Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
(snip) In the second link, someone told that the problem may solved in the kernel 2.6.30. I tried to upgrade to the latest kernel via: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny main deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny main and aptitude update

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:21:30 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: (snip) In the second link, someone told that the problem may solved in the kernel 2.6.30. I tried to upgrade to the latest kernel via: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny main deb-src

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Nelson Green wrote: So, my final question is, where is my X11 start-up file? There are several different ways to start up X11. Probably the simplest for you is to create a $HOME/.xsession file. The xdm/gdm/kdm/lightdm processes will use it if the file exists. Create it with the following

debian on soneview notebook

2012-08-29 Thread ozkar
Hello everyone: I have a Soneview N1405 notebook, I'm currently installing Debian, with a 2.6.x kernel works fine, but with a 3.2.x the boot fails, the video crash and the notebook hang out. I need some advices... best regards

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/29/2012 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:21:30 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: (snip) In the second link, someone told that the problem may solved in the kernel 2.6.30. I tried to upgrade to the latest kernel via: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny

Re: debian on soneview notebook

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:37:52 -0300, ozkar wrote: I have a Soneview N1405 notebook, I'm currently installing Debian, with a 2.6.x kernel works fine, but with a 3.2.x the boot fails, the video crash and the notebook hang out. I need some advices... best regards Try to append nomodeset at the

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed oldstable) because even the current stable release (Squeeze) neither get kernel upgrades (for kernel upgrades I mean going from 2.6.26 to 2.6.32 or 3.x branch, for instance). Kernel

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

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb 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

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 08/29/2012 12:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Nelson Green wrote: So, my final question is, where is my X11 start-up file? There are several different ways to start up X11. Probably the simplest for you is to create a $HOME/.xsession file. The xdm/gdm/kdm/lightdm processes will use it if the

Re: sux: cannot open display: :0.

2012-08-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Camaleón. Thank You for Your time and answer! You wrote: I suggested because you seemed to have many X related packages udpated and it could be that Xorg needed to be power-cycled. And that's why I did it. :o) But I have already solved the problem for me - removing

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:08:58 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed oldstable) because even the current stable release (Squeeze) neither get kernel upgrades (for kernel upgrades I mean going from

insserv: script clamd: service clamav-daemon already provided!

2012-08-29 Thread Roman Gelfand
How can I edit the service dependency info? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: How upstart-job is performing in debian system ?

2012-08-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:27:20 +0530, bakshi12 wrote: I have gone through some online docs on ubuntu derived upstar-job mechanism and its simplicity has drawn my attention. Same time the apparent incompatibility with sysv-init is also there. Has

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 29 August 2012 18:08:58 Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed oldstable) because even the current stable release (Squeeze) neither get kernel upgrades (for kernel upgrades I mean going

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
The Wanderer wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: exec x-session-manager The 'x-session-manager' is a Debian package specific symlink handle that always points to the currently configured window manager. Isn't that 'x-window-manager'? At least, I don't have an 'x-session-manager' on my system

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:23:47 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) So, my query is this; is the inability of 64 bit Debian 6, to swap properly, instead using increasing amounts of RAM until it runs out of RAM, then crashing, while having 40GB of unused swap

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:16:23AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:23:47 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) So, my query is this; is the inability of 64 bit Debian 6, to swap properly, instead using increasing amounts of RAM until it runs

Re: insserv: script clamd: service clamav-daemon already provided!

2012-08-29 Thread Roman Gelfand
Please, ignore this post. I figured out the answer. As it turns out, the dependency is in the script. I used another script and didn't change this info. Sorry On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Roman Gelfand rgelfa...@gmail.com wrote: How can I edit the service dependency info? Thanks in

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: The problem is that the computer runs out of RAM. The RAM usage increases, until it runs out of RAM, then, as at present, the system becomes morbidly slow, and takes a few seconds to respond to key presses or mouse moves, then, after a while, it just crashes. What you are

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:16:23AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:23:47 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) snip /sbin/swapon -s will show you what partitions or files you are using, and how big

system-wide association between MIME types and applications

2012-08-29 Thread ROGERIO DE CARVALHO BASTOS
Hi guys, I'm using XFCE4 in Debian Wheezy and need a way to set system-wide association between MIME types and applications. According to [1], /usr/share/applications/defaults.list do this, but it can't works with and I don't find any documentation. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/MIME --

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 01:01:28PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: To the list... Does anyone have any nice 'ps' recipies for doing the same thing? ps STUFF --sort vsize -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: Bret Busby wrote: The problem is that the computer runs out of RAM. snip The tool I like the best is 'htop'. Install it. It is nice and I think you will like it. # apt-get install htop Then run it: $ htop Then press F6 to change the sort

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Bret, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: opera web browser. Each window of it shows as using 14GB of virtual memory. Nice. Opera usually uses as much memory as it sees fit, but you can set the memory cache manually (Preferences → Advanced → History). A very wild guess would be that due

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 29 August 2012 21:15:01 Claudius Hubig wrote: A problem that I (appear to) have found, is that the malware named javascript appears to cause havoc in continually increasing usage of RAM. Javascript is a programming language, not a malware. He knows that. He is expressing his

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: opera web browser. Each window of it shows as using 14GB of virtual memory. Yowsa! So if you exit Opera as a test then suddenly a lot of memory is freed up and the system is suddenly back to its normal speedy state? Any other processes hiding behind it that are the second

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: Bret Busby wrote: opera web browser. Each window of it shows as using 14GB of virtual memory. Yowsa! So if you exit Opera as a test then suddenly a lot of memory is freed up and the system is suddenly back to its normal speedy state? Any other

Re: How upstart-job is performing in debian system ?

2012-08-29 Thread J. B
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:35:20 -0400 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: snip From a sysadmin point of view, unless you want to write upstart jobs, there nothing much to learn. You can use sysvinit's service daemon {stop|start|restart} - or upstart's {stop|start|restart} daemon. /snip I have

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