[OT] kernel debugging question

2012-06-08 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
I was wondering, if anyone is into this kind of stuff: what kind of kernel programming bug can completely bring down the kernel and system? I am referring to a complete lockup: no screen output, no keyboard response, even with serial keyboard, not even the keyboard LEDs respond, no netconsole, no k

Re: MySQL stored procedure slow with recent Wheezy upgrade

2012-06-08 Thread Chen Gang
Hi I encounter exactly same problem, default configuration shipped by package cannot resolve the problem. Gang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOZ7

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Miles, Miles Bader wrote: > Or is entering a new key a "manual" process ("type in the 50 hex digit > key")? Something like that, yes. Either via an already-signed update at runtime or manually at something like the current BIOS interfaces. > Can there be multiple keys (I vaguely recall th

Re: linux-vserver (or equvalent) in wheezy

2012-06-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 12:58:16AM +0400, Darren Baginski wrote: > Looks promising. Is there any infrastructure around yet? I mean init scripts > for auto start , /etc/ files like the same for linux-vserver ? This was recently discussed on -devel, and several people commented that there isn't yet

Password salt

2012-06-08 Thread Lars Noodén
The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the actual password salt for Debian stored? Regards, /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.

Re: Password salt

2012-06-08 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/08/2012 10:57 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the actual password salt for Debian stored? Regards, /Lars From what i see, the password salt is different for each password... so i guess its different each time a password is generate

Re: Password salt

2012-06-08 Thread Lars Noodén
On 6/8/12 12:02 PM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > On 06/08/2012 10:57 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: >> The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the >> actual password salt for Debian stored? >> >> Regards, >> /Lars >> >> > > From what i see, the password salt is different for each passwo

Re: Password salt

2012-06-08 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/08/2012 11:05 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 6/8/12 12:02 PM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: On 06/08/2012 10:57 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the actual password salt for Debian stored? Regards, /Lars From what i see, the password salt is

Re: Password salt

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:05:56 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: On 6/8/12 12:02 PM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: On 06/08/2012 10:57 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the actual password salt for Debian stored? Yes, I understand that the salt is differe

security update glibc message

2012-06-08 Thread Curt
31 updates today for me, running squeeze, the following message in my xterm at installation end: unopkg done. *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/../ure-link/bin/uno.bin: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x7fdf68000fb0 *** === Backtrace: =

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:26:30AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The handling for the end user is optimized to fit to the needs of > Windows end users. Slavko already has written that Windows end users > don't compile Windows kernels, but Linux end users do. No we don't. That hasn't been generally

asm/ioctls.h in kernel headers

2012-06-08 Thread Bijoy Lobo
Hello all, I have a Makefile which calls asm/ioctls.h, although I am faced with this error, */usr/include/bits/ioctls.h:24:24: error: asm/ioctls.h: No such file or directory* -- Thanks and Regards Bijoy Lobo

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 06:21:46AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:26:30AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > The handling for the end user is optimized to fit to the needs of > > Windows end users. Slavko already has written that Windows end users > > don't compile Windows kern

Re: asm/ioctls.h in kernel headers

2012-06-08 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:24:08AM +0100, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a Makefile which calls asm/ioctls.h, although I am faced with this > error, > > /usr/include/bits/ioctls.h:24:24: error: asm/ioctls.h: No such file or > directory Do you have the "linux-libc-dev" package installe

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 09:33:45PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Miles Bader wrote: > > Scott Ferguson writes: > You can't disable the code signing requirement on ARM. > >>> > >>> ... which is a great deal more worrying. > >> > >> Yes. And no. > >> I'd ha

Re: asm/ioctls.h in kernel headers

2012-06-08 Thread Bijoy Lobo
Hi karl, I already have the linux-libc-dev package installed. A find / -name ioctls.h gives me this */usr/include/asm-generic/ioctls.h /usr/include/bits/ioctls.h /usr/include/asm/ioctls.h /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common/include/asm-generic/ioctls.h /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common/ar

what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Recently, when I do "slogin -X server" (for one particular server, not all of them) the resulting session can't run any X11 utilities (e.g. xterm) because there is no DISPLAY variable in the environment. It used to work. I don't know what changed for sure. Does anybody know what can cause t

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Fri, 8 Jun 2012 06:21:46 -0400 Carl Fink napísal: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:26:30AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > The handling for the end user is optimized to fit to the needs of > > Windows end users. Slavko already has written that Windows end users > > don't compile Windows ke

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 09:36:32PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > Let's be clear what this is.  I have to get *permission* from someone > > else, to run a program on my own computer.  To actually use my > > computer to do my stuff, I h

postfix and hostname

2012-06-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, Running squeeze on my VPS, and using postfix/dovecot/cyrus as my MTA, for a number of users, who pick up mail via IMAP (mostly Thunderbird). Postfix is configured to accept mail for u...@vanderhoff.org, as well as a few other domains. The hostname for the server is set to vanderhoff.org.uk. T

Problem setting up a subdomain

2012-06-08 Thread Keir Snow
Hi All, Relatively inexperienced at apache admin so please forgive any dumb mistakes on my part! Been trying to set up a subdomain of my site, so I've created a config file in sites-available that looks like this: ServerAdmin keir@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/groupblog

Re: linux-vserver (or equvalent) in wheezy

2012-06-08 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 09:40 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 12:58:16AM +0400, Darren Baginski wrote: > > Looks promising. Is there any infrastructure around yet? I mean init > > scripts > > for auto start , /etc/ files like the same for linux-vserver ? > > This was recently d

Re: Problem setting up a subdomain

2012-06-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Keir Snow: > > Been trying to set up a subdomain of my site, so I've created a config > file in sites-available that looks like this: -- snip > I've then enabled it using a2ensite however it seems to override my > default config file and serve the subdomain content when the main site > URL is used

Re: postfix and hostname

2012-06-08 Thread Benjamin Martin
On 08/06/12 13:52, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on my VPS, and using postfix/dovecot/cyrus as my MTA, for a number of users, who pick up mail via IMAP (mostly Thunderbird). Postfix is configured to accept mail for u...@vanderhoff.org, as well as a few other domains. I don't kno

Re: Problem setting up a subdomain

2012-06-08 Thread Keir Snow
Not sure I follow sorry, where would I create this section? I thought by putting something in sites-available I was leaving the main config alone? Keir On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Keir Snow: >> >> Been trying to set up a subdomain of my site, so I've created a config

Re: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570

2012-06-08 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:20 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > sorry for not being so clear. i dont have the machine in front of me > at the moment to type out the exact error but i installed the driver > ones. the install was building the man triggers and i tossed up an > error for the nvidia driver. sin

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Paul Nulandorn wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 18:21 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> On 06.06.2012 17:21, Paul Nulandorn wrote: >> > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 10:13 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Paul Nulandorn >> >> wrote: >> >

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:16:49 +1000, Paul Nulandorn wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 18:21 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> What about "turn off screen after..." minutes etc. ? >> >> > OK to be precise: > > "Put display to sleep when inactive for:" > > is set to > > "never". Okay, so what we

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:16:49 +1000, Paul Nulandorn wrote: > >> On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 18:21 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >>> What about "turn off screen after..." minutes etc. ? >>> >>> >> OK to be precise: >> >> "Put display to sleep when inac

Re: security update glibc message

2012-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:00:00 +, Curt wrote: > 31 updates today for me, running squeeze, the following message in my > xterm at installation end: > > unopkg done. > *** glibc detected *** > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/../ure-link/bin/uno.bin: > double free or corruption

Re: postfix and hostname

2012-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:52:06 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Running squeeze on my VPS, and using postfix/dovecot/cyrus as my MTA, > for a number of users, who pick up mail via IMAP (mostly Thunderbird). > Postfix is configured to accept mail for u...@vanderhoff.org, as well as > a few other dom

Re: Problem setting up a subdomain

2012-06-08 Thread Chris Davies
Keir Snow wrote: > I've then enabled it using a2ensite however it seems to override my > default config file and serve the subdomain content when the main site > URL is used. > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Misunderstanding vHosts :-) The _default_ entry works fine until you start adding virt

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 07.06.2012 03:43, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:07:23PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> What's non-free about signing the "boot-chain"? >> >> Do I have the freedom to build and install and boot my own kernel? >> >> No?

Re: Problem setting up a subdomain

2012-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:18:51 +0100, Keir Snow wrote: > Relatively inexperienced at apache admin so please forgive any dumb > mistakes on my part! > > Been trying to set up a subdomain of my site, so I've created a config > file in sites-available that looks like this: (...) > I've then enabled

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:46:09 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Weird... >> >> I suppose you are not hibernanting nor suspending your computer, right? >> >> You can run a simple test: create a new user, login with it and check >> if the sam

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 23:34 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Let's be clear what this is.  I have to get *permission* from someone >> else, to run a program on my own computer.  To actually use my >> computer to do my stuff, I have to take extraor

Re: [OT] kernel debugging question

2012-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:23:54 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > I was wondering, if anyone is into this kind of stuff: what kind of > kernel programming bug can completely bring down the kernel and system? > I am referring to a complete lockup: no screen output, no keyboard > response, even wit

Re: Problem setting up a subdomain

2012-06-08 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:58:57PM +0100, Keir Snow wrote: > Not sure I follow sorry, where would I create this section? I thought > by putting something in sites-available I was leaving the main config > alone? > I believe what Jochen is suggesting (and what I would recommend, b/c it's what I d

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 21:36 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> This "new world" doesn't tie you to Microsoft or any other company. > > You're mistaken, it does and it does it in a way I don't like it. > As soon as Apple or Microsoft are invol

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Miles Bader wrote: > "Christofer C. Bell" writes: >>> Would that mean anybody who wants to build their own kernel would need >>> to buy a signing key? >> >> Not at all.  You can generate your own key and load it into your UEFI. >>  It's no different a situation th

Re: postfix and hostname

2012-06-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 08/06/12 15:30, Benjamin Martin wrote: > On 08/06/12 13:52, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Running squeeze on my VPS, and using postfix/dovecot/cyrus as my MTA, >> for a number of users, who pick up mail via IMAP (mostly Thunderbird). >> Postfix is configured to accept mail for u...@vande

Re: linux-vserver (or equvalent) in wheezy

2012-06-08 Thread Darren Baginski
08.06.2012, 17:41, "John A. Sullivan III" : > I find there are other advantages to VServer.  We use both KVM and > VServer in our environment on hefty hardware.  Not only do the lower > requirements make a difference on highly virtualized systems (nothing > like seeing dozens of small servers ru

Re: security update glibc message

2012-06-08 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-08, Camaleón wrote: >> >> unopkg done. >> *** glibc detected *** >> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/../ure-link/bin/uno.bin: >> double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x7fdf68000fb0 *** > > (...) > >> Don't know what it all means, but a brief google seems to indic

[OT] How to extract certain column

2012-06-08 Thread lina
Hi, Sorry for off-topic, but I do need some suggestions now, Here it's # RAAADUE AA STBBCCCRE BP1 BP2 ACC N-H-->OO-->H-N N-H-->OO-->H-NTCO KAPPA DDPHA PAI PZIX-CA Y-CA Z-CA 1 174 V 0 00 0, 0.011,-0.3 0, 0.0 9,-0.1 0.000 3

Playing Videos

2012-06-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear List - If this is considered an HTML question, I apologize and please direct me to the correct forum for submission. 1] I am trying to play a video using VLC. If I call the video from a HTML5 document, it takes 90 seconds to load. If I go directly to the directory where the video is l

[OT] HTML5 (was: Playing Videos)

2012-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:32:03 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > If this is considered an HTML question, I apologize and please direct me > to the correct forum for submission. No problem, just tag the subject accordingly :-) > 1] I am trying to play a video using VLC. If I call th

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-08 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-08, Paul Nulandorn wrote: >> >> What about "turn off screen after..." minutes etc. ? >> > > OK to be precise: > > "Put display to sleep when inactive for:" > > is set to > > "never". > and 'xset -q' says what (just out of curiosity)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: [OT] How to extract certain column

2012-06-08 Thread Richard Owlett
lina wrote: Hi, Sorry for off-topic, but I do need some suggestions now, Here it's # RAAADUE AA STBBCCCRE BP1 BP2 ACC N-H-->OO-->H-N N-H-->OO-->H-NTCO KAPPA DDPHA PAI PZIX-CA Y-CA Z-CA 1 174 V 0 00 0, 0.011,-0.3 0, 0.0

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:56:35 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Recently, when I do "slogin -X server" (for one particular server, not > all of them) the resulting session can't run any X11 utilities (e.g. > xterm) because there is no DISPLAY variable in the environment. > > It used to work. I don't kn

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

2012-06-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:46:09 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> Weird... >>> >>> I suppose you are not hibernanting nor suspending your computer, right? >>> >>> You can run a simple

Re: postfix and hostname

2012-06-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 08 iun 12, 14:52:06, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > So some misconfiguration somewhere, but I'm blowed if I can find it. Has > anyone any hints, please? /etc/mailname and the variables options 'myhostname' and 'mydestionation' in /etc/postfix/main.cf This assuming a pretty standard postfi

Re: Boinc?

2012-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:23:32 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I just installed Wheezy on my new tower. I thought I'd install BOINC and > use some of those many CPUs for something when I'm not doing > CPU-intensive work. > > However, despite what it says on the Debian wiki > (http://wiki.debian.org/BOINC

Re: Mac Pro, Debian/OS X dual boot, EFI - I'm missing something

2012-06-08 Thread Brian Flaherty
> - Original Message - > From: Dan Hitt > To: Brian Flaherty > Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 12:58 PM > Subject: Re: Mac Pro, Debian/OS X dual boot, EFI - I'm missing something > > Hi Brian, > > How many disks do you have in the machine?  I'm just w

grub-efi configuration [was: Mac Pro, Debian/OS X dual boot, EFI - I'm missing something]

2012-06-08 Thread Brian Flaherty
So, I've made some progress getting Debian booting on my old Mac Pro. Right now, here's the hang-up and I'm not sure how to proceed. I'm using rEFInd to choose what to boot. It finally finds my Debian installed grub efi image, however, there's something wrong in a path and it dumps me at grub-

Re: Problem setting up a subdomain

2012-06-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Tony Baldwin: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:58:57PM +0100, Keir Snow wrote: > >> Not sure I follow sorry, where would I create this section? I thought >> by putting something in sites-available I was leaving the main config >> alone? > > > I believe what Jochen is suggesting (and what I would reco

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:56:35 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Recently, when I do "slogin -X server" (for one particular server, not all of them) the resulting session can't run any X11 utilities (e.g. xterm) because there is no DISPLAY variable in the

Re: postfix and hostname

2012-06-08 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 08 iun 12, 14:52:06, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> >> So some misconfiguration somewhere, but I'm blowed if I can find it. Has >> anyone any hints, please? > > /etc/mailname > > and the variables options 'myhostname' and 'mydestionation

Network Security Services Update question

2012-06-08 Thread ricccardo
Hi to all, I notice that the update manager propose to me to upgrade both libnss3 and libnss3-1d. Under libnss3 I read:'Conflict with libnss3-1d'. So what should I do?? Which of them should I install?? Best Riccardo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's the output. I see it requesting X11 forwarding (near the end) but I don't see anything specifically saying it was granted. Nor do I see it being specifically refused. Fascinating... FWIW, I tried the same 'slogin -vvv -X' to a serve

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-08 Thread tor...@riseup.net
On Jun 2, 2012 7:51 AM, "Aubrey Raech" wrote: > Any and all advice/recommendations are appreciated! You could have a look at retroshare and tonido. Both are not in Debian repositories. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] How to extract certain column

2012-06-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
man cut. On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, lina wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for off-topic, but I do need some suggestions now, > > Here it's > > # RAAADUE AA STBBCCCRE BP1 BP2 ACC N-H-->OO-->H-N > N-H-->OO-->H-NTCO KAPPA DDPHA PAI PZIX-CA Y-CA > Z-CA > 1 174 V 0

Re: Network Security Services Update question

2012-06-08 Thread rjc
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 09:13:41PM BST, ricccardo wrote: > Hi to all, > I notice that the update manager propose to me to upgrade both libnss3 > and libnss3-1d. Under libnss3 I read:'Conflict with libnss3-1d'. So what > should I do?? Which of them should I install?? sudo aptitude safe-upgrade BT

Re: postfix and hostname

2012-06-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > Running squeeze on my VPS, and using postfix/dovecot/cyrus as my MTA, > for a number of users, who pick up mail via IMAP (mostly Thunderbird). > Postfix is configured to accept mail for u...@vanderhoff.org, as well as > a few other domai

Re: linux-vserver (or equvalent) in wheezy

2012-06-08 Thread Richard Hector
On 08/06/12 08:58, Darren Baginski wrote: 07.06.2012, 23:45, "Adrian Fita": I think that would be Linux Containers (LXC): http://wiki.debian.org/LXC. Looks promising. Is there any infrastructure around yet? I mean init scripts for auto start , /etc/ files like the same for linux-vserver ?

RE: Nvidia drivers problem Geforce 570

2012-06-08 Thread Nathan D'elboux
Well i have started from fresh again to attempt to get my resolution problem fixed with my Geforce 570 but it now seems that i have a misconfiguration in my xorg.conf so this is exactly what i have done so far # apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common # m-a auto-install nvidia-k

Sugestions for New Releases of Debian

2012-06-08 Thread ARAVIND CHAK
I'm new here but presume that this will be circulated in THE Deb-LIST. I have slowly got used to Ubuntu, being a Linuxer for the last two years, but find now that with the new Ubuntu desktop-environment, particularly UNITY, Ubuntu is going the William way - make the user dependent and confused. I

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 06:21 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:26:30AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > The handling for the end user is optimized to fit to the needs of > > Windows end users. Slavko already has written that Windows end users > > don't compile Windows kernels, bu

Re: Sugestions for New Releases of Debian

2012-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 10:13 +0530, ARAVIND CHAK wrote: > 2) That the software repositories for Synaptic and Software-Centre > are kept as up-to-date as possible to give access to the latest > versions of software e.g. Eclipse, Scribus, I understand that these > are maintained by dedicated people a

cannot disable compiz

2012-06-08 Thread scar
i wanted to try out compiz after updating to squeeze, but unfortunately it's not too stable on my old system and the WM crashes regularly. so, i'd like to revert back to the default WM. i followed http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz to try compiz and now i should be able to revert back by using this co

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 06:20:12PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > After all this time, he still doesn't understand that the free/open source > software movement works for itself. He has a bit of an axe to grind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists http://www.digibarn.com/collections/new

Re: wpa_supplicant.wlan1.pid

2012-06-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 08:03:11AM +1000, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:45:13 +0100 "Keith McKenzie km3...@gmail.com" > suggested this: > > >If you haven't tried 'firmware-non-free', it may be in there, mine was. > > It's a wheezy [testing] system and aptitude search firmware doesn't o

Re: Debian disables IRQ, video performance goes down

2012-06-08 Thread Soare Catalin
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 04 iun 12, 14:10:30, Soare Catalin wrote: >> >> Could anyone please help, if you have any suggestions as to what I could >> try to fix this? > > We need more info to be able to help you. Start with the output of > 'dmesg' and 'lspci -