kernels 3.0, 3.2, 3.4 won't boot in KVM

2012-09-12 Thread Neal Murphy
I've encountered a problem with Debian Squeeze. Wheezy doesn't seem to have a bigmem kernel, so I can't test it there. I have a custom firewall based on Smoothwall. I've been testing it (kernel 2.6.35 with PAE and SMP) on Squeeze in KVM without trouble for a couple years. When I upgraded my

Re: dpkg/apt voodoo to ask what version of pkg is installed, if any?

2012-09-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 04:54:27 PM Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 12 sep 12, 15:44:59, Kris Deugau wrote: Is there a single command that can do this for both virtual and real packages, a la rpm -q --whatprovides? I have no idea what that command does, can you provide an example?

Re: deprecated (Re: What Version To Install On iMac?)

2012-09-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 07:44:03 PM Chris Bannister wrote: How do you call it when software or an administrator is being deprecated, i. e. the process of deprecating something/making something I can only think of the word redundant (surplus to requirements) at the moment. e.g. The

Re: Installation

2012-09-18 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 01:06:33 PM Ross Boylan wrote: On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 10:03 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: At its root, my objection in this subthread isn't necessarily to the information and functionality available in the current installer, but to the implied statement that

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-18 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 03:25:45 PM lee wrote: Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.uk writes: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Yes and when I replace the interface I have now (eth1) with a bridge device (br1), then how do I tell shorewall that the guest is in the dmz (for example)?

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-19 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 05:59:47 PM lee wrote: Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu writes: So yes, if you want 'real' networking, you'll need bridges and taps. Thank you, I'll have to look into taps then. Do you think it's a good idea to just create a bridge device

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-19 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 08:42:57 PM lee wrote: Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu writes: On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 05:59:47 PM lee wrote: Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu writes: So yes, if you want 'real' networking, you'll need bridges and taps. Thank you

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-20 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, September 20, 2012 03:55:48 PM Lionel Trésaugues wrote: And the sub-pixel order is equal too? The sub-pixel order is set to rgb (like I do in Ubuntu). I can definitely see a (worse) change if I use a different mode. Disabling the sub-pixel smoothing didn't improve anything

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, September 21, 2012 04:53:21 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: It's not writing style but attitude. My attitude is that people should be self reliant. Only when they search and can't find an answer should they ask on a mailing list. Especially in this case, when the answer is so damn easy

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday, September 22, 2012 03:33:47 PM Scarletdown wrote: On 9/22/2012 12:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 22 sep 12, 14:31:06, d d wrote: I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other software from a hard drive leaving a completely clean hard drive. dd

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-23 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, September 23, 2012 05:08:19 AM Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 22, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, no NTP daemon should crash because of skewed time; one thing is that it refushes to sync (which can be fine, and should log this fact so the admin can make the proper

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-25 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 02:12:10 AM Ross Boylan wrote: I wish you would be more civil instead of more clever about being incivil. Never mind that Miss Manners would be utterly aghast that someone would try to claim the right to behave rudely, impolitely and/or barbarously simply

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 02:26:11 AM Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 04:12:31PM +, Camaleón wrote: Okay, I agree the user does not need to hold a MS in Computer Science as a previous requirement for installing an OS and managing a computer. But an MS in Astronomy

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

2012-09-26 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:33:42 PM lina wrote: $ ls -lrt total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 lina lina 367 Sep 27 00:15 RET drwx-- 2 lina lina 4096 Sep 27 00:16 auto-save-list Look closer: there's a space you are overlooking. ls -ls RET might work, and ls -ls *RET will definitely work

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

2012-09-26 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:48:38 PM Tony van der Hoff wrote: That's the main reason I always use a fixed-pitch font for CLI stuff and email. So why was your post HTML? Hoist on me own petard! I thought I had all that turned off long ago. It keeps sneaking back, though. -- To

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

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

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

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

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

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

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, September 28, 2012 08:23:59 AM Dom wrote: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 082 006Pre-fail Always - 96695847 Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very low. Not necessarily. At least one disk mfr (Seagate?) puts

Re: command isn't working in crontab

2012-09-28 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, September 28, 2012 07:35:04 PM Tomas Hulata wrote: Hello, below command works in command line but not as a cronjob can someone explain me why? 23 58 * * * rootcd /some_path/;mkdir CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y);mv ./CAM1/*.* ./CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)/;mkdir CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y);mv

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, September 28, 2012 08:58:47 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 082 006Pre-fail Always - 96695847 Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very low. Not necessarily. At least one

[NIT] Re: Debian Small CD install netinst.iso

2012-10-07 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, October 07, 2012 03:18:25 PM Paul E Condon wrote: Windows and Debian use different file systems on disk. I think Windows is incapable of modifying data on extN formatted disks that Debian uses. A minor NIT to pick. There is an EXT3 driver for Winders that enables it to read and

Re: OT: man in the middle attack ?

2012-10-10 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 03:14:23 PM Joe wrote: And finally, there are a few people who are just plain prickly... but one of the most important of all freedoms is the freedom to offend. As is the freedom to choose to brush off offenses--be they real or perceived-- or to take them

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-10 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 08:19:25 PM houkensjtu wrote: Thanks for great reply!! I have to apologize for sth... I forgot to say that all these experiments were done in home on my laptop...omg So, now I solved the problem with echo 1/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward What is this file? Is

Re: arp cache incomplete entries

2012-10-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, October 11, 2012 08:47:37 PM Celejar wrote: I'm no expert, but my impression is that any machine which is asked to connect to some other host by IP address will issue such an ARP request, so if I do 'ping x.x.x.x', and x.x.x.x has not been recently in contact with my machine, my

Re: arp cache incomplete entries

2012-10-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:23:31 AM Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: In a pattern that is becoming all too familiar, the problematic machine sends an ARP request, to which the nameserver replies. But the reply is never received by the asking machine. So says wireshark. Could this be a

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:40:40 AM Wally Lepore wrote: Hi Debain Users, I'm at the final stages of Installing NOT Ubuntu but Debian 'Squeeze' on my dual-boot system. Windows is installed on the 1st hard drive (/dev/sda) and Debian will be installed on the 2nd hard drive (/dev/sdb).

Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-15 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, October 15, 2012 05:19:29 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: Assumed that you are not blind, perhaps a YouTube video will help you to learn faste, resp. it might better explain how to e.g. become root in a terminal emulation. Or, perhaps, a simple list of ways to become root without any

Re: aptitude interface help

2012-10-15 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:34:24 AM james gray wrote: Question: where in the file system is the individual file for help in the aptitude interface environment. The man pages are typically in /usr/share/man. The man page for aptitude is found in section 8. So, try: zcat

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-19 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, October 19, 2012 07:00:35 PM John Hasler wrote: ...and requires emacs to be installed. So what? I used emacs back when it was written in TECO and have used a few flavors since. I'd *never* advise a new user to use emacs. They have enough to learn; they don't need to double or

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-19 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, October 19, 2012 08:27:25 PM Chris Bannister wrote: ... I will add that, if anyone does take the emacs+gnus route they will have a powerful and versatile system which a lot of developers/users swear by. On the other hand, a lot of developers/users swear by the vim+mutt route.

Re: Kernel documentation

2012-10-21 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, October 21, 2012 04:14:17 AM Lisi wrote: quote We advise studying the README files in this root directory of the kernel source, and Documentation/Changes or the documentation index of the kernel in Documentation/00-INDEX. /quote Presumably I have to download a kernel source to

Re: Screenshots

2012-10-22 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, October 22, 2012 07:23:58 PM lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: ImageMagicks import commmand seems to work better to select a portion of the page...but it needs a new file name for each shot..which makes it a little awkward. Does anyone have

what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-13 Thread Neal Murphy
Any idea what would cause the following errors and how to recover? The system was fine until I installed updates recently. -- Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..network problems. Fix those, and try again. Checked. The host I'm working on shows no networking errors. The firewall shows no errors. The resets do seem to come from the remote (seen using tcpdump on the internet link). There've been

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-16 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday 15 June 2012 02:07:02 Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Neal, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: Aptitude also reports W: GPG error on security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release: the following signatures were invalid: NODATA 2 So I give up. Next time I'm down

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-23 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..network problems. Fix those, and try again. Huh. Whadya know. I loaded Wheezy 64-bit and the same problem occurred. Connected the system directly to the network interface and the problem vanished. Connected it directly to the IPCop

Marvell SATA/Raid problem

2012-06-23 Thread Neal Murphy
Wheezy 64-bit. Marvell PCIE SATA/Raid card with one drive (in a CRU DP10), non-RAID. Main board has two identical Hitachi 1TB drives on on-board SATA ports used in md RAID. Running Squeeze 32-bit, it was handling hot-plugged drives just fine. Switched to Wheezy 64-bit and it no longer detects

Re: A qualified Yes - was [Re: Is the a 'contrarian' Debian install available?]

2012-06-23 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday 23 June 2012 13:30:55 Richard Owlett wrote: It appears that I can reach my goal using netinst.iso. I doubt that few, if any, would recommend my goals or route. I'd certainly recommend your approach over building your own distro! Although I might give Linux From Scratch a plug. If

Wheezy x86-64 inotifywait problem?

2012-06-25 Thread Neal Murphy
Would someone be kind enough to try: inotifywait -e unmount /home if /home is a separate FS? Or of any separately mounted non-FUSE FS. I'm getting: Setting up watches. Couldn't watch /home: Invalid argument Other aspects of inotifywait seem to work. It works on Squeeze. I'd like to

Re: Marvell SATA/Raid problem

2012-06-25 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday 23 June 2012 05:28:17 Camaleón wrote: Are there any known problems with Marvell SATA and Wheezy 64-bit? (...) None that I'm aware of :-? Anyway, something that was working fine in Squeeze is expected to be working in upcoming kernel versions. Unless you missed something,

Re: Bridging eth0/br0 NetworkManager - can they coexist?

2012-06-29 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday 29 June 2012 10:02:57 Steve Dowe wrote: Hello, I have absolutely no doubt that someone reading this list knows more than I do on this.. :) The issue I'm having, using wheezy, is that if I set up a bridged ethernet interface for eth0 (br0), as per instructions on the Debian wiki

Re: Bridging eth0/br0 NetworkManager - can they coexist?

2012-07-02 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday 02 July 2012 12:30:32 Steve Dowe wrote: On 29/06/12 17:34, Neal Murphy wrote: The bridge device (e.g. br0) is a network interface. The NIC is a network interface. The tap device (e.g. tap0) appears as a network interface to the VM. A bridge device doesn't need a real NIC

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-29 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, October 29, 2012 03:26:20 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 15:00 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi :) how can I get rid of the variable seconds?

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-29 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, October 29, 2012 04:31:03 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: FOR YOUR EXAMPLE, IIUC IT SHOULD BE? ... ### Killall and Restore session started=$(date +%s) sleep 2 ### Time month=$(date +%B) mon=$(date +%b) d_y_t=$(date '+/%d/%Y %T') done=$(date +%s)

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Neal Murphy
I hate waiting for my computer to do things. Swapping and paging at all? Add more RAM. CPU-starved while running multiple processes? Add more CPUs. By and large, for most desktop purchases, the most economical and reliable system will have a Gigabyte 790 or 970 mboard (I've never had a Gigabyte

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-03 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday, November 03, 2012 01:47:40 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: Motorola 680x0, DEC Alpha, SGI MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Motorola/IBM PowerPC, Sun SPARC, Cray Vector, Intel Itanium (irony here). You missed Moto's 88K which vastly outperformed the 68K. The Moto/Freescale embedded PPC (though clearly

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-03 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday, November 03, 2012 02:50:00 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: I do support AMD, and I never said they're on a collision course with bankruptcy. What I did say is competing head to head with Intel in the x86 CPU market is a tough game, and they have made many missteps along the way.

Re: [OT] debian package maintain tutorial

2012-11-04 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 04, 2012 11:24:34 AM lina wrote: Please also understand that people's mind not programmed the same. We learned things by different ways. I really had difficulty reading manuals even I messed up lots of things by blindly try. I read manual, but just don't get it. Don't feel

Re: Mysterious packet

2012-11-08 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, November 08, 2012 11:58:33 AM Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:26:23PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I've started getting messages like the following: [12332.047451] IN=ppp0 OUT=ppp0 SRC=74.125.133.188 DST=25.46.128.71 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=50 ID=46353

Re: Mysterious packet

2012-11-09 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, November 09, 2012 06:30:37 PM Tom Furie wrote: Not sure it helps any, but the 74.125.0.0/16 block belongs to Google and the 25.0.0.0/8 block belongs to the UK's MoD. Looks like some sort of attack attempt to me. Were I a paranoid type, I might think that someone was inventing a new

Re: Awk, filtering match through external command

2012-11-09 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, November 09, 2012 11:28:29 PM T o n g wrote: Any way to filter through external command to variable, somewhat like: head /etc/group | awk '{print $0 | cut -d':' -f1 | getline result ;}' Any way to make it works? You'd *think* there'd be a way to do that, but I don't think awk

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-10 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 12:42:09 AM Gean Ceretta wrote: *# chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean/* This is your trouble. You recursively changed the ownership of everything *in* /home/gean, but you did not change /home/gean itself. Try: chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean This will also change

Re: Directory ownership

2012-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 01:50:03 AM Gean Ceretta wrote: Thanks Neal and Charlie, I've tried: *# chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean* but the ownership stays the same root, maybe its important to say that the /home is an NTFS partition, mounted by /etc/fstab as: */dev/sda3 /home auto

Re: ssh issue

2012-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 02:39:14 PM Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, I have on a Debian squeeze server an issue, that I can only login as user rd, not as user gpxrecorder, although there seems to be no difference in the accounts: I'll bet some key files in .ssh/ are readable by other than

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 04:08:47 PM David Christensen wrote: On 11/11/12 12:54, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: Does Debian-kfreeBSD in fact have ext3fs support ? I dunno -- perhaps that's the problem. (I use Debian Squeeze i386 and Debian Wheezy amd64.) A console-only install of

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 04:59:34 PM David Guntner wrote: Hello, Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some form of *NIX since 1986. Have been a happy Mandriva user since the Mandrake 7 days, but that new company that purchased it, resulting in them losing most

Re: Grub and Wireless Keyboard

2012-11-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, November 12, 2012 06:32:22 PM Dr Beco wrote: Last week my keyboard broke, and I bought a wireless set keyboard+mouse that comes with a usb transmitter. Yesterday I realize I can not chose an item from the grub menu during boot. ... But, still... Is there any solution? Maybe

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, headless system

2012-11-12 Thread Neal Murphy
Does your box have a serial port? Can it be configured to display the BIOS screen on the serial port? Can Debian be installed using a serial port? That is, connect a null-modem serial cable between the box to be installed and some other computer and use minicom (Linux) or Hyperterm (Win). Or put

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 01:22:50 AM Tom Furie wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:10:55AM -0500, Tom H wrote: That RHEL/Fedora dont' use /usr/src might, on its own, not make it good practice, but since they're following kernel documentation perhaps it does! The kernel documentation

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, headless system

2012-11-13 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:19:34 PM Ross Boylan wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 21:57 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: Does your box have a serial port? No. USB and LAN ports. I investigated SOL, serial over LAN, and IPMI, but can't get access to it; apparently it ordinarily must be enabled

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:09:31 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: Shortcuts to resize the view do work for Thunar, Xfce's file browser. Such shortcuts depend to the applications you're using, the view shortcuts are at least common for all web browsers I know. I've found CTRLmouse wheel works on

Re: CPU scaling problems

2012-11-15 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:34:11 PM Mark Allums wrote: Francesco wrote: I have installed Debian testing on a X1 Carbon, processor i5-3427U. My problem is the following: when the `ondemand' governor is active, the processor clock never scales up, it always stays at 800Mhz. The

Re: Thunar, USB-sticks and big files

2012-11-18 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 18, 2012 07:57:09 AM Andreas Rönnquist wrote: Hi, On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:58:29AM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: Hi guys! I have a problem copying big files to an USB-stick using thunar in ... I do this to copy ripped DVD's to USB memory for

Re: Thunar, USB-sticks and big files

2012-11-18 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 18, 2012 01:43:54 PM Andreas Rönnquist wrote: Try 'sync' after the write is supposedly complete; see what happens when the system actually tries to write to the device. Open a shell and 'tail -f /var/log/messages' to see if anything is griping about the device during

Black Screen of Death

2012-11-19 Thread Neal Murphy
Last night, I got two BSODs while building my firewall (actually building its toolchain). General Protection Fault. I snapped a pic of the second one. This is on wheezy, 64-bit, updated, using the latest 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. I last saw similar problems some years back when I had hardware

Re: Outrageous sexism. Was: Re: Mail client, threads, etc...

2012-11-25 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:54:33 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: ... My humour is less good than Chaplin's ... OK. Pointed, direct humor back at you. What was the shortest book ever published? One Thousand Years of German Humor, which consisted of the frontispiece, the preface, and the

egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Neal Murphy
For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what it should. I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or on a console running bash or dash, this command: ls -C1 | egrep ^[A-Z] returns all lines except those beginning with 'a'. Even the

Re: egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday 05 February 2012 19:55:48 Bob Proulx wrote: Neal Murphy wrote: For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what it should. You don't like it and I don't like it but the powers that be have decided that within a locale, within libc, character collation

KVM problem

2012-03-08 Thread Neal Murphy
Howdy! A friend is having the devil's own time trying to get qemu-kvm working for himself. I have no such trouble. We are both using Squeeze. I have a quad Phenom-II with 8GB RAM, nVidia video. He has a dual Athlon with 3GB RAM, ATI video (and recently bought and tried an nVidia AGP card).

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-09 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday 09 March 2012 10:16:48 Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:52:03PM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: Howdy! A friend is having the devil's own time trying to get qemu-kvm working for himself. I have no such trouble. We are both using Squeeze. I have a quad Phenom-II

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday 08 March 2012 18:52:03 Neal Murphy wrote: Howdy! A friend is having the devil's own time trying to get qemu-kvm working for himself. I have no such trouble. I fired up my test dual-core athlon and installed Squebian Deeze. And encountered problems similar to those my friend has

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-13 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday 12 March 2012 09:32:06 Jon Dowland wrote: My hunch was the problems were due to the software stack falling back to pure software emulation. But why would it appear to run at full speed when using serial console, boot without slowness or delay when using curses console, yet load and

Re: Re: Stupid shell script question about read [SOLVED]

2006-03-22 Thread Neal Murphy
Kevin, Looking for a solution to *my* problem (strange networking problem with debian testing), I saw your post and thought I'd respond. # set some variables to nightmarish values for testing purposes d='ab\q' # literal value is ab\q e='$d' # literal value is $d

Latest kernel update fixed crashes?

2013-10-28 Thread Neal Murphy
The latest kernel update seems to have fixed the panics and GPFs I was experiencing. I was experiencing nearly predictable crashes whenever RAM was filled with cached disk blocks. At that point, it seemed that anything that addressed the cache would cause a crash: use a program that needed RAM

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

2013-10-29 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 05:48:20 PM Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 04:55:44PM -0400, John wrote: Could someone who has been following the giant fuss on -devel over init systems explain why there's such a sense of dire urgency? I think it's largely driven by

Re: Choosing default OS in multi boot system

2013-10-30 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:48:55 AM Richard Owlett wrote: Don't know if I'd call Grub2 bloated, but Grub-legacy was friendlier. Maybe not bloated, but grub2 was certainly broken the last time I tried it. Specifically, (1) when I installed a system using grub2, it would install on the

Re: Only in America! ? (was ... Re: sudo and UNIXes (was: audacity export wma format[1 more question]))

2013-10-31 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 02:22:40 PM Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 03:38:12PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Case 1: I find that someone in my family who lives in my house has rumaged through my underwear drawer. A violation of trust has occurred. I am unhappy and will

Re: ANDROID (back to the OQ)

2013-10-31 Thread Neal Murphy
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 02:56:21 PM ken wrote: On 10/31/2013 02:02 PM Beco wrote: On 31 October 2013 13:12, ken geb...@mousecar.com mailto:geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Alex, As you can see (from this long conversation), there are a variety of interpretations of

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, November 01, 2013 08:49:28 AM Craig L. wrote: Good points. The reason for going for hosting at the moment is it will give us a quick and easy solution. The reason for the Linux requirement is that we will be looking into a dedicated or virtual solution in the future. If I am going

Re: Hosting advice

2013-11-01 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, November 01, 2013 01:46:26 PM Celejar wrote: I'm curious: how important is getting updates fast in the context of a server? I understand that for desktops, some want the latest features, or support for new hardware, etc. but servers? Doesn't it make more sense to just run something

Re: sd card not detected

2013-11-02 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday, November 02, 2013 06:55:39 AM Alex Mestiashvili wrote: I use xfce4 4.10, but in this case I think it has nothing to do with the problem. The problem is that the device is not detected by the kernel . it is not visible in the dmesg output and not visible in the output of fdisk

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

2013-11-02 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday, November 02, 2013 08:23:45 AM Joel Rees wrote: I'm repeating myself, but good engineers don't do that. No, they don't. They prepare new footings and pour a new foundation before moving the house to the new location. It's nice to know I haven't misperceived the situation. -- To

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

2013-11-04 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, November 04, 2013 01:20:01 PM Tony van der Hoff wrote: No, it didn't work for me. I would have much preferred to automate this. However, AFAICT the tools aren't available, and the time comes where you feel you're beating your head against a wall. That's when I gave up. I'm not

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

2013-11-04 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, November 05, 2013 02:21:36 AM Richard Hector wrote: On 05/11/13 16:51, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Second, you have a serious problem here because it is your root filesystem that has run out of inodes. You need to ask yourself why you have 1.7M files in your rootfs. That's very dumb.

(64-bit) linux 3.10 and nouveau oddity

2013-11-05 Thread Neal Murphy
Due to GPF problems I've been having with wheezy's linux 3.2, I decided to try testing's 3.10 kernel (only installed the newer initramfs and 3.10 pkgs). Yesterday it ran fine all day, even built my firewall system without a lick of the troubles I've been having with 3.2. (So the GPF problem

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

2013-11-06 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 07:44:18 AM Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: This is a bit off main topic, but definitely 'on' for this list. Lets imagine a scenario there is nothing to delete on the troublesome partition, but there is another disk. What would be the best tool to move data to

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

2013-11-06 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 12:11:33 PM Beco wrote: On 6 November 2013 13:43, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: Assuming the problem is /var/log is part of the root filesystem and is crammed with millions of files. Assume other drive is /dev/sdb. The general process

Re: Problem understanding/using dpkg-scanpackages

2013-11-06 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 07:11:24 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 11/7/13, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: I purchase complete DVD sets. I am doing multiple clean installs to determine my optimum solution. Shuffling DVDs became a pain. I set aside a partition for myown

Re: SSD as Cache?

2013-11-08 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, November 08, 2013 09:12:08 AM basti wrote: Hello, on my Webservers, I have 1x 128GB SSD and a Raid 1 (1TB). Now I plan to improve the performance of my Webapplication. The Cache is about 10.0 GB in 200 files. Can this cache moved to SSD? Months ago I read articles about

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-10 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 10, 2013 03:54:31 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 14:27 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: linuxfromscratch.org IMO there's no need for a user to know all the details, however, something FreeBSD port like, e.g. Arch Linux IMO is more pleasant than Linux from

Re: Questions about new hardware Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, November 11, 2013 05:25:18 PM Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Hi On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:03:44PM -0500, Jon N wrote: Hi, I have been a Debian user for I'd guess 7 or 8 years now. I would like to thank all of you that helped create a system that is so useful. Despite using

Re: Questions about new hardware Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Monday, November 11, 2013 09:28:26 PM Jon N wrote: Neal, Well, I think you've found my weak point. I have been looking at fairly new stuff. When shopping for processors I found there was little difference in price between Intel's Haswell verses Ivy Bridge (at least for Pentiums, which

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

2013-11-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 03:06:23 PM Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: 2013-11-12 14:32 keltezéssel, Miles Fidelman írta: That's a very interesting point, but I wonder if it's true. There are real-world reasons to run both windows on linux on the same machine (personal example: running Linux on my

Re: (64-bit) linux 3.10 and nouveau oddity

2013-11-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, November 08, 2013 06:13:44 AM berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 05.11.2013 21:26, Neal Murphy a écrit : Is it fair to say this is a bug? In *something*? Or just an incompatibility between Wheezy and the newer kernel? It is indeed a bug, if it was known to work previously

Re: eth0 disabled after upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy

2013-11-15 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, November 15, 2013 02:18:26 PM Glenn English wrote: On Nov 15, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Re-adding the two etho lines should fix it all for you - unless a reboot deletes them, somehow! it did. :-( Noob here. How about fixing

Re: eth0 disabled after upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy

2013-11-15 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, November 15, 2013 11:38:16 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: Thanks, Andrei, On Friday 15 November 2013 16:15:20 Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 15 nov 13, 15:06:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have just upgraded a client's computer to Wheezy. It appeared to go well and there was certainly an

Re: Wheezy/XFCE: remote desktop service difficulties with VNC server

2013-11-17 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 17, 2013 03:53:14 PM Reco wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:15:02 + Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote: X could not detect the attached screen because its cable is switched across a KVM which seems to destroy the EDID information; I'd already manually configured a

Re: Automatic installs

2013-11-17 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 17, 2013 04:20:25 PM Bob Proulx wrote: P.S. Yes I know mixing awk and grep is silly since awk can do it all. dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l | grep ^rc | awk '{print$2}' | grep ^lib) I normally would have said this and done it all with awk. dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l | awk

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2013 #1401

2013-11-17 Thread Neal Murphy
help Could you be a little more specific? The dearth of data prevents us from offering meaningful, targetted assistance. This has be the least informative request ever seen in a community support forum. . . . Oh, wait. Mayhap the poster was trying to get the mailing list's

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