Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/07/2012 10:15 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Hans-J., "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: But when I switch to multiarch, and add i386 (dpkg --add-architecture i386), and want to make an upgrade, then debian wants to install a lot(!) of new libs from i386. Why that? WTF? New libs? They are not nee

Re: raid recomendation

2012-12-07 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:18:38PM -0300, Roberto Scattini wrote: > hi, i have a new dell r720 server with 5 600gb disks. > his function will be a postgresql server (the size of the databases is > really small with 600gb we should be fine for a long time). > > which raid configuration would you re

Re: Restarting Networking in Debian

2012-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Steve wrote: > Carlos Mennens gmail.com> writes: >> >> What is the deal now with 'restarting' networking services in Debian 5 >> & Squeeze? I use to be able to run the command: >> >> /etc/init.d/networking restart >> >> Now when I do so in Debian, I get a strange e

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-07 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Hans-J., please don’t CC me as I read the list. "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > Ok, but if they are "reinstalled", then the old libs should be deinstalled. > But they will not. So I have some libs double on my system. Last time you complained that ia32-libs was being deinstalled, now you don’

Re: Restarting Networking in Debian

2012-12-07 Thread Steve
Carlos Mennens gmail.com> writes: > > What is the deal now with 'restarting' networking services in Debian 5 > & Squeeze? I use to be able to run the command: > > /etc/init.d/networking restart > > Now when I do so in Debian, I get a strange error: > > Running /etc/init.d/networking restart i

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-07 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Fri, 7 Dec 2012 19:54:33 +0100 "Hans-J. Ullrich" napísal: > But the new ia32-libs are (if I am not wrong) in the > amd64-repository, but cannot updated, as its dependencies are in > i386-repo. That is no good idea. I agree, there are some problems, but all can be solved: ia32-libs depe

Re: iceweasel tab groups: 100% cpu load

2012-12-07 Thread Davide Anchisi
2012/12/7 Andrei POPESCU > On Vi, 07 dec 12, 12:29:36, Davide Anchisi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it is very frustrating when I use tab groups in iceweasel, because it is > so > > slw. > > The problem seems to be xorg which loads the cpu to 100% when displaying > > and managing tab groups. > > I h

Greeter with language selector for wheezy

2012-12-07 Thread Jaap Winius
Hi folks, Does anyone know of a greeter with a language selector for wheezy? My site uses Debian squeeze workstations with Xfce that need support for both English and Dutch. Currently we use gdm, a display manager with few dependencies that has a greeter with a working language selector. Soon,

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Have a look at the contents of ia32-libs-*. The ‘new’ libraries APT > wants to install already exist on your system, just in one ugly > enormous package that has to be downloaded in full each time one of > the libraries it contains changes. You also don’t get to choose which > of the libraries in

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-07 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Hans-J., "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > But when I switch to multiarch, and add i386 (dpkg --add-architecture i386), > and want to make an upgrade, then debian wants to install a lot(!) of new > libs > from i386. Why that? WTF? New libs? They are not needed (as everything is > working well)

Re: Marvell sata chipset not detecting drives.

2012-12-07 Thread james okeeffe
No raid setup just sata drives connected to controller in a standard config. On 7 December 2012 17:58, Shane Johnson wrote: > Do you have any kind of RAID setup? If you do you might need dmraid. > > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:34 AM, james okeeffe wrote: > >> >> Hi >> >> I have this controlle

multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am still fighting with multiarch. On my 64-bit system I have a several 32-bit applications installed. Just to name the best known: skype and googleearth. As they are 32-bit, I also installed ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk (and this already for since a long long time). Just to make cle

Re: Marvell sata chipset not detecting drives.

2012-12-07 Thread Shane Johnson
Do you have any kind of RAID setup? If you do you might need dmraid. On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:34 AM, james okeeffe wrote: > > Hi > > I have this controller with 4 sata drives connected to it. After hours of > searching and trying different things I cannot get any drives to be > detected. > >

Marvell sata chipset not detecting drives.

2012-12-07 Thread james okeeffe
Hi I have this controller with 4 sata drives connected to it. After hours of searching and trying different things I cannot get any drives to be detected. They are seen in the bios. currently I have cat /etc/modprobe.d/marvell.conf options ahci marvell_enable=1 tail -n 3 /etc/modprobe.d/black

Re: show open applications in Gnome Classic

2012-12-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:06:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I've been evaluating Gnome 3 "Classic" for the past couple hours, and I > still can't figure out how to display all the open applications. > Anybody know? > Ha! I just installed the guest additions in my Virtualbox machine and now I see

Re: show open applications in Gnome Classic

2012-12-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:19:25AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:06:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > I've been evaluating Gnome 3 "Classic" for the past couple hours, and I > > still can't figure out how to display all the open applications. > > Anybody know? > > > > lsw

Re: exchange like alternative

2012-12-07 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Olivier BATARD wrote: > That's a great idea I'll write a tutorial about that. > > By the way, what's the best place to write a tutorial like that ? how to > forge ? > IMO, with a gmail account you also have a blog account. You can start blogging right away! --

Debian Squeeze; Does this look like a Driver Issue?

2012-12-07 Thread Martin McCormick
I plugged a USB dongle-style serial converter in to a Debian Squeeze system and did generate a ttyUSBx port. The device it is connected to is not responding at all though it does work fine on Windows systems and I suspect it is a driver issue due to the behavior both under c-kermit and communicatio

Re: Locale issue

2012-12-07 Thread ML mail
Thanks for your mail, hopefully this will also get fixed into squeeze. It's quite annoying to have this warning everytime PERL gets called... From: Osamu Aoki To: ML mail Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Sent: Friday, December 7, 2012 1:34 PM Subject: Re:

Re: no cgi-bin program

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 10:28:08AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > *Hi, > I installed the apache2 from the wheezy distro, > apache2, php5 mysql everything ran correctly but cgi failed. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > The module is loaded I mean the cgi.load > I add

Re: show open applications in Gnome Classic

2012-12-07 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:06:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I've been evaluating Gnome 3 "Classic" for the past couple hours, and I > still can't figure out how to display all the open applications. > Anybody know? > lsw ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! 3F330C6E si

Re: "apt-get BUG" OR "OPERATOR Error"?

2012-12-07 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 06 dec 12, 23:39:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 06 dec 12, 13:34:53, Richard Owlett wrote: CASE1 Did a fresh install on a drive where ALL partitions had been removed with Gparted [LiveCD]. After reboot and user login su password apt-get install gdm gedit apt

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: warnin

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: iceweasel tab groups: 100% cpu load

2012-12-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 dec 12, 12:29:36, Davide Anchisi wrote: > Hi, > > it is very frustrating when I use tab groups in iceweasel, because it is so > slw. > The problem seems to be xorg which loads the cpu to 100% when displaying > and managing tab groups. > I have the same problem on occasional web pages

Re: Locale issue

2012-12-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 dec 12, 01:17:20, 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: Setting loc

Re: iceweasel tab groups: 100% cpu load

2012-12-07 Thread Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras
On 12/07/2012 01:29 PM, Davide Anchisi wrote: > Hi, > > it is very frustrating when I use tab groups in iceweasel, because it is so > slw. > The problem seems to be xorg which loads the cpu to 100% when displaying > and managing tab groups. > I have the same problem on occasional web pages. >

iceweasel tab groups: 100% cpu load

2012-12-07 Thread Davide Anchisi
Hi, it is very frustrating when I use tab groups in iceweasel, because it is so slw. The problem seems to be xorg which loads the cpu to 100% when displaying and managing tab groups. I have the same problem on occasional web pages. My system: - cpu: Intel Core2 Duo 64 bit; - debian amd64, s

Re: "apt-get BUG" OR "OPERATOR Error"?

2012-12-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 06 dec 12, 23:39:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 06 dec 12, 13:34:53, Richard Owlett wrote: > > CASE1 > > Did a fresh install on a drive where ALL partitions had been removed > > with Gparted [LiveCD]. > > After reboot and user login > > su password apt-get install gdm gedit > > apt-g

Locale issue

2012-12-07 Thread ML mail
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: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale

Re: exchange like alternative

2012-12-07 Thread Simon Hollenbach
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 16:34:13 +0100 Olivier BATARD wrote: > That's a great idea I'll write a tutorial about that. Hello Olivier, If you write a tutorial about your groupware-like setup, I would really appreciate a follow-up to this thread from you, providing me/us with a link to said howto. Thank