backuppc failed full backup of itself

2012-06-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
# aptitude show backuppc | grep Version Version: 3.1.0-9.1 # uname -a Linux backuppc 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:01:19 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux using default backup setting for localhost, it failed full backup with below error messages: Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/XferLOG

which tftp server supports IPv6

2012-06-26 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, Would you please recommend a tftp server that supports IPv6? I read several server's document, tftp, atftp, tftp-hpa, they don't mention whether they support IPv6 and how to configure. Best regards, Yuwen

any good xen web interface?

2012-06-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
hi, i want to know if there's an active open source xen web interface that is easy to use that includes: - VM creation, editing & anything related - storage management - cluster configuration (optional) -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/26/2012 1:03 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Yes snapping is the problem due to which i have to make the snapshot > on local drive and further i have to copy the whole stuff via SCP. > do you think iSCSI LUNs are faster as FTP. or i should first make a > local copy then FTP to Storage? Su

Install Nvidia & disable Nouveau

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I have one machine sitting quite content with Squeeze since 6 came out. And now we play with another. I have forgotten how to install the Nvidia driver on Squeeze and have done it successfully before using the bin file from Nvidia but this time the installer will not disable Nouveau. I

Re: SATA 6 Gb/s WD HDD not booting on Squeeze [SOLVED]

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Panen
On 27/06/2012 02:46, Nick Boyce wrote: On Wednesday 27 Jun 2012 00:30:20 Mark Panen wrote: When i reboot grub appears and then i get a message "Please wait loading" and then a whole lot of other sh!t. I think you'd better tell us what some of that doodookaka actually says :) Kn

Re: SATA 6 Gb/s WD HDD not booting on Squeeze

2012-06-26 Thread Nick Boyce
On Wednesday 27 Jun 2012 00:30:20 Mark Panen wrote: > When i reboot grub appears and then i get a message "Please wait > loading" and then a whole lot of other sh!t. I think you'd better tell us what some of that doodookaka actually says :) > Knoppix does not pick up the 2TB drive so i can't edi

SATA 6 Gb/s WD HDD not booting on Squeeze

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I have four HDD, the forth one is a WD 2TB SATA 6B/s and i connected it to the SATA 6 port on the mobo with a SATA 6 cable. I disconnected the other three SATA HDD when installing. The installation went fine and i did a lot of work to set up my drive. I then connected the other three SA

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-26 Thread Lisi
Hi, Julien! On Wednesday 13 June 2012 20:42:04 Julien Claassen wrote: > Debian has much more to offer to me as a blnd > user and it's more stable. :-) +1 Much better also for a partially sighted user. I use Lenny with KDE 3.5.10, which is highly configurable, and I have configured it for me!

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-26 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Lici, That was the nicest way to say...get to the point! Honestly, I cannot speak to how layout appears for others. I actually have the same question when I use, pico, the editor here. In google mail there is an option. Wrap lines to fit displayed area? I always say now, since the displayed a

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-26 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 19:55:19 Julien Claassen wrote: > Knoppix did support blind users as well. There is Vinux, which is a Debian > version specially compiled for blind users. Julien - Vinux is based on Ubuntu, not Debian, and I do not like it. I am partially sighted, not fully blind, but

Re: Wireless network not found

2012-06-26 Thread Nathan D'elboux
Hi Camaleon, Thanks for your response, I should have clarified earlier sorry that the iwconfig output I pasted below is the output if it connected to my portable hotspot at the time I was writing the email. Not my billion home Adsl that I'm having trouble with The SSID is currently broadcasted

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-26 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 02:47:37 Karen Lewellen wrote: > Rob, > I do not work in most popular, because this may or may not mean most > accessible from a screen reading standpoint, or more flexible from a > usability standpoint...in my personal dictionary, there is no such thing > as "most people.

Re: What is the status of multiarch?

2012-06-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Hans-J., "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > On my 64-bit system I am using only very few applications, which are still 32- > bit. For example wine, skype, x-plane and a few others. > So, as my old configuration is still working fine, but I am always intending > to > improve my system, what is th

Re: [OT] something about dropbox

2012-06-26 Thread Denis Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rjc schrieb: >> That's not correct. You can install and use it without having X >> installed. I did it so on one of the servers in the office. There >> is a CLI script written in python which is officially supported: > Yes, you are right. > I had D

Re: [OT] something about dropbox

2012-06-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Dropbox is not backup. I have witnessed a faulty USB drive (upon which the Dropbox folder was stored) present itself as empty to the OS: the dropbox daemon happily and efficiently made sure that the online folder matched. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: [OT] something about dropbox

2012-06-26 Thread Brad Alexander
Not to be the downer in this conversation, but from a security standpoint, there was a finding that dropbox's configuration file was stored insecurely on all OSes [1] [3]. This appears to have been fixed in late 2011. However, the other issue is that dropbox uses the same dropbox-controlled key to

Re: [OT] something about dropbox

2012-06-26 Thread rjc
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:02:00PM BST, Denis Witt wrote: > That's not correct. You can install and use it without having X > installed. I did it so on one of the servers in the office. There is a > CLI script written in python which is officially supported: Yes, you are right. I had Dropbox <->

Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

2012-06-26 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:54:22 +0100 Nick Boyce wrote: > On Monday 25 Jun 2012 09:16:23 Claudius Hubig wrote: > > > Nick Boyce wrote: > > > > > The installer uses 'dm-crypt' to encrypt the drive, rather than the full > > > LUKS system - and 'dm-crypt' generates the encryption key directly from >

Re: kvm - mount usb device in windows guest

2012-06-26 Thread green
Randall wrote at 2012-06-26 07:55 -0500: > again, i'm not looking to mount the original USB via passthrough, > just to have a virtual/fake usb drive mimicking the behavior as > originally intended. With simple kvm, you can connect a USB device to the guest OS using command-line options or after b

Re: [OT] something about dropbox

2012-06-26 Thread Denis Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rjc schrieb: > + multi-OS + easy to configure + available through web browser ACK + "Camera Upload" with Auto-Gallery + RSS-Feed for changed files + Files are easily linkable for sharing + LAN-Sync, when a file is created/changed and another of your

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:28:26 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> Top command output would be interesting :-) > >> Tasks: 203 total, 2 running, 201 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >> Cpu(s): 14.0%us, 1.9

Re: Thunderbird 12.01 problem under Debian Sid

2012-06-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/06/12 11:54 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:49:09 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: For the last few releases of Thunderbird (Linux Debian Sid) my .xsession-errors file has been filled with page after page of errors like this one: (thunderbird-bin:2386): GLib-GObject-WARNING **:

Re: Re: Issue on Debian Wheezy with hot-plug SAS hdd

2012-06-26 Thread Кирилл Рудов
> And the system was still running fine after you removed the disk? Each raid-0 have only one hdd because HP SmartArray p410i don't provide jbod-mode. I think I understand what happened. Sorry for my English :)

Re: [OT] something about dropbox

2012-06-26 Thread rjc
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:38:48PM BST, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't used the dropbox yet, now downloading. > > want to hear some comments about the dropbox, > > both cons and pros are welcome. + multi-OS + easy to configure + available through web browser - closed source - Intel binary onl

What is the status of multiarch?

2012-06-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, it would be nice, if you could tell me, what is the correct debian-way to use multiarch. On my 64-bit system I am using only very few applications, which are still 32- bit. For example wine, skype, x-plane and a few others. My solution few years ago was, to install a minimal 32-bit debi

Re: New mackbook pro 9,1

2012-06-26 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > - Original Message - >> >> I would like to buy a new macbook pro (15" without retina 9,1) and >> install Debian. Has anybody been able to install debian/linux on it? I >> read somewhere else that people are having problems to boot li

Re: New mackbook pro 9,1

2012-06-26 Thread Eero Volotinen
>everything works.  Just install the maximum RAM your machine will take. Retina model is just nice piece of work, memory sticks are soldered into motherboard, so remember to take 16GB model.. -- Eero -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: New mackbook pro 9,1

2012-06-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > I would like to buy a new macbook pro (15" without retina 9,1) and > install Debian. Has anybody been able to install debian/linux on it? I > read somewhere else that people are having problems to boot linux from > those machines. The new EFI might be different? Y

Re: Issue on Debian Wheezy with hot-plug SAS hdd

2012-06-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:57:28 +0300, Кирилл Рудов wrote: (please, no html formatted posts, thanks) > I have HP Proliant DL380 G7 with four SAS hdd on HP SmartArray p410i. > All hdd are configured as RAID-0. Wait.. unless I'm missing something, raid-0 will no prevent for data loss when you remov

Re: [OT] something about dropbox

2012-06-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
> I haven't used the dropbox yet, now downloading. > >want to hear some comments about the dropbox, > >both cons and pros are welcome. Have it install on all my machines:  Windows XP, Linux--several flavors, and Mac OSX.  Installed easily.  No problems.  Performs as advertised. B -- To UNSUB

Re: areca backup folder to samba shared folder

2012-06-26 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:12:17 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2012/6/26 Camaleón : >> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:06:55 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> >>> I found that on my Debian amd64 laptop (have not tried 32-bit version >>> yet) that I cannot set mounted samba shared folder as local folder. >>>

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:28:26 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Top command output would be interesting :-) > Tasks: 203 total, 2 running, 201 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 14.0%us, 1.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 84.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.0%si, > 0.0%st Mem: 4150284k

Re: areca backup folder to samba shared folder

2012-06-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2012/6/26 Camaleón : > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:06:55 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > >> I found that on my Debian amd64 laptop (have not tried 32-bit version >> yet) that I cannot set mounted samba shared folder as local folder. But >> this can be done on Windows 2003 & Windows 7. >> >> Any workaro

Re: [OT] something about dropbox

2012-06-26 Thread Glenn English
On Jun 26, 2012, at 9:38 AM, lina wrote: > want to hear some comments about the dropbox, I did some editing for a podcaster once. He used DB to send me the raw recordings. Worked fine... -- Glenn English hand-wrapped from my Apple Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Thunderbird 12.01 problem under Debian Sid

2012-06-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:49:09 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > I have googled this and found nothing significant...and have asked on > the Mozilla forums without results. Can someone on the list help ? > > > For the last few releases of Thunderbird (Linux Debian Sid) my > .xsession-errors file has

[OT] something about dropbox

2012-06-26 Thread lina
Hi, I haven't used the dropbox yet, now downloading. want to hear some comments about the dropbox, both cons and pros are welcome. Thanks with best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: Slowness problem

2012-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > Okay, then no, ram should not be a issue here. > >>> When that happens, run "top" and look for the CPU and MEM columns. > > Top command output would be interesting :-) Tasks: 203 total, 2 running, 201 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 z

Re: problems with nautilus

2012-06-26 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
see inline! On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 02:00:47PM -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: >> This is debian amd-64 wheezy+some sid. >> >> I need to open mautilus with the system password, so am opening a >> terminal window >> and issuing: >>

Re: Wireless network not found

2012-06-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:39:06 +1000, Nathan D'elboux wrote: > I cannot find my home ADSL Billion router SSID to connect to from my > laptop. > > I have Squeeze running on a Toshiba Satellite P200, it has the wireless > chipset Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or > AGN [Ke

Re: areca backup folder to samba shared folder

2012-06-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:06:55 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I found that on my Debian amd64 laptop (have not tried 32-bit version > yet) that I cannot set mounted samba shared folder as local folder. But > this can be done on Windows 2003 & Windows 7. > > Any workaround? Or maybe I had missed a

Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

2012-06-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Nick, Nick Boyce wrote: > On Tuesday 26 Jun 2012 10:47:50 Claudius Hubig wrote: > > > If you do luksAddKey, you’ll have to enter one of the old > > passphrases. After that, you can try unlocking the volume with the > > new passphrase. If that succeeds, you can use luksKillSlot to remove >

Thunderbird 12.01 problem under Debian Sid

2012-06-26 Thread Frank McCormick
I have googled this and found nothing significant...and have asked on the Mozilla forums without results. Can someone on the list help ? For the last few releases of Thunderbird (Linux Debian Sid) my .xsession-errors file has been filled with page after page of errors like this one: (thunderb

Re: problems with nautilus

2012-06-26 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 02:00:47PM -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > This is debian amd-64 wheezy+some sid. > > I need to open mautilus with the system password, so am opening a > terminal window > and issuing: > > sudo nautilus & > > --- nothing happens, no nautilus, no error message.

Re: delta block backup

2012-06-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:46:27 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I want to backup my Documents folder using Areca Backup and I want to > know if one full backup (once a month) and daily delta blocks backup to > office's network folder would be enough for a successful restore if my > laptop have a dri

Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

2012-06-26 Thread Nick Boyce
On Tuesday 26 Jun 2012 10:47:50 Claudius Hubig wrote: > If you do luksAddKey, you’ll have to enter one of the old > passphrases. After that, you can try unlocking the volume with the > new passphrase. If that succeeds, you can use luksKillSlot to remove > the first slot. luksDelKey or luksKillSlo

Re: Laptop wake-up issue

2012-06-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:19:18 +1000, Nathan D'elboux wrote: > On 25/06/2012, at 1:20 AM, "Camaleón" wrote: (...) >>> I have to hold the power and cycle and start again. A little annoying >>> if i'm trying to work on something and need to come back later. Doesnt >>> really work. >> >> Okay, I wo

Re: How to find list of backports for Debian squeeze?

2012-06-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:20:24 -0700, MPR wrote: > How can I find a list of all available backports for Debian squeeze? > Google and DDG turn up nothing relevant. I searched this list's archives > and also didn't find anything. Leaving the search field blank on > http://backports-master.debian.org/P

Re: problems with nautilus

2012-06-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:00:47 -0400, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > This is debian amd-64 wheezy+some sid. > > I need to open mautilus with the system password, so am opening a > terminal window > and issuing: > > sudo nautilus & (...) How about the usual method, instead? gksu nautilus &

solved, followup: deb for audacity 2.0 for Debian 5.0? (was Re: Debian 5.0: Capturing audio from a web page?)

2012-06-26 Thread Randy Kramer
(Top posting this general reply which is pretty much a thank you--a few responses to specific suggestions are interspersed below.) Thanks to all who replied! I've now found audacity and figured out how to use it (some problems learning because the manual is for version 2.0, and the latest versi

Issue on Debian Wheezy with hot-plug SAS hdd

2012-06-26 Thread Кирилл Рудов
I have HP Proliant DL380 G7 with four SAS hdd on HP SmartArray p410i. All hdd are configured as RAID-0. I installed on it Debian Wheezy (linux-image 3.2.0-amd64) without any troubles. But when I tried to test hot-swap I had an issue. Disconnected disks did not disappear from system until reboot. B

kvm - mount usb device in windows guest

2012-06-26 Thread Randall
hi all, for a certain web application i need an IE browser with an usb device containing a security key (the USB is formatted as a isofs) my idea was to simply run a windows copy on a server with KVM, logon with RDP and use that to connect to that dreaded website, it all works except that i

New mackbook pro 9,1

2012-06-26 Thread Dan
Hi, I would like to buy a new macbook pro (15" without retina 9,1) and install Debian. Has anybody been able to install debian/linux on it? I read somewhere else that people are having problems to boot linux from those machines. The new EFI might be different? Thanks, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Wireless network not found

2012-06-26 Thread Nathan D'elboux
Hey everyone, I cannot find my home ADSL Billion router SSID to connect to from my laptop. I have Squeeze running on a Toshiba Satellite P200, it has the wireless chipset Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61). I also use a bill

Re: delta block backup

2012-06-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Umarzuki Mochlis: > > I want to backup my Documents folder using Areca Backup and I want to > know if one full backup (once a month) and daily delta blocks backup > to office's network folder would be enough for a successful restore if > my laptop have a drive failure? I don't know about Areca, b

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Lisi: > On Monday 25 June 2012 16:13:54 Jochen Spieker wrote: >> And, BTW, Desktop LTS support lasts only for 3 years, not 5. > > I recently read that it was changing to five for the desktop, as well as the > server edition. If you say that this is an urban myth, I am happy to believe > you. N

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 25 June 2012 16:13:54 Jochen Spieker wrote: > And, BTW, Desktop LTS support lasts only for 3 years, not 5. I recently read that it was changing to five for the desktop, as well as the server edition. If you say that this is an urban myth, I am happy to believe you. Lisi -- To UNSU

Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

2012-06-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Nick, Nick Boyce wrote: > > You can check with > > # cryptsetup luksDump > > Hmm .. well thanks for that command (I'm a novice) ... which confirms what > you > say - my single encrypted raw disk partition (containing the LVM mapped > system > volumes) does indeed have a LUKS header, w

Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

2012-06-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Jun 2012, Terence wrote: > On 25 June 2012 16:31, Adrian Fita wrote: > > >>> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement > >>> > >> Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. > > > > I also can't sign up. > > > > > I tried pressing the "Save" button and also the "En

Re: How to find list of backports for Debian squeeze?

2012-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 25 iun 12, 12:20:24, MPR wrote: > How can I find a list of all available backports for Debian squeeze? > Google and DDG turn up nothing relevant. I searched this list's > archives and also didn't find anything. Leaving the search field blank > on http://backports-master.debian.org/Packages/

areca backup folder to samba shared folder

2012-06-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Hi, I found that on my Debian amd64 laptop (have not tried 32-bit version yet) that I cannot set mounted samba shared folder as local folder. But this can be done on Windows 2003 & Windows 7. Any workaround? Or maybe I had missed a thing or two? Thanks. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://deb