Re: [LAU] OnDemand-performance was(OT: klang)

2012-08-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 04:18:23PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 00:22 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:34:03AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: every email address in the mail is shown as is, so at least respect the privacy of others and remove email

Re: Number of Debian packages available.

2012-10-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:30:41AM +0100, Lisi wrote: Hello, all! I have searched Wikipedia and the Debian wiki. I have Googled. I am clearly using the wrong search terms, although I tried rewording in sundry different ways. Approximately, in round terms, how may packages are available

Re: Number of Debian packages available.

2012-10-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 02:36:43PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 16 oct 12, 14:00:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote: $ aptitude search ~Astable | wc -l 43004 $ aptitude search ~Astable~scontrib | wc -l 271 $ aptitude search ~Astable~snon-free | wc -l 583 Oups, 'stable' will also

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:24:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: Hello list, I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into a single btrfs volume (raid10) (using subvolumes for /, /home, etc). I understand that it is now possible to also have /boot on btrfs

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:11:58PM +0200, Steven Post wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-06 at 13:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:24:59AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: Hello list, I'm testing out a new system, the idea is to combine 6 hard drives into a single

Re: Installing Wheezy on btrfs only (multi-device)

2012-05-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 03:11:36AM +0200, Steven Post wrote: ... I think with skill and knowledge you presented, if you are successful doing this with help of shell etc., you should present specific procedure needed to do this to d-i BTS as wishlist bug. That should get it supported

Re: chroot or virtual machine

2012-05-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:33:21AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:15:26AM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot.pdf This is schroot(8) in PDF :-) ... Arguably, we should probably document the

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Where is your /tmp mounted. Please post mount output. On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 09:11:42AM -0700, John Magolske wrote: * John Magolske listm...@b79.net [120525 17:13]: For a while now I've been experiencing a strange behavior where there are frequent and regular freezes when typing or

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:45:12PM -0700, John Magolske wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply. * Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org [120602 09:53]: Where is your /tmp mounted. Under the main filesystem. Are you thinking of suggesting I mount /tmp as a ramdisk? Since you are on sid, I

Re: Not getting mailing list response in my inbox

2012-06-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:32:27PM +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: Hello to admins and mailing list managers... I am not able to receive responses posted to my topics i mailed to the list..Can someone help to sort out this issue? Is it gmail that is preventing mails from getting in? #help

Re: Not getting mailing list response in my inbox

2012-06-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:52:10PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:20:46 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:32:27PM +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: Hello to admins and mailing list managers... I am not able to receive responses posted to my topics i mailed

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 01:53:47PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Terho Uotila wrote: Unless you want to try very minimal system you probably want shadow passwords. I do not understand. Going by text displayed during the installation I had the impression that shadow passwords were for

Re: Squeeze on a EEE PC 901, trackpad problems

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 09:05:04PM -0600, zxcvbob wrote: I just installed Debian with the Xfce desktop on a EEE PC model 901. I've got things working pretty well, but I can't enable tap-to-click on the trackpad. I go to Settings-Mouse in the Xfce menu, and there is no tab or checkbox for

Re: jigdo + approx + netinstall -- need for a coherent system

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:38:04PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: Have I missed something? maybe ... many iso images are there for people without good network access. ... first think about what you really wish to do. Let me assume your objective is to install the current testing system

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:31:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: ... I've been a computer user since before Mr. Torvalds was born. I just never had reason to have contact with *nix. Even when working for DEC I was much more into analog than digital. I see. I guess you were a VMS or some

Re: Password problem confirmed as repeatable - was [Re: Newbie password problem(s)]

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi,I thought about different approach ... Since On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:46:38AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:31:50AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: ... I've been a computer user since before Mr. Torvalds was born. I just never had reason to have contact

Re: debmirror failing to download sources (*.orig.*)

2012-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 08:20:57PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Gday, here's my debmirror cmd: /usr/bin/debmirror --source --i18n --exclude='/Translation-.*\.bz2$' --include/Translation-(en).*\.bz2$' --exclude-deb-section=games --exclude-deb-section=debug --exclude-deb-section=news

Re: Thunar, USB-sticks and big files

2012-11-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
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 viewing in a TV with ... Nothing extremely serious, I can still copy the files using

Re: Thunar, USB-sticks and big files

2012-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:43:54PM +0100, 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

Re: Can;t fix doc-base installation problem

2012-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:49:03AM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: Hi everyone: I've had to restore one of my systems from cold iron. Aptitude seems I guerss you are using unstable. to be hanging up when trying to install / purge / update doc-base. I've tried Aptitude, dpkg and apt-get including

Re: vim -- adduser vs useradd/usermod

2012-11-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 07:56:24AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 23 Nov 06:14 -0600, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 16 nov 12, 16:33:17, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 16 Nov 14:02 -0600, james gray wrote: i am using vim to add the one and only name in a usr account to the

Re: Kobo desktop (native)

2012-11-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:02:18PM -0300, Beco wrote: (1) Native # dpkg -i kobo-desktop.deb (Reading database ... 308087 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kobo-desktop 2.1.3-1 (using kobo-desktop.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kobo-desktop ... dpkg: dependency

Re: Dual boot with OS X and Wheezy.

2012-12-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 12:49:20PM -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: Trying to dual boot OSX and Wheezy on a late 2008 Macbook running Mountain Lion. Following steps found on the web, I first created an Quite unclear here what exactly are you doing ... normal bootcamp or EFI ... empty partition

Re: partition table not sticky

2012-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:06:17PM +0530, J. B wrote: ... I have repeatedly do the same but no luck. no luck with cfdisk. Changes are not stored !!! This part I do not know. only gparted is successful but it makes my 320 GB HDD to 280 GB. 40GB lost !!! This is most likely because of

Re: Locale issue

2012-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:17:20AM -0800, ML mail wrote: Hello, Since now already a few weeks I noticed that my locale settings on various Debian 6.0 servers got by some mysterious way broken... For example any tool/command using PERL will issue the following warning: perl: warning:

Re: Proofreading of Debian documentation - was [Re: Preseeding - keyboard-configuration issue]

2012-12-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: But the underlying problem is lack of manpower. How do you[1] expect to solve it without getting involved? [1] and I mean you personally, the Debian Project

Re: ssh fails - SOLVED (was: Re: git pull fails with OpenSSL version mismatch error)

2012-12-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:48:00AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 23 dec 12, 20:15:19, Joel Roth wrote: Ah, I didn't even think to try an apt-get upgrade. I usually just upgrade apps individually as I need to... an attitude based on (possibly) outdated fears of getting stuck in

Re: something about cups-pdf

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:54:31AM +0800, lina wrote: :/var/spool# ls -lrt cups-pdf/ total 8 drwxrwxrwt 2 root lpadmin 4096 Dec 27 2011 ANONYMOUS drwxr-x--x 2 root lpadmin 4096 May 12 2012 SPOOL Same here: root@*:/var/spool/cups-pdf# ls -l total 8 drwxrwxrwt 2 root lpadmin 4096

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:17:56PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Ok, first, sorry to ask two questions at a time: dead drives and deleted partitions are different things, I know that. ... (2), I've more hopes, IF the user stopped the destructive process before the disk was

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 01:19:21PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 12:50 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I have heard good things of PhotoRec: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec But I have no personal

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 01:23:47PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: ... PS: Even if you make a backup first, by all means mount the drive or partition read only, before you access it. Hmmm... Maybe I was too short on explanation. The best practice is NOT TO MOUNT AT ALL. If your desktop system

Re: Implementing a personalized repository

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:50:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I routinely work without a viable network connection of any kind. My response was to purchase a eight DVD set of squeeze. Using the DVD directory structure as an example I have copied the contents of /pool to a 64GB flash drive. I

Re: Implementing a personalized repository

2012-12-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 03:44:18PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:50:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I routinely work without a viable network connection of any kind. My response was to purchase a eight DVD set of squeeze. Using the DVD directory

Re: Help netbooting a diskless, [headless] system [solved/tips]

2012-12-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:33:15PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: I got things working and made some discoveries along the way. Maybe I should put this material on a wiki; any suggestions where? Create account at wiki.debian.org and think about putting it there under appropriate location.

Re: admin password?

2012-12-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:50:20AM +0200, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to recover it? If you did not lock system with grub password, you can always login as root without

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 05:05:12AM +0800, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/SSDoptimization This page, as you pointed out, is more than a guideline. Can someone please polish this up a little bit? That

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 04:45:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this ? Install epdfview. Please check all

Re: gnome 3 refugee: obstructive panel in xfce

2011-11-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 08:52:46PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I've fled from gnome 3 and am mostly happy with xfce. But there's the panel with six icons at the bottom of the screen that obscures the bottom of a lot of windows. How can I get rid of it, or move it elsewhere? Is it

Re: Safety while network install.

2011-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:13:41AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I'm concerned on safety of install over network (the netinst) - what techniques are used to protect the installed system during the very process of installation? instalation data is transmitted via http.

Re: Safety while network install.

2011-11-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 04:34:26PM +, Curt wrote: On 2011-11-21, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: But seriously, Debian is configured as a quite secure system at any time unless you make stupid configuration yourself. So it is quite safe. Would you be so kind as to explain to me

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

2011-12-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:02:22AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2011-12-18 13:18:02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: The namespace is defined by Debian Policy. The filename should be named after the package name. Since the package names must be different the file name derived from it

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

2011-12-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:29:01AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: The point is what the Debian Policy says. Anyway, if you feel strong to enforce this ipart of policy, most effective thing to do is file a wishlist bug with patch to lintian to enforce package_name for both init.d script and

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

2011-12-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:06:04PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 20 dec 11, 20:56:11, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:29:01AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: The point is what the Debian Policy says. Anyway, if you feel strong to enforce this ipart of policy, most

Re: displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

2011-12-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:10:48PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in Japanese, but the Japanese

Re: lenny hosting wheezy chroot

2012-01-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:15:29PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: I am looking for advice on how to run a wheezy chroot from a lenny host, in particular how to handle dev, udev, and X. BACKGROUND My system is running lenny and I wanted to use python 2.7. I upgraded debootstrap from

Re: qemu KVM: can't boot a qemu machine with liveCD (system rescue)

2012-01-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 11:09:06AM +0100, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: Hi, there is no special forum/mailinglist existing for qemu-KVM, right? I do not know the answer but have you read: http://wiki.debian.org/KVM http://wiki.debian.org/QEMU and links from there. Good luck. Osamu -- To

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 04:26:20AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On 12/27/11 22:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: It sounds like you are running two DHCP servers - in which case you have four options (none of which involve preseeding). If you have multiple DHCP servers the problem is *easily*

Re: resolving dependencies in aptitude

2012-01-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 02:02:30PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: ... Painfully aware. I fled to xfce. I may go back when it stabilizes. In the meantime, it's getting in the way of smooth upgrades. I guess I could uninstall gnome, but that seems drastic. Hey, same here ... a refugeee

Re: pure debian testing or a distro based on debian testing

2012-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:02:01PM +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: Hi all, I am using debian stable as my primary OS. I want to involve in debian and as a first step I would like to install debian testing. I have tried to install debian testing with various snapshot of weekly build, but

Re: Squeeze64: LD_LIBRARY_PATH / ignored or overwritten under X *SOLVED*

2012-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 09:05:48AM +0100, Denny Schierz wrote: hi, Am 12.01.2012 um 23:11 schrieb Andrei Popescu: On Jo, 12 ian 12, 12:58:42, Denny Schierz wrote: What could be the problem? Your display manager doesn't source the system shell configuration files. If you need a

Re: pure debian testing or a distro based on debian testing

2012-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:53:35PM +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:11:58 +0530 Amrish Purohit amrish.dis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Osamu, Thanks for your reply. I will definitely try installing testing over stable version. I make my system dual boot so I have a backup. Here

Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze

2012-01-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:56:09PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: Hello Everyone, I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any

Re: POP3 in Debian

2012-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Both getmail4 and fetchmail can handle this task well (Though I like the getmail4 package as being its maintainer.) On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:49:22PM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi, Since the weekend my MUA POP3 connection has failed to receive messages with this appearing in the

Re: Re(2): POP3 in Debian

2012-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:49:24AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: * From: Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org * Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:10:34 +0900 Both getmail4 and fetchmail can handle this task well ... According to the Wikipedia, fetchmail can not deliver to mbox. Well

Re: Not getting mails in inbox

2012-02-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:17:12AM +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: I am not getting replies to mails i am sending on this list. i have to manually check or refer google to get answers.. can someone look in this matter? As someone already mentioned, this is Gmail feature. My solution is to

Re: MTU and Postfix

2011-09-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:40:29AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:09:23 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) I'm still monitoring this but if this is the cure to prevent such errors, are there any expected drawbacks for lowering MTU system-wide? (...) Mmm, no replies

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-09-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:21:18AM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: Hi, I'd like to share the data saved on an external USB drive between different (GNU/Linux) machines, each having different users. Each user should be able to mount the drive and read and write any files as he or she pleases.

Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:31:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:40:48 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: Made a bit off a muck up off things when i backed up parts of my /home/mark directory to /mnt/deer In /mnt/deer i know have

Re: SCIM not working after upgrade

2011-10-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 06:59:25AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hi, Presently running debian testing. The latest xserver-xorg-core update did cause certain problems with my nvidia card. I could find a solution for starting X with the new nvidia binary driver (275.28). Strangely (or

Re: Cannot login to GNOME after sid update

2011-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 05:26:05PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: Frank debianl...@videotron.ca writes: Another update came through laterabout 8 new packages and now at least the desktop loads. Half the stuff is still missing. We'll see what happens in the days ahead. I rarely use

Re: docbook2html error

2011-10-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 03:34:32PM +0530, Chandrabhanu Mahapatra wrote: After I installed docbook-utils sudo apt-get docbook-utils running docbook2html gives error I just installed docbook-utils to my Debian. jw: There is no frontend called

Re: USB boot from HardDisk

2011-10-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:14:02AM +0200, Jonas Geiregat wrote: Hello, I'm aware the subject may sound confusing. So let me elaborate the subject some more. I have a computer currently running Ubuntu linux. I'm quite fed up with this distrobution and would like to switch to Debian

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-03-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I join too late but ... (I do not use tmpfs for /tmp) On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:13:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:07:43 +, Camaleón wrote: I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little problematic. (...) Okay, so /tmp is full. Fine. I

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-03-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:01:38AM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I wanted to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and as I saw in several places that aptitude should be preferred to apt-get, I first tried with it. I started with only 1 line in sources.list: deb

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:29:47PM +0800, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: I am not putting pressure on Debian to change. Sorry... I do not feel pressure from your postings. Debian practically release new system every 6 hours :-) See Life with eternal upgrades:

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Not all Debian mirrors work right ... On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:27:54AM +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: ... 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages N: Unable to locate package libvlccore4 Change mirror site from http://ftp.us.debian.org to and something else and try

Re: ..when to scrap old junk, was: old machine wheezy vs apt

2012-04-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:18:16PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:10:38 +0100, Dom wrote in message 4f8d79de.20...@rpdom.net: On 16/04/12 21:34, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: To anybody interested, debian wheezy can't run on 64MB RAM on i386. Or actually it can

Re: backports updates and ButAutomaticUpgrades/NotAutomatic

2011-05-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:42:37PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:43:28PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-05-15 19:00:03 Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Freeman wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:05:29PM -0700,

Re: Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:17:54PM -0400, Dick Bayerl wrote: I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with the same problem. Debian and Ubuntu are a bit different on this issue. Since login to root using X displaymanager is not so good idea, I mention console

Re: How to install with encrypted root?

2011-06-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:25:43AM -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote: Hi I'm trying to install squeeze with / being a partition dmcrypt'ed with luks. Is Debian supposed to support that or not? For me the debian installer failed to do it, so I sent mail to debian-boot about it [1] and then since

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:21:22AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: *do you have a /var/run/wpa_supplicant??* No. I do not know what is causing you this PM problem. I had some hybernation problems about a year ago while in squeeze/testing. Some of them were kernel problems which I needed to

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:07:25PM -0700, T Elcor wrote: Hi, Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce: 1. Open the KDE Menu Editor 2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to Konqueror-2) 3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the Run as a different

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

2011-07-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 03:17:44PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system. I get the error C compiler cannot create executables Googling on that, gets several different answers. apt-get install build-essentials (didn't didn't

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
+0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:07:25PM -0700, T Elcor wrote: Am having problems running KDE apps as root. (...) I do not know about exact reason why but... Generally, it is bad idea to run desktop application as root. So application system may put some

Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

2011-07-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 10:57:15AM +, Camaleón wrote: ... I only have 2 users in my debian box: me and root. You can create new account from GUI, too. When I need to test if there is a configuration issue with the browser (or my Gnome profile), I launch it as root because it has an

Re: Debian 6 causes my SunFire T2000 system to not boot

2011-07-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Wow SunFire T2000... That is fancy ULTRASPARC machine. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:43:51AM -0700, Scott Simpson wrote: I'm using 6.2.0.1 from June 26th. Should be pretty current. I can think of two approaches: 1. Boot version 5 and see if my video card isn't the one mentioned in the

Re: Debian 6 causes my SunFire T2000 system to not boot

2011-07-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:43:51AM -0700, Scott Simpson wrote: I'm using 6.2.0.1 from June 26th. Should be pretty current. I can think of two approaches: I see. I overlooked this. Dah ... Sorry for noise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:54:34AM +0300, yazicivo wrote: Hi, I have an XFS partition, which is 1) Mistakenly quick formatted as FAT16. 2) At first, I couldn't see in fdisk -l that it is set to FAT16, instead of Linux. Hence tried to fix it with xfs_recover. xfs_recover returned 0, and

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-07-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I use MacBook (Old while one) via rEFIT. On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:17:55AM -0400, Dan wrote: Hi, I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian? I look into the documentation of rEFIT and it looks like

Re: How to configure static route?

2011-07-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:43:39AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: ... IMVHO the static routes part should be moved to ifupdown. How about a 'whishlist' bug? Yah! With new maintainer team, it may be worth it. But make sure to provide compatible patch. ifupdown package is a bit involved one :-)

Re: Looking for an alternative to mysql

2011-07-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 06:47:46PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: On 07/08/2011 06:04 PM, John Hasler wrote: Wayne writes: I am not in the habit of installing packages that known to not work. If the package was known not to work the bug would be grave.

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am not developer of insserve ... On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 01:37:48AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: On Wed December 29 2010 00:13:04 Camaleón wrote: ... Thanks for looking into this. I still fail to see why saving half a second a year on server booting is worth inflecting days of drudgery on

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2011-01-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 03:29:21PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: I know you know very well on Debian system but may not be old enough to use dselect with dpkg-ftp etc :-) So some historic comments differ from what I thought. On Vi, 31 dec 10, 12:24:34, Bob Proulx wrote: Andrei Popescu

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:56:36AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: What you have is some sort of image format inside a PDF container. It is probably already compressed, which is why Zip had little effect on it. You need to extract the image, use image software to shrink it, and put it back in a

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2011-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Debian package respects all sysadmin choices. We do not overwrite them. If not, that is a serious bug. Some careful and respectful questining to keep this promise seem to annoy some people who have not found typical work around steps. (Besides, there were some bug on apatch2 package.) On

Re: Basic questions about Debian package tools

2011-01-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:04:27PM +0100, pt3...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm a Debian Squeeze new user and have some basic questions about Debian package tools. Is it true I should avoid APT and use some other frontend or, better, dpkg directly? Who told you to stay unhappy? I

Re: OT: Sort Of Re: USB stick Security

2011-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:11:04AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: I recently lost a USB stick. It didn't have any thing of a security concern on it but got me to thinking. Does anyone know of an application that will; encrypt the drive completely; Linux kernel :-)

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 10:05:43AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I'm not very skilled at writing shell scripts. #! /bin/sh for k in $(ls *.JPG); do convert $k -resize 1024 $k; done I use the above script to batch re-size digital camera photos after I dump them to my web server. It takes a

Re: networking

2011-01-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, It seems Bob explained good basics but I think there is some other confusion here. On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 08:13:38PM +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: AFAIK, allow-hotplug makes the interface come up only when a cable is plugged in. No when device becomes available to Linux kernel even if

Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:09:30PM +, Steve Kleene wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. I'm replacing a seven-year-old PC, now running Lenny, that has been crashing off and on for a couple of years. When I built my first Debian machine, I had to use

Re: How to start gdm by default

2011-01-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:22:12AM +, T o n g wrote: Hi, I need to start gdm by default on one of my boxes, which is currently booting into text mode. I do have gdm installed: $ dpkg -l | grep gdm ii gdm2.20.11-4 GNOME Display Manager It's still

Re: fields in files

2011-01-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:53:14PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 30 ian 11, 12:47:43, Camaleón wrote: sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l | awk '{print $9}' Desktop Documentos file: News PDF No need for awk, ls will do that with the -1 (the digit 1) option or by default if the

Re: the new apt-get recommendation

2011-02-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
HI, On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:22:23AM -0500, Kete wrote: Hello, why have the authors of the Debian 6 release notes chosen to recommend apt-get? Because it is more robust for non-interactive dist-upgrade.

Re: allow ^C to interrupt /etc/rc.local

2011-02-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:56:55PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: OK, since nobody knows, then what does recovery mode, /boot/grub/grub.cfg: menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.37-1-686 (recovery mode)' I think this put system to something like runlevel S or 1 do to the

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:25:39AM -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:18:20AM +0100, Klistvud wrote: 4. The sshd daemon allows root logins by default. Oh brother. The ssh daemon also allows logins via passwords. I assume you think this is less secure as well, as ssh

Re: Weird problem with experimental repo

2011-02-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:58:04AM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: Hi all, I having weird problem with experimental repository. I want try latest pulseaudio package pulseaudio-module-jack_0.9.22, but this package is available via synaptic. I tried also apt-get install, but same result.

Re: Release statusus

2003-10-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:43:42PM +0200, Neo wrote: Hi Colin, so, sumarizing for my situation: it's no use tracking a unstable 'release' because it just isn't that: a release, and never will be. Never. You are correct. It's stabiblity level will vary over time, (for

HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Here is my somewhat OT question since this is not exactly Debian but generic BASH question... In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R (reverse incremental search) but so far am unsuccessful in using Ctrl-S (normal incremental search). As I see in BASH manual page bash(1) ...

Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:08:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:59:31PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: Here is my somewhat OT question since this is not exactly Debian but generic BASH question... In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R

Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:40:01PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: %% csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R (reverse incremental search) but so far am unsuccessful in using Ctrl-S (normal incremental search). Your terminal is set for

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