Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Bernd Schubert
[sorry sent again, since Robert dropped all mailing list CCs and I didn't notice first] On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:31:12PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:39:36PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:30:07 +0100 Bernd Schubert

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to put files on multiple dvds. Mondo does that without any trouble. It splits the dir.

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:09:01 +0800 Koh Choon Lin kohchoonl...@gmail.com wrote: If it's any indication then most companies I know work with thinkpads and Dells. Dell have Inspiron and Latitude while Lenovo has Thinkpad and Lenovo models. Would there be a difference in support? At least

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to figure out how to put files on multiple dvds. My k3b works great -

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Dotan Cohen wrote: As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there will be a blue screen memory map error after some time. FWIW, the movies work fine in Linux. I searched in google for this and found that the video cards in Dell Inspiron E1505 are defective.

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Star Liu wrote: I found that there is no official debian package for skype, and the deb package from skype official website is from etch(maybe also i386), so how to install skype on sid amd64? thanks Also consider complaining to Skype about it. Sometimes, in corporate world, things start

Re: how to run debsums for 'ps' and 'readline'

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
oneman wrote: $ dpkg -S /bin/ps Thanks, that was exactly what I needed! for prosperity, I will keep this onliner handy for the next time I ^^ need to do this: debsums `dpkg -S /bin/ps | cut -d : -f 1` | grep /bin/ps I think, you meant to say posterity. raju -- To

Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I think I've finally stopped getting the automated: Warning: the warranty on your car is about to expire... my car is 23 years old. Never even had a warranty claim. Doug. What did you do Doug? I have started getting them recently. No idea what to do about it.

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Robert Hancock
Bernd Schubert wrote: [sorry sent again, since Robert dropped all mailing list CCs and I didn't notice first] On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:31:12PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:39:36PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:30:07 +0100

Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, my new notebook is an Acer AS5930G which uses an Intel Core 2 Duo cpu. I should like to install the 64 bit version of Lenny. Which is the correct arch for this processor? Just for the record, the i386 works fine on that. But as others said, you can

Re: home directory changed

2009-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/03/09 04:32, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Last time i screwed up with kde 4 panel so i created a new user named user then copied all its configuration file into my current user's home. after changing ownership, all is ok but when i'm opening home on kde menu or konqueror, it directs to

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: M.Lewis wrote: Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Just add experimental distribution in your sources.list and then

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:43:19 -0500 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there will be a blue screen memory map error after some time. FWIW, the movies work fine in Linux. I searched

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Dennis Wicks wrote: Thanks for that tip, but what is the secret incantation needed to figure out which add-on is causing the problem? I don't think there is one. You can run iceweasel through strace and try to find a solution from the output. You can also try installing iceweasel-dbg and get

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 02:53:09PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: [sorry sent again, since Robert dropped all mailing list CCs and I didn't notice first] On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:31:12PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2009-01-03 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: M.Lewis wrote: Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Just add experimental distribution in

Keystrokes go missing after script exits

2009-01-03 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I have a short script to convert my video camera's files into mpegs. It works fine, and I canibalized the AviToVob script for the basic structure and looping. But it does one thing I cannot figure out: After the script completes, my console

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand six months is the standard for Ubuntu. Look in http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ . The current number of bugs affecting the next release is 92 (the green line). When this bug number

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2009-01-03 Thread lee
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:51:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: lee wrote: Well, how do you install on SATA disks when the installer can't access them? It

Re: weird find error on fresh etch system

2009-01-03 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Mumia W.. paduille.4061.mumia.w+nos...@earthlink.net wrote: On 08/13/2008 12:16 AM, Zach Uram wrote: I just installed Debian 4.0 and whenever I use find on / I see: find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for ./proc/sys/net: this may be a bug in your

Re: memory problem

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Ken Teague wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Well, there are already many memory-related bugs. See esp 452706. The complainer was running out with more than 1 GB of memory. The suggested action was to try FF3 in experimental. Ouch. That has to be the poorest answer I've ever seen from a

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Micha Feigin wrote: On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:43:19 -0500 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there will be a blue screen memory map error after some time. FWIW, the movies work

Re: Experimental (temporarily)

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: M.Lewis wrote: Given I'm running Lenny and I would like to test out the new Chrony (announced today) which is in Experimental, how can I do this without upgrading my entire system to Experimental? Just add

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread James Youngman
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Bernd Schubert b...@q-leap.de wrote: Hello Bengt, sil3114 is known to cause data corruption with some disks. So far I only know about Seagate, but maybe there issues with newer Samsungs as well? I've experienced data corruption with a SII 0680 ACLU144 (on an ST

Re: Keystrokes go missing after script exits

2009-01-03 Thread James Youngman
It's left your terminal in a non-echoing mode; this is used for example when asking for a password. You can fix this with stty sane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Konqueror KDE 4, swf

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: how do I play embedded swf on website such as Youtube. It seems the only viable solution is using Iceweasel. I believe so. Just use iceweasel for it. Half the websites that I use frequently, don't work on konqueror. So I shifted to iceweasel long time back. That and

Re: Hibernate - Is it safe?

2009-01-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Dean Chester wrote: Hi, At the moment i seem to be putting my laptop in to hibernate and then when i start it up again i boot in to vista. So i ask is it save to keep doing this? Dean I am having my share of problems with the hibernate feature in Lenny. If I shutdown the laptop (Dell

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2009-01-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:11:35PM -0600, lee wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:51:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: lee wrote: Well, how do you install on

Re: problem with CUPS

2009-01-03 Thread Zach
On Jan 2, 4:30 pm, Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: Hi Zach, In my first search I found this link: http://www.laen.org/2005/11/15/cups-request-entity-too-large/ If you get this CUPS error, it may mean that you don't have write permission to your CUPS spool directory (/var/spool/cups, by

Re: Konqueror KDE 4, swf

2009-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/03/09 16:42, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: how do I play embedded swf on website such as Youtube. It seems the only viable solution is using Iceweasel. I believe so. Just use iceweasel for it. Half the websites that I use frequently, don't work on konqueror. So I

Re: problem with CUPS

2009-01-03 Thread Zach
On Jan 2, 5:10 pm, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: The drivers are likely ppd files for use of cups-type stuff. The only cups filter in foomatic-printfilters. Note that you can use foomatic with lpd or lprng. If your problem is the spooling and not the filtering, that may be the

Re: ALSA Config

2009-01-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 03 January 2009 19:30, Dean Chester wrote: Update: I unloaded alsa with the command: alsa unload. now i can't get it to resume as it doesn't load any modules. I think this info might help us find a solution. Outputs of commands alsa unload: debian:~# alsa unload /usr/sbin/alsa:

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Robert Hancock
Bernd Schubert wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 02:53:09PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: [sorry sent again, since Robert dropped all mailing list CCs and I didn't notice first] On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:31:12PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Bernd Schubert wrote: On Sat,

Re: Keystrokes go missing after script exits

2009-01-03 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 January 2009, James Youngman was heard to say: It's left your terminal in a non-echoing mode; this is used for example when asking for a password. You can fix this with stty sane. Yes, I understand it's gone into non-echo mode. I

Re: memory problem

2009-01-03 Thread Ken Teague
On Sat Jan 3 14:20 , Kamaraju S Kusumanchi sent: I think the maintainer is just trying to find the cause of the memory build up. He is trying to narrow down the problem. He is not suggesting shifting stable users to experimental as a long term solution. Conside for example, another user

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread paragasu
I just buy a NEC Versa Laptop s5500, made in china. the lcd broke to pieces after a month i use it. luckly the support is reachable and quite friendly. But i have to spent another USD300 to replace it. I am running debian. Only work on the latest lenny kernel. It get it working except for the

Re: Keystrokes go missing after script exits

2009-01-03 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 January 2009, James Youngman was heard to say: It's left your terminal in a non-echoing mode; this is used for example when asking for a password. You can fix

Re: VIA Eden 1.2 Ghz processor

2009-01-03 Thread markus reichelt
* Gino Heusdens g...@heusdens-ulenaers.be wrote: I'm building a new server with the Jetway 7F4K1GES-LF motherboard. It has a VIA Eden 1.2 Ghz processor on board. Is it correct that I need the e_powersaver module for cpufreqd, or should i use acpi-cpufreq? I find the acpi-cpufreq driver but

Re: mount old crypto partition

2009-01-03 Thread markus reichelt
* Norbert Stöffler gm...@stoffler.de wrote: Any suggestions how to work around that? Have you checked http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES.README ? Sounds like § 2.8 is what you are looking for: Compatibility with other loop encryption implementations HTH -- left blank, right bald

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Daryl Styrk
(sniped everything because it was trashed anyway..) You who have been top posting suck Really? seriously. GWTFP. My T-61 has far surpassed what I expected of it.. Expensive?? Depends on what you consider expensive.. A $29 bag of chips is expensive.. A lappy built to take abuse and

Re: ALSA Config

2009-01-03 Thread Dean Chester
I noticed that this error came up on boot: alsactl restore error message alsactl: set_control: 1269 : Failed to obtain info for control #24(no such file or directory) when it was trying to start alsa. So its to do with alsa not being able to restore the previous volumes properly. Nigel here is

Re: k3b brasero don't work, nerolinux does

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:33:26PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: I've been having problems burning DVDs using K3B recently. I know I used to do this, not too long ago, maybe 2-3 months.. Now I'm getting errors, and K3B says it burns the DVD, then ejects it, but it is empty. Or it stops

Re: iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread Napoleon
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Napoleon wrote: I'll admit I'm still pretty green at a lot of this (lots of experience in computers, little in Linux) and don't understand everything. But I'm trying to learn, so please go easy on me :-) I've been having a problem with dictionary

POP (was Re: iptables question)

2009-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/03/09 19:49, Napoleon wrote: [snip] I also tried to find the support forums for qpopper, but the only ones I found hadn't had a post in over 2 years. So maybe I need to change pop3 servers. Unless you are running an ISP, you should really ditch POP and move your mail to an IMAP

Re: iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 2009 January 03 19:49:35 Napoleon wrote: I also tried to find the support forums for qpopper, but the only ones I found hadn't had a post in over 2 years. So maybe I need to change pop3 servers. I've recently had good luck with dovecot, which handles a pop3 and pop3s. I'll also

Re: iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I've recently had good luck with dovecot, which handles a pop3 and pop3s. I'll also echo Ron's suggestion to move to IMAP, if possible, which is how I set up dovecot. Dovecot also does SASL authentication for

Re: iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread John Hasler
ghe writes: Be careful with IMAP, though. One of my users has well over 500MB of mail on my server that she apparently doesn't know how to delete (I know, I know). Heh. My user (my wife) has about 150MB (text only) in /var/mail. Some of it is 20 years old. -- John Hasler -- To

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:27:13PM EST, Mark Neidorff wrote: On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to dvd. The directories are quite big and i need the utility to

Multimedia sound related keys on MacBook Pro

2009-01-03 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Hello, Some times ago I had a problem with multimedia keys of my macbook pro. Indeed, I had 2 programs that manage sound related keys : pommed and another program I couldn't identify. I finally managed to find this program : it was KMilo. To desactivate KMilo you must go in configuration

Re: iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/03/09 21:58, ghe wrote: [snip] Be careful with IMAP, though. One of my users has well over 500MB of mail on my server that she apparently doesn't know how to delete (I know, I know). How can you not know how to delete? (No, seriously, I'm not trying to be sarcastic...) -- Ron

Re: does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??

2009-01-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:45:31PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:27:13PM EST, Mark Neidorff wrote: On Friday 02 January 2009 06:02 pm, Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking for a debian/linux utility similar to multicd. I need a utility to backup big directories to

iptables question

2009-01-03 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Be careful with IMAP, though. One of my users has well over 500MB of mail on my server that she apparently doesn't know how to delete (I know, I know). How can you not know how to delete? (No, seriously, I'm not trying to be sarcastic...) Maybe they are trying to take after Gmail --

Re: apt-get cannot conect to server

2009-01-03 Thread chris
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:33:36 -0200, oxy wrote: I changed /etc/apt/sources.list and got the followihg: # apt-get update Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [386B] Hit http://http.us.debian.org etch Release Ign http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit

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