Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/03/12 16:06, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> >> On 24/03/12 07:41, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Sb, 17 mar 12, 21:33:30, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Actually... > > Slight correction - I haven't used Smoothwall Express for about a year, > now. > My mis

Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-23 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 24/03/12 07:41, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 17 mar 12, 21:33:30, Scott Ferguson wrote: I just thought it strange that he should be getting served a different IP address to what I get. Possibly that's his ISP's DNS cache. No, it's probably just

Re: Issues with nfs v4 and security

2012-03-23 Thread Alexander Samad
> > [snip] >> > > > Mar 20 13:37:27 max rpc.idmapd[19081]: nss_getpwnam: name 'nobody' does >> not >> > map into domain 'samad.com.au' >> >> You can use "-vvv" but it's pretty clear that you have an idmapd problem. >> >> I will try that thanks > > >> >> > got me thinking my nsswitch and some other

Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 04:24:18PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Chris Bannister: > > > > I didn't know about handbrake-cli and looks like it might replace > > "videotrans" and "lxdvdrip" > > From what I can tell from their package descriptions: not quite. I > usually dump DVD contents using 'm

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). > (...) Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it? >>> IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also >>> "/usr/ share/doc/hdparm/README.acoustic") but as the man page/doc says, >>> the poss

Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/03/12 07:41, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 17 mar 12, 21:33:30, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> I just thought it strange that he should be getting served a different >> IP address to what I get. Possibly that's his ISP's DNS cache. > > No, it's probably just Round-robin DNS > http://en.wikiped

to be root or not to be root (was ... Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not)

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 04:16:32PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2012-03-22, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > root@tal:~# apt-cache policy libavformat-extra-53 > > You don't have to be root to do that, did you know? True, I normally have a tty open for root anyway and the tty where I have logged into as

Re: problems with apt-get

2012-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:50:15 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > Hola! > > I am given the command > > sudo apt-get -t sid install ^r-cran > > but gets > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the un

Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 16 mar 12, 11:26:53, Bret Busby wrote: > > I "burnt it to disk", using the drag and drop thing within File > Manager on an existing installation of Debian 6, on a 64 bit machine > (installed from the Debian 6.03 AMD64 CD1 ISO CD), and tried to > install from that. > > In booting the laptop

Re: Problem with Update repository

2012-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 17 mar 12, 21:33:30, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > I just thought it strange that he should be getting served a different > IP address to what I get. Possibly that's his ISP's DNS cache. No, it's probably just Round-robin DNS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_robin_dns Kind regards, Andrei -

Re: Apt-pinning confusion

2012-03-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:15:10 +, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Hi all > > I'm trying to put the MythTV PVR XBMC version on my Shuttle box. I need > a newer alsa version than the one from Squeeze because the stable > version doesn't see the soundcard. So I wanted to install alsa from > testing. > And be

problems with apt-get

2012-03-23 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
Hola! I am given the command sudo apt-get -t sid install ^r-cran but gets Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of

Re: Issues with nfs v4 and security

2012-03-23 Thread Alexander Samad
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Alexander Samad > wrote: > > [snip] > > I've lost track whether it's when you're mounting the serverA or > serverB export that you're having the nobody problem but do you have > Okay maybe we leave that, i was t

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:42:06 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> You can grab a LiveCD for a distribution of your choice (with an >> updated kernel) and try your embedded multimedia card reader from >> there. In fact, that's one of the uses for LiveCDs: testing your >> hardware without me

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:47:36 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). (...) >>> Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it? > >> IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm ("-M" flag and also >> "/usr/ share/doc/hdparm/RE

Re: [OT] sftp through authenticating proxy

2012-03-23 Thread Juan Sierra Pons
2012/3/23 Christopher Judd : > Hi, > > > Does anyone know of a way to establish an sftp connection through an > authenticating proxy? > > > -Chris > > > > > | Christopher Judd, Ph. D. | > > | Research Scientist III | > > | NYS

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). >> >> This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5" drive, it's almost always >> idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a place >> where I can easily plug it in and out. >> >> Googling, I found a very similar lo

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. März 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012 schrieb Ken Heard: > > Camaléon's latest suggestions are worth trying to determine whether > > the cause is a software malfunction rather than a hardware failure. > > To do so however I would have to wait until I up

Re: [OT] sftp through authenticating proxy

2012-03-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:06:44 -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > Hi, Hi. No html, please. Your message contains "70" extra lines of "72" ;-) > Does anyone know of a way to establish an sftp connection through > an authenticating proxy? Google knows something: http://stackoverflow.com

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012 schrieb Ken Heard: > Camaléon's latest suggestions are worth trying to determine whether the > cause is a software malfunction rather than a hardware failure. To do > so however I would have to wait until I upgrade the laptop from Lenny > to Squeeze, as he suggests I use

Re: aacraid and smp kernel: SCSI hang

2012-03-23 Thread Joey L
did you have any issues with the video on the ibm 3650 ? I am having a wierd problem where i disabled the gdm3 from loading - now i can not get the text console on the server. You know the login screen in text mode on the server is not visiable - but can login to server from other workstations. I t

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012 schrieb Keith McKenzie: > On 20/03/12 23:23, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > Before you suggest, I didn't put the mount -t vfat etc command in > > fstab because I don't want to see a message every time I boot the > > computer without the SD card in the reader saying sde1 can't

Re: I accidentally installed lenny's linux-image/linux-header packages and I'm running Squeeze. What to do?

2012-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. März 2012 schrieb Alex Hutton: > Hello, Hi Alex, > Basically what happened was I did sudo aptitude update && sudo > aptitude upgrade and I hit 'Y' to accept the packages being installed. > Only afterwards did I realise it would be installing packages from > Lenny. I tried to hit c

[OT] sftp through authenticating proxy

2012-03-23 Thread Christopher Judd
Hi, Does anyone know of a way to establish an sftp connection through an authenticating proxy? -Chris | Christopher Judd, Ph. D. | | Research Scientist III

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Re: Laptop and HDMI output selective working

2012-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 16 mar 12, 07:34:28, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > I will give a try, but it will be the next week when I go back to my > office ;-) > > Now I have installed the previous kernel (3.2.0-1) from my apt archive. > I will keep you informed :-) > > Only curiosity: if the problem is with the k

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 17 mar 12, 21:02:10, Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: > > i simply changed LABEL=lv_* with /dev/sda? for correct partitions. > As a result the partitions seemed to be mounted read only for the user. > And X crashed with different errors :-/ > I still was able to write in /home and /tmp. But after ch

Re: Line wrapping and message retrieval in Icedove.

2012-03-23 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:06:45 -0700, Peter Easthope wrote: (...) > peter@dalton:~$ dpkg -l icedove | grep ice ii icedove >3.0.11-1+squeeze7 > mail/news client with RSS and integrated spam filter support > > [There it goes breaking another line! =8~:| ] (...) Y

Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

2012-03-23 Thread Curt
On 2012-03-22, Chris Bannister wrote: > root@tal:~# apt-cache policy libavformat-extra-53 You don't have to be root to do that, did you know? Just an observation because I use apt-cache frequently and it's convenient (and potentially less dangerous for slippery fingers) not to be obliged to su

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:06:05 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). > > This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5" drive, it's almost always > idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a place > where I can easily plug it

Re: What is $host_address in exim4 configuration file referred to ?

2012-03-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:41:12 +0800, 斟酌鵬兄 wrote: > I am setting up another exim in cygwin, referencing the configuration > file in debian, what does the variable $host_address refers to? It should be described in deep at the manual... Chapter 58 - Variable Index http://www.exim.org/exim-html-curr

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-23 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:59:56 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On 03/22/12 10:47, Camaleón wrote: >> To be sincere, I'm still unsure about what log file holds what >> information. In openSUSE, the main log was "/var/log/messages" and you >> had to look there to see the most relevant information, but her

Re: irq 19: nobody cared - Disabling IRQ #19

2012-03-23 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:14:53 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I wonder if you already have tried what the message suggests :-? >> >> > I don't know about the original poster, but booting with irqpoll did not > solve the problem for me. (I ma

Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

2012-03-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Chris Bannister: > > I didn't know about handbrake-cli and looks like it might replace > "videotrans" and "lxdvdrip" From what I can tell from their package descriptions: not quite. I usually dump DVD contents using 'mplayer -dumpstream' and then encode the resulting directory structure using Ha

USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5" drive, it's almost always idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a place where I can easily plug it in and out. Googling, I found a very similar looking problem that oc

Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 02:10:13PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > I reaklly like handbrake-cli, that's why I had to keep d-m.org in the > end. I've only removed d-m.org from my laptop. The desktop running Lenny still and where I burn DVD/CD will still have to have d-m.org. I didn't know about ha

Syslog-ng problem : IP Address folder

2012-03-23 Thread Julien Groselle
Hello everybody, I have posted that on syslog-ng mailing-list, but i don't have any answer for now... I try to submit my problem to debian's experts ;) -- I work for a lange society, and we use syslog-ng for 5 years now. We have a centralized server with storage tank to keep logs securly. Concr

Re: No graphs in Munin 2.0rc

2012-03-23 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks, Darac, It's interesting, because when I tried opening the graph, and it gave me Software error: Can't open /var/log/munin/munin-cgi-graph.log (Permission denied) at /usr/share/perl5/Log/Log4perl/Appender/File.pm line 103. The file was owned by www-data:adm. So I changed it to munin:adm,

What is $host_address in exim4 configuration file referred to ?

2012-03-23 Thread 斟酌鵬兄
Hi, I am setting up another exim in cygwin, referencing the configuration file in debian, what does the variable $host_address refers to? -- Regards, Panguin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 05:01:57PM +0100, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > On 21/03/12 07:08, Chris Bannister wrote: > >Remember, Aptitude's "resolver system" is different to apt-get's > > I think the problem is not the the resolver (apt-get and aptitude > should get dependences about the same if not prob

Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

2012-03-23 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Alberto Fuentes wrote: look at this, is interesting http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401835 this is more than 5 years old. It would be interesting to check wether this bug has been fixed, but the answer of march 2007 is not encouraging. -- Pierre

Apt-pinning confusion

2012-03-23 Thread Ramon Hofer
Hi all I'm trying to put the MythTV PVR XBMC version on my Shuttle box. I need a newer alsa version than the one from Squeeze because the stable version doesn't see the soundcard. So I wanted to install alsa from testing. And because I use a SSD I thought it would be a good idea to use the sque

Re: I accidentally installed lenny's linux-image/linux-header packages and I'm running Squeeze. What to do?

2012-03-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/03/12 20:54, Alex Hutton wrote: > Hello, > > Basically what happened was I did sudo aptitude update && sudo > aptitude upgrade and I hit 'Y' to accept the packages being installed. > Only afterwards did I realise it would be installing packages from > Lenny. I tried to hit ctrl-c and ctrl-d

Re: No graphs in Munin 2.0rc

2012-03-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 02:28:13PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > Munin 2.0rc has been released into sid, and I have been having issues > with it, and was wondering if anyone has seen similar problems. It was > upgraded on the server and all the nodes, and i had to revert back to > the old config f

I accidentally installed lenny's linux-image/linux-header packages and I'm running Squeeze. What to do?

2012-03-23 Thread Alex Hutton
Hello, Basically what happened was I did sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade and I hit 'Y' to accept the packages being installed. Only afterwards did I realise it would be installing packages from Lenny. I tried to hit ctrl-c and ctrl-d to abort aptitude but this didn't seem to work. T

Re: apt-get will upgrade aptitude will not

2012-03-23 Thread Alberto Fuentes
look at this, is interesting http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401835 On 22/03/12 17:49, Jochen Spieker wrote: Pierre Frenkiel: On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Jochen Spieker wrote: I didn't have that problem. Is it reproducible? yes. I tried apt-get several times before shift