Re: configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

2015-03-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/03/15 11:08 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Gary Dale wrote on 03/14/2015 15:46: On 14/03/15 09:34 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Gary Dale wrote on 03/14/2015 06:00: snip I did add tls_on_connect_ports = 465 to exim4.conf.localmacros, which is supposed to cover the SSL on connect issue

Re: configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

2015-03-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/03/15 09:34 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Gary Dale wrote on 03/14/2015 06:00: snip I did add tls_on_connect_ports = 465 to exim4.conf.localmacros, which is supposed to cover the SSL on connect issue. Besides the dc_smarthost addition ::465, I added protocol = smtps

Re: configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

2015-03-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/03/15 09:34 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Gary Dale wrote on 03/14/2015 06:00: snip I did add tls_on_connect_ports = 465 to exim4.conf.localmacros, which is supposed to cover the SSL on connect issue. Besides the dc_smarthost addition ::465, I added protocol = smtps

configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

2015-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running a Wheezy/64 server and am trying to get exim4 to send e-mail using an SSL connection. My current configuration works when I use their normal smtp port (which is 26, not 25) but fails when I use their smtp/SSL port (465). However Thunderbird is able to send e-mail from workstations

Re: configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

2015-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/03/15 01:19 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Sex, 13 Mar 2015, Gary Dale wrote: My update-exim4.conf.conf file is (replacing remote host name with the actual name). If dc_smarthost has the port set to 26, mail gets sent. However with it set to 465, it stays in the mailq

Re: configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

2015-03-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/03/15 01:28 PM, David Wright wrote: Quoting Gary Dale (garyd...@torfree.net): I'm running a Wheezy/64 server and am trying to get exim4 to send e-mail using an SSL connection. My current configuration works when I use their normal smtp port (which is 26, not 25) but fails when I use

Re: MRTG ERROR

2015-03-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/03/15 07:40 AM, Diác. C.J.Moretti wrote: Hello! A few days to hj'm getting a mail from my server with the following error: Cron root@mitranhsi if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ] [ -r /etc/mrtg.cfg ] [ -d $(grep '^[[:space:]]*[^#]*[[:space:]]*WorkDir' /etc/mrtg.cfg | awk '{ print $NF }') ];

Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?

2015-03-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/03/15 08:22 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, i have a USB keyboard that, every week or three, will drop off, and require replugging to work again. It is immediately recognized and works fine after I do this This was the case on a previous Wheezy system, and it still happens on a

Re: Corrupted USB drive

2015-02-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/02/15 11:59 PM, German wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:50:20 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 25/02/15 06:03 PM, German wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:06:58 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 25/02/15 03:09 PM, German wrote: Hi list, can't mount my usb drive

Re: Corrupted USB drive

2015-02-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/02/15 03:09 PM, German wrote: Hi list, can't mount my usb drive. It seems it is corrupted. I tried to run ntfsfix and here is its ouput: digger@digger:~$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdc1 Mounting volume... ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error Failed to read of MFT, mft=17625

Re: Corrupted USB drive

2015-02-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/02/15 06:03 PM, German wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:06:58 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 25/02/15 03:09 PM, German wrote: Hi list, can't mount my usb drive. It seems it is corrupted. I tried to run ntfsfix and here is its ouput: digger@digger:~$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdc1

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

2015-02-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/02/15 10:01 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 24/02/2015, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I know I can STFW. I have in fact done so. But I am after personal experience. I want a simple ftp client, for putting not getting, that is easy and pleasant to use. GUI based. For the use of

Re: Upgrading Kernel on VPS - Failed?

2015-02-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/02/15 03:14 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: Hi list, I have a VPS with a company. The image I initially chose was Debian Wheezy. I immediately upgraded to Jessie. I updated the kernel and rebooted. However, it seems I can't use iptables: $ sudo iptables --list modprobe: ERROR:

Re: Wine in amd64

2015-02-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/02/15 10:12 AM, Siard wrote: Hi, I have Wine installed in Jessie, amd64. First I created a 32-bit wine directory: WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winecfg so I could install 32-bit Windows executables: WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine ./program.exe Now for the first time I have a

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/02/15 10:01 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: Hi list, I updated my apt repo and there was a kernel update. I ran the update, and received an error claiming no space left on device. Normally, I would do a force-uninstall for the currently running kernel (freeing space), then install the new

Re: tzdata=2015a-0wheezy1 breaks other packages

2015-02-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/02/15 11:04 PM, zonjai wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The package tzdata candidate 2015a-0wheezy1 has recently been released to the repositories. If I update this package then I am asked to remove OpenJDK-7-jre and OpenJDK-6-jre. This is due to the package

Re: Screwed up Jessie Gnome display, no vga

2015-01-23 Thread Gary Dale
On 23/01/15 10:32 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: I'm using an old HP desktop, no hdmi. On bootup display is too wide in both console and Gnome displays. Monitor controls cannot correct this so I experimented with the display control in Gnome. Somehow I turned off the vga signal. If I restart gdm3

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/01/15 08:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 21 January 2015 16:29:45 Bob Proulx did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett wrote: Bob Proulx did opine You seem to believe that the Wheezy debian-installer does not handle the new Advanced Format 4k sectors. However I use it all of

Re: Wheezy is installed

2015-01-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/01/15 08:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 21 January 2015 15:48:49 Gary Dale did opine And Gene did reply: On 20/01/15 07:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2015 18:44:20 Andrew M.A. Cater did opine And Gene did reply: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 06:17:06PM -0500, Gene

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/01/15 01:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:17:59 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: On Wednesday 21 January 2015 00:02:41 Gene Heskett wrote: If there is a way, then maybe I'll try it again, but give me step by step I can printout and follow when there is no

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/01/15 04:29 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: Bob Proulx did opine You seem to believe that the Wheezy debian-installer does not handle the new Advanced Format 4k sectors. However I use it all of the time with 4k sectors and it works fine. There is no known problem using the

Re: Wheezy is installed

2015-01-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/01/15 07:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2015 18:44:20 Andrew M.A. Cater did opine And Gene did reply: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 06:17:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Along with around 1300 other pkgs because I like kde yadda yadda. First question: Does it

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/01/15 06:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2015 13:03:50 Gary Dale did opine And Gene did reply: On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, this after researching and finding a partitioner

Re: Wheezy is installed

2015-01-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/01/15 07:51 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2015 18:48:57 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: On Tuesday 20 January 2015 23:44:20 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: First question: Does it take a reboot before you can select kdm at login? I did 2 or 3 logouts back in without

Re: How to recover a damaged partition

2015-01-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/01/15 09:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm working with new 4TB drives, and one of them just had a bad spot in a fairly awkward place. The very first block of an ext4 partition was unreadable, and caused problems in booting, as well as anything else that wanted to scan partitions. I

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/01/15 08:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 21 January 2015 15:40:02 Gary Dale did opine And Gene did reply: On 20/01/15 06:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2015 13:03:50 Gary Dale did opine And Gene did reply: On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, this after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know about 4k/sector disks. That is gdisk. which found the gparted setup and fixed it, all I had to do

Re: Laptop advice

2015-01-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/01/15 03:35 PM, Doug wrote: On 01/18/2015 12:21 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 18/01/15 10:29 AM, j...@ageinggracefully.ca wrote: I have never installed used nor installed linux on a laptop ($500 - $600), however I have decided to buy one but before doing so I need some advice

Re: DEBIAN on PANASONIC CF-19 laptop

2015-01-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/01/15 12:46 AM, Alex PADOLY wrote: Hi! I don't find information about DEBIAN on PANASONIC CF-19 laptop. I would like to know if it is possible to install DEBIAN (latest version) on PANASONIC CF-19 laptop. ( this laptop don't have a DVD). Video about this laptop:

Re: Laptop advice

2015-01-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/01/15 10:29 AM, j...@ageinggracefully.ca wrote: I have never installed used nor installed linux on a laptop ($500 - $600), however I have decided to buy one but before doing so I need some advice. These are the questions that come to mind. 1. Graphics radeon or nvidia? I have nvidia on my

Re: Compiling kernel from Github - Howto?

2015-01-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/01/15 10:19 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a headless powerpc box and run on it Debian Wheezy with kernel Linux b2 3.2.62-1 #1 Mon Aug 25 04:22:40 UTC 2014 ppc GNU/Linux . But this kernel doesn't have support for the rtl8192cu kernel-module. One can to get the kernel source

Re: problem with corrupted root password

2015-01-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/01/15 04:26 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:07:09PM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: I recently got wheezy up and running. I installed xfce4 and like it. However, today in the process of trying to spawn a root terminal (in Accessories) and going through a cycle of trying to

Wheezy boot stops, leaving machine unreachable

2015-01-11 Thread Gary Dale
I've been a experiencing this problem for a couple of months but haven't been able to track it down. I've got a workaround which unfortunately requires physically connecting a keyboard and monitor, so I have to be there, which is a nuisance. The system hangs when it has brought up the

Re: Installing new Opera version?

2015-01-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/01/15 11:54 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, it seems that lst month there was a new stable version of Opera for Linux released, but for Ubuntu only. One of the Opera devs has a blog about installing it on non-Debian-based distros

Re: Installing new Opera version?

2015-01-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/01/15 11:54 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, it seems that lst month there was a new stable version of Opera for Linux released, but for Ubuntu only. One of the Opera devs has a blog about installing it on non-Debian-based distros

Re: Installing new Opera version?

2015-01-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/01/15 12:19 PM, Siard wrote: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum about instaling Opera 26.0: Is there a way to install this on Debian. Im running Wheezy. Just wanted to say that Opera 26.0 installed successfully in jessie, except for a few minor glitches as you can see here:

Re: help in purging old packages

2015-01-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/01/15 11:23 AM, Comer Duncan wrote: Hi, I have a situation in which I am running wheezy 7.7 and for various reasons now want to purge all packages which for some reason are still present from etch, lenny, and squeeze. What I would like to know is how can I purge all such packages

Re: Late authentication

2015-01-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/01/15 04:40 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 04 ian 15, 17:02:12, August Karlstrom wrote: I run Debian Wheezy with a simple window manager (Blackbox). If I remember correctly, in Ubuntu some applications like Synaptic and Update Manager ask for sudo password only when/if needed. How do I

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 31/12/14 04:57 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've just gotten 4 4TB drives to replace my 4 2TB drives. I'm wanting to have one normal 4TB drive and one logical 12TB drive, so I will make three physical drives into one group, one logical volume and one partition support the big partition. My

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/01/15 11:57 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net mailto:garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 31/12/14 04:57 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've just gotten 4 4TB drives to replace my 4 2TB drives. I'm wanting to have one

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/01/15 01:54 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Cadman wrote: I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. You are asking on a Debian user list. Any answer other than yes here would lead me to seriously question the responses. Meanwhile I would expect that a Fedora list

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 31/12/14 11:35 PM, Cadman wrote: Greetings I need help determining whether Debian OS is the right OS for my needs. I am a Draftsman working from home due to physical handicaps. I use graphic and RAM memory intensive 3D CAD software in Windows 7. My W7 OS is operating poorly and is

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/12/14 06:45 AM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Le 30/12/2014 06:04, Gary Dale a écrit : On 29/12/14 11:59 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 12/29/2014 at 11:48 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 29/12/14 04:27 PM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Le 29/12/2014 21:52, Gary Dale a écrit : Apparently not. Wow, very useful

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/12/14 06:47 PM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Le 30/12/2014 17:23, Gary Dale a écrit : Then again, knowing how to ask a question is also important. It would Then again, not everybody is born in an english-speaking country. seem that your real concern is having two terminals on the menu

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/12/14 03:35 PM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Hi, On an amd64 Sid system, steam (i386 only) depends on xterm | x-terminal-emulator. I already have mate-terminal installed, which provides x-terminal-emulator, but both apt and aptitude don't care and want to install xterm along with steam.

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/12/14 04:27 PM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Le 29/12/2014 21:52, Gary Dale a écrit : On 29/12/14 03:35 PM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Hi, On an amd64 Sid system, steam (i386 only) depends on xterm | x-terminal-emulator. I already have mate-terminal installed, which provides x-terminal-emulator

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/12/14 11:59 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 12/29/2014 at 11:48 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 29/12/14 04:27 PM, Raphaël Halimi wrote: Le 29/12/2014 21:52, Gary Dale a écrit : Apparently not. Wow, very useful answer. Thanks a lot ! Given that most packages are trivially small compared

Re: link opens up with wrong browser in kde

2014-12-23 Thread Gary Dale
On 23/12/14 03:46 PM, Hans wrote: Hi folks, I am looking for the configuration or the file, where kde (or an application) stores its linking to an url. The problem is, that I want open all links out of applications with the same browser. For example, a link in mediathekview is opened with

Re: Waiting for what...?

2014-12-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/12/14 03:27 AM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: Dear List, I've get updates today but when I wish to see them it always hangs with Waiting for headers. What happened? Thanks Can you more explicit? What made you think you got updates and what command did you run that gave you the message

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 10:21 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Not you Patrick, someone else. I am sort of quoting I still do not know what you have against whatever they were suggesting it is far superior to wordperfect. Odd idea about a virtual machine too. The is far superior is the sort of thing I mean.

Re: Inserting a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing.

2014-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/12/14 10:59 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Does one of the LO fans know how to insert a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing? Lisi LibreOffice has its own e-mail discussion list. I've never needed to do it because I've used a simple work-around bash script. I use

Re: Inserting a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing.

2014-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/12/14 01:27 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 21/12/14 10:59 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Does one of the LO fans know how to insert a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing? Lisi LibreOffice has its own e-mail discussion list. I've never needed to do it because I've used

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Who said anything about running windows? The only windows I have are made of glass lol. Although a virtual dos machine might be interesting if I find anything over much to do with Linux. Thanks for the giggle, Kare OK, but you can set up a UNIX

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Who said anything about running windows? The only windows I have are made of glass lol. Although a virtual dos machine might be interesting if I find anything over much

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 03:35 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/20/2014 02:30 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Who said anything about running windows? The only windows I have are made of glass lol. Although

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 03:34 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/20

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 06:05 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Sorry, meant to send that to Debian user; will do so now, so ignore until it arrives that way. On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 20

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/12/14 06:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/12/14 06:05 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Sorry, meant to send that to Debian user; will do so now, so ignore until it arrives that way. On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Gary

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/12/14 10:44 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Greetings everyone, I have a still in the package copy of wordperfect 5.1 for UNIX. I got this because wordperfect is my main word processor on my primary computer and I would welcome, if at all possible, to use it with Linux as well. Is there any

Re: Flash problems

2014-12-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/12/14 10:15 AM, Jape Person wrote: On 12/16/2014 09:55 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-12-16, Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed gnash was installed as a lightspark dependency so, after having problems with lightspark, I backed up and just focused on seeing if I couldn't

Re: Is Debian live 7.7 will run on athlon 5350?

2014-12-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/12/14 07:12 AM, German wrote: I am asking this because I was unable to boot the previous version a couple month ago. Thanks You should check the .iso file. I've never had any problem with Debian images not booting. Debian provides checksums for every image file. Use them to verify the

how do I locate all the pictures on an Android phone?

2014-12-10 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 system. Last night I took some pictures and tried my usual method of downloading - I plugged in the phone through USB and selecting File Manager when the notification window popped up. Navigating to /store_00010001/DCIM/Camera, I found a lot of pictures but not

Re: Epson XP-820 Small-in-one

2014-12-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/12/14 04:28 AM, ken wrote: On 12/05/2014 11:43 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I bought the XP-820 because it was on sale and could print to CD/DVD - a feature that I liked about my earlier Espon R-320 printer. Unfortunately the XP-820 needs the Epson escpr driver while the R-320 used the Cups

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/12/14 05:01 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Gary Dale extremegroundmai...@gmail.com writes: On 04/12/14 12:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:13:59PM +0100, mad wrote: Hi! I wanted to create a RAID5 with lvm. The basic setup is something like lvcreate --type raid5 -i 2

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/12/14 03:35 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello, Some mistakes in what you wrote. Gary Dale a écrit : RAID 1 and RAID 5 are both immune to single disk failures in their most common configurations (1 or more data disks with 1 parity disk). RAID 10 is also immune to single disk failure

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/12/14 11:13 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Can someone please tell me how to get microphone working in Skype? When I do Skype - Options - Sound Devices - Make a test call I can't hear back my own voice. So the microphone is not working. In Open PulseAudio Volume Control - Input Devices

Epson XP-820 Small-in-one

2014-12-05 Thread Gary Dale
I bought the XP-820 because it was on sale and could print to CD/DVD - a feature that I liked about my earlier Espon R-320 printer. Unfortunately the XP-820 needs the Epson escpr driver while the R-320 used the Cups-Gutenprint driver. The former doesn't seem to include the print-to-CD/DVD

Re: LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/12/14 12:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 02:13:59PM +0100, mad wrote: Hi! I wanted to create a RAID5 with lvm. The basic setup is something like lvcreate --type raid5 -i 2 -L 1G -n my_lv my_vg which would mean 3 physical drives would be used in this RAID5. But can I

Re: Image cloning software

2014-11-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/11/14 12:39 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Is there a good software for Debian 7.7 as well as for Debian 6.10 that is capable to produce a multi DVD/CD image of a working system, in a way that such image can be used later as a DVD/CD installation media for 'cloning' on the other comps (or on

Re: latest backports kernel not booting when LVM is involved

2014-11-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/11/14 02:14 PM, lee wrote: Hi, what could be the problem with the backport kernels? They never finish booting when the root fs is on an LVM volume. Do I need to take special precautions with the backports kernel to get it to boot? I have a separate /boot partition not on LVM and a

[solved] Re: virtmanager not connecting to server

2014-11-23 Thread Gary Dale
On 23/11/14 02:29 AM, Reco wrote: On 22/11/14 06:06 PM, Reco wrote: Changes the error: Unable to connect to libvirt. Cannot recv data: Host key verification failed.: Connection reset by peer Verify that the 'libvirtd' daemon is running on the remote host. Details: ibvirt URI is:

virtmanager not connecting to server

2014-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Jessie/AMD64 connecting to Wheezy/ADM64. The KVM virtual machines are on the Wheezy machine, which is a also file print server (CUPS, Samba NFS). I'm getting an error Unable to connect to libvirt. You need to install openssh-askpass or similar to connect to this host. The

Re: virtmanager not connecting to server

2014-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/11/14 06:06 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:41:38 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm running Jessie/AMD64 connecting to Wheezy/ADM64. The KVM virtual machines are on the Wheezy machine, which is a also file print server (CUPS, Samba NFS). I'm getting

Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686

2014-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/11/14 06:18 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Months ago, installing jessie as guest on win7-64, I somehow ended up with a 486 kernel. In other previous installs it was a 686 kernel... not sure what I did. But no doubt I selected it without realizing or the like. My question is whether continuing

Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/11/14 06:29 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I have a laptop (an old Asus EEEPC), and I need to replace its only disk drive with a larger one. The hardware aspects are easy -- keep static electricity away and use a screwdriver. I have the new drive on my desk already. And it's not hard to copy

Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/11/14 11:04 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:45:38 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Gary Dale a écrit : On 22/11/14 06:29 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: And it's not hard to copy the file systems, either. I can temporarily access the new drive using a USB adaptor. fdisk

Re: qemu-kvm problem - libvirtd won't start

2014-11-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/11/14 09:31 PM, Joel Roth wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 08:52:30PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 16/11/14 06:39 PM, Joel Roth wrote: Did you try starting the VMs directly using the qemu command? Don't have qemu installed. virsh reports: Maybe there is some connection (c.f. Subject:) qemu

Re: mdadm Problem

2014-11-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/11/14 03:43 PM, pas...@denbekker.de wrote: Hello, Im experiencing a problem with my Software Raid. It has always running without problems. Since this morning Im seeing this line in the /var/log/syslog: DeviceDisappeared event detected on md device /dev/md0 ls -l /dev/md0 ls: cannot

qemu-kvm problem - libvirtd won't start

2014-11-16 Thread Gary Dale
I've been running a couple of virtual machines on a Wheezy/AMD64 server for a few years now. After the last reboot, I couldn't connect to them anymore. I can't get libvirtd to start on the server: [] Starting libvirt management daemon: libvirtd/usr/sbin/libvirtd: error: unable to

Re: qemu-kvm problem - libvirtd won't start

2014-11-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/11/14 06:39 PM, Joel Roth wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 05:43:07PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I've been running a couple of virtual machines on a Wheezy/AMD64 server for a few years now. After the last reboot, I couldn't connect to them anymore. I can't get libvirtd to start on the server

Re: how to find the cause of restart of my debian 7 machine.

2014-11-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/11/14 08:40 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: my machine was ON for several weeks but today it restarted for unknown reason. now it is working find. since the server is restarted there are too many log entries in var/log/messager and syslog as startup events. is there any easy way to reach

Re: Wheezy fails to complete boot after last update

2014-11-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/11/14 01:10 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 03/11/14 12:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: After the last upgrade (kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 and wget), I have a Debian/Wheezy server that isn't starting. It gets to the network then stops. The system isn't hung - it will still output messages to the screen

Re: Wheezy fails to complete boot after last update

2014-11-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/11/14 11:59 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 11.11.2014 um 17:48 schrieb Gary Dale: Update: booting using sysrescuecd, I removed the /etc/rcS.d/S13networking link and rebooted into single-user mode. It completed OK, so I then ran /etc/init.d/networking start, which exhibited the same

Re: advice on choosing an AMD chipset

2014-11-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/11/14 01:09 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Folks, I am planning to order the components for a new PC that I will put together myself with a bit of help from the local PC store I use for repairs etc. At first I had thought to buy an FX 8350 motherboard plus fan and some RAM and a

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/11/14 12:50 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 10.11.2014 01:33, schrieb Gary Dale: On 09/11/14 03:30 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: Could you post the contents of your /etc/default/networking? Specifically, it should have either no explicit settings (everything commented out) or the following

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/11/14 05:27 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 08.11.2014 23:57, schrieb Gary Dale: For some reason my network card bridging has failed after working properly for many years. My /etc/network/interfaces is: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet manual auto br0 iface br0 inet static

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/11/14 05:09 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Hi On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 05:57:41PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: For some reason my network card bridging has failed after working properly for many years. My /etc/network/interfaces is: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet manual auto

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/11/14 02:34 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 09.11.2014 19:48, schrieb Gary Dale: This IP seems oddly familiar... Did you recently install libvirt? Because that's the default IP for libvirt's default internal bridged network (virbr0). Normally, that shouldn't interfere with the standard

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/11/14 03:30 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 09.11.2014 21:13, schrieb Gary Dale: You're right. Here's my default.xml (I only changed the addresses): root@TheLibrarian:/home/garydale# cat /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml network namedefault/name bridge name=br0 / forward

network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-08 Thread Gary Dale
For some reason my network card bridging has failed after working properly for many years. My /etc/network/interfaces is: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet manual auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 192.168.1.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast

Re: Systemd and Unix

2014-11-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/11/14 12:54 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 11/04/2014 08:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I've got a problem with sysvinit on one machine running Wheezy.. Would you mind telling us what the problem is? I already did a couple of days ago on this list. Got no responses so I filed a bug report

Re: Multiple desktops in lightdm?

2014-11-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 03/11/14 11:20 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I've been using lightdm, and it more or less works. About a decade ago, on another ancient Linux, I could get multiple desktops, selected by ctl-alt-f7 through f12. Is there some way to set up something like that with lightdm? Just being able to

Re: Systemd and Unix

2014-11-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/11/14 08:38 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Santiago Vila wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:38:00PM -0400, David Kline wrote: I have heard a lot of talk about how systemd deviates from the unix philosophy. What is the unix philosophy, how does debian follow it, and why does systemd break it?

Wheezy fails to complete boot after last update

2014-11-03 Thread Gary Dale
After the last upgrade (kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 and wget), I have a Debian/Wheezy server that isn't starting. It gets to the network then stops. The system isn't hung - it will still output messages to the screen when I plug and unplug USB devices, and I can use the SysRq key to do the

Re: Wheezy fails to complete boot after last update

2014-11-03 Thread Gary Dale
On 03/11/14 12:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: After the last upgrade (kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 and wget), I have a Debian/Wheezy server that isn't starting. It gets to the network then stops. The system isn't hung - it will still output messages to the screen when I plug and unplug USB devices, and I

Re: hosts based open ssh authentication

2014-11-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/11/14 05:50 PM, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi all I have a system in a cluster (experimental) and there are a lot of debian machines which depend on this system and must be able to ssh into this system I wanted password-less authentication and looked on the internet. Almost all the examples

Re: Debian on Panasonic laptop

2014-10-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 31/10/14 09:28 AM, apado...@padoly.besaba.com wrote: Hi, Can I install debian on a PANASONIC laptop ( Panasonic Toughbook CF T8) with tactil screen? Thanks Regards Alex I assume you are really asking what features may not work if I install Why not test it with a live CD to see

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-10-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/10/14 08:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. System: Debian Wheezy Intel i5-750

Re: Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/10/14 03:01 AM, Steve Greig wrote: If I put a CD into my computer it appears in Dolphin on the left hand side where it sais 'Audio CD'. However if I click on this the contents do not appear in the main window of Dolphin. Also I cant play the CD or find any other way of accessing it. This

Re: What to do with dead raid 1 partitions under mdadm

2014-10-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/10/14 11:19 PM, mett wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I'm running Squeeze under raid 1 with mdadm. One of the raid failed and I replace it with space I had available on that same disk. Today, when rebooting I got an error cause the boot flag was still on both

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