menu bar, no tool bar.
I have been using icewm with no problems but decided to check out
gnome. If I log out, change the session to gnome and log in I get a
blue screen with the Debian swirl, icons for the disk drives and my home
directory and a short hum from the speakers but no menu bar
After cpu failure and replacement Debian Lenny system bootup fails with
a message:
/bin/cat: /sys/block/hdb/hdb1/dev No such file or directory
This is repeated several times and then again for hdb5. Finally kernel
panic.
I have run Western Digital's extended test on hdb and found no
Culprit deleted, all is well.
Thanks again,
Tom
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On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:11:24PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 17:47:41 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:25:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/17/08 13:00, Thomas H. George wrote:
Something I have installed stops Gimp from loading
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:47:20PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:38:45 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 03:11:24PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 17:47:41 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:25
Something I have installed stops Gimp from loading - that is the little
Gimp picture flashes on the screen briefly and then the load aborts. I
can find no clue in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log so I have used
dpkg --purge to remove a number of programs to no avail. I have done a
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:25:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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Something I have installed stops Gimp from loading - that is the little
Gimp picture flashes on the screen briefly and then the load aborts
I have some old win95 bridge programs I want to use. Wine installs,
loads and runs them perfectly except a box shape appears wherever a
symbol for spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs should appear. I have
tried using xfontsel to change the font the program in using without
success. It does
When I try to start a gnome session after I login the speakers hum and
the command lines, top and bottom, flash on and off several times then
the sound stops and the command lines disappear. Only the computer,
home and drive icons remain.
I can restart gdm and chose the icewm session which
The X-Window opens but never reaches the login, just shows a small
circle with rotating dots. As root I ran top -i and intermittently it
showed root running gdmgreeter but each time it was shown with a
different pid and I couldn't kill it. Xorg was also running.
Background: I have been using
Sorry, I thought if I changed the subject it would start a new thread.
Now I know better.
Tom
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As previously reported, after installing Gnome and Xorg the X-Window
startup was trapped in a loop before login and top -i showed root
running a program gdmgreeter with a continuously changing pid.
Purging Gnome and Xorg and rebooting did not solve the problem.
Running apt-get autoremove removed
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:02:43AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:33:09PM -0400, Peter Meldrum wrote:
I have heard that some people have installed Debian on the One Laptop
Per Child machine
Do you have any info or links to this? I have one of these from
Ok, its probably a procmail problem. procmail is installed but there is
no procmailrc (and I don't believe there was one on the other computer
either ).
I have never created a procmailrc. I have started reading the man page
and the examples. A lot of neat stuff mostly dealing with incoming
hash:/etc/postfix/access
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtpd_use_tls = yes
set use_from=yes
set [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#my_hdr From: Thomas H
Mike Bird wrote:
On Mon March 31 2008 13:36:28 Thomas H. George wrote:
Ran apt-get install postfix and then fetchmail. Fetchmail saw the
messages but could not post them (and, therefore did not purge them).
tail /var/log/syslog reported /etc/mail did not contain access.db. (The
relevant
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:36:28PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
Mar 31 16:07:28 Phoenix identd[8050]: started
Mar 31 16:07:28 Phoenix sm-mta[8049]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map access:
missing map file /etc/mail/access.db: No such file or directory
Mar 31 16:07:28
Ran apt-get install postfix and then fetchmail. Fetchmail saw the
messages but could not post them (and, therefore did not purge them).
tail /var/log/syslog reported /etc/mail did not contain access.db. (The
relevant output is attached as post.txt.)
man access listed modifications to
lh_build ends with a message mount: devpts-live is already mounted or
chroot/dev/pts is busy and mount: according to mtab devpts-live is
mounted on /debianlive/chroot/dev/pts and no binary.img file is
created. I have checked the Jan 08 and Dec 07 archives without finding
any reference to this
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:38:08PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:15:13PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
lh_build ends with a message mount: devpts-live is already mounted or
chroot/dev/pts is busy and mount: according to mtab devpts-live is
mounted on /debianlive
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:40:01PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:01:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
The prompt always shows the entire chain to the current directory. My
memory says this was not always so. There is nothing in .bashrc
regarding
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:40:19PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Thomas H. George wrote:
The prompt always shows the entire chain to the current directory. My
memory says this was not always so. There is nothing in .bashrc
regarding this. Is it set somewhere else?
probably in /etc
The prompt always shows the entire chain to the current directory. My
memory says this was not always so. There is nothing in .bashrc
regarding this. Is it set somewhere else?
The reason I ask is that I am trying to work with a One Laptop per Child
(olpc) laptop and the prompt never shows
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 09:07:57AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 01/26/08 08:43, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:15:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/25/08 15:05, Thomas H. George wrote:
I have a usb memory stick which I
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:57:58PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Thomas H. George:
No, just to use it to store data. As it is I can only mount it as root
and to just store data I would prefer to mount it as a normal user.
I still don't understand your problem, but what a user is able
After trying various suggestions I found I was unable to mount the
memory stick at all.
I went back to the begining and executed:
zcat boot.img.gz /dev/sda
which puts a FAT file system on the memory stick.
Next I unplugged and replugged it and it was still recognized as sg1.
As root the
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:15:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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I have a usb memory stick which I successfully used for a netinst
several months ago. When I connected it today it was recognized as sg1
I have a usb memory stick which I successfully used for a netinst
several months ago. When I connected it today it was recognized as sg1
but it was not recognized as a block device when I tried to mount it.
Returning to the Debian-Installer directions I found I can mount it
with the command
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 01:56:46PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:23:07 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
Suddenly no sound. Alsamixer shows it is using the motherboard
soundcard and the speakers are connected to the Creative Labs pci card.
Alsaconf says
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:59:11PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:35:38 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 01:56:46PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:23:07 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
Suddenly no sound. Alsamixer
I have been using pppoeconf with a verizon dsl modem for three years
with no problem whatsoever. I have an old box I use as a firewall - two
ethernet cards and always the current Debian stable distribution. One
ethernet card is connected to the Verizon dsl modem which is connected
to the phone
Suddenly no sound. Alsamixer shows it is using the motherboard
soundcard and the speakers are connected to the Creative Labs pci card.
Alsaconf says it is not needed with Lenny but it will find the Creative
Labs sound card. Unfortunately it also kills dsp. alsactl names finds
nothing. I
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:24:43PM -0600, Adam Porter wrote:
Thomas H. George wrote:
wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but
wodim -v dev=0,0,0 data.iso goes crazy and says it is trying to access
/dev/hda and then /dev/hdb
My system is lenny with a linux-image-2.6.22-3
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:47:56AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:24:43PM -0600, Adam Porter wrote:
Thomas H. George wrote:
wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but
wodim -v dev=0,0,0 data.iso goes crazy and says it is trying to access
/dev/hda
wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but
wodim -v dev=0,0,0 data.iso goes crazy and says it is trying to access
/dev/hda and then /dev/hdb
My system is lenny with a linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 kernel.
What is wrong and how can I fix it.
Tom George
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On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 09:38:19AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 22:24:52 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
With my old system dvgrab controlled my Sony Digital 8 video camera with no
problems. I upgraded to a new motherboard and a Athlon 64 processor, Lenny
With my old system dvgrab controlled my Sony Digital 8 video camera with
no problems. I upgraded to a new motherboard and a Athlon 64 processor,
Lenny and a linux-image-2.6.22-3-amd64 kernel. The new motherboard does
not have a firewire port so I added a pci firewire card (NEC single-chip
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:50:26PM +0100, strawks wrote:
I just experienced my first ever system lockup. No mouse, no keyboard
with an Iceape screen open.
I had saved a posting regarding SYSRQ and I tried Alt-Sysrq k then
Alt-Sysrq i and the Alt-Sysrq b with no response.
Did you
I just experienced my first ever system lockup. No mouse, no keyboard
with an Iceape screen open.
I had saved a posting regarding SYSRQ and I tried Alt-Sysrq k then
Alt-Sysrq i and the Alt-Sysrq b with no response.
In desperation I crashed and rebooted the system. I am using
linux-image
My college student grandson says he wants to study programming robots.
Aside from all the commercial (game?) kits are there serious Linux
applications that he should consider? If so, how best to get started?
Tom
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:19:16PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:25:52 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
My sound system was working perfectly but something must have changed when
I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. The system is lenny with
kernel-image
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