System crash, or lockup

2012-08-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have posted about this before, and one suggestion was that I have a power supply problem. This seems possible, even probably, for some of my problems, but not, I think, for all of them. Also, I have noticed additional types of problems since my last post. Please note: I have purchased a

Re: Debian Wheezy Hangs

2012-10-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/12/2012 10:38 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2012-10-13 05:55, Tim D skrev: I just installed Debian Wheezy on my ThinkPad T430s (SSD, encrypted LVM). The problem is that the system freezes randomly, so much so that I cannot use it for more than twenty minutes without it freezing. If you

Installing Debian on Windows 7 machine?

2012-10-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
Since my current box is still having random lockups with no solution in sight I am likely to be purchasing a new computer soon. It will, in all likelihood come with Windows 7 pre installed. I want to load Debian on it, as well. I am familiar with www.goodbye-windows.com and

Advice on system purchase

2012-10-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
I'm really getting annoyed by my random system lockups, so I have been looking at new motherboards, new systems, etc. A whole new system would be simplest since my current box has an old 32 bit single core Athlon 2800+ and anything that I buy is going to be 64 bit. Simpler to install from

How to remove a PV from an LVM VG?

2012-05-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
/dev/sda4 pvremove /dev/sda3 pvremove /dev/sda4 I really need to know that this is the correct procedure and get this done as quickly as possible. I don't want to lose data. Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

System no longer boots (WAS:Re: How to remove a PV from an LVM VG?)

2012-05-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 5/7/12, Philippe Marzouk p...@ozigo.org wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 08:04:35PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: The old drive is /dev/sda and there are two PVs on the disk /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4, both are in vg1 The new drive is /dev/sdc and it has only 1 LVM PV and that is /dev/sdc4

Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI

2012-05-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
? This would make my life a whole lot easier. Thanks for any help. Marc Shapiro -- 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/CANbRw9mUqXFSptOOLo_zmYcaxrMPNFHOOdvDSZba

Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI

2012-05-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 5/12/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:43:43PM +, Marc Shapiro wrote: I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see System no longer boots and How to remove a PV from an LVM VG? Now my problem is different, and stranger. I thought

Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI

2012-05-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 5/13/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:22:04AM +, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 5/12/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:43:43PM +, Marc Shapiro wrote: I had some problems with one of my drives last week (see

Re: Files and directories showing in CLI but not in GUI

2012-05-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 5/13/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 12 May 2012 23:43:43 +, Marc Shapiro wrote: (...) Document file 'x.xxx' is locked for editing by: xxx ( 06.05.2012 15:49) Open the document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing. The x's above were the file name

How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

2012-05-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I recently had to reinstall Squeeze on my desktop box due to hard disk issues. On reinstalling OpenSSH a new key was generated. Now, when I try to connect from my laptop I get the following message: @@@ @WARNING: REMOTE HOST

Re: Word Perfect 5.1 under Free Dos

2012-05-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 05/24/2012 03:10 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:25:23PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: Installing Free Dos loading in a copy of Word Perfect 5.1 that can also use the system printer under CUPS? Ah! A true believer! If I could only get View Codes in OO.o! Marc --

(Almost Solved) Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

2012-05-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 5/24/12, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:24:49 -0700 Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: How do I manually enter the rsa key, or get ssh to do so, so that I can connect again? Issue 'ssh-keygen -R your_hostname_or_ip_address' Then try reconnecting

Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

2012-05-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 05/25/2012 12:37 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/05/12 17:00, Markus Schönhaber wrote: snipped But I consider ssh-keygen -R to be the safer method. And I agree. And thanks for reminding me to read the man - I'd simply confirmed that the quoted command didn't work without realising it was

Re: (Mostly Solved) Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

2012-05-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 05/25/2012 05:30 AM, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 22:10:15 -0700 Marc Shapiromarcns...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/24/12, Celejarcele...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:24:49 -0700 Marc Shapiromarcns...@gmail.com wrote: That got me connected, after answering 'yes' to a few

Re: Web browser gets slow and blocks the system

2012-06-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 05/30/2012 01:17 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2012 18:58:23 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medinarodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com writes: (...) But why didn't the problem occur before in the past? It has become heavy only recently, and the

System crashes for no apparent reason

2012-06-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running a reasonably up-to-date Squeeze box (it has been a few days since I did an aptitude update and safe-upgrade). This problem has actually been occurring sporadically for a few weeks now. The system will simply die. I leave the computer on 24/7, normally without problems for

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 07/03/2012 06:47 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:48:53 +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: Is there an easy way to install gnome 3 and the latest packages in squeeze? Because that I can install. No. If you want GNOME3+gnome-shell, reconsider wheezy. Now that Wheezy is frozen

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 07/06/2012 09:04 PM, Dom wrote: On 07/07/12 03:30, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 07/03/2012 06:47 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:48:53 +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: Is there an easy way to install gnome 3 and the latest packages in squeeze? Because that I can install

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/27/2012 08:27 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 10/27/2012 7:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm really getting annoyed by my random system lockups, so I have been looking at new motherboards, new systems, etc. ... I saw a Fry's add for a motherboard, an AMD 8 Core CPU and memory for That's a 125

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/28/2012 12:49 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: On 10/27/2012 08:27 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 10/27/2012 7:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm really getting annoyed by my random system lockups, so I have been looking at new motherboards, new systems, etc. ... I saw a Fry's

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/28/2012 01:40 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/28/2012 03:49 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: /snip/ Marc Shapiro wrote: OI don't know if this makes a difference, but... While this is a home machine there are three of us here. Myself, my wife and daughter. We are all logged in all the time and we

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/28/2012 03:12 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 10/28/12 11:46, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there anything that speaks against keeping it? What is the make and model number of the 1 TB HDD? ... there are three of us here. Myself, my wife and daughter. ... if the old box stays up as a server

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/28/2012 05:26 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 10/28/12 15:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: If not, then I might have lockups anyway. If it continues to lockup then I will retire the whole box. It sounds like you need to figure out why it is locking up. I have tried to do so. I have run

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/29/2012 06:54 AM, Celejar wrote: Not sure this will be relevant to your situation, but be aware that obtaining memory for obsolete architectures can sometimes cost *more* than for current architectures. I have a ThinkPad T61, which I'm quite happy with, but although I'd love to double

Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Last weekend I put together a new box to replace the one that has been locking up repeatedly. The components are: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM AMD FX-4100 Quad Core CPU ASUS DVD/CD Writer MSI R5450 Graphics Card Seagate 1TB HD After assembling

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Last weekend I put together a new box to replace the one that has been locking up repeatedly. The components are: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM AMD FX-4100 Quad Core

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/28/2012 09:24 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm afraid I can't really answer that. All I can do is repeat that when MemTest86+ reports an error, it is a good indication that you have a problem. I've seen this on systems where MemTest86+ reported only a few problems but the computer locked up

No sound on new Wheezy system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have a newly installed Wheezy system on a freshly built AMD64 system with a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 motherboard with built-in sound. Aptitude shows that alsa-utils is installed. Jack and pulseaudio are not installed. I also just installed sox. If I run 'play filename' then play runs and

Re: No sound on new Wheezy system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/01/2012 12:47 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have a newly installed Wheezy system on a freshly built AMD64 system with a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 motherboard with built-in sound. Aptitude shows that alsa-utils is installed. Jack and pulseaudio are not installed. I also just installed sox. If I

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/2012 10:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/28/2012 9:14 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM The DIMMS are 1600. According to the BIOS the CPU

Fwd: Re: No sound on new Wheezy system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ooops! Sorry Andrei. I ment to reply to the list, not directly to you. Marc Original Message On 12/01/2012 02:44 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 01 dec 12, 00:47:03, Marc Shapiro wrote: cannot load mixer controls: Invalid argument Let's start with 'aplay -l

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/2012 10:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/28/2012 9:14 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM The DIMMS are 1600. According to the BIOS the CPU

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/2012 10:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/28/2012 9:14 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM The DIMMS are 1600. According to the BIOS the CPU

(SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/01/2012 01:11 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/29/2012 10:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/28/2012 9:14 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:09 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/27/2012 11:29 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Gigabyte 970A-DS3 MB 8GB (2x4GB) Patriot G3 RAM

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/01/2012 06:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 12/1/2012 5:34 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm calling this case settled... Good to hear it's all working now. Curious, the pair of Patriot sticks with the problem: did that package show signs of being opened before you bought it? Unscrupulous

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/02/2012 01:29 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 01 dec 12, 22:19:45, Marc Shapiro wrote: No. It was two sets of Patriot memory. After the first pair gave errors, I returned them and got another kit which proceeded to do the same thing. This time, with another brand, everything seems

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-12-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/03/2012 01:43 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 02 dec 12, 23:23:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: Yes, I had intended to get 1600 MHz memory as a replacement, but I accidentally got the 1333. If I add additional memory I realize that I will have to used 1333 for that, as well, unless I replace

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/07/2012 10:15 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Hans-J., Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote: But when I switch to multiarch, and add i386 (dpkg --add-architecture i386), and want to make an upgrade, then debian wants to install a lot(!) of new libs from i386. Why that? WTF? New

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/09/2012 07:01 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Exactly the opposite is true: Once Google puts out a multi arch aware Google Earth package like Skype did and you have nothing else requiring ia32-libs you can git rid of it and possibly some of the 32-bit packages that have not been used by

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/13/2012 01:51 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 12 dec 12, 23:03:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: Citrix is the holdback requiring me to have ia32-libs installed. Take the i386 package instead ;) Kind regards, Andrei Wont that need the 32-bit libraries as well? What would be the advantage

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/13/2012 11:42 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:59:30 -0800 Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Marc, Wont that need the 32-bit libraries as well? What would be the advantage. ia32 installs *all* the i386 libs, whether you need them or not, multiarch means you

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/14/2012 05:30 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:40:03PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:35:59AM +0100, phi debian wrote: So my question, does next release of debian will be poluted with gnome3, are will we have a choice? Even a dangled gnome2 would be

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/15/2012 05:03 AM, phi debian wrote: Jeez, welcome lxde, adieu gnome3 !!! I installed a fresh debian in a guest as server, then apt-get install lxde. In a matter of minute I got a theme, with solid backgroud, my panel on the right, some usual goodies like synaptic,

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/16/2012 03:26 AM, phi debian wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com mailto:marcns...@gmail.com wrote: One of the applets that you can add to the panel is an application launcher. Once you have the application launcher on the panel you

Re: Firefox Iceweasel

2013-01-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 01/30/2013 06:58 PM, അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്. wrote: How can i install Firefox along with iceweasel in Debian wheezy? ~Akhilan You can get the tarball from the Mozilla site. I move it to /usr/local/lib and untar it from there. Note that since Iceweasel pretends to be firefox, you need to

Questions about multi-arch and 3rd party packages in Wheezy

2013-02-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am testing an upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy AMD64 on my system. I made copies of all partitions except for /usr/local and /home, modified /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf on the new / partition, reran lilo rebooted. The system rebooted with no problems. Then I started the upgrade process:

Re: Questions about multi-arch and 3rd party packages in Wheezy

2013-02-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/03/2013 10:49 PM, Erwan David wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 07:14:15AM CET, Johan Grönqvist johan.gronqv...@gmail.com said: 2013-02-04 01:10, Marc Shapiro skrev: Unfortunately, dpkg does not automatically handle dependancies, like agt-get and aptitude do, so I get a list

Re: Questions about multi-arch and 3rd party packages in Wheezy

2013-02-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/04/2013 12:19 AM, Morel Bérenger wrote: and then tried to install icaclient with ' dpkg -i icaclient-12.1.0_i386.deb' since it is a third party package and not in the debian repositories. Unfortunately, dpkg does not automatically handle dependancies, like agt-get and aptitude do, so I

(WORKED AROUND) Re: Questions about multi-arch and 3rd party packages in Wheezy

2013-02-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/05/2013 12:58 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Erwan David wrote: I'd rather use gdebi for installing skype thus gdebi skype-install.deb will install skype and the libraries it depends on. I managed to install gdebi and tried to use it to install icaclient. Unfortunately, after

Flash and Firefox on Squeeze

2013-02-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running Squeeze on an AMD64 system. I use actual Mozilla Firefox (18.0.2), NOT Iceweasel. There are NO plugins or extensions showing in the Firefox Add-ons Manager. I want to install flash since it is required for some sites that I am interested in. I went to install

Re: Flash and Firefox on Squeeze (SOLVED)

2013-02-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/27/2013 05:39 AM, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/2013 12:35 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am running Squeeze on an AMD64 system. I use actual Mozilla Firefox (18.0.2), NOT Iceweasel. Most likely the culprit is architecture mismatch. Your

Converting a running system to a VirtualBox VM

2013-03-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am currently running Sueeze on an AMD64 box. I hope to upgrade to Wheezy soon, but I have a problem: Citrix Receiver It runs fine on Squeeze using IA32-libs. There does not seem to be a native 64-bit version for linux. I decided I would install Wheezy, activate multi-arch for i386 and

Re: Converting a running system to a VirtualBox VM

2013-03-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 03/03/2013 06:10 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2013-03-03 08:56, Marc Shapiro skrev: So, does anyone know of a way to convert my current system to a Virtualbox VM? Or would it be better to just create a new machine and install from scratch? Getting Citrix Receiver running properly always seems

sun-Java6-plugin w/o Iceweasel?

2011-11-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have sun-Java6-plugin installed, as well as mozilla-mplayer. Both seem to depend on Iceweasel, or Firefox. I have Firefox installed from the mozilla website and do not want Iceweasel. Iceweasel, however, was installed since aptitude knew nothing about the manual installation of Firefox.

Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have yet to upgrade to Squeeze and I really think that it is about time. I know that some people had problems with the upgrade, but IIRC that was mainly due to the upgrade to the 2.6.32 kernel and the new udev. I have already done that upgrade and am running vmlinuz-2.6.32-bpo.3-686, so it

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/25/11 03:16, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:58:13 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: I have yet to upgrade to Squeeze and I really think that it is about time. ... Is there any reason that I should not just do 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade' and expect things to 'just

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Oops! I accidentally sent this reply directly to Stephen. Sorry Stephen. On 11/26/11 04:58, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:42:06 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: I have already read the release notes. ... My question was, considering what I have done, is it likely

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. The lilo.conf file is modified slightly after looking at your web page, but I have not rerun lilo, yet. Is this the correct format for the append statement to pass the rootdelay command? I just noticed, as I copied in

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/26/11 14:15, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:29:58 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Finally, I did 'apt-get dist-upgrade', which kept me up way too late. I got lots of warnings about lines in /var/lib/dpkg/status having an invalid character in it. These all seem to have

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 11:11, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:22:37 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. The specifications for the root file system in /etc/lilo.conf and in /etc/fstab do not match. In /etc/lilo.conf, you

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 12:36, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/27/11 11:11, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:22:37 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Here are my /etc/apt/sources.list, /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo.conf listings. The specifications for the root file system in /etc/lilo.conf and in /etc

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/27/11 13:30, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:36:27 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Let me know how that works out for you. I didn't see any obvious problems in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Well, that didn't work, but I purged all of the packages

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Oops! I sent my reply directly to Stephen, again. On 11/27/11 15:10, Stephen Powell wrote: Since your permanent root file system is not a logical volume, chances are there is no LVM stuff in your initial RAM file system. Therefore, it is trying to access the SUSPEND/RESUME device before it is

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
My box is ALMOST working correctly, but not quite... On 11/28/11 04:12, Stephen Powell wrote: On my system, there are two files in this directory, resume and driver-policy. The resume file contains: RESUME=UUID=a6948969-2d88-4ec0-93a1-6d2d803ff8b3 which specifies the UUID of the

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/28/11 21:50, Marc Shapiro wrote: My box is ALMOST working correctly, but not quite... Well, I just rebooted again, and things are better, but still not quite right. On 11/28/11 04:12, Stephen Powell wrote: On my system, there are two files in this directory, resume and driver

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/11 04:51, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:21:58 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Well, I just rebooted again, and things are better, but still not quite right. This problem has NOT gone away. I can use 'noresume' but I should not have to and it seems that it would

Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/29/11 20:52, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/29/11 04:51, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:21:58 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Well, I just rebooted again, and things are better, but still not quite right. This problem has NOT gone away. I can use 'noresume' but I should

(SOLVED) Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/30/11 04:52, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:35:21 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: The problem was that the /etc/uswsusp.conf file (used by s2disk and s2both) still had the old swap file listed as the resume device. Correcting that and then updating the initrd seems to have

Re: (SOLVED) Re: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/01/11 02:55, Stephen Powell wrote: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:02:02 -0500 (EST), Marc Shapiro wrote: Google is your friend! I don't remember exactly what my search terms were, but the top item gave me the answer (once I read down through all the answers that were less than useful to me

How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have never used bluetooth before and never had a bluetooth enabled phone, so please bear with me. I have just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. I have a bluetooth USB dongle on my box. I have an LG420 through Tracphone. I have installed Bluez. I have turned bluetooth on at the phone and tried

Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
of equipment really don't work. On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have never used bluetooth before and never had a bluetooth enabled phone, so please bear with me. I have just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. I have a bluetooth USB dongle on my box. I have an LG420 through Tracphone. I have

Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/04/11 16:00, Mark Panen wrote: On 05/12/2011 01:01, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have never used bluetooth before and never had a bluetooth enabled phone, so please bear with me. I have just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. I have a bluetooth USB dongle on my box. I have an LG420 through

(SOLVED) Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/05/11 02:13, Jude DaShiell wrote: Can you make the computer visible to the phone then take over the computer with the phone?On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 12/04/11 15:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: Good so far, now make your cell phone discoverable. That's in bluetooth settings

Mounting phone from /etc/fstab?

2011-12-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
OK. So I finally got the phone and computer paired and I can mount the phone using obexfs by passing the phones MAC address and the desired mountpoint. But I can only do this as root and then I have to be root to access the fs. How do I mount the phone by listing it in /etc/fstab and using

Re: Mounting phone from /etc/fstab?

2011-12-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/07/11 10:36, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:00:34 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: OK. So I finally got the phone and computer paired and I can mount the phone using obexfs by passing the phones MAC address and the desired mountpoint. But I can only do this as root and then I have

Creating a VM in VirtualBox

2011-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running Squeeze. I have installed VirtualBox 4.1.6 from the VirtualBox website. I have also installed dkms. When I start the program it shows no VMs, since I have not yet created any. I Click to create a new VM and the wizard prompts me through it. I plan to install XP-Pro since my

Re: Creating a VM in VirtualBox

2011-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/16/11 00:14, Don Juan wrote: try ls -ld /usr /usr/lib make sure its root:root That seems to be the common issue people are running into with that error. Hope that helps. Yes! That did it. I have no idea why they were set at 501:501. Some install must have changed them. Aaaargh!

Re: debugging package breakage

2011-08-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
it be pointing to their standard Ubuntu based repository? That would almost certainly cause breakage. If it is pointing to Debian repositories LMDE may not be as 100% compatible as they say. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

New SATA drive installation question

2011-09-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
drive to me. I also didn't have anything jump out at me from dmesg. Can anyone tell me where I should be looking, and what I should be looking for? Do I need to make changes in the BIOS to recognize SATA drives? All help appreciated. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/24/11 20:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm feeling really dumb right now. Okay, I'm not dumb, I'm just lacking the information that I need at this time. I just installed a new SATA 1TB Seagate Barracuda drive in my Lenny box with FVWM as my window manager. This is the first time that I have

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/25/11 06:36, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:34:12 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level formatted from factory :-) That shows how long it's been since I installed a new drive. The last time that I did so

Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it as the boot drive and use the new drive primarily for extra storage. Since I don't

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/25/11 22:07, David Christensen wrote: On 09/25/2011 07:19 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/25/11 23:35, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system like ext4 for this size of drive. E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. Other than fsck running faster, what are the advantages of ext4 over ext3? Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/26/11 00:43, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system like ext4 for this size of drive. E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. Yes, but not if you are still on Lenny I have a Lenny box that was quite

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/26/11 12:24, Nicolas wrote: I have a disk with the same space and i use lvm dividing it in several partitions and a 300 gb free space block if any of the partitions need more space. It's very practical and dependable. And the filesystem is ext4 for all of them. Are you recommending a

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2012-02-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
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Re: Hacked e-mail account!

2012-02-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/06/12 06:56, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:33:24 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: It looks like my Yahoo mail got hacked. Several e-mails were sent out earlier today from this account containing only a single link as content. I have no idea what the link goes to, but do not click

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/20/12 21:33, yudi v wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run at the sametime. I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the following command: startx startxfce4 -- :1 There are couple of issues I am trying to resolve:

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/21/12 09:54, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:28:44AM -0600, hvw59601 wrote: yudi v wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run at the sametime. I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the following command:

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-22 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/22/12 19:15, yudi v wrote: Don't login to your shell as root, just as $user, then it's the same: startx Ok I cannot launch X session from tty7, default console, as the normal user. But if I change the allowed_users value in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file from console to anybody, I can

Adjusting sound file volume

2012-02-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I know that sox can adjust the volume of a sound file and I have used it before, but... sox will not read this file. It is an .m4a file that someone else recorded and sent to us. Sox and play will not read it, the error when try to adjust the volume is: :~$ sox -v 0.1 Kedushah.m4a

Re: Adjusting sound file volume

2012-02-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/25/12 00:44, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Marc Shapiro [120224 23:54 -0800]: [...] :~$ sox -v 0.1 Kedushah.m4a Kedushah.mp3 sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `Kedushah.mp3': SoX was compiled without MP3 encoding support You have to install libsox-fmt-ffmpeg and libsox-fmt-mp3

Re: Adjusting sound file volume (SOLVED)

2012-02-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/25/12 06:30, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:54:08PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I know that sox can adjust the volume of a sound file and I have used it before, but... sox will not read this file. It is an .m4a file that someone else recorded and sent to us. Sox and play

Best way to migrate disks

2012-03-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have an old 40GB disk and a recently purchased 1TB disk. The new disk has been partitioned into a 2GB swap partition, two 500MB partitions that are currently empty and the remainder is an LVM2 PV which I have added to my VG, so I now have plenty of space. So far, so good. My problem is

Re: Best way to migrate disks

2012-03-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 03/24/12 23:58, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/25/2012 12:46 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have an old 40GB disk and a recently purchased 1TB disk. The new disk has been partitioned into a 2GB swap partition, two 500MB partitions that are currently empty and the remainder is an LVM2 PV which I have

Lilo not recognizing keyboard

2012-03-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
=/vmlinuz.old root=UUID=5e0d4da4-aba3-4965-8fb4-788501b0fe69 initrd=/initrd.img.old label=Linux_Old read-only image=/boot/memtest86+.bin label = memtest86+ ** Any help is appreciated. Marc Shapiro

Re: Best way to migrate disks (SOLVED)

2012-03-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 03/24/12 23:25, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: On 03/25/2012 01:16 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have an old 40GB disk and a recently purchased 1TB disk. The new disk has been partitioned into a 2GB swap partition, two 500MB partitions that are currently empty and the remainder is an LVM2 PV

Re: Lilo not recognizing keyboard SOLVED)

2012-03-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 03/25/12 20:31, Marc Shapiro wrote: I just migrated my / partition to a larger partition on a new disk. I used find piped to cpio which took care of everything except modifications to fstab and lilo.conf and then running lilo. I made those changes, leaving tho old setup in lilo.conf

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