Re: pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-28 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:44:34 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Camale?n wrote: (...) How many cards do you have? (aplay -l) I can see that some outputs are turned off (e.g., surround, center, IEC958...) so you should check which of them is selected as the default output

IPSec Point to Point Tunnel Has Double Latency in One Direction

2012-08-28 Thread Chris Dos
I've been trying to figure this out for a few days now, but I'm at a loss. Time to ask the experts. I have two Debian Squeeze boxes that I'm creating a site to site vpn for. Followed this how to: http://wiki.debian.org/IPsec I can ping both sides of the internal interfaces, but pings from one

How to find the lost 'installed application' - OpenOffice.org Impress

2012-08-28 Thread Ryan Duan
Hi, I use Debian squeeze, now it cannot find OpenOffice.org-Impress to open odp and ppt files, but Impress does have been installed, I can use command ooffice -impress to open it. I'm sure the following packages are well installed: openoffice.org, openoffice.org-impress,

Re: Email management workflow

2012-08-28 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Jimmy, Jimmy Thrasibule thrasibule.ji...@gmail.com wrote: I know about IMAP but one of my concerns is to being able to have access without an Internet connection and I also like the fact to clean out all my emails from the servers. My mobile phone (Nokia E63) offers the option to

Re: import version and changelog into deb?

2012-08-28 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:12:03 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I've got a specialized piece of software I wrote and maintain (it's a theatre sound system, for playing music cues and sound effects for live theatre). In order to distribute among the various computers I use it on, I've packaged it as

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: By the way, there's something I don't understand. A 32-bit processor can only access 4G of real (extended) memory, right? So why are there motherboards available

Re: Email management workflow

2012-08-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:07:14 +0200, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: I have a bunch of email accounts that I connect to using the POP3 protocol and Thunderbird. This is mainly done to keep the different servers clean of emails and also to keep a backup of all my emails on my workstation. Of course,

Re: Email management workflow

2012-08-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:07:14 +0200, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: I know about IMAP but one of my concerns is to being able to have access without an Internet connection and I also like the fact to clean out all my emails from the servers. I'd go for a mixed of online/offline IMAP

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

2012-08-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 aug 12, 07:26:18, Richard Owlett wrote: QUESTION: Can someone point me to detailed instructions on setting up a client and server on a single physical computer. As a primary motivation for this whole project is learning Linux, I foresee lots of related reading :) Most (if not

[offtopic] Open Source hackathon looking for sponsors

2012-08-28 Thread Walter
FIRST: I'm very sorry to post off-topic on this mailing list, but it's for a good cause, please forgive me! We're looking for sponsors for a 2 month long open source-only hackathon in a remote villa in a tropical paradise. Please email me at wal...@comehackwithus.com for more information. All

Re: import version and changelog into deb?

2012-08-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 27 aug 12, 19:12:03, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I've got a specialized piece of software I wrote and maintain (it's a theatre sound system, for playing music cues and sound effects for live theatre). In order to distribute among the various computers I use it on, I've packaged it as a .deb.

Re: sux: cannot open display: :0.

2012-08-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:46:30 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: On wheezy, after upgrade of: kmod:amd64 8-2 - 9-1 libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 8.0.4-1 - 8.0.4-2 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 8.0.4-1 - 8.0.4-2 libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 8.0.4-1 - 8.0.4-2 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 8.0.4-1 - 8.0.4-2 libglapi-mesa:amd64

Re: [OT] Signatures and Sensibilities (was: pulseaudio configuration question)

2012-08-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 14:58 +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:24:46 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: (...) What the hell has this to do with pulseaudio configuration question? Said finally the user who has not given a single hint on how to solve the problem of the OP ;-) I

Re: Obtaining a Newer Kernel

2012-08-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 09:41 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 27 aug 12, 21:47:08, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I often build vanilla + patch-rt. Usually I copy the Debian's default kernel config, change some settings to fit to rt needs and then run make oldconfig. Have you tried the new rt

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/28/2012 5:40 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Sadly, due to market realities and diminished customer demand for large monolithic servers, the biggest x86 box Unisys now sells is an 8-way 4U Xeon box. Though with up to 80 cores, 332x times

Re: HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I'm recurrently getting freezes because of HDD problems. During these freezes, that generally last until I shut down the computer, I get such messages: == smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

2012-08-28 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 28 aug 12, 07:26:18, Richard Owlett wrote: QUESTION: Can someone point me to detailed instructions on setting up a client and server on a single physical computer. As a primary motivation for this whole project is learning Linux, I foresee lots of related reading

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Joe Pfeiffer pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu writes: shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: By the way, there's something I don't understand. A 32-bit processor can only access 4G of real (extended) memory,

Re: How to find the lost 'installed application' - OpenOffice.org Impress

2012-08-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:43:25 +0800, Ryan Duan wrote: I use Debian squeeze, now it cannot find OpenOffice.org-Impress to open odp and ppt files, but Impress does have been installed, I can use command ooffice -impress to open it. (...) sm01@stt008:~$ whereis ooimpress ooimpress:

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

2012-08-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 aug 12, 12:30:08, Richard Owlett wrote: To verify we are talking about the same thing: I'm envisioning a Debian repository on the server. I will then use netinst to install Debian on the client. Later a browser running on the client will be able to access an HTML page on the

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread shawn wilson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: It's memory bandwidth of 20GB/s was many times higher than any x86 server at that time as they all used a single P6 bus, with only 1GB/s bandwidth. 20GB/s is peanuts today given just two channels of DDR3-1333 have

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:47:34 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:26:19 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: Hmm. Could you post the output of grep flags /proc/cpuinfo so that we can see which

Re: sux: cannot open display: :0.

2012-08-28 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Camaleón. Thank You for Your time and answer, again. You wrote: This can sound a bit odd but have you tried with a system restart? It happened right after restart! :o) But I have already solved the problem for me - removing all seemed Gconf-related config. garbage

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Stan, Am Montag, 27. August 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 8/27/2012 8:27 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: I run an SSD on my MCP61P so lack of NCQ has no impact whatsoever--SSD's have no moving parts, and all seeks are instantaneous. While I haven't heard of NCQ improving read speed of

OT: SSD, NCQ and I/O depth (was: Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?)

2012-08-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Sorry that I post twice, but in hindsight I thought I´d give this a more descriptive subject. Please reply to this second post. Hi Stan, Am Montag, 27. August 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: On 8/27/2012 8:27 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: I run an SSD on my MCP61P so lack of NCQ has no impact

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

2012-08-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Owlett wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Can someone point me to detailed instructions on setting up a client and server on a single physical computer. As a primary motivation for this whole project is learning Linux, I foresee lots of related reading :) Most (if

Networking for kvm virtual machines

2012-08-28 Thread James Allsopp
Hello, I'm trying to learn more about networking and set up BIND, LDAP and Nagios on a KVM virtual machine. The VM works great and I can ssh into it from the host, and view the nagios pages from the host. However the VM gets the address 192.168.1.x and the host is 192.168.1.2. What I really want

Sawfish wm won't start from gdm3

2012-08-28 Thread Rick Macdonald
I recently (finally) upgraded from lenny to squeeze. All seems well except if I choose the sawfish window manager from the gdm3 greeter, the dialog goes away and it just sits with the debian logo and the stars background. I can't find any error messages anywhere (~/.xsession-errors). If I

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:48:27 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: What I meant was that I may buy the new mobo, processor, and RAM that you suggested and put it in this second machine I'm talking about. Well, I've looked into it, and that's not going to work. The mobo you suggested has stuff

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/28/2012 12:43 PM, shawn wilson wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: It's memory bandwidth of 20GB/s was many times higher than any x86 server at that time as they all used a single P6 bus, with only 1GB/s bandwidth. 20GB/s is peanuts today

Re: Networking for kvm virtual machines

2012-08-28 Thread Bob Proulx
James Allsopp wrote: I'm trying to learn more about networking and set up BIND, LDAP and Nagios on a KVM virtual machine. The VM works great and I can ssh into it from the host, and view the nagios pages from the host. However the VM gets the address 192.168.1.x and the host is 192.168.1.2.

Re: Networking for kvm virtual machines

2012-08-28 Thread James Allsopp
Ah, was worklng from memory, a mistake. Just restarted everything and the address of the virtual machine is 192.168.122.216 so on a different subnet. Looking at the output of ps aux | grep network, I found this: ja@Hawaiian:~$ ps aux | grep network nobody6157 0.0 0.0 22760 956 ?S

Re: HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:15:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I'm recurrently getting freezes because of HDD problems. During these freezes, that generally last until I shut down the computer, I get such messages: == smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build)

Re: HDD problems that do not follow SMART results

2012-08-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for both answers. I effectively removed the very old one, installed at its place a brand new HDD. This way, I disconnected the one which was SMART-recognized as sick, and put a new one which now contains /home/* This looks perfect, I just had

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 13:22 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 03:35:52AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 08:31:06PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I used gvim, but kate and gedit and even leafpad and others are more comfortable. IIRC common shortcuts

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 00:51 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 13:22 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 03:35:52AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 08:31:06PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I used gvim, but kate and gedit and even leafpad

trouble editing a partition table

2012-08-28 Thread Ross Boylan
A kvm virtual machine has two disks provided by LVM logical volumes. They are identical; each has 3 partitions. To get more space I used lvextend to grow the logical volumes. My problem is that the partition tables are unchanged; the last partition should extend to the end of the new disk but it

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

2012-08-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 07:26:18AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I have two objectives: 1. Define, by experimentation, optimal installation parameters to meet my idiosyncratic concept of a minimal install. 2. Determine if there are bugs in Debian Installer, the

Re: Networking for kvm virtual machines

2012-08-28 Thread Bob Proulx
James Allsopp wrote: Just restarted everything and the address of the virtual machine is 192.168.122.216 so on a different subnet. The VM is on 192.168.122.216. Okay. Looking at the output of ps aux | grep network, I found this: ja@Hawaiian:~$ ps aux | grep network nobody6157 0.0 0.0

where to report bug: Wheezy installer failed on a RTL8169 network card

2012-08-28 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, I downloaded the latest Wheezy AMD64 version DVD iso image, trying to install it on a HP notebook with a RTL8169 NIC. When the installer detects network, it hangs. I could switch to other ttys and open a busybox shell, but it's useless, the installation could not resume any more. I

Re: where to report bug: Wheezy installer failed on a RTL8169 network card

2012-08-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Yuwen Dai wrote: I downloaded the latest Wheezy AMD64 version DVD iso image, trying to install it on a HP notebook with a RTL8169 NIC. When the installer detects network, it hangs. I could switch to other ttys and open a busybox shell, but it's useless, the installation could not resume

Re: where to report bug: Wheezy installer failed on a RTL8169 network card

2012-08-28 Thread Yuwen Dai
Thank you for testing the early installer and then reporting problems with it. The place to report those bugs is the installation-reports package. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=installation-reports You would want to look over the bugs already filed

Re: trouble editing a partition table (lost RAID)

2012-08-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Short version: I resized the partitions with fdisk, but the software RAID failed to reassemble from the new partitions. I'm looking for a diagnoosis or repair. On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 17:15 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: A kvm virtual machine has two disks provided by LVM logical volumes. They are

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