Probleme avec la commande dpkg-scanpackages

2010-03-09 Thread MARTY
Bonjour à tous, Après avoir créer un package perso, j'essai de le monter sur un dépot sur ma machine. Lors de l'exécution de la commande dpkg-scanpackages pour créer le fichier Packages.gz, j'ai une erreur : dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c Packages.gz dpkg-scanpackages: erreur:

Re: Probleme avec la commande dpkg-scanpackages

2010-03-10 Thread MARTY
Lors de l'exécution de la commande dpkg-scanpackages pour créer le fichier Packages.gz, j'ai une erreur : dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c Packages.gz Est-ce que LANG=C dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c Packages.gz fonctionne ? J'obtiens toujours le même message

Re: Probleme avec la commande dpkg-scanpackages

2010-03-10 Thread MARTY
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Bonjour, On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, MARTY wrote: Lors de l'exécution de la commande dpkg-scanpackages pour créer le fichier Packages.gz, j'ai une erreur : dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c Packages.gz Est-ce que LANG=C dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip

Re: Probleme avec la commande dpkg-scanpackages

2010-03-10 Thread MARTY
Il ne doit pas y avoir d'espace avant les :. Je ne sais pas comment vous avez généré ce paquet, mais ces espaces ne doivent pas y être, c'est à cause de cela que ces informations ne sont pas reconnues par dpkg-scanpackages. A+ Merci beaucoup pour ce coup de main, j'ai honte de mon erreur

aptitude install et ssh

2010-05-27 Thread MARTY
Bonjour a tous, Je voudrais monter un depot de package sur lequel les utilisateurs viendrait se servir via ssh. Pour cela je vais creer un user qui sera utiliser pour recuperer les packages de maniere standard, avec un aptitude/apt-get install. Je voudrais donc limiter au maximum les droits

Re: script bash

2010-07-07 Thread MARTY
Tahar BEN ACHOUR wrote: Bonjour à tous, Bonjour, Une petite question en bash, Je voudrais savoir comment faire pour échapper les ' ' afin que ma variable soit prise en compte, [..] sed -i '1iLogFile /srv/logs/$domain' $line ici je n'ai pas su comment echapper la quote

Re: Re : script bash

2010-07-07 Thread MARTY
Tahar BEN ACHOUR wrote: Je fais ca en mettant ma variable entre double quote : sed -i '1iLogFile /srv/logs/$domain' $line Merci pour ton aide, mais ça ne marche pas ainsi j'obtiens $domain comme résultat Et en mettant des double quote partout : sed -i

Re: Probleme aptitude upgrade

2010-07-07 Thread MARTY
Regarde ce que te sort un apt-cache policy La priorité pour mon dépot est de 500, comme les autres. et un apt-cache policy nom du package Ici, je vois comme un soucis en effet : WeblibBase : Install : (aucun) Candidat : 1.0.4.0 C'est étrange puisque je viens juste d'installer la

[apt-get] Problème d'installation.

2010-07-12 Thread MARTY
Bonjour à tous, J'ai quelques problèmes avec l'installation d'un package que j'ai créé. Je l'installe, mais la machine ne semble pas s'en 'souvenir'. Je m'explique : Je n'ai aucun soucis pour le créer, je pense donc (à tord peut être) que tout ce qui est nécessaire est présent dans le

Re: Mythtv problem with versions

2012-05-21 Thread Marty
On 04/29/12 10:41, Rob Owens wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a server running Squeeze. It has mythtv-backend to record all my TV programs. On my desktop I run Sid. After an update over the weekend, my Mythtv Frontend will no longer connect to

Re: Unable to get X to start on new flat screen monitor using DVI

2012-06-18 Thread Marty
(II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC read failed Are you missing an I2C driver? Also, just WAG but maybe 1280X720 will work anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

no recent Squeeze updates

2011-07-23 Thread Marty
I have not gotten any package updates, including security upgrades, in any of my Squeeze systems for at least two weeks. In my experience this is unprecedented. I have not changed my apt config or sources.list. Is there a change in the update policy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-22 Thread Marty
(AHA-2940). Any ideas? Marty -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

1998-07-28 Thread Marty
seem to being out these failures. I hope this helps someone else out there. Marty On Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:13:39 GMT, you wrote: I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using one or more scripts, such as find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string looping with some

Re: pppconfig command not found

2007-03-24 Thread Marty
eklektik wrote: - Original Message From: Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: eklektik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 1:58:48 PM Subject: Re: pppconfig command not found eklektik wrote: This was the output massage: depends on ppp (=2.3.7) package ppp is not installed Jmak

Re: /dev/ttyUSB0 missing (Palm device)

2007-03-25 Thread Marty
Benjamí Villoslada wrote: Hi, I don't see what change in Debian Sid (some dist upgrede, suposse) makes that the Palm sync doesn't work. Seems that the reason is that the system doesn't create the /dev/ttyUSB0 --when the 'sync' button push. Some days ago, when sync work fine, I've the

Re: /dev/ttyUSB0 missing (Palm device)

2007-03-25 Thread Marty
Benjamí Villoslada wrote: El Diumenge 25 Març 2007 21:05, Marty va escriure: Did you look for any configuration file changes in /etc/udev, particularly in udev.rules? I don't know, because never looked in this file. Have this for USB: # USB devices SUBSYSTEMS

Re: ext3 fs /var corrupt :(

2007-03-25 Thread Marty
Pim Bliek wrote: Hi I need some help. I think I screwed my /var while trying to resize it online.. :( Nice these new features in ext3... NOT :( Is there anyone out here that is willing to help on this one? A filesystem/ext3 guru? Preferable someone in the Netherlands as well, but any help is

Re: what happen to : dpkg --check-md5sums ?

2007-04-12 Thread Marty
Björn Keil wrote: Mathieu Malaterre schrieb: On 4/11/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hello, I am trying to figure out what is the new command to verify that the md5sums files archived in my deb file (binary package) is actually correct.

Re: dnsmasq in debian

2007-04-16 Thread Marty
Gunnar Björkdahl wrote: Since my intention is to replace the old DNS-server which uses BIND, and have a new shiny DNS, i figured out that I probably must continue to use BIND since dnsmasq is only a caching DNS. Right? So, am I stuck with BIND then? I don't think so, unless your ISP TOS

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-17 Thread Marty
Russell L. Harris wrote: Beware: Some of the larger Creative players require the use of software such as gnomad. But I think that this is not the case with the ZEN NANO PLUS (usb 2.0, 1000 Mbyte). True, although they lack .ogg support and you have to put .wav files in a special directory

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

2007-04-21 Thread Marty
Peter Valdemar Morch wrote: Hi there, We have 100s of almost identical machines that need to be kept up-to-date with apt-get dist-upgrade . Having to run apt-get dist-upgrade manually on all of them is just not working (taking too much man-power) due to having to answer the same Y/N

Debian policy on copyright

2007-05-02 Thread Marty
The recent media debate over a released HD-DVD key, and resulting DMCA take-down notices, got me thinking about a broad range of questions regarding Debian policy about IP rights in general, and specifically about numbers as copyrighted intellectual propery. Any piece of digital content is a

Re: Debian policy on copyright

2007-05-02 Thread Marty
Joey Hess wrote: Marty wrote: I have long questioned whether copyright can be clearly enough defined to be generally enforceable. The same can be said about anything from murder to jaywalking. This is why we have judges who generate case law. IANAL but I see two qualitative differences

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Marty
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:37 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's installation. So I should clear mbr. which linux command should I use? dd

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Marty
Serena Cantor wrote: I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's installation. So I should clear mbr. which linux command should I use? It's not a linux command, but a DOS command, fdisk /mbr (or something

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Marty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:04:42AM -0400, Marty wrote: A better alternative may be to first set up lilo to boot Debian from another device or partition. Then when you install NT/2k you can still boot Debian, and you also have the option of using the BIOS boot menu

Re: Traffic monitoring in small office

2007-05-17 Thread Marty
rocky wrote: Hey, In my office, we have 11 computers. We have 2 2M broad band accounts from our ISP. We use a router combines 2 income cable and use 2 8 ports switches to make every computer have the Internet access. The problem is right now we got very unstable Internet access. Therefore, I'm

Re: Traffic monitoring in small office

2007-05-18 Thread Marty
rocky wrote: On May 17, 8:10 pm, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rocky wrote: Hey, In my office, we have 11 computers. We have 2 2M broad band accounts from our ISP. We use a router combines 2 income cable and use 2 8 ports switches to make every computer have the Internet access

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Marty
Michael Marsh wrote: On 5/30/07, Max Hyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: _But_, please put anger aside a moment and examine the GFDL with unbiased eyes. If a document has an invariant section, then you have a file a) with a lump of lead inside that has to be dragged around with

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-29 Thread Marty
Steve Lamb wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it,

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-10-31 Thread Marty
Dougie Nisbet wrote: A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to reboot. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed. It is a dual-processor PIII. It runs stable. It is tucked away in the loft and usually has no monitor attached so tracking this down is difficult.

Re: echo/sed combination inserts extra characters

2006-11-18 Thread Marty
Jesus Arocho wrote: I want to rename a series of photo files downloaded from a camera; the intent is to append the date to the beginning of the file name. The relevant lines are: newdir=`date +%F | sed 's/-//g'` #newdir used to make the directory and to rename the files. new=Í„`echo $i |

Re: configuring ppp and lan

2006-11-27 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finally beginning to have some internet here in the Appennine alps. No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm modem. (To be truthful, I still don't know if it will work at the house which also has no mobile signal, but I have a directional antenna with a 10dB gain

archive debs missing on US mirror

2007-07-22 Thread Marty
For years I have used rsync to maintain my debian archive mirror. Lately a number of unstable .debs, always the latest versions, seem to be missing from from debian/pool/main on ftp.debian.org, in spite of their md5sums appearing in the list at debian/indices/md5sums.gz. An example is

Re: Poor Xorg performance in Etch

2007-08-18 Thread Marty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 06:01:10PM -0400, Marty wrote: Hello: I recently installed Etch on my new system and found X performance to be sluggish, particularly when using Iceape. It appears as if there is little or no hardware acceleration, remeniscent of a K7 with a slow

Re: Poor Xorg performance in Etch

2007-08-19 Thread Marty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 09:10:32PM -0400, Marty wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: For 2D apps it should be very fast. Its responsiveness seems normal under moderate graphics load, only a few percent of the CPU, but jumps to 100% under heavy load, such as scolling up

Re: Poor Xorg performance in Etch

2007-08-19 Thread Marty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 07:04:32AM -0400, Marty wrote: I'm not sure about it. Now I think it's limited to opening and closing certain web pages. not applications. Try disabling javascript, flash, ... things like that. Regards, Andrei I have removed all plugins

Re: Poor Xorg performance in Etch

2007-08-19 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: I have removed all plugins, and disabled java, javascript and cookies. I have also disabled images and link prefetching. None of these changes fix the problem. On the same site I found a page that scrolls even more slowly: http://www.dailytech.com/German+Scientists+Declare

Re: Poor Xorg performance in Etch

2007-08-19 Thread Marty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:04:13AM -0400, Marty wrote: New observations after further testing: First, I think I was mistaken, and this problem does not occur in my other Etch system. Secondly, top shows only one CPU pegged at 100%, while the overall CPU utilization

Re: Poor Xorg performance in Etch

2007-08-19 Thread Marty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 10:42:22AM -0400, Marty wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:04:13AM -0400, Marty wrote: New observations after further testing: First, I think I was mistaken, and this problem does not occur in my other Etch system

Re: Poor Xorg performance in Etch

2007-08-19 Thread Marty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Two things: it appears that Xorg isn't multi-threaded, and that there is a problem. I don't know how to fix it. Does the problem happen with Konqureror or iceweasel as well or only with iceape? Konqueror has almost identical symptoms, though slightly less severe.

Re: Poor Xorg performance in Etch

2007-08-19 Thread Marty
Kelly Clowers wrote: On 8/18/07, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I recently installed Etch on my new system and found X performance to be sluggish, particularly when using Iceape. It appears as if there is little or no hardware acceleration, remeniscent of a K7 with a slow graphics card

resolved: Re: Poor Xorg performance in Etch

2007-08-19 Thread Marty
I found a reference to the problem here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/81858 I tried the recommended solution and it seems to work: Potential Workaround (verified to help for some): Use Option XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps in your xorg.conf device section It seems like

Slow bash script

2007-09-09 Thread Marty
The following script seems to run abnormally slow on a 400Mhz Sarge system, getting only about one iteration per second in the while loop. It extracts md5sums from a 180k Packages file and makes an indices file. I've narrowed down the slowdown to the lines in the while loop starting with

Re: Slow bash script

2007-09-09 Thread Marty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:23:42PM -0400, Marty wrote: The following script seems to run abnormally slow on a 400Mhz Sarge system, getting only about one iteration per second in the while loop. It extracts md5sums from a 180k Packages file and makes an indices

Re: Slow bash script

2007-09-09 Thread Marty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: to clarify, you've done something to the normal .bz2 Packages files, I gather (like unzipped them, right?) and perhaps in the process you've mutated them into some other form resulting in more than one line of data being crammed into $inputline. just a thought.

Re: Slow bash script

2007-09-09 Thread Marty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:35:12PM -0400, Marty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:23:42PM -0400, Marty wrote: The following script seems to run abnormally slow on a 400Mhz Sarge system, getting only about one iteration per second

Re: reinstall all packages

2007-09-20 Thread Marty
Tod Detre wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do I force files to be overwritten in aptitude ? Like apt-get --purge remove package apt-get install package, but in aptitude. Re-installing in aptitude doesn't overwrite modified files. Is there an option ? This isn't in

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Marty
Greg Vickers wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian installation on AMD64. I've used module assistant to create the lirc kernel modules and the modules install and modprobe successfully: # lsmod | grep lirc lirc_i2c 14980 0 lirc_dev

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Marty
Greg Vickers wrote: Hi Marty, Marty wrote: Greg Vickers wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian installation on AMD64. I've used module assistant to create the lirc kernel modules and the modules install and modprobe successfully: # lsmod | grep lirc

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Marty
Greg Vickers wrote: Hi Andrew, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:14:36PM +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get lirc to work with my Hauppauge on my Debian installation on AMD64. I've used module assistant to create the lirc kernel modules and the

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-24 Thread Marty
David Brodbeck wrote: I find with LIRC it's usually easiest to abandon using packages and build it from scratch. It seems to be much easier to configure that way. I realize this isn't the Debian-correct(tm) way to do it but it's usually what I resort to. In the case or the original

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-25 Thread Marty
Greg Vickers wrote: Hi Marty, Marty wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: I find with LIRC it's usually easiest to abandon using packages and build it from scratch. It seems to be much easier to configure that way. I realize this isn't the Debian-correct(tm) way to do it but it's usually what I

Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Marty
While copying 30MB of text from a backuppc (web-based) log on a remote server, I ran into several problems: 1) Selecting the text using the Iceape edit-select-all menu option pegs the 2.8GB CPU at 100% for tens of seconds, although it is much faster in subsequent attempts. 2) Each

Re: Major application resource leaks in Etch

2007-09-30 Thread Marty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:59:03PM -0400, Marty wrote: While copying 30MB of text from a backuppc (web-based) log on a remote server, I ran into several problems: 1) Selecting the text using the Iceape edit-select-all menu option pegs the 2.8GB CPU at 100% for tens

where did restart go?

2007-10-12 Thread Marty
I recently upgraded to Etch, and noticed that the restart command seems to be missing: # restart bash: restart: command not found I don't think this a path problem, since there seems to be no executable by that name. Is it a bash builtin problem? Thanks for any assistance. -- To

New error with backslashes in filenames

2007-10-14 Thread Marty
I get the following new error on my recently upgraded Etch system: $ touch test\file $ md5sum test\file \d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e test\\file Note the leading backslash. This is some thing I haven't seen before, and it breaks some of my maintenance scripts which don't have control

OT: Latest mythtv upgrade fails, possible solution

2007-10-15 Thread Marty
With the latest Etch mythtv upgrade, I got no video and this error message: NVP: Timed out waiting for free video buffers Following the the web page below, I disabled the Enable OpenGL vertical sync for timing under mythtv's playback option, which seems to have corrected the problem. I have

System hangs with fundup

2007-10-21 Thread Marty
I am experimenting with fslint's findup script as an alternative for the non-debian freedups.pl script, which no longer seems to work with Etch, at least on my system. The findup documentation is sparse or non-existent and I am not sure I am using it correctly by running directly, but the

USB external hard drive spin down problem

2007-10-28 Thread Marty
On my Etch system a new Western Digital USB external hard drive seems to be automatically spinning itself down after a period of inactivity, and causing the USB controller to become unresponsive to all USB devices until the system is rebooted. I don't see any other problems. Based on my web

Re: USB external hard drive spin down problem

2007-10-28 Thread Marty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Marty wrote: On my Etch system a new Western Digital USB external hard drive seems to be automatically spinning itself down after a period of inactivity, and causing the USB controller to become unresponsive to all USB devices

Re: /etc/host.conf questions

2007-10-30 Thread Marty
Mike Kuhar wrote: That would be /etc/nsswitch.conf Is this file used by Etch? Here is what I get with the apt-file search command: # apt-file search /etc/nsswitch.conf gosa: usr/share/doc/gosa/contrib/altlinux/etc/nsswitch.conf systemimager-boot-i386-standard:

Re: USB external hard drive spin down problem

2007-10-31 Thread Marty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:15:44AM -0400, Marty wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Marty wrote: On my Etch system a new Western Digital USB external hard drive seems to be automatically spinning itself down after a period

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-03 Thread Marty
Richard wrote: Looking to get into programming for linux, would like to do: Java, Perl Lisp What editors (IDE or RAD) environment application would work or if needed to run 2 or 3 different editors that would be fine too. (please no: emacs or vi (or command line apps) wanting something

Re: Vá: home network behind a firew all/router

2007-11-04 Thread Marty
Pál Csányi wrote: I set up on both box-2 box-3 the dhcp client to get the domain-name-servers, and have these servers in resolv.conf. Did you enable packet forwarding on box 1? Yes I did. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is 1 Is shorewall masquerading for you? No, I have not a public IP

Re: Strange boot-time hang (long, sorry)

2007-11-11 Thread Marty
Andrew Reid wrote: Greetings all -- I am having difficulty diagnosing a strange boot-time hang on one of my systems. I have googled around for clues, but I'm coming up empty. The system is a file server, it's a dual-core Opteron machine, 4G RAM, root FS on a software RAID1 array

Is etc/Net a file or directory? Ans: Yes

2007-11-11 Thread Marty
Upon upgrading perl-modules, one my systems installed a new configuration file called /etc/Net, while the other systems have a directory by this name. How is that possible? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to send files from a pc to my home server and viceversa

2007-02-28 Thread Marty
Jordi wrote: Hi again. It took me some time but finally I did folder sharing between my server and the windows pc with samba. This is how I did: 1) I created a working group in XP as Joe said. 2) I rebooted the XP machine 3) I loaded the package list in Synaptic on Xubuntu, that was outdated.

Re: Hardware failure -- how to find out?

2007-03-07 Thread Marty
Cassiano Leal wrote: People, I have at work a mixed system Debian sarge/etch running a firewall and vpn server on a K6-2. Today, we were experiencing some connectivity problems, and we found out that they were caused by iptables not initiating properly and segfaulting. So, I went into the

Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-11 Thread Marty
Stefan Monnier wrote: I wanted a live Debian system on my USB key. The Debian Live option is too static for my taste, I wanted a real live system, upgradable via apt-get etc... One option is to use a large enough USB drive and do a plain Debian install on it. But my USB drive is only 128MB so

Re: Is that all there is to it??

2007-03-13 Thread Marty
Marc Shapiro wrote: I have been running Debian since Bo, which was about eight, or nine years ago IIRC. I have been through several system upgrades and hard disc changes, but I just move the HD to the new system, or copy it to a new HD and install that. I've been doing that that since

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-17 Thread Marty
A. Ben Hmeda wrote: I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. My network connection has slowed down considerably since I installed Ubuntu Dapper (6.06.1 LTS) I have disabled ipv6 in /etc/aliases and Firefox, still slow by about 50%. My machine AMDSMP is dual boot w2k/ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-18 Thread Marty
A. Ben Hmeda wrote: I have an Internet router for sharing cable Internet connection. 3 PCs plugged into this router, class C network, I think. All with static IPs 192.168.1.2,3 and 4. Gateway (router) is 192.168.1.1 DNS is my ISP's 64.71.255.198 I am using 100Mb Ethernet and 10/100Mb router.

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-18 Thread Marty
Thilo Six wrote: what gives you $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling ? It should be 0 It's 1 on my system. From ip-sysctl.txt: tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323. This seems like a good thing. Why do you say it should be 0? -- To

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-18 Thread Marty
Joe Hart wrote: Some files (/etc/dchp3/dhclient.conf for example) are very well commented, others (/etc/network/interfaces) are not. IMO, it would be best if all config files were well commented, especially ones that may need to be edited. As far as standardizing conffile documentation, I

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-20 Thread Marty
Greg Folkert wrote: Even though Ian Murdock says so. He is saying it is Debian, because it is spawned by Debian... it is related, but has diverged significantly from Debian. It has especially change in the init sections of the OS, which is where YOUR problem exists. I don't think that's been

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-08 Thread Marty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used in what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit grimey inside; not just dust that blows away. I figure that I should clean that off so the dust doesn't act like a thermal

Re: bridging eth1 to eth0

2006-12-30 Thread Marty
Matt Price wrote: On 12/29/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 04:42:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: From: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bridge eth1 to eth0? Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:51:31 -0500

Re: bridging eth1 to eth0

2006-12-30 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: There is a dedicated Debian package called guarddog which produces such a script. You might want to take a look at its docs to get an idea of what's required. Sorry, I meant guidedog, not guarddog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Clone root partition

2006-12-30 Thread Marty
T wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile a comprehensive document on cloning root partitions. My immediate goal is to clone my current working Linux to external USB HD, so that I can use it wherever I go. By comprehensive I mean it should not be as simple minded as dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/sda2

Re: /dev/dsp missing (SOLVED)

2006-12-31 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:53:14PM +0100, Benjam? Villoslada wrote: I've seen this message durning one reboot (in order to test oss modules load): /etc/modprobe.conf exists but does not include /etc/modprobe.d/! I see that my /etc/modprobe.conf is empty (no idea about

Re: Sarge: name resolution weirdness

2006-12-31 Thread Marty
Carl Fink wrote: So, do I hold the record for questions debian-user can't answer? The broken link sounds like an issue for the maintainer to sort out. My guess is the name resolution with non-existent resolv.conf files is somehow related to virtualization. Happy new year to everyone

Re: Sarge: name resolution weirdness

2007-01-01 Thread Marty
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:34:19PM -0500, Marty wrote: Carl Fink wrote: So, do I hold the record for questions debian-user can't answer? The broken link sounds like an issue for the maintainer to sort out. My guess is the name resolution with non-existent resolv.conf files

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Marty
Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now I want to capture digital video from my video camera and burn it on CD's or DVD's. I am using the 1800+

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-01 Thread Marty
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 14:39 -0500, Marty wrote: I recommend at least 1G of DDR SDRAM, which KX400 fully supports, but may not fully utilized by the 1800+. Why would the CPU speed limit the amount of memory you can use? If the motherboard can handle 3GB, the CPU

Re: how to copy and/or rip DVDs with Debian?

2007-01-01 Thread Marty
vineyard saker wrote: Today I bought three DVD+R(DL) and all went perfectly until I stuck the DVD into my regular (living room) DVD player which could not read it! I tried on my computer with mplayer and it could read it with no problem whatsoever so the DVD itself is not at fault. I can only

Re: how to copy and/or rip DVDs with Debian?

2007-01-01 Thread Marty
Bruno Buys wrote: vineyard, Your win-friends should have used dvdshrink for that. I found K9copy to be the closest alternative in the linux world. when I first found it I got very happy, but by now, k9copy crashed enough to lower my happines a gret deal. It seems, indeed, to be unable to deal

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

2007-01-02 Thread Marty
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 17:40 -0500, Marty wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: Why would the CPU speed limit the amount of memory you can use? If the motherboard can handle 3GB, the CPU will handle 3GB. Hans I meant in terms of performance, not capacity. I don't recall

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-07 Thread Marty
David Shultz wrote: On 1/7/07, Hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look to xorg log file ! I don't find anything maybe because i'm a newbie. if you could look at my XFree86.0.log I would appreciate it: I see where the Display Data Channel (or DDC protocol, which IDs your monitor) module

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-08 Thread Marty
David Shultz wrote: On 1/7/07, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see where the Display Data Channel (or DDC protocol, which IDs your monitor) module (ddc) is loaded, but none of the output. Maybe you are missing the I2C drivers for your motherboard or the graphics card drivers, both of which

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-10 Thread Marty
David Shultz wrote: Sorry for late reply. On 1/9/07, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install the package lm-sensors and run sensors-detect, it will even write the modules to /etc/modules for you That's nice, but if hardware is not autodetected at boot or at very least during Debian

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-10 Thread Marty
David Shultz wrote: modprobe fb_nvidia_i2c I did exactly that it gives an error message: FATAL: Module fb_nvidia_i2c not found. I may have missed it. What kernel are you running? I'm using kernel 2.6.8-3-386 I don't see it for 2.6.8 although there is an fb_riva_i2c, which is probably

Re: HAL (was Why there is no space left on root partition?)

2007-01-21 Thread Marty
Ken Heard wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Are these packages installed: hal hal-device-manager libhal-storage1 libhal1 This is my first exposure to the HAL package, the Hardware Extraction Layer. It is not installed in my box. The HAL description in aptitude reads as follows: HAL provides an

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-27 Thread Marty
Mitchell Verter wrote: I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT. Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows running; my case is the reverse. The computer already has Debian

Re: Handing over boot sequence from one drive to another

2007-01-28 Thread Marty
MeneM wrote: Dear List, Could anyone tell me how to copy my current debian installation to a different external iomega jazz drive, and be able to boot from it in case of emergency? I like rsync for this task. There are also many specialized backup tools in Debian. I'm figuring; reading

dvdstyler, not valid mpeg-file

2007-01-28 Thread Marty
I am generating MPEG-2 files in hardware using the WinTV PVR-150 MCE. About one in 20 files is rejected by dvdstyler as not valid mpeg-file. Mythtv and totem have no problems playing the files. The Mythtv video file settings are all default as installed. Everything on my system is stock sarge

Re: Handing over boot sequence from one drive to another

2007-01-29 Thread Marty
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.01.29.0403 +]: Why not mirror the whole drive? and then make it bootable with fdisk right? No, you use lilo or grub. If you mirror the drive, you also mirror the boot sector. You can only do this if the drives

Re: Free me from the pain of NFS!

2007-01-31 Thread Marty
Tyler MacDonald wrote: Hello everybody, I currently have several NFS mounts to share my media between my PVR, my workstation, and my neighbour's workstation downstairs. The problem is, a lot of the time the mounts are not loaded on boot for some reason or another (eg; in the

Re: Debian switches driver letters preventing boot

2007-02-04 Thread Marty
Gmail wrote: Thanks, Nick. This seems to get me part of the way there. I created a modified initrd that does a modprobe -q hpt366 before it loads the generic ide module. The hpt366 module was already in the initrd image. I modified my /etc/fstab to reflect hda instead of hde for the root

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