Re: CIFS and data integrity

Joe joe at jretrading.com writes: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 Mark Fletcher mark27q1 at gmail.com wrote: It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what was originally on the host. This is a huge problem for me as it means I can't rely on backups dumped

Re: what graphics card to choose

hvw59601 hvw59601 at care2.com writes: Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Then choose one that you like (because of price/design) and then check about its current support status in Linux ecosystem, though I would go for nvidia; their

Re: what graphics card to choose

Chris Bannister cbannister at slingshot.co.nz writes: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:04:34AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: Actually, right now, the nVidia-provided nVidia driver packaged in Debian has a number of problems with 3D support on several cards. For example I use an nVidia GeForce

Re: what graphics card to choose

Gary Dale garydale at rogers.com writes: On 30/07/12 03:04 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: hvw59601hvw59601at care2.com writes: Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Then choose one that you like (because of price/design) and then check Yet

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

Paul E Condon pecondon at mesanetworks.net writes: Having posted this, which I thought was reasonable, I went and looked at the archives to see what OP (Mark Fletcher) had written. It turns out that all of his investigation was done using commands typed in as root. For me, this thread

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org writes: Well... there is an awlful lot of CIFS and NFS-related fixes in the kernel stable queue. Check that. Also make sure it is not your NIC driver or memory (or the NAS' memory) that went bad... I wondered about this too -- and the

Re: CIFS and data integrity

Martin Steigerwald Martin at lichtvoll.de writes: Hi Mark, Could you please try it that way: snip to make really obnoxious Gmane submission rules satisfied If the issue does not trigger with zeros, then use sha1sum your database backup file and then copy it and sha1sum it again.

Debian Install DVD .jigdos out of date?

Hi Can anyone comment on whether the .jigdo files currently published on cdimage.debian.org and its mirrors for the DVD images of the i386 STABLE distribution are out of date? I tried to use them yesterday to make an image of the first DVD (using

Re: DVD distorted picture

hce webmail.hce at gmail.com writes: Hi, I am using mplayer to watch DVD video movies. Some DVD can be displayed on the screen well, but others were displayed in a distorted picture with 3 columns repeated the same contents. Does anyone know what was that problem and how to fix it? I

Moving from WEP to WPA

Hi I have a relatively old (P3) Compaq Evo N600C laptop which I picked up from somewhere, in which I have installed a circa-2002 PCMCIA Buffalo 802.11a/b wireless LAN card which uses the orinoco driver in the kernel. I know that this combination of kernel, machine and laptop work since it's been

Re: Java swing gui designer???

Hal Vaughan hal at thresholddigital.com writes: On Thursday 03 January 2008, Margiolas Christos wrote: Hello any advise for a good java swing designer? Either independent app either eclipse plugin.. Margiolas Christos Eclipse has a Visual Editor. Netbeans also has one, again

Re: Wireless card failing after a while

Tom Raus raus.tom at skynet.be writes: Hello All, I've been having some issues on my IBM netfinity server toybox. For some reason the networkcard stops working while there is no apparent reason. Sometimes it happens during transfers, sometimes just while it's idle. In /var/log/messages I

Re: Autostart programs: How to remove them?

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca writes: I'm curious why someone would even bother installing Google Desktop if they're not going to run it...it's one of those things that more or less has to run while you're logged in to keep the index synchronized. Perhaps he installed it to try it out,

ipw3945 takes a while to warm up???

Hi list I'm running etch on a Toshiba Satellite laptop I picked up about a year ago now in Hong Kong. It's on my home wireless LAN supported by a Buffalo Airstation 54G which I bought recently here in Japan. The wireless LAN card in the laptop is an inbuilt Intel ipw3945. If I configure my

Re: Goodbye

Joel Roberts Joel.Roberts at pinkardcc.com writes: I’ve gotten a lot of good information from this list, and hopefully supplied some as well, but I’m not going to weed through hundreds of spam e-mails weekly to pursue this any longer. If the list organizers can implement some anti-spam

Re: ipw3945 takes a while to warm up???

A few days ago, in the middle of a spam storm, I wrote: Hi list I'm running etch on a Toshiba Satellite laptop I picked up about a year ago now in Hong Kong. It's on my home wireless LAN supported by a Buffalo Airstation 54G which I bought recently here in Japan. The wireless LAN card in

Re: synaptic will not display after upgrade

Iván Alemán wrote: try as a root: # xhost + then # synaptic Iván ... Then, if that works, you can look into the xhost program's man page to see how to use it to allow the specific user ID you need to open consoles on your display. I did something like this a while back to allow me to

Re: apt wants to remove my kernel image

Colin wrote: Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: The following packages will be REMOVED: initrd-tools kernel-image-2.6.8 I'm guessing but do you have the kernel-image-2.4-386 package installed? (Damn! packages.debian.org is down so I can't check for the proper name!) I remember

Re: apt wants to remove my kernel image

Colin wrote: Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: The following packages will be REMOVED: initrd-tools kernel-image-2.6.8 I'm guessing but do you have the kernel-image-2.4-386 package installed? (Damn! packages.debian.org is down so I can't check for the proper name!) One other

Re: switching to kernel 2.6 - splay Failed to open sound device /dev/dsp

Daniel B. wrote: In trying to switch to kernel 2.6(.8) and udev on Sarge, I found that splay/xsplay fails, saying Failed to open sound device. Using strace, I see that opening /dev/dsp is failing: open(/dev/dsp ... ) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy). I'm not knowingly running any

Re: switching to kernel 2.6 - manual modprobe lp to dev /dev/lop

Daniel B. wrote: In trying to switch to kernel 2.6(.8) and udev on Sarge, I found that device node /dev/lp0 (for a parallel-port printer I have) doesn't get created unless I manually run modprobe lp. Is the printer (and/or parallel) port supposed to be recognized automatically and is /dev/lp0

Re: help with Debian [How to upload a website to a debian web server]

Cuthbert Smith Consulting wrote: Thank you, I have tried contacting my host, but have not had much luck which was why I went to Debian/Apache. I will keep trying, thanks for your information. Cuthbert Smith Consulting Partnership Inc. 400, 14727 - 87 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5R 4E5 Tel: (780)

Re: Why?

--- S Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things puzzle me. Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and kde seems to me to be easier to use. There must be something I am missing. It's a very personal choice

Re: OT: Re: Why?

--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Fletcher wrote: the Great Pyramid at Gizeh (or is it Giza, I can never remember which is right) It's Pisa. the Great Pyramid of Pisa. Oh, wait, that's Leaning Pyramid of Pisa, or, er, um, ... never mind. Yeah, that was the Golden Ratio

SMBFS package vs kernel modules?

Hi list I have a question about the smbclient package. What does it provide that isn't provided by SMB FS support in the kernel? I currently run a 2.6.15.4 kernel and am about to build myself a 2.6.17.7 kernel from kernel.org (using make-kpkg). I plan shortly to buy myself some NAS and use it

SMBFS package vs kernel modules?

DUH -- question is about smbfs package not smbclient... Hi list I have a question about the smbclient package. What does it provide that isn't provided by SMB FS support in the kernel? I currently run a 2.6.15.4 kernel and am about to build myself a 2.6.17.7 kernel from kernel.org (using

Re: dpkg serious warning ? help please ...

Mehmet Fatih Akbulut wrote: hi all, i tried to install a deb package named 'lale', but installation process failed. then tried couple of times again. each time got same error and stopped installing that package. but since then, when i try to install another package or run apt-get, i get dpkg

APT -- if I do this will I screw the pooch?

Got a question relating to APT. I typically use aptitude in command-line mode as a front-end to APT. I'm running Sarge kept up to date with security updates, on a single-processor Pentium 4-based desktop machine. My kernel is a self-built 2.6.15.4 built with make-kpkg from kernel.org source.

Re: alsaconf successful. No sound!

--- Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Francesco Bochicchio spake thusly on 03/07/2006 02:54 PM: Il Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:50:14 +0100, Felix Karpfen ha scritto: I ran alsaconf on my recently-updated Debian 3.1r1. It worked like a charm and ended with the following messages:

Re: Wireless interface fails to initialize fully; still need to get DHCP manually

Tim Beauregard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Glueck wrote: Adam Porter wrote: I'm not an expert, and I have no experience with ndiswrapper, but I'll try to help. Please post your /etc/network/interfaces file. I may have missed the entire point

VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

Hi I'm looking for a VNC server to run on my home Debian setup that will allow me to connect to it from work. Trouble is, work is behind a (justly) paranoid corporate firewall which will allow me to connect out on HTTP/HTTPS on the usual web ports and not a lot else. So I'm looking for a

Re: APT -- if I do this will I screw the pooch?

Andrew Cady wrote: On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:36:39AM -0500, Mark Fletcher wrote: I have all the packages downloaded in my /var/cache/apt/archives directory. I don't want the notebook to have to download them all again [...] After reading the man pages on apt, apt.conf, aptitude

Re: VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

eg 80, 81, 443, etc... Greets On 3/10/06, *Mark Fletcher* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm looking for a VNC server to run on my home Debian setup that will allow me to connect to it from work. Trouble is, work is behind a (justly) paranoid corporate

Re: VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 09:29, nullman wrote: 2 short infos to clarify : 1. VNC over http doesn´t exist 2. Port-Numbers can be altered with any version Solution would be : ssh on Port 443 ... with that you can trick most proxies with the connect method to use any

Re: Release cycle

gawab wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Marc Shapiro said: Personally, my theory on the REAL reason that the release cycles have been getting so long is that we are running out of Toy Story character names. What do we do when there are no more characters left? Start working through

Re: Windows won't boot!

Gregory Seidman wrote: By installing Sarge I have somehow rendered my friend's Windows system unbootable. The original configuration was two 200GB drives, hda and hdb. Windows XP was on hda and the other drive was apparently empty. I repartitioned hdb as part of the Sarge install, removing the

Re: Wireless interface fails to initialize fully; still need to get DHCP manually

Robert Glueck wrote: Mark Fletcher wrote: I had exactly the same problem -- with different hardware. The cause was that PCMCIA services are started in the boot / startup sequence AFTER networking is set up, so at the time the startup procedure is trying to connect to your network PCMCIA

Re: Why should /boot be on a separate partition?

--- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 April 2006 07:08, Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote: Why should /boot be on a separate partition (rather than on the / partition)? LILO can't see anything past the 1024th cylinder. If you don't use LILO, this isn't a problem for

Re: Gnome sound system.

--- S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know the solution, but i am also facing this problem. :( On 4/8/06, Surachai Locharoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use gnome debian version 2.12. When I enable sound in gnome control panel (enable sound for user action such

Re: how do I upgrade while I sleep?

--- Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. How do I upgrade while I sleep? Or, more specifically, how do I set it up so that all the questions about scripts that have been changed, which are different from the package maintainers scripts, asking if it should keep the

Re: Is it possible to simply copy the kernel from one machine to another and use it?

--- anoop aryal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 02:39 pm, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: Hello everyone, I was wondering if it's possible to copy the vmlinuz-x.y.z from one machine to another and have the other machine run properly with it. Here's the scenario: I

Re: What's the next step?

--- Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:22:34AM -0700, Rocky Ou wrote: Hey, I use netinst CD installed Debian Sarge 3.1 successfully. I only installed base system no any other stuff. I can use SSH to connect to remote server. If you could give me some

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

--- Manaen Schlabach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't have to be as long as packages and package descriptions spell color the right way ;-P With a u, you mean, of course... On 4/11/06, Doofus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chris roddy wrote: Installing both text/wamerican-huge and

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

--- David Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message -From: tom arnall Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:02 pmSubject: trouble getting my wireless stuff to workTo: debian-user@lists.debian.org i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to work. i am

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

--- tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware revision of your particular card. For your card there appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported to have a working native

Re: Alsamixer: no master volume

--- Benjam$B!(BVilloslada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, The master volume control doesn't appears in alsamixer. I only see - Headphones - PCM - Capture - Input So - Mux I can ear sound. In kmixer I can modify the volume with the heaphones slicer, but in programs such as

Odd mouse behaviour under Sarge / KDE

I'm running a dual boot Windoze XP / sarge updated with all latest security updates, and a custom-built 2.6.15.4 kernel from kernel.org. Under sarge I'm running KDE. While using KDE I occasionally notice the mouse pointer suddenly jumping around the screen in a manner bearing no relation to

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

Mark Fletcher wrote: --- tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware revision of your particular card. For your card there appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

Chris Lale wrote: tom arnall wrote: i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to work. i am running debian on a toshiba satellite laptop. the wireless card is a d-link dwl-g650. i am looking for info on the latest debian methods for dealing with this technology. Look

Re: Odd mouse behaviour under Sarge / KDE

Adam Hardy wrote: Mark Fletcher on 15/04/06 05:46, wrote: Under sarge I'm running KDE. While using KDE I occasionally notice the mouse pointer suddenly jumping around the screen in a manner bearing no relation to the actual movements of the mouse I'm making, and responding to mouse clicks I

Re: Hardware or software?

--- Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:12:40AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: How do I determine if the reason for the kernel not handling well my card reader and usb ports is hardware failure? Before buying a new piece of hardware, I would like to

Re: Upgraded kernels, now eth0 and framebuffer are gone

M Carlock wrote: I recently upgraded from woody to sarge per the instructions (aptitude etc), which was successful. However, after then upgrading the kernel from 2.2.20-idepci to 2.6.8-2-386, I found I could boot OK, but I'd lost eth0 and the ATI framebuffer. lspci can see both devices, but

Re: Upgraded kernels, now eth0 and framebuffer are gone

Mark Fletcher wrote: M Carlock wrote: I recently upgraded from woody to sarge per the instructions (aptitude etc), which was successful. However, after then upgrading the kernel from 2.2.20-idepci to 2.6.8-2-386, I found I could boot OK, but I'd lost eth0 and the ATI framebuffer. lspci can

Re: why upgrade kernel?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 August 2005 11:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple of machines which I'm in the process of upgrading to Sarge. I'm wondering about whether to upgrade the kernels. They're all running some version of 2.4, which I've built for the

(SLIGHTLY OT): PC speaker not working with 2.6.12.2 kernel

I have a small problem after compiling a 2.6.12.2 kernel (current stable kernel release at kernel.org as I type). I didn't install a Debian packaged kernel source because the latest stable Debian package was 2.6.8 and I fancied something more recent. Appreciate this is a debian list and so

Re: What file to add command to start at bootime

On Monday 04 July 2005 03:42, Cao Van Khanh wrote: I have some script and would like to run it at boot time . I could not find how to do that in debian . In redhat I could add to /etc/rc.d . How to make it in debian ? Thank for reading Under debian the rc?.d directories are split out by

Re: About Debian patch kernel packages.

On Sunday 03 July 2005 05:13, Jansen Carlo Sena wrote: Hi friends, I need to apply the grsecurity patch and compile a new kernel for a server. In this server, I am using a kernel image from the 2.6.8 version. Then, I downloaded both the kernel-source-2.6.8 package and the

Re: (SLIGHTLY OT): PC speaker not working with 2.6.12.2 kernel

On Monday 04 July 2005 01:40, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: On Sunday 03 July 2005 12:02, Mark Fletcher wrote: However, under my new kernel the PC speaker (which I use only for beeping me when mail arrives, when I hit tab in a shell and haven't typed enough to uniquely identify a file etc

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

On Saturday 09 July 2005 23:56, Johan Kullstam wrote: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Nigel Jones wrote: On 08/07/05, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:57:25AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: I'm already seeing documentation

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

On Sunday 10 July 2005 21:55, Joris Huizer wrote: Johan Kullstam wrote: Let me see if I understand you correctly. Your reason for having the ambiguity of wether to call it 3.2 or 4.0 is just to keep people from assigning etch a number? I think this is quite logical, as there is some

Re: Questions about sis7012+snd_intel8x0 sound card problem

On Sunday 10 July 2005 13:01, Trace Green wrote: Hi, all My sound card is SiS7012 integrated, vendor and device id is 1039:7012. I tried to use alsaconf to config my sound card, it loads snd_intel8x0. But i cann't hear any sound, when i use alsamixer to check, i find pcm and master channel

Re: Sound and Video Problems still with my T3985 Desktop PC

On Sunday 10 July 2005 06:44, Xeno Campanoli wrote: Okay, it has been over a week since I had time to work on this. Please accept my apologies, but I've been busy. The previous title was: Re: [Fwd: Re: Sound problem: apparently I don't have the alsa modules up yet after all among

Re: [Bulk] Re: Sound and Video Problems still with my T3985 Desktop PC

On Sunday 10 July 2005 09:12, Xeno Campanoli wrote: Xeno Campanoli wrote: Okay, it has been over a week since I had time to work on this. Please accept my apologies, but I've been busy. The previous title was: I was UNsuccessful at making the sound work by commenting out the above.*oss

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

On Monday 11 July 2005 00:23, Johan Kullstam wrote: Mark Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 10 July 2005 21:55, Joris Huizer wrote: Johan Kullstam wrote: Let me see if I understand you correctly. Your reason for having the ambiguity of wether to call it 3.2 or 4.0

Re: an X problem

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 18:45, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Hi List, Since I went from standart radeon driver to fglrx, when I issue: /etc/init.d/gdm restart Everything dissapiares, including the terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F1..). I swithed to kdm. The result was the same. I made dpkg-reconfigure

Re: Sound and Video Problems still with my T3985 Desktop PC

not in quite so much of a hurry, but it would be nice to get this going this week. sincerely, Xeno So you can see, it seems to have no effect. Mark Fletcher wrote: On Sunday 10 July 2005 06:44, Xeno Campanoli wrote: Okay, it has been over a week since I had time to work on this. Please

Re: counting bandwidth usage

Almut Behrens wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:14:41PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Very trivial question. I have two machines workA, homeB. Let's say I am sitting at workA and run an nxclient session to connect to homeB. Now in this homeB session, I open a konsole and download 1GB

Re: apt-get install tries to REMOVE my kernel

Michael Marsh wrote: On 12/12/05, Joris Hooijberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2005/12/12, Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Really? Nothing in what Astrid posted seemed to indicate that to me. The only kernel-image that appears is the one that's presumably going to be removed.

Re: apt-get install tries to REMOVE my kernel

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: astrid jurgensen wrote: I recently tried to download and install software using apt-get install. The process was aborted because apt-get install tried to remove the kernel. See details below: apt-get install –no-remove xcdroast 13 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 2

Logitech MX 5500 Keyboard + mouse problem since recent squeeze upgrade

I am running amd64 squeeze on an Intel Core i7 920-based machine with 8GB RAM. I built the machine about a year ago and have been running squeeze on it since. I use a Logitech (Logicool) MX5500 wireless keyboard and mouse combo. For about the last month or so I hadn't updated packages -- not

Old package for bluez?

Can anyone point me at where I can get the one-version-old bluez package, that was in squeeze one version ago? I'm having a problem with the current version (466-1) and want to compare the old version (463-something I think it was) but I got a little too enthusiastic with the ole aptitude

Re: Initial install question

(With apologies in advance if this comes through in HTML -- I have tried to turn HTML-based mailing off but am not sure if have been successful) Mark -- Debian's "default" way of interacting with the user is through virtual terminals, which is what you're seeing. That said, of course almost no

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leonard Chatagnier wrote: VFS: Cannot open rootdevice 301 or 30:01 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 30:01 Ok, not worried at this time as I have my woody CD's and can do a rescbf24 to

Upgrade woody--sarge, KDE stops working

Hi Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to sarge. I am running the i386 distribution. For historical reasons I will get around to sorting out one of these days, I run gdm then select a KDE session at login. My X server has obviously survived the upgrade as gdm starts OK on boot and

Re: Upgrade woody--sarge, KDE stops working

--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Fletcher wrote: Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to sarge. snip However on login, the X server appears to shut down (and gdm promptly re-starts it) -- so I log in and after some flashing of screens for a second or two I

Re: Upgrade woody--sarge, KDE stops working

On Saturday 25 June 2005 12:58, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:21:01PM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hi Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to sarge. I am running the i386 distribution. For historical reasons I will get around to sorting out one of these days

Re: realplayer10 and sound quality

On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:52, Joe Mc Cool wrote: Sarge, kernel 2.2.20, small home network. Server: PII 333MHz. Thanks a lot for Debian. I have just installed RealPlayer10 and it works fine, listening on line to BBC Radio 3. Wonderful, thanks again everybody. But this is when only one

X Window problem after woody -- sarge upgrade

Hi I recently (last week) upgraded from woody to sarge using aptitude. First off much to my surprise X windows appeared to survive the upgrade although my KDE was shot. Removing and re-installing GDM (which I use to launch X) solved that problem. However over the following days it gradually

Re: X Window problem after woody -- sarge upgrade

On Monday 27 June 2005 22:22, Mark Fletcher wrote: Hi I recently (last week) upgraded from woody to sarge using aptitude. First off much to my surprise X windows appeared to survive the upgrade although my KDE was shot. Removing and re-installing GDM (which I use to launch X) solved

Re: Cannot update wheezy

Stephen Powell zlinuxman at wowway.com writes: I had the same problem about a week ago. The solution is to do a full-upgrade instead of a safe-upgrade. The problem is caused by libre-office packages taking the place of open-office packages. full-upgrade allows packages to be deleted,

Replacing hard disk used in existing filesystem

Hello the list! My Debian (wheezy am464, upgraded from an original squeeze install) system started complaining yesterday that one of my hard disks is about to fail. I suspect it suffered damage in the earthquake that recently hit Japan (I'm in Tokyo) and has been quietly deteriorating since.

Re: Replacing hard disk used in existing filesystem

On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 11:32 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: You had it pretty much correct; don't worry. Double-check your backups are good before beginning. Thanks a lot, Dan! Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Debian Wheezy, Gnome 3, and nVidia graphics cards

Hello the list! I am running Wheezy on a self-built Intel Core i7 920 with 24GB of RAM and an nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card. I am using the nVidia proprietary driver downloaded from the debian repository along with the kernel module built by the usual Debian installation process. I am

Re: Debian Wheezy, Gnome 3, and nVidia graphics cards

Andrei POPESCU andreimpopescu at gmail.com writes: Could you please try to run following command before killing gdm3 and post the output here? top -b -n 1 Kind regards, Andrei Thanks Andrei, I will try this at the weekend, machine is running critical tasks while the markets

/etc/bluetooth/audio.conf obsolete?

Hello I'm currently trying to set up my Jessie system to play audio from my iPhone by bluetooth through my PC speakers. I've been following an online guide to doing so and it wants me to edit /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf to make the PC advertise itself as an A2DP sink. Trouble is, I have no

Re: /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf obsolete?

Mark Fletcher gmail.com> writes: > > Hello > > I'm currently trying to set up my Jessie system to play audio from my > iPhone by bluetooth through my PC speakers. I've been following an > online guide to doing so and it wants me to > edit /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 at 06:56, Britton Kerin wrote: > On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user. The ping > binary had the suid bit set. Now I get: > > $ ping www.google.com > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted > 2 $ > > presumably

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:31 PM Felix Miata wrote: > Before you start, print /etc/passwd and /etc/group. :-) > > When forced to create a user during installation, I create user x with > passwd > x, and the first thing I do on first boot is login as root and delete user >

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:06 PM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 08:30:38 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > Mark Fletcher composed on 2016-06-05 11:40 (UTC): > > > > > I think users and their passwords are the least of the proble

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:34 AM David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 06/04/2016 04:11 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I assume you've implemented backup, restore, imaging, archiving, etc.. > > > dd'ing the 500 GB onto the second SSD should work. >

Re: Version and Release

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 at 19:51, c.hol...@ades.at wrote: > Yes, I already knew this. > But I still get not the connection. > > Chris > > On 2016-06-08 12:18, humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > good questions you're asking yourself here. > > Check

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 at 23:15, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 10:06:54AM +1200, Jan Bakuwel wrote: > > Check your firewall rules. > > It can't be firewall rules. Try this to block outgoing ping: > > iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j REJECT > >

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:24 AM David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 06/05/2016 04:40 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > ... Any clever ploys to deal with [changing UID's and GID's after a > > fresh install]? > > For users, I track usern

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 7:14 PM Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 02:13:58PM +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Apart from fixing that, what's left to do is to disconnect and remove the > > 500GB hard disk, move the SSD to the hard disk's SATA p

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:13 AM Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Tanstaafl a écrit : > > If you are referring to a MUA command, then first let me remind you that > MUA > commands are not standardized, and therefore using the name of the command > on

Re: ssh again

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:40:22 Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Hostnames, here I come. > > For hostnames within your own network, consider installing

Re: Mailing-list configuration (was: Big dummy at work again)

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 2:17 AM Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > On 2016-06-13 Nicolas George wrote: > > > As I already explained twice, a solution that requires a > > different action when it is a mailing-list and when it is not > > is not an acceptable solution. > > Why not? Don't

Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

Hi I've recently decided to upgrade my main PC, running Debian Jessie, to use SSDs instead of HDDs. Right now I am halfway through the process, having done what I consider the easy part, and about to start the potentially more difficult part. The machine is a self-built circa 2009 machine with

Re: dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 at 17:51, basti wrote: > Hello, > > on a low voltage cpu system I can see that the creation of an 1 GB swap > file can take several minutes. (The file-system is on SD-card which > write about 6-7 MB/s). > > As I see fallocate can do this job much

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:10 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 May 2016 23:56:02 Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 01/06/16 07:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > Now to do what I really wanted to do all along, and ssh in to run > level > >> > one as root: > >> > >

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