Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-27 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to rename > the IA64 port to "Itanium" and rename the AMD64 port to something like > "AMDINTL64". Something wrong with 'x86_64'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:27 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Try: > > $clive -f best "http://vimeo.com/24972836"; Does it download and convert long YouTube videos on the fly or does it take hours? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KufCS2ad0eE Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/27/2012 10:07 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Tony Baldwin: >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: >>> >>> I also had to find the answer for 'IA64 or AMD64?'. AFAIR I used >>> google and then I grepped /proc/cpuinfo for 'lm'. >> >> Isn't this just a question of w

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-27 Thread lee
Because your disk is sleeping? -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k3ve4pyk@yun.yagibdah.de

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-27 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:52:26 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ date; fdisk -l; date > Thu Sep 27 22:48:21 UTC 2012 > ... > Thu Sep 27 22:48:59 UTC 2012 Failing boot sector? Some other sector it has to read is failing? Check the logs. Try (from smartmontools): smartctl -A /dev/sda | egr

why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-27 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ date; fdisk -l; date Thu Sep 27 22:48:21 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes /

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/25/2012 4:42 PM, lee wrote: Celejar writes: http://www.iba.org.il/gimmel/?entity=869508&type=269&page=248 Clicking the little red headphone-with-emanating-sound-waves brings up this message: "You must install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin. Click here to download and install t

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-27 Thread Jochen Spieker
Stan Hoeppner: > > I think most people know when I swing the cluebat that I'm not trying to > belittle the person on the receiving end, but simply forcefully driving > home a point. If I actually intended to hurt someone's feelings I'd > reply off list. That makes it personal. And this is exact

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-27 Thread Valery Mamonov
Downgrading grub packages to 1.99-23 from unstable did the trick, as I thought. System boots and works fine. -- Best regards, Valery Mamonov.

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-27 Thread Valery Mamonov
2012/9/27 Martin Steigerwald > Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Valery Mamonov: > > 2012/9/27 Tom H > > > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Valery Mamonov > > > > > > wrote: > > > > I'm using mixed unstable/experimental system. > > > > > > > > Some days ago I had updated grub2 pack

Reinstalling lost packages using /var/lib/dpkg/status-old

2012-09-27 Thread lars nooden
If a bunch of packages have been uninstalled, what is an automated way of reinstalling them using /var/lib/dpkg/status-old or /var/backups/dpkg.status.* ? I see a lot of material mentioning status but nothing about precisely how to use it. Regards, /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-27 Thread Valery Mamonov
2012/9/27 Martin Steigerwald > Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Valery Mamonov: > > Hello all. > > Hi Valery! > > > I'm using mixed unstable/experimental system. > > > > $ uname -a > > Linux vmamonov 3.5.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep > > 16 23:41:08 UTC 2012 x86_64

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Valery Mamonov: > 2012/9/27 Tom H > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Valery Mamonov > > > > wrote: > > > I'm using mixed unstable/experimental system. > > > > > > Some days ago I had updated grub2 packages to 2.00-7 version. > > > Now I have such

Two cronjobs for apticron?

2012-09-27 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! System: Debian Squeeze After the installation of apticron I noticed I have two cronjobs. One belongs to the package and is installed in /etc/cron.daily. It calls apticron without options. The other one is created by the postinst script in /etc/cron.d with a random start time. It calls apti

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Valery Mamonov: > Hello all. Hi Valery! > I'm using mixed unstable/experimental system. > > $ uname -a > Linux vmamonov 3.5.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep > 16 23:41:08 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux With a non-standard kernel. Thats no

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 25. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > I'm direct, often blunt, opinionated, arrogant, and sometimes abrasive. > I admit these character "flaws" and make no apologies for > them. That's who I am. I guess I was made to counterbalance all of > the sugar coating and political corr

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-27 Thread Valery Mamonov
2012/9/27 Tom H > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Valery Mamonov > wrote: > > > > I'm using mixed unstable/experimental system. > > > > Some days ago I had updated grub2 packages to 2.00-7 version. > > Now I have such situation: > > > > # update-grub > > GRUB >= 2.00 has been unpacked but not

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Valery Mamonov wrote: > > I'm using mixed unstable/experimental system. > > Some days ago I had updated grub2 packages to 2.00-7 version. > Now I have such situation: > > # update-grub > GRUB >= 2.00 has been unpacked but not yet configured. > grub-mkconfig will n

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > Isn't this just a question of whether you have a Pentium/Intel 64bit > processor, or an AMD64? No. That is the point of this thread. The marketing name "Intel 64", also known as "EM64T" *is* AMD64 aka x86-64. All modern Intel Pentiums, Core

Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

2012-09-27 Thread craig
Good morning,When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what is happening on VT2by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using tail -f to get acontinuous output of the console, but it fails to ever update. Is it possibleto watch another VT in real time over ssh?Thanks, Craig Se

Re: A DVDtoMKV package.

2012-09-27 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. On 2012-09-26 13:40, Sthu Deus wrote: > I did not find a package in Debian official repo.s for compressing a DVD > to .mkv . Am I correct in supposing there is no such a tool? > > For some time before I did use handbrake-gtk from DMO, but since > recently it ceased working - just keeps

Re: Checksum for iso image netinst i386

2012-09-27 Thread Wally Lepore
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Mat Kovach wrote: > > I was using Firefox on my Windows system. I right clicked on the > MD5SUMS file and went to 'Save Link As'. It saved the file as > MD5SUMS.txt (Note, I may have typed the .txt extension myself > in the Save As dialog box. I tend to make sur

grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012-09-27 Thread Valery Mamonov
Hello all. I'm using mixed unstable/experimental system. $ uname -a Linux vmamonov 3.5.0-4.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 16 23:41:08 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux Some days ago I had updated grub2 packages to 2.00-7 version. Now I have such situation: # update-grub GRUB >= 2.00 h

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-27 Thread Jochen Spieker
Tony Baldwin: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: >> >> I also had to find the answer for 'IA64 or AMD64?'. AFAIR I used >> google and then I grepped /proc/cpuinfo for 'lm'. > > Isn't this just a question of whether you have a Pentium/Intel 64bit > processor,

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-27 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > > Am 21.09.2012 um 06:43 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > > >On 9/20/2012 8:43 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > > >>Everybody has to start somewhere > > > >Yes, but people don't start with a quad socket DL580. > > Why not? > > AFAIR i

Re: Checksum for iso image netinst i386

2012-09-27 Thread Mat Kovach
Wally Lepore writes: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:49 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I don't know how to do that on Windows. > > Don't you have a burning software that will show the MD5sum of the ISO? > > If so, simply compare the sum with sum fr

Re: Decompressing .m4a .

2012-09-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:11:19 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day, Celejar. > > > Thank You for Your time and answer. > You wrote: > > > As noted ad infinitum on this list, mixing and matching A/V stuff from > > the official repos and dmo can cause just these sorts of headaches. > > A

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-27 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, September 27, 2012 02:53:19 AM lee wrote: > Lionel Trésaugues writes: > > http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t405/Alkalyzer/Ubuntu_Terminal_zps831 > > 03ab7.png > > http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t405/Alkalyzer/Debian_Terminal_zps18 > > 67e859.png > > Now I see what you mean, t

Re: Unable to run skype on amd64

2012-09-27 Thread Alberto Luaces
Just to complete José Luis' answer, this is the output of the computer where I did not yet enabled multiarch: $ LANG=C aptitude show skype | grep Depends -A 2 Depends: lib32stdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21), lib32asound2 (> 1.0.14), ia32-libs, libc6-i386 (>= 2.7-1), lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21+ia32.libs

Re: Unable to run skype on amd64

2012-09-27 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
The skype official amd64 package are only a i386 version with some dependencies like ia32-libs and so on. If you have enabled multiarch on your machine, you can install the i386 version package and use aptitude/apt-get to install all its dependencies on the i386 architecture: apt-get install libX

Re: Checksum for iso image netinst i386

2012-09-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 07:38:37AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 09/26/2012 07:00 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > > I'm looking for a complete tutorial that explains how to accomplish > > this otherwise simple procedure that had become difficult for me. > > Instead of worrying so much about ve

Re: Checksum for iso image netinst i386

2012-09-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 09/26/2012 07:00 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: > I'm looking for a complete tutorial that explains how to accomplish > this otherwise simple procedure that had become difficult for me. Instead of worrying so much about verifying the checksum, you could have used your time to simply try to install Deb

Re: A DVDtoMKV package.

2012-09-27 Thread Pertti Kosunen
On 26.9.2012 19:40, Sthu Deus wrote: I did not find a package in Debian official repo.s for compressing a DVD to .mkv . Am I correct in supposing there is no such a tool? These tools have patent etc. issues in some countries, i don't think you find them in official repos anytime soon. http:/

Re: md5sum "How-To" for Debian iso download

2012-09-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 05:53:19PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Members, > > Been at this for quite some time. I'm new to the application called > "md5sum.exe" thus please be patient. I researched the "how-to" and > attempted to verify the debian netinst file called, > "debian-6.0.5-i386-inetin

Re: [SOLVED] mysqld fails to start at boot time only

2012-09-27 Thread rudu
I finally found a workaround. I commented out the line 'bind-address = ...' in /etc/mysql/my.cnf Now everything works as expected. Thanks for your input. JM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-27 Thread lee
Lionel Trésaugues writes: > http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t405/Alkalyzer/Ubuntu_Terminal_zps83103ab7.png > http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t405/Alkalyzer/Debian_Terminal_zps1867e859.png Now I see what you mean, things look better in Ubuntu. There doesn't seem to be much difference in

Re: Unable to run skype on amd64

2012-09-27 Thread lee
Marek Pawinski writes: > (:23967): Gtk-WARNING **: > /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libclearlooks.so: wrong ELF class: > ELFCLASS64 You might need to install ia32-libs-gtk. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-27 Thread lee
Mauro writes: > Here is ntp.conf > > statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/ Hm, mine's almost the same, except that I have statistics generation turned off and am using different servers. Did you try the program I wrote? # /etc/ntp.conf, configuration for ntpd; see ntp.conf(5) for help driftfile /var/l